FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE

Battles are turn-based and built around weaknesses. Hit an enemy with what it fears and you stagger it, breaking its defences, earning extra turns and setting up powerful Resonance attacks that swing a fight. Good play means scouting weaknesses early and saving your big moves for the moment a boss buckles, so every encounter rewards planning over grinding.

Visions are the customisation layer. These echoes of beloved Final Fantasy characters join your party with their own skills and abilities, and choosing which ones to bring changes how your team handles different threats. Mixing Visions with your core party is where long-term builds take shape.

The presentation leans hard into drama, with dynamic camera angles and pixelised 3D models that make cutscenes and big attacks feel cinematic rather than static. Outside the main path there are hours of optional content: tracking down the wandering swordmaster Gilgamesh, fighting through a Colosseum of deadly monsters, challenging foes sealed inside legendary weapons in the Chamber of Arms, and squaring off against Ultima Weapon. Adjustable difficulty lets you set the pace, and there is no timed input anywhere, so it is relaxed to play with a controller or keyboard. It is fully single-player, with Steam Cloud saves and 40 achievements.

A force is rising that threatens to bring the whole world to ruin, and a group of companions bound together by fate set out to uncover the truth behind it. Square Enix frames RESONANCE as a classic Final Fantasy adventure, with a mystery that pulls the party further across the world the deeper they dig.

The familiar pieces are all here. Crystals sit at the centre of the mystery, airships open up the map, espers and moogles are woven into the story rather than tacked on, and the Visions you summon in battle are echoes of characters from across the series. The setting is new, but the tone is pure sprite-era Final Fantasy, refreshed by the cinematic framing of HD-2D.

FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE is out now on Windows PC through Steam at US$49.99. Local prices are RM209 in Malaysia, S$67.90 in Singapore, ₱2,795 in the Philippines, ฿1,691 in Thailand, Rp 729,000 in Indonesia and 990,000₫ in Vietnam. It supports eight languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and both Chinese scripts. It runs on modest hardware: Windows 11, a GTX 1650, RX 6400 or Arc A580 with 8 GB of RAM targets 1080p at 30 fps, and it needs just 15 GB of storage. It plays offline with full controller support.