Trivia / Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

• Refitted for Sequel: Or rather, Refitted for Spin-Off (or, possibly, Prequel). According to Tetsuya Nomura, the original concept for Stranger of Paradise was two different ideas melded into one, which then evolved into this game. The first, which came to Nomura not long after the release of Dissidia 012 in 2011, was a game with action elements centered around conquering locations. The second was a new series of Final Fantasy titles focusing on "the story of an angry man."
• Role Reprise:
  • Garland is an interesting example. He is voiced by Christopher Sabat, who previously voiced him in Dissidia Final Fantasy, Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015), and World of Final Fantasy Maxima. However, the second demo and release date trailer indicate him to be a Decomposite Character with Chaos; Sabat reprises Chaos, while Jack Garland is voiced by Mocean Melvin. The same applies in Japanese: Kouji Ishii, who took over for the late Kenji Utsumi starting with Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015), reprises the role while Jack is voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda.
  • The Warrior of Light is reprised by both Toshihiko Seki and Grant George, who have been voicing him since Dissidia Final Fantasy. The Emperor is also reprised by Kenyū Horiuchi and Christopher Corey Smith.
  • Gilgamesh is voiced by Keith Szarabajka in English and Kazuya Nakai in Japanese, both of whom have been voicing him since Dissidia 012.
  • The Moogle is voiced by Bailey Gambertoglio in English and Sumire Morohoshi in Japanese, with the former first doing the role in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and the latter first doing the role in Final Fantasy Type-0 (in the English version of the latter game, Ariel Winter voiced the Moogles).
• Word of God:
  • Writer Kazushige Nojima is on record saying the story evolved from the line about vengeance being like a hunger or a thirst ("It's not a hope or a dream. It's like a hunger. A thirst"), with the rest of the script blossoming from there.
  • Though many believe it to be a prequel of sorts to the original Final Fantasy, producers for the game confirmed before release it's not and by in their own words "It's probably easiest to think of it as taking place in a parallel universe that sits alongside that original game." This would be made clearer in-game with the second DLC expansion, Wanderer of the Rift, where Gilgamesh makes allusions to the Garland he knows from the Dissidia titles and one of the summonable monsters tells the party of an alternate version of themselves that eventually fell to darkness.

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