Fantasy Life

Fantasy Life ファンタジーライフ English cover of the Fantasy Life video game.

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Game information Players 1-3 player(s) Platform Nintendo 3DS Developer LEVEL-5, Brownie Brown Publisher Nintendo Composer(s) Nobuo Uematsu Artist(s) Yoshitaka Amano

Release dates Japan December 27, 2012 North America October 24, 2014 Europe September 26, 2014 Australia September 27, 2014 South Korea N/A

Ratings CEROCERO A ESRBESRB E10+ ACBACB PG OFLCOFLC PG PEGIPEGI 7 GRBGRB N/A

Official website Japanese Official Japanese website English Official English website

Japanese boxart
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Fantasy Life (JapaneseJapanese: ファンタジーライフ, Fantajī Raifu) is a role playing video game exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS. The game has been developed by Brownie Brown and Level-5 alongside with the assistance of H.a.n.d.. The game takes place in Reveria.

Blurb

"All road lead to the adventure of a lifetime!"
"Create the life you always wanted. Craft, cast, hunt and battle your way through a vast world filled with magic, dragons and ancient secrets!"

History

Main article: History of Fantasy Life

Features

Gameplay

The game focuses on the player by choosing one of the twelve lives. The player has complete freedom in the game, but when the player do not progress further in the story of the game, the player will not reach certain locations. The player can take on requests or collecting Bliss and even doing Flutter's* request.

3D compatible gameplay

The game features a three dimensional gameplay, 3D modeled characters, and creatures as well as locations of forests, towns and mountains.

Mulitplayer

The player can co-op with their friends either online or via local wireless. The player must reach a certain point in the beginning of the game to have the multiplayer option to become available. There can only be up to two friends to join the player's adventure. Online multiplayer has their own chat feature that lets the player send other players message as they explore the realm togheter.

Streetpass

The player can Streetpass others with its Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo 2DS wireless on. These other players will appears around Castele as NPCs*, which the player can talk to them to increase friendship.

Life

There are 12 different lives the player can pick before starting the game, which are: Paladin, Mercenary, Hunter, Magician, Woodcutter, Miner, Angler, Cook, Tailor, Blacksmith, Alchemist, and Carpenter. They have been splitted into three different categories, which are: Combat, Gatherer, and Crafting. The player has also the ability to change from Life during the story which will not be affecting the game's plotline.

Challenges

Each Life offers unique Challenges, and completing these earns the player stars which the player can rank even higher obtaining the amount of stars needed. The Challenges differs which Life the player chooses. The player can also finish those Challenges when switching lives, but will affect some challenges such as monsters, trees, ore's that has a bounty.

Game events

Passwords

Main article: Passwords

The player can obtain items for its home or equipments when activating a password at the Post Office. These codes are given away by the official Nintendo Company and Level-5 coperation twitter accounts in the western world, while in asia it has been released through magazines and events.

Downloadable content

Origin Island Expansion Pack

The player can download the Expansion Pack from the Nintendo eShop that will be seen on the title screen of the game. The Expansion Pack isn't free which the costs of the Expansion Pack are:

Country	Cost
Japan	¥2,000
United Kingdom	£7.19
Europe	€7.99
Australia	$10.99
United States	$8.99

The Expansion Pack contains much more content than the main story of the game. The newly added content contains:

• A totally new area to explore, with loads of new quests.
• Extra elements for character customization.
• New materials, new ranks and new recipes.
• New types of pets: birds and dragons!
• A new holiday home, new home décor and additional items.
• The Friendship system: allies that you take along on adventures repeatedly will become more friendly towards you, and the more they like you, the better they are in a scrap!
• Exclusive items to exchange for Lunares Coins.

After purchasing you are required to complete the following tasks in order to unlock it:

• Complete the main story.
• Befriend both Yuelia and Noelia.
• Reach level 50.
• After completing the above, go and speak with Yuelia at your house.

Players who have purchased the Origin Island Expansion Pack cannot connect in multiplayer with players who have not purchased it. Multiplayer connection will only be possible with other owners of the Expansion Pack.

Music

Main article: Fantasy Life Theme Song Collection

Main article: Fantasy Life Original Soundtrack

Staff

Main article: Staff of Fantasy Life

Trivia

• The game has been developed alongside with some producers who are also responsible for producing the Final Fantasy series.
• There are three differences of the Fantasy Life game:
  • The Japanese version of the Fantasy Life game does not contain online or wireless connection. A expansion pack named Fantasy Life Link! extended and added the features to connect with other players of the game, and it includes the Origin Island download content.
  • The European, Australian and American version of the game contains both the regular Fantasy Life and Fantasy Life Link! pack, but left out the Origin Island feature which became a expansion pack.
  • There is a huge difference of wordings in the European, Australian and American version of the game.
• It took in total 638 days (1 year, 8 months, 30 days) that the games were being released in Europe, 639 days (1 year, 9 months) that the games were being released in Australia and 666 days (1 year, 9 months, 27 days) that the games were being released in America.
• There were more lives created than the additional 12 Lives that are introduced in the games. There are different possibilities why the other lives didn't make it. It can be a hint that there will be a sequel, or there were constant writer's block about it.

External links

• Nintendo UK: Fantasy Life homepage.