Final Fantasy Awakening

Final Fantasy Awakening (Chinese: 最终幻想 觉醒, Zuì Zhōng Huànxiǎng Juéxǐng) is a free-to-play online multi-player video game based on Final Fantasy Type-0, developed in place of the discontinued Final Fantasy Agito.

The game was originally titled Final Fantasy Type-0 Online, said to launch in spring 2016 in Japan for iOS and Android. It was considered for North America and Europe in 2015, but nothing has been announced.

The beta testing session was available for Chinese players in June 2016.

On October 21, 2016, the game was renamed Final Fantasy Awakening in China, where it was released. The game also shares the same name in Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau, albeit with a different logo. The same title remains in Indonesia and Singapore/Malaysia regions, with the same logo as Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau.

Gameplay
From the start, the game has been developed to be a four-player party hack-and-slash MMO. Characters are acquired throughout the game.

Playable characters
Both a male or a female main characters of this game to be selected as a swordsman, a gunner and a mage. These characters will be upgraded from the beginner to unique by collecting astral stones after defeating most bosses in every last chapter including both elite and nightmare dungeons. The characters in Final Fantasy Type-0 are also be recruited as well but based on their codenames as seen in the game with the exception of Ruka, Hayne and Captain Tenochi who appear as new characters. In order to recruit each of them or to upgrade them is to get hero shards in some selected stores in the game such as the Hero Shard Shop. Here are the statuses when they were recruited by their respective mains.

Epic

 * Eight (Indominable Gladiator)
 * Cater (Brave Heart)
 * Nine (Flame Rifle)
 * Trey (Truth Hunter)
 * Ruka (Light of the Meteor)
 * Ryid Uruk (Lorican Descendant)
 * Mutsuki Chiharano (Boomer Baby)
 * Hayne (Dawn Shield)

Legendary

 * Machina Kunagiri (Spiral Swords)
 * Rem Tokimiya (Blades of Shadow)
 * Kurasame Susaya (Reaper of the Boreal Blade)
 * Ace (Zero Trump Card)
 * Deuce (Voice of Healing)
 * Cinque (Ice Guardian)
 * Sice (Apostle of the Sickle)
 * Seven (Thunder Chain)
 * Jack (Fearless Mind)
 * Queen (Light of Wisdom)
 * King (Firebursts Two Guns)
 * Qator Bashtar (Emperor-General)
 * Claes Celestia Misca Sancest (Claes of Dawn)
 * Captain Tenochi (Concordia General)

Mythic

 * Caetuna (Rubrum l'Cie)
 * Zhuyu Voghfau Byot (Red Angel)
 * Kazusa Futahito (Doctor Strange)
 * Enkidu (Earth Guardian)
 * Gilgamesh Ashur (King of Lorican)
 * Qun'mi Tru'e (Magitek Commander)
 * Nimbus (Milites l'Cie)
 * Andoria Kaya Tranka Fam Forturio (Queen Andoria)

Development
Development preparations for Final Fantasy Type-0 Online began in November 2014.

Voice
The main characters are voiced in Japanese so they will be chosen in three different kinds of voices. The Japanese voice cast from Final Fantasy Type-0 is maintained.

Trivia

 * In the Philippines, both Android and IOS from the Indonesia version are strictly removed from both Google Play Store and the iTunes App Store due to unofficial recharge and refunds bought illegally by various players.