I beat Fantasian Neo Dimension. Good luck to anyone else who wants to

REVIEW: A beautifully presented game, that’s best played with a guide due to brutal mid-game bosses and a weird progression system.

Yim, right before her shell game of pain.

The odds were not on my side. I had a two in three chance of dying to this boss, and there was very little I could do about it.

I'm over halfway through Fantasian Neo Dimension and without realising, I've stumbled into a trap within the game. I noticed this weird-looking bubble on the world map and went to check it out. It froze time and locked me into an inescapable sequence of events, closing out with a boss that felt vastly more powerful than my party.

Yim, the god-like apparition, hits like a truck, bringing one of my party members down to critical life with each attack. My party's speed stat isn't high enough; there's not enough time between her attacks to fully recover. Just when I feel I have the hang of things, she moves back from the arena, splits into three, and commences a mechanic leaving two fake clones and the real one for me to attack. Do nothing, and all three clones attack meaning certain death. Hit the wrong clone, and it explo…