Final Fantasy Q- Labyrinth of Chronos

Final Fantasy Q- Labyrinth of Chronos is a JRPG/Dungeon Crawler in the style of Etrian Odyssey (the Q stands for "Sekaiju no Meikyuu", Japanese title of Etrian Odyssey), this time with Final Fantasy characters. It takes inspiration from Persona Q2. 
It serves as an interquel between XVI and XVIII, telling what happened to The Shield and the Ifrit Dominant after XVI and how they ended up in World War 2 Japan.
== Plot ==
The game starts after the Time Crash Ending of Final Fantasy 16, where The Shield had allied with Bahamut looking for power, and caused a time crash which sent them in another dimension called The Chronos Void. 
The player chooses Rosfield's gender, between a male (default name: Clive) and a female (default name: Sophie), then gives the protagonist a name. The gender not chosen is used for the Ifrit Dominant and has the default name of the opposite gender. 
The party is soon attacked by the Daemons, shadowy creatures that guard the Chronos Void and act as protectors of time and space.
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Before the end of the penultimate dungeon, the group finds out the Nameless Shell is technically Cloud Strife, whose body is occupied by Bahamut. Aerith sacrifices herself to stop him, and both die, becoming a fusion known as Daenerys Strife. 
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In the end, the heroes fight against Bahamut. The Shield and the Ifrit Dominant combine their strengths for the final assault on Bahamut, rejecting his power and repairing the timeline. They jump in a time portal, and are then warped to Earth, the Shield to the USA (where they join the US Army) and the Ifrit Dominant to the World of Nihon (AKA Japan).
Since they're on Earth and have repaired the time crash, the protagonist and the Ifrit Dominant cannot be used in the post-game, neither can Aerith. Instead, the post-game campaign revolves around Daenerys Strife, a half-Daemon that was created once Cloud and Aerith fused. Daenerys awakens after the time crash is repaired and tells them that she's looking for Sephiroth.
== Playable Characters ==
=== Final Fantasy XVI: ===
The Shield: The silent protagonist of Final Fantasy XVI and the main character of this game. They were a bastard of the Archduke of Rosaria and a lowborn woman, and had lived as Joshua's Shield. When Joshua, Jill and the Ifrit Dominant had warred against each other, they refused to choose a side and used Bahamut to cause a time crash to avoid the conflict altogether, which caused them and their three brothers to be sent to the Chronos Void. They're the Dominant of Crusader, which allows them to use a fraction of the power of all the other Eikon. Like in FFXVI, their gender is player-chosen, they only speak through unvoiced dialogue options (though they narrate the prologue and epilogue and have quotes in battle) and in voiced cutscenes they are only referred to as "Rosfield" or "Shield" or "brother/sister" (by Joshua, Jill and the Ifrit Dominant). Their design is based on the adult Clive/Sophie from FFXVI, as they are supposed to be them. Their weapons are swords. They're not available in the post-game due to them being in Nihon. 
Ifrit's Dominant (Clive if Rosfield is female, Sophie if they're male): The Shield's half-sibling, born from the same mother but with a lowborn father. They had grown up in poverty until they were used as a puppet ruler by pro-Waloed conspirators against the Archduke, posing as The Shield. Their design is based on pre-timeskip Clive/Sophie from FFXVI, as the time crash sent to the Void a version of them from before the timeskip. Their weapon is a katana. They're sent to Nihon in the post-game, which makes them unavailable. 
Joshua Rosfield: The Shield's half-brother from the father's side and heir to the throne of Rosaria, whom they had protected from an attempted murder. After revealing himself to be alive, he had turned into a zealot obsessed with law. He's Phoenix's Dominant. His weapon is a lance. 
Jill Warrick: The Shield's adoptive sister, taken as a ward by the Archduke. She took control of the Dhalmekian Republic and convinced Joshua and the Ifrit's Dominant to ally against the Shield and Bahamut. She's Shiva's Dominant. Her weapon is a bow.
=== Final Fantasy VII: ===
Aerith Gainsborough: A florist from Midgar Sector 5, and the last Cetra to be still alive. She was taken by Shinra when Avalanche rescued her. After Cloud Strife got killed in the City of Ancients instead of her, Aerith attempted to save him when the City of Ancients was warped in the Chronos Void and Cloud's body disappeared. She uses the Summon Alexander. Her weapon is a staff.
Tifa Lockhart: Aerith's close friend and a former bartender in the Sector 7 of Midgar. When Sector 7 was destroyed, she traveled with Aerith, Barret and their late companion Cloud to chase after Sephiroth. She summons Typhon. Her weapon are fists. 
Barret Wallace: The leader of a splinter section of the ecoterrorist cell Avalanche, of which Tifa and the late Cloud were a part of. He fought against Shinra to save the planet from the Mako technology. He summons Fat Chocobo. His weapons are arm cannons. 
=== Final Fantasy XV: ===
Noctis Lucis Caelum: His weapons are swords and he summons Yukionna (Shiva from FFXV, which is different than the one in FFXVI)
Ignis Stupeo Scientia: His weapons are lances and he summons Titan
=== Final Fantasy VIII: ===
Squall Leonhart: His weapons are gunblades and he summons Doomtrain.
Rinoa Heartilly: Her weapons are chakram and she summons Eden. 
=== Final Fantasy X: ===
Tidus: His weapons are swords and he summons Valefor. 
Yuna: Her weapons are staves and she summons Anima.
Rikku: Her weapons are fists and she summons Yojimbo.
=== Others: ===
The Nameless Shell: a man who lost his name after being warped through space and time, with platinum hair and purple eyes, dressed in black and wielding a composite blade. He's the main antagonist. He's later revealed to have been created from Cloud Strife's corpse, which had been taken by Bahamut and used as his shell to defeat Future Sephiroth. In the post game, he's playable, but only as Daenerys Strife, a fusion of him and Aerith. 
Terra Branford: a half-human half-Esper from Final Fantasy VI. Her summon is Maduin. 
Serge: the protagonist from Chrono Cross. He comes from El Nido and was sent to the Chronos Void through a portal in the Opassa Beach after being attacked by the Nameless Shell. Unlike in his debut game, Serge is a fully voiced character in this game (he himself even says "I never thought the Shield from Valisthea liked talking less than I do). His weapons are Eku. His summon is Knights of Round. 
Yuri Hyuga: A Harmonixer from a strange world known as Nihon. His weapons are fists. His summon is Amon (from Shadow Hearts), which he transforms into instead of summoning.
Daenerys Strife: a post-game-exclusive character. She is a human-Daemon hybrid created from Aerith fused with Cloud's body to retake it from Bahamut. The name, given her by Squall, is a reference to Game of Thrones (which exists as a TV show in Final Fantasy VIII's universe). Her summon is Drogon, a black dragon created from the remains of Bahamut inside Cloud's body, controlled by Aerith (the name is given by Tifa, making a pun on "dragon"). Her appearance is based on Daenerys Targaryen from GoT but they are not meant to be the same character, unlike Serge and Yuri, though she takes some iconic quotes from her such as "Dracarys". She talks with Aerith's voice, not Cloud's. Her weapon is the Buster Sword. 
== Villains ==
The main villains are Bahamut and his Daemons, led by The Nameless Shell. Sephiroth is an ally of the Daemons, but he survives the Time Crash's reparation and is the main antagonist in the postgame. 
== Gameplay ==
The gameplay is based on dungeon crawlers like Etrian Odyssey and Persona Q, focusing on huge dungeons divided into various Strata.
In battle, everyone has an associated summon: they can use normal attacks and techniques (which cost HP) or spend MP to use magic with their summons.
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== Trivia ==
The World of Nihon mentioned in the game is in fact our world (technically Japan).
This game is cidless.
This game is canon for the Final Fantasy XVI/XVIII continuity, as it serves as an interquel. It's non-canon for VII, XV, VIII and X as the game undoes itself for them when the time crash is repaired, while Clive/Sophie and their counterpart are affected and sent to Japan. 
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