Tensei is, as the developer's put it, "an ultra-casual endless action game." While that description is mostly true, the "action" is pretty much limited to moving a small blob of ink and making it jump in an effort to climb ever higher. As such, Tensei technically has no ending, as it can seemingly go on forever, but there are certain progress markers , as well as a point at which credits will roll. Tensei isn't a game you're meant to beat, instead existing as an experience.

Originally conceived as a ninja-themed project by a then new employee, John Tobias, the initial pitch was shot down by his boss, Ed Boon. Approached to make a game for the upcoming film Universal Soldier, Tobias imagined a fighting game featuring a digitized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Intending to make a game that was more "a lot more hard edge, a little bit more serious, and a little bit more like Enter the Dragon and Bloodsport" than the more cartoonish fighting game

The Challenge: Complete the game using a group of Pokémon that represent the classes in the original Final Fantasy. Having played the game not only at launch, but numerous times since doing a variety of different challenge runs, I felt as though I needed something new, something fresh for this go around. As the final forms of the starters are directly based on various RPG archetypes, and as I have a love of the Final Fantasy franchise, I decided that a marriage of the two wo