Totally slipped my mind to post this yesterday. In any case, I hope everyone has been doing well. Ive been playing more New Vegas and Stronghold Crusader remastered. Hope everyone’s week has started off okay
Totally slipped my mind to post this yesterday. In any case, I hope everyone has been doing well. Ive been playing more New Vegas and Stronghold Crusader remastered. Hope everyone’s week has started off okay
Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles. The original was one of my favorites as a kid, and it’s as good as I remember. Plus, the translation isn’t borderline incomprehensible in places this time! I never played War of the Lions, so I don’t have to regret that none of that content is here.
How does IC and the original compare to Tactics Advance? I played the shit out of it back when it came out, but I never played the original.
I never played TA (not a big mobile/handheld guy), but my understanding is that “regular” FFT is a much more mature story. Ivalice Chronicles is a basically 100% faithful recreation of the original, just with graphical updates, some quality of life improvements (letting you restart a battle, difficulty settings, autosaving on the world map, and autosaving during battles are the big ones–you may have heard about folks getting softlocked at a particular notorious difficulty spike in the original, but that’s no longer possible), and a retranslation. The original always had a fantastically operatic political story with strong themes of class conflict, but the translation left a lot to be desired (and was borderline incoherent in some places). That’s been fixed, and fixed well. War of the Lions, which was the first attempt to do something like this, added a bunch of new content. Ivalice Chronicles does not include that content: it’s really just the original game, but rebuilt from the ground up for modern hardware and with a few modernizing touches. If you like this style of game, I’d say it’s a must-play.
Ok, perfect. Thank you.
Have you played Tactics Ogre? Always liked that series more than FFT for both gameplay and story.
Yasumi Matsuno directed em both, and his games are dope (same with Vagrant Story)
Yep, all three of them slap.
I’ve been waiting to buy it because money is a little tight rn but I have the party selection theme stuck in my head the last few days. All the music is so good.
Yeah, the whole thing is a masterpiece. They really knocked it out of the park with this updated version too. Everything I would have wanted, and nothing I didn’t. It kept the visual style but made everything look better, kept the music, and added a fully voiced retranslated script. If you liked the 90s version, you’ll love it.
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