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Binding: Video Game
Brand: SquareSoft
EAN: 0711719422129
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: SquareSoft
Manufacturer: SquareSoft
Platform: PlayStation
Publisher: SquareSoft
Sales Rank: 1636
Studio: SquareSoft

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Unplayable, forgetable, frustrating UN-Tactics game
Final Fantasy Tactics is a game where the player controls up to 5 people on a comparable chess grid against various enemies using a wide array of job skills, items, spells, and weapons to kill the enemy. Similar to standard RPGs, all people have hit points, magic points, gain skills and use them. There are many job classes, many combinations, many skills, and it all comes together in a giant mess. It makes for one terribly frustrating experience.

Good things:
-Graphics are nice and crisp (especially for the time)
-Job system is easily one of the best points of the game, where characters can use the abilities of several classes passively and up to two classes during battle.

Thats about it.

Bad things:
-Environments, while they look good, tend to be so cluttered that you can't see. There are controls to rotate the 3/4 view around to one of 4 spots, but there is never a good angle. Many squares can never be seen from all 4 angles.
-Movement, thanks to the terrible angles, requires a good amount of forethought. If you think you can get next to enemy and attack, think again. You are probably off by a space or 2, meaning that you just wasted a turn.
-Ally AI is terrible. Those you need to protect try to get themselves killed and those that don't need to be saved will never lift a finger. See a couple points down for example.
-It is necessary to spend a great deal of time leveling your characters up as the difficulty is either very hard or very easy with nothing in the middle. There is a set of battles, several in a row, where the first one is laughably easy (as in my characters were 20 levels higher than the enemy) followed immediately by a battle where you can only win by luck (the boss can kill several if not all in one hit). This is then followed by a level where you can (and will) lose without ever getting a turn! (thanks to the AI, the character you have to save will die in the first action). Very frustrating.
-Tactics it is not, as the only tactic you can do with 5 people trying to cover all important bases is to gang up and kill one enemy at a time. If you want something that makes you think, try something else.

Overall:
The gameplay, if tweaked, could make this enjoyable. But in the current state, please save yourself the frustration of having to deal with this mess. If you think banging your head on a wall is fun, then this is the game for you.




Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fast shipping, good price!
The case was a little cracked when the game got to me, but the cd was in perfect condition and it shipped to me pretty quickly considering it was travelling from California to Canada.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A hidden treasure!
This game holds the spot as my ALL-TIME favorite video game, and yes, it's 2008. FFT is somewhat like playing a strategic game of chess with cool graphics, but more complicated and interesting and with a storyline. It is unique from anything I have seen and I was really hoping this style of game would take off with better versions of it, but unfortunately it hasn't happened. It definitely took me a while to get the hang of this game and I have to admit that I didn't really like it at first mostly because it takes time to learn, but once I played it for a few hours I was hooked.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Dont listen to people who give it 1 star
I originally bought this game when it first came out on the ps1 and I still play it to this day.The people who gave it one star all said the same thing:"It's too hard.""You have to think to much.""Your always outnumbered."
DUH!It's called Final Fantasy TACTICS for a reason! No war in history has ever been an even fight.Ever hear of 300?


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - My Absolute Favorite Game, A Review
Final Fantasy Tactics (for PS, not GBA...GBA was too easy for me, but still beautiful) is, without any doubt or second thought, the BEST GAME I have ever played. It is challenging, involving, and nearly perfectly done. I'm a 16 year old girl using my father's account to write this, but don't get the idea that I'm not a serious gamer (actually, anyone who's beaten this game has to be--it IS very difficult to win).


PROS:

Gorgeous music and 2-D art (the sprites are adorable while the speech-bubble heads are serious, classic, and maturely drawn)

Very tactical fighting--being a high level may not secure victory for you.

The job class system allows for amazing customization of how you want to fight (i.e. using mostly magic or physical attacks, using far or short-range abilities).

Beating Final Fantasy Tactics will make you proud. It's a challenging game.

It is a very political work--I found myself honestly disgusted by Ivalice's government (and, of course, Algus--ugh...miserable rat...). The ideas are very mature, and will change how you think about certain things or reinforce the ideals you already have (I do not suggest this game for younger players--it cusses).

Very replayable. I think I have...five different new games on there? Something like that. There is so much hidden bonus material in the game that I went back and replayed it several times in an effort to get all the plot this game offers (and it offers more than enough in just the main storyline--weeks of deep, tactical play await you here).

You can save often, wherever you like...as long as you're not in a battle.

Square Enix definately spent a lot of effort and time making this. You can see this in the believable dialogue, the graphics, the music, and the complicated but learnable battle system (basic stats, jobs, abilities, items equipped, each characters/monsters zodiac sign even affects attack power!)

Every main character has a well-devoloped story behind them. Sometimes, this won't be obvious. However, in the book Daravon wrote (I think you can get there by selecting "story" in the main menu) all the main characters (even some you'll never meet, like Ovelia's baby brother) have at least a couple paragraphs explaining why they matter, what they've done, whether or not they're still alive, their age (which changes, depending on how long you play), and what their part in the giant web of deceit that is Final Fantasy Tactic's plot is. While you only play as Ramza, this feature helps clear up confusion if you get lost in the plot.

Completely addictive. Worth whatever you pay for it if you like tactical fighting.


CONS:

Slow loading, but I have a very old disc (so that may be mishandling, not the game--I don't know for sure).

You cannot travel through towns and paths personally--you get a map with destinations on it that are connected by lines. It takes a day to travel over a line, and most destinations let you choose from a little menu (i.e. in a normal town, you can go to the bar, shop, or recruitment office). You engage in random battles by walking over an uncivilized area (like a forest or field). So...there isn't really much physical exploration--but, hey, no endless dungeons, either!

There are a few spelling errors scattered throughout the game, but it's not terribly noticable until you read the Grim Grimoire (but it may have been done intentionally there, since the words Ramza can read had to be translated manually by an old man).

It is possible to get stuck saving in a place you can't get out of. A few of my secondary efforts at beating the game are stuck in the battle with Weigraf. The game will ask you if you want to save between major boss battles so you don't have to redo the first one if you lose the second. Unfortunately, if the second battle is much harder than the first, you may not be able to beat the second one without more training even if the first was easy for you. To avoid this problem, I suggest saving in an alternate file at times like this--NOT overwriting your main file until you're back on the world map.

You can permanently lose party members if you leave them "fallen" on the ground for three rounds of turns. While this makes the game more challenging, which I consider a good thing, it also had me restarting the playstation out of a refusal to lose whatever member had died. SAVE OFTEN.

It's terribly easy to level your party members up unevenly. Since you can't use all the members of your party in a battle, you will probably end up picking favorites and raising them more than everyone else. At times in the game, an NPC will join your party and force you to use one less party member under your control, therefore having one of your favorites weaker than the others and unsuitable for combat by the time the NPC leaves your party. Of course, this can be avoided by strategetically raising your team (which I failed to do in time on my first file)--I'm just warning you.


OVERALL:

Still, hands-down, my favorite game ever. Writing this actually made me want to play it so badly I'm having trouble focusing on typing... Anyway, worth the price, worth the time, save often, play with your whole party in mind, enjoy this amazing game.

Again, SAVE OFTEN!

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