Final Fantasy Tactics

Game is good. Challenging, though.

There are many indications of whether a game is good. Final Fantasy Tactics has at least two of those indications. 1) Although the Playstation 1 is in its Dark Ages, many last-second RPG's are using the Final Fantasy Tactics battle system. 2) The game had to be reissued, due to popular demand.GRAPHICS: Grade of "A". Yes, they do look like they can be done on a Super Nintendo, but this game isn't TRYING to be graphically intense. Does Tetris need great graphics? Most certainly not, because it's a puzzle game. Likewise, FFT doesn't need good graphcis because it's a strategy game, where too much detail would possibly get in the way and be a distraction.MUSIC: Grade of "A". Some people will tell you that the FFT soundtrack is the best videogame soundtrack ever. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I must say, the music fits PERFECTLY with the game. There are tons of battles in this game, but there is a LOT of variety in the music. Best of all, the music actually puts you in the MOOD to whip out that sword and cream those foes. Germinas Peak, Sweegy Woods, Back Fire, Boss Battle themes, are among my favorites.GAMEPLAY: Strategy games can sometimes be synonymous with "difficult". And believe me, this game IS difficult. BUT NOT TO LEARN! Someone definitely had their hat on right when they made the intuitive battle system. Move, Act, or Wait are your three primary commands, and they become second-nature within an hour. Also, one can equip their characters with many pieces of equipment. This sounds tedious, but there is a nice feature called a "Fitting Room" that makes all the boredom of "Buy, Exit Menu, Equip, Go back to store, Sell" so much simpler. But what makes the game difficult are the battles. Some are ridiculously easy, but others will require some leveling up in the field, first. FFT brings back the Job system that was in FF5, allowing for a more-than-generous amount of customizability.STORYLINE: This is where the game could use a little help. For one, the translation has speling errors, wordssmashed together punctuation problems, and sometimes I just don't understand what is going on. Materia-like crystals play a vital role. One thing that I found amusing was that nearly every between-battles sequence involves a death. To me, the storyline is just a peripheral. If you understand it, fine. If not, fine. You're here to fight battles and listen to the music, mostly.FINAL: I'd give it 4.5 stars out of 5. One thing that this game has, though, is REPLAY VALUE. You can beat it in 30 hours, but you can probably play it another 30 times, no problem.

I first played this game when I was 13 years old. I fell in love with the game, it was fun to play and actually involved strategy. I couldn't really understand the story at that age but now that I've played it again I fully understand it and appreciate how brilliant it is! The gameplay is like the early Final Fantasy games, turn based, however this game was played on a field rather than on a line like the other Final Fantasy games. You select your group and move across the field to get near enough to the enemy soldiers to strike. The gameplay is so fun and addicting, and with so much variation to the actions you can do in battle makes every fight different and fun. Now what I love most about this game is the story! The story is just very elaborate and well thought out, there is character development with the protagonists and even some of the antagonists. There are lots of twists in the story and there is just more than enough good things to say about the story.Overall:I know this is an old game and the graphics don't stand up to the ones of today, however the strategic gameplay and brilliantly detailed story make up for the graphics. Pros: A lot of customization, Great story, Great gameplay. Cons: Outdated Graphics. The Pros GREATLY! outweigh the Cons. 5 out of 5!

This is a ride back. Brace yourself for the first of few Tactics games. Took me twenty years to figure-out what the dialogue meant. Oh, yeah I could read. The possibilities are all in a controlled environment so it never drags you out.

A timeless classic, and definitely when Squaresoft was in their prime as a company. The game arrived as expected and works seamlessly. I have always been a Final Fantasy fan, since the original NES console title released in the 1980s. It was the very first RPG game I had purchased, at a K-B Toys for $59.99(in 1980s money without 30 years of inflation of today), in Niles, Ohio. Played the very first one and been a fan ever since. Tactics was another title in the series that certainly did not fail at having impressive game play and a great story line, with a great plot twist at the end of the game.

I sometimes wonder how people would react to this game if it did not have the Final Fantasy franchise name attached to it.I can recommend two better tactical srpg games before you make this purchase: Vandal Hearts for psx and Shining Force 2 for the Genesis or Wii Virtual Console(I would go the latter since genesis and snes games have issues with the save battery due to age) or if endless grinding is your thing then Disgea series is another good recommendation.Not that this game is bad but I wanted the one star rating to get everyone's attention and let them know they have better options when its comes to srpgs.

Excellent product. Got here within a week. So it shipped pretty quick. And I got the original black label release. Not the green Greatest Hits label, which I was happy to see. And just a tip, dont fall for those that are priced over, around 25-30 dollars. I paid 19 bucks after tax for the game, original case, booklet and artwork. Those others that are charging 50, 70, even 100 dollars are iust trying to rip you off. I got the exact same product that they are trying to sell. So, go look through ALL of the cheapest ones first to find one with the booklet artwork and the case, if thats something that you care about as a video game collector.