Hey guys! This was a new type of video for us so it would be really good to understand how you felt about it and whether you'd like to see us expand it to other games in the franchise. Big thanks to Guideseeker for suggesting the topic to us! ~Darryl/Lauren

FF Tactics is one of the best games of all time, if not the best Strategy rpg ever created !

See Final Fantasy Tactics, click like before even watching. My personal favorite Final Fantasy. But also my favorite video game ever.

Words cannot describe how much I loved (and still love) Final Fantasy Tactics..! ❤️

Tactics to me is THE best Final Fantasy game. So much replayability.

Everbody was a gangsta til Thunder God Cid gets into the scene. Hold my Excalibur - Cid

I was literally just thinking about how much I hope Square brings back Final Fantasy Tactics lol

I've always defended FFVI and FFVII because they were the first ones I took on but FFT being the underrated gem it is... I believe this is the greatest story ever told. (At least in FF Lore, close call with FFVI). Not only does the main antagonist is never really revealed as the antagonist, the writers came as close as possible to achieving a 'real' outcome of the things that transpired. (Ramza being the heretic, Delita being the hero of the story). I'm glad to see that it's 2019 and people are still talking about it.

The best part about this video is the fact that it sumarizes and introduces a newcomer to FFT whitout having to tell anything about the godlike gorgeous plot it have. Instead, the main focus is on what actually makes this game such a masterpiece: the developers behind it. This kind of information is absolutely hard to find sometimes, and being able to learn about the names behind such a amazing experience is something i cant say "thank you" enough for doing. Best part is that now i have a "go to" video to share whenever i'm trying to reccomend FFT for someone, knowing that the people will feel exactly the same excitement i felt before playing. Thank you for this video!

i'm playing it right now and i can see why FFT fans are so diehard. I'd only played FFTA and FFTA2 until now, i missed out on it back in the day.

The story of Ramza and Delita is so good that it could be studied in college literature classes. I'd love to see an HD remake of the game sometime.

FFT is my most favorite FF game ever. I love the story, the characters, gameplay, the music is just amazing. I have to replay it every year and i still love it the same.

FFT & FF7 are my two favs out of all of the FF games! I love everything FF & am currently in FFXIV! But Tactics will always be number 1 in my heart!

I enjoyed Tactics back in the day. As a fan of Final Fantasy 14, I enjoyed the fact that the development team gave us trips down memory lane with the inclusion of Rabanastre in Ivalice.

Don't think I could click that thumbnail any faster! One of the best Final Fantasy games period.

FF Tactics to this day is one of my favorite FF games! And will always be! Love it! Hopefully they give us an HD console version. Now lets talk about Legend of the Dragoon!

This game changed, and continues to change, my life in a very positive way. Great video!

I've been on a big Ivalice Alliance kick lately, and then you guys come out with this?!?! lol

My friends, we fight for Ivalice!

I have played 3000+ hours of tactics when I was in high school. Still my all time favorite.

The storyline was absolutely heart wrenching and kept me sooooo Soo immersed throughout the entire playthrough of not only final fantasy tactics but tactics ogre let us cling together as well... Both are masterpieces in their own right

Tactics is my favorite ff of all time. Needs a remake. Not remastered.

God, Tactics Ogre LUCT is one of the greatest games of all time.

I LOVE FFT but it also breaks my heart that the Ogre Battle Saga will never be finished 😢

i always loved how all the character keep perpetually marching at all times with that dead eyed blank expression on their face...kinda adorable

Played this on ps1 those were the good days, how come we dont have tactical rpg nowadays that has an engaging story and fun gameplay like this one, seriously the character development and plot of the story is really really good.

Turns out all my favorite rpgs were all Matsuno games. i love that guy. Hope he gets to keep making more and more games.

Thank you for this. This game was one that deviated from the tradition and for me at first I hated that. My cousin had the game and I remember watching one day and being immediately captivated by the strategy and replay ability. Each fight could be a sort of boss fight, enemies leveled up with you, you could level up and grind and learn skills and change classes and be whatever you wanted. Match all the skills you wanted to be all powerful for the upcoming boss fights. There was so much you could do! The story was so engrossing, as was the music. I remember getting chills during some of the boss fights and turning the volume up on the TV to engross myself into the fight even more. I even had the soundtrack. This game left a huge impression upon me. It's too bad they didn't make sequels with the same characters and story line. Thank you for the video!

I remember I was like 13 and we took a road trip as a family from socal to Canada. Never saw this game anywhere here but saw it in a store in Canada and begged my parents to buy it for me. They said yes and I memorized the booklet and pictures before I even got home to play it. I knew it was gonna be one of the best games I ever played.

Sincerest appreciation for producing this fantastic episode on my absolute favorite Final Fantasy entry~

I obsessed over the grind of this game. The development of each character and potential new job classes/skills/abilities. It took me FOREVER to progress through the game simply because I wanted to grind out my characters and truly turn them into serious power houses. SO cool learning the history behind one of the greatest FF games in history!

Really love these videos you guys do. In depth commentary and appreciation of game development as an art and a craft!

Final Fantasy Tactics is easily my top Final Fantasy from Square, with 6 coming in at #2. I just wish my PSP was working as I would still be playing Tactics even to this day.

I released my 9th episode of my Final Fantasy Retrospective back in January of this year which covered all the games in Ivalice. I can even say that Yasumi Matsuno was and still is a phenomenal visionary when it came to story-telling in the games set in that world, and Final Fantasy Tactics is proof in the pudding that Matsuno brought about something really special. I just hope that wish of his to make a sequel to the original Final Fantasy Tactics as of late will end up becoming a reality. Great video, guys!

I bought this game on a whim back in 98 at a Service Merchandise for $19.99. I saw a Final Fantasy name with SquareSoft on the cover so I thought it might be ok. Looked really cool on the case. Never looked back. This is in my top 5 games of all time. Definitely one I can pick up at anytime and play for a few hours. I have the original PS1 version as well as the PSP version. I am hoping with all the remake/refreshes happening in games right now that this one might get a PS4 re-release. Fantastic game!

My favorite game on ps1 and again on psp. Everything from the soundtrack/soundeffects to the story of this game hits me in the heart just thinking about it. I’ll never forget this game. Ty for this video

I've been playing this game for twenty years, still not tired of it. Ever use the game geni on this? So cool.

This masterpiece of a game will forever be treasured.

I'll never forget beating this on the PSP when I was a kid, unlocking cloud and the rest was so exhilarating, my favorite FF.

FFT will forever be one of my favorite games of all time. I have no issues mentioning this game in the same sentence as Witcher 3 or FF7

I just want to say how much I appreciate these videos. You always make me think about the games in a new way.

Please keep making videos like this. I love learning about how games are made.

The reading of the germinok scriptures is a story i still remember to this day

Tactics, Harvest Moon, and Civilization were my 3 favorite games as a kid!!

Playing tactics right now , I didn’t have the patience for the game when I was younger . Discovering how great it is now but it makes you hungry for more Ivalice. 🤩🤩🤩

Tactics is 100% my Favorite game of all time. I could speak for hours on end about this game and how it shaped me

I grew up with the game, it taught me friendship,comroderry,respect,adoration, and to top it all off.. MATH. I owe my entire game style to this title and would give much to see ivalice's stories play out. Thank you for the history lesson and all that you guys do!!

That was one of the best intros I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing. Bravo.

I’m glad I stubbled onto this video. One of the best games I ever played. It’s so good I still play it today. Thank you for the history lesson.

The sound track, the story, the art style, the characters, the game play, the difficulty(without grinding), the mechanics.. this game is one of the greatest ever made 🙌🏽

Amazing video as always. It might be my favorite video of yours now.

An excellent video worthy of such a legendary game! Great job as always, guys! You are both Video Creators Lv. 8!

Final Fantasy Tactics is probably my favourite of the FF games, VIII is a close second. The story and the characters are fantastic and the game play was top notch. I have it downloaded on my PS3. Hoping that it can live again on future consoles with ports and such. Your character origin series on the characters would be great.

I loved maxing our characters and giving them the Calculator as the second ability. Lots of fun replay value.

Rediscovering this video after 3 years. Holds up. Amazing content as always.

Absolutely wonderful! I have loved Final Fantasy tactics since the first time I popped it in my PlayStation one in 1997. You can really tell the heart and soul they put into this game. Thank you so much for making this, and I would love to see more storytelling of games done with such depth

Really enjoyed that I didn't just get to see game play, but also some 'behind the scenes' info on the creators. Brought it all together quite nicely and set it apart!

One of the best stories ever told in a videogame. I can remember when I was a kid and FF7 and Tactics released, I bought both games at Costco that year. I BEGGED my parents if I could have two games that year instead of one cuz I just couldn't limit myself to just picking one of them. And as much as I LOVED (and love) FF7, I always found myself coming back to FFT. Even though the narrative was really mature for a kid my age at that time, and I couldn't understand everything that was happening, it still drew me in. (and the great character portraits and chibi animations didn't hurt either) I had to know how one relationship would go, how that would change a character's WHY, and in turn how that effected the direction of the war, and how things ended for that character

Agrias is love, Agrias is life. End of story. No Beolve, no Heiral. Just her

Only game I’ve replayed over and over more than once, but the storytelling was so captivating! Only game I’ve played in my life where I read through all the text.

I absolutely love FFT. I remember when it came out and a friend wanted it. So I found a guy online and he sold me his copy and I gave it to my friend. For those from the early years of the internet you might remember two guys named Adam Page and Adam Corn of 'Soundtrack Central' who were devoting much of their time on their respective sites, also knew each other, getting fans acquainted with video game music. I used to talk Page and Corn through the early years of e-mail. Then I was talking with Corn a lot about VGs, and he sold his copy of FFT to me for $30. He did later go on to create a storefront to sell soundtracks. This was a golden era for fans starting with FF to really get into buying VG soundtracks. Now things are so much easier. How things have changed. I would sit in and watch my friend and his brother play and I felt a little intimidated mainly because I had never put my hand to a tactical sim type RPG. When I finally sat in again and actually watched the game in action I was really entralled by the amount of depth put into this game. I would say that FFT is definitely one of Square's biggest successes outside of FF. Considering that it was coming in on the tail success of FF7 and Square was pretty borrowing many ideas to slap FF on it. Bringing in Yasumi Matsuno from Ogre Batte, Tactics Ogre to create a tactical sim with that will not only use the FF brand but utilize the FF job system into the gameplay... it was a match made in happen. People had their doubts, because sure it wasn't typical FF, but the degree of story development was amazing. Everything flowed together like a beautiful pot of soup. Add in Akihiko Yoshida's art and Hitoshi Sakimoto's score... and your taste buds were satisfied. Many consider this Sakimoto's best compositions during the early years of Square. And still is. I'm a big fan of Sakimoto and have collected a good deal of his music, but I still consider FFT his best work. This video helped me refresh my memory with the story. I finally broke down and played the game and realized it wasn't as scary as I thought. The story was really a mature story. And that's what kind of sets Matsuno apart from Sakaguchi, or Kitase, or anybody else. I never really how involved he could get on creating a world, characters. FFT set the foundation for a whole separate universe for Square. But it really wasn't the FF they knew because FF didn't have a name. Now Square is willing to adopt having different branches. Seiken the Mana series WAS a different take using FF's name before it got spun off into it's franchise. It was FF Adventure, that was what was included in the subheading, it's full title Seiken: FF Adventure. By the time the 2nd installment came around and called it Seiken Densetsu 2, they just moved it into a different part of the franchise and added different monsters to separate it from the FF brand. Would I want to see this redone? I don't know how this would work today being upgraded in a realistic fashion. It could work, but the sprites working with the tactical element for that time worked together perfectly. How would this translate if redone in a more upgraded realistic manner. If anything needs a proper remake it's Vagrant Story.

This is easily my favorite video this channel has produced. Some previous videos have also been well done, and on others the format caused my interest to wane however this was purely excellent. Please keep this up. The quality of this video would be seamless as if it were produced by Square themselves.

Darrell, you did an awesome job on this video, brother!!!

i've been waiting for a final fantasy tactics advanced remake for so long, i only hope one day it happens

*Creates a party full of knights *Creates a story for them in my head and let them fight each other after severely crippling the one enemy left on the map

I love FFT, played it on the PS1 and I remember it came out around my birthday. I bought it again on the PSP and would love for Square to make another similar game to this masterpiece. Thanks for covering the development of this game!

The battle against Velius is incredible fun.

You didn't mention that Tactics didn't come out in the UK and Europe. Which maybe contributes to its status as a hidden gem or cult game. I remember coverage in magazines and being really disappointed we weren't getting it. But did manage to play an import copy. It made us UK fans all the more excited though, when Tactics Advance came out on the GBA!

Just made me so much more proud to say this is my favorite game and I’m so happy that I grew up with it. 💚

And it started with one game, that paved the way for everything that would follow... This is the History of Tactics Og- Wait, what?

FF Tactics Advance was my first tactical game as well as the first FFT game that I ever played, owned, and beat. I bought it at a mall we stopped at to take a break on the long drive to the cabin we were staying at on our Church trip. I remember laying on my mat while the other kids ran around doing whatever and played it during most of my free time. I fell in love with the game as well as the series and when I got my hands on War of the Lions I ended up 100%ing it/ unlocked all secret characters as well as professions and maxed them all out.

This new style of video is really great, I've been watching for a long time but never quite hit that sub button but now I have if you're doing more of this!

I remember when I first played the game, my friend and I wanted to see if the characters would look older as they age. Prince Orinus ended up being a 20 year old infant. 😂

One if my favorite games ever. Ramzas evolution compared to delitas was so well done that i had to replay it to fully understand. 20 years later and im addicted to feh gacha

Thank you for making this video. I have so much love for this title. My grandfather taught me chess at a young age. Many years later this game came out and I was absolutely immersed in it because of that. Edit: I've always wished that I could've returned the favor and taught him this game

Thank you for making a video about FFT in 2019. This is one of the best games ever made and needs to be remembered from time to time. Cheers! PS: Im playin Vagrant Story right now hehehe!

As always a great video, this not the first time I saw this, but still great job!

Great video, lots of stuff i didn’t k ow about the development of the game that I appreciate. Keep up the great work. Everyone here played Fell Seal?

About time you do video on Final Fantasy Tactics! Possibly one of the best game ever made and one of my favorite of all time for sure. Even just in the world of FFT, there is so much lore to be explored. So many interesting characters.

I remember reading about Final Fantasy Tactics in magazines in the late '90s. This was shortly after Final Fantasy VII introduced me to JRPG's and while riding that high, I wanted to absorb everything Final Fantasy. Sadly FFT never saw a release in Europe so I never did get the opportunity to play it back then. I'm not sure if I would have properly understood or appreciated it if I had gotten the chance though. A few years ago I managed to pick up a copy of FFT while on holiday in Canada and it's very satisfying to finally make good on that desire from so many years ago.

Great video, I love it when a youtube channel is all about the facts! Today I learned a lot about FFT that I had no idea about. The plan to keep the game 60 FPS is actually pretty funny when you consider every version of this game after PS1. Slowdown plagued PSP, and it still plagued mobile (you may notice on closer inspection, the game will actually fast forward through certain effects. This was to counteract the slowdown, but it had to sacrifice the sound).

I've been wanting to hear anything about FF Tactics being put out on ANY other platform than what it's on now. I want War of the Lions for switch (with no slowdown issues like the PSP had), and/or PC. I've been trying to force myself through Tactics Advance, since I grew to really dislike it when I first played it, but so far it isn't quite as awful as I remember it. But PLEASE square, just don't forget about Tactics for as long as you did about FF8.

Very cool video. Def want to subscribe! I played FFT when it was new and rather than replay the game (although it’s tempting), I just like to revisit with videos like this. It’s fascinating to hear how this game was developed and just to think if any of the team somehow doesn’t end up at Square, it’s not the same game and perhaps it never even gets made. Thank you Game Gods.

Oh heck yeah! I loved playing FFT! I hadn't known about the history, very interesting! I still love FFT!!

I was shocked how deep the battle system the first I played when I was only a child and didn't know a lot English nor Japanese to understand the story. I played FFT years later, only to realize the story was also amazing. Now here I am, 20 years after its launch and still playing the game.

Still play it in 2019 and on...

FF tactics is my fav game of all time . So much time spent in this game in my younger years. The music is incredible, story is amazing , combat is so much fun , art is on point . I love every single thing about the game.

My most favourite game of all Final Fantasy franchise. I still love it till now.

Great video! Thanks for all the research and work on it!

Any video about Final Fantasy Tactics is an instant watch for me. Really loved the game a lot. PS1 and PSP versions.

"What troubled sleep have you know to speak of my dreams?" I think the gameplay hasn't aged too well but the story and world are enduring.

To this very day, this game has such a special place in my heart. The amount of work that goes into the stories and gameplays were just, spectacular. I really hope they can release a remake or a sequel of FFT.

I have never play a game so much in my life than this series of games every one of them and they get you so hooked up

I remember there name being square soft not just square. At least in the 90s. Final Fantasy Tactics has always been an amazing game. I'm really glad it was created. I've played it multiple times.

Loved this game as a teen. Got it as a x-mas gift that went unplayed for awhile because of getting FF9 at the same time. 1st time booted it up just couldn't get the controls so I put it away. A few months later was bored and gave it a second try. OMG new favorite game for a number of years. Hopefully one day it will get a true PC release on steam and I can play the updated version finally.

Rich narrative is the biggest understatement of all your videos.

Funny. I just picked up the game again 4 days ago, and now this is in my recommendations? Thanks for the upload

This is an amazing video! Very well done! Thank you making this video on one of my favorite games of all time ❤️❤️

Amazing work. Thanks for this video, I really aprecciated!

Finally! Some Final Fantasy Tactics love here!!