Chocobo's are the excellent Grand Dragon substitute.

Fun fact: My first three RPGs I played were Pokemon Blue, this game, and FF8. And to this day Tactics is the only one I still actually like.

I still play this game and try to clear it once annually. Never gets old for me.

RippahRooJizah Holy shit, those were my first 3 RPGs as well! And I haven’t played Pokémon in years, but I still have fond memories and gladly would, and FF8 is still my favorite numeral Fantasy

How about that soundtrack

starshade 100% agree

Trevor Williams Yeah, that to.

Story is really under rated.

*cough* Dissidia *cough*

YukitoOnline no

you betrayed him first!

That was me the the second time around lol

As is tradition.

call an chocobo....BUT not for me Gaffgarion!

Still play it..i love the story..have sad scene..damn i cant go with that

Haha! It Happened to me you got it right! I got only 1 save, and it was really really hard took me some days before to get through with it. So then when I played it for the 2nd time I alwats make sure to be prepared on that battle!

Literally everyone's first playthrough lmao.

How/what did you need to do to be prepared if you recall? I only beat the game once(20 years ago give or take) and didn't have multiple saves.

Wiegraf would hit you with Lightning Stab for 144 damage a turn, and it was almost impossible to stay out of range of it. The easiest way to win was to set Auto-Potion as your counter, and drop everything except X-Potions (heal 150). The "having multiple saves" part refers to the fact that if you were underleveled and couldn't beat this fight, it was the second or third in a chain battle sequence where you couldn't return to shops or level on the overworld.

I got stack on this part too and have to redo the whole thing from the start. Fucking wiegraft haahhaha. I can't forget that dude.

Ah yes, enter random battle, kill all but one enemy, keep it alive and wail on your own guys for 2 hours to farm JP.

It wasn’t convoluted

@@udalixyes this is the way

@@flygonkerel781it was when I was 9 not so much when I’m 34 lol

'His unstoppable skill' is fitting given that there's only one Astral Magick in the whole game.

@@MrHolmesjustin66 its fantasy numb nuts. Orran isnt real

@@JM-bl3ih got em real good

totally better than GOT XD by the way lol... A movie of FF with real actors would be an epic movie, im sure milions of people would watch it even without knowing the game existance, just cause the story is too good.

Omg this would be so fucking awesome as a series or even a movie. Do i say, should someone start a fan page up to try and get this started? 😏

It would be great if it becomes a television series, but it won't work if they try to make it a movie.

I thought the same thing!!

FFX has a better story imo but this one is rlly good too

Ramza is so basic. there's almost nothing save some squire skills to separate him from every character in the game. Delita on the other hand trained to become as powerful as he could. He thought he needed that power to succeed in his goal. That's what makes Ramza the best FF character for me.. he is just a person who has shunned his lineage after finding out the truth. He proves you don't need ultimate power to succeed, and that one person on their own can change the world.

​@@iggyeo6458 Exactly!! I was 7 at the time when I first played it. Holy mother of god did I jump into a complicated story hahaha honestly I learned a lot from this gem.

Actually, Ramzas act as Heritic an special dark magic skills always make me go heavy magic on the last chapters. So I see him as a dark knight, an its just history that never saw his true power/strength, as the story is a recounting. Such a good game though, you're right. Delita is the Hero an its amazing.

You forgot someone who's stronger... CLOUD! :D

Ramza is the hero the other ff protagonists idealized

Vinícius Boaventura Dias I concur

Truly

It also has one of the more mature stories even though it has kinda cute looking sprite graphics. It handles themes of War, Politics, Religion, and the hearts of men much better than most of the other games though I'm still a fan of those as well for the most part.

Second best for me. FF6 is still at the top of my chart.

It's my favorite non-online game of all time. And it's tied with Guild Wars for my favorite game period. So yah, definitely best FF game :D

The source of my childhood trauma 😂

hahahahaha

If you got both Yell and Accumulate then the fight is a cakewalk if you just grind for a few minutes.

@@NetConsole How many kids knew of this though? Zero.

EXACTLY!!

God no they will ruin it like they did the FF5 and FF6 Steam Releases. Best to go to FFHacticks and get the balanced ROM and play it. It is the best version of the game.

I looked through their site and could not find it. Would you help me please?

It is in their Forums under Projects and Completed Patches, stickied at the top called FFT: Complete. It is the proper PSP translation, but on the PSX game with all the bugs fixed and all the job abilities balanced. Has other fan made versions of the game as well in the forums.

FFX was good...

Game of Thrones came out in 1996, Tactics in 1997. So, no.

Both of them are based on the War of the Roses in 1455.

I would say that Game of Thrones is more alike Tactics Ogres that came before, but indeed both are inspired in the War of the Roses.

FFT is basically the Golden Age Arc of Berserk. They are remarkably similar stories, right down to granular details like the auracite and the Lucavi and everything.

Tactics Ogre came out before Game of Thrones. But Final Fantasy Tactics came out after Game of Thrones.

Oni Black Mage TTTTHHHAAANNNKKKK YYYYOOOOUUUUUU

Oni Black Mage I've been waiting for this episode thank you so much!

Oni Black Mage I've been waiting for this episode thank you so much!

Oni Black Mage congrats!

Oni Black Mage Thanks for the vid, Square Enix should be grateful.

DarkZholt Makes me wish they made a D&D styled game out of that setting :)

Sometimes on 4chan /tg/ people will to to have some Ivalice/FFT thread going. They even started to create rules for FFT D20, sometimes people post the updated version of the PDF. It's a setting that really needs more attention from Squeenix.

You forgot Final Fantasy XII. That game is also a masterpiece!

Ivalice did make a return in 12, as with MontBlanc.

I concur

FFTA is also a game about kids trying to come to terms with the fact that extreme escapism is not the way to heal from trauma, but okay, dilute it as simple snowball fights.

ff Ix is also amazing

Indeed

angel hernandez i was thinking in retrospect this story screams war of roses adapted...

@@Thaistickthai yep, it’s pretty much a rip off

@@NickHchaos It's just a good representation of medieval politics tbh, Not exactly a rip off.

in WoTL, it is impossible because of safeguard - and damn, i wasted several hours because i thought the items can be stolen from him lol

In the original yes can be stolen but not in the PSP or mobile versions

@@Alexeon yeah since the demons or a select few who can do it never used it when ramza went squire etc to be hit by it and surivive.

@ken ho ah so that's how it is done. just need to find the stone and ko resist items and make sure he is equipped with it to handle it. wonder how ramza uses it himself once he surivies it etc.

@ken ho I see I may have to start a new game for me anyway since I fucked up again on getting up to the castle for the fight against wargif. plan on grinding him etc though the first and most of second chapter and all I got to get past the cardnel was luck that turned lady argith in to a zombie and then holly sword him in to the dust after my preist landed a holly attack successfully dealing mass damage etc. though I may need to grind early again and smartly this time to get the most out of it.

I am agree with you

I love how there were a lot of characters that participated in the Lion Wars. Gaffgarion was described to have been discharged for his barbaric methods. Cardinal Delacroix was said to have been a "war hero". Ramza's father, and Thunder God Cid being legends themselves. The many soldiers that fought the war to eventually be screwed by nobility (Wiegraf) There was so many layers to the event, and none of it ever unfolded on screen.

@@ry2950 and it deeply interests me till this day since i was a teenager playing it on the ps1

The second half of story is not good. It's not perfect. The demon/church stuff just flat-out sucks.

Basically all the heroes are actually bad guys except our JRPG protagonist, Ramza. :p

Compressed again: The king lost a war and died. The White Lion is appointed to the crown by the king until the king's 2 year old son comes of age. The government says "yeaaaah no we don't like him" and appoints the Black Lion to the crown. They fight for years. All the knights and people suffer and are forced into crime. Ramza and Delita are friends until Ramza's highborn brothers say "Delita ain't shit because we're nobles and he's a commoner." So they kill his sister. Delita decides he's going to lie, cheat, steal, and kill until he can burn down both Lions and let the common people have their turn. Ramza is disgusted by his highborn family and renounces...everyone. Years pass. The church takes advantage of the 2 Lions fighting until they both become so weak from killing each other that they'll just both bow to the church and the church will rule. The church decide to use literal demons to increase their power. Ramza stops them. The church lies and tells everyone Ramza's a terrorist. Ramza has no friends but keeps fighting because the church stole his sister. Ramza kills his own family after he found out his brother killed his father and the leader of the White Lions. The White Lions are dead. Delita murders the leaders of the Black Lions and takes over. The Black Lion is dead. The church is happy and prepare to take over but can't because Ramza is in the way. Ramza murders his way through the entire clergy. He finds out the ultimate goal of the church is to resurrect a holy figure who is actually the antichrist. Ramza kills the antichrist. The antichrist blows up. To save face, the church tells everyone that Ramza was worse than Osama Bin Laden and for centuries people believe it. The one guy who knew the truth the church set on fire. Delita is crowned king and declared a legend. But the princess he spent a quarter of the game trying to save is convinced that he'll only use her too and throw her away, so she tries to kill him. Delita kills her. Ramza fucks off out of this shitty country and no one knew he was the actual hero of the War of the Lions until decades after his death. The end.

*Heretic*, not terrorist. And also the Church of Glabados was also a puppet, the real mastermind are the Lucavi (Espers). There are using the name of the church for their needs.

I know. I was just using really really simplified terms for everything.

The game of Thrones of FF.

I wish a lot more people recognized that.

i preferred Tactics Ogre as well

I LOVE the first Tactics Ogre. The thing that makes Tactics Ogre better then Final Fantasy Tactics is, first you got 10 toons you can use(unlike in FFT, 5 max, and if there are Guests you even have less ugh) and then all the design failures with Speed, cast time of spells and the like. If you level up past level 50 and you try to fight Monsters, they hit so hard and Spells take AGES to be cast ... allot characters get a turn 3 times before the spell i cast! So stupid ... But the story was top notch.

I don't think you understand how charge time works in tactics. You can cast most spells, and even summons, without any character getting more than 2 turns 100% of the time. most spells and summons you can cast before enemies even get close enough to stop you, and i've literally never seen a character act 3 times before i cast something. Plus, there are truly broken shenanigans i love doing. Dual weilding rune blade knights with calc skill casting holy for no charge time on multiple targets? Yes please lol.

This is one of only two FF games I've wanted to complete more than once.

bw13187 That's pretty much why I checked out of the series after completing ff7. I just couldn't get on board with the direction in plot and character designs. Everything was just made out to be needlessly complicated. I guess being of the Snes era it also didn't make sense so many others thought these were positives. Hell, I'm probably one of the few people who doesn't like One Winged Angel as a last boss theme while most other call it a masterpiece. I disagree. To me it sounded so over the top bombastic, it comes across a ridiculous. Especially the way it opens with the Reee, Reee, reeee, reeee! Every time I hear it I think of the Mr. Donut Man scene from Wayne's World. FFT at least shows you can have a somber complex story without being so opaquely convoluted and/or existential it's sniffing its own farts.

Xanny19 emulators my friend!

Buy a psone.

Yes, i guess many players did not read the Scriptures of Germonique

Xenogears' plot is only nonsense if you're not intelligent enough to understand it, that game is a fucking masterpiece.

@@FeedEgg To be fair, you have to have a fairly high IQ to understand Rick and Morty...

@@FeedEgg Agreed.

Play Xenogears again, my friend. It's far from nonsense and one of the best stories told so far. As much as FFT, which we agree is wonderful beyond recognition.

i need a flow chart!!

@@espourtoe I have played and replayed and I STILL can't understand the plot. It's just too damn intricate and sophisticated.

Lol

Probably because A1 and A2 was set in the golden age of Ivalice

Hmm, hadn't though of doing that... I tend to lean away from lore videos, but I might experiment along the lines in the future.

you can hunt them from ninjas via grasp. tedious though. you need to search for specific levelled ninjas that throw the specific weapons. or just level down them using mindflares.

I believe one of the multiplayer maps is perfect for getting op items via the throw and grasp method. Just a pile of high level ninjas tossing chaos blades, omnilexs, Defenders, etc until they are killed. On the Oran fight map, if I recall correctly...

Straight brute strength, is the best tactic. Dual wield knight swords. And blade grasp.

@@deadwingdomain I replayed the game and beat it with a maxed dark knight

Yes

Whoa, thanks for the reply! Look forward to it.

MAZZ0Murder Indeed, Luso and Balthier come in for War of The Lions

John Do you could say so, but both games don't show the full world map so no one could say if it is or isn't

ff12 wasn't made yet. Balthier was originally a side character named "Beowulf." He had the most amazing attack; Chicken. Each time you use it, it depletes 50 bravery. So, you use it on a guy twice, they instantly turn into a chicken, and flee to a corner, not changing back for 10 turns. (You regain 1 brave per turn, and turn into a chicken if it's under 10.)

According to the Ivalice timeline, yes

Beowulf was still worse than Orlandeau though. Harder to get and required 2 attacks to make enemies useless, while Orlandeau could do it in 1.

Yes, but can Thundergod Cid turn them into a chicken? Didn't think so. See, that's what you're missing here. It's not about practicality. It's about the chicken. Sure, you can use an uber attack to dominate an entire line of enemies, or hit a crowd and instantly be back to full health... but none of that packs the sweet satisfaction of chicken.

Yes

I think out of the three Tactics games, A2 is the weakest. Tactics was a dark political story inspired by the War of the Roses and Advance featured familial abuse, the effects of bullying on children, and a deconstruction of escapism, but A2 was just some kid goofing off in a fantasy world

Kids enter a Disney story. Kids exit a Disney story. Just did the first Tactics Adcance for ya lol. Just kidding, I just hate that those games, in my opinion, tarnish the legacy of this one.

Ahmad Nieves the story for the first Advance goes deeper than that.

U. Reverie Im aware, i said I was kidding. But in my opinion it feels so shallow in comparison to the originals story that It might as well be a disney story. The characters aren't relatable, no stakes from what I could gather. But to each their own. I was just expressing my opinion in an exaggerated way.

After Resident Evil, I will be doing Castlevania as my inter-non-RPG recap game series... after that, I'll strongly consider MGS. I feel a lot of people should get the stories straight.

Oni Black Mage awesome dude. I feel the same way

*ahem* i had a calculator before ziekden fortress (ihadtoomuchfreetime)

Nerds.

I had rocks

Yes, though 'soon' is relative with me

Oni Black Mage yess can't wait and thanks for the reply😄👍

Really I'll settle for "sometime this year."

You know me well

i propose the video covered both FFTA and FFTA2, they both closely related