while flawed in many ways extremely charming rpg that influence a lot of the tactical rpg genre of today
i completed in 47 hours my team was ramza calculator wizard,agrias,monk with geomancer,time mage with chemist and summoner with geomancer
Gameplay 9-9,5/10
even though it has awful balancing,just the sheer amount of creativity you have for a final fantasy game in the 90s is unmatched,is especially fun if you dont abuse the broken stuff like calculator or auto potion,there difficult spikes though.what might just be my favorite thing is the job system,really creative to balance the skills and make so that one character cant just be everything it will always have a weakness,and it also bring a lot of charm with the unique clothes that they have.soomething that this game is missing is exploration since you are in like a board you cant walk really through ivalice.what mostly breaks the game are the unique characters that are just so busted that they make generics bad in comparasion
in dificulty the game in the start is hard but apart from some spikes,it becomes pretty easy with how absurdly busted you can become
special character tier list:
https://tiermaker.com/list/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-special-characters-ranking-1263427/3305006
battles dificulty tier list:
https://tiermaker.com/list/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-story-mode-16083471/3305113
job tier list:
https://tiermaker.com/list/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-jobs-855251/3304997
Graphics/Aesthetics 10/10
beautifull,just beuatifull,the game graphics are really unique in that they use 3d with 2d sprites and it makes it look so unique,never seen a game like it,it really differentiates it from other rpgs and it looks so unique,another thing the cover art from this game is my favorite from all final fantasy games and is up there with games in general,i really like that they dont just use the main characters,because they really arent who you fight with,instead we see some knights that will get killed quickly,and it just looks so cool
another thing that i really like is the use of the camera in cinematics,is so dramatic the camera being really dynamic and moving in where the player should look,it feels like an action movie,i love it
content/replayability 7,5/10
sure they are very few side missions but the game is still pretty lenghty so it gets a 7,5/10 in content and it gets a 8/10 in replayability thanks to the challenge runs,unique teams and that when you play the game multiple times the story makes more sense
ending 7,5/10
not the biggest fan of the final fight nor that ramza and co survived with no reason being presented,it would been way better if the game stay thematical and had some balls and killed ramza and co,but i liked the funeral scene until that and i liked the post credit scene,actually i have no reason to not think that ramza and co were ghosts,so it will themematically make a lot,a lot more sense and will be a lot better
soundtrack/sound effects 9/10
amazing loved the music it really fit with the game and the sound effects are so ominous like when a stone activates all that noise with the laugh sound so scary,extremely well done
story/characters/writting 7,5/10
leave this to until last because is still the part im most conflcted with the game,since there is a lot of good and also a lot of junk,but overall the junk is not greater than the good
in the writing,they are some amazing moments that are well done like the germonik scriptures and they are awful moments that makes no sense like when oran for no reason breaks character and tells ramza that his friends are with him,making no sense because before that there wasnt a word that indicated that he will say that or that it even makes sense that he says that because that is the second time he sees him in the whole game
that brings me to one of the worst part of the game,the characters,they re few and even the few have low screentime and are underdevolped or just plain uninteresting,and even then most if not all the characters are just way to vanilla,there are like really really few characters that i think are interesting and not extremely underdeveloped
something i really love is the way the story is told,since its being told from the perspective of alazlam,an historian of the modern ages and the whole game is him explaining the true story of the war of lions,that is a version of the war of the roses,it is an extremely interesting way to tell the story and brings a lot of juice to the game
my favorite thing from the story has to be the worldbuilding,it is perfect,it is really hard in 50 hours tell a story of a place and make it timeless,but ivalice accomplishes that in full colors,there is a lot of lore and nuance to the continent with legends,organizations and history is perfect 10/10
something that i like and was the reason i play the ps1 version,apart from the cover and the release date,was the translation and let me tell you is amazing,dumb but amazing,there are so many iconic lines that are just so raw and funny,one of my favorites is BLAME YOURSELF OR GOD ,so raw and when put in context this line is funny af,and there are a lot of lines like this in the game
i really like that even though the game takes place in the middle ages people talk like the would in the modern age,is bizarre and raw but it makes the game easier to follow,funnier and less pretencious
overall,may have his jank but this is some of the best rpg i played,some of the best gameplay,worldbuilding,quotes,graphics,sound,just is nothing less than 10/10
i completed in 47 hours my team was ramza calculator wizard,agrias,monk with geomancer,time mage with chemist and summoner with geomancer
Gameplay 9-9,5/10
even though it has awful balancing,just the sheer amount of creativity you have for a final fantasy game in the 90s is unmatched,is especially fun if you dont abuse the broken stuff like calculator or auto potion,there difficult spikes though.what might just be my favorite thing is the job system,really creative to balance the skills and make so that one character cant just be everything it will always have a weakness,and it also bring a lot of charm with the unique clothes that they have.soomething that this game is missing is exploration since you are in like a board you cant walk really through ivalice.what mostly breaks the game are the unique characters that are just so busted that they make generics bad in comparasion
in dificulty the game in the start is hard but apart from some spikes,it becomes pretty easy with how absurdly busted you can become
special character tier list:
https://tiermaker.com/list/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-special-characters-ranking-1263427/3305006
battles dificulty tier list:
https://tiermaker.com/list/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-story-mode-16083471/3305113
job tier list:
https://tiermaker.com/list/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-jobs-855251/3304997
Graphics/Aesthetics 10/10
beautifull,just beuatifull,the game graphics are really unique in that they use 3d with 2d sprites and it makes it look so unique,never seen a game like it,it really differentiates it from other rpgs and it looks so unique,another thing the cover art from this game is my favorite from all final fantasy games and is up there with games in general,i really like that they dont just use the main characters,because they really arent who you fight with,instead we see some knights that will get killed quickly,and it just looks so cool
another thing that i really like is the use of the camera in cinematics,is so dramatic the camera being really dynamic and moving in where the player should look,it feels like an action movie,i love it
content/replayability 7,5/10
sure they are very few side missions but the game is still pretty lenghty so it gets a 7,5/10 in content and it gets a 8/10 in replayability thanks to the challenge runs,unique teams and that when you play the game multiple times the story makes more sense
ending 7,5/10
not the biggest fan of the final fight nor that ramza and co survived with no reason being presented,it would been way better if the game stay thematical and had some balls and killed ramza and co,but i liked the funeral scene until that and i liked the post credit scene,actually i have no reason to not think that ramza and co were ghosts,so it will themematically make a lot,a lot more sense and will be a lot better
soundtrack/sound effects 9/10
amazing loved the music it really fit with the game and the sound effects are so ominous like when a stone activates all that noise with the laugh sound so scary,extremely well done
story/characters/writting 7,5/10
leave this to until last because is still the part im most conflcted with the game,since there is a lot of good and also a lot of junk,but overall the junk is not greater than the good
in the writing,they are some amazing moments that are well done like the germonik scriptures and they are awful moments that makes no sense like when oran for no reason breaks character and tells ramza that his friends are with him,making no sense because before that there wasnt a word that indicated that he will say that or that it even makes sense that he says that because that is the second time he sees him in the whole game
that brings me to one of the worst part of the game,the characters,they re few and even the few have low screentime and are underdevolped or just plain uninteresting,and even then most if not all the characters are just way to vanilla,there are like really really few characters that i think are interesting and not extremely underdeveloped
something i really love is the way the story is told,since its being told from the perspective of alazlam,an historian of the modern ages and the whole game is him explaining the true story of the war of lions,that is a version of the war of the roses,it is an extremely interesting way to tell the story and brings a lot of juice to the game
my favorite thing from the story has to be the worldbuilding,it is perfect,it is really hard in 50 hours tell a story of a place and make it timeless,but ivalice accomplishes that in full colors,there is a lot of lore and nuance to the continent with legends,organizations and history is perfect 10/10
something that i like and was the reason i play the ps1 version,apart from the cover and the release date,was the translation and let me tell you is amazing,dumb but amazing,there are so many iconic lines that are just so raw and funny,one of my favorites is BLAME YOURSELF OR GOD ,so raw and when put in context this line is funny af,and there are a lot of lines like this in the game
i really like that even though the game takes place in the middle ages people talk like the would in the modern age,is bizarre and raw but it makes the game easier to follow,funnier and less pretencious
overall,may have his jank but this is some of the best rpg i played,some of the best gameplay,worldbuilding,quotes,graphics,sound,just is nothing less than 10/10