"A joint effort by the creators of the Final Fantasy series and the director of the Super NES games Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics is a truly fabulous, engrossing adventure.

Sleep Is Your Enemy

The game system is identical to Tactics Ogre except it has Final Fantasy characters, jobs, magic spells, items, and so on. Battle maps consist of diagonal view 3D tiles covering a maximum of 16 x 16 squares. On these maps, you take a party of no more than five characters against a group of enemies. (You may also be joined by two loose cannon guests.) The battles are fought similarly to those in Shining Force, with characters moving in sequence according to their time parametersÑin a word, intricately. Even though Tactics' help system is excellent, you'll definitely lose sleep digesting the information.

No Shortage of Jobs
The job and ability system is very much like that of the fantastic but never-translated Super Famicom game Final Fantasy V. Each character can change jobs by gaining experience and job points. Close to 20 jobs become available, including such FF stalwarts as a knight, ninja, white mage, black mage, summoner, time mage, and monk. Each job comes with special abilities that can be learned by cashing in job points. There are over 400 abilities you can perform, like casting spells, counterattacking, defending, parrying, and stealing. In addition to humans, you can also capture beasts such as Chocobo, goblins, dragons, and more. You also need to summon beasts like Bahamut, Leviathan, and lesser magical creatures.

 FFT's graphics and sound are solid but not spectacular. The spells and special effects look awesome, and the music is Final Fantasy VII quality. However, the overall look is somewhat boring and the sound effects are cheesy.

An RPG with Tactical Flavor

There's no denying FFT is an extremely polished and engrossing game. The one major flaw is that it's not very tactical, given that you have only five controllable characters on a small map. In other words, this isn't so much Tactics Ogre with a Final Fantasy flavor as it is FF with a TO flavor. It's a big distinction. Still, the job and ability system's intricacies give the linear tale plenty of addictive replay value.

by Nob Ogasawara

Personally I Would Suggest You Rent it a Least 3 Times Because It Tends to be a little Boring at First. Because at First You Feel Like Your Going to Lose Every Battle. But Soon Your Characters  Become Stronger and the Game Becomes Fun and Engrosing. The Story Line is Extremely Good I Absolutely Love This Story Line, It's the First Time The Main Character is Not The Hero of The World.

Bottom Line-If you Like Previous FF Games You Should Definitely Get You Hands on This.
 
 
                                                           by William Abell
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