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Old school. Like, PacMan type old school.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay of this game is pretty good. Original, combining the commands and jobs and weapons of Final Fantasy with the turn-based grid-pattern gameplay of Dungeons and Dragons. It was way too slow, though, and in an age where a gamer will rap out half an hour of play and then save before heading to school/ college/job, hour-long tactical battles just suck. Especially when you lose most time and have to do them over and over again. But overall, it'd be a good game.

If I could stand to look at it.

In this modern era of bump-mapping and CG animations that look real, as in REAL, a game where 'my green dot is beating the heck out of your purple square' just doesn't do the trick for me. Especially when their purple square always strangles the living snot out of my green dot. No way. I'd be willing to bet that the graphics on the GBA are gonna look better than for the PS.

So, I played it for three hours and then gave up. I had an entire row of PS2 generation RPSs to suck up my attention, such as FFX and its sequel. Which might not have the same old grueling fight system, but I can actually tell that Yuna is a girl, not a green dot with brown lines on her head.

A must!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has got to be one of my favorites! It is challenging and took me a few trys to beat it, but the whole thing was worth it. It is a challenging, but fun game you will want to play over, and over again. In my opinion, if you are looking for a challenging game that you won't finish in the first month of playing, this one is a perfect game. This game took me about three months to finish, and I had to start over alot of times. If you don't think this game is a blast, you must be crazy!

Brings back memories.........

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game exclusively for almost 4 months on the original Playstation. It is arguably my favorite game ever on the Playstation. The different options for your characters was nearly endless.

This game offered so much fun, I almost want to go buy it again. Almost.

Overall = Superb

If you don't like Tactics games, stay away!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, when I first got this game I was so excited to get a Final Fantasy game (I am a BIG fan of the series). However, I did not know what a tactics game was. I am an RPGer. If I loved tactics games I am sure I would like this game a lot better. However, after trying to like it, I just decided tactics are not for me.

the best tactics game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Out of all the tactics-type games that have come out over the past few years, this is clearly the best. The replay value is awesome. Of course, it's just my opinion...as all reveiws are, but I think this is the best tactics game ever made. The gameplay, storyline, character development, and musical score are all top notch. It doesn't get any better. Good luck buying it at a reasonable price if you don't own one already. Even the re-issue of the greatest hits edition is getting hard to find. I could go on and on, so I'll just end with a plea to the folks at Squaresoft....please make a sequel for the PS2!!!

Because some days, you *have* to throw the controller

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

To find a successor to Final Fantasy 7 must have been no easy task, and its difficulties have, no doubt, been increased by the circumstance that the resumption of joint work by the team who made the company what it is has been of only too short duration. FF Tactics is a sorry mixup of a story that is too long in the telling. From the outset of it, one can see nothing but extreme misfortune for the characters from beginning to end.

The animation is rather sloppy at times, and the music always reminding me of something else. The most unforgiveable part of the game is the lack of proofreading in the text. In many of the scenes, things are misspelled or ungrammatical. In several descriptions of things, there is gibberish where a description ought to be.

As for the story, the plot is rather twisted. Something about a war without a clear goal and nonsense about zodiac stones, characters that come and go without a "will yer leave" or "by your leave", and a myriad of battles in a well-designed battlefield. By the end, there are no characters to really admire except Ramza, whose fate isn't entirely clear either. Most of the other characters are dead by the end anyway, so it's not like it matters.

The final product looks really rushed to get to the stores and it's a shame that Square wasn't more careful with what Video Game Spot called "a masterpiece".

Unplayable, forgetable, frustrating UN-Tactics game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy Tactics is a game where the player controls up to 5 people on a comparable chess grid against various enemies using a wide array of job skills, items, spells, and weapons to kill the enemy. Similar to standard RPGs, all people have hit points, magic points, gain skills and use them. There are many job classes, many combinations, many skills, and it all comes together in a giant mess. It makes for one terribly frustrating experience.

Good things:
-Graphics are nice and crisp (especially for the time)
-Job system is easily one of the best points of the game, where characters can use the abilities of several classes passively and up to two classes during battle.

Thats about it.

Bad things:
-Environments, while they look good, tend to be so cluttered that you can't see. There are controls to rotate the 3/4 view around to one of 4 spots, but there is never a good angle. Many squares can never be seen from all 4 angles.
-Movement, thanks to the terrible angles, requires a good amount of forethought. If you think you can get next to enemy and attack, think again. You are probably off by a space or 2, meaning that you just wasted a turn.
-Ally AI is terrible. Those you need to protect try to get themselves killed and those that don't need to be saved will never lift a finger. See a couple points down for example.
-It is necessary to spend a great deal of time leveling your characters up as the difficulty is either very hard or very easy with nothing in the middle. There is a set of battles, several in a row, where the first one is laughably easy (as in my characters were 20 levels higher than the enemy) followed immediately by a battle where you can only win by luck (the boss can kill several if not all in one hit). This is then followed by a level where you can (and will) lose without ever getting a turn! (thanks to the AI, the character you have to save will die in the first action). Very frustrating.
-Tactics it is not, as the only tactic you can do with 5 people trying to cover all important bases is to gang up and kill one enemy at a time. If you want something that makes you think, try something else.

Overall:
The gameplay, if tweaked, could make this enjoyable. But in the current state, please save yourself the frustration of having to deal with this mess. If you think banging your head on a wall is fun, then this is the game for you.

Fast shipping, good price!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The case was a little cracked when the game got to me, but the cd was in perfect condition and it shipped to me pretty quickly considering it was travelling from California to Canada.

a true masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A hero who receives no recognition of his good deeds branded as an anarchist and a blasphemer. The "Hero" who manipulates those in power and uses the man who fights for justice? sounds like a good movie... well it's Final Fantasy Tactics a masterpiece produced by Squaresoft. The game features 20 hours of mandatory gameplay(for those who have to beat the game in record time)but those of us who must conquer the game and all of it's secrets such as getting Cloud from FFVII you will play at least 60 hours in attaining all the secrets in this game. You can custmonize your characters with Job Classes leadin to an almost infinite of possiblilites of the classes of the hero or any other character. Most importantly the story/plot deserves the credit of a best selling novel. Enter Ramza the youngest son in the noble Beoulve family, who fights for justice, while his best friend Delita takes the glory for his deeds. The story is shrouded with political conspiracies to match those in Tom Clancy novel.This game also revolutionizes the stragey rpg for all you thinkers out there. This quite possibly is the greatest game in existience on the PS too bad a sequel has yet to be spawned of this game.

A breath of fresh air

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A first glimpse this at this game, and one might get pretentious and assume that because of the 2D effects, and the unorthodox Final Fantasy gameplay, that this game is a waste of time. But look again my friend and you will notice that this is an extremely challenging and most of all FUN game. The story is about a rebellion against the royal family. This story is hereafter referred to as "The Zodiac Brave Story". The story begins by telling you that there is a hero who rescued the princess from an untimely death and is a wonderful hero and person by far, Delita. When in truth the legend is incorrect and the person behind all of the "heroship" is truly Ramza Beoulve(the character you play). The game plays out the story of this intriguing and interesting legend. Gameplay is set on a battlefield and is played much like chess. There are different job classes and different abilities learned by each job class. Classes include Squires, Knights, Archers, Mediators, Summoners, Black Mages, etc. You meet many different characters, and a secret character reappears midway through the game. By performing a series of steps you can achieve Cloud from FF7. All in all, this game is great and extremely comparable to the other Squaresoft masterpieces. BUY IT!

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