User Reviews (31 - 41 of 148)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Great Classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had actually played through this game twice before when I was younger and I remembered how much I enjoyed playing it so much, I felt so nostalgic that I had to buy it.

First off, don't decide to not play this game because of the graphics! I know the graphics in this game are pretty crappy but so much more make up for it.

Final Fantasy Tactics in my opinion is one of the best in the Final Fantasy name, not being part of the series, it can still hold its own for many reasons. This game is simply one of the tougher games out there, because of this, you will spend a lot of time leveling up and constantly tweaking your character abilities and items. With so many different job classes, you cant help but to constantly be in the format screen changing and adding abilities, trying to figure out the best combination of job classes(I think I spent a little too much time in the format screen).

The battle system in this game is definately the highlight. I'm not sure exactly when this 'tactics' system came out (I think it was a game called Tactics Ogre), but it seems to me FFT got recipe down just right. Some of the battles come out to be pretty intense, where you might win or lose by a THREAD. Adding to the...I guess, "epic" feeling of the battles, is the GREAT musical scores they play.

The replayability of thise game is really good as there are so many job classes and job combos. This is my 3rd time going through the game and I doubt it will be my last.

I recommend this game to anyone looking for a challenge or just something different even if you arent a Final Fantasy fanatic. I just wish they would come out with a new tactics game on one of the newer generation consoles.

A non-gamer review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I want to start out by saying that I don't normally get into video games. Its not that I don't find them interesting, its just that for some reason or other, they dont hold my interest for very long. I've never beaten a video game, not even Mario back in the Nintendo games, because I just get bored with it and find something else to do.
Final Fantasy Tactics is definately going to be my first.
For a while I kept watching my boyfriend play, and I admit to being intreaged. As an avid chess and risk player, the thought of being able to level up my characters as I played got my attention. This past week I finally sat down to play. Cut to four days later when I realized that I had logged as many hours on the game as my boyfriend who has been playing for two months.
Yes, it is that good.
The plot is interesting, the main characters are deep, the "jobs" that you can acquire convince you to fight random battle for hours on end so that you can have this or that ability. Best of all, the game advances with you. Although the set battles that you need to fight are always at a specific character level, the random battles generated by the game when you walk around are amazing. Tactics adapts to your fighting style, making you constantly have to revise and get better yourself. Its not one of those games where once you master one strategy, you've won.
Admittedly, the translations into English are a bit rough, but otherwise, a must have for anybody that likes tactics or roll playing games.

Far from awful, but woefully overrated.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy Tactics was a game that I enjoyed playing when I first tried it, something like six years ago. My opinion on the game has since changed. Keep in mind this isn't simply a question of the game "not aging well", as by PlayStation standards much of the game's graphics are gorgeous, effects are pretty, not to mention that almost all of my favorite games fall into the 32-bit or below eras. It is not simply a matter of there being more, newer games that exist which are better than Final Fantasy Tactics: It's a matter of Final Fantasy Tactics, quite simply, not being a very good example of the tactical strategy genre.

My first experience with Final Fantasy Tactics was prior to having played, or even known of the existence, of either Fire Emblem or Tactics Ogre. Because of this, the idea behind the gameplay was fresh and new, and the fact is that any way you look at it, there IS some fun to be found in the character customization and battle style of the game.

But it's that very same customization that proves to be, in my mind, the game's largest downfall: There's such a thing as too much customizability, and it is this, primarily, that leads to Tactics Ogre being the overall better game. Not counting character-specific cases, there are a total of twenty Jobs available to human characters, and any given character can become any of nineteen of them (As men cannot become Dancers nor can women become Bards). Within these nineteen Jobs are a varying number of skills which can be mixed and matched on a single character any number of ways. In writing, this sounds nice, and many will vouch that it is, but when there are so many available combinations, a significant number of potential matchups are utterly worthless, and conversely, a significant number of them are so game-breakingly strong that they make other combinations seem practically meaningless.

The same applies for many skills. Yes, there are hundreds of them available, but when all is said and done, fewer than half of them are of any real use in practical situations, as the greater majority of status-effecting skills have such a low hit rate that they're practically worthless and most of the incredibly powerful magic (Or especially the Archer's Charge skill at higher levels) takes so long to actually do anything that by the time its effect is unleashed, most any other "better" class could and may well HAVE already wiped out most of what you were targeting.

Add to this the fact that there are somewhere around 12 special characters, all of whom are largely best off in their unique "starting" class, on top of the fact that your battallion is limited to sixteen characters and it's almost as though the game rather intentionally tries to encroach upon your ability to experiment with characters and class combinations that aren't as blatantly fantastic as others. This is especially true of Monsters, which you can capture, though it seems as though this is an entirely moot point, as nearly every monster is grossly inferior to a reasonably strong human, as well as the fact that they're constantly laying eggs, which leads to more monsters of questionable strength constantly being created to take up room in your already very limited party.

Furthermore, parts of the translation are just absolutely horrifically bad. "This guy are sick" from Final Fantasy VII was an excusable error. Even the shoddy dialogue from the original NES Metal Gear ("I FEEL ASLEEP") was comical and fairly understandable. Final Fantasy Tactics, though, has points of perfectly comprehensible and fluent-sounding dialogue, punctuated by strings of text that are so blatheringly incoherent that its meaning cannot be made heads or tails of. "Select the job that bundles up Action Ability by the Job in the unit's sub-command" is the sort of sentence which is meant to help in understanding how to play the game. "Deathspell 2" is a recovery spell. In effect, a lot of the translation is muddled to the point of incoherence.

Final Fantasy Tactics is not awful. But it is not a fantastic "tactical" RPG, simply because most every "tactical" method you could use to go about fighting a battle is so obviously and completely overshadowed by other "Tactics" such as "Make a Lancer", or "Use Cidolfas".

If it suits you, you'll never get bored.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've definetely have got to agree with some reviewers here that FF Tactics isn't everyone's cup of cake (not if you want flashy 3D Graphics and lengthy FMVs, here it's 2D and and has brief FMVs). It is a heck of a difficult game for starters, if you play without guidebooks. You may attempt hours or days on a single mission or even restarting from scratch and that is just the cool part of FFT; it is the most challenging Square game since FFV and FF VI. The wide range of jobs and abilities is what that'll hook you till months, with again, ridiculously hard mini-quests as bonus if you're willing to endure another couple of weeks of migraine (especially the NOGIAS dungeon). The 2D graphics are probably the most eye-candy ever on PS with cool 2D spells, awesome soundtrack and great stereo sound. Again, this might not be everyone's cup of cake.

Fantasy Chess

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantsy Tactics is by far the greatest strategy game ever made. When I first started playing it, I was a little dissapointed for the fact that I was expecting something more like a Final Fantasy RPG. But this isn't an RPG exactly, it is more like a chess game. Within an hour or so of fighting the different boards I was hooked. The moment I finished the game, I started an entirely new game. Since then I have beaten the game at least four times, while having different characters and abilities of the characters in each game. I literally have over 100 hours of playing in one of my saved games. It is so hard to describe the coolness of this game. If you would like a game where you have a lot of independance in creating your very own characters to your own satisfaction, if you like a game where you can be challenged, and if you like the game of chess, this is it. Squaresoft, how about creating a sequal to this game, making it even better, if that is even possible, and putting it on the Playstation 2 market. I'd buy!

Best PSX 1 RPG of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I first got this game at on sale, shortly after it came out. I played it through and thought it was very good.

I then played it again as I got older - and I find myself replaying the game up to five times a year! The story is just so incredible - never have I saw such a noble personal struggle for so many people. It talks about war, religion, brothers and sisters, families and enemies...

In short - get this game!

Battles, Tactics, and More

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If Battles are what you want then you'll be very well pleased. Final Fantasy Tactics gives you the opportunity to use the job system like in Final Fantasy V, allowing you to create customized character that can use magic, and summon creatures, etc. All of the classic job classes are present in the game, along with a few others that only certain characters can posses. The classics like black mage, white mage, summoner, knight, monk, etc. are very common, but there are a few other classes such as engineer, holy knight, dark knight, princess, that are classes that only specific characters can possess. You can also have monsters on your side as well as chocobos. A portion of the story is told after every new battle you encounter. The story is there, and it is pretty thin, but it still has the basics of a Final Fantasy Plot. The music is wonderful (just like the rest of the series), and the main characters have their own unique personality that makes the game memorable. If you are looking for a role playing game that is only battle after battle after battle then you won't be dissapointed, but if you are looking for a traditional Final Fantasy game, I'd rent it before I'd buy it.

Pros: Battles that require strategy and skills, not just dumb luck and high levels

Cons: Thin plot, not a traditional FF game, can become boring if you don't like the never ending stream of battles

Overall: A nice addition to this wonderful series, and a must buy for someone that likes games like chess, D&D, and the like. The game is a lot like Chess, but with more excitement and strategy

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was a little leery at first about buying this game, it didn't look much like the "regular" Final Fantasy series' games I've come to enjoy so much, but this game is great!! While it retains the title "Final Fantasy" it's a very different game unto itself. If anything, I find it more comparable to "Shining Force"-- a Sega Gensesis game from the good ol' days of 16 bit platforms. As it implies, FF Tactics (tactics being the keyword there) is a game that relies more on strategical movement and combat and offers endless options in developing your own squad of characters-- create a team full of wizards and magic-users; or a team dependant more on physical attacks with knights and archers; and even masters of the martial arts with ninjas and monks-- the combinations are entirely up to the player and one can easily change them at will. Stuck with a low-level healer that's basically no-good in combat? Change their job and they soon become anything else your heart desires, the options are endless.

Anyone looking for an RPG that's a little bit different, something other than the norm, and requires a little more brainwork similar to that of chess or, as before mentioned, "Shining Force", should pick this one up. This is definitely a game that will keep you glued to the screen for a while!

Final Fantasy Tactics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, the best Final Fantasy title yet, is Final Fantasy Tactics. Though the storyline has an uncanny resemblance to Ogre Battle 64, (Fighting for ranks, Start on one side then switch to the other, etc.) this is truly one of squaresoft's master pieces. You start out with an easy battle in the Orbonne Monestary, after which a princess is kidnapped. As Ramza explains who kidnapped the princess, the game lets you live out the story. This takes up around 2 out of 4 chapters of the game. This game features a job changing system of monks, knights, summoners, and much, much more. If you think you this is one of those games that you can just sit down and have it beaten easily and quickly, your sadly mistaken. More than 30 hours into the game, ive beaten it. I'm proud to say i did not use any cheats, including the duplicating trick. The only thing that dissapointed me about the game, is that when you beat the game, you literally beat it, theres nothing more you can do. But other than that, this game is excellent. I guarantee you'll never be able to put down your controller after you start up this game. Oh.. And for all you FF7 lovers, Cloud Strife is a playable character in this game! After you find him, you must find his materia blade if you want him to be of any help. This, is found in Belvennia Volcano on the highest rock, you need move-find item equipped to find it. Aeris also appears, but you can't get her on your team. Anywho, this is a must have for all game collections.

A excellent story, if you're mature enough to accept it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This would probably be one of the best strategy games i have ever played, simply put. The job and leveling system didn't really impress me, however, the story was the true reason I kept going on. The story is about, generally, a man named Delita who goes from a low-class peasant to a king. And how a man (you) that was also his best friend, and labeled by the church to be an evil, murderous heretic, was rumored to of been the true hero from saving the world from the destruction of demons. It sounds a little boring and dragged on, but involves many other things, like religion and even politics. You'll like the game if you like strategy, but you'll love it if you're intersted enough to follow it. The only bad part about this game is the annoying battles. Instead of other Final Fantisies where a sudden battle would take a quick limit break or whatever, this one puts you in a battle that would take a minimum of 12 minutes, if you rush. And there is a lot of that, and you will have to do it if you wanna check the towns for up-to-date gear. The game stays close to the story line, and only really starts to losen up into extra characters later on (but not too late to give them no purpose). Overall, it's a game made for everyone, but if you're just looking to pulverise demons, you'd be better off with a more movemental, and graphically advanced game.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next 

Actions