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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.
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The year is 2003. The GBA is crying out for a kickass Strategy RPG that isn't Fire Emblem or Advance wars. That's where this game comes in.
Short version of the story:
Set in the small town of Ivalice, Marche and friends find a magical book and enter the world of Final Fantasy (presumbly 12). With only a few people who remember how the world used to be, Marche sets out to turn the world back to normal.
Featuring 5 classes (Humans, Moogles, Bangaa, Viera and Nu Mou), 5-7 classes per race (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jobs_in_Final_Fantasy_Tactics_Advance), and with over 300 missions, it's a huge game. So let's get a discussion going!
Also, am I the only one who thinks ninjas are really just overpowered? Not that I'm complaining.
The year is 2003. The GBA is crying out for a kickass Strategy RPG that isn't Fire Emblem or Advance wars. That's where this game comes in.
Short version of the story:
Set in the small town of Ivalice, Marche and friends find a magical book and enter the world of Final Fantasy (presumbly 12). With only a few people who remember how the world used to be, Marche sets out to turn the world back to normal.
Featuring 5 classes (Humans, Moogles, Bangaa, Viera and Nu Mou), 5-7 classes per race (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jobs_in_Final_Fantasy_Tactics_Advance), and with over 300 missions, it's a huge game. So let's get a discussion going!
Also, am I the only one who thinks ninjas are really just overpowered? Not that I'm complaining.
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It's still one of my favorite GBA games.
Now. Let's try to have a thread about a single FF game without comparing it to other games in the series?
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Paladin (marche)
Ninja
Sage
Templar
Gun-moogle thingy
Summoner
Otherwise, loved it
fix'd.
Use the gun skills or mog knight skills all the time. This not only prevents you from hitting your own guys, but also ignores all other obstacles between you and your target (including, like, a big mountain).
The only problem I ever had with this game was the time it takes to get through the battles. I liked that I could turn off seeing judge points constantly getting sent to people, but i wish the ability animations could happen quicker through a setting.
Makes random battles take a lot longer than they need to.
I finished the game once a while back on a friend's cart, bought my own, but never finished it. After the ffta2 discussion earlier, I picked it up and have no clue where I am or what I'm doing. I think I may try a gamefaqs run this time, getting all the stuff I missed, since I've seen the whole storyline once through. Be nice to grab the stuff I missed, especially when I won't mind redoing snowballs...
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You know what really pissed me off about this game? THAT SWORD DOESN'T EXIST. WHY BOTHER PUTTING IT ON THE COVER.
This is oh so true.
I always figured it was some kind of fruity unicycle.
I played it before I played FFT and I still didn't like it. The story was super crap and in the end, that's usually what gets me through RPG's, because I'm interested in the characters.
Plus Shining Force 2 was my first SRPG and it was by far superior.
And then placing the thingies on the map just made me think that this was a typical Japanese game where if I didn't buy the strategy guide and do some mysterious shit then I'd miss half the awesome stuff.
Fuck enforced multiplayer, so much.
There isn't a single thing you can get only from the map thing that's required.
Am I the only person who likes the whole thing with the map?
But doesnt it effect items or locations or something? And I'm guessing some are better than others? I dunno. It just seems mysterious to the point of absurdity. There's no way to tell if you're doing it well.
It just doesnt make any sense. I mean, whens the last time you placed Cleveland on a map BEFORE you went there?
I'd like the map stuff more if it was possible to do properly using only in-character information. Even if it meant I could only complete it on a second play.
That's really the only issue I had with this game that isn't related to "it's not enough like the PSX version."
As it was, there didnt seem to be any "strategy" involved in the placing.
Something like, when selecting the place it shows you the benefits of the placement (say, placing this tile next to a town increases the quality of items you can buy from there but reduces some other benefit) would have appealed to me more.
A lot of jrpgs seem to be that way.
I just wrote an article about this. It bothers me like no other and it shows nothing but a disdain on the developer's part.
Games, especially RPGs are supposed to be immersive, and I don't know about you, but I don't find setting the game down to read about where to place cities very immersive. It's not that it was convoluted that bugged me; it's that it was impossible to do properly without a guide or gameFAQs. It's bullshit, it's bad design, and it's high time that it stopped.
Yep.
The scary thing to me is that it seems to be saying: buy this book and read the instructions on how to play this game properly step by step. Essentially it's turning a game where you use intuition and skill to experience another world into a series of rote tasks to completed as instructed buy your gaming overlords. I really don't see Square/Enix or a lot of other jrpg folks stopping this anytime soon.
It's just something they threw in for kicks. I mean seriously, it's absurd to think that this is all part of some grand scheme to sell strategy guides.