168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy Tactics: 🥀The Ivalice Chronicles is bringing one of the most beloved FF games in history to modern consoles for the first time. Tactics was released on PS1 back in the day, and an updated version, The War of the Lions, hit the PSP a decade later, then eventually made its way to mobile. This release offers two versions of the classic game. One is aꦰ visually overhauled remaster with voice acting, updated UI, and an easier "Squire Mode." The other looks and feels like the original, but supplements it with War of the Lions' improved🐠 script.
It’s a strange fate for a beloved home console game to spend decades exclusively available on handheld platforms, and it’s good to see Square Enix rolling out the red carpet for its console homecoming, putting in the effort to bring the best of all possible versions to the full shotgun spread of platforms. The Ivalice Chrಞonicles is set to hit PS5, ⛦PS4, Switch 2, Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam on September 30.
Sorry, Xbox One, t💫he gates of Ivalice remain closed to you.
Tactics Advance, Tactics Retreat
As good as it is to see Tactics released from purgatory, its successors are in more dire need of a modern release. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was the first FF game I fell in love with, and a classic in its own right. Yet, it has never been released anywhere but the Game Boy Advance and the now-defunct Wii U Virtual Console. Its sequel, Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, never escaped the DS. I’m having flashbacks to Metroid Prime Remastered’s launch on Switch, when a publisher brought the first and most iconic game in a subserie💝s forward while ignoring the rest.
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I've only ever played a few ho🐼urs of the original Final Fantasy Tactics on iOS, so I'm excited to play the best possible version with The Ivalice Chronicles. The problem is, that title suggests something a bit more compl🎶ete than this release is actually offering.
“The Ivalice Chronicles” sounds like it would, well, be a chronicle of Ivalice, the setting where Tactics, Vagrant Story, Tactics Advance, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 12, Final Fantasy 12: Revenant Wings, Tactics A2, and Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood all take place. Final Fantasy 12 is already rea🍒dily available, and Stormblood is an expansion of an MMO, so their inclusion wouldn’t be necessary and/or practical. But the rest of the games aren’t available on modern consoles, and this seems like a missed opportunity to bring the whole saga up to date.
Collections Are A Rising Tide That Lifts All Boats
Square Enix is bringing the most accessible of these games fo🦂rward while ignoring the ones that are truly difficult to track down. I still consider Tactics Advance one of the best Final Fantasy games and, while that may be nostalgia talking, the only legal way to check is to track down a copy and get my GBA out of storage. I've never played the other games, and most players today haven't either. No one but the most hardcore fans are going to track d♔own a Revenant Wings DS cart, but a collection would put it in one file with Tactics, massively boosting its profile.
It's great that Square Enix is 𝔍preserving this portion of its history. But there are several games in the same sub-series that are in far more danger of being lost to time.
Final Fantasy 14's Ivalice Raids Make Me Want A New Tactics Game
Give us more Final Fantasy Taꦇctics and attach Matsuno to it, please.
