Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions [Greatest Hits]

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions [Greatest Hits]

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Ivalice has rarely been bloodier, or better written, than in the story of Ramza Beoulve. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions is Square Enix's PSP reworking of the 1997 PlayStation strategy RPG, and it frames that story as what it always was underneath: a medieval tragedy about class, faith and ambition, played out across a kingdom torn apart by two dukes fighting over the throne. Ramza, the youngest son of a noble house, and his childhood friend Delita Heiral, a commoner raised alongside him, start out on the same side and drift onto very different paths. Watching that gap widen, chapter by chapter, is what gives the game its staying power.

On the battlefield, everything hinges on the job system. Units begin as Squires and Chemists and branch out into Knights, Archers, Black and White Mages, Time Mages, Summoners, Dragoons, Samurai, Ninjas and more, earning JP that unlocks abilities you can carry into other classes. A Knight with Black Magic as a secondary skill set, or a Samurai who picked up Dual Wield during a stint as a Ninja, is exactly the kind of experiment the game invites. The isometric maps reward height, facing and turn order, and Zodiac compatibility between units quietly nudges damage and healing up or down. Few strategy games give you this much room to build a party that breaks the rules in satisfying ways.

The War of the Lions is the version that adds the most. Its new script, written in a deliberately archaic, almost Shakespearean English, gives the political intrigue a gravity the original translation never managed. Animated cutscenes drawn to match Akihiko Yoshida's character art mark the big story beats, and the game fills the PSP's widescreen display. Two new jobs, the Onion Knight and the Dark Knight, join the roster, along with new recruits including Balthier from Final Fantasy XII and Luso from Final Fantasy Tactics A2, and ad hoc wireless play adds cooperative and head-to-head battles for two players.

Underneath it all sits Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata's stately orchestral score, and late-game allies like Cidolfus Orlandeau, the Thunder God, whose sword skills can turn a hopeless map around in a single turn. This is the root of Yasumi Matsuno's Ivalice, the world later revisited in Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII, and players who only know the PlayStation original will find this the fuller, richer telling of a story worth hearing again.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB

Released: 2007
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Square Enix Product Development Division 4
Genre: RPG, Strategy, Adventure
Players: Single player, Multiplayer

About the game

An updated version of the PlayStation game Final Fantasy Tactics, released on PlayStation Portable and later released on iOS and Android. "The stage is set for what history would one day record as the War of the Lions. Experience new CG cinematics. Meet new Characters. Explore new jobs & missions. Wage new multiplayer battles. Behold a new legend!"

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