Final Fantasy Tactics: These 3 Sequels Rocked, and I'm Dying on That Hill. 

The thing that i love of the Advanced series it's the Aesthetics, The music, the colors, the variety of races, and the variety of options to choose from in classes is what I love about that part of the saga.I hope that for the remaster (if it is a remaster of FFT Advanced and not the original), that exciting aesthetic remains

For Vagrant Story you are an agent for the government, not the church.

Grimoire of the Rift is my favorite DS game easily.

I still listen to the ending staff roll music of Vagrant Story, an absolute masterpiece.

Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:49 Vagrant Story 19:32 Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1:00:08 FFTA 2 GotR

Vagrant Story genuinely is one of the best games in the PS1, period. It received one of the highest accolades by a very respected japanese video games magazine, being the 3rd game to receive the highest praise by it, which was not given willy nilly. One of my first games in the PS1, I brute-forced my way through 3/4 of the way as a child and could not bear to continue. A work I learnt to appreciate the complexity of, both in the mechanics of combat and the story. I'll see what the other two games are like! Excited to find out 😄

One thing I should bring up is how both Parasite Eve and MGS1 pre-dated Vagrant Story. You're definitely right that VS is a god-tier game though, and I like the names you gave each custom weapon.

The thing that most people miss about Ritz, is that her strong desire to not leave the fantasy world, is largely due to her hair being naturally white from a young age, and it obviously making her seem much older than she is, whereas in the fantasy world, white hair is seen as beautiful, especially among Viera, and thus is why she always runs with a crew full of Viera including her best friend Shara. Easily one of my favorite points of this game that is easily missed if you only played this as a kid. Mewt's problems are more obvious. But Marche wanting to go back, is mainly due to how he doesn't have anywhere near as many problems in the real world as everyone else, so he comes across as selfish for wanting to take away everyone else's joy. Even his brother Doned does not want to go back, obviously because he can actually use his legs in the fantasy world and enjoy life as a kid, rather than in the real world being crippled and having to miss out on the best parts of life. Truly a sad story overall, and it can easily be overshadowed by the fun gameplay if you aren't paying enough attention.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was my introduction to the tactics genre, it might be the childhood bias but it the story captivated my imagination and glued myself to the genre & gameplay for my entire life.

Corrections: 19:40- Spells are randomized, I got distracted 😂

1: I fight alongside you on this hill 2: while true, it hurts to hear someone confidently assert the odds are good the viewer hasn't heard of Vagrant Story. Such a great game. :(

Wouldn't FFTA and FF12 by association be FFT prequels not sequels since moogles are already extinct in fft and there are remnants of a advanced civilization?

Vagrant Story was such a cool game. I don't even know if I'd want a Vagrant Story remake as a side note. The ps1 version of the game is just so damn crisp and unique, any attempt at modernising it visually would probably hurt the vibe of the game more than anything else. But I'd take a new game with the same formula anytime.

Imagine if you could recruit Ashly Riot in Tactic OR 😊

if you like FFTA I highly recommend checking an indie game that just came out called "Trash of the Titans". Its a roguelike tactics game where you play animals fighting off hordes of rats and its a very good tactics game and feels like it was inspired by FFTA the most. Its early access right now and a bit light on content, but it was worth the purchase IMO.

The Lunatic Vein is my new band name

FFTA was my childhood. Always liked it better FFT. Especially gameplay wise. FFTA2 I didn't even know existed until years after its release, but the OST's in that game are legendary, especially when fighting the 5 kings. But my gosh, one of the final battles in this game is just straight up unfair.

I still say getting carded for using a item during a no holy rule is unfair. :( Having a permanent stat debuff is also unfair

Vagrant Story is a game I always wanted to go back and do a full play through, something I never had managed to do. The game is great, thematically and artistically wonderful, very complicated mechanically; but just a very hard game for me to stick to and finish.

God damn!! First one is a magnificent masterpiece, sadly I regret not finishing it, might go back, I just get bogged down by newer fancier stuff at the time. Vagrant Story is one of the best game you will ever play folks, it deserves a remake. FFTA is misunderstood in all aspects, anyone who says its a children's story, probably never even go beyond tutorial screen, and like you said, the law system is severely misunderstood, but that's exactly why the Jagged areas are so fun yet feels scary in early game. Trust me the story is relatable way more than you think, its not a cliché save the world from great terror, more like make and fix your perfect world. About FFT A2, people should realize, it didn't sell very well at the time and thus became rarer and the price went way up, because they realized later what a fantastic game it really was. Anyway, fantastic review, you sold all three games perfectly, SquareEnix should hire you 😁People, don't miss any of these.

Never had a chance to enjoy A2, but VS FFTA were great and are fond childhood memories for this 31-year-old, even though as a kiid vagrant stories went waaaay over my head.

Oh my God, Vagrant Story, please a remake Sony. I’ll give up my left kidney.

The Law system in FFTA is hated by many folks but I really like it just like you. Can potentially bind non-boss enemies by applying new laws. Nothing is funnier than having a group of monsters who somehow understand laws and you just put a law that bans damage on moogles with a full moogle team 🤣 And the law is there to have the player always be ready to adapt and not just using the same old boring team composition for every fight

I remember playing a little bit of Vagrant Story on one of those old game store displays that let you try things out. I was too young to appreciate any of the political stuff but I was struck by something when I first came across those floating platforms. Floating platforms are video game staples, they're all over the place. But an NPC went completely nuts over how bizarre it was, and it took me a second to go like...actually yeah. If I saw something like that I'd freak out too. Lovely little moment there that made the game stand out for me.

It does bring up a lot of existential thoughts. Are the characters in the world just fantasy brought to life like a dream or are they actually real sentient beings created through magic? Why is the dad the only one who doesn't remember the real world? Is it a memory block or is he a new entity just based on the real one? Depending on how you interpret things this kids game may have you playing as someone willing to commit mass genocide just to restore the status quo. 😿

Yeah Montblanc can be killed, i remember playing that part where there are no judges and bro got offed. Man i should replay these games one day.

Square enix needs to bring back Ivalice Alliance... Ivalice its the best setting of all FF games...

Vagrant Story is one of my favorite game. It's one or the three or four game i even bothered to buy the ost to have the physical object. From gameplay to story and the directing, it's a masterpiece However, the game is kind of already perfect in my eyes, it only need 4K textures if it's ever remade. Not even 16:9 'cause i fear a Buffy Blu ray situation for cutscene and all. If you have no idea about what they did to Buffy The Vampire slayer when it hit blue ray, you should all go look at it. It's trully a nightmare bedstory. Hell, i think i'd prefer watch a 4k fully animated 3D movie or TV show using the exact same shot from the game at this point over a remake. Just because they'd probably ruin the perfect balance that game had. FFTA, i finished it but i think i spent too much time interacting with the system and didn't follow the story that closely. I can't really remember much about it and have no drive to replay that game. A2, i bought, booted up and maybe played for half an hour. It's one i really should try to play one day. And on another unraleted to today's videotopic i'm kind of half in awe atm. One of my brother went to a trip to japan last month, i finaly saw him today he just gave me the japanese version of the original secret of mana in perfect condition as a souvenir gift while casualy saying "and i got myself that" and bringing out the original super famicom version, also in perfect condition or Tactics Ogre and Dragon Quest 6. It's impossible to get your hands on that stuff here, yet in japan you can have them for almost nothing.

I wanted to ask did you play ff12 revenant wings ? If so what do you think of it ?

Wait, the HP number is DAMAGE, not PART HP. THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH.

Great video! Advanced certainly does have an underrated story, but it was succeeding one of the best video game stories of all time and was therefore a little overshadowed. I personally didn't love Advanced, because it had a fundamental problem that killed it for me. And I'm not even talking about the atrocious judge system. All the classes were so similar. Every class had an aoe attack, a single square distanced damage attack, a way to heal themselves, buffing and debuffinf abilities. It made class choice pretty inconsequential. Also, Ritz just falls short in a blatantly sexist way from the writers. Mewt doesn't want the fantasy world to go away because the loss of his mother in the real world. Doned is sick and dying in the real world and healthy and powerful in the fake one. Ritz thinks dyeing her hair is too hard in the real world. What? What a stupidly sexist and asinine reason to fight against Marche when you have the emotionally compelling and understandable motivations of of the other two. Mewt wants his mother back, Doned doesn't want to die, Ritz thinks it's a little easier to be pretty. They really dropped the ball writing her, when they could obviously have done so much better.

Ah yes FFTA2, or how to dual wield scepters and maul the whole map 😂

It always weirded me out how haters hate on tactics advanced simply because it is different from the original, and think that that is a valid reason. like wtf??? how is that even a reasonable concern???

How can I play Vagrant?

FFTA is great, FFTA2 I couldn't play at all because I hated the main character, I thought he was an idiot.

The issue with FFTA is that there is a cool game buried under lots of annoying shit that you just have to push through in order to enjoy it - Unlike Ramza who has equal stats, or Denam who can be manipulated at the beginning in every TO version, Marche is heavily geared towards physical attack and that's it, if you want to play mage go fuck yourself I suppose. So much for class choices - Want more of a specific race? You gotta hope rng is kind to you with the race and that the character is naturally built towards the class you want - Some of the laws are simply stupid. No basic attack in the early game? Really? I'll sure gonna enjoy my using my thief that I cannot use - You do need a guide for learning skills since some weapons teach you nothing - Nice hit rates bro - The judge in the map can outright get in your way, he could just stay in an isolate tile so that he doesn't have to move around. Why do I have to waste time watching him moving 20 tiles? The game is already as slow as it is I get that Matsuno was going for realism, but if realism becomes a hindrance I don't care about it. And I'll gladly play a bad game over a decent but annoying one