This is easily one of the best games I've played in my entire life. Incredible storyline & gameplay, an astounding score, and an addictive class leveling system. Doesn't get much better than that.
RippahRooJizah Holy shit, those were my first 3 RPGs as well! And I haven’t played Pokémon in years, but I still have fond memories and gladly would, and FF8 is still my favorite numeral Fantasy
Ramza is so basic. there's almost nothing save some squire skills to separate him from every character in the game. Delita on the other hand trained to become as powerful as he could. He thought he needed that power to succeed in his goal. That's what makes Ramza the best FF character for me.. he is just a person who has shunned his lineage after finding out the truth. He proves you don't need ultimate power to succeed, and that one person on their own can change the world.
@@iggyeo6458 Exactly!! I was 7 at the time when I first played it. Holy mother of god did I jump into a complicated story hahaha honestly I learned a lot from this gem.
Actually, Ramzas act as Heritic an special dark magic skills always make me go heavy magic on the last chapters. So I see him as a dark knight, an its just history that never saw his true power/strength, as the story is a recounting. Such a good game though, you're right. Delita is the Hero an its amazing.
It also has one of the more mature stories even though it has kinda cute looking sprite graphics. It handles themes of War, Politics, Religion, and the hearts of men much better than most of the other games though I'm still a fan of those as well for the most part.
Ahh yes, good ole Gaffy.... would have been en epic betrayal... had I not stolen all his gear and changed him into a black mage with no skills before the fight. I swear... I didn't know.
totally better than GOT XD by the way lol... A movie of FF with real actors would be an epic movie, im sure milions of people would watch it even without knowing the game existance, just cause the story is too good.
"What happened in Final Fantasy Tactics?" Thousands of fans were led into a fantastic game that was never followed up on properly. I am disappoint that there was never another tactics game on a main console.
Thanks for 30k subs! Hope you all enjoy (this was a popular pick!) I always enjoy any reason to play one of my favorite SRPGs (top 5 easily), and I hope this gives more people the chance to jump in. I'll see you on the next battlefield! Next RECAPitation will be the August Patron pick: Fate/Stay Night Edit: Really Square-Enix? A copyright claim? So lame Update: Won the dispute!
God no they will ruin it like they did the FF5 and FF6 Steam Releases. Best to go to FFHacticks and get the balanced ROM and play it. It is the best version of the game.
It is in their Forums under Projects and Completed Patches, stickied at the top called FFT: Complete. It is the proper PSP translation, but on the PSX game with all the bugs fixed and all the job abilities balanced. Has other fan made versions of the game as well in the forums.
Haha! It Happened to me you got it right! I got only 1 save, and it was really really hard took me some days before to get through with it. So then when I played it for the 2nd time I alwats make sure to be prepared on that battle!
Wiegraf would hit you with Lightning Stab for 144 damage a turn, and it was almost impossible to stay out of range of it. The easiest way to win was to set Auto-Potion as your counter, and drop everything except X-Potions (heal 150). The "having multiple saves" part refers to the fact that if you were underleveled and couldn't beat this fight, it was the second or third in a chain battle sequence where you couldn't return to shops or level on the overworld.
This game is so amazing, the story is always a interesting to see again. It has quite possibly one of my favorite and personally most relate-able main characters in any medium. Every move Ramza does, the way he handles every situation feels like the way I would try to.
I've been waiting for this since the moment I found your channel! Bar none, my absolute favorite Final Fantasy game to date. Thanks for doing it justice Oni!
Sometimes on 4chan /tg/ people will to to have some Ivalice/FFT thread going. They even started to create rules for FFT D20, sometimes people post the updated version of the PDF. It's a setting that really needs more attention from Squeenix.
So glad this channel/video exists. I've been playing FFT sporadically over the last YEAR lol and keep forgetting major plot points. Your recap is a godsend, I come back to it when I'm a bit too lost by current events
FFT is basically the Golden Age Arc of Berserk. They are remarkably similar stories, right down to granular details like the auracite and the Lucavi and everything.
FFT has one of the best stories I've ever read or seen in any medium. It's an epic tale that also has immense personal growth and realization, with perfectly crafted foils in Ramza and Delita. I could gush about it for a while, but I'm just disappointed it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I suppose the problem is it wouldn't translate as well to any other medium. So much of it is so much more powerful because it is a game. I remember the first time I played and Gafgarrion betrayed us I was floored. I had good equipment on him, it was actually disheartening (though when you see it coming it's easy to remove all of his equipment :P ). That betrayal wouldn't be as powerful as a show or book, since you don't personally feel it as much. Oh also the music and gameplay is stellar. God I love this game.
FFTA is also a game about kids trying to come to terms with the fact that extreme escapism is not the way to heal from trauma, but okay, dilute it as simple snowball fights.
Absolutely one of my favorite gaming channels my dude. You don't get enough recognition for the effort it takes for these videos. Keep up the fantastic work.
In the end, Delita was a commoner who believed he should've been more. What happened to him sent him over the edge, but he is not all guilty. He manipulated both sides to put himself at the top. Once Ramza saved the world, he took credit and even in the end his lies and manipulation was his downfall
Just wanted to say, absolutely love the videos. Simple, short but detailed enough not miss anything. Entertaining to just relax and watch regardless if played or not.
I found it interesting how back in the day everyone said Xenogears was the "religiously controversial" Square game. But while that game's plot was largely nonsense, FF Tactics is clearly modeled after Christianity.
Play Xenogears again, my friend. It's far from nonsense and one of the best stories told so far. As much as FFT, which we agree is wonderful beyond recognition.
hey there, thanks for summaring this game. i have started this game at least three times in the last 20 years and i never have come past mustadio and his father. so finally, i was able to witness the full story of this. unbelievable... what kind of a story this was!
I always loved the story of this game! Probably my favorite out of all FF. The themes of religion, govt, war, manipulation, altered history were intertwined and told superbly.
As someone who hasn't played through the whole game, the story presented at this speed is a lot to take in, but I do recognize the story as being well-crafted and a merit to the Final Fantasy franchise/Square. Clearly a lot of work and love went into this game. Maybe I'll watch a let's play or give it a go on mobile.
I LOVE the first Tactics Ogre. The thing that makes Tactics Ogre better then Final Fantasy Tactics is, first you got 10 toons you can use(unlike in FFT, 5 max, and if there are Guests you even have less ugh) and then all the design failures with Speed, cast time of spells and the like. If you level up past level 50 and you try to fight Monsters, they hit so hard and Spells take AGES to be cast ... allot characters get a turn 3 times before the spell i cast! So stupid ... But the story was top notch.
I don't think you understand how charge time works in tactics. You can cast most spells, and even summons, without any character getting more than 2 turns 100% of the time. most spells and summons you can cast before enemies even get close enough to stop you, and i've literally never seen a character act 3 times before i cast something. Plus, there are truly broken shenanigans i love doing. Dual weilding rune blade knights with calc skill casting holy for no charge time on multiple targets? Yes please lol.
i feel like the most powerful man on earth when i hear this soundtrack - a feeling that underlines how luck i was to play this gem! the job system, the story, the gameplay, the sprites and animations and the music... this game's perfect. just too short
You know what? I always have a copy of this game from my pc to my phone. It really never gets old for me as I already finished this game I think more than 20x. Best FF game and one of the best videogames of all time IMO.
FFT's story is so good because they don't have any wacky concepts to introduce. As the main series goes along there are just weirder and farther out concepts you have to wrap your head around to understand the story. Like in 7, you can pretty easily grasp the planet using spirit energy to heal itself. Ok. But in 8, you've got witches from the future possessing people and trying to bring about time compression, whatever that is, and also there's this notion that the moon cries monsters onto the earth, what? And then in 10 they're just throwing terms at you. Sin, Fayth, sending--it all makes sense but you have to really do a lot of homework just to understand what's going on at the base level. 13 is even worse--pulse, cocoon, fal'cie... basically the more glossary words you have to translate to make sense of something, the less comprehensible it is. FFT is medieval fantasy political intrigue with demon-worshiping knights in the background manipulating it all. The only special words you need to look up are the zodiac stones, but just remember they house demons and that's all you need to know.
bw13187 That's pretty much why I checked out of the series after completing ff7. I just couldn't get on board with the direction in plot and character designs. Everything was just made out to be needlessly complicated. I guess being of the Snes era it also didn't make sense so many others thought these were positives. Hell, I'm probably one of the few people who doesn't like One Winged Angel as a last boss theme while most other call it a masterpiece. I disagree. To me it sounded so over the top bombastic, it comes across a ridiculous. Especially the way it opens with the Reee, Reee, reeee, reeee! Every time I hear it I think of the Mr. Donut Man scene from Wayne's World. FFT at least shows you can have a somber complex story without being so opaquely convoluted and/or existential it's sniffing its own farts.
I have so much love and fond memories for this game. I started playing D&D last year and while playing always found myself thinking that it is so nice similar to FFT, it must have drawn a lot of influence from older editions of the game with the job classes and grid style combat etc. I would love to try and adapt this story into a campaign. With all the twists and political intrigue/betrayals I think it would be perfect. This video is excellent and if I can do it I'll definitely be watching this again for reference.
One of the best ff story and character wise, the story is just so engaging and the characters feel true they are driven by motivation and some by revenge which make their emotions authentic.
God, I love this game. It takes a truly astute mind to wrap your head around who is being betrayed by who, who is using who, and so on. Remarkable tale of intrigue, politics, and social rank. I'm very pleased with your performance on this, as well, although a minute or so talking about Beowulf and his tale would have been nice. I didn't know it was connected to 12 (I stopped following this series after 10-2), so that little detail was nice to know. Take care of yourself, Oni Black Mage, and I'll see you on the next battlefield.
@ken ho ah so that's how it is done. just need to find the stone and ko resist items and make sure he is equipped with it to handle it. wonder how ramza uses it himself once he surivies it etc.
@ken ho I see I may have to start a new game for me anyway since I fucked up again on getting up to the castle for the fight against wargif. plan on grinding him etc though the first and most of second chapter and all I got to get past the cardnel was luck that turned lady argith in to a zombie and then holly sword him in to the dust after my preist landed a holly attack successfully dealing mass damage etc. though I may need to grind early again and smartly this time to get the most out of it.
I love this game so much. I still have the Playstaion version, and i've played it start to finish at least 6 times. I especially love the seen where Malak is revived. That scene was such a "whoa wtf i did not see that coming" the first time i played it, and the music for that scene is so gorgeous. Nice recap dude. Spot on explanations.
This story was the greatest out of any Final Fantasy game to me. Gameplay aside, I felt this was very well thought out, the characters were driven and knew who they were at their core and what needed to be done. Everyone had a role and fulfilled it to the best of their abilities, all the while behaving in reasonable fashion given their own circumstances. UGH! If only it was given proper visuals of the characters to give their actions and appearances the recognition they deserve. Like yes, the cinematic scenes were great when they showed, but they were too few and far between. So many more scenes deserved that treatment that didn't get to be shown.
I remember when I first got and played this game, I had been a longtime fan of both final fantasy games and tactics games like this (can't tell you how many times I played through both shining force games). So I figured this would just be a fun, simple, entertaining game. Man was I wrong. This game is hard as sh*t unless you know exactly what sort of party to build, and the story is one of the most complicated out of any rpg I've ever played. It's truly a masterpiece. I'd love to see an HD remake that fixed the one legit gripe I have with it (you can get save locked, like when you 1v1 Wiegraf, if Ramza is the wrong class or doesn't have the right skills, you can't possibly win and you can't go back and change anything).
I would buy this in a heartbeat if it came to ps4 omg! this was my first Final fantasy game when i got my first ps1 when i was kid from my dad. Loved this game so much, still own the disc to this day, roughly 20 years now.
my only unanswered question is what the lucavi's end goal was. Summon Altima, yeah. But what after that? Rule humanity? Destroy the world? Just leave the world entirely? never specified.
I've played it a decade ago but i still sometimes lie in my bed and think about it, what it stood for, what Ramza got at the end. Timeless games stay in your life many many years after your playthrough
Compressed again: The king lost a war and died. The White Lion is appointed to the crown by the king until the king's 2 year old son comes of age. The government says "yeaaaah no we don't like him" and appoints the Black Lion to the crown. They fight for years. All the knights and people suffer and are forced into crime. Ramza and Delita are friends until Ramza's highborn brothers say "Delita ain't shit because we're nobles and he's a commoner." So they kill his sister. Delita decides he's going to lie, cheat, steal, and kill until he can burn down both Lions and let the common people have their turn. Ramza is disgusted by his highborn family and renounces...everyone. Years pass. The church takes advantage of the 2 Lions fighting until they both become so weak from killing each other that they'll just both bow to the church and the church will rule. The church decide to use literal demons to increase their power. Ramza stops them. The church lies and tells everyone Ramza's a terrorist. Ramza has no friends but keeps fighting because the church stole his sister. Ramza kills his own family after he found out his brother killed his father and the leader of the White Lions. The White Lions are dead. Delita murders the leaders of the Black Lions and takes over. The Black Lion is dead. The church is happy and prepare to take over but can't because Ramza is in the way. Ramza murders his way through the entire clergy. He finds out the ultimate goal of the church is to resurrect a holy figure who is actually the antichrist. Ramza kills the antichrist. The antichrist blows up. To save face, the church tells everyone that Ramza was worse than Osama Bin Laden and for centuries people believe it. The one guy who knew the truth the church set on fire. Delita is crowned king and declared a legend. But the princess he spent a quarter of the game trying to save is convinced that he'll only use her too and throw her away, so she tries to kill him. Delita kills her. Ramza fucks off out of this shitty country and no one knew he was the actual hero of the War of the Lions until decades after his death. The end.
*Heretic*, not terrorist. And also the Church of Glabados was also a puppet, the real mastermind are the Lucavi (Espers). There are using the name of the church for their needs.
I love how there were a lot of characters that participated in the Lion Wars. Gaffgarion was described to have been discharged for his barbaric methods. Cardinal Delacroix was said to have been a "war hero". Ramza's father, and Thunder God Cid being legends themselves. The many soldiers that fought the war to eventually be screwed by nobility (Wiegraf) There was so many layers to the event, and none of it ever unfolded on screen.
20:12 one thing you left out on this scene was after Elmdor asked ramza for the stone, his hair get's blown by wind and you can see a red glow in his eyes. I didn't notice this til' kinda recently.
Can't believe I was able to watch through the entire video when I'm not one to do that often. FFT's story is wellwritten and the way you summed it up was easy to understand as well.
Do you think you'll ever make a video trying to connect the history of Ivalice? Does such a video/writing already exist? As in how the city of Gogue from FFTA2 connects to this game's city of Gogue and the Glabados ruins in FFXII Revenant Wings as well as the fact that one of the monsters (I think the magic pots) in the bestiary for FFXII mention Ajora.
I think out of the three Tactics games, A2 is the weakest. Tactics was a dark political story inspired by the War of the Roses and Advance featured familial abuse, the effects of bullying on children, and a deconstruction of escapism, but A2 was just some kid goofing off in a fantasy world
Kids enter a Disney story. Kids exit a Disney story. Just did the first Tactics Adcance for ya lol. Just kidding, I just hate that those games, in my opinion, tarnish the legacy of this one.
U. Reverie Im aware, i said I was kidding. But in my opinion it feels so shallow in comparison to the originals story that It might as well be a disney story. The characters aren't relatable, no stakes from what I could gather. But to each their own. I was just expressing my opinion in an exaggerated way.
Fantastic video! The story, character development and music made it by far my fav FF game ever. The fact that it got a somewhat similar retelling thru lore along with FF12, in a raid from FFXIV called Return to Ivalice made me jump with joy. Listening to the music once more and seeing characters in a different light made the experience fresh and familiar, especially battling against TG Cid who was not only true to being utterly destructive as his FF Tactics version, but perfectly voiced acted and intimidating.
this definitely one of the darkest final fantasy stories around, there is so much deceit,corruption and backstabbing, hilarious then that ffta and a2 are quite light hearted and more colorful than their predecessor
Awesome. You got a sub from me. I played this game way back in 1998, and it's one of my favorite games of all time. Here's to hoping the PSP version gets ported to PC someday (along with FF 12).
I absolutely love the fact that the guy who run this channel give us the option to watch this video with english subtitles, damn I love to see videos with english subs.
nice! i listened to the whole video, and you didn't say a single stupid thing, you stick to the story exactly. Very well done :) I'm a Delita fan, as i truly think Ramza and Delita are both main character of the story, Ramza being the hero with pure heart, and Delita being the hero that dirsts his hand for the sake of peace. People think Delita wanted to be king for himself, but it doesn't look like that to me at all, instead Delita want to be king to be sure there was peace, and in fact the game itself says that under Delita's Reign peace was long. So basically be ramza or Delita, none of them could do shit without the other, reason why i REALLY love this game and how the story goes.
19:18 I could never defeat Belias! His bodyguards and his petrify ability was so annoying! I went summoner, and thought the Odin summon was enough :( rip me
you can hunt them from ninjas via grasp. tedious though. you need to search for specific levelled ninjas that throw the specific weapons. or just level down them using mindflares.
I believe one of the multiplayer maps is perfect for getting op items via the throw and grasp method. Just a pile of high level ninjas tossing chaos blades, omnilexs, Defenders, etc until they are killed. On the Oran fight map, if I recall correctly...
After Resident Evil, I will be doing Castlevania as my inter-non-RPG recap game series... after that, I'll strongly consider MGS. I feel a lot of people should get the stories straight.
I couldn’t speak English when I was young and understood nothing of the story. Yet, I was addicted. The gameplay and the music are incredible. I spent countless hours to unlock every unique characters and bring them to level 99 The recap finally helped me understand the story of the game. 😂
thank you, its nice seeing my favorite game of all time being acknowledge by others. It is really underrated and I wish many more knew about it. Calculator was busted lol. The game was hard as hell, but really a great experience
Third game was really challenging until I discovered the jp farming glitch: have a party member learn toad, give all your members jp boost, have everyone else run squire with focus (ramza with that one that raises speed) kill all but 1 enemy, turn last enemy into toad, ( the battle won't end and the creature can't use abilities and eventually doesn't even damage you) use focus to gain 45jp and like 1-5xp. You want focus because of the low xp, it's no fun being over levelled and locked out of good equipment. Repeat until everyone has mastered their class, using tailwind to allow the ones who need more jp to go more often. Finish battle, change classes, repeat. Best thing is, story characters don't progress with you, so you can wreck the story battles
Arguably the best non numbered game in the franchise.
starshade 100% agree
Trevor Williams Yeah, that to.
Story is really under rated.
*cough* Dissidia *cough*
YukitoOnline no
This is easily one of the best games I've played in my entire life. Incredible storyline & gameplay, an astounding score, and an addictive class leveling system. Doesn't get much better than that.
Chocobo's are the excellent Grand Dragon substitute.
Fun fact: My first three RPGs I played were Pokemon Blue, this game, and FF8.
And to this day Tactics is the only one I still actually like.
I still play this game and try to clear it once annually. Never gets old for me.
RippahRooJizah Holy shit, those were my first 3 RPGs as well! And I haven’t played Pokémon in years, but I still have fond memories and gladly would, and FF8 is still my favorite numeral Fantasy
How about that soundtrack
Arguably better than all the main series.
Ramza is hands down the best protagonist in the whole franchise.
Ramza is so basic. there's almost nothing save some squire skills to separate him from every character in the game.
Delita on the other hand trained to become as powerful as he could. He thought he needed that power to succeed in his goal.
That's what makes Ramza the best FF character for me.. he is just a person who has shunned his lineage after finding out the truth. He proves you don't need ultimate power to succeed, and that one person on their own can change the world.
@@iggyeo6458 Exactly!! I was 7 at the time when I first played it. Holy mother of god did I jump into a complicated story hahaha honestly I learned a lot from this gem.
Actually, Ramzas act as Heritic an special dark magic skills always make me go heavy magic on the last chapters. So I see him as a dark knight, an its just history that never saw his true power/strength, as the story is a recounting. Such a good game though, you're right. Delita is the Hero an its amazing.
You forgot someone who's stronger... CLOUD! :D
Ramza is the hero the other ff protagonists idealized
Best. FF. Ever.
Vinícius Boaventura Dias I concur
Truly
It also has one of the more mature stories even though it has kinda cute looking sprite graphics. It handles themes of War, Politics, Religion, and the hearts of men much better than most of the other games though I'm still a fan of those as well for the most part.
Second best for me. FF6 is still at the top of my chart.
It's my favorite non-online game of all time. And it's tied with Guild Wars for my favorite game period.
So yah, definitely best FF game :D
Ahh yes, good ole Gaffy.... would have been en epic betrayal... had I not stolen all his gear and changed him into a black mage with no skills before the fight. I swear... I didn't know.
you betrayed him first!
That was me the the second time around lol
As is tradition.
call an chocobo....BUT not for me Gaffgarion!
I always turned him into a white mage after yoinking his gear
I just wish the game of thrones team at HBO will notice this story and give a whole tv series. This game story is the strongest of all FF game.
totally better than GOT XD by the way lol...
A movie of FF with real actors would be an epic movie, im sure milions of people would watch it even without knowing the game existance, just cause the story is too good.
Omg this would be so fucking awesome as a series or even a movie. Do i say, should someone start a fan page up to try and get this started? 😏
It would be great if it becomes a television series, but it won't work if they try to make it a movie.
I thought the same thing!!
FFX has a better story imo but this one is rlly good too
TL;DR - A whole lot of people die (for no real reason) and nobody trusts anyone else (for good reason).
20 years later and it’s still my favorite Final Fantasy game.
Still play it..i love the story..have sad scene..damn i cant go with that
CORRECTION!!! At 19:13, having no save outside of the castle, Ramaza starts the game complete over.
The source of my childhood trauma 😂
hahahahaha
If you got both Yell and Accumulate then the fight is a cakewalk if you just grind for a few minutes.
@@NetConsole How many kids knew of this though? Zero.
"What happened in Final Fantasy Tactics?"
Thousands of fans were led into a fantastic game that was never followed up on properly.
I am disappoint that there was never another tactics game on a main console.
Thanks for 30k subs! Hope you all enjoy (this was a popular pick!)
I always enjoy any reason to play one of my favorite SRPGs (top 5 easily), and I hope this gives more people the chance to jump in. I'll see you on the next battlefield!
Next RECAPitation will be the August Patron pick: Fate/Stay Night
Edit: Really Square-Enix? A copyright claim? So lame
Update: Won the dispute!
Oni Black Mage TTTTHHHAAANNNKKKK YYYYOOOOUUUUUU
Oni Black Mage I've been waiting for this episode thank you so much!
Oni Black Mage I've been waiting for this episode thank you so much!
Oni Black Mage congrats!
Oni Black Mage Thanks for the vid, Square Enix should be grateful.
This is the FF game that needs to be on steam.
EXACTLY!!
God no they will ruin it like they did the FF5 and FF6 Steam Releases. Best to go to FFHacticks and get the balanced ROM and play it. It is the best version of the game.
I looked through their site and could not find it. Would you help me please?
It is in their Forums under Projects and Completed Patches, stickied at the top called FFT: Complete. It is the proper PSP translation, but on the PSX game with all the bugs fixed and all the job abilities balanced. Has other fan made versions of the game as well in the forums.
FFX was good...
I actually liked how ridiculously convoluted the story was. Made it feel like the real world. Lmao game play was addicting af
Ah yes, enter random battle, kill all but one enemy, keep it alive and wail on your own guys for 2 hours to farm JP.
It wasn’t convoluted
@@udalixyes this is the way
@@flygonkerel781it was when I was 9 not so much when I’m 34 lol
Wow they burned Orran...that almost makes me wanna cry. Everyone loved that guy and his unstoppable skill i'm sure.
'His unstoppable skill' is fitting given that there's only one Astral Magick in the whole game.
@@MrHolmesjustin66 its fantasy numb nuts. Orran isnt real
@@JM-bl3ih got em real good
If you weren't prepared for 19:20 or had multiple saves, boy oh boy were you screwed
Haha! It Happened to me you got it right! I got only 1 save, and it was really really hard took me some days before to get through with it. So then when I played it for the 2nd time I alwats make sure to be prepared on that battle!
Literally everyone's first playthrough lmao.
How/what did you need to do to be prepared if you recall? I only beat the game once(20 years ago give or take) and didn't have multiple saves.
Wiegraf would hit you with Lightning Stab for 144 damage a turn, and it was almost impossible to stay out of range of it. The easiest way to win was to set Auto-Potion as your counter, and drop everything except X-Potions (heal 150). The "having multiple saves" part refers to the fact that if you were underleveled and couldn't beat this fight, it was the second or third in a chain battle sequence where you couldn't return to shops or level on the overworld.
I got stack on this part too and have to redo the whole thing from the start. Fucking wiegraft haahhaha. I can't forget that dude.
storywise, i think tactics is the best of the franchise.
ff Ix is also amazing
Indeed
This game is so amazing, the story is always a interesting to see again. It has quite possibly one of my favorite and personally most relate-able main characters in any medium. Every move Ramza does, the way he handles every situation feels like the way I would try to.
I've been waiting for this since the moment I found your channel! Bar none, my absolute favorite Final Fantasy game to date. Thanks for doing it justice Oni!
Ivalice is such a great setting, I wish there were more games on it.
Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story are my favorites.
DarkZholt
Makes me wish they made a D&D styled game out of that setting :)
Sometimes on 4chan /tg/ people will to to have some Ivalice/FFT thread going. They even started to create rules for FFT D20, sometimes people post the updated version of the PDF.
It's a setting that really needs more attention from Squeenix.
You forgot Final Fantasy XII. That game is also a masterpiece!
Ivalice did make a return in 12, as with MontBlanc.
I concur
So glad this channel/video exists. I've been playing FFT sporadically over the last YEAR lol and keep forgetting major plot points. Your recap is a godsend, I come back to it when I'm a bit too lost by current events
15 minutes recap of this story has more story content than most modern games its crazy lol
FFT was basically Game of Thrones, before Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones came out in 1996, Tactics in 1997. So, no.
Both of them are based on the War of the Roses in 1455.
I would say that Game of Thrones is more alike Tactics Ogres that came before, but indeed both are inspired in the War of the Roses.
FFT is basically the Golden Age Arc of Berserk. They are remarkably similar stories, right down to granular details like the auracite and the Lucavi and everything.
Tactics Ogre came out before Game of Thrones. But Final Fantasy Tactics came out after Game of Thrones.
FFT has one of the best stories I've ever read or seen in any medium. It's an epic tale that also has immense personal growth and realization, with perfectly crafted foils in Ramza and Delita. I could gush about it for a while, but I'm just disappointed it doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
I suppose the problem is it wouldn't translate as well to any other medium. So much of it is so much more powerful because it is a game. I remember the first time I played and Gafgarrion betrayed us I was floored. I had good equipment on him, it was actually disheartening (though when you see it coming it's easy to remove all of his equipment :P ). That betrayal wouldn't be as powerful as a show or book, since you don't personally feel it as much.
Oh also the music and gameplay is stellar. God I love this game.
The second half of story is not good. It's not perfect. The demon/church stuff just flat-out sucks.
FFT: Rich story based in a new setting, a true gem of the series
FFTA: Snow ball fights
FFTA is also a game about kids trying to come to terms with the fact that extreme escapism is not the way to heal from trauma, but okay, dilute it as simple snowball fights.
Cid joins Ramza's forces. The end, because Cid is OP AF.
Absolutely one of my favorite gaming channels my dude. You don't get enough recognition for the effort it takes for these videos. Keep up the fantastic work.
This is my favorite FF game. I put a lot of hours into this trying out new character teams each time.
Underrated Japanese game of thrones story.
angel hernandez i was thinking in retrospect this story screams war of roses adapted...
@@Thaistickthai yep, it’s pretty much a rip off
@@NickHchaos It's just a good representation of medieval politics tbh, Not exactly a rip off.
I’ve literally watched this video 15+ times and it’s still a great watch/listen!
In the end, Delita was a commoner who believed he should've been more. What happened to him sent him over the edge, but he is not all guilty. He manipulated both sides to put himself at the top. Once Ramza saved the world, he took credit and even in the end his lies and manipulation was his downfall
Yasumi Matsuno is masterclass in world building, lore, and story telling! I wish he made more games!
Just wanted to say, absolutely love the videos. Simple, short but detailed enough not miss anything. Entertaining to just relax and watch regardless if played or not.
I found it interesting how back in the day everyone said Xenogears was the "religiously controversial" Square game. But while that game's plot was largely nonsense, FF Tactics is clearly modeled after Christianity.
Yes, i guess many players did not read the Scriptures of Germonique
Xenogears' plot is only nonsense if you're not intelligent enough to understand it, that game is a fucking masterpiece.
@@FeedEgg To be fair, you have to have a fairly high IQ to understand Rick and Morty...
@@FeedEgg Agreed.
Play Xenogears again, my friend. It's far from nonsense and one of the best stories told so far. As much as FFT, which we agree is wonderful beyond recognition.
hey there, thanks for summaring this game. i have started this game at least three times in the last 20 years and i never have come past mustadio and his father. so finally, i was able to witness the full story of this. unbelievable... what kind of a story this was!
I always loved the story of this game! Probably my favorite out of all FF. The themes of religion, govt, war, manipulation, altered history were intertwined and told superbly.
As someone who hasn't played through the whole game, the story presented at this speed is a lot to take in, but I do recognize the story as being well-crafted and a merit to the Final Fantasy franchise/Square. Clearly a lot of work and love went into this game. Maybe I'll watch a let's play or give it a go on mobile.
The story of this game was phoenomenal.
No wonder this game was good... it was also made by the creators of Tactics Ogre games!
I wish a lot more people recognized that.
i preferred Tactics Ogre as well
I LOVE the first Tactics Ogre. The thing that makes Tactics Ogre better then Final Fantasy Tactics is, first you got 10 toons you can use(unlike in FFT, 5 max, and if there are Guests you even have less ugh) and then all the design failures with Speed, cast time of spells and the like.
If you level up past level 50 and you try to fight Monsters, they hit so hard and Spells take AGES to be cast ... allot characters get a turn 3 times before the spell i cast! So stupid ...
But the story was top notch.
I don't think you understand how charge time works in tactics. You can cast most spells, and even summons, without any character getting more than 2 turns 100% of the time. most spells and summons you can cast before enemies even get close enough to stop you, and i've literally never seen a character act 3 times before i cast something. Plus, there are truly broken shenanigans i love doing. Dual weilding rune blade knights with calc skill casting holy for no charge time on multiple targets? Yes please lol.
This is one of only two FF games I've wanted to complete more than once.
i feel like the most powerful man on earth when i hear this soundtrack - a feeling that underlines how luck i was to play this gem!
the job system, the story, the gameplay, the sprites and animations and the music... this game's perfect. just too short
wow it has been 23 years since I've played this game. Did not realize the story was this amazing.
damn man that fact that they didnt make anymore gritty tactics games with how incredible this was is insane.
I love final fantasy tactics sprite, never seems outdated by time. The storyline also the best.
You made my night. Perfect to watch with my beer. Congrats on the 30k subs!
You know what? I always have a copy of this game from my pc to my phone. It really never gets old for me as I already finished this game I think more than 20x. Best FF game and one of the best videogames of all time IMO.
FFT's story is so good because they don't have any wacky concepts to introduce. As the main series goes along there are just weirder and farther out concepts you have to wrap your head around to understand the story. Like in 7, you can pretty easily grasp the planet using spirit energy to heal itself. Ok. But in 8, you've got witches from the future possessing people and trying to bring about time compression, whatever that is, and also there's this notion that the moon cries monsters onto the earth, what? And then in 10 they're just throwing terms at you. Sin, Fayth, sending--it all makes sense but you have to really do a lot of homework just to understand what's going on at the base level. 13 is even worse--pulse, cocoon, fal'cie... basically the more glossary words you have to translate to make sense of something, the less comprehensible it is.
FFT is medieval fantasy political intrigue with demon-worshiping knights in the background manipulating it all. The only special words you need to look up are the zodiac stones, but just remember they house demons and that's all you need to know.
bw13187 That's pretty much why I checked out of the series after completing ff7. I just couldn't get on board with the direction in plot and character designs. Everything was just made out to be needlessly complicated. I guess being of the Snes era it also didn't make sense so many others thought these were positives.
Hell, I'm probably one of the few people who doesn't like One Winged Angel as a last boss theme while most other call it a masterpiece. I disagree. To me it sounded so over the top bombastic, it comes across a ridiculous. Especially the way it opens with the Reee, Reee, reeee, reeee! Every time I hear it I think of the Mr. Donut Man scene from Wayne's World.
FFT at least shows you can have a somber complex story without being so opaquely convoluted and/or existential it's sniffing its own farts.
I have so much love and fond memories for this game. I started playing D&D last year and while playing always found myself thinking that it is so nice similar to FFT, it must have drawn a lot of influence from older editions of the game with the job classes and grid style combat etc. I would love to try and adapt this story into a campaign. With all the twists and political intrigue/betrayals I think it would be perfect. This video is excellent and if I can do it I'll definitely be watching this again for reference.
This vid was amazing. You just earned a sub. Looking forward to more. Gonna binge all of the ones that came before this.
One of the best ff story and character wise, the story is just so engaging and the characters feel true they are driven by motivation and some by revenge which make their emotions authentic.
God, I love this game. It takes a truly astute mind to wrap your head around who is being betrayed by who, who is using who, and so on. Remarkable tale of intrigue, politics, and social rank. I'm very pleased with your performance on this, as well, although a minute or so talking about Beowulf and his tale would have been nice. I didn't know it was connected to 12 (I stopped following this series after 10-2), so that little detail was nice to know.
Take care of yourself, Oni Black Mage, and I'll see you on the next battlefield.
i need a flow chart!!
@@espourtoe I have played and replayed and I STILL can't understand the plot. It's just too damn intricate and sophisticated.
Final Fantasy Tactics is, without question, the G.O.A.T. to me. No other FF, video game, or any form of media surpasses Tactics. Absolute Masterpiece.
That Marquis' equipment.
So hard to steal...
in WoTL, it is impossible because of safeguard - and damn, i wasted several hours because i thought the items can be stolen from him lol
In the original yes can be stolen but not in the PSP or mobile versions
@@Alexeon yeah since the demons or a select few who can do it never used it when ramza went squire etc to be hit by it and surivive.
@ken ho ah so that's how it is done. just need to find the stone and ko resist items and make sure he is equipped with it to handle it. wonder how ramza uses it himself once he surivies it etc.
@ken ho I see I may have to start a new game for me anyway since I fucked up again on getting up to the castle for the fight against wargif. plan on grinding him etc though the first and most of second chapter and all I got to get past the cardnel was luck that turned lady argith in to a zombie and then holly sword him in to the dust after my preist landed a holly attack successfully dealing mass damage etc. though I may need to grind early again and smartly this time to get the most out of it.
I played through this game so many times...
Thank you for the recap. What an amazing trip down memory lane.
Hey, this is what I was originally looking for when I found your channel in the first place! Awesome as ever, keep up the great work :)
I love this game so much. I still have the Playstaion version, and i've played it start to finish at least 6 times. I especially love the seen where Malak is revived. That scene was such a "whoa wtf i did not see that coming" the first time i played it, and the music for that scene is so gorgeous. Nice recap dude. Spot on explanations.
This story was the greatest out of any Final Fantasy game to me. Gameplay aside, I felt this was very well thought out, the characters were driven and knew who they were at their core and what needed to be done. Everyone had a role and fulfilled it to the best of their abilities, all the while behaving in reasonable fashion given their own circumstances. UGH! If only it was given proper visuals of the characters to give their actions and appearances the recognition they deserve. Like yes, the cinematic scenes were great when they showed, but they were too few and far between. So many more scenes deserved that treatment that didn't get to be shown.
I remember when I first got and played this game, I had been a longtime fan of both final fantasy games and tactics games like this (can't tell you how many times I played through both shining force games). So I figured this would just be a fun, simple, entertaining game. Man was I wrong. This game is hard as sh*t unless you know exactly what sort of party to build, and the story is one of the most complicated out of any rpg I've ever played. It's truly a masterpiece. I'd love to see an HD remake that fixed the one legit gripe I have with it (you can get save locked, like when you 1v1 Wiegraf, if Ramza is the wrong class or doesn't have the right skills, you can't possibly win and you can't go back and change anything).
I would buy this in a heartbeat if it came to ps4 omg! this was my first Final fantasy game when i got my first ps1 when i was kid from my dad. Loved this game so much, still own the disc to this day, roughly 20 years now.
Xanny19 emulators my friend!
Buy a psone.
my only unanswered question is what the lucavi's end goal was. Summon Altima, yeah. But what after that? Rule humanity? Destroy the world? Just leave the world entirely? never specified.
I've played it a decade ago but i still sometimes lie in my bed and think about it, what it stood for, what Ramza got at the end. Timeless games stay in your life many many years after your playthrough
This needs to become a show on HBO
Wow, the story in this game is really complicated.
Basically all the heroes are actually bad guys except our JRPG protagonist, Ramza. :p
Compressed again: The king lost a war and died. The White Lion is appointed to the crown by the king until the king's 2 year old son comes of age. The government says "yeaaaah no we don't like him" and appoints the Black Lion to the crown. They fight for years. All the knights and people suffer and are forced into crime. Ramza and Delita are friends until Ramza's highborn brothers say "Delita ain't shit because we're nobles and he's a commoner." So they kill his sister. Delita decides he's going to lie, cheat, steal, and kill until he can burn down both Lions and let the common people have their turn. Ramza is disgusted by his highborn family and renounces...everyone. Years pass. The church takes advantage of the 2 Lions fighting until they both become so weak from killing each other that they'll just both bow to the church and the church will rule. The church decide to use literal demons to increase their power. Ramza stops them. The church lies and tells everyone Ramza's a terrorist. Ramza has no friends but keeps fighting because the church stole his sister. Ramza kills his own family after he found out his brother killed his father and the leader of the White Lions. The White Lions are dead. Delita murders the leaders of the Black Lions and takes over. The Black Lion is dead. The church is happy and prepare to take over but can't because Ramza is in the way. Ramza murders his way through the entire clergy. He finds out the ultimate goal of the church is to resurrect a holy figure who is actually the antichrist. Ramza kills the antichrist. The antichrist blows up. To save face, the church tells everyone that Ramza was worse than Osama Bin Laden and for centuries people believe it. The one guy who knew the truth the church set on fire. Delita is crowned king and declared a legend. But the princess he spent a quarter of the game trying to save is convinced that he'll only use her too and throw her away, so she tries to kill him. Delita kills her. Ramza fucks off out of this shitty country and no one knew he was the actual hero of the War of the Lions until decades after his death.
The end.
*Heretic*, not terrorist. And also the Church of Glabados was also a puppet, the real mastermind are the Lucavi (Espers). There are using the name of the church for their needs.
I know. I was just using really really simplified terms for everything.
The game of Thrones of FF.
Once again you provided us with an excellent video. You made my night, thank you! :D
I want a prequel about Ramzas father in the narrative eyes of Lord Cid during the Lion Wars.
I am agree with you
I love how there were a lot of characters that participated in the Lion Wars.
Gaffgarion was described to have been discharged for his barbaric methods.
Cardinal Delacroix was said to have been a "war hero".
Ramza's father, and Thunder God Cid being legends themselves.
The many soldiers that fought the war to eventually be screwed by nobility (Wiegraf)
There was so many layers to the event, and none of it ever unfolded on screen.
@@ry2950 and it deeply interests me till this day since i was a teenager playing it on the ps1
The best final fantasy that I had ever played..period.
these must take sooo much time to make. awesome work
One of the best games/stories ever. I truly do love this story.
20:12 one thing you left out on this scene was after Elmdor asked ramza for the stone, his hair get's blown by wind and you can see a red glow in his eyes. I didn't notice this til' kinda recently.
Lol
How nostalgic! Fft is the first FF series I've played and got me hooked on FF series ever since.
Finally, bro! Tactics is like part of the main series!
Can't believe I was able to watch through the entire video when I'm not one to do that often. FFT's story is wellwritten and the way you summed it up was easy to understand as well.
Do you think you'll ever make a video trying to connect the history of Ivalice? Does such a video/writing already exist? As in how the city of Gogue from FFTA2 connects to this game's city of Gogue and the Glabados ruins in FFXII Revenant Wings as well as the fact that one of the monsters (I think the magic pots) in the bestiary for FFXII mention Ajora.
Hmm, hadn't though of doing that... I tend to lean away from lore videos, but I might experiment along the lines in the future.
I've played the games countless times, and I must say, that was excellent! Perfect telling of the story amazing!
Can you also do the recap for FF tactics advance 1 and 2 ?
Yes
I think out of the three Tactics games, A2 is the weakest. Tactics was a dark political story inspired by the War of the Roses and Advance featured familial abuse, the effects of bullying on children, and a deconstruction of escapism, but A2 was just some kid goofing off in a fantasy world
Kids enter a Disney story. Kids exit a Disney story. Just did the first Tactics Adcance for ya lol. Just kidding, I just hate that those games, in my opinion, tarnish the legacy of this one.
Ahmad Nieves the story for the first Advance goes deeper than that.
U. Reverie Im aware, i said I was kidding. But in my opinion it feels so shallow in comparison to the originals story that It might as well be a disney story. The characters aren't relatable, no stakes from what I could gather. But to each their own. I was just expressing my opinion in an exaggerated way.
This is exactly what I was looking for, great video!
When I hear the BGMs Nostalgia hit me so hard!
Great resume, you made me have a revival of all those intrincate storylines , thanks a lot!
Will you ever do FF: Tactics Advance any time soon?
Yes, though 'soon' is relative with me
Oni Black Mage yess can't wait and thanks for the reply😄👍
Really I'll settle for "sometime this year."
You know me well
i propose the video covered both FFTA and FFTA2, they both closely related
Fantastic video! The story, character development and music made it by far my fav FF game ever. The fact that it got a somewhat similar retelling thru lore along with FF12, in a raid from FFXIV called Return to Ivalice made me jump with joy. Listening to the music once more and seeing characters in a different light made the experience fresh and familiar, especially battling against TG Cid who was not only true to being utterly destructive as his FF Tactics version, but perfectly voiced acted and intimidating.
this definitely one of the darkest final fantasy stories around, there is so much deceit,corruption and backstabbing, hilarious then that ffta and a2 are quite light hearted and more colorful than their predecessor
Probably because A1 and A2 was set in the golden age of Ivalice
Awesome. You got a sub from me.
I played this game way back in 1998, and it's one of my favorite games of all time. Here's to hoping the PSP version gets ported to PC someday (along with FF 12).
I completed this game in 2017 for a first time. Some annoying camera controls aside it is one of the best FF games.
Great job sir. This couldn't have been easy. Love this game and it's story. Fun to hear it spit out quick all at once. Very cool.
I've heard that the creator said that Ovelia survived the stabbing from Delita.
I absolutely love the fact that the guy who run this channel give us the option to watch this video with english subtitles, damn I love to see videos with english subs.
Epic and underrated game.
nice! i listened to the whole video, and you didn't say a single stupid thing, you stick to the story exactly.
Very well done :)
I'm a Delita fan, as i truly think Ramza and Delita are both main character of the story, Ramza being the hero with pure heart, and Delita being the hero that dirsts his hand for the sake of peace.
People think Delita wanted to be king for himself, but it doesn't look like that to me at all, instead Delita want to be king to be sure there was peace, and in fact the game itself says that under Delita's Reign peace was long.
So basically be ramza or Delita, none of them could do shit without the other, reason why i REALLY love this game and how the story goes.
19:18 I could never defeat Belias! His bodyguards and his petrify ability was so annoying! I went summoner, and thought the Odin summon was enough :( rip me
Straight brute strength, is the best tactic. Dual wield knight swords. And blade grasp.
@@deadwingdomain I replayed the game and beat it with a maxed dark knight
This is legend. The story of this is extremely captivating
suikoden or suikoden 2?
Thank you, man! Waited a long time for this recapitation! Great job!
the worst part about war of the lions is that they fixed the item dupe glitch :( I LOVED having everyone dual wielding excalibur lol
you can hunt them from ninjas via grasp. tedious though. you need to search for specific levelled ninjas that throw the specific weapons. or just level down them using mindflares.
I believe one of the multiplayer maps is perfect for getting op items via the throw and grasp method. Just a pile of high level ninjas tossing chaos blades, omnilexs, Defenders, etc until they are killed. On the Oran fight map, if I recall correctly...
Very good video sir, I enjoyed that! Succinct and informative :)
Do you think you'll get to The World Ends With You sometime? *nudge nudge*
Yes
Whoa, thanks for the reply! Look forward to it.
Thanx much bruh for this dope video and for how thoroughly u tell the story and i love the way u narrate..u got my like and sub no doubt
Hey you should try MGS. Might be a nice branching opprotunity
After Resident Evil, I will be doing Castlevania as my inter-non-RPG recap game series... after that, I'll strongly consider MGS. I feel a lot of people should get the stories straight.
Oni Black Mage awesome dude. I feel the same way
I couldn’t speak English when I was young and understood nothing of the story. Yet, I was addicted. The gameplay and the music are incredible. I spent countless hours to unlock every unique characters and bring them to level 99
The recap finally helped me understand the story of the game. 😂
Fun fact: Growing up my local church tried to get everyone to not play this game because they thought the last boss fight was you killing Jesus.
Did your church think Jesus was a hell demon or something?
thank you, its nice seeing my favorite game of all time being acknowledge by others. It is really underrated and I wish many more knew about it. Calculator was busted lol. The game was hard as hell, but really a great experience
Wow how much dicking around did you do to have a calculator by the fight where you save Aigrias? lol
*ahem* i had a calculator before ziekden fortress (ihadtoomuchfreetime)
Nerds.
I had rocks
Third game was really challenging until I discovered the jp farming glitch: have a party member learn toad, give all your members jp boost, have everyone else run squire with focus (ramza with that one that raises speed) kill all but 1 enemy, turn last enemy into toad, ( the battle won't end and the creature can't use abilities and eventually doesn't even damage you) use focus to gain 45jp and like 1-5xp. You want focus because of the low xp, it's no fun being over levelled and locked out of good equipment. Repeat until everyone has mastered their class, using tailwind to allow the ones who need more jp to go more often. Finish battle, change classes, repeat. Best thing is, story characters don't progress with you, so you can wreck the story battles