Sorry... Right Back into it Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions

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Final Fantasy Tactis: War of the Lions

When I saw this game in the store I vaguely remembered the first Final Fantasy Tactics game on the PSX. For the most part it plays pretty much the same. You control your group of warriors in battle on a grid with a turn based combat system.

This game stay pretty true to the series. Just like in every other Final Fantasy game you have several different classes you can play as such a the classic black mage, white mage, knight, archer and so on. In the game they're a few new classes such as the Dark Knight (Like Cecil from FF2 or was it FF5) and the Onion Knight (Pretty much an indestructable tank).

The class and skill system are one of my favorite things about this game. You can level up each class and purchase new abilities with JP earned in battle. This enables you to assign abilities to each character out of their current class. For example I could have a white mage that could cast black magick and white magick spells or wield a sword; all things which a white mage couldn't normal do.

This game is set in the same setting as FF XII on the PS2 and FF Tactics Advanced on the GBA. It's been rumored that Balthier from FF XII show up somewhere in the game although I haven't found him yet. You start out as a young knight that is charged with protecting a princess. As you move through the story nothing is as it appears to be and you learn of a plot to overthrow the kingdom so you set out to make things right and save the princess. The one thing I really don't like is the map system. Instead of going place to place walking through the wilderness you have a map with different nodes on it representing different places you can go to.

The graphics look pretty good but they're basicaly PSX graphics with a little more polish. The cut-scenes are amazing they're in the most original style I have ever seen since Okami. They look a lot like older Japanese hand drawings. Although the cut-scenes are very beautiful the voice acting is sub-par.


Over all this is a pretty solid game but due to some translation issues, the voice acting, and the map setup I'd have to give it an 8.5.