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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

People only ever talk about Final Fantasy Tactics and dismiss any of the other games. However, going by the original release, Tactics Advance is by far my favorite. It’s my favorit GBA game and at least in my Top 25 JRPGs, despite having played almost nothing else for the past 20 years. I like many of the things the game gets critiziced for.

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ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is the one where we bully our little brother into going back to the world where he can’t walk, right? :P

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- pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s the one! We can also bully him with snowballs in the opening scene, if we want to.
  
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Bruh, FFTA is a great game and I will hear no slander of it.

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match@pawb.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
FFTA is great but a hidden gem, I don’t think it counts. It’s weird though because I have never met anyone who has played all lf FFT, FFTA, and FFTA2, but I know a lot of people who love either FFT or FFTA

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- De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve played them all! Although, I haven’t finished all of them. I’m planning on fixing that with the FFT remaster, however, I had to drop the original release.
  
  Personally, it goes FFTA > FFTA2 > FFT. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who likes FFTA2 the most.
  
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frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I loved FFTA and have replayed it multiple times. I’ve played FFTA2 some as well, which was definitely not as good.

I thought A was much better than the original. I didn’t even know it was “not good”

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- De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Usually, whenever people talk about A, you get a few of the following arguments:
  
  The story is bad/too childish
  
  Laws/Judges are overall a terrible mechanic
  
  Learning skills from equipment is bad
  
  SRPGs need permadeath
  
  Send missions are bad and just there to promote the game with having 300 missions
  
  Of course, I disagree with all of these. Actually, these are some of my favorite things about this game.
  
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  - frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah I don’t see those are negative honestly. The send missions inflated the numbers and I don’t love that you can get locked out of stuff easily but it’s totally fine
    
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    ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I personally dislike the skills from equipment because, compared to FFT, it creates an artificial, story-gated wall on character progression (you can’t get the most powerful magic because you can’t get the equipment, because it only unlocks later during the story)
    
    As for the judges, I don’t think they add enough to game to make combat more interesting
    
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datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Probably my favourite gameboy game across all generations

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joenforcer@midwest.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
FFTA is great if you never played FFT. If you did, however, it is a cheap imitation that turns it into “baby’s first SRPG”.

FFTA2 did a better job, but those of us that started with FFT were highly disappointed with FFTA as a “sequel”.

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- De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Funnily enough, I really didn’t like FFT. The only thing I could get behind was the story. However, I’m planning on giving the remaster another shot.
  
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  - ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I really hope square doesn’t fuck up the remaster like they did with the PSP and Android versions, both shipped with a stupid bug that caused a huge slowdown on every magic-like animation.
    
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