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 Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance Review January 4, 2007
Sean Mcilroy (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the FF series and wanted a portable version. This game is awesome, and I have ranked in over 90 hours of gameplay whilst on my travels!
Its got a deep story and loads of side missions, job classes and items.
Its worth picking up for sure.
this game was the love of my life for months July 12, 2006
K. H. Raymond (Caladaris)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the best rpg game I have played on a handheld console, (although breath of fire and golden sun were pretty good) It has brilliant graphics, is alarmingly addictive and the weapon/armour selection is one of the most impressive I've seen. Sure, it may seem repetitive to some, but personally it never grew boring for me, with endless missions to complete, a great story line and don't forget originality. This is a great game, don't miss out!
amzing,one of the best games EVER April 17, 2006
Unholy Parson (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is an amazing rpg game,I suspect that final fantasy will be a bit disappointed because it takes a different approach to combat,but everything is there from collecting items to equip to your warriors,leveling up your troops(which is not tedious but fun),choosing their class type,teaching them abilities,sorting out your clan turf and finally choosing missions to do.
overall a must have for rpg fans,I am still playing 3 years after it came out!
 A bit too much of the same April 10, 2005
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I like strategy games, and the number of different rods, swords and other equipment is high. However, if you like different kinds of tactics within the same game, you are looking at the wrong game here. All attackscenes are pretty much the same. You can however train you team in a very wide variety of skills and occupations.
One drawback, I love to name my own characters in a RPG, here only the lead character can be named.
Simply superb. April 4, 2005
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I was a massive fan of the Final Fantasy tactics game on the Playstation, although I never owned it, I used to play it at my friend's house a lot. I immediately bought this when I heard about it and immediately got hooked.The basic premise is that your character, called Marche by default moves to the country town of Ivalice, where you make two new friends, Ritz and Mewt. You will then have your first engagement (battle) in the form of a Snowball fight. After that Marche and co go back to his house where they read a magical book that Mewt brought round, after that Mewt says "I wish the world of Final Fantasy was real" when Marche goes to sleep at night the world changes... He wakes up in the town of Cyril in the country of Ivalice, he sees a lizard man, known as a Bangaa, and in his shock he calls it a "Lizard" the Bangaa is offended and starts a fight, luckily a Moogle by the name of Montblanc steps in to help you and you begin your battle, with that, your adventure inn Ivalice begins... FFTA is a strategy-RPG spin-off to the Final Fantasy series by Squaresoft (or Square-Enix as they're now known) the battle system in the game is excellent. Basically, you deploy units and then begin the battle, first you must move with a character (if you wish) a character can move a certain amount of tiles to make it more strategic, once you have moved you can perform an "Action" such as Fight or use an Item or ability. Abilities are different between each race and class, Human, Bangaa, Veira and Moogles. You learn abilites by becoming a certain class, such as a Soldier with a human and equipping various items to learn abilities, you can also progress through the classes by learning different abilities and eventually you will have a team of elite Dragoons and Ninjas, and that my friends, is a great feeling. The biggest innovation by far is also annoying later in the game, basically, each engagement has a Judge who is there to enforce laws, laws can disable the use of Swords or Magic for example, along with many other things. This can be annoying when you aren't paying attention and get an elite sent to prison because you attacked or something stupid, it would be better off without them. The aim of the game, plot aside, is to build up your clan and become as powerful as possible by levelling up, levelling is a slow process in this game as each character needs 100 exp each time but you only get exp in small portions. If you are a fan of RTS games or RPGs, you must buy this game, it's a gem, it will rack up hours of game time. It's compulsively addictive, you just won't stop playing until you get to Lv 50 (maximum level) even then you will recruit more characters and train them up, or just start a new game like I have done many times. Buy it now.
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