Final Fantasy Tactics has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the best games released on the Sony PlayStation, standing alongside Final Fantasy VII as seminal works in their respective genres. FFT didn’t appear out of thin air, though. It was developed at SquareSoft by the director and artists who made Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together on the Super Famicom just two years prior, so the games' stories, art styles, and mechanics are so similar that Tactics Ogre can be seen as FFT’s older sibling. Tactics Ogre received a Game Boy Advance spin-off in 2001 and a PlayStation Portable remake in 2010, but has seen little attention since then. Fortunately, this is a console generation where many publishers, especially Square Enix, are reaching into their back catalog (and the back catalogs of the companies they’ve absorbed in the last three decades) for remasters. We saw it with the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters and Live A Live, and now we see it with Tactics Ogre: Reborn. This re...
Tactics Ogre: Reborn is a thoughtfully updated port of a 2010 remake of a 1995 game. Contemporary tweaks let the strategy-RPG's story and gameplay shine.
Lengthy campaign; Strategic depth; Engaging story; Historically significant
Relatively expensive; Dated graphics