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Final Fantasy Tactics Remake Review: What's Great and What's Disappointing
A detailed review of the FFT remake, covering what's great, what's lacking, potentially divisive aspects, and complaints, analyzing various aspects of the game such as the scenario, difficulty, UI, and combat tempo.
1. 🎮 Final Fantasy Tactics Remake: First Impressions and Positive Review
- ✅ Spoiler-free review of \"Final Fantasy Tactics Ivalice Chronicles,\" released on September 30, 2025.
- ✅ Remastered based on the original FFT, a timeless masterpiece that influenced many game creators, including the FF14 staff.
- ✅ Supports PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox, and Steam, with the digital version priced at 5,800 yen.
- ✅ Offers both classic and enhanced versions, with three difficulty options: Casual, Standard, and Tactical.
- ✅ The playtime is approximately 20 hours, and it's generally considered an excellent game.
00:10 - 03:07
1. 🎮 Final Fantasy Tactics Remake: First Impressions and Positive Review
- ✅ Spoiler-free review of \"Final Fantasy Tactics Ivalice Chronicles,\" released on September 30, 2025.
- ✅ Remastered based on the original FFT, a timeless masterpiece that influenced many game creators, including the FF14 staff.
- ✅ Supports PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox, and Steam, with the digital version priced at 5,800 yen.
- ✅ Offers both classic and enhanced versions, with three difficulty options: Casual, Standard, and Tactical.
- ✅ The playtime is approximately 20 hours, and it's generally considered an excellent game.
03:08 - 07:51
2. 📜 The Excellence of the Scenario and the Emotion of Full Voice Support
- ✅ The scenario is excellent, depicting human desires and power struggles rather than a simple good-versus-evil narrative.
- ✅ Political drama and fantasy elements are well-balanced, and the UI has been improved to easily understand the relationships and situations of the characters.
- ✅ Full voice support is excellent, enhancing immersion from the Orbonne Monastery battle onwards.
- ✅ The voice actor casting is perfect, bringing out the individuality of the characters.
07:52 - 10:41
3. 🤔 Disappointments: Casual Difficulty and the Need for UI Improvements
- ⚠️ The Casual difficulty may feel somewhat challenging compared to other games, and an easier difficulty option is needed for beginners or users who want to enjoy the story.
- ⚠️ There are inconveniences in terms of the UI, and improvements are needed in the convenience of using the store, the operability of the unit placement screen, and the smoothness of cursor selection and screen transitions.
10:42 - 14:06
4. ⚔️ Divisive Points: Added Dialogue and Reduced Combat Tempo
- ⚠️ The increased amount of character dialogue may be divisive, and some dialogue tends to explain things unnecessarily in detail.
- ⚠️ The increased amount of dialogue during combat can slow down the combat tempo, and the presentation of dot-graphic characters with only voice acting while stationary is disappointing.
14:07 - 15:21
5. 🛠️ Disappointment with the Lack of Improvements to Play Convenience
- ⚠️ Aside from UI improvements, core play convenience improvements such as JP acquisition methods and the Zodiac system are considered insufficient.
- ⚠️ The need for repetitive tasks to acquire JP and the lack of strategic depth compared to the complexity of the Zodiac system are disappointing.
15:22 - 17:47
6. 🤔 Questions about the Participation of an Excellent Development Team in the Remake and Expectations for New Works
- ⚠️ There are questions about why an excellent development team participated in a simple remake, mentioning the resource shortage issues of the FF14 development team.
- ⚠️ While a remake at the level of Live A Live was expected, the focus on preserving the feel of the original is disappointing.
- ✅ However, the fact that the development team proceeded with the remaster based on their experience participating in the original FFT is positively evaluated.
- 🙏 We hope they will create a new work next time, mentioning the use of FFT elements in FF14 and promoting it.