You do not know peak gameplay until you have 5 characters standing in a circle throwing rocks at one another to level. I've so missed this game. 10/10

Denuvo locked me out on my Linux machine. The game wasn't starting, so I tried a few proton versions before it locked me out. Why do they keep putting this crap in their games.

Game of my life, but they added DENUVO, which is something simply disgusting. They should be real humans and remove this garbage.

Steam store page said I had an hour before the game released (usually if its less than that it will say 'less than an hour'), so I got distracted by someone at the door ringing our doorbell. I came back not too long after and realized the game had released and I still had this in my cart but did not purchase it. I really despise when game companies put cosmetics behind pre-order bonuses, so now I am missing out on the white outfits for Ramza when I could have easily gotten it had the roofing people not shown up at the worst possible time. I will try opening a ticket but guarantee that Square Enix nor Steam will do anything to help.

Bought the Deluxe version to support one of my favorite games. Bought it to play on my Legion Go when I travel, but this crap uses denuvo... So while on the plane I want to boot up FFT and play some I get a beautiful message that I have to be online to play. Are you $(:%() kidding me? People who want to play this game will pay for it. Denuvo is nothing more than a cancer for gamers, specially those who want to play games on handheld devices. EDIT: Credit where credit is due. I tried the different things called out in the comments and it does allow you to play offline in some instances. After the initial Setup Online -I tried just disabling Wifi, and it opened without a problem -I tried entering offline mode, it opened without a problem. -I tried rebooting while in offline mode. it opened without a problem -I tried rebooting while in Wifi was off. it opened without a problem There is a small caveat, if there is an update, it installs, and then you decide to hop on a plane to play the game you wont be able to open it because the update will force refresh the game's authorization token. If the update happened and you simply forgot to open the game or did not even notice there was an update you wont be able to play at all once you are on a plane. Now I just have to make sure I check it on my next trip. Again this is one of my favorite games, and I have really enjoyed coming back to it. But I still believe Denuvo is the cancer of video games. and I hope that after the several months SquareEnix follows suit like they have done on their other games and removes it.

This is a really lazy remaster unfortunately. The OG game is quite possibly my favorite TSRPG and the ogre battle guy at the top of his game during the Square golden age in the late 90s (you had to be alive then, it was actually insane the streak Square had). Pros: + It has the original version playable with it. - But they just did a lazy non-integer upscale on it, so it is really rough. + Configurable difficulty. The original was pretty steep and unforgiving - it is a nice option for those who aren't veterans of the genre. Neutral: = English voices aren't bad but aren't great either. If you have to have voices this is a plus, but if you played the OG like me and like the text the VA isn't good enough to add anything. = It has some minor censorship where they removed Male/Female... but other than that it isn't really present (not that there was much to censor in the first place). = The upscaling in the new version is..... OK. The sprites look decent (with a few minor exceptions) but some of the original aesthetic is lost as some of the shadowing and overcast is not present. So, it is a net neutral here for me. = You can't name the hero in the new version. Not a big deal for me but for roleplayers that's a big deal. Cons: - Muffled audio. Supposedly a result of losing the source code, but they could've put in a little bit of effort to fix it; this is $50 after all! - 2-3 second delay on every enemy attack (in between showing the skill name and the attack start; where it shows the possible damage of the attack). You can skip this by mashing A/confirm but it wasn't in the original and is really annoying. There should REALLY, and I mean REALLY be an option to turn this off, and that's another issue with this is a distinct lack of configurability. - REALLY lazy standard fonts that if you played the original really detract from the experience. This is one of the first things you will notice and is a huge sign that they didn't even put in the minimum effort to have it look in line with the original's aesthetics. - New translation removes a lot the "old english" language flair that helped make it distinct. + The OG version included has the old english language in it, which is nice. - Its got that "Electron UI" look for the new UI parts (infamous javascript UI library) that, again, detracts a bit. - Microstutter in some FMVs. Not a result of framerate it seems to be in the video file itself (lol?). - You can configure the keyboard... but only 11 keys. Some keys have multiple uses and it is unclear what exactly you are configuring sometimes. - Also you can't seem to configure keys until AFTER the first battle. - If you order the Deluxe edition (or preordered) you can change Ramza's suit color. They somehow messed this up by making you SLOWLY cycle through each color and waiting about 3 seconds each time for a flickering light. Also in the suit preview it has some weird shadowing on it. - OG version only: For some BIZARRE reason they decided to add subtitles to some FMVs. Why is this bizarre? Because they added subtitles to ALL TEXT FMVs. It's subtitles to text. Make it make sense! - New translation has some odd translation errors. K for C in some places et al

They ruined my favorite game of all time. The "enhanced" edition includes worse UI and menu navigation than the original, annoying and terrible voice acting and the script and dialogue rewrites are awful. Everything special about this game has been stripped away and replaced with soulless modernization of a classic. So far everything about this has failed to live up to being a better experience for veterans of the game. It's bad enough the game was released WITHOUT the War Of The Lions content. Despite the content being missing, they tried to reuse the WOTL dialogue and made it worse. Battle flow doesn't feel the same as the original or WOTL for that matter. It feels sluggish and weighed down by constant menus and pop ups that are less intuitive than the original. Navigating the menu to view units, change jobs or learn abilities is a massive step back from a game that released in 1997. This seems to be a common trend with modern games, the UI somehow gets worse and worse. The voice acting is pitiful. WOTL had voice acting where appropriate and it was done well. The voice acting in this is so bad. Voices that don't seem to match the characters at all, and the constant chatter of units during battle is annoying. The sound effects are also revamped and sound even worse than ones from 1997. Attacks when they connect sound like paper ripping, and unit death is a pitiful whimper. I want the meaty sounds of swords connecting and units screaming when they die. The change of the numbers above dead units to little hearts just feels insulting. I said I was going to pass on this game, and I should have. They ruined a classic. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement. It's more of a heartbreak. Something you love and remember fondly has been reanimated as soulless modern slop to appeal to "modern" audiences. The battles are too easy, the flow is wrong, terrible voice acting and script changes with poor sound effects make this a 0/10. Go play the original. Paying $50 to play this "remaster" which is more of a demake with removed content is criminal. This does include the original, but again, $50 for that in 2025 when emulators exist is criminal. Square has showed that it will stop at nothing to milk every last cent from a classic title and still not deliver a good experience.

Final Fantasy Tactics is the best game ever made. I played the hell out of the original when I was younger, and played War of the Lions when it came out on Android. The gameplay is so much fun and the story is amazing and somehow, sadly, more relatable today. But I just cannot recommend this version, much as it pains me. Not for full price. The game looks nice, the voice acting is great, the UI improvements are decent, and I appreciate the ability to ignore/trigger random encounters. As far as cosmetic and quality-of-life changes go, they are really good; but those do not matter as much to me as content. Content-wise, this doesn't really bring anything new to the table. In fact, it takes things off the table since they made the bizarre choice to remove the content added in War of the Lions. It's a faithful recreation of the '97 version, but a little _too_ faithful in my opinion. The cut WotL content overshadows the QoL improvements. If it were <$20, I'd recommend it, but for this price, no.

FFT is my favorite game of all time. I have put an uncountable amount of hours into this game, and have bought it for every system it has been on. This remaster is worth it at $20-30. Full price is not worth it. I really wish steam would let us do a "meh" or neutral review. In the future, for my random play through I will most likely go back to a modded previous version. This is probably the best way for someone to get the story and back ground information. For everything else, it is worse. The Good: Finally on PC Script is probably the best FFT translation we have ever had Additional story stuff is great Speed up is good to have (Should be a toggle) Some of the VAs do amazing work and it really adds to the game Can ignore random battles The poaching office just functions better Turn order on side of the battle is great. Wish it was more navigatable while selecting skills. The Bad: The controls are a down grade. Both in and out of battle. Makes navigating and looking at everything significantly harder. Original game looking at the battlefield and enemy stats is a button press. Here you jump through menus. Does not let you change or modify them. Speed up is not toggle-able, spent most of the game holding down R1. Removed all the end-game stuff added in WotL/Mobile version, effectively removing any point of grinding or continuing past the story. The mobile showed they could do single player additional content, but chose to remove it here. "Tactician mode" is just a damage modifier. It doesnt make it harder, it makes glass cannon builds less viable. Immortal/Tank builds just dominate more. Enemy/Guest AI feels like it has changed for the worse? While it was neat seeing enemies doing different things, outside of very specific situations they seemed to make worse decisions. The Summoners in particular didnt summon in my play through, they focused on doing everything but, despite the fact I was doing a high-faith magic build this run through and they would have done a ton of damage. The final battle was the only fight I felt was harder, but at that point it really doesnt matter. The tutorials are beyond excessive. It went from whatever to aggravating extremely quickly. Literally everything has a tutorial. Most notable going to inventory and getting "This is your inventory," The Ugly: The sprites are a down grade from the mobile version. Just straight up worse. No details, weird smoothing. the best complement you can give a remaster is "this looks just like I remember." This does not hit that. A lot of the scenery lighting does nothing to help show off the work that was done and makes a lot of the scenes a lot less memorable. Instead of having a room people are acting in you have a small section that is highlighted and rest faded away. It makes a lot of the scenes seem smaller and gives the impression they are trying to hide the scenery. You can turn this off, but the "focus" setting that is turned on by default is horrible. It takes the already low detail sprites and makes them worse. Its especially bad in cut scenes as the camera and focus jumps around forcing any lingering gaze to be stuck on unfocused blurry sprites. A lot of things do look better. The treasures, the locations you can find, everything in the "chronicles" Everything in engine looks underwhelming, and not what I would expect. The content the DID add is paid for items. The only notable ones are Sprite changes for Ramza only, and a ring that gives you Gained JP Up. Making the only changes to the game locked behind spending more money is distasteful.

TLDR: Buy it on discount in about two years. If you've played this game before depending on when you played, you'll note that they removed content that was new in the past such as bonus characters and the video you may or may not have liked. The full voiced script is okay. Just okay. Sure, the graphics are updated from 1997, but only by about a decade. Like the video, some of you will like it and some won't. Probably if you've played before you'll fast forward through it and not miss it. No doubt they'll sell those missing pieces as DLC down the line. The game shows its console roots both graphically and in a woefully incomplete control port which is missing view tilt that was included in previous versions. If you played this before, you can imagine how annoying that is already. If you're just joining us now, you'll get it the first time a unit is obscured by terrain and you think "if only I could tilt the view 45 degrees, I could see the whole board". The new tactical view only mitigates this lack a little since after all these years the game still has trouble distinguishing which cell was clicked, even on PC where you really ought to be able to use your mouse to make it very clear, even without the ability to tilt the view. Among the most galling parts is how little of the content is new here. Like Bethesda and Blizzard, they're taking a game that was good and porting it to modern formats while doing the bare minimum to make the game compatible. So, they can just sell you the same game over and over and float on the nostalgia instead of making something new or even doing so much as a good mod group to add to the game. It's lazy and the price you pay ought to reflect that. If you played this before, buy it on sale after they put back all the content they've held back to get the nostalgia fix you crave. If you never played it before, you'll get more if you wait to buy this until it is on sale with all content in a year or two. Until then, you'll find a version with more content available on mobile devices.

Fk you Algus.... This game is amazing and I can't wait to see what those glorious modders are going to give us.

Please square enix. Make a new tactics game or give us a new ivalice game I BEG YOU

Let me start by saying this, the game is great, if you never played FF Tactics in the PS1 or the PSP version and you want to see why this is one of the best FF ever and one of the best tactics game ever, go for it. But, the reason im not giving this game a reccomendation, isn't because the game is bad, because again, this is FF Tactics, even if you play the original from the PS1, is still a great game, this remaster could be only the PS1 version but on Steam, and still would be a worth game to get. No, the reason is, because this port isn't worth it. First off, the most obvious one, the game not getting a full translation for alot of languages, this is Square Enix we are talking about, not a indie company, if Trails in the Sky Remake can afford the game translated, a game that has 500% more dialogue than this game, there's no excuse, SPECIALLY when you are leaving Spanish translation, when it has been proved again and again than Spain and Latin America are people who puts alot of money on SE Games. SE is treating this game (and the Octopath 0 Game) like Capcom treats Ace Attorney, like they were "minor" titles than they aren't worth it to translate, and yet i found people who defend this by saying stuff like "english should be second language for everyone by now", no joke. Second, the WOTL content being cut, i don't care if you think the WOTL content was bad or unnecesary, cut content is cut content, specially when that content had 2 extra classes, the funny thing is, according to the professional reviewers and some reviewers than are REAL FANS of FFT, this game is tied to the WOTL Version, like, this is some kind of Persona 3 situation where there isn't a definitive version to play a game. And no, sorry, the fact they are adding extra dialogues in this game isn't a justification for WOTL content being missing, SPECIALLY when you are the one who have to trigger those extra dialogues. Another reason could be the price, because, no, 50 dollars/euros isn't justified for this remaster, but i can give you a better reason of why this port wasn't enough, and that is reason is than this remaster isn't doing enough changes The UI changes alongside the things they added in the combat (like x2 speed) are great, yes, but... That's it. The broken classes will still be broken even if they wanted to "rebalance" them, Archer will still be bad, the low faith squad is still gonna stomp the entire game with no effort, the tactician mode than everyone was praising, thinking than this would be the perfect way to play FFT, is just "you do less damage to the enemy, and the enemy does more damage to you", that's it, that's the whole difficulty, is the most boring and lazy thing they could have done. You are essentially playing the FFT version of the PS1, upgraded, yes, but for a price of 50 euros, and knowing than the game isn't justifying the missing WOTL content. Sure, someone might see the hours i played in this game and say "you didn't even played one hour, what would you know"? But that's the thing, i ALREADY played this game, you wanna know how? Because i already played the PS1 one, and i played the PSP one, i already know how the game is, what the story gonna be, how the game can be broken in several ways, etc etc, this game essentially isn't offering anything new to me, because the only thing the game MIGHT had to grab my attention was the "extra dialogue" they added... But is just dialogue in battles, dialogues you have only to justify the existence of the characters you get in the story because in the endgame they went mute 50 euros for what? To play a slightly upgraded FFT version of the PS1 version with slightly more dialogue, """upgraded""" graphics and a """optimization""" in the battle system that is essentially "everything is the same but everyone sucks less"? Yeah, not good enough for me sadly. I hope people enjoy the game, because is still FFT, but this price for this remaster? No.

What all re-releases of retro games should aspire to. If anyone here can convince Square to give the same treatment to FF9, I'll swear by all the gods, old and new, to name my firstborn child Chocobo. Cinematics are gorgeous, along with the maps and sprites. Audio is clean and nostalgic. And the real selling point: fully voiced dialog and narration, by genuinely good voice actors, in a game that has a metric ton of dialog (with an obligatory autoplay feature so you can kick your feet up and enjoy the cutscenes.) Price for the non-deluxe version is identical to the selling price back in the PS1 era, so I consider it more than fair. You can also choose between the remaster and original version, which is a small but welcome touch. And if anyone from Square is reading this, I was serious about the Chocobo thing.

If you love DEI you will love this game. Men have best stat growth so make male characters. Thanks to DEI they removed Gender restrictions so go ahead and crossdress (equip) those men with a ribbon to negate All effects that previously was female limited. Zodiac sign compatibility no longer matters so go ahead make them all the same to focus on what you need in growth. Recommend playing in Japanese Language because well activist voice actors are English version decided to remove things. Oh speaking of removing things enjoy most the foul language and harsh language gone or reworded.

For reasons I cannot fathom they have put a screen door like filter over all the battles in the "Enhanced" version of the game. The only thing I can think of is that they put it in place to blend the edges of the sprites into the image and if that is something you value then fair enough. Not being able to toggle the effect off leaves it feeling like I am playing the game through a window screen and it is annoying beyond belief. Some people might not care about this, but I can't not see it EVERYWHERE and it killed my hype hard.

Haven't felt this heartbroken over a game for a long time. First I'm greeted by the fact I can't name the hero. Then the graphics is grainy and outdated, too bad I bought it with greenmangaming or I would have returned it in a heartbeat. And don't let me get started with the less than mediocre English voiceacting... Ugh. And all the missing sounds too, where are the death cries etc?! The Japanese is alot more tolerable so I'll go with that I guess. It wouldn't be so bad if this game was 30 euro/usd but for a full price game this just make it feel nothing else than a cash grab and a spit in the face at original fans. I guess I don't even need to mention that it's the OG FFT and not WoTL version it's based of. What a rip off. Did they really have to make the game from ground up? Playing it now looks like they was just lying to cover up for the high price tag they set for the game.

so ive played both the Ps1 version of FFT and the PSP version. while im disappointed that we dont have alot of the added things from WOFL, such as the dark knight class, this is a beautiful recreation of an already beautiful game. the voice acting while sometimes a little wonky, is a welcome addition. i do miss some of the old visual effects, like the old rotating class screen, but all in all this is a damn good rework worth checking out. your just as beautiful as the day i lost you. (which i didnt cus the OG version is siting in my ps3)

No 21:9 support.

3.5/10

TL;DR: Overpriced nostalgia bait with very minor improvements Indefensible price, Denuvo, and slimy business practices greatly lower the score. I'm trying not to let nostalgia affect how I judge the remaster. Already refunded but I might buy it again if job cheats/mods are available soon since that's the only thing I really want.

Pros:

- Turn order list is very nice to have, and it's color coded for allies/enemies. It's not perfect as the list cuts off if your charge is going to be more than ~6 turns, so you have to go back and forth to see who's getting a turn before then, but... I guess it's better than nothing - Some positive changes, like faster charging - Can flee from random battles

Mehs:

- Difficulty settings seem nice in theory, but the easy mode is WAY too easy. Only reason I bought the game was to play on the easier difficulty and use roleplaying builds that would not be viable in the base game. But it's like "baby's first TRPG" easy - Fast forward would have been great, but it's very slow and slows down further any time anything happens. You also have to hold it down, which will cramp you badly - Overhead view would have been AMAZING, but you can't do anything when looking at it, making it useless - They never clearly communicated a list of changes from the original

Cons:

- Nerfs. They said they wanted to buff weaker classes, but they blatantly nerfed Arithmeticians, Monks, Teleport, and more - Price is extremely high for what it adds - Too difficult to make my controller work. It works fine in other games. Then, you can't change any controls while in game, really sucks - Controls and menus have changed, but for the worse, slowing down combat - Voice acting is rather poor. Most male characters sound like Frodo, all female characters sound screechy. Lines are missing emotions and sometimes have odd inflections - Removed fantastic death sounds to replace with weird screams that just make me laugh. I don't think that laughter was the intent - Denuvo. Why? - Deluxe Edition is just a slimy cash grab - Classic mode is pointless due to multiple other ways to play that already - "Improved" graphics are very poor. Looks almost identical to the original. Someone on the forums said the game has a "burlap sack filter" which is accurate - Can't rename Ramza anymore - Can't skip a lot of stuff that I'd like to be able to skip - Can't reclass guest characters and can't control them (I'd heard you could control them, but apparently they were mistaken). I don't even want to make the game easier by reclassing - Pre-Battle Autosaves are a lie. If loaded, they're in the middle of a fight, so you can't make changes to the group. Further, in a series of fights, the game does not make an Autosave before or during the previous fight. TL;DR: Autosave is terrible Editing to say I bought again for spell speed and status hit chance changes, as that can open up group compositions and strategies I've not yet used in my thousands of hours with the game. Still wouldn't recommend to the vast majority of people unless they have thousands of hours in already and desperately need any small game changes to be the catalyst for yet another run.

I really wanted to like it but there simply isn't enough improvement over the original to warrant such a price tag.

God awful balance. Powerspikes. NPC's destroying half your troops equipment and you better hope you are at a part in the story that allows you to return to towns that resell it. Unlike in my case, where all my knights were lacking their helmet cuz the towns that sold helmets were locked of storywise. Gimme back FFT A1 and A2 so i can have more than just humans and chocobos. (how are monsters breeding this fast) I really tried to like it but i just cant bring myself to finish this game. It feels like massive pain in the ass

Good game but lacks all the content it should have came with. Hopefully they'll put it in soon because it's pretty much already coded into the game and it's foolish to piss off your fans.

Disclaimer ; I'm a huge Final Fantasy Tactics fan, and I was beyond excited for this re...master(?). Sadly, it falls flat. In the interest of full disclosure, I do recommend this game, just not at list price. This is a lazy upgrade, with voice overs being the only real value add, and I just don't value them at $50. (YMMV.) As a diehard fan, I was most excited by the upgraded difficulty, but sadly it's the laziest implementation possible. Enemies just deal (and take) less damage. There's no AI improvement, no altered abilities or cool special boss modes. It's just a flat +40% damage done, -40% damage taken. The frustrating part about it is that it doesn't even really make the game harder. After a handful of "challenging" fights, you just outlevel the content. Almost like making enemies take 5 hits to kill instead of 2 in a game where the number of hits you deal out is how you level up was a bad idea. TL;dr : Wait for a sale unless you're just dying to hear what over-dramatized Ramza sounds like.

They have destroyed the soundscape of the game by completely focusing on the voice acting to where, if you turn it off all the sound in the game when you commit an action is muffled and or missing based on the interruption of voice lines. Why they didn't just add a box to check to remove the voice acting without effecting the soundscape while giving us an option to turn it off i'll never know but, for now it's a common SE failure. They just can't get this one right for some reason. There is always something stupidly wrong with the re-release of this game. It's a huge disappointment in an otherwise well done and serviceable experience all around. 7/10 | Fixed - 9/10 Happy Trails.