Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions 
Features: - Animated sequences combine hand-drawn style visuals with computer graphics
- Enhanced widescreen presentation, new jobs and new characters
- Challenge friends in head-to-head battles with the multiplayer function
- team up in the co-operative mode and try to outwit the game s computer opponents
Product Description: - FF Tactics: War of Lions PSP
Customer Ranglijsten: - Outstanding game, but not for everyone. Do you like strategy, turn-based, highly-customizable RPGs? If so, then this game is for you! If you like fast moving, graphically intense, low-strategy/quick-reaction games, then you might not like this game.
I love the game! I can t get enough of the strategy, and the high customization, via the variety of job-classes and skill combinations, lends to high replay-ability! The story line is nothing to shake a stick at either. I ve played this on both the PS & the PSP, needless to say, it s a classic in my book! - The remake from your nightmares. I know there are plenty of negative reviews out there already but as this will be the only one star rating I m hoping I can get this message out quickly, because I m already sore at not having done this sooner.
For anybody who has played the original Final Fantasy Tactics on the PSONE loved it (seriously loved it) I implore you, do not buy this game! Of all the negative reviews out there bashing the games flaws(the lag on spells, the useless new job classess, etc.) nobody is saying what REALLY needs to be said. And that is as follows...
Squenix ruined this game when they increased the amount of JP necessary to gain skills and go up joblevels.
For anybody who played the original we all known how hard the game could be and how very necessary it was to spend a good portion of your time developing and training your characters. The game can be quite time consuming in this one aspect, albeit, but it was quite fun and very satisfying (not a word I use often) to see the pay off in characters that could dish out the damage and hold their own in tough situations. Your own A-team, so to speak. The demand for more JP utterly KILLS! this experience.
Take for instance the Lancer s jump abilities. The level 8 jumps only required 900JP to master. Now they require 1500! and thats just one example. In Final Fantasy Tactics, the higher a characters job level the more JP they could aquire. Simolaneously increasing JP required for leveling a character s job level AND gaining skills makes it even more time consuming. It increases exponetially the amount of time needed to level your characters. If feels like you re getting corn-holed from both ends. You can t gain as much JP AND more JP are required to gain skills. AGGH!
For instance, I always like to get Ramza the Ninja s two-swords ability before his one on one duel with Gafgarion. In this way he can use sword break two times in one turn and turn Gafgarion s game completely on it s head. With the PSP version of the game, however, it probably would have taken far too much time to develop Ramza that far. I sold the game after I beat chapter one after realizing getting to this point would require hours, and hours of training while my eyeballs slowly fell out of my skull after staring down at that tiny little screen for so long. Wander around, enter a battle, ingnore the monsters and start doing all the thing us veterans do to gain JP like the Squire s Accumulate, only however much time you spend leveling your characters in the PSONE version, times that by 2.5 and you have a rough estimate of how much you ll playing (and feeling like a nerd with no life!)
I am terribly dissapointed with this game! There is Oh, so much Square enix (or Squenix {old Playstaion magazie saying}) could have done to make this better! Giving access to jobs only the bosses had, such as Arc Knight, Sorcorer, Assassin, and many others. Elmdor s Teleport 2 ability, better weapons, better jobs, more missions... All of this, FOREVER out of reach it seems because the sadists at Squenix saw fit to give us this inferior remake. Shame on them! - Awesomeness!!!. Final Fantasy tactics is a beautiful tactical game for the psp.
Pro s -Beautiful rendered cut-scenes with a different story-book style -The voice-acting fits the characters. -Battles call for strategy -Game-play can be hours long. This won t be finished in one-day s sitting! -A long storyline with mini-quest
Con s -Camera angle! -Not all characters can use potion to heal, they must obtain this as a skill which can be annoying if your healer is way off and your units are being attacked to death. -Advancing to other areas can mean stronger monsters. Be careful not to venture off too quickly without the proper levels and gear!
I have yet to complete this game, but so far it is good. A great buy for anyone interested in a RPG that will last for more than a month. - Great and fun game, but with one significant flaw. Wish I can give it 4 1/2 stars.. This is the first Final Fantasy Tactics I have played and I must say it was a very fun game. The plot got a little thick and confusing at times but not bad. The game play definitely makes up for the sometimes confusing plot. However, understanding how to build strong characters is tricky. It is never explained to you what the Bravery and Faith of each character represents, which is vital. Pretty much Bravery is how strong of a warrior (knight, ninja, monk, etc.) your character can become. Bravery deals with the physical attack strength and defense of a character. Faith, on the other hand, deals with how strong of a spell caster (white mage, black mage, time mage, etc.) your character can become. Faith deals with magical attack and defense of a character.
If you are like me and don t know this the game is going to be very hard and frustrating. You will have high level mages who can never hit enemies with spells because they have low faith, and high level attackers who do pitiful damage because they have low bravery. I got half way through the game and had to start from scratch because my characters were just too weak to defeat anymore bosses. The lack to explain what the Bravery and Faith are for is the major flaw (and probably one of the only flaws) of this game.
However, if you do know the importance of the Bravery and Faith of a character this game is tons of fun and well worth the buy, especially if you like role playing games or Final Fantasy. I wish I could give it 4 1/2 stars.
- Greatest PSP Title. A game you can play for the rest of your life. A great addiction to the handheld world, giving one the dream of fighting anothers team.
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