Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions | Classic Final Fantasy With a Strategic Twist

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions | Gaming Revival

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	Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions Sony PSP \| Square Enix, 2007 average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Classic Final Fantasy With a Strategic Twist

Summary:If you've liked the GBA or DS Versions of Final Fantasy Tactics, you won't be disappointed by War of the Lions. It's an almost direct port from the PSX version, but it doesn't disappoint. It can be a bit slow paced at times, but a complex and deep storyline filled with beautiful hand drawn cutscenes makes this a pretty emotional game.

Gameplay- Five Stars
Confusing at first, after the first hour, things will quickly sort themselves out. Every time you successfully perform an action, your characters will get both EXP (experience) and JP (Job Points, not Judge Points). EXP is obviously used for leveling up, while JP are used for advancing classes. Classes are the set of abilities that a character can use, i.e. the "White Mage" class allows a character to use White Mage JP to access stronger and stronger White Mage spells, such as Curaja or Holy. You can change the camera angles to get a better look at the battlefield or to plan your next move. I'll admit, sometimes waiting for the CPU to move was a bit boring, but you have to pay attention or else you'll find yourself losing people left and right. Gameplay can be frustrating when you lose a character. When someone in your party loses all of their hit points, then a three turn timer is activated; when it reaches 0, your character is lost forever, and a jewel or chest takes its place.

Story- Five Stars
The story is rather complex. I won't reveal it, but it's a classic theme: save the world. Hand drawn cutscenes add to the story. It's a deeply emotional game, and there is no happy ending. You follow Ramza in dark times as he defeats revived legendary monsters, kept in stones known only as the Zodiac Stones.

Online Play - Two Stars
You can play with a buddy if they happen to own a copy of the game, and go on cooperative missions together, or battle each other. There is no infrastructure mode included, but there is a means of obtaining it is you really want to play other people. You don't honestly expect an infrastructure mode for a decade old game, do you?

Final Verdict- Five Stars
This game really is epic, and is a perfect port from the Playstation One. If I could only own five games for the PSP, this would be one of them. There is almost unlimited replay value.

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Gaming Revival

I basically got this game because I tried to play the PS1 original twice before and could never get past the first few battles. I figured if I got this version, it'd settle once and for all the greatness of this game. And once again, I was right. They took all the great things about the original and added to it. Better camera control, improved translation and controls, new jobs and characters to use (including Balthier from FFXII and Luso from FF Tactics A2.) If you liked the original and want to get taken back, try this game out. It'll give you what you enjoyed the first time around and more.

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The best Final Fantasy!

The best Final Fantasy!! Yes its better than FF6 and 7! I love it on PS1 and even more on PSP with the newly added classes and cutscenes, and now even portable. I heard many people complaint about the slowdown when you cast a spell or special attack, it doesn't really bother me. It was annoying at first for a hour and then I just got used to it and it doesn't really bother me anymore. Pick it up if you love SRPG! The best one there is.

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