What happened to this series?

[Roogle]

Did you play FFTA? Did you somehow miss the dictatorial government manipulating facts and enslaving people in a mad scheme to hold on to a fracturing power base? Does dragging an entire town to prison, purging the entire citizenry just because there's a chance a fugitive might be there, count as "working together in harmony"? Did the disenfranchisment of the public and brewing rebellions against the crown somehow not count?

Not to mention either the escapism theme that dealt with the characters from our world, or the JudgeWatch bonus arc, which was bloody brilliant.

Yes, I played Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I did not miss the dictatorship and how it causing problems among the populace. I also did not miss the fact that the entire world was a take on the real Ivalice turned upside down by giving a type of power to a bullied child. I don't care if an entire town has been taken to prison if the only real people in the entire world are Mewt, Marche, and Ritz. I don't like that type of story. That is my opinion.

Except TA is nothing like that. TA2 perhaps - I love it for the fun it offers in its carefree nature. But TA deals with the quite heavy topic of escapism, which I believ it handled perfectly.

I was thinking more about Final Fantasy Tactics A2. It deals with the topic of escapism, sure, but it presented a bright, cheery world and conveyed its story through children. I think it has its own merits, thematically, but when you look at the first battles of each game it is hard to take Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

A lot of fans that liked Final Fantasy Tactics Advance are quick to bring up the fact that it deals with some heavy themes in its storyline, and I agree, but that doesn't change the fact that it went in a completely different direction from its original predecessor and we have yet to see a game similar to the original since.

How many of you like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance or Final Fantasy Tactics A2 over the original?