Let's Play Final Fantasy Tactics Advance [And be really bad at it]

[Freya]

I am really not good at all at Tactics games. Like royally not good. Like I couldn't be more worse at a genre of games. Heck, I'm better at playing cooking mama better than tactics games.

Well over in The Tactics subforum, I was asking for some advice on how not to suck and where should I start when it comes to tactics games. They suggested Tactics Advance and to do a Let's play so they could edumacate me in how to be more betters.

So here we are! Tactics advanced! I have the game ready to go!

Who's got some advice x.x

[Skyblade]

Well, to start with, you should press "A" on the "New Game" bit. The "A" button also cycles through dialogue and can be used for menu selections.

The first "battle" is really just an introduction to systems. You can't lose it, it will auto resolve and move you on to the rest of the main story. When you get to your first real Engagement, we'll be able to help more.

[Freya]

I thought i lost it...

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"this is an intro fight to tell me how to play isn't it."

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They probably ended it cause I was losing so bad.... Those guys were jerks.

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Me too Mewt, me too.

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My first thought was "JUDGE?! CAN I ATTACK IT" Only entry I have played in Ivalice is XII and Judge's are bad in that one

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Shut your mouf.

I uhhhhhhhhh killed my own guy.... i didn't realize there was friendly fire D:

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[Fynn]

Holy crap, you really are bad at this!

But it can still be fixed Remember, the color of the background by the portrait during a battle indicates the side. Red is for enemies, blue is for your characters, and green is for guest characters who are fighting on your side but you can't control them.

[Freya]

So I rezed him with a phoenix down, then the guy hit him and he died again xD

[Fynn]

Well, don't worry Under normal circumstances, there is no permadeath, so fallen characters are revived after battle.

[Freya]

thank goodness!

I like the archer lady, she can hit people far away.

[Skyblade]

Ranged characters can be absurdly powerful, especially with the more powerful weapons and abilities with them. Viera and Moogles are the best. Viera Snipers and Assassins have some incredibly powerful abilities, while Moogles get a host of excellent damage and status combinations to use with their guns (not to mention, they get guns).

That said, most classes can become absurdly powerful. There is no permadeath, so you can grind to be better than most enemies fairly easily.

[Fynn]

Both humans and Viera can become archers. New recruits can randomly join you. So, if any one of those two races joins, you can change them to archers

Also, unlocking new jobs requires a certain amount of abilities from previous jobs. If you see a job you don't have yet on your enemy, you can check their status and view the job description (with select, I think? It's been a while) - it'll tell you what the requirements are

[Skyblade]

Both humans and Viera can become archers. New recruits can randomly join you. So, if any one of those two races joins, you can change them to archers

Also, unlocking new jobs requires a certain amount of abilities from previous jobs. If you see a job you don't have yet on your enemy, you can check their status and view the job description (with select, I think? It's been a while) - it'll tell you what the requirements are

Or you could just use The Charts That Some Of Us Spent A Long Time Building For Everyone.

[Freya]

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I didn't lose anyone this time! I learned I don't need to send everyone out into the fray, the long ranged people only need to be "close enough".

Wait... I read in the little thing you can get more classes but OH HAY CHART

[Fynn]

One step closer to understanding Tactics games

[Freya]

Which are the best classes? WHAT SHOULD I AIM FOR?

Also I started this battle and I was like "sweet it's like two bombs this will be easy." then as it starts the judge comes in "trout there are four."

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What's the 7H thing for? It hasn't explained that...




uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Montblanc got sent to prison.....

[CAST VOX]

Get the Ninja Support Tech "Double Sword" as quick as you can. It's worth it.

[Fynn]

That's height. Might want to look out for that

Like Skyblade said, all classes are awesome. My personal favorites are the later Viera classes like Sniper and Assassin - not great defense-wise, but holy crap, can they hit fast and hard.