Square Enix Announces FF Tactics for PSP and Another New FFT Game

[Crossblades]

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2006/1595.html

Only one day after announcing Dragon Quest IX for Nintendo's DS, Square Enix also showed some love to Sony Computer Entertainment's handheld platform, PlayStation Portable. The company today announced plans to bring its classic strategy RPG Final Fantasy Tactics to the system. Titled Final Fantasy Tactics: Shishi Sensou (The Lion Wars), the portable version will offer several exclusive features, such as new jobs and new movie sequences. Square Enix is utilizing cel-shading to create these new movies sequences.
Final Fantasy Tactics: Shishi Sensou has yet to receive an official release date in Japan.

Together with Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings for DS, the Final Fantasy Tactics remake is part of what Square Enix refers to as the "Ivalice Alliance". In addition to the two aforementioned titles, a third game titled Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Fuuketsu no Grimoire is also in development, but Square Enix has yet to provide any details regarding this title.

[LunarWeaver]

Oh my, that's interesting . All this portable love, and I don't own either one. Here's to hoping for a new translation that contains more yummy and less crappy for the original Tactics. Hire Alexander Smith, please .

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Some scans. The new job revealed in the first one is FFIII's Onion Swordsman.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Fuuketsu no Grimoire is also in development, but Square Enix has yet to provide any details regarding this title.

But it sort of goes without saying that it'll be released for the DS and be related in some way to FFTA.

[Elpizo]

Too bad I can't see those scans. Anyway, portable love FTW. I never really got into the original tactics, but I enjoyed FFTA. I still think a Tactics game would have been awesome on DS, but, we DS owners can't complain, can we? III DS, CC RoF, XII RW and DQ IX. Still, A2 seems to be a sequel to a Nintendo GBA game, so it's fully possible for it to be on DS. Hmm... Maybe I'll pick up a PSP or so, if the tactics port turn out to be well worth buying. And then I won't have to miss out any games on any of the two systems I would like. Crisis Core looks good, too, so that are 2 games that might make me consider this more...

EDIT: 10 against 1 that people will go complaining that they are milking the Tactics series.

EDIT (again): I saw the scan somewhere else. Not bad at all! But I'm also worried. Square is working on many games at the same time, announcing big fancy titles and all, I just hope the quality will be just as great... OF course, they ahve different teams working on different games and all, but still...

[Crossblades]

Some scans. The new job revealed in the first one is FFIII's Onion Swordsman.

Kawaii, scans don't work

[Elpizo]

Some scans. The new job revealed in the first one is FFIII's Onion Swordsman.

Kawaii, scans don't work

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Elpizo/Co...8323kv8ma8.jpg
There you go.

[Crossblades]

Some scans. The new job revealed in the first one is FFIII's Onion Swordsman.

Kawaii, scans don't work

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Elpizo/Co...8323kv8ma8.jpg
There you go.

Thank you And ignore that PM I sent you

[Laddy]

Oooh, coolio! Can't wait! Yay, I now appreiciate my PSP and DS more!

[Crossblades]

Here's the other scan Kawaii was talking about, though it doesn't show much

http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/psp...tics/scan2.jpg

[Zeromus_X]

*prays for new translation*

[Jowy]

But what if we want to summon Rich, fight Lune Knights, and bury people with Steady Sword!

Yeah, I'm hoping for a better localization myself. ;D

[Wolf Kanno]

Why did it have to be released on the PSP

Is a FFT port and MGS:PO really worth the price of owning an evil soul sucking machine like the PSP?

Who am I kidding, hell yeah! Just the idea of a possible relocalized FFT is worth it.

[LazarCotoron]

Even *I* have to admit I would consider owning a PSP for a re-localized version of FFT, Sony angst, rage against UMD, and all.

[Wild0ne]

Yeah if that game is released in america im getting a PSP..I was thinking about getting one for D&D tactics, but if FFT comes to it, ill buy both at the same time... The GBA couldn't take the same graphics and style the PS1 had, and FFTA pretty much was a lame game compared to the original..I am still waiting for a real sequel, and this seems to be it!!

[feioncastor]

I didn't buy a GBA until FFTA was announced, and I didn't buy a DS until rumors of FFIII surfaced, so this news will prompt me to buy a PSP. I doubt I'll play any other games on it... Actually, I'll probably get GTA:Vice City Stories. I loved GTA:VC, so I think owning a PSP may not be such a bad idea.