I finished Tactics

So I just finished Final Fantasy Tactics and I am very impressed. This game was great. It was fun, challenging, very customizable, great soundtrack and good story. I only have a few complaints with the game, like the awful translation and the ending was a little weak until that final scene with Delita and Olivia but in the end, FFTactics is in my top 5 Final Fantasy Games.

I do wish that the playable characters, like Agrias and Mustadio and Cid, would leave a bigger impact on the story other than before they joined the party. I would like to see Ramza and Mustadio talking to each other during scenes or with Vormav's daughter (Her name escapes me right now) talking to Hashmal during the fight. There were just bits of fighting that I wished characters would speak and do shit.

Some job classes I actually found super useless. Like the monsters were never good and when I got late into the game, I never needed a chocobo for mounts because my characters were so fast and could move like 6-9 spaces.

Yeah that's right. I never liked her, character and player in general. Just a weak role put in the story at the last second. Not to mention Cid knows all her skills as well as the ones Agrias and Gafgaron learn so there's no point in any other character aside from Cid being a knight.

I used a mix bunch of classes but my main ones were the "Given" classes for story characters because they suck with anything else. I also used Ninja, Monk and Chemist. Ramza as a Ninja/Squire and Cid knowing all his sword skills plus some of the moves for Monk like Chakra and a couple others with Mustadio equipped with a gun and a mastered chemist class, I was unstoppable. I did not get Cloud and I do not want to get Cloud. I've got enough characters, plus I worked hard to level these guys up. Plus I heard he's awful and slow as shit so no thank you. I know the other character in War of the Lions, it's the lead for the Tactics Advanced 2 for DS. He's okay I guess but I don't want to get that game because I heard Vaan and Penelo are in it and sadly, they're the best characters...

The story was fantastic but like I said before, translation was awful. So many spelling mistakes, not to mention how awkward the dialogue was sometimes. I am with you on the length, I felt a little cheated out because this was the fastest I think I've ever gone through a Final Fantasy, at 33 hours (Not including Excalibur II run). I did like Cid, but I wouldn't classify him as a real "Cid" in the FF series. Cid's are always known for their engineering and their airship skills (or at least building some), T.G. Cid didn't have the stereotypes that make a true Cid. He was something else, I know his true purpose was a tribute to Tactics Ogre (FFT's Precursor) and his design is almost identical to a character in that but they named him Cid for the Final Fantasy aspects. He was like the Cid of FFVIII, named Cid for the sake of the name not the character.

AND I KNOW! Fuck, I want to use Dark Holy and Ultima 2, why can't I!? If I knew these, I would be a fucking god lol!

I keep forgetting to reply dammit...

I did play this a little bit after our discussion of this in... fuck, November and I did get Beowulf and Reis... and I killed them in a battle like 5 minutes later and learned some of their already learned skills. Does that makes me an awful person? Because I hope it does lololol... I also killed the robot.

I did not get the Zodiac Summon, I don't even know about it. Elaborate plox.

I wish I was introduced to this game when I was younger... but knowing of my short attention span and my sub-retardation as a youth, I would be running in circles saying, "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!". I mean it took me 5 years to understand FFVIII, gameplay and story. This game would have taken me until I was 40 to understand the mechanics and I'd probably bitch about how much I hated it every single day.

Ah Gameshark, one of my best friends before his glory was stolen by that shit head Action Replay... I had a Gameboy Gameshark and I used is EXCESSIVELY. Totally ruined 3/4 of my games. But it was worth it to have bad guys as playable characters and stealing pokemon was hilarious.

I did go to deep dungion but it seemed like it was only one floor and I fought in the same floor like 5 times and figured it was just a randomly generated floor with random monsters. But I didn't keep a summoner, I was more of a physical offensive player. I had a Black and White Mage but they were overshadowed by my ninjas, Cid and chemist.

FFFFFF- Dammit I need to continue playing... but I've got SO MANY GAMES TO PLAY RIGHT NOW...

I'll do a second playthrough maybe and do it all in one blow. Probably won't happen until a year or so.