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These special jobs are exclusive to their respective characters and cannot be learned by other units.

Story-related characters have special jobs as their default, such as Agrias, a Holy Knight, each with their own stats and unique abilities. Once learned, skills and job-specific commands can be used even after a character switches jobs, though a penalty may be applied. Some jobs, like Arithmetician and Mime, require invested time and experience in several jobs, and require mastery of others to be truly effective. As a character gains more experience in various jobs, they gain access to other, more advanced or specialized jobs. Characters also gain Job Points (JP), which level up jobs. The White Mage job was translated as Priest, and the Black Mage job as Wizard, for instance, but this was changed for the re-release version.Īs each human character develops, they gain experience to improve their overall level. Job changing screen from War of the Lions version.įinal Fantasy Tactics uses many classic job classes from previous Final Fantasy games, although the localization of the game's original PlayStation version caused some of this to be lost in the translation. For instance a male Pisces and a female Virgo (such as Milleuda) can inflict massive damage to each other, where as a male Pisces and a male Virgo (such as Wiegraf) will deal much less.

Units, including the player's, are assigned zodiac signs, and opposing pairs are especially effective against each other. Spells and some other abilities also have charge times and once cast, will go off when the ability's charge time hits 100.Īn action's chance of success is best when attacking an opponent from the rear and is least likely to succeed in frontal assaults. Order of turns is determined by an 'Active-Time' like system, a unit's Charge Time filling a bar and deciding when they get to act, which is affected by the character's speed stat. Each unit is allotted one move and one action per turn. Obstacles, terrain types, and elevation create further strategic elements. Games that take place in Ivalice have later been grouped in the Ivalice Alliance series.įinal Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade Intermission Review - Half-Measureīattles are fought on a map divided into a grid where units can move about, and actions can only be executed within a certain range. It has also spawned spinoffs Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift.

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Units each have a job class which provides them abilities, but they can also equip abilities from other jobs they have leveled up or mastered.įinal Fantasy Tactics is the first game set in the recurring setting of Ivalice, which was later the setting of main series installment Final Fantasy XII. The order of units' turns is determined by an 'Active-Time' like system, and actions can only be executed within a range of the units' position. The story focuses on Ramza Beoulve, a member of the respected House Beoulve, who finds himself caught amid the war and later uncovers the truth behind a sinister plot behind it.įinal Fantasy Tactics features battles fought on a map divided into a grid in which units can move. The game is set in Ivalice, a unified kingdom of seven territories, which is caught in the middle of the War of the Lions fought between two opposing factions vying for rule of the kingdom. It was the first strategy role-playing game in the series. It was directed by Yasumi Matsuno and produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, with Akihiko Yoshida providing the character designs and both Masaharu Iwata and Hitoshi Sakimoto providing the score.

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It was released for the PlayStation in June 1997, and has since been re-released as the updated Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions ( ファイナルファンタジータクティクス獅子戦争, Fainaru Fantajī Takutikusu Shishi Sensō ?) for the PlayStation Portable, iOS and Android platforms. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lionsįinal Fantasy Tactics is a strategy role-playing game in the Final Fantasy series.

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