Presumably being burned by what FFT did, efforts were directed to make an Ogre Battle sequel like the original, with improved and expanded mechanics. Overall, the freedom employed allowed for a very well received title, but doomed the original LUCT, which was released to late reviews of “This is a ripoff of FFT, how dare they”….despite being made by the same people and…that whole coming first thing.Īnyhow, this was not the end of the series! Next we had Ogre Battle 64.

There was no longer a branching or adaptive storyline, but we did get a really freeform skill system, which he’d been wanting to implement for a while. As a result, Matsuno took what was supposed to be Episode 8, the finale of the series, and stripped away a lot of the TO features to make the FFT we know and love.įar fewer units could be deployed, but each unit was, in essence, two classes, plus change. While the first two games were successes, FFT had the Final Fantasy name, and was seen as a way for the FF series to get into the strategy market. Despite how many Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre titles were out there…people still mostly just knew the genre for Final Fantasy Tactics.įunny thing is…FFT was actually supposed to be the sequel to LUCT.

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