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Oh, I never meant that. I was simply irked by the amount of bashing I saw; IMO, it wasn't the failure that some people make it out to have been.

He was probably talking to me cause I was the one who said he had a hooker mouth.

The battle system has been much improved. You can move your character and then return them to their starting position unlike FFT. If someone dies you don't have to revive them at the risk of them turning into a crystal. Quicksave function. Much easier to get more allies. Doesn't contain elements from FFVII, even though god knows it needs the attention. The first mission isn't mind blowingly hard for a begining mission. You don't have to learn the item command. Random battles are avoidable. Totemas are rather helpful in a pinch but aren't mind blowingly broken. As Ess said, the plot is much more original and interesting. Learning abilites had been simplified. Cids a drunkard and much cooler than he was in FFT. You get to give some whiney emo kid his come uppance. Need I go on?

FFTA is so awesome a game. But FFT is okay. I just liked it better when it was called Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber.

Cidolfas is old. Cid is young. Cidolfas is encontered late in the game. Cid is encountered early. Cidolfas has an old man beard. Cid has a kickin goatee. Cidolfas gets framed for murder. Cid's ethics are so superb hat he cuts himself away from the palace and joins up with Marche. I win.

And FFTAs battle system may not be as smooth or whatever, but I think if what it adds, the ones I mentioned, puts it above FFT. Another thing I forgot to add, you don't have to move the camera around to see everyone as the battefields.

I don't know what you're thinking. Tactics is an entirely different beast from Ogre Battle 64. It'd be a much truer statement if you said "But FFTA is okay. I just liked it better when it was called Tactics Ogre."

Unless you mean the storyline, then well, yeah.

Everything you listed before about improvements in the battle system are just additions to make the game easier for people who don't bother thinking. All of those things can be easily remedied just by planning ahead in Tactics. You're supposed to check the movement and attack range of both your character and your enemy's character before you decide to move. God forbid that you be punished for making a mistake and run the risk of losing a valuable character. Quicksave function can be abused. You can easily gain allies in Tactics by purchasing them at the recruitment offices in town. Cloud played a cameo role and did not affect the story at all, only a small side mission to get him in your party. The first battle is only hard if you're brain dead. The item commands are to encourage you to level your characters as different jobs. You won't even need Totema in Tactics if you planned properly. The way you learn abilities in Tactics Advance is much worse from being able to pick and choose which abilities you wanted to learn first in Tactics. Do I need to go on?

Tactics Advance doesn't add, it subtracts from the depth of the battle system Tactics had going. In addition to a few things I stated previously, having classes limited to the race of the character also limits the amount of customization that can be put into the character. No longer can you have a ninja with monk skills, because they're for two different races. No longer can you equip a gun-wielding class with the knight's Break skills because they're for two different races. Tactics Advance is completely inferior to Tactics in terms of battle system.

Also, the law system in Tactics Advance. Brilliant idea, isn't it.

Sio can deal with debunking most of the stuff you just said, but seriously, I gotta step in on this part. Mewt was so whiny and emo? He's a kid. His father's a wreck. Other kids bully him in school mercilessly. HIS MOTHER ******** DIED RECENTLY. He's not singing terrible music while being misty-eyed because his parents won't give him as much money to buy useless crap as he'd like, or because he asked Ritz out and she said no. He's depressed and shattered because his life is a ******** HELL for a child. Jeez, let's have a little empathy and PERSPECTIVE, here.

Sieg, I hope you never have children.

Well, having put no more time into FFTA than maybe a few turns into the snowball battle due to crappy emulation, I can't say I've experienced the laws at all. But, still...



So, being forced to rethink your strategies instead of just relying on the same ol, same ol ISN'T strategic, and is somehow less demanding of intelligence?

Also, what the ******** is up with "no damage to monsters?" Aside from using an anti-law thing to eliminate that, how do you strategize?