[Felix]

tactics ogre was matsuno's 1995 sufami epic, an evolution of the ideas he first put forth in ogre battle, and the game that motivated square to "buy" him and his entire team and set them to work on final fantasy tactics. prior to all of this nippon ichi nonsense, TO and FFT were the only things really properly "alike," and they still are, to an extent.

TO was later ported to the playstation and translated, in light of FFT's success, but the print run was terrible and the port was, among other things, completely unnecessary - snes/sufami is the preferred way to play it by a wide margin, and some translation guy or other has been working on dropping the official playstation english script into the sufami rom for a while now. i can't wait.

(note: quest went on to make another ogre battle and tactics ogre after matsuno's departure, for n64 and gba respectively, and they're both totally decent)

[internisus]

Is this a cutscene from tactics? It's gorgeous. I want a game that looks like this all the time.

But yeah, looking through google images, tactics ogre looks a helluva lot like FFT.

[Felix]

that's just artwork, afaik. you'll notice even the artwork is almost identical to fft's, mind.

but yeah, i've been waiting to play this myself for a long, long time.

[Ebrey]

[Felix]

ah, but - an snes romhack could be played on a ds, or psp--

WAIT!

holy god! popstation! can popstation run tactics ogre?