Final Fantasy Tactics
Jan 1, 2019 14:54:02 GMT -5
Post by toei on Jan 1, 2019 14:54:02 GMT -5
For me, I played FF Tactics first, then went back and rented one of the Shining Force games (I forget which), and I just couldn't get into it. Granted, it was a much older game even by that point, but I think it also kind of ruined Shining Force in general for me. I only played a bit of 3, and while I liked the music and presentation (for as much as a Saturn could do), it just didn't have the system depth.
There's a lot of tactics games I can't really get into because they just don't stack up to FF Tactics. The closest are some of the Front Missions (3 and 5 are my favorite even if 3 is pretty simple) and the Devil Survivor games. Valkyria Chronicles is pretty good too though it has a number of other quirks that annoy me.
I'd say the Langrisser games absolutely stack up to FFT in terms of depth, though. They were actually made by the same guys as the Devil Survivor games (Team Career / Career Soft having been absorbed into Atlus), though they're a bit more complex. Fuma Yato is one of the great unsung game designers: he was the main designer and writer for most Langrisser games, then the Growlanser series (which is even better), and finally the Devil Survivor games. And more recently, he helped design Tokyo Mirage Sessions' battle system. That's over 20 years dedicated to one genre.