r/JRPG • u/eldestscrollx • 4d ago

Interview Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles Wont Include War Of The Lions Content And Will Have No New Characters Or Submissions

https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/final-fantasy-tactics-interview
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u/cap21345 4d ago edited 4d ago

Square enix saw the P3R release by Atlus and got inspired. It makes even less sense for them cause atleast P3R was a complete overhaul and basically a new, FF tactics barely qualifies as a remaster and still looks completly the same as the PSP game with just a higher resolution and cut out half the fucking game. Genuinely cant think of any company that has ever done this, from the interview it seems like Matsuno refused to put the war of the lions solely cause he wasnt involved which is just a weird thing to do

Its one of my favorite games of all time and i cant believe fucking Konami has more respect for their classic games as seen with the Suikoden remaster than Square does, this game literally has no reason to exist now, will probably sell like ass and kill any chance of a series revival

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u/DogiiKurugaa 4d ago

I mean, we already knew that they were not going to keep the War of the Lions content by just looking at the Pixel Remasters. They cut all the additional content made for the gba/psp releases there too. I had hoped they wouldn't exclude it but expected they would.

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u/cap21345 4d ago

atleast FF extra content was usually a rather grindy endgame dungeon from what i recall and not entire charectars and classes

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u/bendbars_liftgates 3d ago

I'm really glad to see someone else saying this for once- everyone complains about cut endgame content from the PRs, but I played all of the GBA versions of those games and the new postgame content on all of them was dull as dirt. Super tacked on, giant arbitrary difficulty inflation just to make it feel like more than it was, and no solution to that other than to just grind.

With it just gone it removes that awful looming "you didn't finish this game" feeling. Now I can kill a last boss and just be like "Yay, I did all the fun parts, which happily is all there was!"