Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles - And Then it Was Real
It finally happened. And it happened while I was looking away. Years and years of asking for Final Fantasy Tactics. "Final Fantasy Tactics remake?", or something to that effect, posted on social media before every major showcase. That was my bit. Press send. A new entry seemed unlikely, but a remaster or remake was plausible. I'd heard whispers, online and off, and the release of the sublime Tactics Ogre Reborn in 2022 further convinced me that Tactics was on the cards. However, with each new Tactics-less showcase, I became less sure. Each time Square Enix announced a new remaster of some back catalogue, 6/10-RPG that only four people liked, I became increasingly convinced that Tactics' turn would never come. Passed over, time and time again, for lesser games. And then it happened. At the 16:38 mark of the June 5th State of Play , a little after 6:00 AM Japan time. And I missed it. I was on the school run. There's no time for State of Plays when the day's just...