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We're getting new versions of two GOATs later this summer. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is due late August, followed by Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater  at the end of September. Lucky us! Lucky me. That's two of the greatest of all time - number one (Snake Eater) and number five (Tactics) on my list - and while I'm certainly looking forward to both, the wait won't kill me. Probably. I'm excited but I'm not bursting at the seams. August and September will be here in the blink of an eye, as time doesn't make sense anymore, so there's no need to count down the days. I don't have the time or the energy to work myself up the way I used to. It's different when you're young(er). Your enthusiasm is through the roof, and waits are agonising. You count down the months, weeks and days until the object of your obsession is in your possession and you have full confidence that, once it is in your grubby little mitts, it'll be exce...

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...