Ivalice Alliance - Tactics (PSP), Revenant Wings (DS), Advance 2 (?)
 

Square-Enix has announced a new series of games to expand upon a previously established universe, not unlike the World of Mana and Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series. This time, it's the world of Ivalice which first appeared in Final Fantasy Tactics. The first title under this expansion is actually Revenant Wings, which has its own thread and is properly explained there.

The second of which is a port of Final Fantasy Tactics on the PSP, which will see various updates-- most important of which are two new Jobs being made available. Others include new movies and such.

Lastly, there is the (not-so-)mysterious "FFT A2". Which everyone and their mom suspects is Tactics Advance 2, so yeah.

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Please Vagrant Story 2, please Vagrant Story 2, please Vagrant Story 2...

I really hope the world of Ivalice comes into its own. I want to see concrete connections between games. This could be a great spin-off world from the typical Final Fantasy "new world every time" system.

Ogre & Ivalice games - Matsuno = mediocre stuff.

Oh my GOD FFTactis PORTABLE@!?#$!@#!# I will get a PSP for this game alone when it comes out.

This will probably be the third PSP game I'll invest in (FFT), assuming it's ported over here. A portable FFT would be all kinds of win.

Are those updated cutscenes, by the way?

Continual "ports" of games to the PSP simply isn't the way to go about getting people interested in either the games or the system. If they add more than "two jobs" to the game, such as an expanded storyline (which it clearly excels in) then I might have something to be interested in.

Everything else sounds nice I guess, but the way they're releasing more low budget games like this is adding more fuel to the fire that they need money for FFXIII badly. I guess Dragon Quest IX is part of that now too.

I am offended by the Jump Pirate heiling Hitler in that bottom-left blurb.

They look like it.
Most of the story in the game was done with in-game sprites and pop-up text boxes.

Exactly, I'm glad they finally picked the right world/series to expand. This is awesome news, especially the new things added to FFT. Hopefully there's more new stuff revealed as we get closer to its release date.

IMO, it would be nice if they have one game "series" take place in the FFT-era Ivalice and another around FFXII's time. Damn, this has got me saving for a PSP now. =(

But... but it has a spiffy new logo.

One thing people might be able to get excited for is a new translation, as we all know the original was atrocious. They might even get the dude who did Vagrant Story's and (I think) XII's.

Alexander O. Smith

That would be awesome, and even a slightly updated FFT port is better than nothing.

port with extra can be fun, but now that the ps3 will offer ps1 emulation and even emulation on psp, I don't know if some new Cut-scene and 2 new job will be enough to buy it for 40$ or take the ps1 emulation for like 5$...

the other game seem good thought ^^

I read here (yes it's in french) that the new FFT will be name Final Fantasy Tactics : The Lion War (Shishi Sensô in jp) and they didn't said on which system it will be and then therw will be Final Fantasy tactic A2 Fûketsu no Grimoire, which they are suppose to give more detail in the nest few day, I think FFTA2 will likely be FFT advance 2 like someone said before.

I more interested in inal Fantasy Tactics : The Lion War which I think could be more like the original FFT then the GBA one

The Lion War is just FFT with some new stuff, but it's for the PSP. FFTA2 is probably for the DS, like Revenant Wings.

oh I see I thought Lion war was a new FFT

Interesting. That article gave the subtitle of the new Advance game, being "Grimoire of the Impure". I didn't notice anything like that in the scan.

EDIT: Oh, there it is.

wasn't there a big book like a grimoire in FFTA?

Yes, Marche's (sp?) brother opens up a thick book that happens to be magic and it drops them into that world. Looks like another game revolving around a book.

Is there any time line for the world of Ivalice?
I've been under the assumption that it's something like:
FFT -----many-years-later----> FFT:A -----> FFXII

Each game has nothing to do with each other. Only thing in common is the name Ivalice and a few other things.

Not really, he's actually got the timeline (as it's commonly believed) to be kind of wrong. It's:

FFTA > FFXII > FFT

I don't know where I heard this, but I've heard that FFT takes place in Rozzaria.

FFTA series takes place outside of the of the timeline technically, since it's inside a book based on the world of Ivalice :p

FFT taking place inside Rozzaria would make sense, since it's all locations that aren't in XII's Ivalice. From what I gathered, Rozzaria seems to be some kind of fantasy version of Italy :p I could certainly picture Al-Cid riding off on a moped going 'ciao'.

Tactics Advance I believe isn't even a part of the real Ivalice, and is based on the children's experiences with Final Fantasy (I suppose it would be XII). Aside from that, we would have to assume that XII is a distant prequel due to Moogles and perhaps even the Bangaa and Viera going extinct by the time of Tactics.

As for Vagrant Story, that's a little trickier. Most assume that it's sometime between Tactics' Middle Ages and Alazlam Durai's Late Ages, but no one's certain.

Heh, good point. But remember, it was a book. Could it be that they were living in the Ivalice that the book described? It may have been a magical history book/grimoire.

Not to mention, according to the Wikipedia entry for the game, FFT was modeled after the War of the Roses. That'd seem to fall in line with the name.

Also, found another little link, though it may mean nothing:



And Vagrant Story would have to take place before FFXII, or at least during, since there are numerous entries in the bestiary that refer to the 'Naturalist Merlose'. Callo Merlose, maybe?

Callo Merlose was Vagrant Story, not FFT. Which would place VS prior to XII.

Oh motherfucker. Now I have to buy a goddamn PSP. This game had best get released here. If they fix the translation, FFT is one of the greatest games ever made.