I quite like Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced. Sure, it's not quite the same gameplay style as what's considered te normal for other FF games, but it does play well for it's style. I look at it like Final Fantasy Front Mission because of how it plays. I hope FFTA2 improves on this game and makes it better.

Just for the record (sorry if someone else in this thread already posted what I'm about to say but I havent bothered reading through all the replies) but Tactics Ogre was originally released as an SNES game but never saw the light of day in America til Atlus ported it to the PsOne. It was a sequel to another SNES game, Ogre Battle, and was one of the first games of it's kind. (Square had a similarly styled game on the SNES, the now-classic Front Mission.) Tactics Ogre's graphics were actually quite advanced for the time of it's first release on the SNES. FF Tactic's gameplay was inspired by the same grid based system employed in Tactics Ogre although it retained the job system introduced in FF2.

I've played and beaten Mystic Quest and can safely say that it is a lackluster title which bears little to no resemblance to it's predecessors and therefore can barely even be considered a true FF game. However the worst game bearing the FF moniker is indisputably Crystal Chronicles. That game is so bad it's barely playable. Only the graphics are good, every thing else is enough to make this gamer ill.

I find it interesting that there's all this debate going on about FF Tactics and Tactics Advanced but so far nobody has pointed out the fact that although both games are set in the world of Ivalice, they are alternate versions of the same world.

In the original Tactics, Ivalice is a decidedly dark and unfriendly place full of treachery, murder, war, untold suffering, political machinations engineered by both church and government, and an evil conspiracy whose roots literally extend to the bowels of the earth itself. In other words, it's the kind of story one usually finds in a good fantasy novel.

Tactics Advanced has more of an anime kind of vibe with it's young protagonists being magically transported into a nicer, fluffier version of Ivalice. Granted there are still bad things going on but you're not going to be seeing any innocent women being murdered by their husbands as a reward for completing the game (amongst other nasty things.)

Also the Ivalice seen in FF12 seems to be an amalgamation of the two Tactics games, although it's races and settings seem to run more parallel to the Advance version.

Just thought I'd clue yall in.

The only reason I'd hate FFTA is because its way too god damn easy, that & you main chars image still looks like a normal adventurer when he changes his class.(should get a customized look for each class like all your chars get in FFV).

Heh, I knew I had 3rd for hating it the storyline was childish and retarded, but as far as gameplay and graphics this was pretty nice game.