[Chosen One]

im thinking of buying final fantasy tactics advance, is it good? cos i dont wanna buy a game thats a waste of cash..

[Cosmos]

It's okay.

The story is pretty lame, but the gameplay is some of the best you can find. The missing rumour glitch is one of the most annoying glitches in any GBA game, and to get everything in it you need a link cable and a thorough guide (plenty of things can just fly by you, never yo be got again), but I have no regrets about my purchase.

[TheDogWho]

Good battle system ad jobs.
No exploring towns or the world.
Not a remake of FFT for PS.
Gets tedious trying to do all missions.
All in all 4/5

I haven't heard of the Missing glitch? What is it?

[Someone Else]

I skipped it because I heard you couldn't explore, you know, walk around. Instead you had a little map and you selected where you wanted to go. I also heard the whole judging thing in battles was annoying.

[Nick Presta]

The judging thing eventually becomes obsolete to those who play enough. You always have enough law cards to bring down the law number to 1 and when you're late in the game, all you ever do is attack or cast magic so you don't have to worry too much about laws (unless it's dmg: laws)

Anyways, no exploring, jobs are done well, battle system great, graphics great, all in all, 8/10 for it's own game, but 6/10 if compared to FFT.

[Blade Lord Lyn]

Can't compare to the greats : the PS 1 Final Fantasy Tactics and FE4. But on it's own, it stands as a solid tactic game. . . though the story is kind of bland. Worth buying, but if you played FFT, then probably not.

[Colonel Tycho]

Its not a very good game, in my opinion. What I like most about tactics games is a wide selection of weapons and a good storyline.

Weapons/Equipment in FFTA: Not very good for a tactics game. The names arent very good for the weapons, and the tequniques you get from the weapon take a VERY long time to set up for each character you use. Then there is setting a new weapon for each character after they get the technique, and that takes a while too. Tactics Ogre has the best weapon selection of any tactics game. FFTA came nowhere close to that.

Gameplay: Storyline was extreme crap. Kids get sucked into a book, they all have dumb names and looks (Marche, the evil kid's hair, that annoyingly dumb moogle,) but the chick was hot. Very hot. Im not sure how old she was, like 15 or 16 (i hope). Okay anyways, the battling got old fast. The courses got repetitive, and they had cheery, hooray! type of music, not uh oh! we're under attack and any of us could die at any moment! That was another thing: No one can die in those battles. The "judges" prevent death in battle, which was EXTREMELY dumb. The courses were all very similar to each other, with green grass and water in half of them, and a hill in the other half. No dark, spooky forests with ghosts and creepy music, just cheery plains and hills with no chocobos. WHERE ARE THE CHOCOBOS!!!

Missions: Those got really annoying. You need specific weapons or items to play each one. I couldnt find the right items for one couse that i got at the beginning of the game until i was almost done.

Multiplayer: Absolutly horrible. You couldnt face each other, only team up.

[NuMou Sniper]

THIS GAME RULES. So what if you cant explore. The battles are awesome and the judging is an easy obstacle to get around when you have a variety of party members and law cards. This game is guarenteed to pull you in and keep you playin even after you beat it. I beat the game after 100 hours of play and my total now is over 200 hrs. I think in my opinion that the stopry is exceptional and quite good.

[Colonel Tycho]

On what guarantee is it based? This game came no where close to "pull me in" and when you get a red card for Marche, even after 2 hours of playing, you get a game over no matter what, even if you quit in the middle and came back a day later and forgot. This game is horrible, simply put.

[NuMou Sniper]

The guarentee is that you have to get further in the game for it to pull you in.

[Heavyblade504]

To tell the truth I'd advise you get the one for Ps1 cause the one has a much better battle system and has special characters such as Cloud.

[Elliott]

FFTA is one of the best games on GBA, period.
Great visuals, audio, exceptional gameplay, fantastic depth and character control. All it lacks is a great story, as the story is pretty overdone (boy goes to other world, boy wants to get back to real world etc.)

Oh yeah, and there has already been 2 topics on this I think...

[Colonel Tycho]

Ya, why in the hell would he want to get back to the real world anyway? I remember thinking of that as possibly the dumbest storyline imaginable. HE WAS LIVING MY DREAM AND HE DIDNT LIKE IT!!!! DAMN HIM!

[Issac_Zero2]

Its pretty good...8/10 but I prefer Tactics Ogre...Much better story and gameplay is just as good...9/10 for Tactics Ogre...

[Mycarayne]

I got bored of the linear-ness of it compared to ther FF's.

Get dawn of Souls instead ;)

Truth be known, I don't think Dawn of Souls was around when this topic was made. Heh. One of the magical and utterly pointless reasons for reviving REALLY old topics. lol

[Elliott]

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