Final Fantasy Tactics turns 27 today – it was released in Japan on June 20th, 1997.
To mark this occasion, the game's director, Yasumi Matsuno, has shared some images of what the game almost looked like.
"This is a sample image from early 1996," says Matsuno on Twitter. "We had hoped to continue development with the aim of creating an RTS like 'Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen,' but unfortunately this was scrapped, and the game ended up being released in the form it is today. The strong jaggedness is due to the PlayStation's resolution at the time being 256x224."
As you can see, the game sports a different look to what we eventually got, and we have to admit, we're quite bummed out that we didn't get to see this version, as it looks fantastic.
Final Fantasy Tactics is regarded as one of the PS1's best games and was later remade for the PSP as Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.
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This... doesn't look like an RTS, at all.
Well I have to say I love the artwork and kind of wish it was used for a different game now.
@Poodlestargenerica
Yep, i think they mean more something as said Ogre Battle or Advance Wars, so still round based.
edit:
Still interesting
I wish I lived in the timeline where this was the real FFT. Thank god for Unicorn Overlord.
This looks more like unicorn overlord rather than rts though.
"The strong jaggedness is due to the PlayStation's resolution at the time being 256x224."
That is an odd sentence. The PlayStation was a fixed piece of hardware. How did its resolution suddenly change?
(more like, how the developers frequently coded for it)
Still though, I've heard FF did eventually get a RTS game with DS FFXII spinoff Revenant Wings.
@KingMike Translation issue, most likely. Japanese is difficult to properly translate.
But anyhoo, "unfortunately" scrapped? Glad they ended up with FFT, because this looks worse, and the RTS part, which simply means "overhead map with real time movement until co tact is made" , like in Ogre Battle, would mean a completely different vibe.
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