Final Fantasy Tactics Sprites = Best Spriting Style?

[Archael]

We've all seen sprites from other JRPG's and sprites from totally different genres before.

We've seen sprites with different styles from different games.

Breath of Fire III



Star Ocean 2




Tales of Phantasia



FFTA



FF



but seriously, no sprite style comes close to the level of uniqueness, attractiveness, and simplicity of FFT sprites

[jimmyjw88]

Yea. FFT.....AWESOME DUDE ^^

[Bloodthirster0]

for sure,FFT sprites are unique

[jimmyjw88]

Btw, Nice one Voldemort.

spoiler

[Cheetah]

I really love Breath of Fire IV's sprite styles, along with Xenogears alot too. But FFT whens for the best quality in the smallest size.

[ArkDelgato]

Voldemort, thats not Tales of Phantasia, It's Tales of the world (2?), the PSP fan service game.

This is Tales of Phantasia

[SilvasRuin]

Tales of Phantasia's chibiness isn't nearly as appealing as FFT's, IMO.

[Archael]

Voldemort, thats not Tales of Phantasia, It's Tales of the world (2?), the PSP fan service game.

This is Tales of Phantasia

oh, sorry about that man

I'll update the topic

[jimmyjw88]

Tales of Phantasia's chibiness isn't nearly as appealing as FFT's, IMO.

Yea. Tales of Eternia is better. Tales of Phantasia is like FF1 to 3; small, 2D, funny looking sprites and graphics.

[Xifanie]

No Archy, you posted a picture with a Dark Knight, MY EYES!!!

[Archael]

Tales of Phantasia

Enemy: Bugbear x2

[MiKeMiTchi]

That's because FFT uses 2d sprites for 3d bgs.

[SilvasRuin]

Eh, I'd say the PSP FF1 remake's sprites come close or match the quality of the sprites of FFT.  Obviously the styles are different enough that one will inevitably surpass the other on certain backgrounds, but in their respective environments, both are quite nice.

[mav]

I've never been partial to the 3D graphics of today, but out of virtually every game I've ever played I think FFT does have the nicest style. The sprites are cute without losing their edge (I mean, when sprites like Velius and a Chocobo can both look good in the same environment, that really says something about the game's sprites). And I've always found the character design (i.e. the full art and the portraits) particularly neat. Stylistically, I don't see anything like that anymore.

Though this isn't to say some sprites don't look weird...The female Ninja, for instance, needs some help. But that's what we're here for, I suppose.