Final Fantasy Hacktics

There's a very silly video on YouTube which has basically nearly all of the characters in it in differing art styles. Only characters that are missing are Minister Gelwan, Blansch, Bolmna, and Balbanes. Even Golagros and Gustav get there .2 seconds of fame here!

Did I really put up that non-working .ppf? It was supposed to be a "tutorial patch" so to speak, but I kept on encountering event problems so I scrapped that. I don't even remember putting that up. But I could have sworn I at least finished the first battle of that? Bah! Eh well, yes that was just a failed idea which didn't pan out as I had hoped. I could have sworn I managed to finish the first battle portion though, eh well...

You can likely "blame" Alexander O. Smith for popularizing this kind of translation style into Square with his brilliantly done Vagrant Story. Square-Enix saw that they should add some class to their games and not just their Ivalice games, and there you go.

Great work! Everything seems to be working up to code!

Ah no, I'm referring to the work you've already accomplished. The other stuff if it can be done would just be a topping to the cake.

A true successor to FFT Patcher! I am glad to see you taking up the mantle of this Glain! These improvements seem really nice!

Everyone of those but the "unused Shop" music is used in the game, only in the Sound Novels though. So in essence they are unused to the people outside of Japan.

Doesn't the Evade frame share it's course with the Defend frame?

Would look kind of odd, if the Flan is able to Defend, of course.

Did you make this, Valendian? If so you just created the VS equivalent to FFT Patcher!

Celdia pretty much already hit the game I was going to talk about, hehe. Illusion of Gaia's story and presentation is on a level all of its own.

As for other obscure titles, there is the amazing Lufia series which has been nearly forgotten by now. Admittedly I only knew about it from a youtube LPer called HCBailly, but after seeing him finish the first one I played the second one for myself and was blown away.

Lufia 1 and its other games are a story about an evil organization called the Four Sinistrals trying to conquer the world and a group of people going to prevent this. Sounds pretty plain? Well a few plot twists in the first one keeps you on your toes as the story progresses. For the most part I would be lying if I didn't say its fairly light hearted.

Lufia 2 steps things up. It is a prequel to Lufia 1, the characters seem more developed, the battle system was completely refined (for the most part) and the puzzles in it are some of the most devious in the SNES era! With a great story and an unexpected ending (if you hadn't played the first, since the first ten minutes of the first game is a flashback to the ending scenario of the second game) it really ranks among the top games of the SNES.

Quote from: Fenrir90 on July 05, 2011, 09:56:26 pm
I completely agree that Germonik plays the role of Judas in FFT story, but I don't understand how Germonik is associated with Elidibs. Further elaborate on this please, I'm really curious about it. Also, Jesus only had 12 disciples and Judas is number 12 from doing searches on google. The part in bold is something that I would like to see some sources on this claim because google didn't showed me anything.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Disciples#The_Twelve_Apostles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciple_%28Christianity%29
+ a bunch of google search results, should be pretty easy to find doing a search on your own.

By the way Joseph Strike, what does the bold part mean. Sorry, never heard this expression before. English is not my first language, French is.

Yes, the thirteenth disciple  is a fellow named Mathias, if memory serves right. Though since he basically "replaced" Judas, I would say that Judas would be considered the "black sheep", so to speak, therefore pushed from the 12, but still considered an apostle, similar to how Serpentarius is the "hidden" thirteenth Zodiac Sign. But... it strangely appears that this Mathias is more or less forgotten by time and Judas is actually thought of in the same vein as the original 12. Though to get back to FFT, I think there is too much to pointing that something happened to Germonik after the fall of Murond (and possible Cataclysm). The book contains a spell to return to the sunken city where St. Ajora truly died, rather than at Golgorand where the claim of Ajora's death was. I think that after seeing what reporting Ajora and having her executed had done, he may have cracked and fled to the solitude with his Zodiac Stone of Serpentarius given to him by Ajora.

From Ramza's own musings about the book he said that a lot of it had remain untranslated by Simon.

Oh, and you meant recreate the legend under different circumstances. Yeah, that sounds about right.

Indeed, it sounds as if this will be the definitive version of WotL, a shame they had to cut the multiplayer (which may be, as we guessed long ago have been the actual reason for the slowdown), but its a small loss, I am wondering how they will do the Rendevous then.

True, hmm... let's see just because he's in a defending stance doesn't really mean that he has to defend. Perhaps a "Turn Undead" ability like D&D? An ability that can only be used on enemies which would normally "cure" the enemy, unless its undead, where it would damage them for a hefty amount.

Hmm, why not have Baigan cast Reflect on himself with that skill. It's a nice reference and foreshadowing to what his monster form seems to do non stop.

Quote from: Fenrir90 on July 01, 2011, 02:59:56 pm
The 12 Zodiac Braves... Now that I think about it, you actually recreate the Zodiac Brave legend in FFT. Here is what I've come up with. You have a roster of 16 people. You can knock out Boco, he's a monster. Worker 8, hell he's not even human so he's out. Byblos, same as Boco. Cloud, not even from this dimension so he's out. So, 16 - 4 = 12.

Ramza
Mustadio
Agrias
Rafa
Malak
Cid
Meliadoul
Rad
Alicia
Lavian
Beowulf
Reis

I'm not counting Alma since she can't be recruited and doesn't travel with the other characters, she's also more associate with the Lucavi as an host for Altima/Ultima (somewhat of a host, but manages to break free later).

So here is some food for thought for you guys. A day has 24 hours, let's divide that by 2. You get 12 right.

The 12 Zodiac Braves are associated with the 12 hours of the day (Light/Good/Heroes/Saviors/etc).

The 12 Lucavis are associated with the 12 hours of the night (Darkness/Evil/Demons/Corruptors/etc).

This is touched upon in FFXII with the Scions of Light and Scions of Darkness (who are the Lucavi). Who the Zodiac Braves really were isn't really stated explicitly. Legends say that the Zodiac Braves defeated the Lucavi and apparently the Glabados Faith also puts Ajora into that. Ramza himself seems to lose all faith that there ever was any real Zodiac Braves and that they were, and always have been, the Lucavi themselves. (He mentions something to this effect to Wiegraf/Belias in Riovanes) This is because he goes by the mistaken belief that the stones are evil. He changes his views when he sees Rafa revive Malak with the stone but I've already explained away his explanation for why the stone works there in another topic.

I believe that the Zodiac Braves (which in a way mirrors FFI's Four Heroes of Light, they each appeared with a Zodiac Stone in hand) did exist and that they sealed each separate Lucavi in the stones. In FFT do you play as those people reincarnated? ...Possibly. I will say that Altima clearly points out Ramza as being her slayer in times long past. Now this can be interpreted in a number of different ways.

1. Occurian? - Altima was only slain in a war against the Occuria and the Scions of Light. If she means actual "slayer" that would be a possible case.

2. Germonik - This man indirectly lead St. Ajora to her death, thus bringing about the fall of the Holy Empire Ydora and Murond. But did Ajora ever know of this? There is also a theory that Germonik may be the "Elidibs" you see at the bottom of the Deep Dungeon, it is clear that Germonik likely had to have lost his mind at some point, likely after the fall of Farism and Ydora to have wrote all of the ways back to the sunken Murond. Germonik also plays the role of Judas in this story, Judas in popular culture seems to represent the 13th Disciple of Jesus, so its not unlikely that Germonik was given the Serpentarius stone if Ajora was trying to use the Zodiac Brave legend herself. Even if this was the case, could Ajora have really known of Germonik's betrayal? Enough to call Ramza/Germonik her "slayer" in times past? I think it is a bit unlikely.

3. Literal Executioner of St. Ajora - This seems extremely vague and I do not see why Altima would even bother to mention it.

4. Zodiac Brave - This seems the most likely option, that Ramza's ancestor or reincarnation defeated Altima and sealed her in the Zodiac Stone. This would also hint that there was no Ramza-esque character when the Holy Empire sunk and the possible cause of the Cataclysm arose. That is unless Hero King Mesa fought her, which isn't an impossibility.

Do I feel Ramza's entire group consists of Zodiac Brave reincarnations? Not especially... I would say there could be some exceptions, Orlandu has the Libra stone passed down in his family, which means his ancestor may have defeated Exodus and kept the stone in the family line for safekeeping. As for the others the connection is just far too tenuous to say one way or the other, but I would lean that it is not so.

Is the unit a special or unique? It only works on generic units if memory serves me right.

Eh, Celia, Lede, and Elmdor are supposed to represent "beauty is skin deep". Taking away that theme wouldn't mean much, but I wouldn't trade that up personally. Besides, do two Altima sized sprites even load?

Talk about comprehensive! Very well done, RandMuadDib! I hope that people use this.

Hideo Minaba and Yuka Miyamoto will be the two artists apparently and they have worked on Ivalice projects before, all of the "screenshots shown" are apparently of units wielding various weapons and a sorcerer unit. Hopefully we'll get to see those pictures soon ourselves.

He is currently working on another project at the moment, but its hard to say what he'll do next after he's finished with it. If he liked working at Level-5 that much he may stay there. If the CEO tries to curtail his vision he'll likely finish up his current project then leave.

He doesn't have as much pull as you might think mainly because he is extremely individualistic and when corporations require you to assimilate or flounder his unique outlooks aren't very welcomed.

This CEO of Level-5 is giving Matsuno free reign though, at least that was the deal.