Ultimately the franchise packed up and died after only four games made, Episodes V - VII and a side game on the GBA, all with names that reference Queen songs. Naturally, Episodes I - IV have never been made and probably never will. In a fit of hubris, Matsuno decided to follow the Star Wars numbering conventions by starting off the first game as "Episode V". On Amazon, the original "Ogre Battle" on the SNES will cost you anywhere from $50 to $350 to buy. These games are touted as being the very finest of the breed, yet were played by next-to-nobody, and now are some of the rarest and most expensive games out there. Created by the now defunct Quest Corporation, Ogre Battle was the brain child of Yasumi " Yiazmat" Matsuno, who would later go on to create games like "Vagrant Story", "FFT", and "FFXII". "Tactics Ogre" is the third game in the Ogre Battle franchise, a legend of the Strategy RPG genre. So I bought it immediately, dreaming to recreate that "FFT" experience. "Tactics Ogre" for the PSP is the game that inspired "FFT", meaning that is probably the one game I am most excited for in all of 2011. the plucky teenagers save the world, of course, but even then things don't end very well. In this game, rather than a basic story where a group of plucky teenagers save the world and the damsel in distress (your sister), you are an outcast where just being heroic in a world full of so much backstabbing and betrayal is enough to make you every faction's enemy. "FFT", as I'll abbreviate it now out of laziness, was a dark game set in a fantasy medieval kingdom in the midst of a civil war - basically a History Major's wet dream. There.Īnd clearly not being obsessed with video games, I'll just review "Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together" now.Ī few years ago, I played "Final Fantasy Tactics", probably the best* game out of the entire Final Fantasy franchise. So to save myself all that, I'll just say that "I like video games, and particularly RPGs". Then if you're a "gamer" you're forced by law to complain about how violent video games have no effect on us in any way, which then forces you to defend serial killer-in-training games like "RapeLay", complain endlessly about how Jack Thompson is the devil, and compulsively collect Xbox Live Achievements while not bathing or dating women (or men). I won't call myself an "RPG Gamer" because using the title "gamer" to describe yourself forces you into a bizarre subculture of pompous twits who focus their entire lives, income, creative powers, and intellectual ability on video games. I think at this point I just have to give up and admit to myself that my favorite video game genre is RPGs.
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