Despite director saying there were “no plans” for a re-release of the tactical spin-off
A remaster ofFinal Fantasy Tactics, the grid-based strategy spin-off from the RPG series that easily ranks as one of thebest Final Fantasy games ever made, is reportedly in the works - giving hope of its first official PC release.
Talk of a Tactics remaster has been kicking around for a while, and recently came back into discussion in the wake of the recent drama around prolific Persona and JRPG leaker Midori, whorevealed themselvesto be a previously blacklisted male American leaker who resurfaced under the guise of a Japanese woman (complete with tweets apparently composed deliberately in broken English, ew). Prior to their admittance of being a fraud, Midori had been sharing apparent details about a Final Fantasy Tactics remaster. (Thanks,Eurogamer.)
Though the truth of the Tactics remaster was called into question following Midori’s fall from grace - the account was also found to have made inaccurate claims about upcoming RPGVisions of Mana- Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier jumped in to add some weight to the claims.
“The Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real and happening,” Schreierrespondedto a thread discussing the credibility of the details on Reddit.
Schreier’s report - brief as it is - contrasts comments made by Tactics director Yasumi Matsuno in December, when hetold a fan on TwiXerthat “currently, there are no plans for remastering [Tactics]”.
If a Tactics remake does find its way onto PC, it’ll mark the first time that the 1997 spin-off has been officially available to play away from the original PlayStation. A revamped version of Tactics, subtitled The War of the Lions, featuring full-motion cutscenes, an expanded roster of characters and multiplayer, as well as a 16:9 resolution, was released for the PlayStation Portable in 2007, before later finding its way onto mobile.
The closest that Tactics has come to PC to date is MMOFinal Fantasy XIV, which used its world of Ivalice (shared withFinal Fantasy 12) and an alternative storyline as inspiration for the Return to Ivalice series of raids.
