IGN wrote a First Look article about Tactics Ogre: Wheel of Fortune for PSP before its release, and in said they refer to that as the "first western release" of the game. This seems completely ridiculous initially, since Atlus is meant to have published the game on Playstation on May 6, 1998 but it makes sense if you think about it.

Think about it: I am either extremely high off tramadol(somehow) and hallucinating or standing at the crossroads of two realities. It's simple: Tactics Ogre never actually released in English on the Playstation. There is less on the internet about Playstation/SuperFamicom/Saturn Tactics Ogre than the fan-translated Front Mission SFC, so this must be the case. The release did not happen.

The ~16,300 copies the US release is meant to have sold was just the size of the cancelled print run Atlus was planning, the release never happened; the precious few period-reviews are all faked, the ISO image of the Playstation game is either a leaked prototype or has always been a fan translation by Aeon Genesis, the copies on Ebay are all reproductions from recent years, and the LUCT website is just a timestream aberration which comes to us from a different reality, or else an inexplicable English-language guide by someone who played the game in Japan. Further evidence for this obviously-correct-not-cooked-up-at-3am-theory is that confusingly, much of the english-language coverage of the ALLEGED Playstation version is from the year 2000, two years after the ALLEGED release date.

OG Tactics Ogre is a ridiculously specific psyop some fed cooked up to annoy me. Bravo, CIA man, objectively better waste of your time than getting executed in China

I hate when games give descriptions that are too vague to plan around. Like the ARPG thing where they don't really tell the player what the mechanics are (is the increased damage % additive or multiplicative?) oh and you gotta level up for 10 hours before you can use the skill with the cool sounding but somewhat vague description, only to find out that it was really mediocre. Fuck you Torchlight 2

I've only played the SNES Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together (what even is that title) and didn't find it as much fun as FF Tactics. Maybe I'm not enough of a hardcore strategy gamer.

Friendly fire is really unpredictable, is it literally RNG? Sometimes it seems like archers or hawk men will make really tight shots past several allies densely packed, and sometimes it seems like they should cleanly arc their arrows over one buddy but thwap 70 damage. Is it height related??

I have vague memories of trying to play a few version of Tactics Ogre, too involved for me to really stick with. I do however, remember terrain height played a factor in "unfriendly fire" incidents in the GBA Tactics Ogre game. Your ranged units will have a high chance of hitting any unit that is at a higher elevation between the shooter and their target than the actual chosen target. It wouldnt surprise me if that mechanic was kept through the other, later sequels.

Sounds cool. The music storage makes me think of Unreal Tournament and how it was also just a bunch of soundsamples played in realtime.

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I’m not sure that there are online scans for the prima guide. The PSP ones are easily findable though.

I distinctly remember that guide being extra terrible. Not on the level of the FFIX official guide, more you could tell the person writing the guide had a blast but no real clue what they were doing.

I have no idea about the complexities of the systems, but keep posting because I love this game.

Also, it's not unseasoned FFT. There's fewer customization options, but, in my opinion, this restriction leads to better decision making experiences and tighter (and more difficult) gameplay.

FFT is really easy to break and be OP. Tactics ogre requires more if you want to break it.

What about the n64 one?

Check out pixiv for tactics ogre fan art there's probably a lot