Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Squaresoft brings its popular Final Fantasy franchise to the Game Boy Advance in the form of strategic warfare. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance trails the story of a young boy named Marche who is magically…

90 14 February 2003

Role-playing (RPG) Tactical Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Square Product Development Division 4, released 14 February 2003 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 45 hrs to finish.

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What Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Square Product Development Division 4 and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a 2003 tactical role-playing game developed by Square for the Game Boy Advance, and published by Square in Japan and Nintendo internationally. A successor to Final Fantasy Tactics (1997), the story follows the trials of some children from the town of St. Ivalice after a magical book transforms their home into a fantasy realm of the same name. Gameplay has player teams fighting in turn-based combat on a grid, with units using a themed Job system. A new feature is a "Law" system, which places random limitations on player action during battles.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is the 55th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy X-2 in 2003. Its critic score of 90 is 13 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.

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How it was received

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 149 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 45 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 70 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance launched on 14 February 2003, within three weeks of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, Unreal 2: The Awakening and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, Unreal 2: The Awakening, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven.

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