Those translators were godsend. What a good job. I loved hearing how they actually cared about doing more than just a simple translation. Wish more people would go above and beyond like that in their jobs.

This is one of if not THE best long form breakdown of the the FF games that literally exists on this planet. You really should take immense pride in yourself, and these works!!!

You're a living legend , this series is incredible man.

This is awesome, you deserve more views man! Didn't expect one could put a 2 hour retrospective with so much cool info :)

@ffxiikd1426

3 жыл бұрын

True

Wow. I know you put a lot of work into this as I was there while you were capturing gameplay and editing the video but I'm still blown away by the finished product. I like that you went through this with an even hand. You are definitely a fan but you brought up the positives and the negatives of the games and that's cool. This one is just how I am but I actually found learning about the games development more fascinating than the games plots. You did fantastic breaking down both though. That's just a reflection of my interests being more in game development. I love that you took the time to try and explain the games timeline. Plus, I really love the beginning and learning the origin of Tactics Ogre and how it later influenced Final Fantasy Tactics.

So much information I didn't know, you convinced me to give FFXII a chance, thanks a lot for the great quality!

@RRPGReviews

4 жыл бұрын

Anytime! Glad you enjoyed it!

Going to watch this right away! This series is incredible!

I really appreciate this in depth explanation into one of the greatest fantasy/fictional worlds of all time. I have absolutely loved Ivalice from tactics to XII (and after). Thank you so much!

I just watched the entire series over the course of a few days. As someone yearning for a quality retrospective of the entire series made from a single perspective, as well as getting information about what each game meant to the general population, this is a treasure! I knew very little about the series outside of reviews for generally the more popular 3D ones, and few of them as comprehensive. I am so excited to see your next entry!

Omg, yes! You do such good work. Thank you for this! Been waiting a long time!

XII really was one of my favorite FF's (Behind 8) and the Return to Ivalice raids in FFXIV was so freaking awesome. Not to mention the battle theme from Vagrant Story. C'mon SE Make XIV's next expansion be set in Ivalice!

Amazing video! Thank you for your huge effort

Been waiting for this, love theese retrospective videos you make keep up the good work.

@RRPGReviews congratulations! This is amazing content. the amount of information is great as well as the editing and allthe images used. While i usually only listen to viedos like this, you managed to get my attention to actually watch the video. I will be checking the rest of the series and spread the word about you. Good job.

Best retrospective I've ever seen.

Surprisinly amazing look! You went deep and noticed all the problems off the games. Subbed!

great video, was exactly what i was looking for as im getting into these games

Masterful production, good sir. You are a vivid Ultimania Guide. Looking forward to your future endeavors.

I hope your channel will grow a lot. Love such documentaries.

And today I learned that the Gambit system was modeled after programming and NFL plays. Therefore FFXII is both the programmer's Final Fantasy...and the football player's Final Fantasy. Awesome. Fitting that I like both lol

@13Kr4zYAzN13

5 жыл бұрын

Also: Bloo, Basch, and Reaper are the same person. What a time to be alive lol

VERY WELL MADE I THANK YOU FOR THIS 💜

Very professional and very well scripted. Brilliant work 👌 Fantastic video 👏

for anyone watching this, in FF12 The Zodiac Age you can now switch Jobs, resetting your license points. this means if you arent happy with your job setup you can just change it. you can do that by talking to Montblanc in the Centurio Clan Hall.

23:58 The single greatest moment of this video.

@LarsVonTrier2007

2 жыл бұрын

I am glad that people give love to Vagrant Story. Best game in PS1 era.

Excellent video!

Thats such a good review!

wow can't wait to watch this. love ff12. thanks for the behemoth of a video to dig into.

"Final Fantasy XII made it to the Guiness Records for the longest Developement Cycle" Final Fantasy XV is gagging in the back.

@darksaint0124

4 жыл бұрын

XV has a short development comparatively, now Versus XIII on the other hand...

You deserve a bigger audience

I’ve played and beat Tactics. I’m replaying so I can beat FFXII now. Ivalice is a definitely distinctive place. It’s cool to see it fleshed our like this.

Got your FFXIII video recommended to me. I plan to watch it later- but when I saw the length- I knew I was in for a treat and went straight to this one instead lol. Plan to watch this one, then the one that got recommended to me and then the one for a Realm Reborn. I also subscribed.

Always loved the Tactics score.

God Bless You! I watched the whole thing.

Man you do awesome work with these review videos. I’m 27, grew up faster than I thought I would with 3 kids now. Although I never had the time to play all these final fantasies like I wish I did, I’m extremely happy to see reviews with such depth and care being made. Many thanks for the hours of entertainment, the nostalgia and the education. I’ve only been able to go back and finish FF 6, FF Tactics, disc two of FF8, but I also own this FF12, after watching this I’m more than sure I’m gonna start the 12 journey. Many thanks once again for the quality content my man.

Thank you for this, was looking for a great story recap after finally going back to ff12 in the remaster. I loved world of Ivalice since 98' I cant imagine what I would have done with myself if I didnt have tactics/advance/ff12 so many hours between them all lol

Ivalice is my favourite world in final fantasy

Goodness me, this was the most indepth, informative, and well balanced explanation of Ivalice I have ever seen. As an enormous fan (as if my username doesn't give it away) this entire video pleased me greatly. I have a couple of quibbles with some slightly incorrect plot points, but aside from those it was a marvelous experience. I was wondering if that map of Ivalice you continued to flash on the screen at points was official or not. I did not know there were any official maps of Romanda and Ordallia. Not just that, but the endless amount of concept art were things I had never even seen before, such as a full picture of St. Ajora and the various maps and the like. Also the quote you mention from Matsuno in 2010 is strange as that very same year he worked with SE in bringing a truly updated and incredible remaster of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. He also, just a couple of weeks ago, said that he wants to work on a new FFT as he feels time is slipping away from him and he wants to please the fans, if only just one more time. Fortress is a sad story, I am not sure what could have been done with that, but it seemed a little flawed to begin with. I wonder if maybe Square should have reached out to a more experienced Western studio instead of a relative unknown. I was pleased by those sales numbers, except on FFTA2 which I feel is an improvement on FFTA in almost every way. FFXII is now available on every modern console and I do hope it does well on the Switch.

@RRPGReviews

5 жыл бұрын

When it comes to the maps of Ivalice, they were official ones that point out to the specific games that they covered. As far as finding an actual map of the entirety of Ivalice, that was really hard to locate as I had to find the correct one that would correspond to how the games would actually portray that world. That was a real toughie to go through as Square Enix has not even released an official map that covers all of the countries and continents within Ivalice. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the ones like the unofficial map that covers all of that world was how Ivalice is supposed to be. Thanks for your continued support. By watching your videos and leaving feedback (both positive praise and constructive criticism), you're supporting me. Hope you look forward to Episode 10 that covers the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy and Final Fantasy Type-0!

@HighPriestFuneral

5 жыл бұрын

@@RRPGReviews It has long been speculated that the Rozarria Empire eventually became the Kingdom of Lesalia (loss of land and influence, explaining still how one family line controls three separate kingdoms) so that is not too far off the mark. All in all, its a curious case all the same. I rather like FF Type-0 with its interesting storyline, mission structure, and fairly large cast of playable characters, so learning more about that sounds like fun.

master class is back

Bro, you do us fans a service by documenting all of this great information. If only the like button would accumulate with more presses.

FF12 is my favorite FF, and I am a FFo old school player. Playing FF since FF2 (FF4 in Japan) in the 90s.

Ramza and delita remind me of tales of vesperia if you made them both commoners that had to split off. And then grew well apart from eachother making both fallow their convictions

@resid3nt3v1l

7 ай бұрын

If you want a modernish 3d game like tactics in my opinion try the last remnant it's a 360 and ps4 game it's a hard pulling game but fun and has alot of Content

The wait for Part 10 is going to kill me even now. Watching all of this, I feel bad for the company that tried to do an FF12 spinoff but couldn't cause Square-Enix were idiotic. They are around, just reborn under a new name and yeah... the bitterness still remains.

@RRPGReviews

5 жыл бұрын

I'm working on Episode 10 at this time, but it will be truly worth the wait like every episode I work on. :) On a serious note, it does suck about what happened with GRIN, even though they are still alive now under the name Overkill Software. It would have been nice for a Western developer to try their hand on a Final Fantasy game (either mainline or spinoff) for once, but Square Enix being too safe with just developing those games over in their home country is obviously going to hurt them for being too complacent, in the future. However, the stuff that happens from behind the scenes that either works or does not is just what business is. It sucks, but at the same time, it doesn't mean that a company is considered incompetent when they were willing to try, firsthand. Maybe one day we'll see a different take for Final Fantasy done by a Western developer if it isn't GRIN or Eidos Montreal. There are so many possibilities that have potential.

FFTA was my first Final Fantasy game

Hell yeah

It's back. :D

Wonderful vid. FF12 was the first FF I never finished, but this Zodiac version seems to fix most of my problems with it. Looks like its released on Switch and Steam both at this point, so there's a good chance I'll give it another go. The movement boost and actual classes look awesome. I'm still not a fan of programming my party members though, I'd rather play them

I love tactics and FF12, played it numerous time from ps1, psp, phone version of tactics and ps2, ps4 version of ff12. But got to say that nothing last forever. Even the fans of it grown up and married. New kids don’t know about Ivalice. They either have to release new battle system which people love or something in between that sell both to old and new players.

After 12 everything took a dive

@CtheDead209-zt8tj

3 жыл бұрын

After 9 honestly... 12 is very generic. As was 10.

@Vayne_Solidor

17 күн бұрын

​@@CtheDead209-zt8tj12 is the best, best world building, unique battle system, 200 hours content with so much details...you are lost...

Wow, you totally need more subs.

Really enjoy these, however I think they would be improved by slowing down a little bit as sometimes it's hard to keep up especially when multitasking.

how does this have only 27k views

I would say that Balthier is FF12's Cid instead of his father

Mp starting at zero was a tactics ogre mechanic that was brought along with its creator. Not a fft mechanic.

So the time line is ff12 then tactics A2 then tactics Advance then tactics?

@RRPGReviews

3 жыл бұрын

The timeline from what its rumored would be Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Final Fantasy Tactics A2 within the world of Ivalice, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance with its modern timeline since the world of Ivalice was represented in a book, and then Final Fantasy Tactics A2 within the modern timeline.

@p-shweaty9144

3 жыл бұрын

@@RRPGReviews thxs

1:10:10 that voice though

Back when Vagrant Story released I had no idea that it was essentially a spin off of Final Fantasy. That was mainly because I didn't play the Final Fantasy Tactics games so the the first time I heard about the world of Ivalice was Final Fantasy XII. I did play a bit of Vagrant Story but couldn't get into it which is why the only time I had heard of the world of Ivalice being Final Fantasy XII. I honestly didn't like Final Fantasy XII at all. I know a lot of fans love the game but for me it just didn't click. I think the reason was because the first game in which the turned based combat was changed and for that reason I never really gave it much of a chance.

There is a world map in Final fantasy XII,. Right from the start menu,. Towards the bottom,. As well as an overlay map,.

@RRPGReviews

4 жыл бұрын

That world map feature just shows you the locations of where you travelled to. It's not a stage outside of the playable areas that you can travel on because you can only traverse between different areas. That's the context I'm referring to.

@ZachNasty

4 жыл бұрын

@@RRPGReviews well ill be dammed lol,. The overlay map from the remastered version is good tho

I wish fortress happened. I would have loved it

@RRPGReviews

4 жыл бұрын

If it was made with that gameplay style or that of what Dragon Age: Origins was like, then I'd say it would've had a good chance in breaking the mold for Japanese games made from overseas developers.

@Mclucasrv

4 жыл бұрын

@@RRPGReviews or it would be like capcom trying to go western and everything gone wrong.

i bet 99% of us tried to stock up on potions and just to grind through one of the early prolouges of the levels just so we can breeze through story battles since it doesnt try to match our current level unlike normal random battles lmao i tried to have my insert character have half of the the jobs needed for the dark knight just because i thought i would be cooler that way xd

Highly doubt he got inspired from ultima online since it didn't come out until 1997.... and his best games had already came out...Don't know where you lulled that from but that would be incorrect...

@RRPGReviews

3 жыл бұрын

I said that Ultima Online was one of those games that Matsuno played immensely and possibly still does to this day, but I never said that it was one of those games that immediately inspired him to go into the video game industry. I said that playing video games in general was what made him want to become a game designer in the first place. Ultima Online definitely had influence within Matsuno's later work after it came out, but that doesn't mean a game which released 8 years after immediately going into the gaming industry was what inspired him to go into it, right away. That doesn't make any sense. Even as a game designer, Matsuno still plays video games outside of his work. Same thing goes for other big people like Hideki Kamiya from PlatinumGames and Masahiro Sakurai from Sora Ltd. There are games they enjoyed which made them want to become a game designer in the first place, but there are games that came out during their careers that they take inspiration from for their later works. Don't know where you thought I said a game that came out 8 years after joining Quest Corporation would want Matsuno to go into making video games after its launch, but I never said that. Unfortunately, your thought stands as incorrect.

Who the hell equipped Ramza with a knife? That is criminal

@willlauzon3744

3 жыл бұрын

Also am I colour blind or are the safe zones white, not blue?

@charlesstarkey205

2 жыл бұрын

The towns are blue. Ramza has a knife because they are probably leveling thief. Lol

Sorry to have kept you waiting. I was delayed for a longtime because my dad was being strict with me that I wouldn't have time to watch. I like that Final Fantasy XII on PC is 60 Frames PerSeconds, strange that Final Fantasy X even on PS4 and the official PC Version wasn't 60 FPS. I wish this was split in 3 parts atleast. Not everyone is gonna watch a Video for more than an hour. The music wasn't that bad. And... I told you Funimation has been full of shit! Ever since...

I'm glad that Grin never got to make Fortress because it doesn't seem like they understood the world or style of ivalice at all, it would've just been another failed western take on a japanese IP like DMC from ninja theory

not pointing out the similarities to naboo when mentioning star wars is odd.

@RRPGReviews

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I can't mention all the elements from Star Wars that were borrowed when talking about Final Fantasy XII. :P

@jaycollins2036

3 жыл бұрын

@@RRPGReviews I wondered if even the developers never mentioned it and that's why you didn't. People like to avoid talking about the prequels in the industry. Well researched video though, I've always been so intrigued by Ivalice.

Fortress looks like monster hunter

Its kind of weird that people forget that Sydney Losstarot was the Cid/Syd to be an antagonist.

@RRPGReviews

5 жыл бұрын

That's the thing. When the game came out, there was no way to exactly know if it would be considered part of the Ivalice Universe. Also, I would say that Sydney Losstarot being the Cid of that game is a bit of a wide stretch. When it comes to the character Cid, he has to be someone who has a strong zest for airships, machinery, engineering, etc. That's been very prevalent in almost all Final Fantasy games to this day, and Sydney Losstarot doesn't fit into that category, in my opinion.

I enjoyed ff12 and its remaster.

Final Fantasy has 12 letters. Final Fantasy XII has it all. Final Fantasy XII is the best FF of all time, and the last great game Square-Enix has ever released (since they never had the resources or interest to recreate Vagrant Story nor had the courage to fund a proper sequel). Like all of Matsuno's works, it's not for everyone, so sadly not many people will come to this realization. Which is great, by the way. Better to create an enduring masterpiece for a few and remastering it for posterity than a bland pandering fashion product for the masses to please investors (i.e.: everything Square Enix released after XII, which won't stand the test of time like XII will).

FFT best in the series

Fortress looks like a game that I would never play even with FF name on it.

FF tactics :(, some great things only happend once it seems

Love 12s story its like what the original producer always wanted to do in next gen however the character models are soooooo boring except for the Viera n her buddy.

Japanese critics: 10/10 American critics: This game sucks because I’m to stupid to understand Gambit Board and License Slots. ^American critics are most likely the largest factor that caused that long period in gaming where Developers and Publisher felt they had to hold hands through the whole game. It’s not the games fault that you can’t wrap your mind around the Gambit System and License Board. Way to go in making Americans look even more stupid than the rest of the world already thought. 👏👏👏

By far the best game in Final Fantasy series... But not the best Final Fantasy in the series. 6, 7 and 9 fight for that title, I'd side with 9. Still, sad how much developers struggled with this masterpiece.

6 minutes in, this is a rapid fire list of facts, with no no time to digest any of it. Skip

@RRPGReviews

Жыл бұрын

If I digested every single thing, then we would look at maybe 2x or 3x the length of this video, and I do not do that for these retrospective videos. It's just straight to the point with the list of facts.

@kajex7589

Жыл бұрын

@RRPGReviews I get that these videos require a lot of work, all the more reason to add something meaningful to the conversation on the subject, what do I want an hour of facts for for when I searched "retrospective" for deep analysis of gameplay and story.

Hmmm 20 minutes in and nothing about final fantasy 12. I'm learning a lot about final fantasy tactics but that's not why I clicked on your video, just saying

@RRPGReviews

2 жыл бұрын

You will get to Final Fantasy XII, shortly. Don't always assume that every video covering a Final Fantasy game starts with me talking about a mainline entry. Besides, I talk about Final Fantasy XII a lot more than I do about Final Fantasy Tactics or any of the other games part of the Ivalice Alliance.

@rendelldraw

2 жыл бұрын

For me, starting the video with the other games that featured Ivalice first, and how the devs came up with it come FFXII made it much more interesting. If I wanted to just learn about FFXII only, I would look for other videos exclusively about FFXII and not watch one with "Ivalice" in it. Just saying.

It's such a shame we never got FF12 Fortress. Seeing games these days, I think it could be well received now.