I hope this opens the door for a remaster of the first Ogre Battle and the one for Nintendo 64; both are absolute masterpieces.

@commissarjb

Жыл бұрын

100%! Ogre Battle 64 was my intro to this amazing series. Would love to play an updated version.

@D-A-K

Жыл бұрын

Man I loved Ogre Battle back in the day

@zacheray

Жыл бұрын

Yep, classics in the same vein as the Fellowship is to literature

@betacrest10

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I hope they polish Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen the same way they did this current version of Tactics Ogre.

@ArlanKels

Жыл бұрын

March of the Black Queen devoured so many hours of my childhood. I really really want either a spiritual successor to the series or a remake.

Funnily enough, I am also a big fan of Yasumi Matsuno, yet never got around to this one, so this video is extremely heartening for me!

@orcbrand

Жыл бұрын

This game has *everything* a Matsuno game should. 100% must play, if you liked FFT, you will adore this.

@DanielSantosAnalysis

Жыл бұрын

@@orcbrand FFT is quite literally one of my most favorite games of all time.

@orcbrand

Жыл бұрын

@@DanielSantosAnalysis FFT is a powerful game, if you play this you'll see so many nods FFT made to tactics ogre. One of my favorites is the similarity between Riovannes and Coritanae, and the duel that Denam can have in its interior is very similar, though far less notorious, to the duel with Wieglaf. I love it all you should experience it!

@Josh-vm9bk

Жыл бұрын

Tack me on too, long time fan of Matusuno, and I remember Tactics Ogre from my childhood, but this will be my first time to play. Very excited for this one!

@KLNDR

Жыл бұрын

Also a huge fan of Yasumi Matsuno, and I think you'll find that this is *the* definitive work of his career thus far. You're gonna love TO Reborn.

Wow awesome, I didn't realize you were playing this. I knew you'd love it. I have my reservations about the look of the sprites but there look to be so many other improvements I'll be getting this day 1. can't wait to play it again!

I love the art direction of the PSP remaster (which I played previously), and it's nice to see them reflect those improvements here, with the illustrative portraits and post-processing effects, but I'm really disappointed that they used filtered sprites in this rerelease. I don't think I've ever seen filtered pixel art sprites done well in any game. If they had an option to use the original sprites, I'd buy this in a heartbeat.

@effect4

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts too, the new portraits look great, the new soundtrack sounds great, but the game as a whole looks like a shoddy AI upscaling made in a rush just to ship the game, very disheartening.

@sagewaterdragon

Жыл бұрын

The weirdest part is that it doesn't seem like they're actually using filtered sprites, but they use a vector outline which gives that impression. If you look at the characters themselves they're still sprites, just redone at 4X the resolution of the original.

@WildMatsu

Жыл бұрын

I really despise the marketing of these filtered upscaled sprites as "HD".

@greglyhoblit

Жыл бұрын

It looks very similar to the 4k ai upscale avaliable in the duck station emulator

@ournturn7512

Жыл бұрын

Fake news

Awesome that Squeenix is recognizing your great work with covering their past games. I too am pumped for this game.

I can confirm the dialogue is almost identical to the PSP version, but far less purple prose than WOTL. People still talk like people.

@ffxiikd1426

Жыл бұрын

Hi coffee 😄

@CoffeePotato

Жыл бұрын

@@ffxiikd1426 Howdy!

I remember playing Tactics Ogre as a kid. On my older sister's friend's playstation, and on my GBA - Tactics Ogre, Knights of Lodis. This review brings me back to those days and helps me remember the fun I had back then. I never mastered those games - Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, etc - but I enjoyed them!

Thanks for sharing your first impressions on this remake. I'm glad that it seems SE is focused on improving the gameplay experience and involving the original development staff so the vision remains constant to what was originally intended! This looks like a title I need to put on my wish list.

Thanks for putting out this video Mike! I'm excited to try this game out. I've never played anything in the tactics ogre series

I played and completed the PSP version twice like a decade ago and i will gladly buy this version and enjoy this masterpiece all over again. I cant wait!

This looks incredible! Thanks for the video.

So looking forward to playing this again. Although the characters voices sounded very different in my head 😂.

Didnt think they would add full voice overs, this is awesome!! 😃

So glad you're planning on covering this! It's truly one of the greatest contributions to RPG gaming. If Reborn is truly as good as it looks, it will be heavily due to the fact that it's been through a stepping stone of remasters and improvements starting with the SNES-->PS1-->PSP-->Modern. So much refinement and careful thought by the OG talent. I expect a polished masterpiece out of this to be frank, and it looks like that's exactly what we'll get.

So glad to hear these positive impressions. I played the PSX version decades ago and I loved it, not only due to the addicting gameplay, but due to Sakimoto’s soundtrack. Having the chance to get a remastered version on Switch is amazing

Can't believe they did it! remastered this gem and did such a fantastic job, I've seen a few reviews and everyone is impressed and very pleased with everything.

@anab0lic

Жыл бұрын

only thing that looks or should I say sounds bad, is the terrible English voice acting... but u can go with Japanese va instead.

@augursabound

Жыл бұрын

@@anab0lic or just turn off the voice acting

I'm very pleased we will be receiving this. Tried playing the original on and off over the years and it's never easy to get into despite enjoying it. This version I hope will be easier for me to sink some of my time into.

Whooaaaa so happy you guys got to try out the game early! And glad to hear you love it so far. Im so excited to finally try out this game

I am so looking forward to this - never played any of the ogre battle games yet. Really hope they do an upgrade for Vagrant Story I haven't played that yet either

I am loving how clean and smooth this looks. God, I can't wait for it!

Thanks for your impressions, great video, I'm really hyped for the game.

Commenting for the algorithm! Seriously, thank you for these kind of videos.

I hope we also get the sequel "Knight of Lotus" that has been exclusively on GBA for 20 years. I bought that one on a whim in high school and it was my introduction to the series and to tatics games in general. Definitely one of my favorite memories as a gamer.

Great review! I quite literally grew up with this game. The PS1 version had 36 different storyline to play. All I can tell anyone new to this, Characters play a very important part. Its hard to figure out which one to bring, but certain "hero" characters in your party has unique interraction with other characters. Sometimes this becomes key in order to persuade them to join your ranks, which can then effect the story line. So pay close attention to each of these characters interaction! Even their deaths has an impact. I also played the remastered PSP version and they added some new characters such as Ravness, (she was not in the original one). I hope this remaster has some new characters which spice up the story! Also there is a 100 lvl Ironman stage which is insanely difficult to finish, i havent manage to finish it either but it has alot of unique items, magic and a unique bloodline skill specific for each classes. But again, its Ironman, once you start you cant return untill you finished. (At least in the PS1 version) so be aware!

Thanks for this. It answered a question I had about whether or not the voice acting could be turned off or not. Glad to hear that the option is there.

This is getting me excited! Strange that so much care was put into this title while the pixel remaster FF games had so many issues. Maybe SE is learning some lessons on the game preservation front?

Matsuno made sure this thing was polished. I don't like pre-orders, so I'm buying this first thing once it's out. God save my bank account.

Thanks for the great preview Mike! I've never played Tactics Ogre, but love Tactics, and so I'm really interested in this due to Matsuno's involvement and the orchestrated soundtrack =D But man, I *loathe* what they've done to the sprites, and that's the only thing that gives me pause. It seems to be the only blemish on an otherwise spectacular remaster, but also one that's constantly in your face. I really don't understand why do Square Enix hate their old pixel art so much.

So excited, FF Tactics is my favorite game and I've also never played Tactics Ogre. This will be great, hopefully they're doing a remaster o FFT for PC as well. Squarenix must have talked with Matsuno about some other Tactics project since they reconnected.

Awesome. I only ever briefly played the psp version and glad to hear it seems to’ve been lovingly crafted

I bet we can mod the smoothing filter out on the PC version so it looks pixelated again. Or, I at least hope.

So excited to play this for the first time, can't wait!

@rafaelsarti5566

Жыл бұрын

If it's your first time....you'll REALLY enjoy it. It's much better than FFT

Cant wait for your deep dive on this game's story!

good stuff. the tactics ogre games have been a hole in my RPG history, looking forward to fixing that with this release.

They did a nice job with the blurring of the sprites to mimic how they looked on an old crt tv. The dialogue seems identical to the psp version but it’s still good

I'm incredibly excited for this to come out! I've had about 4 playthroughs of this and I still can't get enough. Excited to hear your thoughts about the game.

This will also (finally) be my first time playing. I'm glad it sounds like they nailed the port!

Seeing/hearing this game reminds me how much I miss playing FFT War of the Lions for the first time. Guess this would be the closest thing to that if I wanted to relive that vibe.

@romanticwander

Жыл бұрын

it is. i remember playing the psp version recently because I had an itch to play a FFT like game. I was blown away by Tactics Ogre. Battle system is fun, class system is fun, the story is amazing with branching paths depending on your choices. Tons of characters and classes too.

@holographicfrog1503

Жыл бұрын

Just emulate it on your phone/pc.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are so lucky. this is my favorite game of all time in every version of it i hope one day you and Casen give this game your full treatment. though the branching story has me wondering what the logistics of that would be like haha tip for you mike: the bad guy choice in chapter 1 has the better story, the good guy route has the weaker one

@thesurvivorssanctuary6561

Жыл бұрын

The Good Guy route is basically Final Fantasy Tactics, but slightly weaker. Still, each storyline in this game enhances all the others.

@orcbrand

Жыл бұрын

@@thesurvivorssanctuary6561 chaos route lacks so much of the nuance of lawful. but yeah, it still enhances the whole thing because the relationship with the Foriners gets fleshed out a lot more. Neutral route that feels the most half baked, though. what a bummer lol

I have always loved the Ogre Series and still replay them on occasion. I know that there is a good core there but SQEX's tendency to make as many things worst as they make better generally drives me away. I am EXTREMELY skeptical of anything that SQEX puts out due to the managements focus on profit above everything else but this might convince me to give it a chance. I hope that once you have played deeper into the game you will make another video with your thoughts on it. I will put this on the short list until then. Thank you so much for the info and it gives me hope that this has been done right.

@rehflu5551

Жыл бұрын

i mean i get that statemant, but u are missing out on some awesome games D:!!! i woul dname Octopath travler as an example or triangle strategie if i recall it right!! i just can call that nice or more like masterpieces.

@adgato75

Жыл бұрын

They removed the rogue class for a stupid reason. Which sucks.

@UNSTABLE111

Жыл бұрын

Live A Live was amazing.. I felt like they focused alot on that despite whatever any translation issues people have...they went far and beyond for that one

im pretty excited for this :D

love this game back in the day can't wait.

It'll be a first playthrough for me aswell! Certainly looking foward to this one. Finally all those games that never came to PAL regions are getting a chance to shine. And while there's still many to go (looking at you, Xenogears) they've been doing pretty good on bringing games over, that previously never had a chance in PAL regions way back in the 90s and early aughts.

@rafaelsarti5566

Жыл бұрын

Geez, if it will be your first playthrough, you'll really enjoy it. And new game plus is very worth it, because every time gets more challenging.

@michaeloconnor1281

Жыл бұрын

@@rafaelsarti5566 yeah! Thanks mate, yeah I hope I do. I've no reason not to think so. I love Matsuno's other work so here's hoping. Is the story good? Comparable to he's other works?

@zachlaughlin9515

Жыл бұрын

What are other games are you talking about that are finally coming?

@freman007

Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a remade, and actually finished, version of Xenogears, but I'm not sure they can do it.

i've only played Ogre Battle 64, and i always wanted to try the other games! thanks for giving out your impressions :D

@Y-two-K

Жыл бұрын

Same! I remember loving it as a wee child even though a lot of the gameplay went way over my head.

@lablunt6190

Жыл бұрын

Ogre Battle 64 should have been remade. That game was a masterpiece.

Thx for review definitely buying

Oh man that Main theme sample orchestrated sounds really gooood! I'm very excited how "Avilla Henya", "Vendetta" and "Three Kings" would sound. I'm alright with them making the dialogues Shakespearean though I liked it more straightforward like the previous versions. What I didn't like was the voice acting though. That's not how I imagined the characters would sound. Very lackluster. As if they're just reading their lines and they're told to sound like they should be in a play . Can't blame the VAs though, voice acting director might be responsible. But I might try the Japanese dub on my first playthrough if there is. Another one is the filtered pixel graphics. I hope there's an option to enable an unfiltered graphics. Anyway, I'm really excited for this. I love this game so much I played this back in 7th grade on my PS1 for a whole year of 2006 lmao. I'll get this on release.

I appreciate your thoughts on this! Thanks!

Glad to hear this version is turning out so great. Loved loved the psp version, dropped so many hours and playthroughs.

Pre-ordered. I am so stoked for this game.

Thanks for covering this! I remember playing a rented PS1 copy of Tactics Ogre way back and then finding a copy of it out in the wild to purchase. Loved the crap out of this game, and I'm excited to see what this remaster will be like. Your video has helped put some of my nerves at ease, as I was concerned about the quality of both the game itself as well as any potential changes to dialogue or story from a political/agenda-driven standpoint. Still not 100% assured on that last bit, but I don't mind dialogue with a more medieval fantasy flare to it. If that's the most that changes, I will be one very happy gamer in a couple weeks.

The music sounds A LOT like Ogre Battle: 64, especially the Title screen. I'm so excited. I have replayed Ogre Tactics : The knight of lotus on GBA so many times!

Good job bringing this to my attention, I hadn't heard of it coming! One gripe I have though. Where do I get it? You've neglected to mention where we can play it or what you were playing it on. I'm hyped though!

I think I will going to try this! Because I haven't played the Let Us Cling Together version

looking forward to this

Hopefully this game is well received and sells well so we can see more of these ogre games.

@xxChainingHeartsxx

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to be that guy but I don't believe we'll get anything else even if the game does well, simply due to redundancy & the possibility of confusing their modern consumer base. And no I'm not just thinking about Triangle Strategy. I'd be very happy to be proven wrong though.

I pray that game makers start making MANY MORE of these pixel art rpg games.

Has Casen played/is he interested in playing it? Would love to see an analysis podcast from you guys! I've been playing Xenogears and following your playlist for that and it's been awesome.

@michaelcoraybrown

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty confident this will be selected for a podcast in the future. Casen has not played it.

Matsuno showed that he can write amazing scenarios and create emotional interactions between characters with many layers of meaning and make you understand the message. Now he geared up and create one long story but with many important branches and endings making this a MUST REPLAY game to experience all the scenarios. Please Mike and Casen, let's dissect and enjoy Matsuno's game.

That intro music gave me chills.

Tactics Ogre stuck with me ever since I found So excited for the remake!

I remember getting this game from Japan as a kid. I loved this game so much, as well as Final Fantasy Tactics. In high school I made a game with friends based on a little comic I drew as a kid JRPG style medieval fantasy, mixed with my other favorite strat game.. Shining Force.. Never got to finish it, but remaking both the comic and game today.

ur Impressions, reviews and opinions are very wellcome!

I was playing the PSP version around the time this remaster was announce and decided to wait to play it on Switch, I don't have a Switch yet, but I was enjoying this game so much that I'll be buying the console just so I can play it on my tv screen. Things will get more interesting for you after the plot twist at the end of the first chapter ♥️

i'm curious if the "smooth" graphical filter can be turned off to restore the sharper pixels? it looks rather blurry to me. everything else about this remaster appears to be on point.

a rare pre-order for me. Because i know it will be good. I never played tactics ogre, but I fell in love with FFT back in the PS1 era. I remember buying FFT not having the slightest clue what it was. I just saw that it was a final fantasy game and figured it had to be good because of that. And i was more than right! This game, although it is one i have never played, is very clearly FFT's twin and the game that inspired it. I can't wait until the 11th. Hey Square Enix, please port War of the Lions to the Switch already!!! No one wants to play that game on a mobile samsung or apple device!!! And the PSP screen stinks! PORT IT TO SWITCH ALREADY!!!

One of the best PSP games you can find.

love to see this

I really hope this does extremely well so that they look at giving us more console ports of tactics ogre games If there are any, and also Final Fantasy War of the Lions as well. Also, still want those Final Fantasy Pixel remasters on console as well.

I hope you fall in love with it as much as I did! And that it's the next game covered in the podcast too!

I'm interested in that per-unit leveling. The per-class levelling allowed you to focus all EXP to a single class and be a squad of Archers ~20 levels higher than story battles by mid Chapter 2. XD

Holy moly this looks good, and I had no idea it was coming! Thanks for the heads up!

Looking forward to getting to play this one. I hope the success of this game will lead to a new remaster/port of FFT War of the Lions.

I never got around finishing the PSP version, will definitely get this for PC!

Im excited to see what moddees will do with this port.

Think I'd like to try this one out once it goes on sale.

@FreeFlow__

Жыл бұрын

Worth full prize. It’s the best tactical jrpg.

I hope we get an Ogre Battle 64 remake (or sequel) at some point. The original series is so much more unique than the Tactics series. (I’m still happy we’re getting this.)

Ngl I'm still playing this game to this day

Please be good, please be good, please be good Edit: The chariot tarot already existed in the PSP version tho. But the game sounds amazing.

I loved the PSP version so this is def an early purchase for me. Also love Sakimoto's score --- Recommendation, since it's very easy to play the ENTIRE game without hearing the best track of music: Look up the track "Impregnable Fortress" from the PSP OST (or this orchestrated version); it's genuinely amazing in its unrelenting intensity.

I played the psp version and loved it, but it’s been so long I don’t even remember how the story plays out…

What they've done to the sprites is unforgivable.

This looks good. Personally, I prefer a pixel font but the one they used isn't that bad. I am not a huge fan of the black outlines around the characters either. I prefer the crunchy pixels of PS One version but I will still buy this to support the remake of other retro classics.

Enough said. I NEED IT AND I WILL GET IT.

Oh man I had no idea this was out. Gotta get on it soon.

@michaelcoraybrown

Жыл бұрын

It's not out just yet. It launches on November 11th.

@Agostoic

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcoraybrown is it switch only?

@michaelcoraybrown

Жыл бұрын

@@Agostoic No. Ps5, PS4, PC, Switch

I would kill for Vagrant Story port/enhance like this. It looks like the definitive version of the GENRE.

Chariot Tarot was already in the PSP version

mike always holding it down for us yasumi matsuno fans. give him more free games square

This game was one of my most played back on the PSP, only beaten out in playtime by Monster Hunter FU. I absolutely love this gam and hope this means we are getting more in the Ogre series. Ogre Battle 64 is my favorite game on the N64 and I would love another Battle game.

What is your opinion over the updated graphics? Mainly the ingame models

I like the character portraits but I'm not fond of the filter they've put over the sprites. Is this optional?

@michaelcoraybrown

Жыл бұрын

It is not optional.

My steelbook copy is coming from UK but I don't think I can wait. Will just start playing digital from eshop on day1

Love this game. Lots of fond memories of the original. Can’t wait to try out the remaster. The newer remasters from SE I think have been really good. Loving Live A Live currently. Does the original justice.

Ivam so hyped for this game

I'm not one of those die hard old school Super Famicon Tactics Ogre fans who fully analyze all the mechanics and even write plot analysis essays (yes, we have those in Chinese community), but I'm still a big fan of them bringing back individual character level up vs class wide level up. Hope this style of more complex SRPG can make a true comeback. The last one I remembered that wasn't an indie project was still Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2.

Please God make a Tactics sequel. A real one. No "laws", none of that horseshit.

Thank god this huge fan is getting around to a game he had 30 years to check out thanks to a SE pre release copy.

Question: You say it has HD character sprites. Does it have a mode to use low definition sprites or something like that? Not that it's a deal breaker or anything, I'm just wondering.

Oh fuck yeah he's finally playing it! For a quick sum up of all the changes it is pretty much all we wanted with putting together the two versions (original release and PSP release), ironing out problems that were in the PSP version and putting together stuff from the other games in the series and taking ideas from the One Vison mod. For an indepth analysis: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpd70Jizerrbqqg.html

I am really looking forward to this. FFTactics is probably one of my favorite gaming experiences of all time and I've longed yearned to check out the game that was the most direct inspiration of it! I will almost certainly turn off the voice acting. These older games never feel quite right to me with voice acting. It's like an anachronism.

Picked this up day 1 and am loving it. A little nervous because of SE's iffy ports and the recent influx of new and ported SRPGS (especially on the Switch from Banner Saga to Regalia to Langrisser to Triangle Strategy). When I played this on ps1 I thought it was the king of the SRPG, glad to know it still is and is widely available.