Final Fantasy Tactics

(FFT Part 1) The Zodiac Brave Story. I must review this game. This qualifies for the channel here because, as we all know, Final Fantasy 9 is the best one, so perhaps not completely underrated but a hidden gem for sure. Many gamers nowadays will look at the angular graphics and not even give this title a second glance. This game is one-of-a-kind, I assure you. There's a lot to talk about right up front at the beginning here, so I hope y'all like to read. {Editors' Note: Hey Rumble, why does this private video have so many views on it?}

(FFT Part 2) I can't really talk about the story here until Chapter 2 for reasons. In the meantime, I'll talk about stuff now that I'll be too wound up in the story to talk about later on. So, when I was in 5th grade going to Catholic school, we had to choose an elective for our curriculum, either French or Music. I didn't want to do either one, but I had a choice to make. I bought this game with some allowance money that I had saved up and this soundtrack blew me away. The upbeat, classical stylings of Nobuo-san, the composer, on every single track in this title was simply incredible. This game's soundtrack perhaps single-handedly got me into music and I've been practicing and writing music ever since. I didn't really get into music until 9th grade, but I digress. This soundtrack is fucking fantastic.

(FFT Part 3) The character in this game named Gekokujo (his nickname is Ramza for story reasons) has 3 siblings, 2 half-brothers Dycedarg and Zalbaag (spelling might be a little off) and a half-sister (Alma). Ramza was born of Barbaneth Beoulve, a noble father and a commoner mother. His 3 other siblings are children of their shared noble father and a noble mother (that has already passed away by the sound of it). Now that their father has passed away, the world is theirs to make better, as nobles, as their father wished. Also, Bombshell from the Fallout 4 sneak peak tests will be joining us for this adventure.

(FFT Part 4) Argath is a noble from a disgraced noble family that seems nice enough. He is a bit annoying though with all his talk of honor and high-status, yet when we met him, we had to save him from getting his ass kicked by petty thugs, (I might call him Algus on accident, that's an old translation). Also, Ukyo Tatsuya, the Black Jaguar, sometimes called the Mad Dragon of Kamurocho joins us from the mean streets of downtown Tokyo... somehow. He's proud, full of righteous philosophy, and doesn't use shields because he is Japanese.

(FFT Part 5) There's trouble in Dorter Trade City, Dorter Slums. Who better to travel with than Lara Croft. Bit of a spoiler: she's in character, believe it or not there are guns in this game. {Editors' Note: No idea what happened to the audio here, I will not be re-recording. And just after gushing on and on about the soundtrack too, sorry about that Nobuo-san.}

(FFT Part 6) Direct from the Mojave Desert to the deserts of Ivalice, Courier Ira joins us from New Vegas. I'm not entirely sure how all these characters are getting here, but they are here. God wills it. {Editors' Note: I figured out the audio issue, I wanted to make a small downward adjustment in gain, because I found a gain slider, and somehow the slider got turned all the way off during the recording... I had to splice 2 videos together to make it less weird but I fixed it.}

(FFT Part 7a) Dycedarg is just giving off the appearance of being pissed off because we didn't listen to him. We did the right thing, and rescued a war hero, and potentially made and ally, and impressed Duke Larg (who is very close to the king). This was a great outcome. Also, Dr. Freeman joins us, straight outta G-Man's stasis for a small assignment before his next actual assignment.

(FFT Part 7b) Choppin' and shoppin'. So, Marquis de Elmdore (the guy we are rescuing with the white hair), he is a lord (homeowner) of another castle and land called Limberry over to the east. Similar to how Zalbaag and Dycedarg are lords of Eargros/Igros. Elmdore is a 50 Year War, war hero and a nice guy to have to owe us a favor.

(FFT Part 8) Eargros Castle was sacked, Delita's sister was kidnapped, brother Dycedarg was injured during the attack, Argath talked shit and got hit, and now our squad is the main raiding party for the counter-assault on the Corpse Brigade's base of operations, Ziekden. Things are accelerating. {Editors' Note: I haven't a clue why no one in this game has a nose. Perhaps it's genetic.}

(FFT Part 9) This is a period piece, obviously. The story is supposed to take place in an alternate reality of the Spanish Inquisition that just so happens to be full of magick users, so late 1400's - early 1500's Europe. High-fantasy Middle Ages, if you will. Delita is supposed to be Spanish (from Spain) I believe. I dunno what the fuck kinda last name Beoulve is but I assume they are supposed to be French Catholics. Most of the bad guys have a British accent, although I think they are supposed to be like pirates and not English. So, there is an amalgamation of, to my knowledge, accurate European history here from a bunch of Japanese writers and developers and programmers that are near completely removed from European culture and history. I mean, every named character in this game is pitch fucking perfect. I love it.