r/Tactics_Ogre

Hey guys,

I just finished Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. It was a 10/10 experience for me.

I’d like to pick up Tactics Ogre as well.

I like the way the characters look (meaning, they don’t look juvenile or overly anime like some do in other games, if that makes sense). I heard the story was similar to FFT.

I was wondering if someone could tell me a little bit more about the game? Is the writing good? Is the difficulty similar to FFT?

I have decided not to play Triangle Strategy, mostly because I couldn’t get into the writing of Octopath and I hear it’s by the same people. I also looked into Unicorn Overlord, but it’s not really my style.

Hey everyone , I've posted here before asking questions about Tactics Ogre Reborn for the switch. As of today May 11th , I finished my first playthrough! Warning, this is a major spoiler but I am overall not pleased with what happened.

(Warning: long ramble/rant)

It appears I just got shot by a gun . The screen whites out so it's possible some valiant guard saved me or something. But there were so many loose plot threads. Whatever happened to Nesbeth and his family of necromancers? Didn't Galgastan want to do something with the undead or something like that? Whatever happened to those dragons; I did try going to the Palace of the dead but after the 30th floor I just got so bored. Would I have gotten a special ending if I completed the Palace of the dead? The final boss was very difficult especially because in the Hanging Garden phase my clerics all died or were pushed off cliffs . So when the final boss had a special ability that prohibited Resurrection magic I had no counter. I had run out of marks to transform into a cleric . I also thought those marks were overly abundant anyway and ruined character individuality; I wanted to treat those as special items that can only be obtained by that eccentric witch that sometimes appears in shops but doesn't seem to offer anything of real value . A lot of the plot didn't make much sense to me. Why was Catulia so friendly at first to me and then so sad, >!deciding to kill herself just because reasons? !<Why was my best friend so irredeemably evil ? We know almost nothing about King Darangola (and yes I did read all the Codex entries and Warren reports and saw the intro scene); I still thought the twist that he was a villain didn't make a whole lot of sense and wasn't very impactful to me . Honestly I couldn't care less about him. What about the secret mission from those other lands that that other King sent Lancelot and Friends for?

Speaking of Lancelot , I found him broken and wounded just staring at the sea . I really thought he would have recovered at the end and help me out in the final battle but nope . Again just a loose plot thread I suppose. This version of the game has an option to try other plot threads. That's going to take me out of the game immersion wise. I made my choices . I chose the side of siding against all power hungry leaders at the risk of becoming a power hungry despot myself.

I guess my final part of the rant is so many mechanics are unclear: when recruiting doesn't work, unclear skill descriptions, limited skill slots, lack of clarity pertaining to classes and weapon affinity, obscure stat descriptions, etc.

The game needed more polish. I suspect I should have buckled down and found that dragon magic.

I should be mindful of spoilers in case I replay another path, but I will say that, with the exception of the final chapters, this is a great game for an "iron man" challenge (no resets and if the main character dies you have to start over). The recruitment system is forgiving.

At the start of the game (it's my first playthrough) I hired a bunch of characters and named them after my friends and was wondering if I would be missing out or having an hard time later on. Named characters seem to have unique skills from what I've seen ? I thought maybe the later parts of the game will be balanced around unique characters and then I'll be struggling a lot probably.

I'm playing Reborn by the way.

edit : thanks for all the answers ! I'll look into >!transforming my generic units into angels/undead and others, that looks fun as hell!<

LUCT is obviously a very mechanically complex game and I haven't been able to find a good newbie guide. I've read through the Classes (gonna try to get a Lich ASAP for sure) but that's about it. Anything I should know? Try to avoid spoilers, I'm looking for stuff like "oh, don't bother equipping X, Y are way better" or "the X class seems good but it's garbage."

In particular I watched a random video of a Let's Play of LUCT and the guy was in Chapter 2 but he noted that the shops all still sold the most basic equipment, they didn't appear to be getting better stuff to buy. I'm wondering if he did something wrong and there's something like "make sure to do X so that shops will get new items"

Thanks!

When finish using an attack and then try to use the Chariot Tarot, it says "You cannot use the Chariot Tarot while a unit is using an action". Do I have to end my turn before I can rewind?

So I'm currently going through all the various routes, getting all the unique recruits I can.

One thing that has bothered me a bit so far, is that oftentimes uniques become recruitable immediately following a fight in which they participate as a guest. This seems to make it so that they gain their share of fight XP right before joining. With fights rewarding stupid amounts of XP worth several levels at this point, this makes recruits join at much higher level than usual, in turn making it harder to control their stats growth (especially if they have access to exclusive classes).

For example, recruiting Ravness. The fight is synced to level 21, with Ravness herself meant to join at that level or so afterward. But with the XP gained, she shoots up to level 32 before I have a chance to switch her to WK for better growth.

I know it's not game-breaking, but it's annoying. In some earlier fights I could KO the guests myself since they teleport out and don't gain XP at the end that way, but with Ravness she has to survive the fight so she always ends up getting XP.

Is there something I can do to mitigate this? I was wondering why fights give so much XP in the first place, is it because my units are really level 45 and the game ignores level sync when it comes to XP? I could go and recruit legit level 21 units, but Denam will be 45 no matter what.

Edit: For the sake of anyone looking for a similar answer, bring a bunch of level 1 units to soak up their share of the XP. Brought six myself, one died, and that was enough to get Ravness at 21.

Long time fan with my entry point being LUCT, an have been wholly disappointed with Reborns remastering due to syncing unit level amongst some other aspects, so I’ve modded that out - but one thing I can’t help to notice, has Random battles been canned?

Like I don’t understand how SE just cleared changes like this to what was once a stellar experience imo, despite my own personal preferences.

Howdy gang

Due to an… unfortunate guide, I’m in the Palace of the Dead earlier than I’d ideally be. The guide said do it before Heim, but after digging around apparently I should’ve done Heim first.

I’m currently Union Level 36, floor 81, and battles are becoming an absolute war of attrition. To cap it off I found out key missing information about summon magic *today*.

Things I’ve tried but didn’t work: Buying summon magic from the shop (not available until UL40), recruiting enemies with summon magic (it disappears), recruiting high level monsters (many cannot be recruited).

Things that I’ve tried that sometimes work: using shields and guaranteed crits to push stuff in holes (doesn’t work on fliers or when there are no holes), recruiting high level monsters to help even the odds (sometimes it just doesn’t work out)

Things that I’ve tried that are working: recruiting dragons when possible and abusing dragon scales, forming rampant aura walls with dragons/folcurt, spamming poison with Cressida/deneb, terror debuffing with Denem

At this point I’m just trying to scrape through because I don’t want to redo it all; any late dungeon advice for me? It’s too late to go back for some things (well I have a save from floor 75 but that’s it).

I want to play it, but the Union Level mechanic is making it absolutely unplayable. I'm level 11, all my equipment is as good as it can get, but i'm bottlenecked on this mission and doing pathetic damage.

I want this to be as easy as possible. Tactics games always, ALWAYS end up with some bullshit so I just want to know what to do to cruise through this mess as easy as possible. Do I have to stop playing Reborn and go with the PSP version?

Can someone help me out thanks. I’m in my first PoTD run and in floor 21. Loot guides said I can farm winged rings here for 40% drop chance from gryphons. But an eternity later I can’t seem to get them after even when charioting. They keep giving me falcon mail. Btw, I’m playing on PSP lutc. Is there something wrong with this version or the guides strictly for reborn? thanks!