
The recent release of Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles gives players an updated way to try one of the best tactical RPGs of all time. But for as great and as influential as Final Fantasy Tactics is, it also owes a huge debt to another great RPG from a Square competitor, which was remade itself, without which it may not even exist.
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together was released by developer Quest in 1995 on the Super Famicom. It would take three years for the game to get an international release, coming to PlayStation in 1998. By that time, Final Fantasy Tactics had already been released, cementing the impact of Tactics Ogre before Western audiences even had a chance to try it.