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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles review
The politically-charged original Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the finest of its genre. This remaster offers a brilliant new reading of a classic text.
But most of my praise is reserved for Joe Pitts as Ramza: somehow, his voicework characterises our young reactionary better than I ever did in my head, and I can't really imagine how I'd play this game now without his artisanal blend of naive optimism and cynical grit breathing life into his 32-bit portrait. The 'Insider's Edition' of the title had Bourdain go back over the book - in pen - and cross out entire sections that no longer represent his views, annotate passages with updated anecdotes, and provide commentary on what was going on in his head at the time. That we've been fortunate enough to see director Kazutoyo Maehiro and designer Yasumi Matsuno come back to this game and annotate the original experience with the benefit of 28 bonus years in the industry is a treat, a rarity, and gives so much more context and validity to a re-release that could have been a cash-in.
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