This topic wasn't created out of some nostalgia or anything, but I just learned that today, there is a PSP remake in the works and is getting a Western release:
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, the PSP remake of the classic 1995 Super NES strategy game, will be released in Europe.
It's "coming soon", publisher Square Enix promised.
The original game was only published in Japan, so, technically, this release marks Tactics Ogre's European debut.
While the gameplay will remain largely unchanged, the on-screen troop count is increased to 30 from 20, and there are new classes and new features for the skill system.
Some of the original team have got together to work on the game, including director Hiroshi Minagawa, designer Yasumi Matsuno, character designers Akihiro Yoshida and Tsubasa Masao, and Hitoshi Sakimoto and Iwata Masaji on music.
Matsuno is working on additions to the game's story and character elements, including new side stories.
"Long ago, Power was everything. It was a time called Xytegenia, where metal and evil, enshrouded in darkness, was in control," says the ever-dramatic European PlayStation Blog..
And a bulletpoint list of features to the game:
- Even though it may look like the game's visuals haven't changed much, they have been improved over the original. They're trying to keep the Super Famicom-like look of the game.
- They'd actually be proud if people would say that it's the same as the original.
- You can change the angle to view the action from above.
- The height-based play and other basic elements of the original remain in tact.
- They're adding a number of new elements for the game parts and battle parts. The battles will be greatly changed.
- The game will have a variety of new skill-based gameplay features.
- There will be new classes.
- The battle maps character count has increased from the 10 vs 10 of the original to 12 on your side vs 18 on the enemy side, for a total of 30 characters on screen.
- This is not a "Tactics Ogre Perfect Version," but a "rebuilding" of Tactics Ogre. It doesn't fit within the framework of a "remake."
- You won't be able to use your strategies from the original for the sequel.
It's good because Tactics Ogre was something I'd always heard of, and always wanted to try, much like Final Fantasy Tactics. I think this came before that if I remember, so I'm curious to know if it's similar at all, or if maybe FF Tactics is the better game of the two. Is this the game that's set in Ivalice or was that Vagrant Story?
Anyway I'm curious to know what you guys think of the game.
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