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This Week in Games - Sony State of Play: The War of the Dead Man

As player...pardon me while I squeal in an entirely inappropriate manner about FFT. I loved the OG way back on PlayStation, thought the prose in WOTL was a significant an upgrade, and now they aren't just bringing that back, but doing narrative/mechanical enhancements (because as much as I love it, the balance on FFT has always been...nonexistent.) And, and this was a great decision (and probably something they should have done for Tactics Ogre,)

Also, how a 4v4 set-up works in practice remains to be seen.

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Also, how a 4v4 set-up works in practice remains to be seen.

From what was stated in the behind-the-scenes video that played after the reveal trailer, Tokon looks to be taking inspiration from The King of Fighters 2001 & allow a more free-form selection between who the player wants to actually control directly & who will simply be summonable assists.

So you could have one side with a single character & three assists vs. a full-on 4-character team, and I guess teams with fewer "active" characters will get health boosts to even things out (which, I believe, KOF 2001 didn't do, as more Strikers just gave you access to more super meter levels).

It looks great, but I appreciate a bit of vocal fan service in the game: listen closely, and you'll hear good ol' Richard Epcar among the cast. Epcar had done several voices on the original Saban dub for Digimon, including the Elvis-inspired Etemon and the insidious Myotismon.

And leave it to him to go "Yes, this is political as HELL and is clearly relevant again to today's turbulent times" which is sure to throw "Keep politics out of games!" whiners for a loop

AiddonValentine wrote:

And leave it to him to go "Yes, this is political as HELL and is clearly relevant again to today's turbulent times" which is sure to throw "Keep politics out of games!" whiners for a loop

When people say keep politics out of games they generally mean actual real world politics. Not fictional political intrigue about medieval kingdoms, betrayals, and demonic stones that possess people. I've never seen anyone whine about that.

I'm not sure what real-world message you're trying to put in Matsuno's mouth here but it's probably not whatever you think it is. He quickly clarified that his comments were meant for Japanese people only, not overseas and he's now regretting saying what he did due to how it's being misinterpreted around the internet. I find that odd given he specified the main inspiration for Tactics was the poor Japanese economy in the 90s and the way Japanese businesses and companies worked, but I'm not surprised some people might try to co-op his message to be about their own specific ideology. Basically, if you think he's referring to some specific incident in your own country beyond Japan's economic situation then he's not.

Also just to note: Matsuno would frown upon the way you're talking right now if you've followed him for any length of time on X. He most certainly wouldn't not approve of you trying to use a game he worked on to attack on your internet enemies.

AiddonValentine wrote:

And leave it to him to go "Yes, this is political as HELL and is clearly relevant again to today's turbulent times" which is sure to throw "Keep politics out of games!" whiners for a loop

When people say keep politics out of games they generally mean actual real world politics. Not fictional political intrigue about medieval kingdoms, betrayals, and demonic stones that possess people. I've never seen anyone whine about that.

That's doesn't matter if the politics is about Japan thats still politics and he shouldn't put politics on games including japanese politics also other countries have massive debt of course that gonna remind them of their own country situation right now especially United States that will remind other people on other countries about their owned country massive dept problem.

It's escapism! Can't you see? It's not healthy!

Good news, Yasumi Matsuno was very clear in pointing out that his games are based off of real-world politics! Tactics Ogre's complicated stories of medieval kingdoms and betrayals among myriad ethnic groups was inspired by the then-current Yugoslavian War and the Bosnian Genocide. Hell, he just went on record confirming that Japan's social context was inspirational for FFT's creation in the '90s and drawing parallels with it today.

Like, the Crimson Shroud being spoiler[effectively Great Value™ Mary Magdalene turned into a Lich after she was ritualistically executed because her existence was politically inconvenient to the then-current regime's religious dogma] isn't less valid because spoiler[Liches don't exist in reality].