Final Fantasy Tactics Was Made To Rally Against Division and Inequality, Creator Says — 'The Will to Resist Is In Your Hands'

Final Fantasy Tactics creator and manager Yasumi Matsuno has opened up astir however the crippled came to be, revealing helium wrote the communicative to bring joyousness to those successful an epoch "robbed of hope."

Now, with the long-rumored Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles yet getting a merchandise day aboriginal this year, Matsuno posted a heartfelt connection to X/Twitter, saying helium "offers this communicative erstwhile again," arsenic though addressing the profound unrest and part plaguing america successful 2025, too.

"Nearly 30 years ago, the illness of Japan's bubble system engulfed the nation's fiscal institutions successful mountains of atrocious debt, triggering a question of firm bankruptcies, a abrupt and utmost emergence successful unemployment rates, and stagnation of Japanese nine arsenic a whole. It was an epoch erstwhile galore were robbed of hope, erstwhile dreams were measured by their terms tag.

"Against this humanities backdrop, I crafted a story," helium added. "It was the communicative of Ramza, a young antheral who fought tirelessly against the entrenched societal people system. It was the communicative of Delita, who sought to instrumentality vantage of this disorder and despair to beforehand his ain societal position. It was a communicative of a peculiar destiny, successful which relationship and betrayal intertwine.

"And now, successful 2025 — a clip erstwhile inequality and part are inactive profoundly rooted successful our nine — I connection this communicative erstwhile again. The volition to defy is successful your hands."

The Final Fantasy Tactics remaster includes 2 versions of the game: the classical archetypal (which includes the War of the Lions translation); and a caller fresh mentation with full-blown dependable acting, revamped interface, "extensive additions and adjustments to the story," and smoother visuals. It's coming to PS5 and PS5 connected September 30, 2025.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles was conscionable 1 of dozens of games announced past night. Sony kicked disconnected the summertime uncover play with a bang, presenting a smorgasbord of caller games to whet our appetites going into Summer Games Fest Week. Here's everything announced astatine PlayStation State of Play 2025 past night, including 007 First Light, Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls, Romeo is simply a Dead Man, and Silent Hill f's merchandise date.

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