I don't know. If you ask me there isn't an easier SRPG for beginners then Tactics Ogre or Super Robot Wars.
Super Robot Wars because when you die, you start over again... but with all your expierence and gold intact... so there is absolutely no unnessisary grinding needed. You get stuck on a stage, your characters keep improving and you get more gold to spend on upgrades.
Then when you are feeling ready for more of a challenge you can try to get the "hard' modes by reaching all the optional mission objectives.
Tactics Ogre because it has Training mode. Which greatly cuts down on any sort of grinding what's even better is that you can set training to COM... so it once again cuts out the grinding that tends to be what pisses off early SRPG people.
Also, Tactics Ogre has less equipment and less spells, making it fairly easier to manage, the only hard part is that it's harder to keep everyone alive... even then it's easier to keep them alive then a FE game.
Also, comparing Tactics Ogre vs Final Fantasy Tactics in story is a no contest in my opinion.
Final Fantasy Tactics is just full of 2-D hald hearted copies of the TO cast in my opinion. I'm not sure why you think the story is so great.
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Then you have the not so subtle, ha ha christianity is evil! Subplot. Which is again a ripoff from the Ogre series but the Tactics series is a LOT less subtle about it.
While Tactics Ogre is the story about racial divisions where on an island three ethnic peoples are constantly at war... one of which the Walstanians are on the brink of comeplete cultural domination and eventual extinction until a group of young people free their leader to find out he's as rotten as the other too when you free a camp of your people who refuse to help you... at which point you are ordered to comit genocide on your own people to rally the troops... and the crazy thing is... you can actually choose to comit the mass genocide. Not only can you choose to do it... it's the actual first option. Even if you choose not to you can decdie to "condone" the actions of the duke to work with him. Lans, a cherished character from Ogre Battle and a great honorable guy in this game doesn't die... instead he is tortured to the point of where he needs to be cared for by a nurse for the rest of his life. Then after that your sister may comit suicide, you may get assassanated as king...
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How you felt emotional in FFT and not in Tactics Ogre I don't know. We are talking about the SNES/PS1 one right? Not the GBA one with the weaker battle system?
