I beat Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles on Steam/PC. Also this makes it the 50th game in the Final Fantasy series I have played and finished.
Highly recommend it, as a person who owns WoTL on iOS and finished the original on PS1 at least 3 different times (the last time being in 2017) - I cant see myself ever going back to previous versions of the game.
Just to mention, this is the gaming PC build I used to play this game - which was at 4K 60
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
RAM: 32 GB DDR5 SDRAM
STORAGE: 2 TB SSD
OS: Windows 11 Home
Game: Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles
Genre: Strategy RPG
Developer: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
System: Steam (PC)
Year of Release: 2025
Date of Completion: November 29th 2025
Length of Playthrough: 61 Hours
Score: 100/100
+Retains the gameplay mechanics and aspects of the original PS1 Final Fantasy Tactics but also features QoL addons such as quick speed up during battle and on the world map/cutscenes
+User interface completely renovated to make it look more modern and cleaner along with new colored markers which were not in the original.
+Ability to play Ivalice Chronicles which includes voice over cutscenes and new dialogue and scenes not seen in the original game along with the option to play the original PS1 version with all of the features retained but with the War of the Lions script.
+Chronicles section in menu revamps features including a more detailed description of characters and events
+Ability to play three difficulty modes Squire (Easy), Knight (Normal) and Tactician (Hard) which can be changed at any time during the game
+A lot of new dialogue added to existing cutscenes and in middle of battle expanding the lore and story of characters and events.
-Does not contain the jobs and other features which are introduced in War of the Lions (PSP, iOS, android)
-War of the Lions cutscenes are not featured within the game's main story itself but can be seen in the chronicles menu.
Despite the two cons, the pros make up for it.
Score wise comparison...
Final Fantasy I Dawn of Souls (GBA): 82
Final Fantasy I Anniversary (PSP): 85
Final Fantasy I (iOS): 81
Final Fantasy I Pixel Remaster (NS): 87
Final Fantasy II Dawn of Souls (GBA): 83
Final Fantasy II Anniversary (PSP): 85
Final Fantasy II Pixel Remaster (NS): 87
Final Fantasy III (NES): 80
Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster (NS): 90
Final Fantasy III (DS): 86
Final Fantasy IV (SNES): 90
Final Fantasy IV (PS1): 89
Final Fantasy IV (GBA): 86
Final Fantasy IV (DS): 92
Final Fantasy IV (PSP): 94
Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster (NS): 95
Final Fantasy IV After Years/Prologue (PSP): 88
Final Fantasy V (SNES): 84
Final Fantasy V (PS1): 83
Final Fantasy V Advance (GBA): 88
Final Fantasy V (PC): 91
Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster (NS): 93
Final Fantasy VI (SNES): 95
Final Fantasy VI (PS1): 94
Final Fantasy VI Advance (GBA): 95
Final Fantasy VI (PC): 97
Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (NS): 96
Final Fantasy VII (PS1): 93
Final Fantasy VII (PC): 93
Final Fantasy VII (NS): 94
Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core (PSP): 93
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (PC): 100
Final Fantasy VIII (PS1): 88
Final Fantasy VIII (PC): 88
Final Fantasy IX (PS1): 95
Final Fantasy IX (PC): 97
Final Fantasy X (PS2): N/A
Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2): N/A
Final Fantasy XII (PS2): N/A
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3): 88
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3): 86
Final Fantasy XV (PS4): 89
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV (PS4): 70
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (PS4): 87
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (DS): 82
Final Fantasy Dissidia (PSP): 100
Final Fantasy Dissidia 012 Duodecim (PSP): 96
Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1): 94
Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles (PC): 100
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA): N/A
