With luck, and love, I can see this being brought to Europe, eventually. But this really is one of the games to own, guys - there's nothing else quite like it in the whole world.

Part of the reason I want this to do well is because it means that we may see the release of the sequel, one of my favorite N64 games of all time. It was a masterpiece.

Another part is that, in a secret part of my heart, I hope that they will take the translation used for the PS1 version of Tactics Ogre and apply it to the SNES ROM, so that I will finally be able to play the game in English.

I'll make sure to buy it, I've heard good things before, and was gonna buy it anyway :3

Still gotta play all my other games though. Shoot.

I'd buy it, but...I already have the Super Famicom cart...

Yes well

Yes

It sold a lot better in Japan, didn't it?

Look at it this way: even with highly limited funds, you still need entertainment, right?

Well, for only $8 (less than the price of a matinee!) you could purchase a game that gives you roughly 50 hours of entertainment the first time through. And trust me, you're going to want to replay it, so really, you're looking at easily over 100 hours of fantastic entertainment for a mere $8. That's less than eight cents per hour of sheer goodness.

You can not find a better deal than that.

Think of it as an investment that will pay massive dividends. You'll save a ton of cash on other, more frivilous, less awesome forms of entertainment, all while enjoying one of the best SRPGs ever invented (personally, I can only think of two that beat this one, and one of 'em is this game's N64 sequel).

What's the other one, noname?

The original Final Fantasy Tactics. Love that game to death.

Person of Lordly Calibre still trumps it, though.

Hm, yes, quite right.

Truth be told I have never played Final Fantasy Tactics, just the Tactics Ogre game on the Gameboy Advance. I am sure they are roughly equivalent in terms of awesomeness, and Ivalice is a very nice setting.

My most secret hope is that Square is putting out the Ogre games (since Tactics Ogre was released on the VC in Japan in February!) in anticipation of a certain announcement.

I hate to say it, but I think these releases mean the exact opposite. It seems that if Squeenix intends to continue a series, they make a retail re-release of the older versions (Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest...Chrono Trigger?). By contrast, the games they're dumping on Virtual Console appear to be those they don't have any future plans for (When Act Raiser released, for example, its creators specifically said not to count on future releases).

Man I hope I'm wrong about that, though.

P.S. I later found out that one thing connects my three favorite SRPGs (March of, FF Tactics, and Lordly). That's Matsuno. Probably not a coincidence.

I've only played Final Fantasy Tactics, the only SRPG I've played, but I'd like to get this..