If the ESRB is to be believed, then Final Fantasy VII might have been the first Square Enix game to hit the Playstation Network, but it certainly won’t be the last. Recently added to the listings? Final Fantasy Tactics. Originally released on the original Playstation in 1998, Tactics was Square’s first venture into the land of Ivalice, revisited numerous times in Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy XII, and the less-than-stellar Tactics Advance games. It was also one of Square’s first strategy games not to be called Front Mission, featuring familiar Final Fantasy concepts, job classes, and monsters in a shell based heavily on Tactics Ogre, an SNES strategy game by Quest. It also featured a translation so hilariously labyrinthine that it warranted a remake; two years ago, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions was released on the PSP, featuring a fully redone script in the same style as Final Fantasy XII, bonus content, new characters, and new CGI cutscenes to better tell the story. This is why it’s particularly strange that Tactics could be appearing as a PS1 Classic, considering the fact that the game is already available on PSP.
Hopefully, this means that Final Fantasy VII was not a one-off event, and several other Squaresoft games from the PS1 era will begin to rear their heads on PSN; I’m personally gunning for PS1 Classics versions of SaGa Frontier or Xenogears, as both of my copies are either mysteriously gone or completely unplayable due to disc damage. Also recently rated by the ESRB for the PSN are Jumping Flash 2, the sequel to Sony’s seminal “rabbit robot jumping shooter simulator” and Ten Pin Alley, which is, totally unsurprisingly, a bowling game. With the rate at which PS1 Classics have been hitting the PS Store this past few weeks, especially compared to the past few months, nobody should really be able to complain too much.
Source: http://www.onelastcontinue.com/8630/esrb-watch-final-fantasy-tactics-coming-to-psn/
Source #2: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp
