{"id":21467,"date":"2026-01-08T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-review-remastered-1997-classic-is-even-more-politically-resonant-now\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:37:14","slug":"final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-review-remastered-1997-classic-is-even-more-politically-resonant-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-review-remastered-1997-classic-is-even-more-politically-resonant-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles review \u2013 remastered 1997 classic is even more politically resonant now"},"content":{"rendered":"

PlayStation 4\/5, Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2, Xbox, PC; Square-Enix
<\/strong>This landmark role-playing game remains a revolutionary tour de force<\/p>\n

At first glance, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, first released in 1997 and now available in newly remastered guise, does little to separate itself from other boilerplate fantasy fiction. There is a hero, Ramza \u2013 an idealistic nobleman with luscious blond hair who cavorts about the medieval-inspired realm of Ivalice in search of high adventure. But quickly, and with narrative elegance, the picture complicates: peasant revolutionaries duke it out with gilded monarchists; machiavellian plots plunge the kingdom into chaos. Ramza must navigate this knotty political matrix, all while experiencing his own ideological awakening.<\/p>\n

There is a strong case to be made that Final Fantasy Tactics tells a better story than the landmark Final Fantasy VII<\/a> (which saw Cloud Strife and a ragtag bunch of eco-terrorist pals taking on the shady megacorporation Shinra). And with our real-world political focus shifting from the looming threat of the climate crisis to the more pressing rise of fascism (though the two are inextricably linked), one can make the argument that Tactics is now also the more timely game.<\/p>\n

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\nPlayStation 4\/5, Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2, Xbox, PC; Square-EnixThis landmark role-playing game remains a revolutionary tour de force
\nAt first glance, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, first released in 1997 and now available in newly remastered guise, does little to separate itself from other boilerplate fantasy fiction. There is a hero, Ramza \u2013 an idealistic nobleman with luscious blond hair who cavorts about the medieval-inspired realm of Ivalice in search of high adventure. But quickly, and with narrative elegance, the picture complicates: peasant revolutionaries duke it out with gilded monarchists; machiavellian plots plunge the kingdom into chaos. Ramza must navigate this knotty political matrix, all while experiencing his own ideological awakening.
\nThere is a strong case to be made that Final Fantasy Tactics tells a better story than the landmark Final Fantasy VII (which saw Cloud Strife and a ragtag bunch of eco-terrorist pals taking on the shady megacorporation Shinra). And with our real-world political focus shifting from the looming threat of the climate crisis to the more pressing rise of fascism (though the two are inextricably linked), one can make the argument that Tactics is now also the more timely game. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PlayStation 4\/5, Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2, Xbox, PC; Square-EnixThis landmark role-playing game remains a revolutionary tour de force At first glance, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, first released in 1997 and now available in newly remastered guise, does little to separate itself from other boilerplate fantasy fiction. There is a hero, Ramza \u2013 an idealistic …<\/p>\n

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles review \u2013 remastered 1997 classic is even more politically resonant now<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}