iPad Final Fantasy Tactics: The War Of The Lions - (by Square Enix)

And that's precisely the type of review that's sent me on countless attempts to understand what it is that I must be missing in the various FF games that have come and gone over the years.

 

This game just drains my battery by a huge margin due to hours and hours of gameplay. What I hate about it, is that the iPhone wire is so short, that I have to play near the socket/PC in order for me to continue playing.

I found it hard to play at first, but didn't mind at all later on. I just love the game so much.

 

i always thought Ramza was a girl at the start because i really cant tell if Ramza is a he/she back in the PS1 days.

just bought it! this is gonna be awesome time to reincarnate my gang from PS 1 back together on the iphone

 

If you find that out someday, please remember to tell me, I've been puzzled by the same thing since the 80's with no success.

 

This is the first time I spend so much on appstore and why does this happen to me

Got error installing to my phone

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Solved done I can enjoy it now!

 

If it can be of aid Gabrien , I never played another Final Fantasy game (I obviously know them).
As always with my friends, I'm sorry if I find something I'm enjoying a lot and my friends do not, but everyone has different tastes.
I played another hour, and I like it even more (starting to grasp the job mechanics and outfitting my brave heroes)...unfortunately I must be not very good, because I'm in Dorter slums and I'm constantly DESTROYED...

I almost didn't knew anything about the game, other than some friends of mine loved it, and as always I constrained myself to watch almost anything (ie the hd video I saw to check the text was long, but I skipped almost all of it in fear of spoilers).
When I watched the intro the first time, something clicked on me...then it was downhill...I'm loving it (heck I love those ducks mount too, and I always found them ridiculous).

 

I have an USB extender just in case
But IMHO battery drain is not huge, by no means accurate but I measured ~9% drain per hour.
Chaos Rings drained the battery much more on my iPhone 4.
Another little thing I appreciate about the game.

 

(Sorry in advance for the stupid question)

I'm having some massive slow-down issues with this game. I've tried everything (closing all multi apps, freeing up nearly 3GB of storage space, doing restarts, etc), but nothing seems to keep the game from moving at an absolute snail's crawl. Seems to be the worst when any menu or dialog box comes up.

I'd like to try reinstalling to see if that helps, but don't want to lose the 7 hours I've already put in. Is there a way to uninstall/reinstall without losing my saved game?

 

Without JB, no AFAIK.

 

What is JB?

 

You can. Not easy but I used this method several times with success (and I periodically backup my game data before deleting a game).
You need 2 free programs.

1) Backup Extractor: basically it extracts your most recent backup and let you extrapolate app data (in this case, the FFT savegames).
The free version let you copy 2 file at time...be sure to copy EVERYTHING.
2) Now that you have your app data, assuming you delete and re-downloaded the app, you can use iPhone Explorer to re-inject the previously saved data into the iPhone. I get always time out with this free program, but with patience you can copy everithing again in the iPhone.

They both works without jailbreaking.
It's long, convoluted and boring but it works (at least worked for me).

BTW on my iPhone I have not ever experienced slowdowns in FFT, even after hours of playing.

 

I remember watching this FFT trailer with my parents...

It was so awkward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xuWeY0wNs&feature=related

 

Try tinkering with the game's options to turn off the tutorial menus and such. It helped me a ton. I hope it would do the same for you.

@Pitta
The battery drain is not that huge, but due to playing continuously, it gets drained real fast, hahaha.

 

It explains it in the Chronicle, formerly known as the Brave Story on the Ps1, Ramza is the youngest of three brothers born from a different mother, but the most like his father who was a Knight Gallant during the 50 years war.

He's basically Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, and his dad was Eddard Stark.

 

Been reading about this and watching some videos as I decide whether or not to pick this up, and have found the continuous walking animation in the battles to be somewhat annoying to watch. Is it noticeable while playing the game? Or are you always thinking, moving and doing enough that it isn't an issue?

I'm guessing that as nobody has mentioned it yet, it's a non-issue while playing and only stands out because I'm just a bystander in the videos, but thought I'd check anyways.

 

Thanks all...appreciate the feedback. I've turned off all the messages except the XP/JP indicator (I find that info to be essential), which helped a little bit. Will try the other suggestions and see if they improve things at all.

I'm really hoping so, as being able to play my all-time favorite game on the go (*cough* at work *cough*) is all kinds of awesome.

 

I think I can answer this, as watching the videos I noticed and was bothered by the very same thing.
You reminded me it just now, because actually playing the game I didn't noticed it anymore.
Often your men assume other stances (like defense or spell-preparing) so you won't notice that, no fear (and personally I'm too busy to make tactical decisions to notice it if there is).
At least, that happened to me.

 

I really wonder if the HD version will have better graphics .....

 

Last time I checked, if I'm not wrong, PhoneView was Mac only.
Is there a PC version out?
Because it would be much more pratical than the method I explained some posts ago. Tried once PhoneView demo on a Mac and worked fine.