FF Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles launches with Enhanced and Classic

Square Enix on Sept. 30 released Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles, a modernized remaster of the 1997 PlayStation tactical roleplaying game that pairs a rebuilt "Enhanced" edition with the original "Classic" experience and is available on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC platforms. The package aims to introduce Ramza Beoulve's politically charged campaign in the kingdom of Ivalice to a new generation while preserving the game longtime fans remember.

Reviewers and critics generally praised the collection's extensive quality of life updates and renewed accessibility. The Enhanced edition adds a combat timeline that displays turn order, a new tactical top down view to improve battlefield visibility, an explained job tree that reveals class unlock requirements, speed-up and autosave functions, and three difficulty settings that include an easier story-focused mode. Many commentators said those additions reduce the frustrations that made the original forbidding for newcomers while keeping the game's celebrated job system and strategic depth intact.

The remaster also introduces full voice acting for cutscenes, newly recorded dialogue and visual updates meant to...