Welcome friends and FF fanatics! If your looking for the most ingenious fan-made combination of two of the greatest spin-offs from the most influential video game series in the world, then you were probably looking for hacks of re-skinned characters for Smash Bros. Either that, or you have come to the right place; welcome to Dissidia Final Fantasy Tactics!
The premise of Dissidia Final Fantasy Tactics (heretofore referred to as DFFT) is very simple. We take the back-story and lore of the Dissidia Final Fantasy sub-franchise and inject it into the semi-classic Tactics format style of gameplay. In short: exactly what its title says.
There are several reasons for this project. First and foremost is a love for the series, and a fan cannot be expected to sit by and not want to contribute an idea that just feels so right. Secondly, Dissidia gave fans the best and most in-depth crossover of our favorite heroes and villains in a game type that most didn't think they would enjoy so much. Thirdly, the Tactics style of gaming offers the chance to include a much larger cast of characters and the widest variety of options to make the most out of each one of them.
When Dissidia was first announced, many fans speculated a huge roster including many of the playable characters throughout the series, even some very obscure ones. Though some may have groaned to see the roster as small as it was, we didn't complain when we realized in retrospect that this would've been impossible, or at least horribly impractical. Fighting games have historically suffered from overly large rosters, and Dissidia would have fared no better with all the complex mechanics it introduced. Adding as many new characters as it did in Duodecim 012 was certainly a joyous surprise, but we all knew that this had to be the limit.
Tactics knows no such boundaries. While most of the games have limited their rosters to 24 or 32 characters, theoretically, this restriction can be put much higher, allowing for as many as hundreds of characters.
Essentially, the hope and goal of this project is to make every playable character throughout the series playable in this game. It will be a massive army.
Given the magnitude of this project, all comments and suggestions are welcomed. Lets have some fun with it!
I think this is a really cool idea. Would you consider making your sprite sheets public so they can be used in FFTactics modded games?
ReplyDeleteIt would save me a lot of money having FF heroes developed.
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