726: Final Fantasy Tactics Revisited

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish, Kaye Ross, John Learned, and cover artist Greg Melo swear fealty to Lord Matsuno and return to the fray to revisit the isometric battlefields of Final Fantasy Tactics in light of its recent remake as well as [gestures expansively]

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1:01.6	This weekend, Retronauts, we celebrate our faith and our birth. Everyone, welcome to RON'T
1:14.6	Everyone, welcome to RRRJ Hi, everyone. Welcome to Retronauts. I am Jeremy Parrish. And this week, we are tackling a topic that we have previously tackled. But I have equipped tackle as one of my skills. And I'm going to do unpredictable variable damage to a target on an adjacent tile when my turn fires off.
1:52.2	Yes, we're talking about Final Fantasy Tactics.
1:55.4	Again, we have talked about Evil East games before, but I feel like the modern style of retronauts where we go a bit more
2:04.3	in-depth and substantial with games lends itself to Final Fantasy Tactics and revisiting this
2:11.2	game, discussing it again, because there is a lot of game here. And as the recent remake of it, available now for pretty much all platforms, the Evil East Chronicles, as that has demonstrated, this game is very beloved, and this game merits a lot of conversation.
2:30.6	So, you know, a lot of people have said, wow, this story really hits in this
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2:43.2	once said, it's like poetry, it rhymes. And we have found ourselves in a place where Yasumi
2:50.4	Matano's fixation on class and the evil roles of
2:58.0	organized religion and the dangers of balkanization rear their hideous head for Western civilization
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