FFT:WotL is a game loved for its difficulty.

But once I settled into the strategy, it became incredibly frustrating. I wish I’d know about the WotL PSP/PSN lag before I’d bought it-which is why I’m telling you! At first, I didn’t notice so much, because I was too busy learning how to play the game. The PSP port developers said the slowness wasn’t something they could avoid.

How on earth does this happen in the late 2000s and early 2010s, though? This is a 1997 game whose gameplay and in-battle graphics have barely been touched. I’ve heard that the port of WotL for iOS and Android fixes the slowdown, though, so there might be a version of the game out there that I would want to finish. And the lag sticks with War of the Lions into its PSN version, so even the Vita plays the game maddeningly slowly. As it is, slowdown alone would probably add 5-10 hours to that, which is crazy. This might be bearable if this wasn’t a game that would take 60 hours to play anyway. But War of the Lions, which is more port than true remake, seems to keep some of the slowness of the PS1 original and then add a new layer of lag on top, and the combination just leeches the fun from the game. Final Fantasy Tactics, I suspect, is a good game. Also added was a terrible, game-destroying slowdown problem. New FMV cutscenes with voice acting was added alongside an expanded aspect ratio, a couple new job classes, and a smattering of new game content. In 2007, ten years after its debut on the PlayStation in 1997, Final Fantasy Tactics was remade for the PSP as FF T: War of the Lions. Here’s why I won’t be firing up my PSP version of FF Tactics ever again.

And then, thirty hours in, I walked away to play another-and so far much better-PSP remake of a classic TRPG, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

And last year, I finally picked up the PSP update of the cult classic tactical RPG Final Fantasy: War of the Lions. Here at The Old School Game Vault, I’ve gone back and played and reviewed Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI. I’ve had conversations with friends about what the Final Fantasy musical RPG that never was would have looked like (I would totally play that-good or bad, it would be hilarious). I came into the series with VII and have played everything since besides the MMOs and the two sequels to the lackluster XIII.

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