Final Fantasy Tactics 2 Was Almost A Reality
Final Fantasy Tactics is regarded to this day as one of Square’s best releases and one of the greatest strategy RPGs of all time. And during a live presentation today, Yasumi Matsuno (the director of the game) revealed we nearly got a sequel: Final Fantasy Tactics 2. The director showed off four screenshots from an in-development version of the game, which we’re guessing would have been for Sony Playstation, as Square was developing exclusively for the console at the time. Final Fantasy Tactics 2 would have sold like crazy, so why didn’t Square see it through? Matsuno said there were many reasons for the project’s cancellation, chief among them being the staff couldn’t agree on a direction for the series. The prototype screens below show off a 2D playing field (the first FFT was 3-D) with an environment made up of hexagonal shapes. Some people at Square were happy with this; others weren’t. There were also some internal discussions about whether or not to outsource development of the game to
