When a battle is completed, characters will receive Ability Points (AP) distributed over their currently equipped weapons or items (such as armor). Most items that can be equipped have various abilities assigned to them, each available for use by characters of a certain job while the item is equipped. There are 34 "jobs" in Tactics Advance that govern a character's stats, equipment, and abilities.
See also: Recurring elements in the Final Fantasy series Additional missions and items are also offered when players link.
Players may cooperate or compete using a link-cable peripheral, and also trade items and party members.
Tactics Advance also offers multiplayer capability for two players. Jagds are the only places in the game in which a character can die everywhere else, they are protected from death by the Judges and are simply knocked out. Jagd is a German word which means the hunt. Ivalice also introduces areas called Jagds, lawless slums that Judges avoid. Items are rewarded to the player depending on the placement of the tokens. These tokens represent different terrains and settlements, such as plains, mountains, deserts, forests, and towns, that can be placed in slots on the world map. The world map is initially empty except for the starting location it is customized as the player wins location "tokens" after certain missions. In regards to items, this may mean another mission must be done to get an item that would allow you to perform the later mission. Others require a dispatch character to have a specific job class. Some missions, typically dispatch missions, require a special item to be in possession in order to accept the mission. Area missions are usually a dispatch mission where Marche's clan can liberate certain regions to obtain bonuses and discounts at shops. In dispatch missions, which do not involve battle, Marche temporarily sends away one member from his party. In encounter missions, Marche's group battles a rival mercenary clan by purchasing a mission or meeting them on the map. Many of these missions are used to advance the story. In regular missions, Marche's entire party ventures to a particular location to do battle. There are four types of missions: regular, encounter, dispatch, and area. The player competes against the computer's team in turn-based play, although unlike Final Fantasy Tactics characters execute their actions instantly. The player takes the role of Marche, a clan leader he must organize the clan's members and advance their status through missions that are offered in pubs. In Tactics Advance, turn-based tactical battles take place on a three-dimensional isometric field. Tactics Advance was re-released for the Nintendo Wii U Virtual Console on Janufor Europe, Australia and North America with Japan on March 30, 2016.Ī screenshot of an early battle in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance It has a sequel, Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift for the Nintendo DS. Following its release, Tactics Advance-themed merchandise was introduced. Tactics Advance is one of the initial products from the cooperation of Square and Nintendo made for the Game Boy Advance console it was developed by the team brought over from the game company Quest Corporation. The story then focuses on the exploits of Marche as he attempts to return to the real world while facing opposition from those around him. The children are transported to a realm of the same name as their town, " Ivalice", after discovering an ancient magical book. The game's story centers on four children Marche, Mewt, Ritz, and Doned, who live in a small town named St.
Players are mostly free to decide the classes, abilities, and statistics of their characters. The player assembles a clan of characters, and controls their actions over grid-like battlefields.
A spin-off of the Final Fantasy series, the game shares several traits with 1997's Final Fantasy Tactics, although it is not a direct sequel. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a 2003 tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.