Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles launches to 88% 'Very Positive' Steam reviews as fans call the JRPG remaster a "beautiful recreation of an already beautiful game"

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"A perfect remaster of a perfect game"

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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is out! For some, the remaster's been decades in the making. For others, this is a brand new FF adventure. But if Steam reviews are anything to go on, new and old fans alike have reached a common consensus: The Ivalice Chronicles is pretty damn good.

In case you've been out of the loop, The Ivalice Chronicles repackages the 28-year-old strategy RPG with voice acting, a graphical face lift, updated menus, some more minor tweaks, and a slightly changed ending that leaves the door open for a potential sequel. All of the above propelled the remaster to a 'Very Positive' rating on Steam based on almost 1,000 user reviews, 88% of which had generally good things to say.

The somewhat negative reviews that do exist stem from Square Enix's inclusion of anti-piracy system Denuvo, which is controversial for lots of reasons, including how it sometimes kneecaps performance, and the sentiment that The Ivalice Chronicle's changes aren't worth the £40/$50 for fans who have played the game multiple times already.

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Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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