Are we going to get red-carded for engaging in lewd behavior? I'm starting to think Cid running with a Judge was a bad idea...

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Thanks for uploading this!
It's hard to find all this art is such a high resolution.

(The rest of this comment is just me gushing about how much I like the game, by the way)

To be honest, I would be surprised if a game like this will ever be made again.
In saying that I'm referring to how FFTA2 is a 400+ hour long handheld JRPG with a really high budget that you could buy new for $40 and own the whole game and play it forever and ever.
If it was being developed today I have to assume it would be developed as a free-to-start Android/IOS game with gachas that would eventually be shut down.

To use an obscure word I like, FFTA2 is something of an endling. A game like it can only really be made at the end of a console's lifespan when the developers have learned the system inside-out. But by the time the 3DS was entering its twilight years microtransactions and social elements had firmly interred themselves into the mobile gaming market. Bravely Default for example has both microtransactions and a Streetpass-reliant game system. Because of that I feel it has something of an expiration date where FFTA2 doesn't, even though both games are otherwise quite similar in terms of budget, genre and pedigree.

At the time of its release, I don't think FFTA2 was considered a very unique game. I remember it was often compared to War of the Lions and then later Disgaea 2, among a few other games. It was often criticized in those comparisons, and I don't think those criticisms were unfair. FFTA2 is a flawed game in many aspects. But as time has passed and games like it have been made less and less, I've started to appreciate it more and more.
FFTA2 is a truly gorgeous game with passion poured into every detail. Ivalice is my favorite setting of any video game, and if I could live anywhere at all I'd want to live there. The soundtrack in particular is amazingly beautiful. It's a game that deserves to be experienced by everyone that loves JRPGs for generations to come. If you haven't played it yet, it's really worth your time.

I recently bought the game a second time to have a copy in another language and was lucky enough to find a cart for sale for only about $15. I can't imagine that price is ever going to get any better, so if you're interested in owning it I'd buy it sooner rather than later.
I also really recommend Square Enix's new game Grimms Echoes, which is a mobile gacha game that got rereleased as offline freeware a few months ago. In the now almost fifteen years since FFTA2's release, I think it's the closest any game has come to recapturing the feeling it has of endless magical fantasy adventure. It's completely free (No microtransactions at all!) so as long a you have a smartphone with 4GB of space on it there's no downside to giving it a shot.

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