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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you take "Final fantasy tic tacs" literally, it sounds like pills laced with LOADS of fentanyl.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I took one pill and saw the source, man. I was one with the life stream.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why … are they final? 😵

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You'll trip balls so hard survival isn't guaranteed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When the first one was in development, the lead designer was going leave the games industry and go back to university if it didn’t do well. In addition, SquareSoft was on the brink of bankruptcy, meaning this game could very well be the final game either of them were going to release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is an urban legend. They were originally going to title the game "Fighting Fantasy," but they couldn't due to the Steve Jackson fantasy game book series having that name already. They liked the "Fi Fa" sound, so they came up with "Final" for the alliteration and because it sounded cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The name was originally going to be Fighting Fantasy, but due to concerns over trademark conflicts with the roleplaying gamebook series of the same name, they needed to settle for something else. As the English word "Final" was well-known in Japan, Sakaguchi settled on that.

Now, why were they going to be fighting tictacs? That I don't don't know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was full of fresh ideas when it first came out, like a minty cool breeze

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It took a lot of inspiration from Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, but the two games had basically the same creative team anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

"Will these freshen my breath or get me high?"

"Yes."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol, I love this gimmick! Next up, enormous Ogre Tictacs? Perhaps Shadow Tictacs: Mints of the Shogun?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Search gives no results... =(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If we're stretching the joke further (and by all means we should, this is a delight), there's also always "Final Fantasy TicTacs: Advance"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh for the names?

Ogre Tactics is the first one, a series of earlier tactical games (started on the snes maybe?)

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is the other. It's actually more like the Commandos games, a kind of overhead team stealth sim.

And I was just joking but if you're on a tictac roll please, by all means, help yourself!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you mean Tactics Ogre. Although it's a spinoff of another game called Ogre Battle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, my b, thanks for the correction

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Bushido blade 1