Final Fantasy Tactics is finally being brought to modern platforms later this month, thanks to the release of The Ivalice Chronicles. Not only will it include the same distressingly relevant story of the original game, but it will also include a number of improvements that will hopefully build upon the base game and make it better. It promises to be the definitive way to experience Final Fantasy Tactics, and it wouldn't exist if it wasn't for fans.
It's been known for a while that the main reason why we've waited so long for a Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is due to Square Enix losing the code for the original. It was explained that every time Final Fantasy Tactics was released in a new language, the game's original code would be overwritten, and Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles had to be rebuilt from the ground up as a result.
However, that was a bigger challenge than you might assume, and during a panel at PAX West last week (thanks Popverse), director Kazutoyo Maehiro described having to search all over the place to try and gather as much of the original data from the base game as they could find. It...
