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** Likewise there were originally going to be a full lineup of thirteen Lucavi, one for each Zodiac Stone. The names of the main twelve (ie excluding BonusBoss Elidibus/Zodiark) are listed in Ivalice script on the Zodiac circle shown in the background of the save screen, though the six who did not make it to the final game had their names {{Retcon}}ned by ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. The ones who didn't appear get to debut in VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV.

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** Likewise there were originally going to be a full lineup of thirteen Lucavi, one for each Zodiac Stone. The names of the main twelve (ie excluding BonusBoss Elidibus/Zodiark) are listed in Ivalice script on the Zodiac circle shown in the background of the save screen, though the six who did not make it to the final game had their names {{Retcon}}ned by ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. The ones who didn't appear get to debut in VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV.
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* WordOfGod: Although the ending was ambiguous, Yasumi Matsuno states that Ramza, Alma and the party managed to survive and promptly left the country to [[https://twitter.com/yasumimatsuno/status/169572953686683648 have other adventures.]] Likewise, Delita and Ovelia don't actually kill each other at the end of the epilogue. According to Matsuno, they both had a long and prosperous rule together as King and Queen while privately hating and fearing one another with Ovelia later dying of natural causes and the Delita passing on as well some years later.

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* WordOfGod: Although the ending was ambiguous, Yasumi Matsuno states that Ramza, Alma and the party managed to survive and promptly left the country to [[https://twitter.com/yasumimatsuno/status/169572953686683648 have other adventures.]] Likewise, Delita and Ovelia don't actually kill each other at the end of the epilogue. According to Matsuno, they both had a long and prosperous rule together as King and Queen while privately hating and fearing one another with Ovelia later dying of natural causes and the then Delita passing on as well some years later.
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* WordOfGod: Although the ending was ambiguous, Yasumi Matsuno states that Ramza managed to survive and promptly left the country to [[https://twitter.com/yasumimatsuno/status/169572953686683648 have other adventures.]] Likewise, Delita and Ovelia don't actually kill each other at the end of the epilogue. According to Matsuno, they both had a long and prosperous rule together as King and Queen while privately hating and fearing one another with Ovelia later dying of natural causes and the Delita passing on as well some years later.

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* WordOfGod: Although the ending was ambiguous, Yasumi Matsuno states that Ramza Ramza, Alma and the party managed to survive and promptly left the country to [[https://twitter.com/yasumimatsuno/status/169572953686683648 have other adventures.]] Likewise, Delita and Ovelia don't actually kill each other at the end of the epilogue. According to Matsuno, they both had a long and prosperous rule together as King and Queen while privately hating and fearing one another with Ovelia later dying of natural causes and the Delita passing on as well some years later.
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* WordOfGod: Although the ending was ambiguous, Yasumi Matsuno states that Ramza managed to survive and promptly left the country to [[https://twitter.com/yasumimatsuno/status/169572953686683648 have other adventures.]]

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* WordOfGod: Although the ending was ambiguous, Yasumi Matsuno states that Ramza managed to survive and promptly left the country to [[https://twitter.com/yasumimatsuno/status/169572953686683648 have other adventures.]]]] Likewise, Delita and Ovelia don't actually kill each other at the end of the epilogue. According to Matsuno, they both had a long and prosperous rule together as King and Queen while privately hating and fearing one another with Ovelia later dying of natural causes and the Delita passing on as well some years later.
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* TheWikiRule: The [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Wiki Final Fantasy Wiki]].
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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: ''Final Fantasy Tactics'' has been frequently noted as the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' successor to ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' from Quest's ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'' as DarkFantasy TurnBasedStrategy [=RPGs=] both driven by writer-director Creator/YasumiMatsuno. The creation of ''FFT'' was a matter of serendipitous timing: Hironobu Sakaguchi was impressed with ''Tactics Ogre'', learned Matsuno had recently left Quest, and offered him a job at Square. Matsuno saw this as an opportunity to become a PromotedFanboy and work on ''Final Fantasy'', so he accepted. Matsuno quickly took up Sakaguchi's proposal to make a strategy RPG under the ''Final Fantasy'' brand and brought in his ProductionPosse from ''Tactics Ogre'' (event director Hiroshi Minagawa, character designer Akihiko Yoshida, and composers Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/MasaharuIwata), all of whom would go on to do further work for Creator/SquareEnix games after ''FFT''.

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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: ''Final Fantasy Tactics'' has been frequently noted as the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' successor to ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' from Quest's ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'' as DarkFantasy TurnBasedStrategy [=RPGs=] both driven by writer-director Creator/YasumiMatsuno. The creation of ''FFT'' was a matter of serendipitous timing: Hironobu Sakaguchi was impressed with ''Tactics Ogre'', learned Matsuno had recently left Quest, and offered him a job at Square. Matsuno saw this as an opportunity to become a PromotedFanboy and work on ''Final Fantasy'', so he accepted. Matsuno quickly took up Sakaguchi's proposal to make a strategy RPG under the ''Final Fantasy'' brand and brought in his ProductionPosse from ''Tactics Ogre'' (event director Hiroshi Minagawa, character designer Akihiko Yoshida, and composers Creator/HitoshiSakimoto Music/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/MasaharuIwata), Music/MasaharuIwata), all of whom would go on to do further work for Creator/SquareEnix games after ''FFT''.

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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: ''Final Fantasy Tactics'' has been frequently noted as the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' successor to ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' from Quest's ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'' as DarkFantasy TurnBasedStrategy [=RPGs=] both driven by writer-director Creator/YasumiMatsuno. The creation of ''FFT'' was a matter of serendipitous timing: Hironobu Sakaguchi was impressed with ''Tactics Ogre'', learned Matsuno had recently left Quest, and offered him a job at Square. Matsuno saw this as an opportunity to become a PromotedFanboy and work on ''Final Fantasy'', so he accepted. Matsuno quickly took up Sakaguchi's proposal to make a strategy RPG under the ''Final Fantasy'' brand and brought in his ProductionPosse from ''Tactics Ogre'' (event director Hiroshi Minagawa, character designer Akihiko Yoshida, and composers Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/MasaharuIwata), all of whom would go on to do further work for Creator/SquareEnix games after ''FFT''.


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** [[https://shmuplations.com/fft/ Hironobu Sakaguchi had trademarked the name]] ''Final Fantasy Tactics'' in 1993 with the intent of directing the strategy RPG himself, writing up a short design document of what he wanted to do. He got too sidelined with work on the main series, so he had to hand the reins to Matsuno and company, who reportedly discarded most of what Sakaguchi had envisioned in favor of doing their own thing.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to Matsuno, much of the games plot was influenced by how he felt some of the more experienced developers within ''Square'' were treated by staff, with him seeing them as being elevated to higher positions and given noble like influence. He used this, and his position as basically a "commoner" by comparison as the inspiration for the games use of politics and class struggle.

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** [[http://shmuplations.com/vagrantstory/ Originally, Yasumi Matsuno did not plan on writing the game's story.]] He originally mostly wanted to be in charge of the battle system, but since they had Hirouki Itou in charge of that, and otherwise being short-staffed, he was more or less forced into the role out of necessity.

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** [[http://shmuplations.com/vagrantstory/ Originally, Yasumi Matsuno did not plan on writing the game's story.]] He originally mostly wanted to be in charge of the battle system, but since they had Hirouki Hiroyuki Itou in charge of that, and otherwise being short-staffed, he was more or less forced into the role out of necessity.


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** The developers for ''War of the Lions'' had [[http://shmuplations.com/fftwotl/ ideas for even more jobs]] to be added in the port like Red Mage and Blue Mage, but ultimately scaled back to just Onion Knight and Dark Knight for being the two jobs that brought new gameplay niches to the original. They also wanted to implement Barbaneth's Knight Devout title as an actual job to be "the ultimate swordsman", which ultimately never got in because they couldn't figure out what weapons and abilities it would have.
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** The game's script contains names for other Lucavi who didn't show up in the game, and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' uses some of these dummied names for its Return to Ivalice raid series as MythologyGags.
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** In the PSP and Mobile versions, the Japanese version still contains the random incantations and quips used during combat before attacks. This was dummied out in the English version.
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** Several maps have been dummied out as well; three of them (Hospital in Slums, Warjilis Trade City, and Gate of Limberry Castle) are entirely complete and playable.

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** Several maps have been dummied out as well; three well. Three of them (Hospital in Slums, Warjilis Trade City, and Gate of Limberry Castle) are entirely complete and playable.
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** DummiedOut sprites and lines of text suggest that a handful of other characters were meant to be recruitable, or at least guest characters. Aside from the aforementioned Valmafra, such sprites and text exist for Oran, Simon, and even ''Tietra''. The latter two have battle classes of their own (Bishop and Delita's Sis respectively), and Simon even has a full set of battle animations despite never even being seen in battle at any point. Tietra has another oddity; when hacked into the roster, a strange sprite, left unused anywhere in the game, is used as her menu sprite.

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** DummiedOut sprites and lines of text suggest that a handful of other characters were meant to be recruitable, or at least guest characters. Aside from the aforementioned Valmafra, such sprites and text exist for Oran, Simon, and even ''Tietra''. The latter two have battle classes of their own (Bishop and Delita's Sis respectively), and Simon even has a full set of battle animations despite never even being seen in battle at any point. Tietra has another oddity; oddity: when hacked into the roster, a strange sprite, left sprite left, unused anywhere in the game, is used as her menu sprite.
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* In a nod to Cloud's crossdressing caper in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', he can equip the female-only headgear (Cachusha, Barette, Ribbon).
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** [[http://shmuplations.com/vagrantstory/ Originally, Yasumi Matsuno did not plan on writing the game's story.]] He originally mostly wanted to be in charge of the battle system, but since they had Hirouki Itou in charge of that, and otherwise being short-staffed, he was more or less forced into the role out of necessity.

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