The villains of Final Fantasy Tactics are villains because they’re misrepresenting God.įFT’s conflicting but undetermined narrators wrestle for authorial control of the text. And though many members of the church are antagonists, religion is not just a figure of villainy for villainy’s sake. Perhaps naturally, there is also a church to organize the celebration and worship of God. There is not a lot of room for ambiguity: in this world, there are many, many people that believe in God.
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS WAR OF THE GODS FREE
The people of Ivalice believe that God created the world, that He created people in His image, that He gave them free will and that He sent an ambassador to earth to right His flock’s path when they abused their gift free will. God in FFT’s world of Ivalice is most akin to the God of Christian theology*. Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the few games that directly and unapologetically places God and religion at its centre.īy God, I do not mean a pantheon, a named deity with a tangible presence on earth or a fantasy abstraction of a real-world idol: characters in Final Fantasy Tactics are talking about the capital “G” God. Still, every once in a while a game will use religion for the same purpose that real-world people do: as a way of viewing the universe and the people in it. Most often, video games use religious figures because devils in flaming cloaks, three-headed guard dogs, and winged warriors are just so awesome. Religious and mythical figures pop in and out of games frequently enough, but rarely to invoke a sense of the spiritual or to illustrate an existential point. The Gokuu Pole may inflict Atheist upon striking an enemy.Religion and video games don’t tend to make the best of bedfellows.You can bestow Atheist with the Mystic's Disbelief or the Templar's Doubt spells.Atheist sets a unit's Faith score to zero, making them bad at casting magic but very resistant to oncoming spells.The Rod of Faith will give the wielder Faith automatically.You can bestow Faith with the Mystic's Belief or the Templar's Faith spells.You can give this to your mages to deal lots of damage, or give it to enemies to make them weaker against your spells. Faith sets a unit's Faith score to 100, making them fantastic mages but ultimately very susceptible to magic attacks.There are two status effects in the game that temporarily alter a unit's effective Faith score: Faith and Atheist. This means that Preach increases a unit's Faith by one permanently every time it is used, while Enlighten reduces it by five. For every four points difference, positively or negatively, one point of Faith change will be kept after a battle. Units with a Bravery score lower than six will actually leave.This happens even at the start of battles. Units with a Bravery score lower than 10 will be permanently under the Chicken status ailment and flee automatically on every one of their turns.Units with a Bravery score lower than 16 will threaten to leave the party after battles.Having a low-enough Bravery score will have negative effects: With very high Bravery levels, a unit will trigger their reaction ability more - this is especially important for characters who rely on reaction abilities such as First Strike or Mana Shield to avoid damage. The treasure found when using the Chemist's Treasure Hunter movement ability (called Move-Find Up in the PS1 version).Īs a result, it's almost always beneficial to have the highest Bravery you possibly can.
The higher the Bravery, the higher the damage.
The chance of a reaction ability triggering.
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