Wiikly Wares: Ogre Battle, Family & Friends Party

Seriously!!! can you imagine playing this with a wiimote?! no more dragging around with the joystick or d-pad you just point! i'm in for 1

Damn, Drahken called it before me.

You would not believe how hard it is to find a suitable Ogre Battle image.

When in doubt, emulate.

Nope, this is the O.G. SNES game.

You're thinking of Knight of Lodis which is more akin to the FFT series than Ogre Battle, despite it being an OB/TO title.

Its pretty much the same type of gameplay and the only thing that is really different, as far as I know, is the graphics. Also, I don't think there are any Elem Pedras but I haven't played enough of it to know.

I once thought OB64 was indisputably my favorite game ever, and then I played Ogre Battle. While it is not empirically the better title, there are a lot of elements which are significantly stronger than the sequel.

Cons include a bare-bones story (even by SNES standards, the presentation is minimal), some indecipherable graphics (unit icons are tiny yellow sprites that all look identical), and a few cheap tactics by AI opponents (they can return to base after losing a battle and restore ALL health instantaneously).

Nonetheless, the game requires considerably more strategy than N64 installment (which I found to be on the easy side), as enemy units are usually better structured and more appropriately levelled in comparison to your own. The 'Tarot' system provides a lot more interaction for the user during battles - I at first tried to use it like Elem Pedra, but soon realized that you get so many Tarot cards and are so challenged by the enemy that you will probably use one every battle.

Bloody. Great. Game. Buy it. Especially because if we all do, hopefully we'll see 64 as well (and perhaps a sequel? nah, probably not, but wouldn't that be exciting).

Oh, and it's much better than the GBA game (although to anyone who would call that a FFT ripoff, note that the original Final Fantasy Tactics was made by the same studio as the original Ogre Gaiden, which came first.)