Tactics Ogre remake headed to PSP

Famitsu’s latest issue revealed a new title in development at Square Enix: Tactics Ogre: Wheel of Fate for PSP. Why bother mentioning it here when it isn’t a DS title?

• It’s a remake of Quest’s beloved Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, which originally released for Super Famicom (eventually coming to the States on the PS1), with new side stories, characters, and gameplay systems. Yasumi Matsuno, director of the original game, is working on the project.
• The Tactics Ogre series, for those of you who don’t know, was the precursor to Final Fantasy Tactics, an SRPG franchise that seems to have a devoted fanbase on the GBA/DS side.
• Akihiko Yoshida, who was behind the brilliant artwork for the Final Fantasy Tactics series and Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, will handle the remake’s character design.
• It’s our site. If it sounds interesting to us, we get to write about it even if it isn’t relevant to the rest of the crap we usually post (e.g. Gun O’Clock).

Square Enix recently registered a grip of Tactics Ogre trademarks in the U.S. and Europe, too, so it’s likely Wheel of Fate is already slated to hit the West!

[Via DiaBleu, Andriasang]

tags / tactics ogre / psp / square enix / Yasumi Matsuno / famitsu / imports / ec