Certainly, FFT's battles take place on the small scale - they are mere skirmishes between a dozen characters, really. The full version would probably fill a manuscript so thick it would make Tolkien's eyes water. That's the 30 second guide to Final Fantasy Tactics. Each character - yours and the enemy's - takes a turn which can include both moving and an action, be it attacking, casting a spell or using an item. You then move your fighters around a rectangular playing area laid out on a grid, complete with hills, valleys, buildings, rivers and so on. You control a band of soldiers, at the beginning of each battle you choose your force from within this band (normally a fairly small group - four to six is typical). This superb game is, at its most basic level, a turn based strategy game. The Noise Before Defeat We should probably warn you that you'll be seeing scenes like this in your sleep for months. No illusions, from the outset this is a review of a superb game. Final Fantasy Tactics was superb ten years ago on the PlayStation, and it's still superb today in its long-awaited PSP remake. Yes, sorry - I don't really feel like I can keep you in suspense over this one, posing the 'ah ha, but is Final Fantasy Tactics really any good?' question and dragging it out for the next thousand words. Last, and certainly not least of the three, I would choose Final Fantasy Tactics - arguably the finest spin-off game to a major franchise the industry has ever produced.

I'd choose the oddly paced but nonetheless magnificant Xenogears.

I'd choose Chrono Cross, stunning follow-up to the SNES classic Chrono Trigger. Wearing my JRPG Nerd Hat (yes, I own a JRPG Nerd Hat - I wove it myself from the hair of the denizens of Eurogamers' JRPG Otaku group, in fact), I'd probably pick out three games as being the Holy Trinity of titles which have been, thus far, denied to us miserable Europeans.

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