After years of fans hoping and plenty of rumors swirling, June 4 PlayStation State of Play, and will be released later this year. The series has long been a fan favorite, but has only ever received two games, with the latest being Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the Game Boy Advance.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is a bundle combining two versions of the 1997 PlayStation classic, revamped for PS4 and PS5. The Enhanced version includes fully voiced dialog and brand-new graphics, plus a load of quality-of-life improvements. The Classic version is a remaster of the original graphics that incorporates the much-celebrated War of the Lions translation, as well as some new features like autosave. The Ivalice Chronicles will release on September 30, 2025, and pre-orders will open today, June 4.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronices Releases Later This Year For PS4 & PS5

Release Date: September 30, 2025

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles brings the classic tactical RPG to modern platforms with two separate versions of the game. The Enhanced version, according to PlayStation Blog, has "fully voiced dialogue, an optimized and updated UI, graphical improvements, and a number of other quality of life features, including the more accessible “Squire” difficulty setting" designed for newcomers to the tactics genre. The updated UI in particular will help modernize the game, with more information presented and a turn order added to one edge of the screen.

The Classic version is nearly a straight port of the original game, but includes the translation created for its previous The War of the Lions re-release on the PlayStation Portable in 2007. This translation is widely considered far superior to the original, which was heavily criticized upon FF Tactics' original release a decade prior. The Classic version s high resolutions and wide-screen, and has the convenience of autosave, but is more or less the original experience.

Our Take: The Ivalice Chronicles Will Hopefully Lead To New FF Tactics Games

A Blind Spot For The Famed Series

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is a great comeback for the series, and the improvements in the Enhanced version look great, but it's still odd that Square Enix hasn't continued the series with a proper new entry. We ed tactical RPG Triangle Strategy would fit – it feels like we're long overdue for Final Fantasy to re-enter the tactical arena.

The Ivalice Chronicles is an unsurprising step from Square Enix, though. Many classic Final Fantasy games have been revamped in the Pixel Remaster series, and Final Fantasy 7 is so far the only one to make a huge comeback with the Remake trilogy. The Ivalice Chronicles may not satiate those hoping for a brand-new Final Fantasy Tactics game, but here's hoping it's just the beginning of the series' comeback.

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