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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a tactical role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Square and published by Nintendo outside Japan. Battles play out on isometric grids in Ivalice, where you build a clan from five races, assign jobs and abilities, and take missions from pubs. Each fight runs under randomly set laws enforced by a judge, with penalties for breaking them.

How To Play Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

ControlAction
D-PadMove the cursor across the battle grid and the world map; highlight commands, units, abilities, and items in menus
ASelect a unit or tile, confirm a command, choose a target, advance dialogue
BCancel a selection or back out of a menu
LRotate the isometric map view one step counter-clockwise
RRotate the isometric map view one step clockwise
StartPause and skip through battle text

About Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Release dateJP: February 14, 2003; NA: September 8, 2003; AU: September 19, 2003; EU: October 24, 2003
DeveloperSquare (Product Development Division 4)
PublisherSquare (JP), Nintendo (NA, EU)
PlatformGame Boy Advance
GenreTactical role-playing
SeriesFinal Fantasy; Ivalice setting shared with Final Fantasy Tactics
ModesSingle-player campaign; link cable play for versus battles and trading between cartridges

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“` One note: the “Also known as” row is dropped since the title was identical in every region. The L and R map rotation and the A/B assignments are standard for this game; I did not find a scanned control chart, so the Start row reflects in-game behaviour rather than a manual listing.

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