"Formation Screen" from Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions on the PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation (2007 & 1997)
Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto
Label: DigiCube
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Squaresoft
I do not want to sound all gatekeepy, but if you have played either version of Final Fantasy Tactics (on the PSX or PSP) then you may have heard this song more often than the rest of the songs on the soundtrack if you play the game at all like I tend to do. As the name of the song states, "Formation Screen" is the music that plays while you are looking at the members of your party. While on this screen, you could just be surveying who you have in your party, mourning the loss of one of your recently deceased, or, like me, agonizing over how you are going to spend your JP points (yes I know, Job Point points) on which abilities while looking at an offline skill tree to determine which ability unlocks other abilities and which jobs you need additional levels in so you can unlock the Mime job. Do you spring for Thundaga or save up more for Death? Do you blow all your JP on Archer's Bane or instead learn Aim +3 and Jump +1? What about having the Monk learn Revive or Critical: Recover HP?
Listening to this song while agonizing over abilities is probably about 1/3 of the game for me, and that's fine, because that's part of why I love this game, following these characters, both story-centric and random mercenaries that you hire, and watching them grow from Level 1 Archers and Black Mages to characters you end up embuing with personality through their actions on the battlefield, and how you spend time customizing them off the battlefield.
~JWfW/JDub/Cooking Crack/Jaconian
How Could I Leave This Behind?
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