Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles to Include Sound Novels

Square Enix has revealed that its upcoming release of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will include the game’s Sound Novels in all languages. The Sound Novels are side stories that are unlocked as players obtain certain Artifacts in the game and provide more details about the history of Ivalice. Players make choices during the stories that lead to multiple potential endings. They did not in appear in any of the previous English releases of Final Fantasy Tactics.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is a new remaster of the original Final Fantasy Tactics and will release worldwide for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2 on September 30, 2025. It is the first game set in the recurring setting of Ivalice and follows young noble Ramza Beoulve, who becomes involved in a succession crisis known as the War of the Lions.

The remaster will include two versions of the game: the enhanced version and the classic version. The enhanced version will include fully voiced dialogue, an updated UI, graphical improvements, and rewritten and additional dialogue. It will also include a new difficulty option as well as other quality-of-life features. Meanwhile, the classic version will feature graphics and gameplay truer to the original 1997 version and include the PlayStation Portable War of the Lions version translation (though not its extra content), plus a few extra features such as an auto save.