Sound Novels

The Zodiac Brave Story Sound Novels is a mini-game found only in the Japanese version of Final Fantasy Tactics made for the Playstation. This mini-game consists of four "sound novels" that are related to the elements in the Zodiac Brave Story section of the game's tutorial. These sound novels have no bearing to the main plot, however, they are interesting side-stories that tell quite a bit of the history of Tactics' Ivalice.

Due to time and financial constraints, these sound novels never made it into the English version and was scrapped entirely. Apparently, some generic characters also quote from the sound novels, but character quotes were also removed entirely from the English version. In the Japanese version, if the help cursor is placed on the name of a character, the character would say something.

Efforts were made to translate the sound novels mini-game and retain its entirety; the interactivity of the story and even some audio that accompanies the story. Three of the four sound novels have been translated by Mark Rosa a.k.a. DaBubba and made accessible to everyone.

External Link

 * DaBubba's Zodiac Brave Story Sound Novel page