8 Best Video Game Sequels (That Weren't Actually Sequels)

8. Final Fantasy Tactics - Ogre Battle

While many titles will look to the Final Fantasy series as a point of inspiration for their own adventures, as let's face it can you name any other franchise quite as prolific as Square Enix's monster of a franchise? The series isn't completely free from borrowing ideas from previous titles and reshaping them into new experiences.

Take for example, the utter delight that is the Final Fantasy Tactics offshoot of games, which are heralded by many to be one of the finest examples of the tactics game genre. Ultra polished, ridiculously addictive and with often brilliant narratives, the FF Tactics games really are a pleasure to play, and yet without the equally brilliant Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre games, they'd likely not exist!

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together shifted the gameplay of the prior Ogre Battle: The March Of The Black Queen into something that FF Tactics fans will instantly recognize, using an isometric viewpoint and a turn-based battle system.

Unfortunately, despite the outstanding quality of the Ogre Games, sales just weren't adding up for the series to have a lengthy tenure, but rather than have the franchise die, Square Enix decided to take the concept and connect it to the much more popular Final Fantasy IP.

Thus Ogre Battle was allowed to live on, albeit under the guise of another.