The last battles of Final Fantasy Tactics are hard, and the last few come one right after another, so whatever you walk in with is what you have. My first time through, I got near the end with a party that was good at the middle of the game and bad at the end of it, and I had to go back to an old save and spend a week of evenings fixing it. This is the party I fixed it with, and the same five beat it again the second time.

Three are story characters: Ramza, who you have to bring, Agrias and Orlandu. Two are my own units, who started out as nobodies and became the most important people on the team. I named them myself, after my two best friends, who think that's either an honor or very strange.

Three people who hit very hard up close, one who hits a whole area, and one who can change the whole battle on the first turn. Healing comes from Chakra, items and Brandy's spells, so nobody has to be a full-time healer. I'm sure there are better parties. People on the newsgroups post new ones every week, and some of them are very clever. But this is the one that worked for me, and I understand every choice in it, which I think is the point of the job system in the first place.

Allen watched me beat the last battle the second time. He says he's going to start over. I'll believe it when I see it.