Editing Final Fantasy XII (section)

{{Short description|2006 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title = Final Fantasy XII
| image = File:Final Fantasy XII Box Art.png{{!}}border
| caption = Japanese and European box art for ''Final Fantasy XII'', designed by [[Yoshitaka Amano]]
| alt = An armor-clad man with a long cape holds two curved swords. He stands above the logo of ''Final Fantasy XII''. The piece is done in a pastel watercolor style with a large vertical streak on the right side fading from peach to pink to blue.
| developer = [[Square Enix]]
| publisher = Square Enix
| series = ''[[Final Fantasy]]''<br />''[[Ivalice Alliance]]''
| engine = 
| platforms = {{ubl|[[PlayStation 2]]|[[PlayStation 4]]|[[Windows]]|[[Nintendo Switch]]|[[Xbox One]]}}
| released = {{collapsible list|title={{nobold|March 16, 2006}}|{{ubl|'''PlayStation 2'''{{Video game release|JP|March 16, 2006|NA|October 31, 2006|AU|February 22, 2007|EU|February 23, 2007}}{{underline|'''''International Zodiac Job System'''''}}|'''PlayStation 2'''{{vgrelease|JP|August 9, 2007}}{{underline|'''''The Zodiac Age'''''}}|'''PlayStation 4'''{{Video game release|WW|July 11, 2017|JP|July 13, 2017}}'''Windows'''{{Video game release|WW|February 1, 2018}}'''Switch''', '''Xbox One'''{{Video game release|JP|April 25, 2019|WW|April 30, 2019}}}}}}
| genre = [[Role-playing video game|Role-playing]]
| modes = [[Single-player]]
| director = {{ubl|[[Hiroyuki Ito]]|[[Hiroshi Minagawa]]}}
| designer = Hiroyuki Ito
| programmer = Takashi Katano
| artist = {{ubl|[[Akihiko Yoshida]]|Hideo Minaba|[[Isamu Kamikokuryo]]}}
| writer = {{ubl|[[Daisuke Watanabe]]|Miwa Shoda|[[Yasumi Matsuno]]}}
| composer = {{ubl|[[Hitoshi Sakimoto]]|[[Hayato Matsuo]]|[[Masaharu Iwata]]}}
}}

{{nihongo foot|'''''Final Fantasy XII'''''|ファイナルファンタジーXII|Fainaru Fantajī Tuerubu|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a 2006 [[role-playing video game]] developed and published by [[Square Enix]]. The twelfth main installment of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, it was first released for the [[PlayStation 2]] in March 2006. It introduced several innovations to the series: an [[open world]]; a seamless battle system; a controllable camera; a customizable "[[wikt:gambit|gambit]]" system, which lets the player control the [[Artificial intelligence (video games)|artificial intelligence]] (AI) of characters in battle; a "license" system, which determines what abilities and equipment can be used by characters; and hunting [[side quest]]s, which allows the player to find and defeat increasingly difficult monsters in the game's open world. ''Final Fantasy XII'' also includes elements from previous games in the series, such as [[Chocobo]]s and [[Moogles]].

The game takes place in [[Ivalice]], where the empires of Archadia and Rozarria are waging an endless war. Dalmasca, a small kingdom, is caught between the warring nations. When Dalmasca is annexed by Archadia, its princess, Ashe, creates a resistance movement. During the struggle, she meets [[Vaan (Final Fantasy)|Vaan]], a young adventurer who dreams of becoming a [[sky pirate]] in command of an airship. They are quickly joined by a band of allies; together, they rally against the tyranny of the Archadian Empire.

''Final Fantasy XII'' was both a critical and commercial success, earning several [[List of Game of the Year awards|Game of the Year]] awards and selling over six million copies on the PlayStation 2 by November 2009. In 2007, a sequel titled ''[[Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings]]'' was released for the [[Nintendo DS]] and, in that same year, an expanded version of ''Final Fantasy XII'', titled ''Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System'', was released on the PlayStation 2 exclusively in Japan. A high-definition remaster of the ''International Zodiac Job System'' version, ''The Zodiac Age'', was released worldwide for the [[PlayStation 4]] in July 2017, for [[Windows]] in February 2018, and for the [[Nintendo Switch]] and [[Xbox One]] in April 2019.