What is Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber?

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Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber is a strategy video game hybrid that combines elements from the tactical role-playing and real-time strategy genres. It was originally released in Japan in 1999 and North America in 2000 for the Nintendo 64.

Unfortunately, Nintendo closed the WiiU eShop in 2023, so there is not currently any way to purchase the game.

There are currently no announced plans to re-release the game, but Square Enix recently released a remake of another game in the series, Tactics Ogre Reborn. It is also possible, though unlikely, that Ogre Battle 64 will be added to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pak service in the future.

Guides

Starting Army Calculator

Choose the classes you want at the beginning of the game.

Mission Maps

Interactive maps and area details for all 43 missions.

Character Classes

Class stat growth charts to help you optimize your army.

Neutral Encounters

Recruit neutral character classes to enhance your army.

Special Characters

Recruit different unique story characters each time you play.

Birthday Events

Learn about the hidden birthday events that reward unique items.


The following guides are written and hosted on other websites. Many of them are hosted by Ogre Battle 64 Archive, the most comprehensive Ogre Battle 64 fan site.

Character Class Guides


Walkthroughs

Abridged Walkthrough by Zargata:
A visual chart showing all of the missions and branching paths in the story. It includes recruitable characters for each mission as well as Chaos Frame changes that are triggered by player choices.

Guide and Walkthrough by CyricZ:
The highest-rated and most popular GameFAQs guide and walkthrough used by the Ogre Battle 64 community.

Let’s Play by locuacius:
A written walkthrough in a let’s play format with many screenshots and details about game systems. However, due to the nature of let’s plays, it is not comprehensive and only represents a single playthrough.

Prima Player’s Guide:
A scanned copy of the original Prima Player’s Guide. This guide is very detailed, but it also contains many errors. It can be helpful to new players, but keep in mind that it primarily guides you through one route of the game and misses a lot of the details. Blech san has documented some of the errors in a separate guide, but the corrections listing is incomplete and has some errors of its own.


Game Systems Guides

Chaos Frame

Chaos Frame is an invisible reputation value that determines which special characters you can recruit and which ending you receive. Exactly how this system works is still not completely understood.

Character Alignment

Alignment determines which classes your units can change into and if you liberate or capture strongholds.

Love and Peace

Love & Peace is a rare item that can be used during missions to recruit characters from enemy units. It is best used to recruit rare or limited character classes like Black Knights, Angel Knights, and Saturos.

Latest Updates

  • Special thanks to Halfsong for discovering and sharing two new enemy units at Barpheth (Saturos #7 and Siren #3). These enemy units have not been documented in the other commonly used English game guides.

  • The enemy unit images are finally complete! I began building a template to help me create these images in April 2021 and have worked on them periodically ever since. The entire project spanned 3 years, 9 months, and 23 days (or 1,394 days). I’m excited to have the enemies completed so I can focus my efforts on something new.

    • Scene 41: Castle Talpaea: Corrected minor enemy unit information typo. Daemon #1 was incorrectly labeled as Daemon #2 (there were two Daemon #2 enemies).
    • Scene 42: Mount Keryoleth: Corrected enemy unit placement information. Saturos #6 incorrectly listed two Goblins in the same unit space. The Goblin at Back, Right was missing.

The option to see older updates easily is coming soon.

Last Update: May 20th, 2025