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.
Learn how to estimate your reputation to see your preferred ending and recruit your favorite characters.
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.
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.
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.
Alignment determines which classes your units can change into and if you liberate or capture strongholds.
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.
Well, I had an unfortunate error on the Human Male Class stat comparison chart since the day it was published. The dexterity for the Knight class was incorrectly equal to the Fencer class. This has been fixed thanks to a report from Protricity on Discord.
As always, please do message me if you find anything that seems off. There’s a lot of data and I appreciate help keeping it all straight.
The month of October vanished rather quickly. I made good progress on the new website layout during the first half of the month, but my spare time has been more limited the last couple of weeks (and not helped by my recent adventure to finally finish Final Fantasy Tactics).
I am hoping to begin making progress again this week. With the limited time I had tonight, I decided to review some old draft guides and tasks lists for a quick win – and I found a good one. I wrote a guide explaining how to calculate Chaos Frame back in 2023, but I never published it for some reason. I suspect I meant to add another section or some extra graphics, but I decided what I have now is worth sharing. Of course, if you do not want to bother calculating Chaos Frame yourself, you can check out the more advanced guide explaining how to make Project64 display your Chaos Frame instead.
As a final note for today, I meant to share a small event a couple weeks ago. Ripping graphics from Ogre Battle 64 is mostly a rather difficult task; it takes me around 30 minutes of work just to combine one frame of one complete character sprite. The item and user interface graphics are much easier to collect, and you have seen them in use on this site since the beginning. I decided to collect the item icons and submit them to The Spriters Resource for everyone to have easy access. They were officially added on October 18, 2025 and you can view them in the Ogre Battle 64 section of The Spriters Resource.
Changelog:
Today marks 25 years since Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber was released for the Nintendo 64 in North America. Thanks for the memories.
While working on some of the new design elements, I began considering how to improve the Starting Army Calculator. I realized that the answers also effected the items granted at the beginning of the game, but no one seems to have documented that information – so I did.
The new guide includes all of the possible starting inventory combinations, and I included the previously documented bonus stats on the page as well.
Some other minor design changes have made their way to the site, but a lot of what you see right now is still temporary. I am making good progress on preparing bigger changes, but I am very wary of breaking the website. So, I expect the transition to take a while and require some manual editing of each mission page.
Changelog:
Last Update: November 4th, 2025
