Spleen, I myself write for a reletively large gaming outlet
I'm very familiar with the Tactics Ogre series. Well maybe that's a slight overstatement, b/c I've only played the two original titles.
I guess I'm still missing your point. You say the FF theme was plastered all over the Ogre series' theme, but what IS the FF theme? They don't have reoccuring music, characters, worlds, etc. Some make claims that the FF series has always dealed with a planet being in danger and a group of people's potentially "Final" effort to save it, but the same could be said of almost all RPGs. The official line is that the FF series deals with the themes of life and death, in different backdrops and situations, but I think it's a load of bull personally