Divinity: Dragon Commander

When I bought this game because the dragon has a jetpack, I should have foreseen that this game is not about elves and goblins fighting with swords and magic but about elves and goblins fighting with mechs and magic. Significantly, the projectiles are refered to as "lasers"... The battle system is comparably well-balanced between dragon battle and normal strategy game, although at lowest difficulty, it feels like the "hunter" mechs are some allround-unit without a weakness. The dragon plays quite the role of a important tactical unit, like the helicopter+sniper in c&c1. Those overworld cards like "genocide" (zeroing a country's population for one turn) or "destroy wizard tower" suck because they add some random-ish effect to the game, but otoh the battle-cards improve the gameplay significantly, because they merge in the tactical gameplay very well. One can see There is also no mismatch between the importance of strategic planning on the worldmap and the tactical rounds, so thanks for the good balancing. Playing as dragon/reviving the dragon costs 20 Recruits. I dont know what they are needed for, maybe their biomass is smelted to form the dragon, or they are needed as service personal to inflate it. But Recruits are the onliest currency in tactical game, so the developers had no choice anyway. Ah yes, and the soundtrack is very good, too.

Jumped into this blind, I liked a lot of things like characters and their little stories choices and so on. Strategy elements too. But game has couple breaking bugs like unable to make units in a battle that keep reoccuring forcing you to lose unless you 1vX with dragon form. In Sea battles this is not possible, but sometimes enemy spawns units from transports to cliff which some naval units cannot hit which makes them invul and forces you to surrender. tldr Characters and acting way ahead of its time, a lot of real life politics added to game which can be annoying, but game breaking bugs break the experiece.

It's okay.

I beat it once on casual because my only memory of the game is getting beaten into a corner and not being able to do anything so i wanted to learn the game properly before diving into it. I'm currently in the middle of beating it on the hardest difficulty and its much easy as the AI arent even trying to expand like they did on the lowest setting. the only hard part of this run is ive lost the ability to build units so i can only use the army i send in. . bugs aside, it is actually fun but its too short.

I've already played on easy difficulty, but after beating the game map twice only to be presented with yet another new map my desire to play futher vanished.