Posted on: January 26, 2023
Elkor_Alish
Verified ownerGames: 298 Reviews: 56
Just Short of Acceptable
There is a lot to enjoy with the title. The voice acting, dialogue, and story is generally pretty campy -but it works for the title and it keeps the tone well. In fact I was pretty sold on this up until I got to Chapter 25 of 29. The trouble for me is that a tactical game where only one side plays by the rules simply isn't fun. If I lose a character they can't be used again in combat (an absolutely personal and optional decision I made, this isn't a forced state of the game), I didn't realize that this would not be true for the enemies also though. I can kill their named leaders three, four, a dozen times and it means nothing. They just keep showing up with better gear. I get a specific number of troops I can deploy and have to manage my resources accordingly. The enemy can just summon troops anywhere they want onto the battlefield -including directly into the middle of my ranks. I have always resented enemies spawning out of nowhere, this takes it to all new level of immersion breaking annoyance however. Point of fact this is what drove me to uninstall and abandon the game. I was winning the mission until more troops than I had descended into the middle on my party and killed my main character ending the forty or so minutes I had invested in that battle which seemed all but won. There is more I could say but not without spoiling this for those who might be interested and still want the joy of discovery. If you like a challenge and don't have any firm ideas about good game design and just want some light hearted fun I would say buy it and I hope you enjoy it. Anyone else. . .Well. . .At least now you know what you are in for.
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