Othercide

Awesome game. I'd recommend it to any fan of tactical combat. Here are some thoughts. (SPOILERS AHEAD!) Pros: - Mystic black/White/Red themes deliver you to the overall atmosphere. Soundtrack adds to it. - Interesting bosses, each with his own unique mechanics and abilities. - Shared feelings with the Mother. I really cared for every daughter. Names, traits and skills make them unique and remembered. Especially on higher levels. - Daughters actually vary. I was impressed with traits list and facial / hair styles. Still get new ones. - Unique evolving enemies. Enemies upgrade and add in variety. They also change at slow pace that lets you adapt. - Tactics does all. I was able to defeat the Maiden with 2 daughters (stupid me didn't select others), carefully planning every step and predicting damage. Yeah the Scythedances did help a lot ) Cons: - Daughters without traits (like +30% damage) and memories (like +60% skill damage) are weak. I had 2 bladedancer daughters. With same set of skills and memories. But Claire had 10 more traits from previous plays (hitting 7000+) and Prudence with zero traits, was almost useless with (2000 dmg). - Missions while being repetative, offer challenges, and sometimes on higher level are quite weird. I found out ritual mission are very easy, but escort soul - impossible later in the game, because you are being overwhelmed instantly and soul can be one-shotted. - Skills that I used most in the game, were almost useless for last boss, whereas a second set was OP. - The Scythedances lvl 15 skill that damages all targets on map (with delay memory) + Soulslinger (+100% damage to all allies, with initiative boos) are way overpowered. You just stay and shot everyone. - AI is a bit predictive and uses it's AP to the limit, which gives you way to much space for maneuvers. - Sadly I found out there isn't any replayability. Only unless you want more challenge. But it's very punishing. Overall the game a blast of fresh air.

Is a good game , pretty hard on early runs but after a while you can figure out most of the gameplay and for me got boring pretty fast.

Beautiful artstyle, excelent xcom like combat, amazing world, tough decisions and tougher dificulty, final battle was a little dissaponting in the tactics deparment though, or you either cheese it or it cheeses you, aside from that, excelent, if you like what you see it is for you.

This game is not for everyone, it requires patience, you must be careful with your decisions on every fight. Last unbalanced boss (the suffering itself, suffering egg, that appears before him was defeatable for me) ruined the perception of the game for me, I just lost my temper on the last mission, because he requires too much specific initiative boost memories grinding and even good prepared with necessary skills you are not guaranteed to defeat it. I gave up on him after 2 full cicles, because all gameplay became just really frustrating and boring grinding with no reward guaranteed. I used cheat engine to defeat it just to be able to watch final video and complete the game. All other bosses are hard, but defeatable with correct approach. Game is beautiful, stylish, immersive, soundtracks are really great and created just the right mood and atmosfere. Fights do not became boring fast because of smart developers approach to difficulty curve. But for me the last boss was just too much.

If you have a problem then look LightBulb Crew up on Discord! This game is truly amazing and they're doing their upmost to make it even better by listening to the community around it! GOG.com just received the most recent Othercide patch today. I'm so glad a game like this exists! It's so good!