Another reviewer compared this game to an "ugly, ugly diamond". I tend to agree. I love the concept, the tactical aspects, and the overall theme. While FF Tactics is the most common comparison, I actually think this game has far more in common with the Shining Force games, in terms of strategy and story. Tactically, the game emphasises positioning and facing of characters. All attacks do backstab damage from behind (*all*, including spells and area attacks). So it becomes critical early on to learn how to use push and pull abilities to position enemies and allies. Other than a few duplicate classes, each unit has distinct strengths and vulnerabilities which make it interesting enough to use and strong enough to be worth using. Unfortunately, the game is both incomplete and extremely buggy. Despite over 50 hours in the game, I've given up on playing it due to a bug that causes the game to slow incrementally during play until it progresses at a snail's pace of a few frames per second. You may notice that the most positive reviews here don't pass the game's earlier stages, which are shorter and don't demonstrate the problem. In addition, the UI is a disaster. Everything from font choice to background makes the UI a pain to use. Buttons can go beyond the boxes they're meant to fit in to hover over the battlefield. Dropping an item can cause other items to unequip. Sometimes items swap between characters for no apparent reason. I've spent some serious time with a decompiler trying to figure out why the game behaves so poorly over time, but it's an art I haven't mastered. For now, all I can suggest is to wait and see if the developer ever finishes this new engine that he claimed to be working on several years ago but has yet to deliver.
