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[TexMex]

You guys are way too hung up on the roguelite word. If you like tactics, you like this. It’s really just a hub where you can buy some permanent upgrades in between missions. You will never play this game and confuse it for any other genre beyond turn based tactics.

 

[panda-zebra]

You guys are way too hung up on the roguelite word. If you like tactics, you like this. It’s really just a hub where you can buy some permanent upgrades in between missions. You will never play this game and confuse it for any other genre beyond turn based tactics.

I'm a long-time SRPG fan and can't agree after spending time with the game - only a few evenings now but enough to know it's not for me and is lacking precisely because of the rogulite stuff.

It's shallow, content-starved and crutches hard on that aspect of the gameplay in an attempt to offer anything but absolute repetition beyond just a few hours, but fails. It's just dull.

Give me a real campaign and story any day over this, with proper character development, worthwhile enemies to go up against and genuinely worthwhile hand-crafted level design not procedurally-generated banality.

As is, it's 2-3x too expensive for what it offers - by rights it should be priced way down with other cheap and cheerful roguelites, but all that extra cash is likely needed for the license that, in all honesty, doesn't really add anything but mild graphical familiarity to the experience.

Oh, and the zoomed-in pixel art dialogue scenes physically pain my eyes on a 65" OLED - probably not nearly an offensive jumbled mess of brixels on a desktop monitor where the game was created and tested... there's also glitchy and buggy UI/front end stuff to contend with. Game Pass is the only place this game should be played until it's on deep discount.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

God WTF is up with indie devs obsession with “roguelite”? Especially these days when I have much better choice for SRPG like Unicorn Overlord and Triangle Strategy.

Would you recommend UO and TS for someone who likes XCOM/Into the Breach/Baldur's Gate 3 because of the turn-based strategy, and also likes Atlus games like Persona and SMT?

 

[Danjin44]

Would you recommend UO and TS for someone who likes XCOM/Into the Breach/Baldur's Gate 3 because of the turn-based strategy, and also likes Atlus games like Persona and SMT?

I didn’t play XCOM or BG3 so I don’t know.

Unicorn Overlord is similar to Ogre Battle 64 while Triangle Strategy is more similar to Tatctics Ogre and FFT.

 

[Rentahamster]

Would you recommend UO and TS for someone who likes XCOM/Into the Breach/Baldur's Gate 3 because of the turn-based strategy, and also likes Atlus games like Persona and SMT?

I liked Triangle Strategy because it's similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, but aside from the taking turns between the player and enemy, the mechanics and theme are very different from XCOM.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I liked Triangle Strategy because it's similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, but aside from the taking turns between the player and enemy, the mechanics and theme are very different from XCOM.

Ok, good to know. I haven't played FFT, but I like turn-based in general.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Done a few runs now and it's good. Definitely inspired by into the breach. I like how each character plays differently, motivates you to unlock them all and try them.

Weapons are done really well to the point where they are very useful but you have to be a little bit careful to conserve ammo. It's not like you constantly run out of ammo unless you lean on them to much, it's a good balance. But I really miss hearing "heavy machine gun!" audio all the time the way you do in proper metal slug. The metal slugs are great too, really powerful. I've unlocked the ability to air drop a metal slug and I hold onto it until the last, longest mission to make it easier or to bail me out when a escort mission is going wrong. So far I like most of the characters but Fio and Marco are really flexible and useful compared to others who are more situational.

Performance not great on switch. Lately I've been trying Fio's upgrade where she triggers sync attacks when she teleports enemies into ally attack range, and it always causes the game to crash whenever it's used. Maybe it only happens when she is combined with Nadia electric mines ability but with this team comp I've gotten loads of crashes