Hartacon Tactics

This game has potetial, but a lot has to be improved, includind the sound effects who are very very poor and, despite what some people may think, it's a very important aspect of a game

Pas de coopération local pour le mode campagne. Et controle pas intuitif

This seems to be an unfinished game in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics and similar classic grid based tactics games. The bones of a decent game are here, but there's no story, no reason to progress, and no polish. Edit: In view of the developer's response, I admit I did not read the game description closely. However, one point stands. This game offers no reason to progress. When it offered a 'survival campaign' I expected significantly more to justify the appellation of 'campaign'. Admittedly, I never progressed passed the first couple tiles which featured bland samey maps and a selection of characters with no meaningful personality or skills. The developer did say 'survival' but I didn't realize that also meant it lacked all description, character design, or flavor beyond what you get from the pixel graphics. Given that the developer won't respond positively to this review regardless of what I say, I will go ahead and make some suggestions that won't be followed. Generally, a survival game causes you to die more or less frequently. Most survival games explicitly require your characters to die in order to progress or have death as a ubiquitous event. This game has neither of those things. As such, I feel that it fails to qualify as a survival game. Instead, it can be described as a game where the characters simply persist in doing the same things over and over for no particular purpose or notable change. Similarly, even in the absence of cohesive story, the complete lack of flavor, humor, characterization, description, or setting cannot be simply ignored by declaring that the game is a survival type game. You may note that the great survival games of any genre you can name have at least some of those things. Consider Left 4 Dead 2 which is about surviving in a zombie apocalypse. Despite the fact that it is only about shooting zombies and getting from point A to point B it includes a significant amount of humor, a weak B movie plot, and different characters with distinct personalities. One can see that those aren't throwaway qualities because the game made a ton of money and some people probably still play it.

The game seems to be designed for a controller, but using a controller the controls were still extremely clunky. I was unable to change my facing at all after moving, even through the arrows seemed to imply I should be able to. Instead every character just turns to moon the enemy after they finish moving. Seems unpolished and buggy. Also there are only 6 sprite sets for characters the enemies all look the same as your characters. Not even palette shifting, so there isn't much character to the game.

Consistently crashes, would otherwise be a good game.

It takes getting into. Which is why I tried it first XBLIG back in the day but it just felt… off. I can’t remember exactly why, but for one reason or another I just couldn’t get into it. I decided to give it another go, and I just somehow “got it”. Yes, I wish there was a tutorial and more explanation before it threw you into things but if you can overlook its steep learning curve and it’s god-awful controls (i use a controller in one hand, mouse in the other) there’s a fun game full of heart. (In a new control scheme is in beta and I keep meaning to try it out.)