Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga

Gameplay is amazing. The customizability of your units is unparalleled in any other game. The depth and breath of the system is truely mesmerizing. Unfortunately the writing is really bad. The plot is straightforward and okay. The interpersonal relationships and characters are terrible. Ultimately, a good game, but you will be smashing the skip button through any dialogue.

I really like this. The story surprised me by how much I ended up enjoying it with some twists, the characters have me endeared too. The game is not complex for both getting into and on the higher end (not unless you grab the dlc but I decided not to). Its a good time for a play once and never touch again.

非常好玩的战棋回合制游戏，战斗方式感觉上和《火焰纹章》系列类似，虽然粗糙的画风可能有点劝退，但是可游玩性弥补了这一点。这游戏我觉得最值得欣赏的一点就是兵种的自由搭配，感觉和搭积木一样自由，有些看起来奇怪的阵容或许有意想不到的效果。剧情方面的话由于我很久之前通关的，基本上什么都不记得就不做评价了。

it's fun game, too bad we don't have a skirmish or an option to replay the previous chapter. DEAR DEVELOPER.... please add a skirmish or training gameplay, you don't have to give EXP or gold just let me test my new squad..

总结，玩法不错，像圣兽之王，剧情一坨。如果你想花小钱就能玩很长时间，这个游戏你不能错过 通关了，说实话有种解脱的感觉，后期真的拖沓。自从把 12 关的增兵解决掉，整个游戏就陷入无聊的 sl 通关中。这个游戏得看个人是否喜欢组队，和火纹是不一样的体验，倒是有些地图和系谱一样又臭又长。由于是组队，总是会偶尔翻车，不像圣兽之王有个即时的框架，这个游戏回合制导致玩起来非常耗时间，我后面几章都没刷竞技场了还是总共玩了 50 小时。最让我想吐槽的是剧情，涉嫌剧透。剧情一开始还好，主角还像是个正常人。自从主角死后变成圣灵，主角就变成了天命，但玩家又有不少信息不知道。我实在没搞懂为啥最后所有人都背叛主角，主角还认为自己没错。主角在为了救兄弟造成世界危机时是怎么还大义凌然演讲了一番。制作人真是写剧情写得颅内高潮，整个剧情宗教战争味真是大得受不了。能不能多写点邪教破坏的剧情，不然我都不知道主角教派和邪教又有啥区别，特别是戴安娜的行为。

不停的闪退不停的闪退，一分钟闪退三次，玩尼玛呢

I do recommend the game but I would probably never beat it to the end. For the most parts, I believe you can have 2 types of tactical games: ones with fewer squads that are more customized (equipment, classes, affinities, traits, ...) and the one with more squads and less customization. The Symphony of war starts as the former, making you command and customize a comfortable number of 6-9 squads. You can still remember the leaders, the units, have some specific plans and develop according to it. Once it's mid-game, it gets closer and closer to its upper limit, somewhere around 20 squads becomes a reality. In Fantasy General I could command as many troops more easily as they're all more or less the same and I don't need to care about the individual squad. Here we're basically playing an RPG-like game with 200-250 characters. Given that the inventory management (assigning artifacts, etc.) is inconvenient, preparations become a chore. I do still find this game good, it's just not for me, but you should probably give it a try to see for yourself. Just keep in mind the thing I said above. Playing with less squads will lead to missed deadlines and no S ranks - this is what these turn based games usually do, set a timer you can beat only with an army that is close to its limit (e.g. if the mission expects 15 squads, you will have troubles with 6). It would be a different story if you could do the mission in a slow guerilla way with just 6, but you will have to rush it. I played it on Warlord difficulty and it was easy until I started to notice that the deployments limits go further and further, but I was still using my comfortable 6-8 squads. I might try to run the game on Normal just to see if it's any better for this style of a play, but I assume it would be way to easy in the first half of the game (that wasn't hard on Warlord) and still too hard later as you just need many squads to capture the multiple objectives. I wonder which direction the second game would take. Even more squads? At this point the fan base may be large squads aligned, so I doubt the second game will be for me either. It's sad that it was the perfect game for me up until the squad scaling problem. I would be fine with a game that is balanced around the squad limit of 9 or so.

真的很令人上瘾的一款战棋。已严肃warlord难度通关 剧情方面虽然老套但也是个不错的故事，培养士兵并且将其转职然后组建各种阵容然后在实战中测试效果是本作核心乐趣来源之一。神器系统的加持也使得在面对后期同样阵容豪华的敌人部队时候能够做到以一敌三。 实际上即使是军阀难度中后期阵容成型后在实战中不犯大病的话也能做到一路平推。难点基本上在前期草根部队互殴时期。 "我的誓言现在只对你一个人"

short answer: decent game solid 9/10. Long answer: If you like fire emblem and okay with thinking a little bit more i would recommend it. I would recommend turning perma death off. I played with it and it made the whole experience kind of tedious cause i was focused on not letting people die i felt restricted in how i could build my squads. Story is decent general good verse evil with a couple twists. art is good not the best but its good enough that it doesnt take away from the experience.