Tactics Ogre: Reborn

The game's pretty fun for a TRPG. I don't have an issue with the level cap because the game's pretty damn easy, as long as you're not some brain rotted 'tard that can't handle the concept of team composition, but the healers in the game are genuinely borderline useless compared to healing items. Sure, there's an item that boosts a healer's heals, but even then, their heal still kind of sucks when you can just throw a healing item at a unit using a lobber, or just by having all of your units carry healing, resurrection, and debuff items. The strategy involved in the game doesn't really open up too much until chapter 3, where you get access to far more classes, moves, and items, and the first 2 chapters are kind of hardcore mediocre to being nearly ass. I found the story in this game to also be mediocre. I don't understand where all of the praise behind the story is coming from, but I'm used to reading novels, visual novels, or even manga, so maybe my bar for an entertaining story is too high, or this just doesn't fit my particular niche. Perhaps I just prefer more dialogue heavy stories, especially when there isn't much story involved in a game with small amounts of dialogue peppered about, and you kind of just go around constantly killing people in a war, with not much for anyone to say, other than an enemy commander crying out, "OH THE INHUMANITY! I'M JUST A MAN LIKE YOU, YOU MURDERER! *gurgle gurgle death noise*" I also heard that the final boss in this game is dummy hard, but I beat him on my first try without a single unit of mine dropping unconscious, so I'm not so sure about that, but maybe I was just better prepped than a lot of people? No, I didn't even have a single shaman, despite me going through the effort to do that sidequest. Honestly, the game's pretty good, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, the side content is unbearably grindy for no sane reason. The Palace of the Dead is the most egregious of them all, being 100 floors long, and I only did 25 of those bastards, before realizing that I was sick and tired of playing the game. There really isn't much behind that side dungeon other than loot, and it is far too long for having such generic and boring enemy compositions and floor layouts. I give this game an 8/10. I don't care enough to do all of the side content anytime in the near future, and I sure as ♥♥♥♥ don't care enough to run through the main story missions again.