Tales & Tactics

9.5/10分：超棒的自走棋！多个英雄技能、不同棋子阵营、有用的随机事件，各种搭配超多！自走棋爱好者强烈推荐！

Perhaps Tales And Tactics doesn't look like much at first glance, but there is a solid (enough) game under the hood. It's one of those go-wide-but-not-deep games. Like other games in the genre, you will struggle to find early success until you complete a few runs and unlock additional features which make the game a little more fair. For me, completing runs (win or lose) was satisfying. There are many, many unlocks available which greatly expand your options during a run. This keeps your first dozen or so runs engaging, introducing new game mechanics while still mastering those you started with. Here are a few pitfalls I found, though: 1. At the end of each combat round, you receive a fresh unit store with six units to choose from. You spend star points to purchase units. The problem is, star points are tough to save due to having to purchase multiples of the same unit in order to combine them to reach a higher tier. You might reach Tier 2 with a couple units, only to complete the first level of the run when the store replaces two of those six common units with uncommon units. Great, right? No. The uncommon units are Tier 1, so you'll have to start buying multiples of those units in order to level them to Tier 2, again, which is necessary or you'll get stomped later in the run. Now, only six units are available at the end of each run. If you don't get a match or an upgrade choice, you have to re-roll the store. You do receive "some" free re-rolls, but normally at the cost of other choice upgrades. Mostly, you'll need to pay 2 star points just to re-roll the store (once). Still no upgrade? The game does offer what it calls "Power Roll" so if you roll the store and receive no copies of units you already have, you can roll again and you're guaranteed to receive a copy. That's great, but that means you're spending like 5-7 or more star points on a single unit that might cost only 1 or 2 star coins normally. Should you choose to ignore this process, you won't last long enough to spend those star points you greedily banked. So, the game shoots you in the foot here. By the time you've spent all your SP leveling your commons and uncommons, and you've been lucky enough to do so, you'll then start receiving rare units late in the run. Great right? No. They're Tier 1. You'll now have to see about leveling those units to Tier 4 or again, you'll get stomped by the bosses at the end of the game. After the first and second boss, you'll get an extra party member, raising your total party units from the initial four to six. So, the entire run becomes extremely stressful and relies heavily on the luck of your store rolls. That said, the priority should be leveling your units to Tier 4, regardless of rarity. But, that sort of defeats the purpose of the game advertising "all those different units and traits". Because of the trait buffs, you'll find it even more stressful to purchase new units, because if the new unit's traits don't match your party build, then they're completely worthless to you and yet they'll still take up valuable spots in the unit store (more re-rolls). They just need to balance this experience a little and they could have something great. As it stands, I'm pretty exhausted with it at 46 hours. And I only lasted past the first few hours due to unlimited coin and star point cheats... 2. Obtaining items should be a lot easier. Equipment comes with massive buffs, especially when items combine, but there are steep costs for acquiring items. Far, far too steep. I had to find an unlimited coin cheat because the default system was far too oppressive. I mean, you want the game to be fun, right? 3. Too much luck, not enough skill. Personal opinion here, but I feel like these "rogue" games should be winnable with enough skill, but many times it feels like you're much more dependent upon the graciousness of the RNG on that particular run. Like, I'm sorry, but... that's not fun. I should be rewarded for making the best out of what's available, not punished for brutal RNG. Again, the game is supposed to be fun, right? All this said, after a few defeats, I was forced to find unlimited coin and unlimited star points cheats. The game, of course, becomes far too easy, but I had a good time unlocking all the available unlocks regardless. That lasted until about 42-44 hours, but now that everything is unlocked, I'm not sure I want to continue. If I play with the cheats, it's too easy. If I don't play with the cheats, it's not fun. Such is life, I guess. But, there is enough here to recommend the game, with or without cheats, if you don't mind some or all of the things I've mentioned. Overall, I applaud the dev team. It's a great little game. I uninstall so many of these but this kept my attention for a solid week.

It scratches that itch for a good autobattler roguelite. Definitely worth it

从最开始到现在也断断续续玩了一阵子了，所有的也都解锁了，dlc也体验了，这里先不提dlc不完全的中文、一片完全新且与本体无关联的完全独立的派系、dlc迷之卡牌强度。 构筑时间不够，流程很短，赶着你往前，打一会就结束了，体验不好。 发售到现在这么久了，dlc也出了，这问题还是没动过。 基本上你出几个三星，一个两个四星，就结束了。 开发商真的会做这类游戏吗？

Yeah my friend sent me this for like $2.50. So I sent it to two of my friends. It's been a lot of fun so far.

Solid balance, positioning matters a lot more than in most autobattlers I've played and the draft system adds a lot of variation and possibility in builds. Seems like it'd be fun in multiplayer but tragically only one friend I know has it and with two people it feels like its missing something.

Have I enjoyed my time with it? Yeah. Is it sometimes a bit too slow? Yeah. Is the music awful? Yeah. Are some/all of the units premade assets which you may have seen in various different games by different devs? Yeah. Would my review be a positive one if they'd made their own assets? Yeah.