Those Who Rule

Id give it a 70% rating. Story: Its a well written story with not much choices you can do. Gameplay: Interesting at first but due to the lack classes and magic, its basically just melee vs tank vs archer. Missions: Creative at first but then no more side missions and only "kill every enemy". The game runs out of steam at the end so to say - but a nice Fire Emblem like. If the dev would make a 2nd game, id imagine that he would learn a lot and make even better games. :)

A challenging and compeling turn based tactics game. The story is interesting almost from the first moment, but even when you are just following the characters, the dialogue is funny. At first the battles seem a bit basic, with each character having only 2 abilities (active or passive). However soon enough you'll acquire unique items that give more skills, and at level 10 you can choose a class upgrade which gives more skills and opens playstyles and synergies. Very recommended to anyone that likes turn based tactics games with a grid.

Good game but they should really consider a save option in battle. The fights are incredibly long and if you lose a story character towards the end of the battle then you have to start over. That can be a lot of wasted time. Time I don't have. Edit: I just dropped difficulty and sped up combat time. Problem solved.

这游戏看起来评价都不错，就是没中文，但我又想玩。 于是，我利用AI搓了一个屏幕识别翻译器，前2小时的游玩时间是在不断测试和优化，现在总算能玩下去了！ 游戏好不好玩还不知道，但我手搓的程序+1了，感谢Those Who Rule给了我动力!

Bought this at a very discounted price and am quite happy with this purchase. Made it to chapter 17 and had enough though. Like every turn based tactics game in existence the RNG can be frankly baffling and asinine, seeming to get worse as I progressed into the story. But that could be a perception problem on my part. Will definitely be getting the next installment, knowing full well what I am getting into.

I really wanted to like this game, I really did. Fire emblem is my favorite SRPG and I had high hopes for this one, as it clearly is inspired by Fire Emblem. But sadly I can't recommend it. If there was a middle option I would go for it, but it has too many flaws. Story and characters are not at all compelling. Which is fair, god knows Fire Emblem Engage isn't played for the story or characters. Although, as outlandish and hideous as many of the Engage character designs were, they had their charm or were at least memorable for how horrendous they were. Those Who Rule has character designs that are so bland that one year later I don't remember them at all. So story and characters are weak, but how is the gameplay? The gameplay unfortunately tries to add too much and as a consequence is not tight enough. I should caveat this, I played this game on the hardest difficulty only. This game tries to implement standard SRPG elements like backstabs (attacking characters from behind) and flanks along with weapons that can strike through multiple characters and hexagonal movement which changes gameplay approach considerably from something like Fire emblem. I liked the idea of these concepts at first (like shields recharging health and spear/sword and axe being so different from one another) but as the game went on these mechanics just bogged down the flow of the game. The range of movement + the hexagonal movement + the extra reach from spear and swords + abilities + flanks + backstab.... AI can just one shot a target with ease at great distance, so you need to slowly pull enemies with dedicated enemy phase characters... which there are not that many. It turned into a huge slog later in the game. This is the opposite of fire emblem on maddening mode where the early game is brutal but the late game is a breeze, which feels good because as you power up the expanded options you have to tackle combat should make things flow quicker. Lastly some classes are utter trash and some are completely insane, the balancing is kind wild in this game. It's a good effort and i think some people will like it, but ultimately it fell short. It needed more time, more refinement, and perhaps more testing.

It starts decent and becomes complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around chpter 8. Abmysal map design, idiotic save system and unballanced fights where enemies are always 2-3 levels higher, being reinforced and have high avoidance, which causes tons of misses. Trying to complete timed events forces you to replay chapters over and over until you get lucky with rolls. Total waste of money and time. Avoid at all cost!