Those Who Rule

This game is made up of three parts 1) static screens where you follow the dialogue, 2) menu where you equip your troops, 3) battles. once you finish one, you get automatically shuffled to the next. 1) The story and dialogue are not great. There are so many characters, and everyone seems to have a say. Most of the dialogue is akin to "Why do we have to kill these people", "Oh it's what we do", "Oh yeah, I guess that's right". There is a story which is finy but sifting through the dialogue is a chore if you want to know what's going on 2) The menu is suprisingly atrocious. When you hover over a piece of equipment it will show you it's skills. What if the item is far down on the screen? Well, then pop-up description will stretch outside the screen so you can't read. There is no option to compare weapons to what you already have equipped. There is no way to get an overview of your party's levels, skills, items etc. you have to go through them one by one. it is a shame, because you do have a list of all your party members which covers about ~15% of the screen. There is enough space to tell horizontally to add any information you could want. 3) The battles are the main selling point of this game I guess. I think I play it on the second hardest setting with perma-death, which was standard. Since the characters all seem to have a story, I would rather not lose them, so I always try to keep them alive. The difficulty is quite low but you have to essentially look at all nearby enemies, calculate how much dmg they have and how much HP you have before you place a character. one rash move in a looong battle will perma kill your character and you need to start over. honestly this type of detailed keeping score & meticulous planning takes the fun out of the game for me. Ngl, I will feel pretty good about the game but then I realize I put a character with only 21 HP too close to the enemies and bonk he's dead. Up to you if you think this if fun, but honestly if they trimmed the dialogue, improved the menus it would be so much better due to that being 2/3 of the game. the combat I think you either like it or you don't. there are other pet peeves of mine, such as if you save & later reload, they don't put you where you were, you get sent back to the dialogue again. just small stuff here and there that makes the game seem really unpolished.