TRIANGLE STRATEGY

TL;DR - This game is too expensive for how boring the story is I love a visual novel and intricate story with extensive dialogue sections (I love FE3H), but this game's story drags. It's very boring and very slow to start. The voice acting is not great (only about 15% of the characters have good VAs). Between a bland story and bad voice acting, there's not much to keep me interested during the long dialogue sections. Also, there are TOO many characters and the game gives you no reason to care about any of them aside from like three of them (one of which is yourself). I sometimes would just fast forward through the story section and quickly skim the logs just to get to the fights/exploration sequences. I usually never do this! But if i didn't, I really wouldn't have gotten through the game. The game mechanics are fun though. I like the fights, and the different terrains introduced for each fight. I also like the mechanic of convincing others into a choice you want to make. I really wish there were more fights and more exploration phases. (Maybe even bigger towns? Larger places to explore?) Overall, $60 USD is WAY too much for such a bland game. I honestly would not recommend even on sale. The game is not that fun and there are plenty of other good ones on the market that are similar and better. It's actually highway robbery

I have very mixed feelings about this game but In the end I cannot recommend it. I did beat it, but there is a big "BUT" to every single thing the game does good. I would not play it again but I would love to watch a tv series or an anime portraying the game's plot. - The game looks great and has nice 2D HD design BUT there are only a couple environments you actually visit and fight in. Combat areas are recycled - The games story is insanely good and addicting BUT BUT (and thats a big one), it's told in a disastrous way. Oftentimes after you finish a quest you receive up to 10 (!) different cutscenes you can watch in a row, with no interaction of your side. Something that can take upwards of an hour. The game intro takes almost an hour 1.5 with a short fight inbetween. The pacing and storytelling is insanely BORING even though the plot itself is remarkably good. I think its the only game I've ever played that achieved this combination. - Combat itself has nice ideas BUT only a bunch of characters actually make a difference in a fight, some of them are basically useless. I think they wanted to omit the usual tank/healer/dps trio but this just made some characters useless in the end. On top of that, the best strategy for 90% of the maps is to just hide in the corner and make th enemy come for you. - The game has a concise story without filler BUT you are constantly underleveled during your main quest (even though there are no side quests), you can only do "mind combat" which are basically mini battles but without repeating (so grinding) them you will still be underleveled for the main quest. I dropped the difficulty in the end just to grind those missions which really brought my enjoyment of the game down. Also for some reasons achievements didn't work for me when playing offline. One thing that is a clear positive for me is the quality of english voiceovers and the fact that the characters use nice, a bit archaic, english, instead of the californiaslop new games tend to serve.

I bought this game thinking it was a tactical RPG, but it is just a very dry visual novel with some occasional fighting.

For my money, this is the current gold crown holder of Tactical RPGS. I feel like, when people talk about Tactical RPGs, the convo comes down to Final Fantasy: Tactics, Ogre Tactics: Reborn, and Triangle Strategy. Having played and enjoyed all 3, I think Triangle Strategy is the best of the bunch and god I hope we get a sequel eventually. The most common criticism of this game is that the start (first 4 chapters) are slow. I don't think they're a slog, and even more importantly they are the dressing and foundation for an utterly enthralling realm of political theatre and power struggles. The artstyle and music are both immaculate, with some of my favourite tracks in the genre! The story is great! The cast of characters is memorable and versatile. You can make the 'weird' units into absolute power-houses with a bit of work. There was a moment in my playthrough that I made an unorthodox mage into an AoE terror on the battlefield with the help of some supporting units and I felt like a genius. The replay value is also really high, owing to all the branching paths. I think TS also strikes a pretty near-perfect balance of portraying a personal story of its characters, ALONGSIDE a political story of the realms and cultures of people involved, which is a criticism I personally levy at Final Fantasy Tactics even though it's also very good. I truly adore this game. Hopefully this positive view gets at least one more person to experience this modern masterpiece of the genre!

Good [list] [*] Battle difficulty of "normal mode" is fantastic. [*] Voice acting in almost every dialogue. [*] 30 to 50 hours gameplay for a fair price. [*] No bugs or technical problems. [/list] Bad [list] [*] Story is generic and takes 30 hours to get interesting but then suddenly ends. [*] Story claims to have player choices but only one choice at the end of the game matters, like in Mass Effect 3. [*] Too many forgettable flat characters. [*] "Hard mode" is identical to normal with just a plain multiplier to enemy attack and defense. [/list]

Review: Triangle Strategy in Context I have 100% achievements in Tactics Ogre: Reborn, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Triangle Strategy. This review is written from experience, not nostalgia or first-play hype. Gameplay Triangle Strategy’s combat is solid, polished, and functional. Terrain matters, positioning matters, and encounters are generally well-balanced. That said, it plays safe. Compared to Tactics Ogre’s deep class systems and FFT’s expressive job flexibility, Triangle Strategy feels restrained. It works, but it never truly surprises. Story This is where Triangle Strategy falls behind hard. Tactics Ogre delivers dense political branching with consequences that persist across timelines, backed by extensive character lore. FFT tells a single, powerful story with unforgettable themes and characters. Triangle Strategy talks about politics, but its character arcs and lore are thin by comparison. The moral choices sound important, but the emotional weight rarely lands. In a genre defined by political tragedy and consequence, this story ranks a distant third. Structure & Game Design This is the game’s biggest failure. Tactics Ogre allows you to jump to any story checkpoint and explore alternate routes without restarting. Achievements, notes, and routes are tracked intelligently. Post-game content exists and matters. Final Fantasy Tactics is linear, but honest. One path, fully delivered. No replay tax. Triangle Strategy forces full New Game Plus runs to see alternate routes. There is no post-game, only “congratulations, start over.” Worse, the game provides no route tracker, no note tracker, no completion panel. Achievement hunting becomes guesswork. I spent roughly 24 hours chasing two achievements because the game does not tell you where missing notes are. Three of them were in the same chapter across three different routes, requiring three full playthroughs just to collect metadata. That is not difficulty. That is bad design. Characters & Lore Tactics Ogre gives extensive lore to a wide cast. FFT does the same within a linear structure. Triangle Strategy’s characters exist primarily to serve the route you are on, with minimal depth outside it. Once the credits roll, there is nothing left to explore. Final Verdict Triangle Strategy is a good tactical RPG, but when placed beside the giants it clearly emulates, it lacks ambition in both story and system design. Best gameplay and design: Tactics Ogre Best story and thematic weight: Final Fantasy Tactics Clean presentation, weakest depth: Triangle Strategy If you’ve never played the genre, Triangle Strategy is a fine entry point. If you’ve mastered it, you’ll feel the missing layers immediately. Recommended, but clearly third place among the three.

I'll first talk about what I liked about the game. The story is okay, the visual and effects of battles are great as well! The uniqueness of the conviction system had me hooked at first, trying my best to look through every crevice and talk to as many people as I could during non-battle phases so I can get all the information and notes as I possibly could. Therein lies the problem. I found myself yawning and laying too relaxed on my chair going through all the dialogue and boring side stories. There is too much dialogue to go through and lore that I forget I'm playing a game. It would have helped if what I am reading through was good, but by around hour 20, I just started skipping most of the dialogue which would cause me to fail persuading my allies. The promotion system is also kinda wack. Each character promotion is locked behind an item that you can only get through story progression. From my experience, these types of strategy tactical RPGs don't come with a grinding system, but this one does. You can go to training grounds or replay some previous battles to increase your character's experience, but it's not really worth it. Sure, your character can keep leveling past its promotion level, but you won't be able to promote it until you have acquired the item necessary after story progression and its far too repetitive. There is some character development on a few characters that are nice, but its really only maybe 4 or 5 of them. Eventually, the boring dialogue made me play the game maybe 30 minutes at a time, an hour at most. Left room for me to try something else so I started playing a different game and never picked up this game again. If you are looking for scratching that itch that fire emblem has, try "Those who rule". That's a game with some chest hair.

Let's face it, you're looking for a new Fire Emblem/Tactics style game. I'll cut to the chase: the gameplay is good and fun, the story is basic, and the voice acting is startlingly bad but you'll grow to drown it out. I've beaten all endings and played all paths, they're terrible to ok at best. Any further time played after this review is just for achievements.

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