TRIANGLE STRATEGY

Quick summary, Great VN, not something I want to dig into as a game. Highly recommended if you want a good story first and foremost. Actual choices on offer, the characters, and the way the story unfolds are the highlights of the experience. Character interactions started and remained top notch all the way throughout. This is the reason to play the game full stop. To the point that I'd say if you're not into these then you should probably pass. Loved the way the story develops. I don't have much to say here really. Every little decision I made felt acknowledged and respected. Not until the endgame did I feel like I was being railroaded. Loved seeing every new turn the story took and every new character that popped up along the way. It remained engaging from beginning to end with no dips. Speaking of endings... (No direct spoilers) For the record I only did 1 of them, but after seeing what my options were narrowed down to by endgame, I wouldn't even want to play the others. The buildup was fantastic. I really want to stress this as it might sound as though I didn't enjoy it. It really felt like the culmination of everything I was working toward with my earlier decisions with callbacks to events both big and small. The ending itself was bad. I didn't go for the true route, but this turned out to not actually respect the decisions I made along the way, but suddenly shifted at the end to instead preach to me about how things are always bad and you need to instead stop all that lame RP nonsense you were doing and instead pull up a guide to get the real ending where everything is sunshine and rainbows. Legendary fumble. IMO they should have just dropped the whole true ending nonsense and made the other endings actually stand on their own instead of serving as an indictment of the world and characters. Combat started off great, but toward the latter half just became a chore to slog through. Little things that just felt like casual conveniences in the early game were making me want to give up once the heat was turned up. I would strongly recommend to play on easy and treat this as a VN unless you happen to really like this combat system. A couple highlight gripes from me would be just how squishy your units are, and how abusable terrain/positioning are. Things can be going great then suddenly two enemies attack the same unit and they're deleted with zero possible interaction from my end. Should have cheesed harder ggs. (This particular example reached comical levels on one mission where I had to protect an AI party member that was absolutely dead set on throwing their life away.) Outside of the early game, I never once felt like I made it through the tough battles with plans, gear, or rpg team synergies. Every time the going got tough for me the answer ended up being to play like I did when I was 10 and just pump more damage so they can't hit back, to spam extra turns like this was Rogue Trader, or to abuse enemy pathfinding. I really don't want to see the results of other choices (despite me being very interested from a story PoV) primarily because of the combat. Sidenote: I think I'd prefer if the game were balanced around extra turns and the whole Quietus system not existing rather than every fight being an outnumbered underdog story where I have to make big plays (read: cheese) instead of just solid teambuilding/formation. Localization is functional, but riddled with rewrites. You will have no trouble following the story or understanding the stakes, but beware that if you can't understand the audio, many little bits of characterization in the writing are literally just fan-fiction. I can't stress how constant this is at some points of the story. Here's but one tiny example for people that have played it: [spoiler]"My love" is literally, not once, in the text.[/spoiler] Like I said, it's nothing big or impactful, but it is just a constant assault on my intelligence as whoever was localizing this had the audacity to sit there and say "Here's how I would have wrote this line" instead of actually letting the audience know what the writer intended to convey.

If you like FF tactics, you will love this game.

I would absolutely recommend this game to fans of turn-based tactics games that feature story-telling, progression systems, and branching narrative paths as main selling points. There is a fair bit of asset re-use throughout this game through the 'Mental Mock Battle' system, but by in large this game is an excellent single playthrough. The music is quite good, but I really wish some of the most-repeated tracks would have arrangements or variation. You'll hear the 'Encampment Music' theme in your dreams after a full game of leveling up, tweaking stats/gear, etc. Many games have this issue, but it's something I wanted to mention. There's also a NewGame+ feature to allow you to roll over your progression into a fresh story to explore other paths missed the first time around. There's nothing world-breaking here, but if you can pick it up for a decent discount I think you'll enjoy yourself. It exceeded my modest expectations.

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At this moment, the game is more frustration in both gameplay and story rather than fun. We'll see as I play more.

very bad keyboard & mouse controls, bad menu management no saves at the start of a battle, no saves between turns, no normal quicksaves painful to play, no enemy AI, even a primitive one no patches for for three years after release. developers obviously don't care about players experience, do not recommend to buy any game from them

An excellent game with a really engaging story. The whole choice system with different endings kept me curious, wondering how things would play out if I picked something else. Chasing all the achievements took a while, but when that last one popped, it felt amazing. I ended up spending over 200 hours on it. Triangle Strategy comes from the same team behind Octopath Traveler, and you can definitely feel the influence, the art , the atmosphere, and the way the story pulls you in all carry that same charm. If you enjoyed Octopath, this one feels like its tactical sibling.