Vanaris Tactics - Prologue

Like other reviewers, I must say that visually the game is very appealing. I also find the premise of the story, and some of the details of the narrative referred to in the prologue, interesting. However, the writing is unfortunately very poor, and this did take away from the experience for me, since the story makes up a significant part of this prologue. Mechanics-wise, I should preface this by saying that I am not familiar with the games referred to by other reviewers as being similar mechanically to Vanaris Tactics, such as Final Fantasy Tactics or Tactics Ogre. I cannot therefore comment on how Vanaris compares to those games mechanically. From this perspective, I found the combat boring and lacking in depth - the game teaches you that you do more damage when attacking from the side or behind, and my turns in combat revolved almost exclusively around moving my characters to the side of an enemy and hitting them; repeat until there are no more enemies. I did not find this interesting or enjoyable, and it felt like a waste of time. I also share the criticisms levelled against the UI by other reviewers - the interface does not seem to be designed for PC, and can do things such as cover enemies when you are trying to target them, which is annoying. I do like how it shows step by step what the enemy is doing on their turn though - I thought that was a nice touch and assisted with reading what was going on. Overall, the Prologue decisively put me off from playing the main game, chiefly because I did not find the combat engaging, and because the poor writing would prevent me from enjoying the story. I will say, however, that the Prologue takes less than an hour to complete, so, if you are still undecided about it after reading this and other reviews, there are worse things you could do than giving it a go.

I know this is just the demo but the gameplay on offer is pretty straight forward. Even pixel graphics can have more detail and appeal, and the lack of hotkeys or a fast forward option hobble the experience. Unless this game is hiding some epic strategy idea that takes awhile to be realized, I can't see any reason to get the full version. Also how lazy do you have to be to not include a quit option for your demo, I have to alt F4 to leave.

Very much like the old FF Tactics and such games that I used to play back in the day. Fun and I'm REALLY looking forwards to seeing what they come up with in the future. Will be buying this game!

NOTE: This review is very negative, but I edited my review to give game a thumbs-up anyway, because it does what it was built to do. They sure did a good job of cloning Final Fantasy Tactics, right down to the grueling, slow tedium of battle... 21 minutes in and I wasn't allowed to save the game. Is it disabled in this demo? The menu option for it was there, but greyed out. The plot of the game from what I saw is pretty URRGHH, and is as follows: "SLAVERY BAD! COLONIZATION BAD! RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE BAD! Help the red-skinned people defeat the Europea- er, pale-skinned people! Yeah, OK. The game gives me zero reason to care about the plight of these people and their culture. Let them get absorbed by whatever Empire conquered them for all I care. If you're obsessed with FFT you'd probably enjoy this though, even though it lacks the depth of having a job system. I won't be grabbing the full game. Appreciate the demo though, as it allows me to avoid having to buy and refund the full game.

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Properly executed pixel art turn based tactics rpg with an interesting story.

Este sí es un buen FFT para PC