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I fully agree! what makes this game so great is, that every unit is unique and useful, IF you adapt your playstyle. take Piccoletta for example: she doesn't look like much but, played the right way, she deflects attacks from 3 of your units per round. no one else can do that! the same goes for almost everybody else. it´s one of the best tactical games I've ever played, where you really come to like your characters!

I literally just started this last night. Glad to hear you enjoyed it

I didn’t know I liked SRPGs before I tried Triangle Strategy. And let’s also not fail to praise the absolutely stellar soundtrack.

Another awesome review! I always look forward to them!

Great review! Very thoughtful and informative!

The one we’ve all been waiting for 🙏🏾

Excellent observation re: the pace and story to battle ratio of the early chapters serving a narrative purpose. That's a neat perspective. I can see it being cold comfort for those who were put off by it, but not every design decision can create a fun outcome for all players.

I have to say the banner update surprised me, you tend to go with main characters so I was happy to see Ezana the best girl shaman added!! I think my favorite talking point was in defense of the story's slow burn start. I thought of it as the calm before the storm, it was needed for the pacing and pays off! Game of Thrones as a reference point, the war between the North and the Lannister's doesn't just happen, there's an entire story build up that gets you invested in what's to come. Sure this point can be made for any story, but let me add a direct comparison with Tactics Ogre. Tactics Ogre has a brief intro before being plunged into war, which was good for getting you into gameplay sure enough. For me personally I was scratching my head and referencing the world notes after each scene to figure out what was going on! Triangle Strategy's introduction to each nation and their recent history of war helped get me very invested in all the events that unfold. Then taking the time to watch each optional story gives a ton of depth. My point Im working towards is, Triangle Strategy has the best story of all SRPGs (Saying this as Fire Emblem being my all time favorite series). Character design didnt really get brought up in the review but Id like to add that this game has one of the best in terms of cohesive design. Every single character and NPC looked like they lived in this world. Even the fact they added a functional robot with Decimal but looks like a wooden barrel haha! A lot of RPGs have characters that look and feel like they where designed outside of the game then happened to get added in (not saying that's bad, just to make my point of cohesive design). Another fantastic review for the Backlog Battle!!!

Great review! I played the demo right before the launch of the game and I really liked it but didn't pick up the full game until way later and haven't gotten around to playing it yet. After watching this I have a strong urge to start it right away! Cheers from Sweden!

I agree as this is one of the best JRPG in recent memories. It was my GOTY 2022 as well. Watching your review makes me want to have another go at this game.

I'm glad you took your time to get this review done the way you really wanted to! 2022 was the year of Square Enix, they just dropped got after hit. I do wanna get to this one eventually! I'm also hopeful it'll get a PS/Xbox version sometime, too. Also, if you played Shining Force recently, that would make a cool review, just sayin' 👀

Amazing review! This is hands down one of the top 5 game on the switch and one of the best games I’ve played thru in the last year or so

After I get through Citizen Sleeper, I'm definitely jumping back into Triangle Strategy!

Nice review!

I only not long bought the game :) can't wait to play it! Awesome review!!!

I was expecting this game to be great, but it exceeded those expectations. Glad you also enjoyed it.

I just picked this game up and I'm super excited to give it a go. The art style alone makes it worth it to me even without starting it.

to me the game felt like playing an interactive game of thrones show on my switch. absolute gem of a game!

Absolutely loved the game, and your review as well. Also agree with the game making the battles infrequent to imply peace time. It's kind similar to XCOM for me in that sense (minus the peace time), where I wanted battles to be less frequent to show high stakes, since in those games each battle would result in perma-death of at least one of my soldiers. The story is something I really liked unlike many simply because the choices presented were hard, the first ending I received left me with a very bitter sweet feeling, but I knew each decision was my own and this was the conclusion.

Very nice review! Im one of the few who didnt mind the early pacing nor the english voice acting at all. The story was very interesting along with its characters. I ended up putting the game on easy cuz i wanted the story more than battles (also they become brutal near the end, even on easy). Ng+ got atrocious difficulty too 😓

Thanks for your review 😊

Picked this up when it went on sale on Steam. Started to play it now after finishing Octopath Traveler 2

I loved Triangle Strategy. Such a great game.

I played it at release. It's such a great game!🎉

On the impact of war on the citizens, something I think is interesting is how a large majority of the player units are civilians, with around 10 being involved with conflict (soldiers, guardsmen, criminals, etc.) and only around 6 being familiar with warfare The war caused them to take up arms when they normally would not

Definately picking this up on a decent sale

Ayyyye I’m currently playing this and it’s sooo good

Excellent review of an excellent game.

I need to pick this one up

One of my favorite games last year. Think only thing I had a problem with was when I did NG+ (to see true ending) the first battle of game at the docks or whatever did not feel scaled correctly or something and lost that fight like 5 times before getting past it. Cannot remember if it was my fault or what but I thought I softlocked myself for a while there.

I really want to play this game lol. Just very torn between switch or Steam version. Mostly because I am going to play it in Japanese and will need to be looking up words frequently, but I still have to balance that out with needing most gaming sessions to be able to be short. Does anyone know if you can do quick saves in the pc version or if you can only save in between battles/story parts? I played the beginning on switch and it seemed like I could only save in the map menu which would make a sleep mode critical for my situation.

Loved this game. I think the unit progression could use some more expanding but other than that they did a good job trying out new concepts. I wonder what subgenre of JRPG they’re gonna tackle next in the HD2D line?

I love final fantasy tactics. I'm going to buy this

The game is still my modern favorite ever, you made me want to finish my 3rd playthrough haha. Excellent game, but as it was said, it's very story driven so there's a lot of dialogue to read (no a issue for me, but it's for others).

Was waiting to see if this game was added to the hall of fame

My bf already played it and he loved it! Cant wait to try it for myself

Dude, loved this game, about 160 hours I to it, and am currently stuck on ng+2 BEGINNING mission where you first meet fire mage lady (forget her name) where you fight at the dock against the father and daughter bandit. At higher levels that shit is HARD

I really liked this game but did feel like it was a really good book with complex character interaction with a game system strapped to it. It felt like 2 separate things were great individually but it doesn't synergize very well, a very old school way of doing things. Games are supposed to be interactive and i feel that most games have found a really good way to combine great story with great game play.

Game is damn good just finished it today . Top 3 maybe even number 1 but that can be recency bias talking

Good call on the typeface used in the game. I'm not a fan of the english translated voices and prefer to use the japanese voices to add their better capturing of the correct emotion for each line as I read the text, but you really have to concentrate to read it (playing the Switch version here).

AYOOOOO lezgoooo

I want to try it but not in the mood for reading too much dialog currently lol

This game big good.

I feel like this game came and went. There was more hype when it was announced and the demo released.

im currently on my first playthrough albeit at a snails pace BUT iLove it! i love political war drama in my entertainment not my personal life tho haha

Team asanos best game yet

Why you do this to me man? I have purchased the game (waiting on shipping) lol

I loved this game so much I did 4 playthroughs. I only found the game hard when missions had specific actions to clear. I never felt the dialogue being to long on my first run. Picking what I felt was right had me fully invested. Still think FF tactics is my favorite in the genre, but I'm old so could be nostalgia.

Triangle strategy was a game that I was excited for a bit until I played the demo and was all I'm not really liking what I feel here. It feels like final fantasy tactics light which makes sense and none of the characters is screaming at me to want to know more about them like a fire emblem. And even then in recent times even that starting to slightly disappear in the series. Though the combat in triangle is a lot more simpler than most other SRPGs so it's easy for someone who's never played a game of this type to jump into it and maybe decide if they can play something like this. Although when it comes to heavy political intrigue and massive long wait times for the story to pick itself up and not drag itself, that's when I have a bit of an issue and why I would usually drop games like this. It's one of the main reasons why I dropped final fantasy 12 because it went so hard on the political intrigue but what made it worse in that game was it took way too long to get the ball rolling. Despite that this was a very good review of a game that was very long overdue and you did a great job in narrowing down specific aspects of it. Great work as always Alex!

I think my main issue with the game is that the sprites are really muddy. This muddiness is even more apparent when you compare it to the renders found in Octopath Traveller. I played the game on the Switch, so maybe that's the limiting factor? The game does look a lot crisper on the PC, it seems.

Can anyone tell me girl name in thumbnail?

Dress it up with all the pretty words you’d like… the story is what took me out of this game. Putting me to sleep several nights in a row. I couldn’t get into it and it just dragged. Which sucks because TRPG’s are my fav games. Maybe I’ll get back into it one day.

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