omg can not wait for this

If they just sold me the full game (story mode), preferrably hard copy for switch, I'd pay full price for that. I know that's not very 2024, but I like to own stuff.

this si gacha..games like this ruin.the fun for me..if they can make alchemist code run on ps5 or xbox offline no gacha they can make money on it.and the game has the best story wasted on gacha and online

Look at that sinker, sallow face… Does that *really* look like face of a heartless traitor to you? :-) Always loved cavaliers, and my favoured promoted class is either Paladin or Great Knight. Also liked the Halberdier line; it’s unfortunate that lance infantry isn’t often used, they ought have their own crit.-happy specialist class like the Sniper/Berserker/Swordmaster… I really like when the games actually do stuff like “sword armour/lance armour”, or “axe/bow cavalier”, etc. like Tellius did. It really diversifies the units beyond just their stats, and even giving them additional weapon types at promotion regardless of whether you can choose them… I think something like a combination of that and FE8’s branching classes is ideal. It seems “Engage” kind of did that, even if they inanely removed advanced Pegasus riding classes (for one thing). But that and “Fates” largely did away with gender-locked classes (still weird what 3H did WITH them…); FE14 was also really inventive with the new classes, it’s too bad stuff like Ninjas and Kinshi Knights (another dark horse favourite of mine!) have yet to return so far.

Ahhhh… Twenty years, and I’m still amazed at Novala and his audaciousness. His plan is flimsy, and it relies purely on breaking Eirika’s spirit through wanton cruelty and deception; that he thinks he could usurp Riev’s position is the height of folly… Frankly, Tirado’s assumed scheming is actually far more effective, as he’s actually adapting and devising contingencies when his plans fail; even their respective demises really contrast and show this well.

Finally, KZfaqrs giving atention to SoC, this niche game needs to grow!

You like Kyle, too?! Huzzah! Who do you Support him with, if anyone? The GBA and Tellius eras of FE had *way* too many good cavaliers, which is the double-edged blade to end them all; it means there’s plenty of options to account for whether your levels are good and to vary playthroughs, but it also means you’re not going to use them all consistently due to wanting unit variation. My last FE7 run, I got to use Kent and Sain both until the penultimate chapter; conversely, my FE8 run I tried to use everyone but Forde, yet ultimately… Well, my plan to ship Seth/Natasha went up in smoke as she ended up A Supporting with Cormag (who actually kept in), and Seth was getting benched more until the end; Kyle the Paladin did get use until Chapter 19 (paired with Lute), and Franz became my Garm-wielder especially during Chapter 20 (and A-Sopport with Gilliam)… It was still a pain to pick a team for the last chapter as I had like, 20 well-trained units; Franz yielded his Sacred Twin to Ross the super-journeyman, but it was a good run in all. After all, Garcia had Audulma and a B-Support with his son (and he was maxed with Neimi, who was using Niddhog last chapter after Gerik the Bow Knight had a run with it previously… He Supported Joshua, incidentally). Also, neither of the twins got a romance; Eirika got Tana, Ephraim got Forde (and Kyle to B) just so I could fill the log.

All these comments seem to be failing to grasp that two things can simultaneously be true. This can be a great game while at the same time gacha and F2P gaming can be a horrible cancer that are causing the industry to shift toward producing garbage.

“Why, going to the seaport town of Serafew of course!” - Titanium Legman, referring to the town *literally in the middle of the continent*… Never change, Thomas. Never ever change.

Tactis Ogre : Reborn has just too much quality content for me to care about any other tactical RPG other than a potential Final Fantasy Tactics Remake/Remaster

It’s kind of funny how the Archer class doesn’t tend to have great Strength growth in FE especially. I mean, you mentioned teaching archery; you know full well that upper-body strength is crucial to using a bow effectively. Not that I expect them to be more powerful that blunt-force, but why do so few have say… 40-50% growths? Or am I just not recalling correctly what I read of specific characters…? I might be honestly. The only game that potentially overdoes the bandit chapter(s) is ironically, FE7 during Lyn’s story; that only being the case because Prologue to Chapter 5 deals with some manner of them, but I liked the breezy pace of that and don’t especially mind the arc.

“And by capital, I mean country.” Don’t know *why* that flub amused me so; maybe it’s that I know you so confidently get a word wrong in the text while reading the lines, but do correct yourself if it’s your own words. ;-P This chapter just reinforces how brisk the plot of “Sacred Stones” moves; when a lot of the later games seem to paradoxically spend too much *and* too little time in progressing the plot, this one throws us immediately into the conflict. We feel what the characters do, with Eirika barely getting a moment with her father before she’s spirited out of the castle and soon after her second real fight she’s told he perished… Because the story doesn’t dwell on it overmuch it doesn’t feel like it’s trying to manufacture how we feel; similarly Eirika doesn’t really let Fado’s death slow her down and refocuses. Fittingly the rest of Act One isn’t as rushed, but that’s because her journey finally gets going on her terms; for several chapters the plot and world gets introduced to us, learning of its current state just as they do. Anyone who says FE treads its own narrative tropes too much doesn’t understand that when done well, that’s not cumbersome in the least. It’s not groundbreaking but it has some really memorable bits, and it flows really well. :-D And Franz showing off; plus right after Eirika grew some good stats, he kind of follows... at least it was Defence though! But I’ve found one thing he and Seth sadly share, is poor Resistance growths; they’re definitely best not tanking Magic enemies unless you were absurdly lucky. And from experience, even resets for level ups aren’t the best bet; my Franz as a gear knight had at level 20, just 10 Resistance. :-(

Heeeeey, Tom! Listening to your commentary gave *me* a huge grin, too; not that I expected any less. :-D I just finished my own run on Eirika route, itself being dragged out by wax and wane in motivation (and life). But it was fun, and fulfilling; and I just did another Prologue in which she got every stat *except* for Speed. Somehow… I really wasn’t expecting it; it’s practically her best first level and Speed being her highest growth I’m not concerned that she won’t cap it. ^.^ This will definitely be fun to catch, and see how it plays out overall! ;-P

This game makes me sad, and this new information makes me even less interested in it. If there is truly no reason to participate in the gacha, then why is it there? I’d rather they charge for a full single player game with no gacha and put all their efforts into that instead of splitting it. The poor dialog and small party size are also marks against it in my book.

Would the StormHawk axe be considered a “storm” skill to use with the storm talisman?

Being gacha game where you spin for a new characters made me think the story will be super shallow. 😢

I only hope it can get more optimizations. I can get close to a ~30fps on steam deck on low settings and turned off shadows. It’s so damn fun

Should be titled "Quick Death Tier List" 😂😂😂

The first Darkest Dungeon was shaping up to be one of my favorite games ever. But i ended up not enjoying the rogueLITE nature of it. DD2 being a rogueLIKE with meta progression systems has me very excited for the console release. Definitely a day one purchase for me.

Oof. F2P and gacha. Hope it turns out good, but not holding out much hope when even straight tactics titles have been pretty bad lately.

Interesting 2 side of mode, i don’t really like gacha overall bcs of i want to play the character but gated by gacha and taking lot of time to farm 1 character, the story mode is interesting one gated by keys, hopefully this keys is f2p friendly, idk why they don’t go like HsR route, no need to gate story by keys(if things go south they can gate it with money)

As long as the game is good and the required investment to play it through 3 times is less than 60 dollars I will be happy. If I am getting quality time out of something the creators deserve compensation, regardless of media. Even if that means typing out a rambling comment durring a set of KZfaq ads. 😊

I'm really looking forward to this game. Hope to see more videos on this!

This is a mobile gotcha game which makes you a paid shill............J/S

This thing is a Gacha? If so, hard pass.

In either story mode is there a limit to how many characters you can recruit

No one makes a free to play game without it trying to dive into your wallet whole hog. I don’t care how pretty or how innocuous it looks or feels. The gacha mechanics aren’t lying when it says “Gotcha!”. I’ll pass personally. I only pay for my games once and done. The rest of you guys can do whatever you like. Flowery words mean nothing when my money is concerned.

As gacha games go, I feel like Another Eden was the only game that pulled off the truly-free-to play thing without things feeling like a sleazy attempt to pitch you microtransactions (the soundtrack involved Yasunori Mitsuda, too, so I couldn't *not* try it) If SoC winds up with a model more like that game, I'll probably play it 😊

I loved this game so much, and you're right that Dark Crusade was the best with that risk-style map. I'm quite tempted to go back and reinstall it now

any samurai, monks, ninja like FFT?

I love Spike Chunsoft games so I'm super looking forward to this! I'm surprised you haven't made any videos on Expedition 33 though. Any interest in covering that at all?

Didn't catch if you mention it but you can bring in 3 Gacha charcters as is into every replay of the story mode.

Does it have autoplay?

FTP hyper monetised mobile game 🤮Love the graphics though on this but hopefully the FFT remaster gets announced soon :)

I feel like if you enjoyed Triangle Strategy or FFT; playing through the non-gacha side Spiral Destiny is an absolute no brainer. A free, multi-branching story that encourages reruns. I was lucky enough to get into the short 1 week of the final CBT, I can't wait for release. I'll be meddling in all aspects of the game (gacha and non) so glad to see more of your content covering SoC!

Jeez sorry dude, so many toxic people in the comments already 😔 Fwiw, it's always nice to see you hyped about new games. Looking forward to more content on the game as it nears its launch, and then post launch too if you're enjoying it!

In the Embrace of Mesmer Flame.

Stopped watching when he said “gacha”

I tried the demo, but...the gacha elements make it garbage for me. Not interested.

So much potential wasted on gachashit

P2W gatcha game = hard pass. A shame cos it looks good too.

Absolutely love these games. It’s sad that there aren’t more. Played Final Fantasy Tactics and Front Mission 3 like crazy in High School.

No, thank you. I'll just stick with Final Fantasy Tactics.

hear me out; leveling-up and upgrades are often a place where Gotcha game exploit players for money. Also, at times leveling-up and upgrades are the solution to winning and not actual game-play strategy. I'm starting to think I don't want leveling-up and upgrades in a tactic game

I have played the demo to death already. I keep trying to argue with the anti-gacha hate mob in the message boards too. Glad to know it is finally getting released. been hyped for the past few months. Hopefully the monetization is not too egregious, Like tower of fantasy or Genshin....

If the keys are never a barrier I'm a bit confused as to why they exist in the first place. I'll remain skeptical on that point.

Fantastic video!

best warhammer videogame!!!!

spam a few hours of fun, get bottlenecked by real money requirements, and walk away with no regrets! same as usual

I've never gone from Excited to unexcited so quickly before.