Pros:
+ Large gameplay. (+100h)
+ Enormous role variety.

Cons:
- One-way road campaign.
- Awful AI.


Every stage is unique, meaning that you will only be able to work the campaign from them once. Now, a little bit more ahead in the game, there are some quests that will enable the character to visit some old scenarios and get to work for some rewards.

The first battle stages will show how the main skills and basic elements of the genre works. I really appreciate that since I'm not an expert when it comes to tactical RPG battles.

Sometimes, I had to fight with a very reduced number of allies, and when it comes to bosses, all the main characters will take part in it. The problem is that that character that arrived later, will be under any ally or enemy level, meaning that they will be very weak, so it's important to make them part of the formation so they can level up too. For example, I already leveled up three main characters to level 99, meanwhile, other characters are still in the 60-70s. Anyway, the enemies level at the end of the game won't be higher than 70, so it wouldn't be a real problem.

Cutscenes can be skipped. I'm not into skipping those, but I got stuck with the same enemy more than once, so this helps. If you skip any cutscenes by accident, there is nothing to worry about; every chapter will be closed with a quick manga-styled resume of the doings there.

There is an option to speed up the combat, but instead of "speeding" it, you can skip skill animations to get some time back. I wish that this part was modified for good since it makes some movements invisible and weird looking. About the controls: unless you map your controls, you will have a hard time playing the game with one of those.

Graphics
Pretty simple graphics, with no obvious option to upgrade or downgrade to the consumer taste and very repetitive since the only change is the type of environment. This is because of all the war zones being similar, with nothing that highlights them.

Now, the performance is very good. The game will hardly consume more than 300 Mb of RAM.
Difficulty
Sadly, all the difficulty came to an end when I mastered a few skills, highlighting one of them, a skill that heals any ally to 100%, with not a high MP cost and another that causes death to almost every enemy.

AI
AI combat takes out all the fun of the game.
There is an option that can be enabled that will make the allies fight automatically in different styles that are a mix of aggressive, passive and peaceful(support type) however, I don't recommend it at all.
I tried AI for a few battles, and it was a complete waste of time. Characters take three times longer to finish enemies (if they don't get finished first)... managing to reach 45 turns before ending with my allies defeated.

Maybe it is a good tool for leveling up some characters that are not at their max level yet, but it will always take more time to finish an enemy if you use this option.

Content & Prices
If you are looking for content, this is one of my most tactical RPG played games, with more than 100h just to complete the campaign and the sidequest. All of this for just €25.

On the other hand, the game on Switch got a price of €40, but it is voiced in English too.

Environment
Not everything is fighting, in almost all rings, there are chests with hidden treasures. Sadly, opening those chests is not as easy as it could be, it will consume an ally turn and sometimes, it will be another trap from the enemy, possibly incapacitating one of the allies. So, knowing that the protagonists cannot go back to most of the visited maps, I extremely recommend taking the risk of opening all chests.

On the other hand, quests are the only thing that can be repeated, opening certain levels to explore and repeatedly obtain the same reward over and over. For example, these quests are the only way to get enough income and unlock achievements like collecting 1,000,000 leaves (game currency).

Balancing
In general, every stage is easy to clear at first try with the correct abilities. Sometimes, a great group of enemies with a complete set of skills can surround the characters and end in madness, but there is enough ground to evade this situation, and this is probably the first thing to take advantage of.

Every character has a complexity and a semblance that will identify them as warriors, mages or whatever class you can imagine. However, almost every character can use almost every available class in the game.

Final Opinion
The story is very deep and is voiced (in Japanese) but subtitles are given. It takes time to reach the end of this game, way more than usual.

It is not a game that I would recommend for someone whose first time playing this genre would be playing this game, because of the length of it (can feel very heavy) but if you feel like having enough patience it will be a good experience.

Every now and then I go on a gaming binge that completely takes over my life. These binges last for days and sometimes weeks. Usually, it takes a truly terrible game to snap me out of these binges. GOD WARS was the game that stop my most recent binge. By the time the credits roll, I cannot explain how I was able to finish such an awful game.

I usually start with the story in my reviews but I have to start with gameplay because this is what kills the game for me. Many people compare GOD WARS (GW) to FF Tactics. Some even went as far as saying that it is the "true spiritual successor" of FF Tactics. That is an absolutely false and stupid statement. GW does not honor FF Tactics in any ways. Heck, some time I don't even know if the game can be even be called Tactical RPG.

Let's start. In GW, you can only use 6 characters at a time. However, you regularly have to face up to twice the number of enemies (12 to 14 enemies are common). These enemies are not weaker than you are (sometimes even stronger). So, how do you win when your team is so outnumbered? Well, it's actually very easy because the enemies almost NEVER move towards you. They only move when you are in range. So, you can use your group of 6 to overwhelm 3-4 enemies at a time while their comrades watch from a few tiles away. Added to this is the Impurity system. Impurity is basically the aggro system usually seen in MMO. Enemies attack the person with the most Impurity. The enemies obviously do not have access to this system. A true Tactical RPG should be a battle between equal force with access to the same tools. Thus, you need win by being better tactically. But in GW, you and your enemies play under different rules so winning is about exploiting what the system allows you to do that your enemies cannot. At times, GW gameplay feels like a dungeon crawling game but instead of walking around in 1st or 3rd person POV, you move around on a grid. Defeat a cluster of enemies, heal, buff, move, loot, defeat next cluster of enemies, heal, buff, move, loot, boss...

Even if GW cannot satisfy the TRPG purist in me, I still hoped to enjoy the game as a sort of cheesy distraction. However, even this is impossible because GW makes some design choice that the game extremely infuriating to play at times. The average movement range in GW is 3, the lowest I have seen in grid-based games. However, the maps are huge. Many times, the farthest enemy is more than 30 tiles away. This means that it takes 10 turns just to walk to this target even if your character does nothing else. But that's not all. Maps in GW are full of narrow corridors and drastic elevation change. So you'd better get used to being bogged down at a chokepoint for several turns. Later on, there are some boss encounters that are absolutely maddening. No, these bosses are not hard (nothing in this game is hard). They are maddening because they have great movement range, are programmed to run from you, can take several actions per turn, have massive heals, and can summon allies at will. All of this combine to make these fights drag onnnnnnnnnnn and onnnnnnnnnnn even after it is clear that you cannot lose. Be prepared to have 1-hour plus fight because your 3-movement pawns have to chase a boss that bounce endlessly around a map full of cliffs and crevices. Added to this nightmare is GW's habit of putting AI-controlled guest characters in your team. The AI of these characters are absolutely stupid but they count towards your team limit. So you are handicapped by these "allies" that do helpful things like debuffing an enemy with 2 HP left, casting a jump spell on a flat map, and casting a magic spell on an enemy with magic reflect.

The class system is probably the least annoying part of GW but even this has some avoidable flaws. Each job in the game has a skill tree. By leveling up certain skills, you unlock newer and better skills. This is an interesting system in theory. However, it is clear that there is always one way to get the most out of the system. Job Points (JP) are the currency used to advance through the skill tree. The 2 factors that increase JPs the most are how many MP the action consumes and how many targets. Hmmm, what classes have a lot of MPs and have skills that hit a lot of targets?? Well, magic classes of course. To make this worse, the skills that increase MPs and JPs, which are the 2 most important skills in terms of unlocking classes, both are found in magic classes. Seriously, your mages will advance classes so much faster than your physical attackers that it is not even funny. As a result, your mages are absolutely lethal in early game. GW tries to balance this by severely nerfing magic in late game (by buffing magic defense and making magic reflect skills abundant). More advanced classes are unlocked by leveling up beginner classes. However, some classes requirements make no sense. A primarily physical class requires a character to advance through 3 different magic classes. So your premier physical attacker spends a third of the game toiling around as a subpar mage.

Now, let's talk about the story. One glance at the cheesy store page and I expect very little of GW's story. To be fair, story is rarely the strong point of TRPG. Even by that low expectation, GW's story is almost as infuriating as those neverending boss flights. The protagonists of GW evoke memories from the era in which Japanese pop culture are full of ultra naive and fatally idealistic heroes and heroines. It is nauseating how GW's main characters fall for every deception and taunts and how many times someone attempts to sacrifice his/her life. Some of the plot points are either extremely lame or make no sense. So the myriad gods punish the humans for sowing chaos by... sowing more chaos? What's about the myriad gods in your team? They can't talk to their friends? GW assumes that you have certain knowledge about Japansese folklores so they keep throwing around names that have no meanings to the average gamer. I actually have some prior knowledge of Japanese creation story but even I could not keep up with the amount of names that got thrown around. Probably the most ironic part of GW's story is how Kintaro got screwed. Players are misled into thinking that Kintaro is the leading man of the game. Yet, he fades away after the first 5-6 episodes. The characters with the most screen time in the game end up being the various royalties of the realm. Sorry, no room for commoners here. Heck, Kintaro is not even the romantic interest of the game's main heroine, Kaguya. The final insult is that he also sucks as a fighter.

Everything in GW looks and sounds cheap. I have played indie games with better production value. The issues are numerous but here's a few. There is no jumping animation so whenever a character changes elevation, it looks as though they are teleporting. Maps are very ugly. There are maybe 4-5 different kinds of terrain. Skill animations are mostly different colors of light. Some skills have animations that make no sense. For examples, "Herb studies" is a flash of white light lowering on your character. "Plum essence" is a drop of water. There are at least 2 things I would like to commend the games for. First, all dialogues are voiced, which is impressive for a TRPG. Second, I like the story book presentation of some cutscenes.

Seriously, I am a total TRPG fan. It takes a lot for me to dislike a TRPG. But I do not even know how I finished this game. It annoys me way more than it ever excites me. The game seems to be developed by a team that is caught in the past. It is as if they sleep for 20 years and are not aware of any TRPGs that have occurred since then.

Recommendation: If you are really desperate for your TRPG fix, get this on a discount. It is not too expensive to begin with so at least you do not waste your money. But most other cases, I advise staying away from this game.

GOD WARS The Complete Legend. It's a Japanese style Tactical RPG game made by KADOKAWA GAMES. The game was originally released as "God Wars: Future Past" on PS4 & PS VITA in 2017. "The Complete Legend" is its enhanced version and was released last year as PS4, PS VITA, and Nintendo Switch. In the era of classic RPGs, the Tactical genre such as Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics has become popular, but in recent years it is not easy to find those kind of games. So it's very welcome that SRPG & TRPG fans finally can enjoy those games like GOD WARS. The Metacritic average score for this game is about 70. However, if you are an anime game fan or love JRPG, it can have a high quality of over 80 scores.

GOD WARS. It's an anime-style RPG. The story background is based on the ancient Japanese myth, but only the character & item settings have been brought, and the plot itself is newly written. So even beginners who do not know Japan myth can easily understand its story. Event scenes are a good match between comics and animations. The characters have full-voice acting, and even animal type characters' voice such as bear(kuma), rabbit(inaba), and so on are supported. According to developer comments, the game playtime will take more than 160 hours to enjoy all the content, including the expansion content such as "The Labyrinth of Yomi" & "The Deep Levels", additional scenarios, battles and collecting elements. The player walks through all areas of ancient Japan and proceeds with the story. You can know its scale somewhat, if you refer to the character relationship map.

As a tactical RPG, the battle system is a turn-based simulation that is played on a stage-by-stage basis. The playtime per stage is about 30 minutes, and 142 battle stages are available. It's somewhat similar to Disgaea, FFT, and Tactics Ogre in battle. Of course, there are also unique features in GOD WARS. Each character can have 3 job classes(main, sub, and unique). Thanks to them, even the same characters can vary greatly in their growth process and play style, depending on the player's preference. It was indeed fresh and interesting, so it makes the player more loving to one's characters. And if you actively use each terrain in the battle map, you can enjoy the battlefield more tactically. The game is well made overall, but there are some pity things. As the game progresses, the balance becomes uneven. Certain characters and job classes are too strong or weak. It may be TRPG genre's limit. Some battles are very exciting and challenging, but most level designs give a somewhat repetitive and similar impression. Nevertheless, if you like JRPG's grinding elements, you can really spend great time in this game.


GOD WARS The Complete Legend. It's a great JRPG with unique setting based on Japanese myth & folklore. It features its tactical gameplay, various characters with full-voice supports, and nice anime events. Above all, there is a lot of content to enjoy in this game. Its game graphics and 3D modeling are somewhat out of date, but its unique character design is good enough to make up for it. Due to SRPG & TRPG genre limitations, somewhat repetitive grinding processes are required, and in some cases there may be boring parts. But thanks to the characters' charms and its interesting storytelling, it will not ruin the game. Of course, it would be better if the game could be balanced and optimized through updates later. Given these points, it's definitely a nice tactical RPG that you might want to try. Highly Recommended!

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I have a policy to play and finish all games I buy. Occasionally I find a game that makes me rethink my questionable life decisions like this and God Wars is one of them.

The story is a combination of badly connected events, one-dimensional characters with erratic behaviour (especially our protagonist) and terrible cliché. There are about 30 characters and the game has no idea what to do with them. You might think that the queen of a nation, Amaterasu, will be an important character but no, she appears in two scenes, a flashback and then the plot forgets about her existence. There are several other non-playable characters who appear in one scene, give you plot item, kick you out and never appear again. Your party members are not treated any better. They get an introduction, join you for strange reasons, speak few lines and that's it. Maybe someone needs to learn basic logic and writing lessons before embarrassing their own mythology.

I rarely critique Japanese voice acting but this game is generous enough to provide me a reason to do it as well. Generic male enemies make a roar for every fitting occasion, like healing, buffing or throwing a pebble at your characters. Generic female enemies produce such obnoxious voices (I would expect more menacing battle cry from a toddler) that listening to them again and again slowly drives me insane. Fortunately, "skip scene" option partially shuts them up. There are some voice actors who sound so bored. Just listen to the excitement of the store owner who set up shops in every corner of Japan along with clones of himself. If they were forced to play through this whole game before recording then I don't blame them. Our protagonist's voice is not bad on its own but I heard it in so many other games before that it really makes hard treating her as an unique character. I guess it's more important to hire popular actors for promotion purposes instead of actors with distinctive voice.

The music is... fine, I guess? I did not have problem listening to it in the game (some tracks will be repeated a lot though) but there is nothing I would listen outside of the game, well, maybe except Yomotsuhirasaka theme.

The game's environments are one of the blandest I have ever seen. If you bought the artbook, compare the artwork with what we have in the game, this is just sad. The locations are so desolate, it gives an impression of travelling in post-apocalyptic Japan where 95% of population are soldiers, thugs and muta.. I mean the myriad gods. Animations are equally bad in both quantity and quality. Maybe someone should have spend game's budget on better environments and animations instead of crappy looking anime cutscenes. 2D artwork is nice at least.

Commenting on port quality is not something I'm good at, but I will mention at least this: no graphic options besides resolution, 30fps lock, I did not experience any crashes and I did not notice any bugs (well, maybe 1-2 minor ones but I'm not sure).

I enjoyed the core of this game, the combat. Numerous classes, skills, elevation advantages, no turn limits and no "you did not finish this map in one turn, what a miserable excuse for a player you turned out to be" style rankings, that's why I bothered to play in the first place. There are some issues of course, I will address few:
- I read a lot of complaints about very slow movement and big maps, it's true in the early game. Later you will get passive and active skills along with move boosting equipment, so the characters will be able to traverse maps pretty quickly.
- Attack and defend abilities are rather redundant, there is no point in using them instead of skill or items, you will only get only less experience and job points for minimal benefit.
- There are too many party members. 14 in the main game, 19 in the post-game. Of course you can only use 6 in the main story battles, 5 in side missions and 8 in the post-game, so obviously many of them will be underleveled unless you will go out of your way to switch your party members after every battle. There is no need for so many characters for both story and combat reasons, they should have cut the amount to 8 or 10 instead and make them more unique. Every character has a unique job but majority of their skill will become completely obsolete eventually. They did not even bother to animate mouth movement for the last three party members.

Normally, that would be the end of review, but the is one more thing worth mentioning, the post-game. The store description did not lie about "An overwhelming game volume with a total play time of 160 hours", I wish it did. The post-game is a set of exciting looking cave stages. The first thing you will notice, they reused a lot of old enemies, just added purple colour and better stats. Then you will see reused bosses. Next they reused the entire maps. Take a river map from the story, replace water with void, done, a new map. I admire the developers dedication to provide us with new hand-crafted content. But it's too early to stop. We reach level 25 and get one of the "multiple endings". It's a bad cutscene. So what do we do to get another ending? Finish stages 21-25 again, only enemies have more levels this time. As reward we get a slightly different bad cutscene. How to get another one? That's right, finish the same 5 stages with beefier enemies AGAIN. The only reason those "multiple endings" exist is because they were so desperate to find anything worthy for the "complete edition" re-release advertisement. F fantastic. And two more things:
- There are 3 stages that force you to use specific party members so have fun if you did not level them before.
- You might say "oh, it's just the usual post game dungeon stuff for additional challenge". But if you want to care about the story (for some reason) like the game wants you to, you will have to finish all 40 stages for "true ending" and 10 more for "super secret sequel hook cutscene" (?).

If you still want to play this game after reading all of this, my only advice is play the main story and be done with it, or else enjoy the same content repetition to your heart's content.

Bonus
- "I had a sneaking suspicion while playing that translation quality is subpar but I have no concrete examples to show. Should I mention it in the review? Well, let's check the credits at least."
- "Saroi Hayami"
- "NISA Localization Team"
- *pretends to be shocked*

Here to keep in mind
So far I've finished 15 main stages and 10 optional quests, I play on HARD difficulty, and I use Ookami's necklace and earrings for bonus JP (Job Points to buy skills)

Pros:
- I love how this game act like an MMORPG where you need to have a tank with draw aggro skills, healer to buff your tank while the rest do the damage (obviously you don't need to do this if you're overleveled).
- The class system is similar with FF Tactics with more freedom regarding your passive skills. Ex: you can add jump+1 and move+1 to make an agility themed character while in FFT you can only add one of them since both use Leg slot.
- I love the difficulty level. My party is usually get destroyed if i'm being random lol. Which means i have to make sure that i have a balanced classes combination (healers, tanks, support, attackers, etc). Also MP management, it's quite scary when your 2 members get KO-ed and you realize that your healer don't have enough MP to cast a revival spell. Make sure you stock on items too.
- Beautiful soundtrack
- Beautiful artworks
- Beautiful animated cutscenes
- All of the lines are voiced
- A lot of sexy and cute girls!!!
- large bosses whose size takes 3x3 grid space! These bosses can also summon reinforcement which can turn "we can do this!" situation to "oh, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!" situation. It's fun!
- The enemies really make use of the skills that they have, so expect a lot of unexpected moments (evasion skills make them almost untouchable, heal skills wasted all of your previous effort, poison make like your enemy has another team member). Don't forget that you have lots of skills too so use them. In this game you really can't rely on 1-2 skills alone, lots of skills that seems useless might surprise you.

Neutral:
- I think the game will be even more fun if the amount of items that you can carry into battle is limited
- I love story taking place in ancient japan with all the gods and mythical beings!

Cons:
- The 3D models are too low poly

Quick review:

God Wars, is a very interesting take on the tactics jrpg genre, there is a lot of common and familiar elements, such as jobs, height effects, skill, but there is also, a lot of additions, such as aggro management (with things like skills, which increase or decrease aggro), way some skills and effect work, which make it quite unique and charming, specially given the theme and setting. The music is amazing.

It is a good port, not many options, but runs very smooth.

Is this a good game? Yes. Is it the best tactics rpg I've ever played? nope. The only thing that really stands out with this game is the artwork. It's pretty good. However, it's dated and kinda shows in game. I've been looking for something to scratch my FFT itch, and this game is doing it for the time being. The battle system itself doesn't stand out in any way or try to make itself different, but I can live with it. I'd rather not have it disgaea-crazy.

The things that I don't like is the story, it's average. Music is also average. I also don't like the world, it's an 'yokai' type of world, where everything can be explained by spirits; I just personally don't find the appeal in those kinds of worlds, it just feels lazy and uninspired to conveniently have everything be explained by 'oh its an evil spirits doing'. Also, one thing that I find really annoying is that you'll probably fight at most 10 enemies at a time on a tiny map. Most of the time, it's 7-8 enemies. Seriously, can't we get some big friggin tactical battles around here?!
I would still recommend it because the artwork is pretty good, and the battle system will scratch your tactics itch. Just don't expect a strong story, compelling characters, or science fiction.
Pros:
Great artwork
Dual job class system.
Fun tactical battles

Cons:
Dated graphics
Yokai world
Uninspiring characters
Tiny battle fields

A Final Fantasy Tactics style game set in a fantasy Japan setting. It incorporates a lot of traditional Japanese folklore.

The gameplay got extremely repetitive. The classes aren't very well balanced and most enemies are just reskins. Despite the long runtime the main characters are also poorly fleshed out. Save your money and invest in a Switch so you can play some Fire Emblem instead.

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👍 Pros: 👍
Tons of gameplay
Lots of gorgeous art
Final Fantasy Tactics style gameplay

👎 Cons: 👎
Same sound every time something is selected in a battle menu

“GOD WARS The Complete Legend” is a turn-based strategy game that is quite similar to the excellent title under the Final Fantasy Tactics franchise. Combat is played on a grid covered board that has tiles at various heights. These tiles also provide various bonuses when they are stood on by units. This particular game innovates the genre by making every unit a unique character. Every unit can have a job that learns certain skills and a sub job whose skills can also be used, but they level up a bit more slowly. As mentioned before, each character is unique and is part of the story. This is why each character also has their own unique job with skills that no other character can gain. This provides lots of diversity and choices considering the large cast of characters, but some characters definitely seem better than others.


🎮 Gameplay: 🎮

Overworld
The part of the game that the player will see is the overworld, which is why I want to get it out of the way. The map is separated into small circular nodes with names on them. If the node has a specific use such as a shop, a small icon in a text bubble will show up. Battles on the map are indicated by two exclamation points. When a new location is selected, the protagonist walks there. It is a pretty standard overworld experience except for one thing. When walking to a new destination that has a battle on it, the player will sometimes be caught in a scripted battle that occurs on the way to this new location. I liked this as it provided a sense of surprise and made it seems like there really were plans outside of one’s control. In so many games, the world reacts to the player’s plans, so it is nice to not be the center of attention for once.

Battle
Battle follows Final Fantasy Tactics rules pretty closely. Every character has a speed which determines their place in the turn order. Once it is a character’s turn, they may move, attack, or use abilities. Abilities use MP which is recovered from items and over time. Attacks from the back and sides have a higher accuracy and do more damage. The same goes for attacks and abilities done from high ground. Low ground creates a hit and damage penalty, so it is always important to put ranged fighters as high up as they can get. Battle for each particular character does also depend upon which class they are.

Classes & Skills
Each class has a unique skill tree. Every time a character attacks or uses an ability in battle, they will obtain JP, or job points. Job points allow the player to max specific abilities that they want the most, which quite helpful when trying to make a character fit a specific role. Each character can equip a class, sub-class, and a unique class that doesn’t change. When a class hits a certain level, they will unlock to new and more specialized classes. The advanced classes have much better stats compared to their predecessors but not equipping an earlier class means that those abilities aren’t available. That is until a class is set as a sub job. The sub job levels more slowly, but it provides all of the abilities gained its skill tree and abilities can still be leveled in it. The unique class for each character levels pretty slowly comparatively, but that is because the abilities gained can be stronger than any found in any normal classes. Unique classes are a great additions as each character feels like more than a useless pawn and can be used in specific ways. Characters aren’t especially effective without the proper equipment though.

Equipment
Equipment provides stats and damage to a character that has it equipped. Each character can have a weapon, an offhand weapon, armor, and two accessories. Standard equipment is bought at shops with the money obtained during battle. Enemies will sometimes drop equipment or equipment can be found in treasure chests during battles. These can be standard, but they can also be rare which will provide stat buffs over the base equipment.

⚙ Overall:⚙
An amazing tactics game with an anime flair.

📚 Story: 📚
The story is enjoyable is a bit clichéd. A protagonist is saved and then must use their special powers to track down a parent to save their home. This boiled down version of the story really doesn’t give the story justice as there are plenty of twists and turns found along the way during my time with the game. Speaking of story, there is a lot of it.

🎧 Sound:🎧
The sound design is on average all right, but there are a few sound issues that grate on me. The minor problem is that the voice acting sometimes sounds like the voice actor is too close to the microphone which in turn is causing a slight buzzing around the spoken words. This isn’t too major, but it can occasionally get distracting and is not always there. My second and major issue with the sound is that a short trill sound plays every time that the player selects something in a menu. Considering that the player has to go through a lot of menus, this same sound plays a lot and becomes very frustrating. I looked in the menu to see if there was some way to disable this, but I couldn’t find one besides turning off all in game sound. In terms of sound effects there are a decent amount, though some are used for multiple skills, which I don’t mind. The music sounds quite a bit like traditional Japanese music. The music was relaxing, but looped a bit too much for my taste so I turned off after about 3 hours.

📺 Graphics: 📺
The graphics are overall quite good. The line art found in the dialogue portions of the game is quite clean and detailed. This art is also used for portraits used when selecting units. During conversations, the characters even emote based upon the text. In-game models look a little dated, though they are smooth and aren’t ugly due to low poly models. The art style used in battle is chibi, or units are small and have larger heads. Units have an interesting animation for each skill, but it felt like each one took a little too long. These animations can be skipped completely in the options menu though, but I found that it added impact to the fight that would be gone if it was otherwise turned off. Major cutscenes are fully animated and look magnificent. The cutscenes are presented in two different ways. The first way is a fluid and well animated style that looks like a typical anime. The other style is made to look like a manga, with art separated by panels that include speech bubbles. For an anime enthusiast, every art style that they could ever want is covered by this game.

This product was reviewed with a key provided by the developer for free.

Recommended for fans of tactics games and RPGs.

+Art style, anime cutscenes, music
+Story, tactical battles
+Job/class and skill variety
+Mix and match jobs, earn XP for 3 at once
+Fully voiced (Japanese only)
+Setting/lore
+Mouse support

-Slow/grindy, leveling best on auto
-Subpar AI
-Cut content (English voice in Switch/PS4, not this version)
-Dated graphics
-No key rebinds, some awkward controls
-Lack of dev support/few updates ("we'll fix it in a sequel")