Great game if you love story driven tactical rpgs like Final Fantasy tactics. I don't think we'll get another like this for a long time.

Good game. I'll never open it again, however, as after grinding 100% for the past 40 hours of game play I have thoroughly killed whatever tiny replay value this game has. It's not Fire Emblem and my biggest surprise was that deaths were not permanent. Once you know that the game lands on the easy side if you have turn-based strategy experience. Most of the fun comes from learning the entire lore (which is tedious to do) and stomping on opponents in the most vicious ways possible with zero regard for the well-being of your supporting cast. Good news is that you can get the achievements on very easy, which just increases your damage and decrease enemy damage, so I played on that for NG+5 and 6.

Be prepared to read dialogue. You have to want the story. Combat is fun enough to begin but if you're paying anywhere close to $60 for this game you should be doing it to hear the story. And it's a fairly compelling one with logical branches to most (but NOT all) paths, though the ending is clearly rushed. Sure, it's voice-acted well, but I would guess that there are probably 8 hours of voice acted dialogue in a single play-through - you'll want to speed read.

7.5/10 Play if you like Fire Emblem / Tactics Orge / FFT, Buy for $20.