What a letdown.

I helped kickstart.

I never liked the "sword" slashing animation. it always looked like a flurry of something in someone's hand. Which means you can't see the weapon equipped, which was one of the highlights of customization in FFT. But fine. The music sounded great, the musician was cool, the sprite animation was relatively good, so I thought let's wait it out.

...5 years overdue later from kickstarter...

And it's trash. It's watered down, streamlined, babies first tactics clone.

-Story feels like it's written by a first year high school girl.
-Zoom in the camera after every action, like a basic attack. Why? Maybe a critical or something special, but everything?
-Love story that makes no sense. In media res, with two people on opposing sides, they're just in a relationship. What? Can you say conflict of interest?
-The first mission involves a scam apothecary running out of a cave, chased by magicians. He drops and breaks a flask. He runs away. Some random raccoon drinks the broken bottle remnants, and his eyes glow. Main character says something like "at least we have help!" From a random rodent wielding a...knife? But he's not in the proceeding battle? And why is there a battle? There's no association between the player's party and the mysterious scam artist apothecary? Why are we fighting some...dudes?
-The worst part: it's very difficult to click on a square when there's terrain or another character in the square closest to the foreground. Which means you have to click on some magical small area in order to register that square. Did anyone bother to test this?
-Music, though interesting, just doesn't fit at all. Were alto-saxes even invented yet? Was jazz? What is this time period and setting?
-Classes and characters don't seem to fit. Who are all these secondary characters, that we see get killed off in the intro? First, they look like a bunch of wild women for...some reason. From a royal court? Who are challenging the new queen to be? Are we in the wilderness or something? And why would we care if they're all going to die? In the first mission fight, I lost a ranger character...and just did not care.

Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner just came out on early access, and that was miles ahead of this, and that dialogue was stale as hell, with the 3D is not that great. But at least I can spin the battlefield and see where I'm going. At least I know why things are happening. At least there's some semblance to a TRPG. This is boring and feels half baked.

What a letdown. I helped kickstart. I never liked the "sword" slashing animation. it always looked like a flurry of something in someone's hand. Which means you can't see the weapon equipped, which was one of the highlights of customization in FFT. But fine. The music sounded great, the musician was cool, the sprite animation was relatively good, so I thought let's wait it out. ...5 years overdue later from kickstarter... And it's trash. It's watered down, streamlined, babies first tactics clone. -Story feels like it's written by a first year high school girl. -Zoom in the camera after every action, like a basic attack. Why? Maybe a critical or something special, but everything? -Love story that makes no sense. In media res, with two people on opposing sides, they're just in a relationship. What? Can you say conflict of interest? -The first mission involves a scam apothecary running out of a cave, chased by magicians. He drops and breaks a flask. He runs away. Some random raccoon drinks the broken bottle remnants, and his eyes glow. Main character says something like "at least we have help!" From a random rodent wielding a...knife? But he's not in the proceeding battle? And why is there a battle? There's no association between the player's party and the mysterious scam artist apothecary? Why are we fighting some...dudes? -The worst part: it's very difficult to click on a square when there's terrain or another character in the square closest to the foreground. Which means you have to click on some magical small area in order to register that square. Did anyone bother to test this? -Music, though interesting, just doesn't fit at all. Were alto-saxes even invented yet? Was jazz? What is this time period and setting? -Classes and characters don't seem to fit. Who are all these secondary characters, that we see get killed off in the intro? First, they look like a bunch of wild women for...some reason. From a royal court? Who are challenging the new queen to be? Are we in the wilderness or something? And why would we care if they're all going to die? In the first mission fight, I lost a ranger character...and just did not care. Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner just came out on early access, and that was miles ahead of this, and that dialogue was stale as hell, with the 3D is not that great. But at least I can spin the battlefield and see where I'm going. At least I know why things are happening. At least there's some semblance to a TRPG. This is boring and feels half baked.