Fae Tactics

If you like tactics games at all, this needs to be on your radar. This one comes to mind often when I talk about slightly off the beaten path recommends in this genre.

It's damn good. Mechanically, I think this might be my favorite tactics rpg. It's smart in how it puts its pieces together, it has lots of room for customization, it honestly kinda feels like a modern gatcha but without the stat bloat and lotteries. Each character has a niche, but is a piece of a larger team. The controls do take a moment to acclimate to. They're nowhere near as clunky as Valdis Story's hadouken dodge, but it'll take a moment before you adjust to how they want you to camera pan and menu. The gamefeel also really requires that you give it a minute. This is *not* a Final Fantasy Tactics or Tactics Ogre or the like. Those games have deep per character movelists and you're supposed to burst down enemies by spending the right resources at the right time. In Fae, it's better to think of each character as a chess piece. Their actions are more limited and contextual---one attack, one buff, one standby, one chargeable super. It's the way in which you interweave your team's actions that makes the gameplay work. I will say that I don't like the element system. In most tactics games you'd get like a +10% damage margin if someone attacks with elemental advantage. Here's it'…

Colorful, vibrant and simple the game is super enjoyable

Fun game! Wasn't expecting to enjoy Fae Tactics as much as I did. Playing reminded me of how much I enjoyed and miss playing turn-based tactics style games back on the Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, and even the Nintendo DS back in the day. I finished Fae Tactics using mouse and keyboard when I probably should have used a controller. If I played the game on a handheld system of some sort, I'd have had enjoyed my time even more. ( I do not own a steam deck or anything similar ) My preference tends to be to play games mostly blind, mostly just looking at general gameplay and graphics through screen shots, sometimes looking at video. So I was surprised by a bit of what goes on the further you play, like getting different weapons for each character and that they can sometimes change the role you'd use them for. Nitpick: As stated above, I'd have loved to play the game in some handheld manner. Negative: You're probably best off reading a guide for unlocking characters. There's one that I missed because I wasn't on the correct spot for "summoning" a missable character. There are 3 apparent missables and I managed to get 1 by chance, the other was clearly noted as a quest that is gone after 1…

I wanted to relive the nostalgia of turn based tactics, specifically FFTA, to see how the genre has evolved over the decades and this game made me hate them. It has, in no particular order: - Horrible pacing - Unoriginal characters, story, and pokem... I mean 'fae' - Terrible graphics (why even support 1440p when your sprites are made for 240p?????) - Repetitive, uninspired OST and sound design - Inconsequential upgrades and customizations - Unexplained mechanics that happen Mid-fight - Brain dead, slow, and repetitive combat - General lack of QoL updates that have existed FOR THE PAST DECADE! This POS wishes it was [b]half[/b] the game FFTA was and is somehow separated by over TWO DECADES. Why TF does a gameboy advance game have better graphics, story, world building, pacing, and characters then a game made TWENTY YEARS IN THE FUTURE?! How TF do you make such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ version of the genre from TWO DECADES AGO?!?!?! The whole point of having a past is learning from the mistakes or AT LEAST improving the formula. So they put in a 2x speed turbo (still slower than old people ♥♥♥♥) and called it a day. This is true TBT slop. If you want decent TBT that keeps you enga…

oh god delete this tutorial