TRIANGLE STRATEGY

Massive Disappointment for a tactics fan As a huge fan of tactical RPGs, this should have been an easy slam dunk for me. Instead, I logged over 50 hours and still couldn’t bring myself to finish it (though admittingly, a ton of those hours was me just having to put the game down still running out of annoyance). The tactical combat is the game’s only real strength. Most battles have a puzzle-like gimmick, ranging from genuinely clever to bafflingly stupid. Unfortunately, the worthwhile fights are spaced far too widely apart by endless dialogue and painfully long character side stories. The game tries soo hard to recreate the political drama of Final Fantasy Tactics, but the writing feels amateurish, overly serious and incredibly boring. I never gave a shiz about the cast, and the mediocre voice acting makes things worse. The side stories are clearly supposed to make you care about the characters, but often just make them more annoying. The advertised branching story also is also largely illusory, as most routes quickly reconverge until near the end. Character progression is equally shallow: every unit is locked into a predetermined role, with virtually no buildcrafting, and the …

Triangle Strategy wears its Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics influences proudly, yet it carves out its own identity through one simple, brilliant mechanic: the Scales of Conviction. Rather than picking dialogue options and hoping for the best, your party actually votes on major decisions, and you have to persuade them using evidence gathered throughout the story. It's a small twist that makes every choice feel earned instead of arbitrary. The story itself is genuinely gripping, weaving together three nations locked in conflict over salt, iron, and old grudges that refuse to die. Nothing here is simple. Characters you like make questionable choices, factions you distrust have understandable motivations, and the game never lets you feel fully comfortable with any side. That moral complexity is the backbone of the entire experience. Combat is classic tactics fare done exceptionally well. Elevation, terrain, and character positioning all matter, and the roster offers enough variety in unit types and abilities to keep encounters feeling fresh throughout a lengthy campaign. Boss battles in particular demand real thought rather than brute force. Visually, the HD 2D art style is g…

As an entirely combat-only game, I would recommend this. It is everything you want in a tactical game, The mechanics are solid, the feel is good, you can fast-skip a lot of stuff, you can retry while retraining levels, etc. On the opposite side of things, playing on Hard usually devolves at some point to tricking the AI to stutter around rather than feeling like you won against an actual opponent, so it's not entirely smooth riding. On the other, other side, without the AI being wonky, it feels like Hard is too Hard, and thus your only option is to break the game. So maybe even mechanically you want to keep it to normal and enjoy it without pressing the AI to break. On the side of the writing, you would want to avoid the game. Before I bought the game I've been told the writing is basic, and yes, it is, but it is serviceable for a tactics game to put us into battles. So I won't put it against the game. My problem comes in the choice mechanics. Sometimes when you find out something important, and then make appropriate text choices, the game will actually punish you. This has not been fine in Persona 4, where only if I choose the right sequence of dialogue choices I get the g…

Soooooooo much exposition...... This game is extremely boring.

Square Enix's best game in years! should be a franchise!

Excellent turn based tactical RPG! Just finished it and was very happy with it overall. The story is more Game of Thrones than Final Fantasy, and while the elements of the story aren't exactly subtle, it's all handled well. The voice acting is excellent. There are also NG+ perks and branching paths to explore, plus multiple endings. So definitely a game I'll be coming back to even after beating it. If you can nab it on a sale it's very worth it.