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.

I want to recommend Fae Tactics, because there things to like about the game, but it suffers from two glaring problems: 1. The sprites, enemies, and scenarios are extremely repetitive. 2. The dog leader trivializes the game. One the first point, I will say that units do have a unique system of abilities that helps them be useful at different points during a fight. No matter what action you choose, there is usually something decent to do . . . but certainly not always. The enemy and sprite variety, while initially good, falls off very very hard, very quickly. You'll fight the same elementals over and over again, the same trolls and goblins with a cannon or two, and mostly the same scenarios, for too long to keep your attention. The AI is pretty dumb and even the bosses repeat themselves multiple times, with meager story "reasons" to act as why. And each individual scenario is aggravatingly long, often 3 episodes each in length and you can't save in between them. It's just not acceptable when there are similar games with much more variety at all levels. 2. The dog leader (name escapes me) is just broken if you build him right. With enough defense, proper posit…

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'…

oh god delete this tutorial

The story is actually really good, loved the colorful art style, combat was fun the intro theme is *chefs kiss*. Overall a hidden gem among turn-based tactics. Thank you.

Good game. Very mechanically dense. Having elemental advantage over enemies is incredibly important. Bosses get more complex as the game goes on so it's important to check what skills they have and so on. Funny thing I did was put the def shred scroll and mana burn jewel on Pichon and watch him shred boss's defence with his 3 hit weapon that reduces def PER HIT. Even his ult, which is one big hit, will count as a multi hit skill as shown in the animation and will reduce boss def into the negatives very easily. There's also a crazy good undead skull fae with the protector wait skill and a passive that regenerates health at the start of it's turn that has 80%(!) damage reduction as long as it's not a back attack which goes a long way in keeping your units alive. The teleport talisman also never left my spell lineup because being able to transport one unit anywhere on the map in a tactics game that gives bonus damage to height difference is really good. Especially since sniper units like Erisolde exist who only has 2 movement (unless using her 2nd weapon). Anyway fun game and really scratched that tactics itch for me.