Hawks Tactical

First impression: underwhelming RPG It crashes. A lot. Like, every ten minutes or so. Often, when backing out of menus with Esc. It runs at 546x416 windowed, or fullscreen. It doesn't have any window zoom settings (like 2x), which is a shame because it looks ok when it zooms to fullscreen. It's keyboard only, which is cumbersome for a tactical game. The translation is incomplete (e.g. Magic Potion: Récup 30%). The game does not explain itself well: I can buy items at the shop, but what do the numbers mean? Why can I move my own guy twice, but the other party members only once (first Inn fight)? I get a sword, but I need to explicitly equip it, even though I have no weapon. It doesn't autosave before a fight. This last point breaks it for me, because I don't want to replay it yet again after it crashed on me in this fight. I did like the writing so far, but considering I didn't get very far, this doesn't mean much.

I like the game and the concept. However, I'd like to point out a few things that have caused me to not recommend. Hopefully you read this and make some changes to the game itself. I hope I can come back here and change to Recommend instead of Not Recommend. ESC Key - Very out of place for having to bring up menus and such. If able, I would advise giving us the option of remaping keys to our desired set up. Although not directly explained, You can attack more than once and use skills more than once on certain characters. This would help if there was some prompt somewhere explaining this. I may have missed it myself, and if so apologies. HP/MP recovery after battles at the very least. You don't heal after fights so make sure you heal up before the next fight. I hope you guys can fix this. There is a bug that I encountered that broke the game. The bug causes your character to constantly go up (North), which prevents you from going down (South). If you tried to go back to the menu, you will find that it has disappeared, forcing you to restart the game. No Idea what caused it and if I can reproduce the bug, Ill be sure to report the steps. All in all, I like the game and the st…

Okay, so i would say its better than the other RPGmakers games. controls are abit wanky but its alright. get it on sale though

Hawks Tactical is not a typical RPG Maker game. It is more a tactical strategy game. Battles are played on a map full of enemies, where each turn, each of your units may move, attack, and use one or two skills, the goal being to wipe out all the opponent's units. The game lasts about seven hours total. There is a storyline, but beyond the initial premise, it mostly serves to lead in to the next battle. There are decisions to be made at some points, which lead the story along multiple paths, with multiple endings possible, but these are few in number. There is very little exploration, and the tactical battles are the primary focus. These battles can last anywhere from ten minutes to an hour. They may look difficult, but if you know what you're doing at all, they are easy to beat. Battles provide you with money, which can be spent in stores to buy weapons, armour, and skill enhancements. These stores, however, appear at unpredictable points in the game, and may not be there when needed. Occasional treasure chests provide items which are useless, as far as I could tell. Overall, this game is best recommended to those who enjoy the tactical strategy gameplay. The story is fine, but…