Ogre Tale

[後半に日本語レビューあり] [h1]Cute Ogre Sisters in a Folktale-Flipped Beat-Em-Up[/h1] The premise here is an inverted Momotaro folktale. In modern-day Japan, centuries later, Momotaro's descendant has turned villain out of sheer boredom — marshaling yokai and monsters to terrorize the countryside. Standing against him are the descendants of the very ogres he once defeated: sisters Ran, Hana, and Yume, alongside their cat companion Iroha, who serves as narrator, mentor, and caretaker. Built on the premise of heroes-turned-villains and villains-turned-heroes, the game sustains a lively flow of meta-comedy and fourth-wall-breaking banter throughout. This sense of humor is arguably the game's defining strength. Gameplay is a side-scrolling beat-em-up built around loot drops, experience points, and weapon upgrades for a lite hack-and-slash feel. Each of the three sisters has a distinct playstyle, and character selection adds genuine variety. The difference in feel between each sister is clear enough that clearing the game with one naturally motivates a second run with another. Combat deepens progressively as ultimate attacks are unlocked — many reviewers note the game truly comes into its own fro…

Fantastic game with a great art style. Negative reviews are written by idiots who were expecting a Phantom Breaker sequel.

Pretty fun game, plays nicely on the steam deck. Love the aesthetics.

What's here is basically a shell of a game. There's some solid potential that's completely squandered. Graphics are beautiful, enemy designs are neat and strange, the fighting mechanics are decent... but it's all thrown out the window because of how everything else comes together, and that's a shame. How these guys create Vanillaware-quality graphics and a distinctive art style with decent combat and then waste it with short and mindless levels easily completed in sub-3 hours with no effort only that long because it's padded and you might get distracted by side missions hoping for SOMETHING to do is just terrible. How did the team behind Phantom Breaker Battlegrounds, which had flaws but was ultimately a fantastic beat-em up with Treasure-style grouping dudes in the corner and smashing em all at once for a shower of coins stumble so badly? Levels are basically walking into a screen, the computer moving your character to the center of the "arena" area, and things spawn. Sometimes they're right on top of you, sometimes they're invisible and slowly float down after like 10 seconds. Kill everything and the wall boundaries go away, and you move on. It's all flat, and you're usually ru…

i find very hard to recommend this game, it had everything to be great, improved graphics from phantom breaker overdrive, a less chibi art style, and what looked like a deep combat akin to overdrive, sadly that is not the case, while the voice acting presentation and graphics of ogre tale are amon the best on the anime beat em up sub-genre the actual gameplay lacks far too much in variety, QoL to not just become a mashing nightmare or quite simply boring. overdrive had a large cast of characters that had their own unique traits, 3 specials, a ligh and heavy attack and a level up system akin to river city ramson that made the combat feel very fun and distinct, ogre tale removes pretty much all of that, makes a dull, slow paced and repetitive beat em up, is honestly one of the few game i regret buying

It was interesting but why is it so hard to get the multiplayer you have to jump through many hoops to get it and that kills this for me