Shattered Throne

This game is like Advance Wars 2, only too damn hard. Now, I'm all for a good tactical challenge. I beat all the Advance Wars games on all the hardest settings, and completed a ton of the highest difficulty maps where you're outnumbered three-to-one. But this game is just stupidly hard. Even a couple of hours in, you'll find yourself having to defend four objectives right next to enemy spawn points, where they start by outnumbering you, get more gold, have twice as many unit training areas, have the more powerful army type, have four very powerful long-range, high-defense, high-damage units, and if you lose a couple of objectives they get infinite money for the entire rest of the map. Bruh. Why you do this? There are puzzle maps too, which manage to be even worse and more eye-rolling. If I wanted that I'd go play Candy Crush.

It's better than i thought it would be, that's for sure. But it doesn't beat Famicom Wars / Advance Wars or Fire Emblem in my opinion. I won't even compare this to Front Wars and Tiny Metal because those two games are very bad. Great Big War Game is mediocre at best. War Theatre is also mediocre. Wargroove is overpriced. Other than that, most of the others are mediocre at best. Battle for Wesnoth is great though. This one has an enjoyable soundtrack. Art is cool if you do like pixel games. There is only three factions but at least they have different units, there's not lot of units but for 3$, it's fair. The level editor is a great thing to have, even though it could use some polishing. It's an overall good game that i'd certainly recommend for about 3$ - 5$. If it had more content and modding possibilities then the price could go up easily.

Shattered Throne is a retro pixel 2D top down turn based tactical fantasy game. Control a retro pixel army and click around the place to make them fight enemies. There's some hand drawn art as well, it's average but not eye-gougingly bad. Overall, while there's some potential in the game, it's just not acceptable to have a 4:3 aspect ratio and retro pixel graphics, not in 2016, and not today either. It's light on features, light on optimisation, and light on value for money. I couldn't recommend this when many superior turn based tactical combat games are available.

2/10

While not a masterpiece it is really fun to play. The main con for me is that it does not allow you to play in higher difficulty levels until you've cleared quite a lot of stages. Feels to me that it artificially increases the play time with that. In my first 10 missions I only had to repeat one so it seems a bit grindy to have to clear so many levels before being able to turn up the difficulty. Overall it was a positive experience.

good