The Lord of the Parties

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[code][h1][b]Game Overview : [/b][/h1] The lord of the parties is a brand new game that combines an RPG with a party shoot 'em up. Explore this unique fantasy world with your own allies! [h1][b]Nyanco's Review : [/b][/h1] [b]+ Let's have an adventure with cute 2D anime characters! ヽ(´• ω •`)、[/b] [h1][b][1] Intro : [/b][/h1] The Lord of the Parties is a party-based shooting RPG produced by Magic Cube & Dizcon and published by CREST. Magic Cube is an indie dev team that has been developing unique casual games, and CREST is a publisher specializing in localizing anime games. In particular, this game features collaboration events with Himekuma Ribon and Quon Tama (scheduled). [h1][b][2] Game Experience : [/b][/h1] The story begins with a letter left by the mother of a girl named Iris. A half-elf girl, Iris sees a letter left by her mother in her will, and learns that her father, whom she thought had died, is actually alive. Iris sets out on her adventures with her childhood friend Arthur, a boy who dreams of becoming a hero, in search of her missing father. Along the way, she meets a new colleague, and gradually approaches the truth about her father's disappearance and the secrets…

FULL VERSION WORKS FINE, DEMO IS BROKE The bosses are supposed to jump back to the back of the screen when they hit the front, it's actually a cool mechanic lol Really surprised by this one, has a fairly addictive "farm for materials to upgrade units" central gameplay loop. Initially how the map works and the inn and stuff felt a bit awkward, but I got the hang of it pretty quick. Nice balance of grind needed to push through, but skill also carrying you pretty far. It's always satisfying to come back from getting down to one unit, or finishing a boss with your last unit poking down their final HP. I skip all the story cutscenes, they're super standard party RPG fare with zero personality on any of the characters lol. But that's not why we're here.

The Lord of the Parties is a weird combination of action RPG and vertically scrolling shmup. Unfortunately it's not very good at either, with kind of lame character growth (small improvements from leveling up, sure, but basically it's just what rank of items you have equipped on your characters that determines how good they are entirely) and worse shmup gameplay, basically just going through long autoscrolling stages while making sure to not let your unwieldy-large party take any hits. Not that this is usually very hard, being as you can just kill almost all enemies before they attack, but sometimes you can't and half or more of your party dies instantly. Now, the game tries a few times to imply that getting hit isn't that bad - you can "rescue" captured soldiers to replace any party members you lose, and they can come at surprisingly high ranks - but rescued soldiers do literally 10% or less of the damage of your actual party members and don't have ultimate abilities. Also, party members aren't very balanced - one of them doubles the damage output of your entire party just for having her around - so the gimmick of "sometimes randomly your characters won't want to adventure so you…

A clever little game! A satisfying combination of individual elements that would be too simple on their own, and a surprisingly tough iteration on vertical shooter mechanics. Lots of cute touches, definitely made with love. Despite the simplicity, the game has managed to introduce something new in the large majority of quests. There's some new enemy, or trap, or goal, or rescue-able ally. Character portrait art is what it is - not my favorite, but the game doesn't lean into it. There's a surprising amount of surprisingly-good voice acting, and the story they're telling (thus far) is well-written and seems intent on doing some real analysis of the "medieval fantasy" setting as we know it. Cons: At present, the UI is a mix of too busy and too small, and controller support is jank. Sound effects can overwhelm the audio system and get very crunchy. Nothing complex here, but if you want a simple game with some nice framing, TLotP is worth a shot. Check out the Demo!

Unique and fun