My one nit-pick is that the weapon skin doesnt change when you equip new stuff. Minor gripe, but would have been awesome if you could see the different equipment in the actual battles.
Kind of a tangent but that's what I like about Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis, you can have both your weapon and outfit be any you own as a skin but also have you actual equip-for-benefit gear
Same. Loved seeing item change on the character when playing ogre battle 64. It's the little things, however, I'll still play the shit out of this game 😅
I agree with this I feel at least your squads valor skills should be trigger-able because there were so many times I saw the preview and it was like half damage but when I got over there it was death to the enemy and I was like "Damn really wish I could trigger Alain's xp buff right now"
I don’t like how… non-special the actual units are treated. They’re indistinguishable from the mercenaries you can recruit except that you get them for free, they receive rapport buffs, and they are slightly different from the base model. They don’t receive any exclusive skills or anything like that, and because of the customization with the mercenaries, in some cases the mercs CAN ACTUALLY BE BETTER than your named units. This feels like an oversight, because maybe I’ve just got Fire Emblem brain rot, but I’m under the impression that mercs are there to patch up holes in the party, not outright replace actual characters.
Thats actually one of the things I like. I want to be able to replace named characters with recruits. I always do that in games where it will let me. Like in FF Tactics I never used a named character outside of Ramza. Overall I can understand why you dislike that though such as Bruno being streight up worse than the first gladiator you can make yourself
I don’t mind that mercs can be better, but I wish some characters were not given growths that seem actively bad. Selvie the Shaman for example has the growth rate that increases hit, but all of her skills have true hit and can’t miss. Same goes for Chloe who has 2 defensive growths but wants to be in the backline.
@@twigz3214 you know you can buy a mirror from the merchant right? with the mirror you change chcnage the name character's growths and appearance, and Selvie is a debuffer so she does not need true hit because she does not hit at all
@@denysvision Yep but there’s currently only 1 in the game (technically 2 since you get one after the Scarlet chapter, but we can’t use it yet). Also I said Selvie’s skills have true hit, if you look at the Shaman skills it says the hit on all of them is true, so her having a growth rate that buffs accuracy feels bad. If the hit rate on them wasn’t true they would need to roll a hit rate.
I think they do it on purpose. It's different than other similar RPGs, but I think the story units, barring unique classes like Alain the Lord, are there to be introductions to classes and a connection to the story. That way, players not looking for more depth will have a still-decent unit, and industrious players will have a choice on how to spend their honor. It would suck if mercs were somewhat useless, but they are actually a viable choice over more unit slots since most missions only start you with 3 valor, and deploying units later than the beginning is kinda useless if you are the aforementioned industrious player (witch units are kind of an exception but would you really spend that valor on deploying and teleporting in instead of using cavalry charge or an arrow barrage or something? The answer is yes I think, especially for speed runs but eh idk yet I've only gotten to play like 15 hours including in-menu and story-sequence time), so you really only need to pump honor into 3 or 4 units (in the demo, since I believe the highest starting valor is 4, but actual numbers for some forms of play will likely be at least 1 lower since the gryphon's speed buff is so good for gryphon and cavalry units and you'll likely want to pop that one immediately) Ironically it's kinda like most of the story units are patching the holes in optimal play. It doesn't ruin the casual experience so I only see it as a positive. For all I know farming rapport will be huge and I'm super wrong, IDK. It is pretty cheap to do in a Tavern after all.
my problem with the battle preview is I have had a time or 2 when I hover over a battle and the preview looks really good so I tell a group to do that battle then as they are walking other battles take place or whatever, so that when that battle does happen the rng is rerolled and my group gets defeated that turns frustrating because im just like "but you said it would turn out good!!"
8:10 oh but you can equip items equipped by other characters! Just not in battle. In all seriousness, this limit is only there on the preview screen. You can swap items between characters at any point during a stage as long as it isn't the preview screen right before a battle. Terrible error message-I know. Idk maybe I'm stupid, haven't tested it to make sure it isn't some other mechanic that I crossed wires with.
You are correct 100% thats what makes it so annoying for me. Its so free to let you swap whenever you want except that one moment when you want to the most. Its just kinda weird
@@purplatypus7405 I suppose I haven't given that aspect a lot of thought. It always struck me as encouraging proactivity, but the existence of a pause button kinda does make it weird? You can always just pause before the engagement and it costs nothing so why is there a difference? The only difference is that you can clear up uncertainty due to assists at that moment only. Without assists there is no difference. This problem also applies to Valor skills since you can't use them at the moment of engagement either. I'm only an armchair game designer so I can't really come up with a justification for it other than "git gud". (To be clear, the quotes contain sarcasm).
honestly game might be not too easy on expert, but the problem is the itemization units get like x5 times stronger or more with certain item setups which makes the game dirt easy clearing every mission first turn with a op flying squad rushing the leader, lets see how crazy that gets endgame
I don't think the game will be to easy by the end I think it will give the average player a hard time but the demo let me brute force it with calvary at least
This is why it's only deserves a 7/10 not 8 or 9. The major one was I wish I could control captain troops individually in actual battle and use skills manually etc..
That ruins the entire point of the tactical part of the game, you are required to program these AIs into doing the things you want, game would be 10 times easier than it already was (and very generic) if it just played like a run of the mill team based jrpg
@@kskr8610 Not really, generic to me is autonomously done by the AI, What's not generic is you manually taking control of the situation. Unicorn overlord is too easy and has no strategy what so ever. If it's too easy it's not strategy. Even on the highest difficulty people are laughing online. It's #boring because you do not properly participate in the battles, you sit there and select and watch your AI do the work based on your stats and equipment lol how dumb, your being spoon fed your fake addiction to the game and you know it. You do realise this is why Final fantasy never did the gambit system ever again lol
@@deusvlad2.083 bro the strategy comes from tailoring what the AI does, if you leave the AI on default most of the time you get fucked over. It's not a stat-based game at ALL you can beat level 40 enemies with a level 25 team if you are tactical with it. Equipment in this game mostly have special effects instead of just being stat sticks. There's a HUGE difference between actually spending time minmaxing combos and just put the highest stat units together. This is similar to Gambit but do remember that here you are minmaxing like 50 characters at the same time by the end of the game. The game is indeed too easy but it is a result of the devs being too lenient on external non-strategy resources like being easily overlevelled, giving you way better items than the enemies, valor skills dealing way too much damage etc, it's not a consequence of this gameplay system. Ask anyone who called this too easy and I guarantee there are a few items and valor skills all of them spam the hell out of. I can't fault them for doing it but I myself dropped them altogether and had a much more tactical experience.
@@deusvlad2.083 the AI is not "auto" in the sense that it decides what to do, literally you are the person who does that lol you make your teams and handcraft what they do. If you make decisions you are engaged simple as that, I was taking this as a sound argument until you go on with the "fake addiction" like bro way to ruin it
For the equipment thing. go into deployable units find the unit with the item you want. unequip it Choose the unit you want hey presto you can now equip it.
What do you mean you dont play RPGs for the stories? Thats like saying you like reading books but only the part where you feel the pages turn. Its missing the whole point!
some rpgs yes some rpgs no. a good turn based rpg can have a wonderful story but I would probably never watch the story in an Arpg. This game is in the middle of those for me. if the story was good cool but the mechanics are strong enough on their own. same with fire emblem
yeah im aware how it works I think its just implemented bad or at least in a annoying way. Maybe characters not deployed should have their gear considered to be in the convoy
Difficulty will greatly vary depending on your skill level and understanding of the mechanics. In both cases, you are way ahead of the curve right now. I'd ultimately expect 1 big roadblock mission, and perhaps some endgame uber-battles.
yeah its not a wonder my first playthrough got me only through like 10 fights while now I can clear almost all the demo content with much less effort. I am just getting much better at the game than this stage of the game expects me to be I think. I am not super worried but I see so much potential in team building im afraid they might not make it as hard as they could
To the point of exchanging gears; I mean it make sense if a character is equipped with something you can't take his item. Like you are in a battle deployed you can't take something cuz you remember ooooh Jhonny has a grande launcher and it will magically appear on you. But yeah maybe you shouldn't be able to change gear while deploy
As a fan of Ogre Battle 64, and as the game's developer said in its announcement trailer, "...the rebirth of the tatics rpg game". I have to confess that I was very disappointed by the fact that we could see the outcome of the fight before it even happened. I know it's a mechanic of this type of game, but it's very tedious to play like this. The game becomes just you managing your units and sending them to fight against the units that you know will win. '~'
isn't this the point of the game? and is not like people have time to see how the fight would go, and knowing how the fight would go is much better than just attacking recklessly
@@denysvision It's not reckless, you need to assemble your unit and prepare it well, we have a class system that has advantages and disadvantages, you could simply look at the enemy troops and analyze which of your units would be best to face them (e.g. I see the enemy unit with some tanks, I'm going to send my unit that has a warrior to deal with him...), this way you made a conscious choice and if you win this clash, it was entirely due to you and your knowledge of the game . When the game boils down to just "clicking on your unit and then clicking on the other enemies and checking which one you kill or die" makes the game so easy, the battle is something so trivial that it's not even worth watching (it even has a skip button the animation) which makes me very sad because the art in this game is so beautiful and the animations are well done. =/
I get that. I still think the game is interesting and requires planning even if you can see the outcome of battle. I do think its unfortunate that the forcast is seemingly perfect though... I wish it was approximate and the rng of hits and misses wasnt predetermined.
I do hope the difficulty picks up in the later stages of the game. It would be an absolute shame to have so much tactical variety and no reason to use it. On the other hand, it is just a demo and even though it is a pretty big one I'm sure there is a lot we have yet to see so maybe the slow rampup is fine.
@@purplatypus7405 idk I could swear in one fight I should had won cuz the preview say so but then I missed 2 attacks and I did not won it. Am I crazy but not 100% sure so🤷🏾
I don't really mind the equipment. Though it would probably be better to just stop players from changing equipment while on the battle screen. Especially when you combine this point with how the battle forecast works. Personally I'm more annoyed with some of the controls around strategy though. I much prefer switching that up between battles. I agree with your #1 point though. You can just look at the battle forecast, and based on that you can(for example) move your dodge tank around. It's pretty lame. By swapping things around a bit, you can also easily derive who is taking what damage, so you can make very specific changes to win battles. It also takes away any and all suspense from the actual battle animations. They should really change the forecast to a range of possibilities and/or calculate probabilities in battle, instead of when you hover you mouse over a unit. Though maybe that takes too much cpu power, or maybe the ranges are too big? I don't know. It's just kind of weird how they did it.
I agree. A range would be nice but I assume they either couldnt do it or tried it and it made the game feel worse. Either way I am stoked to play minor gripes aside
I agree with all 5, but they're not dealbreakers. Overall, the mechanics in this game are great, but potentially very exploitable. I hope I don't uncover a god comp that trivializes ALL of Expert. Planning and customizing a well-rounded army might be my favorite thing in these types of games. It's about time we got an updated Ogre Battle system. I'm rooting for this game to do well.
regarding the story Im calling it now the big bad knight isnt the main villain hes just being controlled and will join us against the true villain which is either bloto and his gang or they are just underlings for someone/thing else but the big bad knight isnt gonna turn out as a big bad knight lol
word it makes sense that you shouldnt be able to swap with people outside your unit. it would be more immersive if you had to scout the field and deploy your troops itemized best for the situation before deployment, the problem is the consistency. make it gamey by letting us swap even if it doesn't make sense because hey its a video game, or make it that we cant swap at all
yea i really hope the difficulty spikes, because the system is fking beautiful. the amount of depth they put into it, it would be a crime to make the game so easy that you can just bum rush every fight, or at least we get a "maddening" mode like in FE. but not like annoying unfair but where it forces you to strategize
For real though it's just not realistic for me to do scripts for daily uploads. I do bullet points and can work on my public speaking skills but scripts are just not realistic.
here is some things i disagree with your list 1. story: so far is not the best but again this is jsut the demo, i'm sure things would get a turning point once we advance trewout the story, and the rapport conversations gives the character a lot of personality, so on that regard i dismiss your point of the story been boring, the story is great, yes is Clicheic but it works non or else with the artstyle, so il give it a pass, besides i vannillaware we are talking here 2. the report system, OMG do i disagree you with this take SOOO MUCH, the report system is fantastic because doing so not only gives you boost on the team comp stats but also the conversations witch rewards you with Valor AND give some characterization with your characters, is still worth doing them, yes it gives you 2 valor but is better than doing battles all the time. i don't understand of why it should be removed or changed? again is still well put, i think is just you who is not fan of it 3. the game is to easy? nah i think the first stage would not be difficult untill later one, so far is still in the demo, so you would expect harder stages with tons of enemies in the full game, or is easy for you because people who is used to hard difficulty would say that is to easy, and maybe the game is not for everyone? and it seems that tons of people do love the gameplay a lot 4. can't swap equipment at times if other character wearing? why not just buy 2 of the same equipment? this way you can swap the items without the need to take it from other charactersy 5. bad RNG? sorry but this is pretty nick piking because not eveyrone wants to watch how the battle continues because knowing exactly how the fight would go and skip is saves a lot of time for thoes who have less time to play the game, again you have to think from the other players perspective in order to see why is implemented that way
Thanks for the comment! Ill take a second to read and respond to this for sure. 1. nothing to add here we just disagree and the quality of a story is mostly subjective 2. I like character growth both in terms of stats and personality however I dont like the way rapport systems are implemented typically. Having to give gifts or fight with an ally in combat to get a number to go up I dont find fun or engaging. For those that enjoy it I have no issue its just not my ideal. 3. I love the gameplay and dont think the game is to easy I am nervous the difficulty wont keep up with the awesome team building the game allows. Time will tell 4. most equipment has 1 in stock plus I dont want so spend twice as much money to have two of each equipment. they allow swapping they just put weird restrictions on it that add an unneeded annoyance. 5. Knowing how a fight will go can be good but being able to control and force reroll fight RNG means you can meta game doing easier fights until your units are able to roll good RNG on a hard fight. I think this might incentivize weird game play for players on higher difficulties. I also dont find the time saving argument strong as it wouldnt remove your ability to skip fights. Its not the worst system ever it just has a bit to much power in it with you being able to force good rng potentially by messing with knobs.
my biggest issue is the story... well the combat itself just "simplistic of brown dust's combat" nothing special, so combining with big EEWW story, yeah never touch it again
This game is shit, it's like the developers didn't want to let you do anything, all you do is have groups run them into other groups and make sure you have the right people and it plays out for you..... Trash this game is terrible and should be 20$
As much as I enjoy most of your videos I have to take issue with this one. A lot of your complaints outside of story are completely unfounded. You been playing the demo multiple times so of course the game's going to be easier. Strategy RPGs have always had a predictive outcome. There's not too many RPGs where you can unequipped and re-equipped already equipped characters. . again I'll give you story cuz that's more personal taste but everything else is just a standard strategy RPG mechanic
I disagree they are unfounded. I have played the demo maybe 17 hours and my views are founded on that. Of course its a limited view as its all based on the demo but that should go without saying.
I hate how the characters feet look like. Everything else is top tier amazing art but then you see their feet and want to cry. And in the map the hero hair is light, and in game he is blue haired, and even mentioned to be one... Splitting hairs? Hell yea!
i personally liked the story so far i will never understand people who bass the story in these types of games wdit:i also hate that this guy skips everything and i feel he is one of those people that plays the game once and never touches it
The story is probably fine but when you just played Yakuza Infinite Wealth it just didnt have a chance imo. I skip everything Ive seen before as I think this is on my third demo play through. However once I beat the game I likely will not play it again this is partially due to lack of interest but also new games come out to play and cover.
My one nit-pick is that the weapon skin doesnt change when you equip new stuff. Minor gripe, but would have been awesome if you could see the different equipment in the actual battles.
That does not matter to me however it would have been very cool to see especially with how long the game took to make
Kind of a tangent but that's what I like about Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis, you can have both your weapon and outfit be any you own as a skin but also have you actual equip-for-benefit gear
Same. Loved seeing item change on the character when playing ogre battle 64. It's the little things, however, I'll still play the shit out of this game 😅
The battle outcome doesn’t include ranged and healing assists when picking where to move to, but it does when you actually engage the foe
Yeah that can be a pretty big one especially in a few fights where they reinforce archers and you could be taking 3 ranged assists in a fight.
It also doesn't always Calc status damage like poison or burn
Im pretty Sure it does. Like a 100% All my Poison and Burn Units Had totally accurate Battle previews@@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756
Something they should really enable, is naming your mercenaries however you want
Only thing i hate about this game is having to wait another whole week to play it
I dislike not being able to use Valor skills once you get go the battle screen.
I agree with this I feel at least your squads valor skills should be trigger-able because there were so many times I saw the preview and it was like half damage but when I got over there it was death to the enemy and I was like "Damn really wish I could trigger Alain's xp buff right now"
So many times I've forgotten to cancel movement towards bosses while fumbling to get to the right skill. It really is a frustration trigger
I don’t like how… non-special the actual units are treated. They’re indistinguishable from the mercenaries you can recruit except that you get them for free, they receive rapport buffs, and they are slightly different from the base model. They don’t receive any exclusive skills or anything like that, and because of the customization with the mercenaries, in some cases the mercs CAN ACTUALLY BE BETTER than your named units.
This feels like an oversight, because maybe I’ve just got Fire Emblem brain rot, but I’m under the impression that mercs are there to patch up holes in the party, not outright replace actual characters.
Thats actually one of the things I like. I want to be able to replace named characters with recruits. I always do that in games where it will let me. Like in FF Tactics I never used a named character outside of Ramza. Overall I can understand why you dislike that though such as Bruno being streight up worse than the first gladiator you can make yourself
I don’t mind that mercs can be better, but I wish some characters were not given growths that seem actively bad. Selvie the Shaman for example has the growth rate that increases hit, but all of her skills have true hit and can’t miss. Same goes for Chloe who has 2 defensive growths but wants to be in the backline.
@@twigz3214 you know you can buy a mirror from the merchant right? with the mirror you change chcnage the name character's growths and appearance, and Selvie is a debuffer so she does not need true hit because she does not hit at all
@@denysvision Yep but there’s currently only 1 in the game (technically 2 since you get one after the Scarlet chapter, but we can’t use it yet). Also I said Selvie’s skills have true hit, if you look at the Shaman skills it says the hit on all of them is true, so her having a growth rate that buffs accuracy feels bad. If the hit rate on them wasn’t true they would need to roll a hit rate.
I think they do it on purpose. It's different than other similar RPGs, but I think the story units, barring unique classes like Alain the Lord, are there to be introductions to classes and a connection to the story. That way, players not looking for more depth will have a still-decent unit, and industrious players will have a choice on how to spend their honor.
It would suck if mercs were somewhat useless, but they are actually a viable choice over more unit slots since most missions only start you with 3 valor, and deploying units later than the beginning is kinda useless if you are the aforementioned industrious player (witch units are kind of an exception but would you really spend that valor on deploying and teleporting in instead of using cavalry charge or an arrow barrage or something? The answer is yes I think, especially for speed runs but eh idk yet I've only gotten to play like 15 hours including in-menu and story-sequence time), so you really only need to pump honor into 3 or 4 units (in the demo, since I believe the highest starting valor is 4, but actual numbers for some forms of play will likely be at least 1 lower since the gryphon's speed buff is so good for gryphon and cavalry units and you'll likely want to pop that one immediately)
Ironically it's kinda like most of the story units are patching the holes in optimal play. It doesn't ruin the casual experience so I only see it as a positive. For all I know farming rapport will be huge and I'm super wrong, IDK. It is pretty cheap to do in a Tavern after all.
my problem with the battle preview is I have had a time or 2 when I hover over a battle and the preview looks really good so I tell a group to do that battle
then as they are walking other battles take place or whatever, so that when that battle does happen the rng is rerolled and my group gets defeated
that turns frustrating because im just like "but you said it would turn out good!!"
Sure it wasnt an assist?
That onlh happens tô me when assists take me by surprise
8:10 oh but you can equip items equipped by other characters! Just not in battle.
In all seriousness, this limit is only there on the preview screen. You can swap items between characters at any point during a stage as long as it isn't the preview screen right before a battle. Terrible error message-I know.
Idk maybe I'm stupid, haven't tested it to make sure it isn't some other mechanic that I crossed wires with.
You are correct 100% thats what makes it so annoying for me. Its so free to let you swap whenever you want except that one moment when you want to the most. Its just kinda weird
@@purplatypus7405 I suppose I haven't given that aspect a lot of thought. It always struck me as encouraging proactivity, but the existence of a pause button kinda does make it weird? You can always just pause before the engagement and it costs nothing so why is there a difference?
The only difference is that you can clear up uncertainty due to assists at that moment only. Without assists there is no difference.
This problem also applies to Valor skills since you can't use them at the moment of engagement either.
I'm only an armchair game designer so I can't really come up with a justification for it other than "git gud". (To be clear, the quotes contain sarcasm).
Does the progress from the demo transfer to the main game?
Yes indeedy
Looks like I'm playing the demo! @@purplatypus7405
From the demo my only issue is the time limit, I just want to take my time getting/killing everything before I finish the mission..
honestly game might be not too easy on expert, but the problem is the itemization units get like x5 times stronger or more with certain item setups which makes the game dirt easy clearing every mission first turn with a op flying squad rushing the leader, lets see how crazy that gets endgame
yeah im unlikely to use any flying units becuase of that or maybe one but I think an all flyer squad could be opop
I don't think the game will be to easy by the end I think it will give the average player a hard time but the demo let me brute force it with calvary at least
This is why it's only deserves a 7/10 not 8 or 9. The major one was I wish I could control captain troops individually in actual battle and use skills manually etc..
Agree
That ruins the entire point of the tactical part of the game, you are required to program these AIs into doing the things you want, game would be 10 times easier than it already was (and very generic) if it just played like a run of the mill team based jrpg
@@kskr8610 Not really, generic to me is autonomously done by the AI, What's not generic is you manually taking control of the situation. Unicorn overlord is too easy and has no strategy what so ever. If it's too easy it's not strategy. Even on the highest difficulty people are laughing online.
It's #boring because you do not properly participate in the battles, you sit there and select and watch your AI do the work based on your stats and equipment lol how dumb, your being spoon fed your fake addiction to the game and you know it.
You do realise this is why Final fantasy never did the gambit system ever again lol
@@deusvlad2.083 bro the strategy comes from tailoring what the AI does, if you leave the AI on default most of the time you get fucked over. It's not a stat-based game at ALL you can beat level 40 enemies with a level 25 team if you are tactical with it. Equipment in this game mostly have special effects instead of just being stat sticks. There's a HUGE difference between actually spending time minmaxing combos and just put the highest stat units together. This is similar to Gambit but do remember that here you are minmaxing like 50 characters at the same time by the end of the game.
The game is indeed too easy but it is a result of the devs being too lenient on external non-strategy resources like being easily overlevelled, giving you way better items than the enemies, valor skills dealing way too much damage etc, it's not a consequence of this gameplay system. Ask anyone who called this too easy and I guarantee there are a few items and valor skills all of them spam the hell out of. I can't fault them for doing it but I myself dropped them altogether and had a much more tactical experience.
@@deusvlad2.083 the AI is not "auto" in the sense that it decides what to do, literally you are the person who does that lol you make your teams and handcraft what they do. If you make decisions you are engaged simple as that, I was taking this as a sound argument until you go on with the "fake addiction" like bro way to ruin it
For the equipment thing. go into deployable units find the unit with the item you want. unequip it Choose the unit you want hey presto you can now equip it.
What do you mean you dont play RPGs for the stories? Thats like saying you like reading books but only the part where you feel the pages turn. Its missing the whole point!
some rpgs yes some rpgs no. a good turn based rpg can have a wonderful story but I would probably never watch the story in an Arpg. This game is in the middle of those for me. if the story was good cool but the mechanics are strong enough on their own. same with fire emblem
Swapping equipment relies on units being near each other, but everyone can reach the convoy.
yeah im aware how it works I think its just implemented bad or at least in a annoying way. Maybe characters not deployed should have their gear considered to be in the convoy
You shouldnt even be allowed to switch equipment as easily as you can right now in my opinion@@purplatypus7405
Difficulty will greatly vary depending on your skill level and understanding of the mechanics. In both cases, you are way ahead of the curve right now. I'd ultimately expect 1 big roadblock mission, and perhaps some endgame uber-battles.
Yeah, what a surprise that the game is easy the third time you play it... (and the early-game at that.)
yeah its not a wonder my first playthrough got me only through like 10 fights while now I can clear almost all the demo content with much less effort. I am just getting much better at the game than this stage of the game expects me to be I think. I am not super worried but I see so much potential in team building im afraid they might not make it as hard as they could
@@purplatypus7405 post game, unlock "Impossible" difficulty 😂😂😂
Hope the full version has monsters, monster to recruit, or Beastmaster unit.
Were people are in it im pretty sure
@@purplatypus7405 Seen the angels and beastfolk, Its cool that there's other humanoid units.
Is it easy on the hardest difficulty?
So far yes
To the point of exchanging gears; I mean it make sense if a character is equipped with something you can't take his item. Like you are in a battle deployed you can't take something cuz you remember ooooh Jhonny has a grande launcher and it will magically appear on you. But yeah maybe you shouldn't be able to change gear while deploy
They do let you magically grab items from any distance. Just not in the pre battle screen. 1 second before there is no issue. It's a weird choice
As a fan of Ogre Battle 64, and as the game's developer said in its announcement trailer, "...the rebirth of the tatics rpg game". I have to confess that I was very disappointed by the fact that we could see the outcome of the fight before it even happened. I know it's a mechanic of this type of game, but it's very tedious to play like this. The game becomes just you managing your units and sending them to fight against the units that you know will win. '~'
isn't this the point of the game? and is not like people have time to see how the fight would go, and knowing how the fight would go is much better than just attacking recklessly
@@denysvision It's not reckless, you need to assemble your unit and prepare it well, we have a class system that has advantages and disadvantages, you could simply look at the enemy troops and analyze which of your units would be best to face them (e.g. I see the enemy unit with some tanks, I'm going to send my unit that has a warrior to deal with him...), this way you made a conscious choice and if you win this clash, it was entirely due to you and your knowledge of the game . When the game boils down to just "clicking on your unit and then clicking on the other enemies and checking which one you kill or die" makes the game so easy, the battle is something so trivial that it's not even worth watching (it even has a skip button the animation) which makes me very sad because the art in this game is so beautiful and the animations are well done. =/
That's liferally the point of the genre, bro.
I get that. I still think the game is interesting and requires planning even if you can see the outcome of battle. I do think its unfortunate that the forcast is seemingly perfect though... I wish it was approximate and the rng of hits and misses wasnt predetermined.
I do hope the difficulty picks up in the later stages of the game. It would be an absolute shame to have so much tactical variety and no reason to use it. On the other hand, it is just a demo and even though it is a pretty big one I'm sure there is a lot we have yet to see so maybe the slow rampup is fine.
On the last issue I think is not 100% cuz you still can miss an attacks or u can crit or get crit ...
It factors that into the preview. It will give you the exact outcome
@@purplatypus7405 idk I could swear in one fight I should had won cuz the preview say so but then I missed 2 attacks and I did not won it. Am I crazy but not 100% sure so🤷🏾
I don't really mind the equipment. Though it would probably be better to just stop players from changing equipment while on the battle screen. Especially when you combine this point with how the battle forecast works.
Personally I'm more annoyed with some of the controls around strategy though. I much prefer switching that up between battles.
I agree with your #1 point though. You can just look at the battle forecast, and based on that you can(for example) move your dodge tank around. It's pretty lame. By swapping things around a bit, you can also easily derive who is taking what damage, so you can make very specific changes to win battles.
It also takes away any and all suspense from the actual battle animations.
They should really change the forecast to a range of possibilities and/or calculate probabilities in battle, instead of when you hover you mouse over a unit. Though maybe that takes too much cpu power, or maybe the ranges are too big? I don't know. It's just kind of weird how they did it.
I agree. A range would be nice but I assume they either couldnt do it or tried it and it made the game feel worse. Either way I am stoked to play minor gripes aside
Wish u could control units in battle
I agree with all 5, but they're not dealbreakers. Overall, the mechanics in this game are great, but potentially very exploitable. I hope I don't uncover a god comp that trivializes ALL of Expert. Planning and customizing a well-rounded army might be my favorite thing in these types of games. It's about time we got an updated Ogre Battle system. I'm rooting for this game to do well.
The only thing i don't like is i can't name my hired generic units whatever i want. I love the story so far.
regarding the story Im calling it now the big bad knight isnt the main villain hes just being controlled and will join us against the true villain which is either bloto and his gang or they are just underlings for someone/thing else but the big bad knight isnt gonna turn out as a big bad knight lol
I dont like item swapping. I wish they made it so you could never do it. Makes sense if it was between charscters jn the dame unit.
word it makes sense that you shouldnt be able to swap with people outside your unit. it would be more immersive if you had to scout the field and deploy your troops itemized best for the situation before deployment, the problem is the consistency. make it gamey by letting us swap even if it doesn't make sense because hey its a video game, or make it that we cant swap at all
yea i really hope the difficulty spikes, because the system is fking beautiful. the amount of depth they put into it, it would be a crime to make the game so easy that you can just bum rush every fight, or at least we get a "maddening" mode like in FE. but not like annoying unfair but where it forces you to strategize
I enjoyed fighting amalia and gerard at level 32, was tough enough
The rapport system still works with generics for stat boosts, it just characters have convos and gifts.
I am aware of that I just dont enjoy rapport systems in general
@@purplatypus7405 hardly disagree? i think is a good system because it gives the characters a lot more depth, maybe is just you not been a fan
Yes if you use Josef it become easier everything
I dunno. I kinda prefer the units fight till their death, instead of finishing their AP and PP.
So many umms and uhhs, this is so hard to listen to. Write a script bud
Ain't gon happen
For real though it's just not realistic for me to do scripts for daily uploads. I do bullet points and can work on my public speaking skills but scripts are just not realistic.
@@purplatypus7405 You do you man, I'm just giving you my honest opinion
Anduin. The good twin of Alduin. :P
here is some things i disagree with your list
1. story: so far is not the best but again this is jsut the demo, i'm sure things would get a turning point once we advance trewout the story, and the rapport conversations gives the character a lot of personality, so on that regard i dismiss your point of the story been boring, the story is great, yes is Clicheic but it works non or else with the artstyle, so il give it a pass, besides i vannillaware we are talking here
2. the report system, OMG do i disagree you with this take SOOO MUCH, the report system is fantastic because doing so not only gives you boost on the team comp stats but also the conversations witch rewards you with Valor AND give some characterization with your characters, is still worth doing them, yes it gives you 2 valor but is better than doing battles all the time. i don't understand of why it should be removed or changed? again is still well put, i think is just you who is not fan of it
3. the game is to easy? nah i think the first stage would not be difficult untill later one, so far is still in the demo, so you would expect harder stages with tons of enemies in the full game, or is easy for you because people who is used to hard difficulty would say that is to easy, and maybe the game is not for everyone? and it seems that tons of people do love the gameplay a lot
4. can't swap equipment at times if other character wearing? why not just buy 2 of the same equipment? this way you can swap the items without the need to take it from other charactersy
5. bad RNG? sorry but this is pretty nick piking because not eveyrone wants to watch how the battle continues because knowing exactly how the fight would go and skip is saves a lot of time for thoes who have less time to play the game, again you have to think from the other players perspective in order to see why is implemented that way
Thanks for the comment! Ill take a second to read and respond to this for sure.
1. nothing to add here we just disagree and the quality of a story is mostly subjective
2. I like character growth both in terms of stats and personality however I dont like the way rapport systems are implemented typically. Having to give gifts or fight with an ally in combat to get a number to go up I dont find fun or engaging. For those that enjoy it I have no issue its just not my ideal.
3. I love the gameplay and dont think the game is to easy I am nervous the difficulty wont keep up with the awesome team building the game allows. Time will tell
4. most equipment has 1 in stock plus I dont want so spend twice as much money to have two of each equipment. they allow swapping they just put weird restrictions on it that add an unneeded annoyance.
5. Knowing how a fight will go can be good but being able to control and force reroll fight RNG means you can meta game doing easier fights until your units are able to roll good RNG on a hard fight. I think this might incentivize weird game play for players on higher difficulties. I also dont find the time saving argument strong as it wouldnt remove your ability to skip fights. Its not the worst system ever it just has a bit to much power in it with you being able to force good rng potentially by messing with knobs.
Gameplay? What gameplay? You just move units into other units and click battle..... Also quite disgusting how much you're defending this trash game
@ademyilmaz9787 that's like saying fire emblem has no gameplay imo.
You can reaise rapport with food so I dont think its a problem really.
yup
I don't think I referred to it as a problem. I just don't enjoy the system.
Don't like simulation gameplay game would be better if you could control what the characters do in battle
my biggest issue is the story... well the combat itself just "simplistic of brown dust's combat" nothing special, so combining with big EEWW story, yeah never touch it again
This game is shit, it's like the developers didn't want to let you do anything, all you do is have groups run them into other groups and make sure you have the right people and it plays out for you..... Trash this game is terrible and should be 20$
You must hate fire emblem games I guess. It's fine thst the game is not for everyone but it's a wonderful game in my opinion
As much as I enjoy most of your videos I have to take issue with this one. A lot of your complaints outside of story are completely unfounded. You been playing the demo multiple times so of course the game's going to be easier. Strategy RPGs have always had a predictive outcome. There's not too many RPGs where you can unequipped and re-equipped already equipped characters. . again I'll give you story cuz that's more personal taste but everything else is just a standard strategy RPG mechanic
I disagree they are unfounded. I have played the demo maybe 17 hours and my views are founded on that. Of course its a limited view as its all based on the demo but that should go without saying.
I hate how the characters feet look like. Everything else is top tier amazing art but then you see their feet and want to cry. And in the map the hero hair is light, and in game he is blue haired, and even mentioned to be one...
Splitting hairs? Hell yea!
i personally liked the story so far i will never understand people who bass the story in these types of games
wdit:i also hate that this guy skips everything and i feel he is one of those people that plays the game once and never touches it
The story is probably fine but when you just played Yakuza Infinite Wealth it just didnt have a chance imo.
I skip everything Ive seen before as I think this is on my third demo play through. However once I beat the game I likely will not play it again this is partially due to lack of interest but also new games come out to play and cover.
If you want good story telling then look no further Baldurs gate 3 is the best there ever was.
Ehhhh...
@@Powermaster111 lol
@Ostrava_Of_Boletaria Yes
The story is nothing. People who enjoy it have low standards from consuming too much anime.
We also have at most the first 20% of the story in the demo. Maybe it’ll get better, maybe not. Too early to say for sure.
@@DreamTiger5 Hoping for the best
Have you watched good anime? Some of the greatest stories of all time there. There’s trash too, for sure, but don’t be reductive.
@@johnathanrhoades7751 it's meant to be reductive, it's a provocative comment
the battle gameplay is so bad