Triangle Strategy: A Mixed Masterpiece
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- While 2022 will always be remembered as the year of Elden Ring, one game stands out as an incredibly polished yet occasionally polarizing title of that year- Triangle Strategy.
Some corrections I didn't notice while recording:
-Serenoa is not the heir of Glenbrook (that would be Roland), just House Wolfort.
-In Agarest War, the overworld encounters are not random; there is a set number you encounter in between each dialogue episode, which is... quite worse.
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All music from Triangle Strategy OST: "Beauty", "Thank You for Playing", "Investigation", and "Medical Temple".
What you said at @10:50 about the characters' absence being felt in the gameplay is so on point.
SPOILERS...
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In the Utility ending route, you lose your fire mage and end up fighting against Aesfrost, who's mages and archers are all weak to Fire. (Mitigated a bit of you have Narve)
In the Liberty Route, you fight the first 2 stages on an open field against enemy horsemen, who are weak to spear attacks. But you lost your only spear user. (unless you recruited the Dawnspear, but his requirements are high).
And on the Morality route, the final stage is an escort mission, but you lost the tactician character who can buff the NPCs' movement speed.
I thought this was a great way to make you feel the loss of those important characters in the gameplay.
I didn't even realize this! What an incredible detail.
I’ve wanted people to talk about this game forever. I gave it a miss after hearing reviews, especially hearing about how linear progression was. What I wasn’t expecting was how tightly designed the levels were, and how every party member was viable and had their specific uses in certain situations.
It’s one of the only games where I’ve completed all of New Game+ right after beating it the first time, especially without any trophy incentive. The new secret playable characters were definitely worthwhile
I get the rich cake metaphor. I absolutely adored my first playthrough, but the last thing I wanted to do was play it again. I was worried I’d take the experience for granted and wanted to savor the remaining play throughs. Now 2 years later I’m preparing for my second playthrough and it might be my most anticipated thing this year.
This is one of those games that I can tell, objectively, is great, but that I know I would be absolutely miserable playing, and never be able to finish.
Loved this game so much. My GOTY of 2022 by far. Fire Emblem is my favorite game series and this really scratched that itch even better than most Fire Emblem games do
Hey man, Great Video. Hope you make more because I can only see your channel getting better from here. As someone who also is a turn based jrpg junkie I give this video my seal of approval!
you can actually get the true ending first if you make the "right" choices
Albeit the path itself is ridiculously difficult if its your first attempt since it was probs wasn't intended for 1st runs
Getting the true ending on your first attempt however feels soooo satisfying
Hey man, this video was the deciding factor of what to use my second game voucher for after literal months of struggling. Your review was very well made and feels extremely genuine and I would really love to see more videos from you in the future because you seem really great.
Great review; I've fallen in love with this game over Christmas, and you're vocalizing what my initial impressions of it are.
Loved you video!
It’s nice to see others who also enjoyed Triangle, I don’t hear enough people talk about.
Such a good review, it deserves far more views. Keep it up, brother, subscribed
Love this game happy it’s getting a little attention. Hoping for a part 2
Perfect recommendation. I've been sitting on triangle strategy since release after being scared off by the number of proper nouns in the first cutscene. Really needed a breakdown like this to see if it was worth indulging into. Also, I enjoy your humor and "good shitty" editing.
Great review! I'm diving in next week
How are you liking it?
Triangle strategy is probably my favorite game of the past decade, glad to see another's appreciation. A few things, I did not know there was an update (thank you! Would have hated to miss it), you do not need to complete all other routes before golden, you could do it first try if you got lucky (though if you are doing it without a guide you probably need to play about 3 times taking different paths to see how to do it). On the first run through before accessing new game plus and seeing the nuts and bolts of how the decision system works it felt almost magical, the things you say and do actually changing the game and not in the dumb "evil 'cause I feel like it vs unambiguously moraly perfect" but actually interesting ethical decisions with uncertain but reasonable responses, it is the most I have ever felt a game giving me actual agency. I could go on but should stop.
The review is GOLD ! Pretty unique and I like how you explained things by mention cheese, cakes, agarest etc.
I want more people to know that this game is a masterpiece. Thank you for showing this game some love!
Great job man! Keep up the work with videos, you have potential
great video. i would have LOVED to play Triangle Strategy, but as far as i know it's switch and pc only, and i play on playstation. This vid lets me know i will definitely play it if it ever comes out there.
Great video. I share a similar perspective where I played through the game once, thought it was pretty solid, but even after i moved on to other games I kept thinking about it Triangle Strategy more amd more fondly over the last year. Then I went back and got all 4 endings and now i really appreciate it as one of the best Square Enix games in quite a while. And i think it easily carves out its own spot as one of the greats of this sub-genre.
If we got a Triangle Strategy 2 someday it would be an instant buy for me.
Absolutely a gem. Some in the ogre tactics community were disappointed but not me, it’s one of it not my all time favorite in the genre. Maxwell is such an awesome character also ;D
Really good video and I appreciate the comparisons to other games as a way of explaining your point. Cheers
The beginning of something big
It's so strange to me as an old-school Final Fantasy Tactics fan to hear random encounters identified as a problem in a TRPG.
Granted, I last played FFT when I was a kid with what seemed like infinite time in which to grind for whatever nonsense build I was trying to make or monster I was trying to recruit, and granted, in systems with less customization of characters, those sorts of battles are less necessary. But to hear them brushed off as entirely heretical shows me how much the genre has changed since my childhood.
Love the art of the characters.
Great video! I finally played through this game the last couple months, and loved it despite the flaws.
mostly clicked on this video because i haven't heard a lot of people bring this game up after its short time in the limelight, but i'm glad i did! hard to believe you haven't been doing these kinds of videos for a while
Excellent video and excellent game
I also find myself appreciating this game more and more as time goes on. It's just missing one thing that keeps it from GOAT status and that is team attacks like the ones in Suikoden tactics or Stella Deus on ps2. Team attacks add another layer of risk and reward gameplay to srpgs that gives the player incentive to constantly try different, risky and innovative new strategies. Triangle Strategy was supposed to include a team attack system originally but the developers dropped it for some reason which keeps this game from being a masterpiece imo
Fantastic review/overview. 👏 It was interesting to see you make the comparisons between Triangle Strategy and Record of Agarest War. I've played the latter and had to eventually give it up due to the slow pace. Progress was more of an endurance test than an actually fun experience, though I liked some aspects of that game. After watching this I'm much more inclined to buy Triangle Strategy in the future despite a kind of mixed experience with SRPGs overall. Sounds like an outstanding title overall.
That's a nice video of an equally nice game.
It struck a cord with me, that you seem to be very keen for some good and deeper tactical RPG's, so I must leave a suggestion here:
The game I'm speaking of is Jagged Alliance 2, for me, as I tirelessly try to find a better game, I just can't find one that even came close to its depth, even the vanilla version (V1.02 - 06.1999), which I love to play every summer and winter, there's just nothing that could come to it's vicinity.
can't say much about the mods that been cooking since the early 2000s till now.
Unfortunately, even to tackle those you need to actually play the vanilla a couple of times, Gold version is what it's called now.
have fun dude.
edit: there's no point for me to elaborate, When you start feeling it, you'll know, but even after that, the game will surprise you with things you've never thought about that could be possible, and that'll just be touching the surface. and that's still the vanilla. in 1.13 mod that overhauls the whole system to be more complex, that mod is compatible with all the other mods that gives even more.
You had me at rich, and at stand the test of time. Sounds amazing!
While I very much like the genre, I am not what you'd call an SRPG junkie, probably because it's rare for me to find one I truly love. Now I will say that the first one I ever played, aka Final Fantasy Tactics, had me so absolutely & hopelessly hooked at the time that I literally spent most of the time in my room during my family vacation simply because I could not pry myself away from it.
Not many games over my lifetime have hooked me in like that game did. Another was the self titled Fire Emblem for GBA. My god did I LOVE that game!! Those are the only two I can think of that had that sort of effect on me though, and I've played many SRPG's since then & none have done it quite as well as FFT or Fire Emblem.
I have played each & every Fire Emblem since by the way, and still none have measured up to FE7 for me. The character Jaffar sticks out in my head about the game most of all. Loved his character so much that I seriously considered getting the same Tattoo he has on his arm 😅.
From what I've heard though, this game may have a chance at having that same sort of effect on me. Am looking forward to it!
LISA: The Painful RPG is another great example of a "choices matter" game.
Good video, I love that game, its m'y first tactical After putting aside three houses because of the pace.
Game of the year 2022
Fantastic video this!
Good job bro! 57th sub!
Shining Force II is the gold standard I rate every other trpg against.
Oh yeah, this is the good stuff
parts of this game just feel like like a visual novel and have a big gap between combat situations. I like good story writing and branching paths being a fan of visual novels but when you want to play SRPG, you kinda wanna play it without holding the fast forward button.
You are wrong about the Golden Ending ; it doesn't require to have all three endings done, only to hit certain goals in one playthrough (not using the wildfire traps of your hometown, trafficking the salt to meet the Aefrost border captain, going to visit Seraona's father out of the three options, and I think protecting the Roselle ?).
It can, in fact, be your very first ending, though it gets easier the more playthrough you have as it requires you to split your army in three parties for some of the most difficult map in the game and you only get all 30 characters on a third playthrough.
Glad Im not the only one :,)
Happy to be in the first 10 subscribers o7
Mounted characters climb ladders.... E-ZPass for me on this game.
0:57 Erador moved then casted sprint ??????
I’m a srpg addict and I really, really wanted to like this. I just couldn’t get past the prioritisation of endless cut scenes with terrible dialogue over the actual battles (which were pretty fun… when they actually allowed us to fight one).
Good video though and I may give the game another try at some point.
Yea its an 8/10. Great game
Btw have you ever played any of the department heaven games? Would love to hear your take on knights in the nightmare or gungnir
I've heard of a couple of those but didn't realize they were in the same franchise! I'll definitely put them on my radar; seems right up my alley.
@@sharqodile3392Yggdra Union (another game in the dept heaven series) is amazing, one of my favourite games
I was mostly dissatisfied by the story in this game. When I got the game I just didn't understand just HOW much story there was. And I didn't want to just skip either. But really they were just asking me to devote to much time to all the dialogue when I really just wanted some fun tactical jRPGs with some beautiful pixel art. Been thinking about this game since I saw the trailer for Unicorn Overlord the other day(wtf is that name lol) so your video has good timing
I bought a used copy after spending ungodly hours on tactics ogre reborn and even holding fast forward it takes ages to just get into another battle. I kinda regret buying this game now. it's like a VN with octopath graphics.
@@professorpenne9962 I'd recommend playing through the game only when you're in the mood for a VN, and when you're just in the mood for battles, only then do the extra ones and grind things out in the tent.... or you could just play Tactics Ogre or FFT :p (I haven't played the newest versions of them, but the PS1 version of FFT, and PSP version of TO both have tons of battles)
hachi machi they still want 59.99 for this almost 2 years later?
I hate being that guy, but… it’s blatant misinformation to say that you need to finish even one of the default three endings to do the Golden Ending; to get it as an option you need to make a handful of correct choices across the story. In fact a few people have unlocked it by sheer chance, as they happened to build the right Conviction to make some difficult votes (particularly the salt smuggling one) work; many of these didn’t even know these were the correct choices, although for the most part unless you’re using a guide it’s easy to miss one of them.
[For fun times, surrendering Roland actually makes it easier because you get some Utility for later, but also because it guarantees you haven’t used the Wolffort wildfire…]
A lesser note is that Serenoa isn’t the heir of his kingdom, he’s the heir of the highest noble house of Glenbrook; his BFF is Roland, who… yeah, more in line there.
im sorry this game is not a masterpiece. enjoyable, but not a masterpiece in the slightest. UA-camrs just be throwing out words i swear