This has the ingredients for a fantastic strategy game but just never gets there. The combat in the game is really fun at first and the "precognition" mechanic which allows you to see the enemy moves in advance and position your units so they either don't get hit at all or make enemies attack each other is really interesting. But also sadly the way it is executed feels a bit too clunky and overall the combat just stays too same-y to keep me interested. You really just move from fight to fight to fight. In theory there are multiple spots you can attack in each area but after roughly 15 hours I still couldn't tell if it mattered at all which one you attack. There really isn't any story to speak of which in theory is fine for a strategy game but without that and the combat already starting to feel stale while I wasn't even close to the end (there are approxiamtely 30 regions and I liberated 4 after ~20 hours) there just wasn't anything to keep me going. I would love to see a Phantom Brigade 2 that builds on this foundation tho