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Quite possibility the most boring and tedious game I've ever played in my life

I want to love it but I honestly just can't.

Went into this thinking there was no way I wouldnt love Tactics Ogre? I love turn based and strategy games, this is a classic, the art is gorgous, what could go wrong?

Unfortunately bounced off pretty hard due to how slow this game is in every facet. Fights are very slow-paced - movement speeds are low, damange numbers are low, hp pools are high - which, for me, made proper planning and strategizing very difficult. If flanking an enemy takes 8 turns, maybe deathballing down the middle and slowly grinding out the W becomes the more attractive option.

The campaign is slow as well. Everyone is very wordy (not a negative, just adds to the pacing of the game) and there are a lot of filler engagements between plot moments.

Even recruiting new teammates takes forever: Weaken the enemy, get the right character with the right ability into position, use the ability (which is a % chance, and not a kind one), fail, tank their damage, heal up, use the ability again, repeat. Bonus frustration guaranteed when you have an AI controlled Guest character in the party, who sees the 5 hp dragon you were trying to recruit and decides their big moment is now.

There is still a very solid strategy game in there, the plot is interesting & politically complex for its time, AND you can recruit an octopus, who are the best animals! But I thought I would obsess over this, and instead I just kinda like it a bit

Metals clash, and sparks fly. The rhythmic sounds of blades colliding put you in a hypnotic trance. Clink. Clink. Pause. Clink clink. It's euphoric. Sekiro has by far the most satisfying combat in gaming. From genichiro to owl father, each boss is like it's own song in a rhythm game, like piano tiles on steroids. Each moveset like an improvised line in jazz, the boss attacks like the sax, and you're the accompanying bass. One fuck up though, and your entire flow is ruined. It's game over in an instant.

Sekiro is hard. It's probably the hardest game I've ever played. But it's only hard in the beginning. If you're mentally prepared to suffer for just a few hours, I promise you, when you get out the other side and really learn how to play the game, and engage with it's mechanics, it makes you feel like an unstoppable cyborg ninja killing machine.

I hate this game more than anything in the entire world

I've never fallen more in love with a cast of characters. The dichotomy between the player's relationships with confidants and the game's mechanics in and out of its incredible turn-based combat system constantly tempt me to replay this for another 100 hours.

Shockingly, I never got sick of the soundtrack after all that time and to this day still go out of my way to queue up some of this game's banger tracks.

Your teacher gives you handjobs so you can stay up later.

Japan is cool I wish it was real

if i hadn't played this game, i dont know where i'd be. certainly not on this website, lol.

couldn't give a single fuck about the story but some of the remixes are just simply fucking insane

NANAKO FUCKING DANCING IS THE CUTEST THING EVER