Lizstar

Gay Murr Girl

Liz, Goblin, Part-Time Shark, VTuber, retired speedrunner, author, GDQ staff, Sega fan, "Yuri Sommelier", Walking Encyclopedia of All Things Useless, Twitch partner, general menace. Says "Murr" a lot. This is not a place of honor, views my own, etc. Avatar art by me.


Pank
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488200/Symphony_of_War_The_Nephilim_Saga/

Tactical turn based game that takes a lot from the original Ogre Battle

Saw this and thought of you, didn't know if you knew about it yet. I recall you loving Ogre Battle.

Oh huh, it's getting a visual update? That's interesting. I've sometimes wondered if I should go back and give it another try. I DO have this game. You don't get to be one of the biggest simps for Ogre Battle and not find out about this, right? :P

I really liked the gameplay. Fire Emblem meets Ogre Battle just kinda, kicks ass. Gameplay wise its good. And I thought it looked fine before its graphical update, it didn't need it lmfao.

My main issue was the writing. I got 8 hours in, and the writing was wearing on me. And I just kept hearing that it gets way, WAY worse. The way I described it, and I've had multiple people agree with me on this, is that it's Ogre Battle is JK Rowling wrote it. It's ostensibly about fighting against like, fascism and evil ideologies, an underdog revolution, but it's full of centrist mealy mouthed bullshit. Ogre Battle, ESPECIALLY Tactics Ogre, is not afraid to tell a story. this felt like it was.

Maybe I'll give it another try sometime, but it did really disappoint me. Thanks for bringing it up though, this isn't like "HOW DARE YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS GAME I ALREADY KNOW", I'm glad people think of me when they think of Ogre Battle lmfao


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I've been sent a few screenshots of dialogue from this game and they've all been deeply, deeply weird. Like, "the good guys are very uncritically on board with genocide and eugenics but it's okay because their enemies are ontologically evil" weird. I saw a character complaining that when he was a nice guy no girls would look at him but now that he's doing conquests they're all over him.