Alex Zandra

and I had a really good time! (read: I hyperfixated on it for a solid week and now I'm finally free)

my thoughts, no spoilers:

• "what if fire emblem was also ogre battle" works REALLY WELL, turns out
• I appreciate that the game lets me field a ton of squads and experiment with them
• mechanically super fun, what a good time
• I got away with a lot of cheesy squad concepts >:3
• I like the non-combat stuff a lot! tech tree was a fun concept, so was the market
• the overall story is interesting and goes in sometimes unexpected places, which I appreciate!
• the actual writing is kinda disappointing and punches way above its weight in a bunch of unfortunate places! it falls flat a lot of the time and it's a shame because some of the characters really grew on me
• the art gets so horny oh my god
• no but like FOR REAL, the character designs were good already, there was no need to go this hard into making every lady ridiculously voluptuous to the point of objectification; it left a bad taste in my mouth and really soured some of the goodwill the game had built up prior to that point

all in all though, I had a lot of fun playing it! I'm glad I can move on to other games now, but I'll be keeping an eye on the next game this developer makes. that said, I really do hope they get like... some editing/narrative help for the next one. I wanna enjoy my giant women too, you know? <3

my bonus thoughts, now with spoilers™: