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Triangle Strategy ("HD-2D" SRPG from the creators of Octopath Traveler) announced for Nintendo Switch in 2022, demo available NOW!
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Played the demo a little bit. It has lots of Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together vibes (even the sound effects), I know it's not a Matsuno game but it obliviously takes a lot of inspiration from classics like FFT and the Ogre series. I will always be expecting for a proper sequel of those games but for now this one feels right in the heart. Day one for me.
Remember to submit your concerns when the survey is out. The game still has a year of development time and player feedback was pretty crucial to Bravely Default II's development. I imagine most complaints could be ironed out within this last year as development seems pretty far along.
This was definitely the highlight of the Direct for me and looks right up my alley, this will proabaly be day one for me on Switch and I would expect it to come to PC at some point.
Also, the gameplay doesn't have the same flow as the other games in this genre.
I constantly, with every single character in the bridge mission, have the feeling I'm 1 field short of reaching my attacks. Out of every single angle. It feels a bit limited.
Fuck, I love this. Some serious Tactics Ogre/FFTA mixed with Octopath (obviously) vibes from here. Again, I love the fact that there is a survey so that they can change some of the grievances.
The demo is pretty solid, better than the initial Octopath/BD2 demos since I don't really have many issues besides the stuff that'll be polished by launch(some framerate dips). The battle design is pretty good on the first map and has enough events to keep things interesting. The classes also feel pretty distinct already and theres some potential for the elemental magic and the environment. Wish it was 2022 already.
Same with Octopath Traveler, they fixed pretty much all the UI/usability/movement concerns people had with the demo based on the surveys.
Lots of the old SRPGs have had terrain effects and changes, including FFT/TO. This is just a little bit cleaned up from that.
It's a different team than Octopath so Nishiki was probably busy on Octopath 2. The music in the demo is good at least.
The developer is Artdink, who are mostly known for A-Train, but they did work on Tactics Ogre way back on PS1.
Just did the first battle. This is everything I wanted. Story wise remains to be seen, but I'm very optimistic.
A new Final Fantasy Tactics was a pipe dream expectation for me. This is all I ever wanted! 😭😭😭😭
Same. Don't even need to play anymore. This is what I've been waiting for
Have yet to play the demo, but I hope they go with the Octopath strategy and keep the working title.
Triangle Strategy is so overwhelmingly dumb that I love it
Triangle Strategy is so overwhelmingly dumb that I love it
This is Akira Senju of Victory Gundam and Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood though. I really like Nishiki's work on Octopath but it's not like they got an amateur or anything.
As someone who has never followed basketball but just finished The Last Dance, I understood that reference.
Played the first mission and my goodness. This is extremely good. Here are my early impressions, spoilers.
+Music is great as expected
+The world seems extremely interesting, you get side stories that you can see that makes the world feel alive. You can even recruit party members this way.
+The VAing is really good from what I heard with a few expections ( Serenoa's VA is not good imo)
+You can press x during dialogue to get a small description of who is talking so you know who is who. This is awesome.
+Battle UI is good, everything is self explanatory.
+I LOVE the fact that there are 3 phases to this game. There are hidden items during the exploration phase so it actually feels rewarding. I wonder if there will be any kind of dungeons, though I doubt it.
+Using magic to make objects in the battle map opens a ton of possibilities and strategies, I hope we get more interesting magic down the road.
-Movement during exploration feels awkward, it's not the same feeling as OT.
-Battles can feel very sluggish and slow.
-The worldmap looks very ugly, like a 3d map with no texture. I hope they improve it.
+Music is great as expected
+The world seems extremely interesting, you get side stories that you can see that makes the world feel alive. You can even recruit party members this way.
+The VAing is really good from what I heard with a few expections ( Serenoa's VA is not good imo)
+You can press x during dialogue to get a small description of who is talking so you know who is who. This is awesome.
+Battle UI is good, everything is self explanatory.
+I LOVE the fact that there are 3 phases to this game. There are hidden items during the exploration phase so it actually feels rewarding. I wonder if there will be any kind of dungeons, though I doubt it.
+Using magic to make objects in the battle map opens a ton of possibilities and strategies, I hope we get more interesting magic down the road.
-Movement during exploration feels awkward, it's not the same feeling as OT.
-Battles can feel very sluggish and slow.
-The worldmap looks very ugly, like a 3d map with no texture. I hope they improve it.
played through the first part of the demo - there's still quite a bit of polish that needs to be done, but it seems quite good. very interested to see how many skills each character gets, if there's any kind of classing that goes on, weapon upgrades/types, etc.
had the opposite problem of some others here where I felt the combat, even after their "we're going to beef up the difficulty so you have to learn about the strategic elements" comment, was too easy. but I've been playing this type of game for quite some time, so I'm not terribly worried. in general I'm very pleased by the part I played (first battle) and honestly don't even think I need to go through the rest to know how I feel. (I still will, though)
had the opposite problem of some others here where I felt the combat, even after their "we're going to beef up the difficulty so you have to learn about the strategic elements" comment, was too easy. but I've been playing this type of game for quite some time, so I'm not terribly worried. in general I'm very pleased by the part I played (first battle) and honestly don't even think I need to go through the rest to know how I feel. (I still will, though)
Gonna give it a try later, but this was the most exciting thing I saw out of the direct. Interested to see how the whole political system works, as I like the idea.
I got to the part where your party votes on an outcome and you can talk to them individually to try to sway their vote. Very cool.
..except I was skipping all story until now so I think I'll stop and replay from the beginning so I can have more context and vote from my heart :')
..except I was skipping all story until now so I think I'll stop and replay from the beginning so I can have more context and vote from my heart :')
Yeah it was pretty easy. If there's a hard mode in the final game I'll definitely be picking it. I'm a strategy RPG veteran though. What really matters to me is that the battle mechanics seem like everything I want in these types of games. I'm not too worried about difficulty.
