MASSIVE CHALICE

Bane of my existence 10/10 will play again 🫡

It reminds me at a simplified version of the classic X-Com Games set in a Dark Fantasy Setting. Minimalism at it´s best. My recommendation is you grab it when it´s on sale for five bucks or less.

Wish I could do an in-between yes/no as that is where I would put this game. I played and completed this game previously about a decade back via Xbox live and remembered enjoying it. The music and art direction are great. Gameplay, however, is a mixed bag. I wish there was more emphasis on the actual combat rather than the uninteresting bloodlines/trait mechanics. Ultimately found it unrewarding and tedious my second time through. If you find for super cheap, not a bad Xcom type. Otherwise there are better ones out there.

MASSIVE CHALICE is a bit of a love-hate game for me. I will say that I liked it well enough to give it a recommendation in this review, as HUMONGOUS GOBLET has some great things going for it; for example, in most games featuring permadeath, I loathe to lose a unit, which would typically result in me loading a save - but here in GIGANTIC GRAIL, your units (except for maybe the last couple of generations) are going to die whether or not you make a mistake, so I actually found myself just accepting in-combat fatalities more often than not. I also enjoyed how, despite only having three proper classes, LARGE MUG mixes things up just enough by including what are essentially subclasses, in the form of hybrids that have the basic equipment and stats of one class whilst including some of the skills of another in the skill tree. However, there were also some things I did not appreciate about BIG CUP... but I have run out of acceptable synonyms for a drinking vessel, so I will end this review here.

Its gameplay is derivative, to be sure, but beyond just being Fantasy XCOM, the multigenerational mechanics of this game's noble houses add just enough of a wrinkle to make it feel unique. A sequel or revisit to this series someday would be great, but honestly I would love a version of this where you could populate the pools with your own player-created noble houses rather than being restricted to just the kickstarter backers. A good game for telling yourself stories.

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