Symphony of War is a nice little tactical RPG with a charming story. There are some slightly rough parts around the edges, but the core of the game is very fun and interesting. In particular, I'd say that the modular nature of your squads is a novel idea to me - you can chop and change the actual units in your squads however you want, only restricted by the leadership stat of the squad leader determining how many units in total can fit there. Even amongst the main characters in the game, it's perfectly fine to delete the squad containing one of them and put them into the squad of another if you can find a tactical advantage like that. The only issue I might flag is that it's not always obvious what combinations actually work well/what the thresholds are for squads being considered a particular "type", e.g. cavalry, flying, etc.
The combat/general gameplay is good. It flows well and is intuitive. There's nothing particularly negative that stands out about it except that in terms of difficulty, I didn't think the hardest difficulty was particularly hard on its own for someone familiar with similar games in the genre. There is an additional setting for permadeath, where you will lose characters if you lose them in battle, which I imagine would significantly increase the challenge but at the same time I don't think I could recommend that to someone playing the game for the first time because you don't know what sorts of unfavourable matchups there might be and early on, even when it looked like I was engaging a favourable matchup sometimes the squad leader would manage to get one-shot by the enemy.
Graphically the game looks nice and is accompanied by a decent soundtrack. I did find it a little jarring sometimes though as the game uses RPG Maker for its cutscenes in a similar, but noticeably different style from the normal game (as seen in the screenshots) but this is probably just nit picking and didn't detract too much overall.
Overall, I'd say that the quality and amount of content is worth the price if you enjoy your tactical RPGs and especially so if, like at the moment, it's on sale.
