Tactics Ogre: Reborn

It looks like they made this remake worse for the fans of the original while not making it "better" for new players. From what I hear, the fans of the original do not like certain mechanics that make a game, that was supposed to be about tactics, into something too random. For example - the buff cards randomly spawning on the battlefield. Those could just ruin whatever you had in mind. Yes, it is important to be able to adjust to things changing. But in terms of tactical games - you adjust to actions of your enemies. When stuff starts happening at random - it makes tactics pointless. I never played the original. Played a bit of Triangle Strategy earlier - which is somewhat similar to this game. Triangle Strategy felt hard, also losing units all the time in battles was disappointing, as I am usually attached to my troops. But overall I had a positive experience there. Tactics Ogre Reborn made a somewhat negative impression from the start: - The writing is atrocious. The characters act with 200% emotions and at best 10% intellect. I just find it hard to relate to that. In reality, I would stay away from people acting like that. So why would I waste time playing with such characters? - The dialogues are full of made-up names for characters and places I have no idea about: "We are proud blah-blah-blahdian knights from Blah-blahdia on a mission to liberate Blup-blop-bumpia from the rule of Blob-blah-bler. For that we have to find Blah-blaherian scepter and deliver it first to the Duke of Bhahbrundia". This totally loses me and I just want to skip all this nonsense. - I understand this is a port. But if you are making some changes to the game - like adding those spawning buff cards etc - you could at least make the interface more up-to-date with the current PC norms. I have no idea what some interface buttons mean, as they are not even named. The middle mouse button click seems to trigger 3 different things at the same time. Some functionality - like top-down view instead of the isometry - I managed to trigger once and now I can't anymore. And I have a feeling that even playing with a controller won't make it much easier. I think I will try few more battles later. But I really had to take breaks between the previous ones. I just can't play this continuously, as it is too frustrating.