Tenderfoot Tactics

An extremely beautiful game rippling with colorful fantasy and poetry of a certain fanatic timbre. Worth the price of admission for the landscape alone.

Get it while its on sale, 10h fun, final fight kinda cheap (you have to retry to get lucky spawns) / ♥♥♥♥ design, other then that nice lil mini tactic game. Gogo indi game - ton of potential wasted by not using the great physics/water system more.

Really great game with in-depth systems and a fun aesthetic and style

Tenderfoot Tactics - Open-World taktisches RPG wurde für mich gemacht. Absolut keine Ahnung im Game zu haben ist für viele Frust & Hürde. Man kann ja nachgucken. :P

Started a bit confusing and overwhelming, but as soon as I started to get a handle on it the enjoyment kept growing and growing. The class system is great, using the maps becomes really satisfying when you start to orient yourself, and they really nailed the atmosphere.

Combining Eidolon (a game about starving to death in the woods) and Viridi (a game about watching your houseplants die) has somehow yielded a game where you trudge around dreamy, impressionist landscapes picking flowers, and stumble into deterministic Final Fantasy Tactics battles played out in hazy vignettes. Like Eidolon, it's gorgeous and obscures mechanical rough edges with storybook presentation. Like Viridi, it will ring pointless to anyone who doesn't have a balcony full of over-watered succulents.

This is my first open world game, and second grid-based/Turn-Based Tactics games after Jean of Arc for the PSP. The tutorial prepped me on the basics of combat, which was familiar enough. I was then let out into the world, and was quickly confused when the characters said to head west, as I lacked a compass. The map does not show where you are, there is no option for that, so I began to walk uphill to where I assumed west was. In my first encounter, I ended up retrying until I gained an enemy team composition and battlefield that was favorable, and narrowly winning. I soon learned that enemies are typically stronger than you, and that I should focus on scouting for items in the overworld that will give me XP faster than if I took on fights. I made my way by boat to a nearby area where several goblins discussed raids, got +400 XP for that, and saw that a crafting system existed but you had to be mindful of what you crafted. A class system soon became apparent, and that seems like the an area for creativity since you have 2 item slots per character, plus classes that can likely enable further skills, beyond than just the standard attack. I imagine this will be what allows you to get some serious depth in combat, using terrain to disrupt enemies. Overall the world seems interesting but a bit large, and constantly shifting graphically, that I was personally getting confused about direction often, which made traversal less appealing. While on land, encounters are everywhere but fighting is not ideal, nor the priority in this game. On a side note, the game ran smoothly and the bosses I fought had a cool design and interesting, albeit mysterious, dialogue. Fans of Twin Peaks may enjoy that. I recommend this to people who like turn-based fights, but I'm unsure if open world fans will love the traversal in the overworld.