TRIANGLE STRATEGY

Truth be told, this would be a mixed rating if I could give one. In each aspect of this game, there's something to love and hate. I think the prime example that comes to my mind is the voice acting. On its own, its...serviceable. Some actors have vastly better performances than others. The dialogue in late chapters and the voice acting is significantly better for the most part than the rest of the game. However, if you want to play this game do yourself a favor and turn the voice acting off during battles. It gets so grating on the ears. The gameplay is probably the most standout part to this game, which is relatively solid for the most part. I find it gets kind of boring when you realize like three or four of your units you get from chapter 1 can basically cheese the entire game (Anna stealth, Hughette abusing safe spots from elevation, etc.) but the actual core is solid. The difficulty of the game is very poor, only increasing damage and hp of enemies as it goes up, instead of implementing new moves enemies could get, or different modifiers to battles to make them more interesting. The story is serviceable, though not great, especially by RPG standards. The writing ranges from bad to alright depending on the chapter and route you're playing. The story itself makes sense in a broad spectrum, but the characters in it sometimes just don't. Some of the later chapters once again have significantly better writing than many of the earlier ones in the story. And yes, as many other people have pointed out, the story takes up a good like 70% of the time spent playing this game, rather than the gameplay. For some people thats a deal breaker, but to me I was okay with it. The music is one of the best parts of this game, but I do think they could've done with a few more tracks to make some battles and cutscenes feel less repetitive. TL;DR, The game is okay in most categories. Voice acting is hit or miss, gameplay is solid though has it's fair share of flaws. Story takes up a large chunk of the playtime of this game, and is serviceable. I would say this game isn't quite worth $60, probably more closer to $30-40.