Valor of Man

結構なアセットゲーではあるものの システムが良くできていてSRPGとして面白い もうちょっと複雑なSRPGをやりたいがそこまで行く前にランが終わってしまうのが残念

体感不错，升级随机性和构筑比较平衡，不想被虐的可以降低难度。小小的遗憾，最后故事线性结束就没有后续玩的欲望了

absolutely worth the money.

Wonderful roguelite, wish there will be a co-op mode in future

It's pretty fun. The Reaction system spices things up, forces you to keep back some movement or healing to avoid dying on your own turn. Otherwise good, a bit easy on the start, but with every victory it gets harder, at least if you want to progress the story.

I dunno. The gameplay itself is okay, but the graphics are just difficult to accept. The UI in particular looks like it's from 20 years ago; there's no reason why they should be like this in 2026. It's in a weird mid-ground between not simple/clean/abstract and detailed/animated, and it just feels like my brain is straining to tolerate it. Add that to a lot of words that are substituted for no real reason (i.e. "Weapon attack" is called "Thorn", and it's mentally taxing to interact with instead of being able to focus on the strategy.

The "StS but encounters are tactical battles" is implemented perfectly competently here, but what really makes Valor of Man stand out are the unique mechanics that those tactical battles revolve around. In addition to the actions that they take on their turns, enemies have reactions that are triggered every time that they're the primary target of a player character's attack. This system is quite intricate and takes some getting used to (toggle the bestiary tab on and *read* enemy's abilities when you first encounter them), but it's a very compelling riff on the standard some-flavor-of-initiative-based turn ordering systems. The second major twist is that player characters can be eliminated from combat either when their HP reaches 0 *or* when their secondary resource ("courage") reaches 0. This resource can be reduced by enemies, but is more frequently reduced as a cost associated with the use of more powerful player abilities. This cost often only triggers some percentage of the time that a given ability is used, which speaks to my only substantive complaint about game mechanics to this point - much of the variance revolves around dodging low rolls on non-deterministic courage loss and/or enemy reaction triggers, and it seems like there might be a more elegant solution here than x% chance of outcome y (Larger courage pools with deterministic costs? Removing fail chance from enemy reactions and toning them down accordingly?). Overall Valor of Man is worth trying to see if the combat system clicks with you, and if the game attracts enough attention to continue development I would not be at all surprised to see some of the novel mechanics here show up in other tactical combat contexts.