168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tactics Ogre: Reborn is the modern remaster of one of the most influential games in strategy role-playing game history. 2022's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Triangle Strategy is 27 years its junior, but aspects of Yasumi Matsuno's tactical classic can be found all over the game's DNA — further cementing how ahead of its time Matsuno and his peers were when Tactics Ogre debuted on Super Nintendo.
Few would argue against Tactics Ogre's sterling reception. But Triangle Strategy is an excellent successor. Our real advice is to play them both, but if your time's limited, and you can only commit to one gargantuan strategy JRPG, we'll help you choose the one that's right for you.
6 🗹 Cast - Tactics Ogre: Reborn
Expect this to be a running theme, but we'll start by saying that both games excel in this category. Triangle Strategy has a pretty extensive cast of believable heroes and villains. The number of people players can recruit by meeting certain in-game moral thresholds borders on staggering. Major characters such as protagonist Serenoa, heroine Frederica, and no-nonsense assassin Anna are all winners in their own right.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn still wins this one with relative ease. The game's cast is huge. The he⛎ro, Denam, might not impress out the gate, but really comes into his own, supplying some of the best speeches in gaming history. His growing group of companions all have their own solidified reasons for standing beside him. The myriad antagonists tout their own individual passions and foibles.
Remar𓆉kably, even single-battle boss units whose entire purpose is to be introduced and subsequently perish in the span of ten minutes often have something poignant to say. Yasumi Matsuno was in peak form when he wrote this script, and the refinements made to its localization thꦜrough the years have only improved it.
5 🃏 Combat - Tie
Maybe it's a bit of a bummer that we'd call this one a tie — after all, for many players the allure behind a strategy RPG boils down first and foremost to the opportunity to exercise said strategy. Combat plays the most central role in the genre, and shoddy battle design can bring the whole package down about as abruptly as a 2D Mario game without a jump button.
But while Triangle Strategy brings forward many of the granular elements behind Tactics Ogre's success, the overarching systems are substantially dissimilar. Triangle Strategy emphasizes collaboration between your units in a way that frequently keeps them closer-knit relative to the scattered approach to map domination you might employ in Tactics Ogre.
That simple change invites a full-fledged paradigm shift in how one must approach each game. Early positioning remains critical throughout the battle in Triangle Strategy. The fields are also more interactive; the effect that elemental spells can have on tiles turns mages into potential fire-starters. Even still, Tactics Ogre: Reborn is the pure culmination of every brilliant idea introduced in its original incarnation, and it is so good at its wider-range and somewhat slower slant that it doesn't budge an inch against its spiritual successor.
4 Visuals - Triangle S꧒trategy 🦄
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Tactics Ogre still holds up decently well in the graphics department thanks to a combination of good art design and Reborn's increased resolution. Akihiko Yoshida's cast portraits are timeless and fantastically expressive. Unfortunately, it has two things going against it this round. First, there's an unfortunately overdone smoothing filter over all the character sprites that makes them appear kind of... odd. It isn't as bad in motion as screenshots led fans to fear, but it's a curious change at best.
Second, there's the gorgeousness perpetually on display in Triangle Strategy. Square Enix struck gold with its HD-2D engine, introduced in 2018's Octopath Traveler and put to use in several games and counting since. It would be remiss of us to ignore that some fans dislike the often-harsh lighting and bloom that the engine is notorious for, but the general reception to it has been overwhelmingly positive. (Square keeps going back to it now for good reason.) Triangle Strategy's pallet is a touch darker than in other HD-2D games, but it works perfectly for war-torn Norzelia. The game's just glamorous.
3 🌄 Music - Tactics Ogre: Reborn
Composer Akira Senju was the right choice for Triangle Strategy. The world of Norzelia is rich with triumphant tunes fit to showcase its cast's ample heroics. It's a good score, but Hitoshi Sakimoto's Tactics Ogre soundtrack is an all-timer. So many battles are accentuated by tracks that feel picture-perfect for that moment in the storyline, and so many scenes live and breathe because Sakimoto knew exactly the note to play at precisely the right time.
Compounding matters in Tactics Ogre's favor, Reborn's attention to audio detail might well be its most impressive feature. Every track has been orchestrally rearranged, and while such projects are often mixed blessings, there isn't a dud to be found. Sakimoto and crew brought 74 songs to life for Tactics Ogre: Reborn like never before, and you can even hover over the in-game music player to learn how the composers approached each piece's tweaks. It's incredible stuff.
2 ☂ Story - Tactics Ogre: Reborn
It was Final Fantasy Tactics that really put creator Yasumi Matsuno on the global stage; that game's epic twists and mature presentation turned millions of heads in the late 90s, and it's safe to say it remains the game that Matsuno is most known for overall. Ask any old-school Tactics Ogre fan, however, and they'll tell you Final Fantasy Tactics is narratively spiffy, yes — but it's no Tactics Ogre.
Matsuno blends themes of classism, racism, nihilism, narcissism, and even transcendentalism into the tale of Valeria and its various cultures. Tactics Ogre's story is imbued with the best kind of drama — that of conflicting ideals between convincing portrayals of actual human beings. The supernatural shenanigans are sprinkled in rather than liberally coated as with Final Fantasy Tactics. The result is that much more compelling.
Don't sleep on Triangle Strategy's story, mind you. It's got plenty of the above, in fact, and it handles it all pretty well. It does more than enough differently to separate itself from Tactics Ogre (and FFT for that matter). There's no shame in either game for coming close but not quite scaling the mountain of their shared forebear.
1 ♋ Verdict - Tactics Ogre: Reborn ཧ
Look, we realize a cursory glance of this list makes it appear as though Tactics Ogre: Reborn took the crown and ran. It didn't. It's our belief that it is the superior piece overall, and that's reflected in most major categories of its analysis. But we want to emphasize this as best we can: in most ways, Triangle Strategy isn't far behind. That's why we couldn't help but give the poor game the final screenshot despite its 'loss'.
We said it in the beginning, and we'll say it again. If you have the chance to do so, give both these glorious JRPGs a shot. Just know they'll consume your life for a short while as you become increasingly invested in their plots, their people, and surely their prime gameplay. If the old Highlander adage must determine things for you, and there can be only one? You can't beat the classic.
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