* yeah, you can say that a normal battle in any strategy game or srpg is solving several puzzles in sequence, but I like it when it's not so pronounced.

I also found the 'sandbagging' tactic (keep rezzing your guys so the enemies waste their turns killing them again while you build up some advantage that turns the tide, such as +speed) annoying and metagamey, which didn't help. This is probably fine for many people, but I prefer something closer to JA2 where I can apply my own resources/playstyle to a problem and have a decent shot at winning. OK, in this battle the enemy group consists of A/B with abilities X/Y, they're positioned here and here, how do I need to compose/deploy my team and execute a plan to win? This was especially apparent in 'kill the leader' type battles where it was either 'optimize my team to put as much damage into the enemy leader as possible in ~2 turns' or 'try to whittle down the superior enemy force and eventually die'. I played the 'content' version of 1.3 for a while, and battles felt more like solving puzzles instead of playing a srpg*.

how much of a challenge do you think I'm going to have if he makes something so fucking obvious and easy even a complete noob like you can figure it out? Your third problem amounts to 'the game is hard I don't wanna learn it'. But in a game like TO or FFT it's just a matter of the unit getting lots of xp or very little based on it's level relative to the enemy, not allocating limited amounts to further sculpt your team.Īs for your third point.

It works in something like Master of Monsters or Battle for Wesnoth because your units have few levels so there are actually a lot of viable ways to distribute xp. Associating xp with kills is a flawed idea because it encourages very boring metagaming. Obviously you aren't supposed to make new characters from scratch just to win a fucking battle. You may as well bitch that the game doesn't start you off with max all stats because you're going to grind them eventually anyways so why make you do it tediously. I don't need every option available for the entire game just because you don't know how or want to plan ahead and made a shitty team you don't know how to use effectively. The fact that it has strategic elements of letting you customize your team with whatever classes you want most is a bad thing? Fuck you.

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