You know how most Japanese made SRPGs are very heavy on the RPG part and basically boil down to team management simulators where grinding up your dudes is THE game, and the strategy part is walking your army into theirs? Triangle Strategy is the complete opposite of that. Which is fine for anime, as anime is so reliant on tropes, but this kind of writing is a very poor fit for a serious war drama.ĬombatThe combat is actually rather well done. The game makes no attempt whatsoever to make its characters come off as human. The protagonists always win their battles, no matter the odds. The villain is that rude guy who hates everyone and laughs at his own evil schemes. There's no nuance or hidden depth to anything that happens in the game.

The writers absolutely think the player is a complete dummy who needs every single detail spoonfed to them many times over. You'll sit through a lengthy cutscene only to get booted to the world map where the narrator will summarize the whole thing once more. The game is hilariously overwritten, with characters talking about the same things over and over, stating their emotions out loud (often via monologues), there's an extreme amount of exposition and recaps. the first chapter is essentially the same setup as the first episode of the show), the writing is still extremely Japanese. The real ending requires a specific set of choices, otherwise you'll have to pick from 3 bad endings which essentially boil down to 'surrender to enemy A', 'surrender to enemy B' and 'run away'.Īlso, it's worth noting that despite its attempts to ape Game of Thrones (e.g. All that said, the choices do matter for the ending. Pick one, and you fight these guys on this map, pick the other and it's a different map, but the story continues the same way regardless. Basically your choices only affect what immediate battles you get to fight. It doesn't matter, the city gets destroyed anyway.

Later on, when retaking a city you can choose to either destroy the nearby dam to flood the city or infiltrate the castle and assassinate commanding officers. But it doesn't matter what you pick, that person will fake their death and become irrelevant until the late game. You'd think, this is a crucial choice that splits the game in two different routes. early on you can choose to surrender a very important person to the enemy (who wants them executed) or make a desperate stand to protect this person. Naturally, you get invaded a few chapters in, and as a lord of a high house you must forge shaky alliances in order to survive.īranched storytelling was a big selling point, but the choices you make are ultimately an illusion, as the game just circles back to the main story path 1-2 chapters later. Your home kingdom is portrayed as entirely innocent while the other two are ruled by mustache twirling crooks. StoryTrue to its name, the game follows a war over resources (salt in this case) between three kingdoms, yet it's extremely black and white.

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