Caring for a newborn has absolutely cratered my writing time (to the disappointment of the two story commissioners waiting on me) but i have had sufficient time and brain power to get lost in #tacticsOgre Reborn.

Tactics Ogre: the Knight of Lodis on Game Boy Advance was an absolutely foundational #Gaming experience for me. Elementary school NaCl got lost in that tale of sword and sorcery political intrigue and betrayal and the gameplay loop ofpicking, growing, customizing units to make 5-8 unit squads and move them around a grid.

Compared to Nintendo contemporaries like Golden Sun or Pokémon or Dragon Quest, Tactics RPGs felt deeper or more puzzle like.

25 years later Tactics style #RPGs are still my favorite turn based RPG format. I like how dynamic and flexible they are. Expressing my playstyle via class choices and squad composition feels good

Tactics Ogre Reborn is a remake of a different game in the series and has true, meaningful branching story paths. I am struck by how much i care about who lives and who dies both in battles and in cutscenes, and seeing who i can potentially recruit to my cause.

It's the right level of fantasy for me, where wizards are part of a team composition with archers and knights, rather than grey-eyed hermits capable of twisting kingdoms in knots and shaping reality to their whims. I can tie that scaling directly to my interest in #TTRPGs like #Pathfinder and #dungeonsAndDragons which operate on similar scales and have to at least attempt parity between martial characters and spellcasters.

I bounced off the game a year ago but I'm HOOKED this go around. Enough to have brought the Steam Deck out of the closet and actually use it.

Who knew i wasn't too old to care about an #RPG story?

#PCGaming

"It used to be 'fuck that nigga' but now it's plural" is literally how berserkers work in Tactics Ogre.

Their ability occasionally turns their next melee atk into a 5 space arc around them. Fight the whole team. Favorite class so far. Loving this game.

#RPG #TacticsRPG #PCGaming #TacticsOgre

In retrospect, that's my fault for hanging with someone named "Vyce."

Like your best friend being named "Cryme" or "Robin Steele"

That was always gonna go south. That one's on me.

#Gaming #TacticsOgre #TacticsRPG

I'm loving #TacticsOgre (PS1) so far. 3/4 of the way done. Game is a masterpiece. ❤️

The music, for one, is epic. Even the title screen is a banger. THIS is how you start a game right. #ps1 #gaming

(it starts softly - wait for the strings and chorus to drop!...)

I've met with a terrible fate, haven't I?

#PipistrelloAndTheCursedYoyo
#DragonQuest3
#TacticsOgre

#NintendoSwitch #GameCollecting #Gaming

Welp, I'm done with #tacticsOgre Reborn.

About 12 hours in and realizing that what I crave is the experimentation and customization of character classes and skills offered by FFT games -- and this isn't that. Even if the graphics make my brain happy and the story's good, I'm not slogging through 100+ hours of battles that I don't find fun.

I'll keep enjoying my time with the art book -- and I get to finally cross this off my backlog after a decade.

#videogames #jrpg #trpg