Yes, for a Tactical RPG, you expect a slower pace, but having to confirm every single one of your moves becomes really grating after a while. What I found most annoying, however, is how slow the game plays. And in the story mode and the adventure, you'll be fighting them the most. While sellswords, thieves, and pirates might look like completely different enemies on the surface, their toolkit is similar. So on and so forth.Ī problem you'll run into in pretty much any mode besides the multiplayer is the lack of variety. The mage has powerful spells but dies quickly and needs enemies to be positioned to be most effective.

Something like the Alchemist is really useful for healing, buffing, and rebuffing. There are currently seven classes of characters in the game each has seven abilities from which you can choose five. The game will play entirely different than when you're up against the AI. This mostly shines in the Multiplayer when you're up against someone else who actually makes use of party synergy. That being said, being simple is not always a bad thing, quite the opposite, actually. While it's fun to play around with your character's abilities, it's very clear that they're not all created equally. I'll be the first to admit that in its current state, the game is really hurting for variety. While the story of Live by the Sword: Tactics barely convinces me, what kept me playing was the simple yet engaging gameplay. It serves as a decent tutorial but outstays its welcome after the end of act one. The few dramatic moments never really land and honestly, I think it is a bit of a shame that the story mode is also required to play the much more fun adventure mode. And I wouldn't be as upset if the game didn't try sometimes to seem grander and more epic.

To put it simply, what is there in terms of story is functional but that's it. And there'll be stretches on which you follow a certain plot thread that makes up each of the three acts, but you'll spend most of it fighting the same three enemy types. Often the story will try and frame events in a dramatic way, but everything always falls conveniently into place, so stuff happens. And while the game tries to make the world seem bigger than it actually is, it never comes off as such. It centers around the knight William and his brother Edgar who both try to fill the shoes of their father, who passed away in the war. It doesn't help that it is relatively short and most of the time spent in the story mode will be spent fighting. Those two are in my humble opinion two of the best games ever written and so expectations for Live by the Sword: Tactics started out sky-high. See if your game tries to cash in on the success of Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics there are some very, very big shoes to fill.

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