Tactics Ogre

We have two more with Namco Museum and Konami Crazy Racers, both releasing June 11th, 2001 as our first two games.

We have Tactics Ogre, The Knight of Lodeas, our first JRPG for the system, and Kuru Kuru Kururin, which was not released in North America, but was released in the UK June 22nd, 2001 with the release of the Game Boy Advance there.

Those are the games we'll be checking out.

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It, it is very, very good.

I will say, and this might be heretical of me to say, uh, but I think if you want like really gritty tactics, like, like really thoughtful tactics where you're having to make like really careful decisions and you're kind of up against the line constantly, you can play Fire Emblem on, on like really high difficulties and it'll get there, but I think you might be slightly better served by playing something like a Tactics Ogre or, or something like that, or, or a, even a Final Fantasy Tactics.

Um, I, I also like...

Fi- Fire Emblem does very specific things within the genre, and I do think one of those is the support building, the relationship building, each unit kind of having a very individualized identity that then they share with other people, plays into the broader story.

Whereas you play a Tactics Ogre and, like, you might have a few named units, but most of them are just kind of dudes that are there to, to live or die [laughs] by your command, and it's a little bit more-

Mm-hmm

... gameplay focused.

So I think if you want more of the gameplay and less of the anime pushing the, the figures together to make them kiss, uh, I, I think, like, Tactics Ogre is probably the game that you want.

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You get dialogue choices.

You have to make a response sequence.

kind of you know here's here's your options do one of these you know text venture style but with video yeah anyway yeah so there's that The other thing I've been playing was Tactics Ogre Reborn.

So that was the remake of the 2010 game.

It was released in 2022 by Squeenix, and it's been in my backlog for a while.

It does not work for me, and I don't...

I genuinely, I've said it before, I think the only real difference is maybe the job system, though I like Tactics Ogre just fine.

I like the, I like the, uh, 3D environments in Tactics a lot.

I like the little, like, the f- you feel like you're in a little diorama town, you know? And Fire Emblem is just top down, fucking move your guy forward, and then the chara- the enemy moves forward, and then you move forward.

Ogre.

Tactics Ogre, Let Us Cling Together.

You know? Yeah.

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Ooh, lots of money for Patrick.

Shadow's playing Tactics Ogre.

Shadow, is that the...

Is there a fan translation for the Saturn version? Or are you playing the PS1 or one of the remasters or something? Let us know in the chat.

what's he doing to my dude? Oh, we have to help on him.

CaptainHod and DragonForce, you know, that article I wrote the other month, the guy I met up with after like 26 years, DragonForce is in his top five games of all time as well.

Axe Ogre is a really good one.

I need to play- I need to finish that one.

I'm not opposed to some sci-fi elements, though, because most strategy RPGs are medieval war fantasy, so it's fun to see something a little bit different, at least some shades of it.

I've been playing a lot of Shining Force lately, too, and Tactics Ogre, and I do love those games, but it's fun to see a different kind of setting.

Well, as Final Fantasy fans, we love when our medieval aesthetics get mixed in with the sci-fi future technology stuff.

I'm already interested, so we'll see how that goes.

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Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

That's, that's crazy.

That's-

Don't play a Fire Emblem.

Save yourself $70 and go play Tactics Ogre.

I don't like Fire Emblem.

Also, did you see who won the Chinese RC?