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Live by the Sword Tactics Switch NSP Free Download Unfitgirl Live by the Sword: Tactics certainly attempts to live up to the adage that if one lives by the sword, one is destined to die by the sword. Well, as long as the one dying is not one of the plot-essential heroes in the story. The game is a throwback to the 16-bit era of tactics games and, just like those games, is an equal mix of sometimes insane difficulty, almost chibi-like character design, and decent enough gameplay. The story is generic as can be, following two heroes sworn to defend the kingdom and a young king. It’s a story that offers nothing new or interesting. Throughout the game, I was waiting for a twist to pique my interest, throw me for a loop, or just give me a hint of something not painfully rote – a moment that never came. In a tactics game, the story is one of the elements that drive you forward. As an example, the recent Triangle Strategy had a compelling story pushing you forward, and so to did the clear inspiration for this game, Final Fantasy Tactics. Live by the Sword: Tactics, however, never gets close to that high water mark. Of course, the other element essential to a tactics game is the gameplay. Thankfully, Live by the Sword: Tactics has decent enough tactical gameplay. Your party of five, chosen from a group of seven, provides you with all the tools to claim victory. But again, the generic nature of the design philosophy comes through. You start out with a fighter, cleric, alchemist and archer, then add a magic user, thief, and monk/brawler. Each party member has access to six skills, but you can only take four into battle. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

This adds a little bit of complexity and decision-making before each mission, as you have to decide which might be the most useful. However, it isn’t that difficult to quickly work out what skills are overpowered and work best in combination with your party. It’s competent enough but, by sticking to such a genric roster, it doesn’t add much to the genre of high fantasy tactics. Battles play out on tiny maps and ones with no real secrets to uncover through careful exploration. The mechanics of battle would normally be influenced by the maps themselves – think changes in terrain type, elevation, or secret interaction – but you don’t get that here to any meaningful degree.  There are elevated positions that will give ranged characters advantages, but these are simple raised steps that are easy to spot and beeline towards. When you are first starting out on your adventure, the battles feel challenging as you need to figure out how each of the many skills works, and how to pair up characters to make the most of their synergised abilities. However, as the game progresses, the challenge plateaus. The subsequent lack is made doubly so by the fact that the archer and magic user are useful to the point of being overpowered, ensuring they become automatic picks for each battle. On the rare occassions the game threw a challenging battle at me, I soon realised these were meant to be lost for story purposes – gaming’s equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru.

Live by the Sword  Tactics Tools to create custom battlefields.

The visual style is a modern take on 16-bit era design. The characters have that chibi-like look that can be a bit too cutesy but, in this game, they work. It feels authentic to the era and it never felt strange to be slaughtering enemies while controlling cute little sprites. Ultimately, Live by the Sword: Tactics has some good ideas but the execution isn’t quite up to standard.  The small maps and limited tactical options soon boil down to simply building a party around the powerful archer and magic user – which then removes all the challenge and fun that this genre is known for. The one good aspect of this game, if you are able to play it on a Steam Deck, is that battles are short – making it perfect for quick bursts of mobile gaming. However, that is not enough to recommend Live by the Sword: Tactics over many other excellent turn-based tactics games available on Steam. The tactical RPG genre has gone from being relatively niche to mainstream, thanks to the the surge in popularity with Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series, and others. Titles such as Square Enix’s Triangle Strategy and upcoming Ogres Tactics: Reborn show that the genre can reach new heights when it comes to innovations in gameplay and storytelling. Live by the Sword: Tactics starts off with a rather simple premise. There’s no major introduction explaining the world or giving the details of a war about to break out. While these underlying concepts are still the case as is with many other tactical RPGs before it, most of it is actually done through dialogue between the characters. BMO TV 

It gives the game a more intimate and personal feel, but does lose out on the epic grandeur of other titles. This does go in line with gameplay being more focused on smaller, denser maps instead of the larger scalecombat seen in other titles. The scale also goes in line with the limited number of combatants, usually most battles being waged in 5 vs 5 combat. The five character battles are a huge limitation when it comes to the story campaign, forcing the game to keep the encounters at very small skirmishes. This would have been fine were they not going for a similar story focused on all-out war breaking out, like many other tactical RPGs. This ends up harming the experience when playing through the storyline of Live by the Sword: Tactics. The plot might’ve only been tacked on so that it gives players a taste of the combat, which is more balanced towards skirmishes and multiplayer. The story battles are rather easy, which also defeats the purpose of these small scale encounters being more about tactics than using specifically stronger units. So with a heavy focus on the core gameplay revolving around deeper mechanics for players to rely more on strategy over gimmicks like power leveling or getting powerful weapons, does that mean gameplay is engaging? Unfortunately, it never came across as anything meaningful compared to others within the genre. As stated before, there’s actually little in terms of improvement for characters throughout Live by the Sword: Tactics campaign.

Tactician Mode that places you in odd battle scenarios to solve. Many with unique win conditions.

The only customizing the players have for each unique unit is the ability to change out their ability loadout before a battle. However, a limitation of moves never seemed to hinder builds for my characters nor did it ever encourage experimentation. Very few times did I feel compelled to adjust their movesets. Finally, battles are rather slow and tedious. Most strategies revolve around focusing on one single target to reduce the enemies numbers, as smaller engagements mean that each individual unit becomes much more valuable and losing one badly hurts the team. Yet even going down to the last 1 or 2 enemies still takes painfully long to finish the encounter when the result has long been decided. This is even more evident during story levels where you only control 1 or 2 units yourself. During these times it’s obvious you’ll only need to do the basics just to find victory. There’s even a level where you’re guaranteed to lose due to being outnumbered and it still took forever to watch my units get cut down just to move on with the story. It’s ultimately rather boring, but at the same time if the difficulty was notched up, then Live by the Sword: Tactics would end up becoming a frustrating experience where RNG can end up screwing up even a good strategy. The design just puts itself into a position where the balance lies more towards being fair against other human players, instead of AI. That said, if you do enjoy the core gameplay Live by the Sword: Tactics has to offer, then there is a fair bit of content to sink your teeth into. Brotato

As mentioned before there is a story mode which acts a lot like a tutorial throughout many of its stages. Along with that also comes the Adventure mode, which is the game’s “roguelite” experience where you’ll build up your units while traveling around the map of the world. Finally, there is multiplayer which acts similar to that of skirmish mode, except opponents are controlled by other human players. It’s a nice addition for a game that revolves around small scale encounters with units balanced more akin to esports titles rather than traditional tactical RPGs. As long as it maintains even a small playerbase that is willing to mix things up from time to time, then Live by the Sword: Tactics could be a solid experience for years to come. Live by the Sword: Tactics is a game that focuses too much on balanced encounters. While it might make for a solid multiplayer experience, that still doesn’t change how utterly mundane it makes the single player experience. Every encounter just feels the same but with a different coat of paint. Not to mention, if the game tried to be more, it would end up creating issues with meta usage and could end up harming creativity that tactical games typically allow. Live By The Sword: Tactics promises political intrigue and tactical delights against a backdrop of fantasy world warfare. It sounds good on paper and looks good in screenshots, but for the moment all we have to go on in regards to the game itself is an Early Access version on Steam.

Multiple Game Modes.

This still gives us some material to work with. The Early Access version gives a good overview of the game’s main parts, with sections for the tutorial, sample story battles, combat challenge, and multiplayer. The tutorial gives the scene of a dad taking his sons out into the woods for a lesson in how the world works, with plenty of fatherly encouragement and approval. It works well both as a refresher course on general TRPG mechanics and as a glimpse into the backstory of the game’s presumed protagonist. Though it does not give up many details, still it manages to convey a good deal in a wholesome manner. The first act takes place some years later, as those two young boys have grown to become the men who protect their part of the country from bandits and marauders. References are made to political unrest and interpersonal issues that are sure to cause drama later on, but for this part the battles are still the main attraction. Combat is, unsurprisingly, inspired by classics of the sub-genre such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Vandal Hearts. There’s the isometric grid, the attack ranges and percentages, the height factors, the turn order, and other standard mechanics one might expect. Tutorial Dad talks his boys through each item, from move actions to camera angles, before bringing the lesson to an end. For a more thorough experience, the player will need to move on to the next item on the main menu: the story battles.

The initial Early Access release came with two non-canon battle maps, making a point to state that these were not actually in the main game. It also said that they were made easier than normal battles in the main plot, which may or may not be something to worry about. The two battles were not difficult for anyone with experience in the genre, but that someone felt the need to point this out implies that this is a studio that takes its challenge levels seriously. These non-story demo battles were standard “mow down the enemy force” affairs, but with enough base choice variation that they were worth playing through several times. All seven standard unit classes were available in battles with a party roster of five, and all party members had more ability options than they can equip at one time. This is where Live by the Sword: Tactics begins to show some ingenuity. Every unit type possesses a base attack, either melee or ranged. On top of that, the player can choose up to four special abilities for them to take into battle. Most of these are active, such as a warrior’s combat maneuvers, a rogue’s dirty tricks, or a wizard’s spells. Others are passive, like an ability that lets the unit ignore movement restrictions on climbing. Every unit in the original non-story stages possessed six special abilities, so it was possible — even encouraged — to experiment with the loadout. On top of this, each unit also possesses an inherent class ability, either active or passive, that often contains meta-effects on other abilities. Any active ability has a cooldown period before they can be utilized again, which must also be taken into account.

In point of fact, the Early Access version got an upgrade partway through the initial writing of this impression, removing the original demo stages in favor of story stages and other items. With the first chapter made available, the Early Access experience lost some of that flexibility, as the battles are now to an extent restrained by the necessities of the plot. Two character classes are not present at all, while another gets a big introduction by way of a special battle between a named character and two mooks. Another significant addition is the Tactician Mode, wherein the player is presented with special maps and enemy line-ups with the goal of beating the scenario with the best time possible. It also now includes a Skirmish Mode against AI opponents, plus the promise of being able to create personalized maps in a future build. The graphics are very reminiscent of Final Fantasy Tactics, though to be honest they look a little zoomed-out. The character sprites are detailed enough to deserve better visibility and presentation, which comes when two units face off for an attack and the entire map view squares to focus on them. The different abilities have their own animations — quite humorously in the case of the knight’s Taunt skill. Musically, this game has a good backdrop of tunes going for it. Different themes play for allies or enemies, and they all have a good tempo to get the blood moving and the excitement building. There are some negatives to address, however. First is the overall speed of the game. While the background music may be fast-paced, the action is not. Enemy units take several seconds to cogitate a move, and then precious more seconds actually moving. F1 2013

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