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Hero's Saga: Laevatein Tactics

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Hero's saga is a fairly straightforward game for it's genre. Obviously, it is at
least somewhat inspired by Tactics Ogre GBA- One of my all-time favorite games.
Like T.O. GBA, it is not stellar, not mediocre but there is a certain charm that
keeps me coming back for more. It is ridiculous for it to have a 2-star rating,
thus this review. Those who complain about it's difficulty are most likely the
ones who charge into battle with no plan. (That's because strategy means you
need a plan. Always avoid the stronger enemies, while piecemeal defeating the
minion units. Let them come to you. The AI is not a genius, it will send units
at you mostly one at a time, if you let it. To be sure, this is not guaranteed
win every time, but most of the time, this tactic seems to work. When dealing
with enemies that have the Hero attacks, you *will* lose some units. However,
if you weaken them with your own expendable units, force them to use up their
hero powers, you can usually wipe them out with your hero and stronger units.
There is a decent story here and yes, this is a difficult game. It is not FFT,
those looking for that easy sort of victory will be frustrated, especially if
you try to play this game like FFT. (Which I also love) For those that remember,
T.O. was a difficult game, with a good story to it. I like the battle screen,
as it is unique to DS SRPG's. Those who say the options are limited- Well, FFT
or even T.O. did not even give you a battle screen. There is a good strategy game
here, if you stick with it. However, you will need to use some (gasp) STRATEGY!

This is a decent strategy game with some unique combat elements. You fight as a squad with a hero unit and each "attack" is a three round volley. Opens some interesting otions. The game just feels too lineir for me and even though there's a lot of recruitable hero's non of them really grow or are customizable. They gain levels and some corresponding stats but that's about it. Non enough variety in special skills/attacks/spells.

Overall it's worth a play through though.

This game is a pretty good Strategic/Tactic RPG, even though it's not in the same league of Final Fantasy Tactics for PS1, by the way the GBA version is not the same game and it's a lot worse.

I already beaten the main quest with about 30% of the arms collected, now I'm going for the 100% during what could be considered the EX mode.

I had to grind around a dozen time to level-up, anyway the game is not that hard once you grasp the mechanics. Too bad the AI is often not aggressive enough. They could gang up on you and instead they approach you one or two baddies at a time.

The game become a little repetitive around 20 hours. In fact, I'm not sure if I'll ever get to 100%.

Anyway it's a buy if you like the genre.

Hero's Saga proved to be a great disappointment to me. I was hoping for a FF Tactics but found that "tactics" is a loose term in this game. You are the hero who has a quest to save the kingdom thrust upon you, but you aren't given the tools to accomplish this deed. The game starts off with a couple of relatively easy encounters with the enemy kingdom, then it drops into "insane difficulty" mode without allowing for you to level up your armies to a competitive level. There also isn't much in the way of customization; you can recruit from a limited pool of characters, equip them with a paltry weapon, only to watch them get slaughtered in one turn by the enemy's special attack. Oh yes, you also get a special attack, but you're lucky if you aren't wiped off the the board before you get that special attack powered up. Your army has the "ability" to strike three different formations; defensive, straight attack, and all-out attack. You also get to choose where to place them on the map (up to a point), and that is the extent of the "tactics" in this game. I don't mind the difficulty increasing as you play, but without the ability to level up, you really don't stand a chance. The graphics are about what you would expect on the DS and the sound the same. The story may have eventually gotten better but after 10 hours of losing repeatedly, I simply gave up.
I can only recommend this for the hardcore strategist, but buyer beware...