This is a very bad game. I'll start by saying it has a mixed review for a reason, and it should honestly be ranked far lower. First of all, story: there basically isn't one. There's very bare bones generic fantasy plot beats and nothing beyond that. Every character is a common archetype (valiant hero that only does good, himbo airhead womanizer friend, wholesome innocent cleric girl, ect.). Between each map, you get about maybe 10 lines of dialog between characters, then you go back to the main menu. If you don't like story, hey, that's awesome, but most tactics games like Fire Emblem/Triangle Strategy tend to tell decent to really good stories, so for me, it's yet another let down.

Aside from the very mid story, let's get into the gameplay. I'll begin by saying there are many, many mistakes. Most enemies have an attack with at least 4 range, so you're basically always in range of enemy attacks. If you can hit them, rest assured, multiple of them can hit you. In the same vein, virtually every enemy has more health than you, and by the mid to late game, each enemy often has double/triple your highest character's health. It takes maybe one or two attacks for them to kill one of your units, meanwhile it usually takes three to four of your attacks to kill one of theirs. The best strategy? Sit in the corner and use your only distance attacks to slowly whittle away enemy health for several turns in the most abysmally boring, cowardly way imaginable, or just accept that you're making a one-for-one trade.

So what happens when your unit dies? (which will happen a lot unless you decide to sit in the corner in every map and never split up your units). They have 5 turns to be revived. If they aren't revived, they get absolutely no exp for the level. Not the most punishing, but still unacceptable if you want your units to actually get value out of the fight. But at least there's a revival spell! That only one single character gets... and that only has a 75% percent chance of working when fully leveled up... Oh, you want to be able to rely on your tactics in a tactics game? Well, too bad. Enjoy the RNG fest. I can't express how often the "75%" chance to revive an ally fails, and when it does, cool, you just wasted half your mana and got absolutely nothing out of it. Go ♥♥♥♥ yourself. There are items that you can use to revive people but you find like maybe 10 over the course of 15 plus hours? Maybe you can buy them in the store, I'm not sure, but if you want to afford good gear and upgrades you will never be spending a cent on items anyway.

Speaking of RNG fests, I'm telling you, the hit odds are something else. I really have never missed more 90+% hits in my entire life. It feels heavily fixed, and considering the fact that enemies do astronomically more damage to you than you do to them, missing is catastrophic. It often immediately spells the end of one of your units unless you still have enough units left to move that turn for damage control.
You can see the enemy's stats, but they don't actually tell you much at all. Oh, the enemy has 211 defense? Uh, cool. I totally understand how that relates to my attack power, yeah. No, I don't. Even your own spells/skills have no damage assigned to them whatsoever. You get the spell's name, cost, and range. That's it. How much will it do? Is it stronger than the other spells I have? Is it worth unlocking? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The only way to know how much damage you'll do to an enemy, or to know how much damage they'll do to you, is to get within range and almost initiate the attack. Like Fire Emblem, there's a damage forecast, but unlike Fire Emblem, the damage is RANDOM. Yes, in a tactics game, where the whole idea is to play strategically and use known information to your advantage, the damage is random, with no specification. Let's say you move in to attack a monster and the damage forecast depicts that you'll do 75 damage. Well, you will absolutely not do 75 damage. It's like Pokemon in that each attack has a damage range. The range seems to be around +/- 10 values of the depicted number. Of course, it doesn't tell you that. Imagine my surprise the first time I found that out when the game told me, "You'll kill this enemy if you attack it! :D" and then I did attack it, and surprise, the attack did 6 points of damage less than specified, didn't pick up the kill, and in turn I got killed myself. I mean really?

There's nothing more frustrating than not understanding your enemy in a tactics game. In games like Fire Emblem, even when you can't always see the damage forecast, you can use the enemies' stats and your own to mathematically calculate how much an attack will do, how likely they are to hit you, and so on. The stats in this game are completely incomparable. You basically just read over each enemy, decide, "Oh that one has the most attack, I should probably try to kill it first" and that's it. You don't know how much damage any of their typically 3-7 different possible attacks will do, so strategy is nonexistent. Sit in the corner, whittle them down over the course of ten agonizingly boring turns, and then kill the weaker monsters when the most threatening have been picked off. Rinse and repeat.

There's also every tactics lovers' favorite thing in this game: ambush spawns. You know, the kind that attack the turn they spawn in on enemy phase so there's absolutely nothing you can do about them? Yeah. Fantastic. In the first ten hours, I didn't lose once. Then suddenly I started getting anihilated every map, typically to three or four missed attacks back to back, ambush spawns, or an attack doing far more damage than I thought it would do to me simply because you are not given the tools to adequately understand how much damage an enemy threatens you with. There was genuinely one time that I died in this game and I felt like it was deserved. Essentially every death feels cheap. And you can certainly say that I just suck at the game, hey man, fair enough. I don't think I do, I usually love tactics games and have put countless hours into other tactics franchises with a tenth of the frustration and disappointment that this game brings. But, that's for you to decide.

It's genuinely gotta' be one of the worst tactics games I've ever played. There's just nothing good to say about it. Its absolute best areas are shockingly mid, and its worst areas are unforgivingly infuriating. There are bugs too. Different items are highlighted with different colors to help you distinguish what items have special effects, so like, an item with a blue name has benefits. Well, every time you scroll to the next screen, wherever the blue item was on the previous screen, the item in the same place on the next screen is also blue now. It's not that bad, but really annoying when in the shop, and can cause you to get confused over which of your items are actually enhanced. I once had a menu pop up that absolutely could not be closed, and so I had to click out of the level and restart. Another unfathomable bug is that one character's skill, when leveled up, got worse. In this game, you can level up skills with skill points. Sometimes the range increases, sometimes the damage, sometimes the MP requirement becomes lower.

Well, a Reflection skill at max level actually reduced how much damage it reflected. I promise, I didn't misread it. It didn't get a wider range and become weaker, or become less MP and get weaker, it just got weaker. I'm not sure if the text was just wrong or if the spell is actually bugged, but I never leveled it to max just in case so I can't say. This game is disappointing, and I never even had hopes going into it. I have never written a Steam review before, but this game just rubbed me so wrong it felt necessary. If I could describe this game in one sentence: a strategy/tactics game, that gives you no information to strategize with and only minimal tactics that work. Please don't buy this game. Its low score exists for a reason.