Dragon Fogel の最近のレビュー

Monstro: Battle Tactics is a strategy game with no RNG. The game helpfully tells you the rules for enemy priority and the same actions will always result in the same damage - no critical hits, luck rolls, or variations in AI.

This doesn't mean it's easy. What it means is that maps are more like puzzles.

As someone who played a lot of Advance Wars and tried to do fast clears that depended on specific (and sometimes rare) enemy movement, I appreciated this. You can look through the rules to see exactly what the enemy priority is, and you can undo moves, even during the enemy turn - emphasizing the puzzle aspect.

Overall, this is a really neat concept. Admittedly, the execution has a few flaws. One minor one is that there's no way to know the order enemies will move in unless you actually let the enemy move; this is something that's relevant on a few maps, as an enemy that moves first can sometimes block another enemy from attacking.

There are also a few maps that felt, frankly, unfair. It wasn't that the puzzles were too hard so much as that they do something like put you against an enemy ambush early in the map, with very few options for escaping and setting yourself up to fight back. Getting through these maps (thankfully small in number) felt less like a puzzle and more like trial-and-error. Still, they weren't that bad, and you don't have to go through the maps in linear order even though they're numbered, so if one gives you trouble you can move on and put it aside for later. And there are more than enough neat scenarios to make up for the fiddly ones.

Unlike many strategy games, you won't find much of a story here. There's an excuse plot for why these monsters are humans are fighting each other, and it's not taken seriously at all. There are no cutscenes, except for still pictures with narration during the ending sequences for each campaign; all the text is single dialogue boxes before each level, often poking fun at the whole concept. It's entertaining and I chuckled at several of them, but if you're looking for an engaging storyline with deep characterization, this isn't it.

On the whole, this is a game that's definitely worth looking at if you like strategy and puzzles. I had fun with it.