Unicorn Overlord - Tactical RPG by Vanillaware

[Reinhardt]

alcina > yahna

 

[Reinhardt]

broke through initial ceiling. hardest part was bruno mission. shitty spearchuckers alone just can't beat his massive selfhealing. reloaded it 3 times from the beginning. i could reach him easily with the help of angel, but then it's just a fucking wall, i can kill his party but not bruno himself, so i had to go and do exp stage first. beating him unlocks hiring gryphon girls in a fort so it was absolutely worth it. with new flying team cleared yahna and berenice recruitment quests, hammer girl next and then scarlett.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

so finished final mission. it's just big battle without any story and serves to recruit some characters you can't recruit in main game. they don't have rapport or anything. after this you can only replay galerius and, i guess, bitchslap him with new characters.
still missing one entry in characters library - second entry in non-upgraded thieves.
~50 hours. completed everything i could find. 173/174 quests completed listed.

Is anything missable, like timed quests that have to be done by a certain point? And does it have branching story events ala Chaos Frame in OB?

 

[Reinhardt]

so finished final mission. it's just big battle without any story and serves to recruit some characters you can't recruit in main game. they don't have rapport or anything. after this you can only replay galerius and, i guess, bitchslap him with new characters.
still missing one entry in characters library - second entry in non-upgraded thieves.
~50 hours. completed everything i could find. 173/174 quests completed listed.

Is anything missable, like timed quests that have to be done by a certain point? And does it have branching story events ala Chaos Frame in OB?

can't think of anything of the sort except bad end

 

[BlackPlate]

God bless piracy, saving us from people who hate PC money.

 

[Kem0sabe]

The gameplay is addicting, like an open world auto battler strategy rpg, going around doing extremely fast paced battles and collecting shit to upgrade your troops.

That being said, i find it less enjoyable than 13 sentinels ( their previous game) and Triangle Strategy, both have vastly superior stories, and thats essential to keep me engaged for more than a couple of days.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Anybody beat it yet? What's the length?

 

[Nirvash]

My god virginia is... HORNY.

 

[Jermu]

done with the game

party that I used most of playthrough that could solo pretty much every mission

final party not really spoiler

combat preview is vs final boss

postgame mission took 5 minutes and was braindead easy

so yeah what I was afraid before release was that game would be too easy and that was sadly true, I had to restart mission once in the whole game. second area (sand place) had the best challenge, after that it was speedrunning pretty much every mission

last 33% of game combat got stale so I mainly used mc group to solo missions was faster that way. I had 8 squads and 4 of em were good/decent, rest meh/trash but since game is easy did not see reason to optimize em

overall great game that was little bit too long/repetitive with generic story without much challenge

9/10 even for combatfag

 

[Lyre Mors]

Anybody beat it yet? What's the length?

Reinhardt has already managed to plow through it, and he said it was 50 hours with every side quest completed.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

I think I had a retard moment buying this. I don't know if I was expecting something like nu XCOM or Aliens: Dark Descent but this feels like garbage. I dig the way it looks and animates, much like with Dragon's Crown. I'm just not seeing the strategy elements. The game plays like a visual novel almost.

I don't like that a battle ends before you kill everything. That irritates me.

 

[Elttharion]

I just heard that apparently there is no homo romance in the game, all endings with males are bromance and you can romance all of the girls.

God forgive me but I think I might buy this for my PS4 instead of pirating.

 

[Reinhardt]

I had to restart mission once in the whole game. second area (sand place) had the best challenge, after that it was speedrunning pretty much every mission

yeah, desert was hardest area overall. tho hardest mission for me personally was bear/wolf due to sheer amount of agitated werebeasts swarming from all directions.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

I just heard that apparently there is no homo romance in the game, all endings with males are bromance and you can romance all of the girls.

God forgive me but I think I might buy this for my PS4 instead of pirating.

That makes me feel a bit better. Atleast I put my money towards something anti-fag.

 

[Reinhardt]

zenoiran difficulty really should be available from the start. otherwise it will be able to challenge you only if you do some self-imposed gimmick run, like girls-only. too many ways to break the game with accumulated knowledge. like that sword you can grab pretty much right from the start, after recruiting yahna with some basic monster evading skill.
gave it to berenice and feeding her all permanent boost items. i know i will be using her so why not.
actually using those items instead of hoarding them and never use feels strangely... liberating.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

otherwise it will be able to challenge you only if you do some self-imposed gimmick run, like girls-only.

I was going to do that anyway but not to make the game harder. Fuck. Maybe I should choose EZ mode.

 

[Jaedar]

13 sentinels ( their previous game)

I should pick this up, now that I have a switch. But how is the gameplay?

actually using those items instead of hoarding them and never use feels strangely... liberating.

Everyone knows you're not a real gamer unless you end the game with 99 of every consumable

 

[Sarissofoi]

There is two biggest problems with this game
> low difficulty, you need to gimp yourself or avoid playing parts of the game to actually have some challenge, there is tons of resources, characters and stuff laying around - zero scarcity
> no replay ability/no NG+ content, you can recruit everyione in one run, choices are very limited/mean nothing, no different paths or endings
The only ''missable'' character so far are people who you execute/refuse and Melisandre(that have some conditions to be recruited)
And don't get me wrong, I like it, its very enjoyable, its just half done in terms of gameplay

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

There is two biggest problems with this game
> low difficulty, you need to gimp yourself or avoid playing parts of the game to actually have some challenge, there is tons of resources, characters and stuff laying around - zero scarcity
> no replay ability/no NG+ content, you can recruit everyione in one run, choices are very limited/mean nothing, no different paths or endings
The only ''missable'' character so far are people who you execute/refuse and Melisandre(that have some conditions to be recruited)
And don't get me wrong, I like it, its very enjoyable, its just half done in terms of gameplay

You just described a terrible game. Don't make excuses for it. Only the devs get paid to do that shit.

You compare this thing to XCOM 2 or Aliens: Dark Descent and it's downright embarassing. Baby's first strategy game.

 

[Reinhardt]

i would compare it to king's bounty, not to xcom2 cancer

 

[Sarissofoi]

Kings Bounty had actual difficulty levels. But yeah the flow of game play is kind of similar.
>fight
>liberate cities
>do quests
>go to next area

 

[Reinhardt]

also overall feel. classic fantasy adventure in beautiful world. especially compared to what considered "fantasy adventure" in current year...

 

[Cyberarmy]

Eastern world does better fantasy and gothic adventures than western.

 

[Crayll]

The biggest power jump is promotions. I was having a hell of a time fighting through the desert area missions (with no items and trying to limit map valor actions), but decided to do a few promotions for the last fight. That immediately made it a cakewalk. I think if you delay when you promote and limit who you do it for, you could keep some of the challenge.

 

[Reinhardt]

fuck. guess having prince in army is unavoidable. had to include him to talk to berengaria. and then he leveled up while protecting her...

made special unit with chloe, two generic soldier girls and one free spot for various vip pipo required for in-mission talks.