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Heads Will Roll: Reforged by Knights Who Say Arrow to the Knee 06/13/2024, 2:37am PDT Imagine a Persona style time management meets turn based JRPG combat, set during 16th century Europe. You're a nobody grunt who signed on for a King Henry VIII stand-in's invasions of Scotland and France. Manage your stats in camp until time runs out and it's off to the next battle. It's a cool idea. The art is nice. You get to see the tits of any ladies you romance, which was the main thing holding the Persona series back. It's held back by taking place in the Ren'Py engine, normally reserved for visual novels. Battles are static paper dolls. The inventory management interface is an absolute nightmare for dealing with crafting. But I'm enjoying it. The barrier to entry for a lot of people will be dealing with inventory management, and the difficulty. Difficulty is unwinnable if you don't know exactly what to do (train up Agility and weapon skill ASAP). They did this really weird thing with the difficulty modes where you're forced to go with a randomly rolled character, EXCEPT on the absolute hardest difficulty. Then it turns into a roguelike with iron man mode and permadeath. Dying sends you ALL the way back to the start of the story, but with increased points to spend on the next starting character based on how far you made it before you died. The huge consequences for death put real weight behind the choices to play it safe and avoid additional combat risk, which condemn you to remaining a low ranking nobody. Only after building up points can you start becoming a powerhouse who can afford to take risks for glory and advance. Really reminded me of that Star Trek episode where Picard had to choose avoiding a near lethal bar fight at the cost of a notable career. But I can't recommend the iron man mode. A Persona style game just doesn't lend itself to permadeath roguelike runs. The time consuming ASS nature of the inventory management crafting alone makes me swear off iron man. Each run can take forever and you have to do a lot of them before it's even mathematically possible to make it very far. Wait till it goes on a regular sale price of $7-9. Just play on normal. Save often. Behead some Frenchmen. Enjoy the tits.

Heads Will Roll: Reforged by Knights Who Say Arrow to the Knee 06/13/2024, 2:37am PDT     Looks like a hidden gem. Thanks! NT by The Bridge Tender 06/13/2024, 8:10am PDT