Finished first playthrough and... (rant).
Hey everyone , I've posted here before asking questions about Tactics Ogre Reborn for the switch. As of today May 11th , I finished my first playthrough! Warning, this is a major spoiler but I am overall not pleased with what happened.
(Warning: long ramble/rant)
It appears I just got shot by a gun . The screen whites out so it's possible some valiant guard saved me or something. But there were so many loose plot threads. Whatever happened to Nesbeth and his family of necromancers? Didn't Galgastan want to do something with the undead or something like that? Whatever happened to those dragons; I did try going to the Palace of the dead but after the 30th floor I just got so bored. Would I have gotten a special ending if I completed the Palace of the dead? The final boss was very difficult especially because in the Hanging Garden phase my clerics all died or were pushed off cliffs . So when the final boss had a special ability that prohibited Resurrection magic I had no counter. I had run out of marks to transform into a cleric . I also thought those marks were overly abundant anyway and ruined character individuality; I wanted to treat those as special items that can only be obtained by that eccentric witch that sometimes appears in shops but doesn't seem to offer anything of real value . A lot of the plot didn't make much sense to me. Why was Catulia so friendly at first to me and then so sad, >!deciding to kill herself just because reasons? !<Why was my best friend so irredeemably evil ? We know almost nothing about King Darangola (and yes I did read all the Codex entries and Warren reports and saw the intro scene); I still thought the twist that he was a villain didn't make a whole lot of sense and wasn't very impactful to me . Honestly I couldn't care less about him. What about the secret mission from those other lands that that other King sent Lancelot and Friends for?
Speaking of Lancelot , I found him broken and wounded just staring at the sea . I really thought he would have recovered at the end and help me out in the final battle but nope . Again just a loose plot thread I suppose. This version of the game has an option to try other plot threads. That's going to take me out of the game immersion wise. I made my choices . I chose the side of siding against all power hungry leaders at the risk of becoming a power hungry despot myself.
I guess my final part of the rant is so many mechanics are unclear: when recruiting doesn't work, unclear skill descriptions, limited skill slots, lack of clarity pertaining to classes and weapon affinity, obscure stat descriptions, etc.
The game needed more polish. I suspect I should have buckled down and found that dragon magic.
I should be mindful of spoilers in case I replay another path, but I will say that, with the exception of the final chapters, this is a great game for an "iron man" challenge (no resets and if the main character dies you have to start over). The recruitment system is forgiving.