Battle Princess of Arcadias.

I looked at battled princess of Arcadia's I saw the multi segmented sprites I saw the planar combat I saw the huge boss and I immediately thought wow this is neat when a genius attempted odin sphere

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how cute and then I played more of it I wanted to go back in time to slap myself in the head fortunately through the power of editing I can do just that and like the last few generations of Pokemon

there's a novelty in smashing up tanks in this case genres that haven't really gone together before so you matter if it's Golar inky or mega Sceptile you put them together just because no one else

has before and it's interesting much

the same vein battle princess of Arcadia's is I never thought I'd say this it's a tactical side-scrolling beat'em I normally this is where I drop the standard Louis black I'll repeat that sphere but honestly I can't even

muster it right now because I've been trying to wrap my head around this thing looks like odin sphere on a basic level but oh the sphere didn't have an armed conflict going on behind you that you

had to control did it that's this game stick not only are you leading a band of highly skilled warriors in battle you might also be leading a battalion of other fighters fighting either directly

alongside you or at a background play stay with me now as the battled princess or one of her cohort you're not only responsible for staying alive in your own fight but you also have to issue

commands to your legions so as to react to whatever your clothes are up to this expends morale which is the closest you've got to army MP and which can be bolstered by routing enemy squads or

using your player character to slay the designated leader enemies they'll be encountering they bonus if said player character uses the same weapon as the fighters they're leading it's a lot to

process especially because these are not to genre that get mashed together like at work and it's a huge freaking paradigm shift so not only do you have to survive you've got to be monitoring

the action in the background drive with the gauges at the bottom of the screen know when to put them on the offensive when to go on the defensive and when to switch that squad out for one of the up

to four others you can but not every encounter is a massive skirmish like this sometimes you're just bringing one team led by a few of the named pieces it's a massive boss much like before

you're controlling them in real time while fighting the monster yourself giving commands to influence the pace of battle or necessary say your side off the battlefield to regroup while you

hold the beast at bay even more stages played much like your standard side-scrolling beat'em ups where your only concern is slaying Posey scoring exp yes it's true I came in expecting odin

sphere but ended up playing some strange hybrid of Odin's princess an injury union if you got that reference give yourself a gold star too cold beer cuz you're gonna need it between more than

a dozen moves for each of ten characters inventory slots weapons weapon upgrades weapon parameter unlocks army levels resource collection there's a hell of a lot to keep straight

and the difficulty curve is curl up into the fetal positions brutal on a couple occasions I ran up against armies that significantly out leveled me requiring a healthy dose of good old-fashioned

grinding fortunately you can go back into old battlefields and try to improve your rank on those fights yielding bragging rights as well as material sports graphics might not be vanillaware

cheer but they've got a lot of character in our animated quite well especially in depth the vocal performance is well acted and quite extensive almost every line of dialogue

in the game is read aloud though only in Japanese the soundtrack swings wildly between genres from classical harpsichords in the city center

to thick base to guilty gear s truck when gets read battle princess of Arcadia's may appear as a novelty at first but don't take her for it lately it's a whole lot of action here.