We were content to simply give Rondo of Swords the same obligatory coverage we reserve for most other generic SRPGs, but 1UP's Jeremy Parish, the scoundrel that he is, had to ruin it all with a glowing preview of the Atlus-published game, painting it as a "sleeper in the making [that] just might reinvent strategy RPGs."
Rondo of Swords takes an innovative approach to combat, tossing aside the usual move-next-to-your-enemy-and-select-attack conventions. Instead, players draw paths for characters that go through their opponent (or opponents!). As simple a change as it might sound, this system allows for a range of new stratagems -- scattering your team to limit the amount of vulnerable characters, carrying out "drive-bys" to attack units before moving out of their range, etc.
Throw in an interesting story about royal deception and some pleasing-looking combat cutscenes, and this suddenly becomes a game we can get behind.
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2-08-2008 @ 1:30PM
Ghaleon said...
That would be interesting, since IMO the genre peaked at Dragon Force in 1996, and has put out the same Shining-Force style game for a decade.
Good update, I'll keep an eye out for it
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2-08-2008 @ 1:45PM
Tim Dunlap said...
The Growlanser series has had this ability for a long time. It was just part of combat system though. Taking everything else away and enhancing this feature of the combat system to be the only part of it sounds interesting though.
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2-08-2008 @ 4:04PM
hvnlysoldr said...
If Super Robot OG for GBA had this I wouldn't have abandoned err loaned it to my brother.
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2-08-2008 @ 6:00PM
ArmiMaan said...
I wonder if this will make the game play faster. I love turn-based strategy, but the battles always take so long and these days I find I just don't have the time to dedicate to them. It's why I haven't picked up Days of Ruin yet.
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2-08-2008 @ 9:39PM
Henley said...
your missing out on some good fun, so this will basically be like the zelda MP on a grander scale
4-10-2008 @ 12:41PM
Ruhdezee said...
this game looks fun im gettingit heck i already pre ordered it lol
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