Triangle Strategy

A great title that manages to tell a gripping political thriller while entertaining you with great tactical battles that are simple at the core but offer a wide range of possibilities. A great, slow, relaxing game to keep your brain occupied. [Issue#319]

Triangle Strategy is a terrible name. It tells little about the game besides that it has something to do with triangles and strategy. This name ultimately fails to share anything that implies the adventure offers an incredible narrative, fantastic combat, and possibly the best implementation of choice and morality I have seen in a video game.

Quotation forthcoming.

Playing Triangle Strategy’s battles is probably the easiest and most carefree part of the experience. There’s a lot of fun in strategizing and watching your characters’ abilities shine, and I loved outsmarting the competition. The hardest part of the journey is the choices alongside the bleak realities it makes you confront about injustices of the world. The game has multiple endings, letting you pick your vision for the future. Even with my ending, which was one for a much more idealized, compassionate world, I was left a little disheartened. But, maybe, that’s the point. And for that, Triangle Strategy isn’t like most games you’ll play, which is what makes it special, even if it’s not always perfect in the delivery of its harsh truths.

You’ll get the most out of Triangle Strategy if you bring a little patience to the proceedings. It starts slow. It throws a lot of story at you. The most interesting tactical powers show up in later levels. And you only see some of its compelling narrative beats in a second or third play. It’s destined to be a game you either shrug off in the early hours or add to your list of favorites.

Triangle Strategy is within reach of strategic perfection, even if some of the efforts that have been made to set it apart falter. Square Enix’s return to the tactical RPG genre may not be an outright triumph, but, despite the imbalance between narrative and action on the battlefield, there is much more to applaud here than there is to criticise.

Triangle Strategy delivers smart tactics, but battles play second fiddle to its dull political lore.

What a great game. I was interested and downloaded the Demo, when it slowly built up the plot I was pretty hyped about the full game: and it delivered hard! The story is brilliant and deep, the scales of conviction mechanic is a very strong element for emotional investment, the music is 10/10 from the same composer as the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Anime, which i noticed because it was so good. I played on hard difficulty for a more challenging experience and it was as challenging asI hoped for. Truly great experience with this game, 100% recommendation. <3

Overall enjoyable, but the pacing of storytelling was not quite to my taste.

This is a good game but certainly not a masterpiece. The battles are few and far between, and the story and characters are largely uninteresting. The soundtrack is decent but unmemorable. If you have already played Final Fantasy Tactics and are hungry for more, maybe play this game.

As many others have stated, this game is more of an audiobook than a strategy **** for a game that is so heavy on story, at least make the story and dialogue interesting. I honestly sounds like the characters are voiced by AI scripts not actual Human voice actors. Gameplay is repetitive and lacks strategic depth. The TP system is far too simple and RPG elements are lacking. The world map is a gimmick. The 3D pixel art presentation is the main draw here, however that is not enough to save this game.

Very disappointing. The story was incredibly dumb with typical, predictable plot twists. The character reasoning for the different endings is nonsensical: especially Roland’s, but Frederica, and Benedict’s are not much better. Golden Route designed to be obtained on new game plus, even if it is possible it would be a miserable experience for a player on the first playthrough. Scales of Conviction are pointless, just have a vote. The dialogue is 40% formalities (“Pray forgive me my lord” or “Thank you for receiving me” blah, blah, blah), 50% redundancy (characters having to put in their two cents and doing absolutely nothing for the story) and 10% actual substantial plot elements. THEN the narrator literally repeats everything that was just said. The entire story is in reality paper thin (one nation hoards salt and is insanely wealthy at the expense of the other nations; leadership of all nations is despicable and incompetent) and made worse with Square Enix’s desire to inject pointless plots twists. Now remember that you have to do all of this at least 4 times for completion. The balancing of battles seemed like a rush job, often giving enemies way better skills than what is available to you. Percentages to hit and status effects are an outright lie. Many skills with status effects are next to useless, because in reality they land at a 40% rate. Progressing the story is a slog as you need to grind to meet level requirements, and have enough money for upgrades. However, I did like the option to replay story battles, if only to see the demise of Thalas and Erika multiple times. They’re the worst and if the game was rated M; Frederica should have special cut-scenes to explode their heads, and/or melt them into goo. Music for the most part is underwhelming, and the encampment (where you do all upgrades) is awful. Had to mute it because it’s so repetitive. The cast is completely whitewashed with next to no diversity. Less than a handful of characters have Asian features, the rest white. Main character, Seranoa is generic with next to no development, aside from a completely pointless plot twist. Frederica is the only character with a decent story arc. Roland has almost the opposite of a story arc, didn’t even know such a thing was possible. Benedict is all over the place. The remaining characters are mostly one dimensional, and nothing more than character archetypes: assassin, big brother, big sister, manipulative woman, gifted child, gifted child but with magic, etc. Overall this game was not fun and not interesting. I would not recommend.