![]() So much so that although there’s an option to make battles go faster by turning off battle animations, I prefer to keep the option turned on. While the battle maps look a bit dreadful and garish, the battle sprites and animations are well done. The latter will grant special permanent stat buffs for your characters once equipped. That’s essentially all there is to customizations, with the exceptions of equipable healing items and special items called Eternal Aspects. Once you reach that particular level, you can choose between four different advanced class or job each of which comes with its own unique advantages and abilities. All of these weapons/attacks can be upgraded using Tokens obtained from battle or purchased from the in-game Shop between chapters.īesides that, each class or job can upgrade to more powerful versions when your characters reach a specific level. In Dark Deity, you don’t equip or change weapons for your characters. Every character carries four permanent weapons or attacks, each of which comes with its own speciality either pure damage, higher critical chances and others. ![]() Most objectives require you to clear out enemies, defeat specific enemies or even just holding out for a particular number of turns against overwhelming odds.Įach character belongs to a certain class or job, including typical ones like Warrior, Archer, Mage, and more. Your characters are dropped onto a map and you’ll have to take turn to move your units around. Each chapter consists of one battle that can last from 30 minutes to an hour or more. If you’ve ever played a classic Fire Emblem game on the Game Boy Advance, that’s how the combat in Dark Deity feels like. Trust me, there are lots of male/female pairings in the game, and I think the developers definitely know this to be true. I’m sure many gamers will find the appeal of meeting, recruiting and building the relationships with waifus and husbandos to be an attractive one. Unlike in games like Sakura Wars or the Shin Megami Tensei Persona games, these relationships don’t do anything to improve your characters’ stats or performance in combat. There are apparently over 450 bond conversations in the game, but there’s not much to them besides having your characters stand close to each other in battle and watching a conversation between them unfold. These conversations progress the plot and narrative either between chapters or during the game’s Bond mechanic, where characters who battle in close proximity with each other will be able to build a relationship. ![]() The characters just utter phrases every now and then at certain times during combat and during conversations with each other. While the game boasts several prominent voice actors/actresses, Dark Deity doesn’t actually feature fully voiced dialogue. Each character is hand-drawn in an anime/manga-inspired style, but their pixel-art sprites on the battlefield can look less detailed and difficult to distinguish from each other. ![]() Still, they’re usually introduced very quickly and abruptly, so be prepared to juggle at least 10 or more characters a few hours or chapters into the game. In the land/world of Terrazael, King Varic of the Kingdom of Delia expedites the graduation of all students at the Brookstead Military Academy to recruit them for his war against the Aramorans.ĭark Deity features 30 playable characters in total, though you’ll gradually meet and recruit them over the course of the game’s 28 chapters. The story in Dark Deity is standard fantasy fare for those already familiar with the genre. Is it worthy of carrying the torch of those classic games? Well, Dark Deity can be great at times but it’s bogged by issues and clunkiness at launch. Newer games tend to gravitate towards a 3D model, but Sword & Axe has opted to go back to the past for Dark Deity. Following in that trend is the debut game of indie developer Sword & Axe titled Dark Deity, which received a surprise launch during E3 2021.įans of the classic Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem games, as well as games like Tactics Ogre and Jeanne d’Arc, will love that the same retro turn-based tactical strategy combat is back in 2D form just like the good old days. The turn-based tactical strategy genre has been getting in its own renaissance of sorts in recent times, with popular games from the new XCOM titles and Switch exclusives like Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle or Fire Emblem Three Houses to indies like Into The Breach and more.
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