A Nearly BRILLIANT Game But... | Unicorn Overlord Review

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[@Mclucasrv]

Until today I did not finish the game because of how bored I got to the story and I dont need to be 13 sentinels level its not the same writter or director but their other games had enjoyable stories or at least thought provoking enough to get you to the ending and feel satisfied.

[@JeromeTelos]

EXACTLY!

[@ShirtlessCouch]

In fire emblem, Characters mattered... not all of them were of the utmost importance but it felt like they were real people with motivation towards the state of the world... it is a real shame this game tries to be fire emblem but with Real time strategy (which is a really cool idea) but seemingly failing at realizing why fire emblem was good... the strategy... the characters... Unicorn looks fun to an extent and i will play it now... but at the start of your review i was hopeful, then you explained some of the mechanics and i got slightly dissapointed... thanks for enlightening us you did a great job.

[@JeromeTelos]

It's my honor to get hopes up onto something only to tell you my supporting facts on why things are ass lmao

[@ShirtlessCouch]

@@JeromeTelos Still interested but now i know not to be impressed.

[@JeromeTelos]

@@ShirtlessCouch Nah you can still be impressed if it does do that to you, don't let my thoughts effect you that much.

[@ShirtlessCouch]

@@JeromeTelos well i'm a mechanic individual... if the mechanics don't grasp me then i usually drop a game. so you saying that most of the mechanics are highly exploitable, makes me know i will most likely still be interested but again, not impressed.

[@GravityRavenYT]

Not gonna lie, I couldn't get into the game because I didn't liked that the combat was automatic, I prefer having full controll at all times of what my characters do, rather than just watching them doing random moves from time to time. But even though I didn't played it fully, I do agree with your sentiment of having so many characters, and all of them being completely and utterly irrelevant to the plot besides the few "main" characters, might as well be a bunch of generic units if they are that unimportant. I really hate when devs put bonding systems on their game, only to be irrelevant to the overal plot, like, why? make it change the narrative damn it, this is literally the strenght of videogames, this is literally how TRUE storytelling should be for the medium, it should actually matters, not be just a pretty feature that just exist for stats reasons. Anyways, I don't think this game is "underrated" or anything, with my short time playing it, it feels like it's current "popularity" it just right, I don't think it's even Vanilla's finest or anything, I still prefer a game like Oboro Muramasa at the end of the day.

[@JeromeTelos]

FUCKIN 10 YEARS AND THIS IS WHAT I GET. Its so upsetting but yea underrated my ass. its current popularity is absolutely where it should be

[@KooriGraywolf]

Many of your concerns actually get addressed if you play the game more. For the combat, it seems quite automatic and random at the beginning, but if you go and edit your characters skills, you can set the skill priorities and the conditions required to trigger those skills. The true strategy of the game lies here. Once you start to edit the characters' tactics, the strategy becomes 10 times as free, creative, and complex as any Fire Emblem. You can have your characters focus on the enemies with least HP, you can have archers and gryphons focus on casters on the backline, you can have magicians focus on enemies with the least magic defense, you can have characters NOT attack frozen enemies as to not unfreeze them, unless there is no other target... you can make incredibly customized strategies. And for the bonding system, you will notice that there's a couple of interlocked rings in the logo. The support system and especially the marriage system are PIVOTAL to the plot, it's just not really brought up until the second half of the game. Without spoiling too much, you can't really get the true ending of the game without having chosen your special partner, and this special partner has unique cutscenes with the protagonist in the final battle and the ending. More than any Fire Emblem can boast as far as I can remember. Even ALL of the proposal cutscenes are fully voice acted. With each single character. That's a lot of work put into it. To be fair it also took me quite a few battles at he beginning of the game to get truly hooked by the game. But in the end it did. More than any Fire Emblem did. I will admit though... the story wasn't as interesting, but it does take a few cool twists at the end.

[@treyfolkmen7942]

Just git gud, use mock battle and fine tune your squads to do exactly what you want

[@KrzyUnit]

I initially detested the game's combat mechanic but stayed for the story only to do a 180 and loved the team building aspect of it while the story got a bit generic. The story was still passable and not offensive but it wasn't that memorable. I loved the logic-based strategy regarding team but once I got a team going you rarely need to build more than that other than to try them out for different strat or wanting their rapport up. It was definitely a surprise game for me and it scratched my FFT itch for the time being in terms of tactics-based jrpg. Fire Emblem just got stale so a change of pace in gaming approach was nice, art was gorgeous, sound design was excellent and choices of waifus were top tier.

[@VictoriaDeMinico]

Strong disagree. This is an A+ game, without a doubt.

[@KooriGraywolf]

From the comments I expected this to be a hater video, but I agree the story was the weakest aspect of the game. With character interactions, I think it's not fair to compare the character participacions and interactions in a game with 13 characters vs one with 60+. It's hard to make a storyline where everyone matters and everything makes sense. Even in a Fire Emblem. Still, the gameplay of the game puts it solidly as my favorite strategy RPG. For me, the story serves more as a pillar to support the brilliant gameplay, and that's enough. Also the 10 years of development was not continuous development. It was because they were going back and forth with other projects

[@JeromeTelos]

Nah I can't be just a hater to just hate man lmao I gotta have my supporting facts for all my arguments. But as I said I'm not asking for everyone to get a spotlight for story participation. Some legit just don't matter but it would have made things more interesting for the world if only a handful of characters could have added their own two cents in a scenario than the main characters. From the court mage to even the half-elf girl that Chloe just decides to be best friends with.