I downloaded it a few days ago. My first impression is good so far. I don’t like strategy games because of monke brain but with this one I’ve been having fun.
The battle system is novel as far as I know. At first I was a bit disappointed that you don’t get to control individual characters but I’ve grown to like the system since then. I am playing on “tactical” difficulty and I retried the first battle three times to get it “right”.
It has the usual JRPG (a little bit nauseating) pro-monarchy premise which TBH I don’t mind in fantasy settings, but it feels tired and uncreative. But I have been able to look past that because the rest of the game is fine. The animations look really nice without needing much sophistication. The English voice acting was a bit cringe so I switched to the Japanese one.
I don’t know if the game will be able to grab me till the end (unlikely because of commitment issues) but it is a nice surprise to be sure.
The gameplay of Tactics Ogre isn’t similar to Ogre Battle even though they’re in the same franchise. The former is like Final Fantasy Tactics and Triangle Strategy while the latter is like Unicorn Overlord.
If you think these games have terrible names then I’d agree