![]() ![]() These battles are not only a good place to grind out some levels or earn some extra money, but each battle contains a secret with… well, I will let you figure that out for yourself. Thankfully, the game adds a little extra in terms of optional battles that you can undertake. If you just rush through the main story battles, I would say that Absolute Tactics is not all that long of a game. I would simply like it to be mostly my fault I didn’t get the bonus reward for the fight due to poor strategy, and not because it feels like the guards have a death wish. Well, when all they do is rush towards the closest enemy, they can die fairly easily if you don’t know about that. This wouldn’t be a big issue if it wasn’t for the fact that the game gives you a bonus reward for having a good number of the guards alive at the end. The game provides you with town guards from Corliss, the main town half of the party are part of, but you are not able to command these units at all. While I did enjoy the large scale battles I did have an issue with these battles. Instead, these battles take place on an open battlefield where your tactics will be put to the test as there is nowhere for you to hide from the enemy. ![]() Well, at various points in the story you will engage in a war battle over a standard multi-level, dipping through town streets or foliage battle. I mentioned previously that there were massive swarms of enemies against you. Giving multiple attack and healing options on the battlefield added to the varying tactics my team could use. These books grant skills and stat bonuses to each character, giving the player an extra level of tactics that I rather enjoyed playing around with. You are only a motley crew of six at most after all.Īdd onto this the fact that you can edit your team’s gear between missions, giving them weapons with special effects, my personal favorite being poison to help with some of the more tanky enemies, but you can also swap out class books, of which each character can have two. You move characters along on a grid and attack enemy units, using position and various skills to get to the upper hand against the cast swarms of enemies that you will be put up against. ![]() Absolute Tactics plays similar to most grid-based tactics games. The game play is what makes Absolute tactics shine the most. It feels fantasy generic and there is nothing wrong with that, just doesn’t help the game stand out. Now, I love a good fantasy revenge story, but I will say that the plot line, aside from some really fun character banter from this merry band of misfits, is not the game’s strongest point. Aside from a voice in his head, throughout the game you gather up a party of six different characters that all have varying skill sets and motivations for joining, be it to protect Huxley and their town to trying to get revenge on Father Eldritch and his daughters for destroying their various towns. ![]() Thankfully, Huxley is not left alone, and for good reason. He has always had this ‘great adventurer’ thing going on according to some of the other main cast, which makes him young and reckless in the face of a great threat that Father Eldritch and his daughters bring to the realm. The story of Absolute Tactics follows Huxley, a wouldbe adventurer that sees the invasion of his hometown as his duty to stop. With that out of the way, let’s dive into the review. The team over at Akupara Games has informed me that this patch will drop sometime in October for the Nintendo Switch version. While this game has received a patch on PC to fix numerous bugs and other issues, it has not received an update on the Switch version yet. Quick disclaimer before we get started: at time of writing I am playing a pre-patched version of the title. So, why don’t you join me as we review Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy and see if it can shine through in this growing genre. But just because it looks good, doesn’t mean it plays well or is well designed, of course. It look like a more gritty take on the genre for sure. So, I was rather excited when I saw Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy announced. I am quite a big fan of the genre and always keep an ear to the ground for releases here. With the growth in the Tactics RPG genre over the past few years, many teams have taken their hand to put their own footprint down. Introducing: Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy Review ![]()
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