Live by the Sword: Tactics is a rather mediocre game that doesn’t offer much that hasn’t been done better in other titles of the genre. While not straight-up bad, it is only worth purchasing as an entry point to the genre if anything.
Live by the Sword: Tactics
Labrador Studios · Oct 28, 2022
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Live By The Sword: Tactics is an unashamedly old school tactical RPG with modern gameplay ideas. Set after the fall of the land, you control two brothers who must traverse the kingdom to stop it from falling back into the darkness of conflict. Single Player and Multiplayer game modes available.
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- 8.0Live by the Sword: Tactics will be a great experience for gamers who fell in love with the role-playing tactics titles of their youth and are susceptible to the draw of nostalgia. The story mode has solid battles, although the narrative does not impress. Adventure mode puts an interesting new spin on the core mechanics.
- Offers a lot of options which are much appreciated, but with the gameplay and story being weak, it’s a hard game to really engage with. Taking leveling up and growing your characters out of a tactical RPG is an interesting idea, and might work if the core of the game were stronger, but as it is, it robs the game of any sort of progression and makes it all run together.
- 6.0It spends its resources in all the wrong places, focusing on game modes rather than developing the board pieces, abilities and game mechanics that would have made it sing. It needed a stronger core before it started adding fancy armor on top, and – while we had a good time reliving Final Fantasy Tactics glories – this really wasn’t a patch on the genre’s best.
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