Langrisser III

Overall I liked it but I wouldnt play it again unless I waited at least 5 years.

It's not bad. It has a cool thing where you actually control your little guys in fights as opposed to them just happening like in 1 and 2. but you can turn off that game mechanic completely and make the fights like 1&2 by setting combat animations off. Unlike 1 and 2, you don't control your recruited units and they just stick to the leader. You can change what shape they have in formation around you but that's it. You can also revive them during a battle by healing your leader, so you have more resources and last longer. Healing yourself by selecting rest/treat/whatever is still there, but it doesnt restore mp. The only way to restore mp is with the mp drain spell. Anyways like I said you can revive your little units which makes you more sturdy. This also makes it so the map design throws way more enemies and reinforcements at you. The enemy can also revive their units(not leaders) so it takes longer to kill enemies. Also since units are tied to leaders you will always kill them before the leader, so it's harder to be underleveled how in 1&2 you could miss exp.

The story is definitely the best in Langrisser so far, but I was still disappointed...it's a good story but I just expected stronger character beats. I think langrisser is really good at villains who aren't evil theyre just against you for understandable motives. But the motives the characters had to start a war were rather weak and lacking in urgency. The character design of 3 is imo the weakest. No one stood out to me except Varna.

Things I liked:

• Higher tiers of same unit are not inherently better than the lower ones, just have different stat distribution.
• Class changing is available at all times, so you're not locked into what you choose on promotion.
• What the story tried to go for.
• The equipment setup.

• The dating sim aspect being so obtuse that its insanely easy to fuck yourself out of the true ending.
• Same couple of tracks for every map.
• Character themes only play in combat which if youre like me you'll have animations off.
• How long maps get.