Ogre battle, March of the black Queen
First I want to say that this game is amazingly great. It has such a unique and good battle gameplay. And the different ways the user can clear the game is a very nicely done. Also why this game is such an incredible hard game to have the real ending. You should play this game- and not read this as I will now spoil the narrative-
One of the most unique games to snes, a very strange strategy game.
Basically any normal person will always get the bad ending of the game. This game do actually have an tutorial. But still blatantly have no Usability what so ever.
The game have several game mechanics important to completing the game that is never explained.
First of the game we have to answer question to determine our personality.
Getting neutral 1 is funny to, is the suicidal samurai class for the main character, pretty nice first time playing the game, its instantly game over when the main character dies.
When taking over cities in the game the leader of the group affects the games “reputation” meter, Something that is never explained either really(ok partly but not well enough). And its the alignment of the leader that affects if the meter goes up and down.
First of there is never explained how alignment works. And that is one classic problem with the game. For example to upgrade a class to a paladin, we need a knight to be at 60+ alignment. But often every character will be at 0 alignment and then they can only become ninjas. Not even ninja master or evil ones because they are 10-20 alignment....Because a class called Evil One clearly is not pure evil.
To gain alignment the player needs to not kill good characters. This means we are not allowed to attack healers in the enemy team, just like in any other game, we would like to attack the healer first. We cant kill angels and other races that are viewed as good even if they try to kill us. And Its not OK to kill characters that are lower level neither.
Basically playing this game if you have not read a guide you will run around with 100 ninjas.
And this is only the ice berg of the game. That whole reputation meter, is vastly important to trigger story mode scenes. Which of course are all hidden. And the meter drops each time we lose a city in the game.
A normal play trough of ogre battle is to use a gryphon leader fly around and liberate all cities to get all power full tarot cards and then win the battle. Its supposed to be that we have to send a unit per city and defend it without ever losing a battle.
Of course the game have several hidden stages(which you will never find) the game also have hidden items, that are only find by walking around during the battles.
To get items in the game we have to run around aimlessly at places,. to get characters its often about flying to different towns 10 times.
This is the easiest character to unlock in the game.
this is how a normal play of this looks like roughly.(starts at 3.44)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta-UoPB3e2w&feature=related
There is of course also characters that shouldn't be allowed in to the army to make it more confusing.
To beat the game, the user has to constantly keep the repution meter at max, find all the secret hidden narrative parts(this is rideculles hard) find items, the user gets by just moving around at places. I mean really to get brunhilda which is a most to get the hidden stages the user has to run around on different islands. Etc there is no help in the game to know this. Keep playing hte gam the right way, always only kill leader and never good characters. And the main character cant be used. Never play with the main character, I mean it never use him/her(yeah one of the first game where user could pick gender).
And never, use the Tarot Cards that lowers reputiton,
At a good point is that the secret characters who is unlocked is a very very strong. So at least the last stages becomes very easy.
