In my last review, I stated that Medieval Battlefields was fun, but that it was not recommended for those players who want a turn-based strategy game with shiny graphics that doesn’t remind you of an iPod/iPad game. Well, in this review, I give those gamers just that game; Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes.
Grotesque Tactics Features
Grotesque Tactics is, just like Medieval Battlefields, a turn-based strategy game, that also uses a grid system, but the way it plays feels completely different from most turn-based strategy titles out there. Instead of clicking which square a character should move on, you can use the WSAD or arrow keys to move that character into any highlighted square (clicking is also allowed), essentially making the lighted grids actually feel like your movement range, while you character walks normally, like in any other action game, instead of walking like a robot to a specific grid.
What sets this game apart from most other strategy titles isn’t the gameplay at all though, but it’s personality. Very few games are as tongue-in-cheek as Grotesque Tactics. The entire game is a parody of Japanese RPGs, even the ones that aren’t turn-based. This is most obvious in a character whose name, literally, is Holy Avatar. It doesn’t end there though, the game has you assembling a team of all sorts of misfits, and even a Holy Avatar’s groupies, which consists of a bunch of scantly clad maidens that must be rescued to be recruited into your party. To complete this rag-tag group of heroes is Drake, the hero who suffers from depression, the chronic kind. In fact, the game opens with Drake attempting to commit suicide via death by giant mushroom. These types of moments are common in Grotesque Tactics and definitely give the game a unique personality that makes it fun to play.
