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masterpug53 posted...

I have Tactics Ogre: LUCT on PSP and tried playing it once; I enjoyed it at first, but it quickly ramped up into being FFT: Trollolol Edition. Every other battle is an escort mission that puts Riovanes Rooftops to shame in how badly the odds are stacked against you, and how suicidal the AI is on the escort. I waited forever for the game to make available a basic revive spell, and it costs over 100 frickin' MP. The difficulty curve ramped up so fast that my toughest characters were only doing single-digit damage to enemies, and my only option for leveling was random encounters with a swarm of undead warriors that I literally could not kill fast enough before they regenerated (because unlike FFT, it's a 100% certainty that undead will revive after three rounds, not just a chance).

I'm not exactly new to how SRPGs work, so either there was some fundamental aspect of the game that eluded me, or the people who claim that LUCT is the GOAT are so far above my head skill-wise that I shouldn't even bother trying to reach their level.

Those escort missions are challenges, you don't need to actually save the escorted person, the game doesn't end if they die but the story changes. You can save them in the NG+ equivalent later on. There's also items and spells that kill undead forever, the character that has that spell by default is introduced the same mission undead first appear.

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