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#80. Into The Breach (2018, PC)
A Tactical RPG appears! This game very much scratched the ol' Fire Emblem bug I had been craving when it came out, because the new Fire Emblem games are not quite my speed, but I'm pretty sure the core gameplay still is. Into The Breach is basically condensed and semi-procedurally generated Fire Emblem with customizable mechs. You pick your team, which has their own base stuff they start with, and go into maps where you have to stop the enemy monsters from attacking the cities, power plants, trains, and your own mechs themselves.There's 4 islands with several missions each, where you stop these monsters. The cities and buildings have an overall life meter that once that's depleted, you lose. Like Fire emblem, you lose a mech, you lose the pilot associated with it (I think you keep the mech and you can slot another pilot into it, but they may not be as leveled or have the ability you want). There's a ton of customization around the pilots, the mech's abilities and stats (you put points into what you want basically), and a shop where you can buy more stuff or points (you get the "currency" by achieving specific goals on each mission, like protecting a specific building or killing a certain enemy). Each run does not last that long too so you can play a little more aggressively which is neat. If you complete 4 areas on 4 islands, including the boss on each, you win! Generally you don't have to beat all the baddies, you just need to survive 5 or so turns. There'sother neat tactics you can take too like standing on spots where the enemies will spawn, so they don't (but you take some damage), or pushing enemies into water so they circuit out, or knocking them out of the path of attacking a building and into the path of attacking another enemy (you are told the order in which they will attack, so that is quite relevant)!

Anyway this is just a neat spin on Fire Emblem with a lot of different strategy, customization, a bevy of troops to start with and an all-around addicting game! No story here, but that's ok, it's a bit too short per run to have one. This is another game I bet I could have higher on a good day.
Oh, and from the makers of FTL, a game not on my Top 100, but still a quality game.



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