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Demon slayer season ended. Battle was hype, story was meh but not awful.

I've played some of the triangle strategy demo and I like it a lot so far. I've only done the first battle which was surprisingly pretty tough on hard. I ended up losing all but the main guy and the butler guy and essentially had to just distract and stall with the prince. If they didn't give you hp pots to start, I for sure would have lost. Of course, I could have played the battle better, but after srw 30, it's nice to actually feel like I need to think during battle.

I enjoy the pursuit attack mechanic where an ally will do a free attack (that is pretty weak) if they are on the other side of the target. It's quite simple really but it breaks up the normal formations you'd use in one of these games. Particularly having a wedge shaped formation is very risky if your front guy isn't a beast cause he will get pursuit attacked by the guys that end up next to him. I think on harder fights it's going to be a mix of wall formations (everyone side by side) mixed a reverse wedge (so enemies get trapped in the middle) and then needing to calculate well when to break formation and start back attacking people. As it is, if you do that too soon, you open yourself up to being surrounded and pursuit and back attacked. That's basically what happened in the battle I did and why it went so poorly, but I wanted to rescue the prince.

I think the control scheme in battle is pretty great. I know it's a small thing but part of what makes fire emblem good is how quick you can take a units turn. It starts on the move option already selected and transitions straight to attack option when you are in range after movements. This game works the same way but even one less option because they made take no action a separate button. That means you need minimal button presses per action and the pace of battles feels good.

The story setup is better than I expected. It's doing the romance of the three kingdoms strategy where it brings everyone together in a way they can show off combat prowess as allies (the yellow turban rebellion and battle of hu lao gate) before having them return home and become enemies you eventually fight. Here it takes the place of a tournament but it accomplishes the same narrative goal.

The characters have also been more interesting than I expected. I was thinking it'd be really anime shallow characters but dragan getting drunk and rambling and roland and his brother were handled pretty well. The half siblings are pretty shallow anime villain level but it's fine.

There is a lot more story than I expected. I assume it's mostly in the set up but theres a lot of scenes and so far only 1 battle. No idea if there will be any grinding chances with random battles in the full game but I hope so.