Adding on magical debuffs can create some nasty synergy that can make some fights end very quickly in your favor. This can make interesting situations in which enemies can be crushed by trees, or pushed into several other enemies, creating a domino effect of damage and stunning. Many abilities in Fort Triumph allows your character to push other characters, or even objects, over. Where Fort Triumph is really interesting, is its implementation of physics-based reactions to certain abilities and attacks. You have a hit percentage when taking aim, and there is a decent mixture of ranged and melee abilities, though Fort Triumph seems to favor ranged attacks over melee in a lot of encounters. There are several different types of cover-low cover, high cover, and even different fortifications of cover. I keep saying it, but if you’ve played X-COM, you’ll feel right at home with Fort Triumph. The turn-based combat in Fort Triumph is what you’ll be spending most of your time doing, and it’s pretty great. Add in world exploration and base-building, and Fort Triumph manages to pull away from the turn-based tactics genre, even before you add on its fantasy and role-playing elements. But what Fort Triumph is serious about is its gameplay, which is what you would expect from turn-based tactics game-with a few interesting physics-based twists. Its story is told this way throughout the campaign mode. Its world is inhabited by whimsical bloodthirsty characters, and a mixture of dark and silly humor. The first thing you’ll notice is that Fort Triumph doesn’t take itself seriously. It turns out that X-COM sensibilities and fantasy are a pretty great combination. That includes Fort Triumph, a fantasy turn-based tactics game with an exploration mechanic that is reminiscent to Heroes of Might and Magic.
This isn’t a bad thing-tactics and strategy games can be extremely rewarding, and I’m gracious to be able to review some good ones. There’s a new, excellent X-COM out, and I’m working my way through another title under embargo that utilizes turn-based combat.
It may not be anything special, especially among those who adore X-Com and more in-depth 4X games, but for me, someone who loves the idea of them, but finds them too complex… Well this is just perfect.I feel like I’ve been playing a lot of turn-based tactics and strategy games lately. One that is challenging, sure, but ultimately rewarding. It makes for a very enjoyable experience. I was able to get a feel for the game within my first few battles and then I could concentrate on strategy and tactics, rather than trying to still fight new systems and controls. Honestly nothing outlandish here and Fort Triumph benefits from it. You get you usual unit classes, action points, rules, etc and you’ll need to out fox your opponents to win and progress.
It is the same with these types of turn-based action strategy games. Like if a racing game stops using triggers for accelerate and brake, or an FPS isn’t using the standard control scheme. The X-Com portion of the game is something that I find is difficult to really change up, whilst it hasn’t been perfected as such, when a game tries to do something wildly different it just feels off. I do understand though that others may feel different. So the ability to get enjoyment from the campaign and then enjoy skirmishes against bots is ideal. I dread needing to play these games online, as I know I will lose every single time. The game is very single player focussed, something I have seen some complaints about online, but as someone who struggles with this genre at the best of times, it is a welcome thing. I don’t usually find myself able to connect with fantasy world settings, but Cookiebyte Entertainment have done wonderfully well in building a world that managed to draw me in. The HoMM stuff is pretty decent and I enjoyed the exploration that comes from it. Something other games in the genre seem to fight against. It all works within the game’s own rules and is designed to keep you moving forward to get enjoyment from the experience. I would say there are some light 4X elements in this, which at first had me concerned, but to my surprise, it is very manageable. You get he turn-based battles of X-Com whilst Heroes covers a lot of the rest of the game. Thankfully I found Fort Triumph which really scratches that itch.įort Triumph is a game heavily inspired by both X-Com and Heroes or Might & Magic, something the developers happily mention on their own descriptions of the game. I enjoy the X-Com style game without the X-Com difficulty. One game that does tempt me though is Mario & Rabbids. With all the issues around Ubisoft I am happy to boycott them.
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