Project Octopath Traveler was one of the first games shown for the Nintendo Switch. While it did eventually go to PC, it remains one of Nintendo’s bigger console exclusives. Now that team at Square Enix is back with the same strategy in a new 2D game in They can do some decent melee damage, but the Ranger and Templar do significantly more. They're like a jack of all trades but master of none in a game where the classes are all specialists in a different fi Of course, it would be impossible to ta...

Unfortunately, the biggest and most heartbreaking problem with XCOM 2 is from the technical side of things. For one, after almost every turn concludes and there are aliens on screen, the game will stall for upwards of a minute until finally giving you back control of the squad of characters. It could very well be unidentified aliens moving around in the background, but considering you don’t know how many there are, it will test your patience to an unfortunate degree. This combined with load time...

XCOM 2 is not a game for those who think about what’s going on in a single instance. Everyone will need to think three turns ahead in every aspect of the campaign, and even then, it’s mostly about luck, creating an incredibly random experience in the process. Even from the beginning, players believing they’ll be able to keep everyone alive will run into a harsh reality check, whether they’re on the easiest or hardest difficulty settings. It’s not primarily the combat that can be difficult though...

While that penalty sounds extreme, it can be countered in a variety of ways. The best way is to flank the target, which will allow you to ignore their cover bonus and gain additional critical hit chance. Since Rangers have some of the strongest guns in the game, critically hitting with a high-powered shotgun not once but twice will kill almost any foe in the g The worst thing for any RPG is for its combat to grow mundane, bland, or repetitive. As a tactical RPG, Triangle Strategy has the opportu...

Few games can get as intense as an ironman run of XCOM . This turn-based strategy game is all about fighting aliens with personalized soldiers in strategic combat. Unique classes exist that grant unique abilities to even the o Aside from the main Command and Conquer series, it's perhaps Red Alert that amped up the gaming community's love for RTS to 11. Unlike the rather sci-fi approach of C&C , Red Alert focuses more on its alternate history take of Tesla-powered Soviet Union against the hardene...