![]() ![]() That said, the characters themselves are well-constructed. The Groundhog Day cycle and various other twists are obvious from the very first hint dropped, and the cutscenes are so short that the game seems to move a mile a minute, despite taking place over 25 days total - the pacing is off, to be sure. On the flip side, the game’s narrative is thin. When things go wrong, you can see precisely why, and thanks to the handy speedup function, it doesn’t take long until you’re trying again with a more refined angle. All in all, GrimGrimoire is a brilliant example of a well-tuned combat system that evokes creativity and forces experimentation. Upgrades are bought with coins, which are limited by your progress in the game, but you’re afforded unlimited repsecs, which encourages being flexible with your strategies and fine-tuning your upgrade choices to each individual level. This is accentuated by the remaster’s addition of skill trees, which allow you to focus on which units or general unit types you want to upgrade. ![]() There’s something incredibly satisfying about being confronted with a large group of enemy units and being able to pull off a devastating counterattack. You begin to refine your strategies and get quicker at responding on the fly to new developments. This forces you to develop novel, practical strategies that don’t rely on brute force, instead making you think about the strengths and weaknesses of the units you have at your disposal.Įventually, it clicks. The enemy will start to employ sleep-inducing grimalkin, which take your dragons out of the equation entirely and make them sitting ducks, or homunculi, whose area-of-effect attacks will wreak havoc on your clustered hordes. With upgrades, units can take on multiple roles, such as healing or becoming a tactical nuke, but these upgrades are costly and temporary, which adds another layer of strategy to the proceedings. Some units are responsible for gathering mana, your principal resource, some are bruisers, and some are utilitarian support monsters. These units have general and specific strengths and weaknesses, and it’s from them that strategy in GrimGrimoire is born. Your units? Classic fantasy monsters you gradually unlock through the story. Gameplay consists of real-time strategy combat on vertical planes. What ensues is an intriguing adventure that has Lillet solving mysteries and endeavoring not only to take down the great evil but to do so without letting a single one of her friends or teachers die in the process. After her first few days, where she learns the ins and outs of summoning creatures and using them in battles, she’s confronted with a dark conspiracy and thrown into a Groundhog Day-style time loop. It follows Lillet Blan, named after a French wine, a new student at the wizarding school Tower of Silver Star. ![]() GrimGrimoire OnceMore is a remaster of VanillaWare’s GrimGrimoire, which released all the way back in 2007 for the PS2. ![]()
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