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Live by the Sword: Tactics (Nintendo Switch Digital Download)

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Nintendo eShop has Live by the Sword: Tactics (Nintendo Switch Digital Download) for $4.99.

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About this game:
  • Genre: Strategy
  • Live By The Sword: Tactics is an unashamedly old school tactical RPG with modern gameplay ideas. Set after the fall of the land, you control two brothers who must traverse the kingdom to stop it from falling back into the darkness of conflict. Single Player and Multiplayer game modes available.

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    • Sale ends: 2/6/2023 at 11:59 PM PT.
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    • Rating of 83% at Steam
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Nintendo eShopDetails:
  • Genre: Strategy
  • Live By The Sword: Tactics is an unashamedly old school tactical RPG with modern gameplay ideas. Set after the fall of the land, you control two brothers who must traverse the kingdom to stop it from falling back into the darkness of conflict. Single Player and Multiplayer game modes available.
  • Steam Reviews [steampowered.com]
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Kinda off topic but I recently bought ogre tactics reborn and I'm shocked I'm just now discovering that game after years of playing FFT as a kid in the late 90s.
Tactics games are my favorite genre.

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LeoDudepal
01-29-2023 at 09:48 PM.
01-29-2023 at 09:48 PM.
Sounds like an interesting spin on FFT
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redblues423
01-30-2023 at 06:21 AM.
01-30-2023 at 06:21 AM.
Very interesting, bootleg tactics for 5d. I'm in!
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calibanPK
01-30-2023 at 06:33 AM.
01-30-2023 at 06:33 AM.
Kinda off topic but I recently bought ogre tactics reborn and I'm shocked I'm just now discovering that game after years of playing FFT as a kid in the late 90s.
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Bdubz57
01-30-2023 at 07:45 AM.
01-30-2023 at 07:45 AM.
Quote from calibanPK :
Kinda off topic but I recently bought ogre tactics reborn and I'm shocked I'm just now discovering that game after years of playing FFT as a kid in the late 90s.
same here. amazing game
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cvesper
01-30-2023 at 08:15 AM.
01-30-2023 at 08:15 AM.
Quote from calibanPK :
Kinda off topic but I recently bought ogre tactics reborn and I'm shocked I'm just now discovering that game after years of playing FFT as a kid in the late 90s.
I bought it out of nostalgia. What a great game! It was FFT before FFT Smilie
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caveman01
01-30-2023 at 11:42 AM.
01-30-2023 at 11:42 AM.
Lowest price on Switch digital. Steam has had it recently for $2.99 if anyone wanna wait for another sale.

Only unknown is the length of this game. Anyone?
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closecall81
01-30-2023 at 03:25 PM.
01-30-2023 at 03:25 PM.
Quote from calibanPK :
Kinda off topic but I recently bought ogre tactics reborn and I'm shocked I'm just now discovering that game after years of playing FFT as a kid in the late 90s.

Ogre battle games are my all time favorites not tactics though
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YodaWise
01-30-2023 at 07:16 PM.
01-30-2023 at 07:16 PM.
i wanna get this , but im like, why when im just starting FE and didnt even touch Mario Rabbids
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LordKel
01-30-2023 at 08:02 PM.
01-30-2023 at 08:02 PM.
Quote from calibanPK :
Kinda off topic but I recently bought ogre tactics reborn and I'm shocked I'm just now discovering that game after years of playing FFT as a kid in the late 90s.

Yeah, considering that Tactics Ogre was originally on the Super Famicom and predated FFT, it would not be all that surprising as Enix was always better than square.
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Meowmixes98
01-30-2023 at 08:21 PM.
01-30-2023 at 08:21 PM.
Tactics games are my favorite genre.
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AdmiralAsshat
01-31-2023 at 05:36 AM.
01-31-2023 at 05:36 AM.
Quote from calibanPK :
Kinda off topic but I recently bought ogre tactics reborn and I'm shocked I'm just now discovering that game after years of playing FFT as a kid in the late 90s.
It didn't reach the US until an early PS1 localization by Atlus that was incredibly hard to find. Then it got a PSP port like ten years later.
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Yeah, considering that Tactics Ogre was originally on the Super Famicom and predated FFT, it would not be all that surprising as Enix was always better than square.
Both games were made by the same dude. And he was never part of Enix, to my knowledge. Quest was the company that made the Ogre Battle games until they got absorbed into Square.
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fishy.exe
01-31-2023 at 08:15 AM.
01-31-2023 at 08:15 AM.
Quote from LordKel :
Yeah, considering that Tactics Ogre was originally on the Super Famicom and predated FFT, it would not be all that surprising as Enix was always better than square.
Play Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis for GBA. Fantastic RPG, last one Quest made prior to Square buying them.

Also, I agree that Enix was better than Square at making RPG's but Square hit a home run with FF7 that got Final Fantasy to become a household name in the west, while the arguably better Dragon Quest series received little attention because it's dated looking visuals.
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01-31-2023 at 09:56 AM.
01-31-2023 at 09:56 AM.
Quote from fishy.exe :
Play Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis for GBA. Fantastic RPG, last one Quest made prior to Square buying them.

Also, I agree that Enix was better than Square at making RPG's but Square hit a home run with FF7 that got Final Fantasy to become a household name in the west, while the arguably better Dragon Quest series received little attention because it's dated looking visuals.
My preferences actually run counter to that. I find myself preferring the pixel art and charm of the 2D era of jRPGs, as well as the more medieval fantasy theme rather than the more sci-fi heavy style that modern Final Fantasy has become. I kind of lost interest with Final Fantasy beginning with 7, despite it's acclaim. I realize that is probably going to be unpopular with some but that's just the reality. To me Final Fantasy VI (III in the US) was the pinnacle. The more modern Final Fantasy and it's aesthetic just doesn't really appeal to me, whereas I could find myself still getting into modern Dragon Quest. Not that I have time for too many big jRPGs these days. Too many games, not enough time lol.
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