Ogre Battle

After playing through this amazing real-time tactics RPG, the only question I hadn’t answered was… were we the baddies all the time?

It’s a tale of love, loss, betrayal, alliances, war, peace, redemption, and a young knight’s journey to discover his place in the world.

For Christmas, I got two more entries in the Tactics Ogre/Ogre Battle series… one I have played before, and the other is going to need some work to be able to play… and understand.

It was supposed to just be a battle. It turned into a gauntlet.

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Jusssst about 51 hours, though I went back in later and finished some side quests. Is this worth picking up for your Nintendo 64? Almost every review, maybe EVERY review, of recent tactical battler Symphony of War, mentioned that it was carrying a torch first lit many, many years ago by the Ogre Battle series, and seen seldom since. Tactics battlers aren’t rare at all, but those where you build an army comprised of many separate squads which you can direct but battle on their own, are rare. ...

Each of these probably should get their own posts, but I am exceedingly lazy. Commander Rhade is finally dead for good this time. Starting off with Ogre Battle – about halfway through at about 25 hours in. The plot has a lot of twists and turns. Modern RPGs could learn a lot by looking at these old classics, and I really regret not playing this game back in the day. ...

Now that I’ve gotten the game so that it works and looks decent, it’s time to ask the big question: How do I get Deneb in my battalion? Deneb Hey, that screenshot isn’t from Ogre Battle 64! It’s from Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen for the Super Nintendo, and as far as I know, it’s the only other real time strategy game in the Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre family. ...

I went through a lot of trouble to be able to play Ogre Battle 64 on the original hardware with today’s high resolution, digital monitors. Was it worth it? Intro from original hardware Most older consoles were designed around the old cathode ray tube televisions – one to three electron beams use electromagnets to shine on variously colored phosphors. The whole thing was high voltage and prone to interference from anything else going on electrically in the area. ...

It’s a tactical RPG where you control an army on the battlefield made of several squads. It’s a callout to one of the most unusual tactics battlers of all time – Ogre Battle. In Symphony of War, as with Ogre Battle, you form squads of units and take them across a map, seizing towns and castles until finally meeting with the boss of the level. Each encounter takes you to a separate screen where the fight progresses. ...