Why let a perfectly good 2D HD pixel art engine go to waste, they must have thought at Square Enix a few years after the release of the first Octopath Traveler. While I haven’t played the Octopath games (yet), I have to admit that the beautiful retro-esque vibe with modern touches sprinkled upon looked very appealing—and very applicable to the Strategy RPG genre—indeed. The deceptive Final Fantasy Tactics vibe eventually swayed me to dive in head first without the free demo, a classic m...| Nintendo Switch on Jefklak's Codex
Floppy Knights: Play Your Floppies (And Cards) Right. When I read Rock Paper Shotgun’s Floppy Knights verdict (a joyful card game that offers more the longer you play), I was immediately sold: a card game (check), a turn-based strategy (check), and something with old-skool floppies? (double-check) The question is: will my brain happily accept this floppy, or will it produce a sector error? Via Jefklak's Codex| jefklakscodex.com
Mario + Rabbids: XCOM Battle For Newbies?. For both Mario and Rabbids fans, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle seems like an impossible combination that should never have happened. For XCOM fans, having the Mario universe join in on the turn-based tactical action seems just as ludicrous. Yet Ubisoft somehow managed to wrap strong enough tape around these seemingly disconnected formulas: the result is a solid strategy game with the expected funky rabbid goofs that has been played by over 7.5 mill...| jefklakscodex.com
Tactics Ogre: A Reborn SNES Masterpiece. What if you take an obscure 1995 SNES strategy RPG, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together originally developed by Quest, and remaster it for the PSP? In 2010, that sounded like a good idea, and it was fairly well-received. In fact, that release, together with the remaster of a more well-known Japanese SRPG called Final Fantasy Tactics, was the sole reason why I bought a PSP Slim in the first place. The PSP version of Let Us Cling Together completely over...| jefklakscodex.com