Unicorn Overlord is a great and gorgeous tactical role-playing game with a bad story that's not quite bad enough to sink the whole package.
, a recombinant sci-fi visual novel / tower defense game whose reputation for twists precedes it.’s name is as mysterious as it is ridiculous: whose unicorn? Overlord what? It’s hard to tell at first glance if this game is going to be a sendup of established tropes, or-y comfort food nestled within them. It could be anything. As it turns out, it’s trying to be everything., I was surprised to find that the maximalism its opening hours express is—mostly—carried through to the end.
All of the classes have a design for the named character as well as a generic, who you can hire as a mercenary at a fort. The characters all have the Vanillaware style, and despite some… choices with respect to the female character design, blessedly this title mostly avoids the voyeurism of. The backgrounds are absolutely beautiful, as are the in-battle cutaways, which act out the cut-and-dry action commands thrillingly.
But how does all this feel to play? In a word, fantastic. I played through mostly on Tactical difficulty, which is a step up from Normal, and I’d jump back in to try a run of Expert. Any character can be strong, and any skill combination that plays to a class’s strengths at all feels special. Every time I found a broken combo, the game opened up before me and I felt like a genius.
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