これは掘り出しものでした。
部隊編成に時間を掛けて頑張った分だけ戦闘を有利に進められるのが気持ち良い。
世界観にマッチした音楽が想像力を掻き立てる。
SRPGが好きな人はグラフィックで判断せずにプレイしてほしい。
ストレージは１GBしか消費しないしコスパ最高。
おそらく低予算ながら、100時間以上遊べるゲームを作った開発元に敬意。

I wish I could rate this game as positive, but I have a lot of issues with it. I understand it's a work of passion, but still.
- The art style is so ugly to the point it's distracting
- The pacing is atrocious
- No explanation on many of the mechanics, I was left guessing on classes, their stats
- The UI is among the worst I've seen
- The maps are not that interesting

In brief: I think Symphony of War takes itself too seriously, tries to do too much at once, and has some major UI problems it needs to sort out. It's not a bad game, It's just that I only have an up-down option. I think there are better places for your time. As an additional disclosure, I played the game in Japanese, not English. I also played on Captain difficulty (normal).

Taking itself too seriously: Symphony of War wants to paint this epic narrative with kingdoms in conflict, religions in conflict, where legends walk amongst men. It's not that I don't think the game is well-paced. I think it's relatively well-paced. But I think it might be trying to do too much of this directly rather than letting it happen, if that makes sense. Several plot threads don't resolve neatly. At the beginning of the game, Zelos is "killed" but it's later revealed that he was the black knight guy I don't remember the pseudonym he was running under. But he just sorta saves you outta nowhere with really limited foreshadowing. The other thing I don't like is there really feels like a lack of consequence in the story. Characters come and go, characters die, but whenever someone important comes on screen they're either definitely going to die or definitely going to join my squad. This kept up until Chapter 29, we're in the dungeon and Kuroda, a character we've seen maybe 3 times, described as fierce assassin guy joins our team. There's only 30 Chapters in the game. Diana gets to save her son in the end even though the setup for that mission was completely whack. Bit of a narrative disconnect imo. I also find the dialogue pretty boring. I guess I'll have to contemplate on what I think "good writing" looks like but I don't find the writing here to be very good. It feels like it's so busy high on its own farts it forgets that it's supposed to entertain the reader.

Regarding doing too much at once... there are a lot of tweaks you can make to your army. Aside from the usual army builder "choose your composition" you also have traits and elements to keep track of. I just never really felt a great need for it though. Sometimes I would swap element so the stats would change enough to change class but other than that it really didn't seem to matter too too much. There are also special skill scrolls you can feed your units. But when you're managing an army of 100 units, each of which can have 2 skills added this way... that's a lot of scrolls. And that's if you can even FIND those scrolls. Until about Chapter 25 there's probably a good chance you're not quite at the point of the game where you have the resources to fine-tune your army the way you'd like to. Also, and it's possible I missed this but to my recollection: in the game that this game is aping (Ogre Battle) your units would actually have indicator on the formation screen of how many attacks they're getting. This game doesn't have that. It seems to be a little situational but then we run into the issue of information. Having a wiki you can look at any time in game isn't the solution developers seem to think it is. It's just inconvenient to interrupt my gameplay because rather than integrating the information into the game you decided the wiki will do. And that's just on the unit side. Then we get to terrain and time-of-day stuff. There's a lot here and it has potential I think. But it needs to streamline and figure out presentation. Which brings us to the last point.

The UI is an absolute mess to go through. Thank God I played with DS4 or this game could have been a nightmare to navigate with kbm. There's not a whole lot of visual clarity on the battle maps themselves. It's very easy to misinput because of the order of commands. Quick example: when you're on the Donar Shrine the first option is restore healing charges. The first option in almost all other cases when you select a unit is Move. Why would you switch up the order here? Terrain offers buffs to defense but you have to just know that, it's not like you're given a calc window like in Fire Emblem where you can see that. And it's also not communicated very well which terrains offer bonuses. The game appears to put a slightly different shade of blue on move but cmon my eyesight is poor. Then there's army formation UI and yet again we're into the damn windows on windows on windows problem.

Again, a lot of this game can be streamlined. If the developers make a sequel or another game like this, a PVP mode with base units you can play with would be pretty interesting.