Yuri strategy! Yuri! Strategy!

I have been waiting all my life for a game like this to come out, and for the most part, it did not disappoint.

The yuri: Oh, the lovely yuri! Scarlet and Lily are such a wonderful pairing. Scarlet is exquisitely unhinged, and as time goes on, you realize Lily has to be just as unhinged to keep up with her. They are both incredible mistresses of chaos, riding out the wave of mayhem washing across a nation on the brink (and tipping over the brink) of civil war. Taken purely as a story and ignoring the gameplay attached, I would rate it an 8/10; the twists aren't too hard to spot ahead of time and some elements of the main pairing's relationship are fairly simple and/or static for most of the game, but it successfully gets you invested in their journey regardless, and every character in the game has at least some depth to them.

(A note for the yuri purists, don't expect every relationship in the game to be yuri. There are a couple straight relationships and one m/m among the side characters. But the story is firmly centered on the main two female leads who are most certainly in love with each other.)

The strategy: It can take some getting used to, and the beginning is fairly slow and limited for what you can do. But as the game gets rolling and you acquire more strategic options, it becomes a lot more interesting. Weighing which supply routes to defend and which to abandon to the enemy in order to focus your forces, balancing unit composition to get strong matchups against tough enemies versus combos of characters that get unique perks when fighting together, and choosing the right time and place to use your powerful but limited-charge airship abilities all mesh together into, in my opinion, a quite engrossing gameplay experience. What's more, learning from failure is built into the gameplay loop. The autosave is frequent, so you never lose much progress and can easily go back a few turns to try a different approach, and there's a lot of fun dialogue in the game you'll only see when you hit game over in spectacular fashion. It's not going to be for everyone, but if you like this sort of strategy gameplay, you'll find this a quite enjoyable incarnation of it.

I can't claim that this game is perfect (no matter how I wish to). There are a few flaws that noticeably diminish the fun of, let's be honest, a 10/10 core concept. The most easily noticeable is the game's performance issues. It looks on the surface like it shouldn't be very hardware-intensive, but goodness, my computer chugged while running it. I'm not sure if it's poor optimization or if the voxel-style overworld decorations just use that much resources, but yeah, be mindful of the recommended specs for this game. The next complaint is that, late-game, it starts to become a bit of a numbers slog. Unit matchups and clever ability usage begin to not matter as much as just having raw stats, which flattens the strategy a little. It's a bit frustrating once you hit the level cap and have to start overcoming the stat advantage of big, damage-soak enemies by throwing sheer quantities of bodies at them. Thirdly, there is limited replayability to this game. There is just the one campaign (which, make no mistake, is a pretty meaty campaign with lots to do in it), and you have the option to either play it the "kill 'em all" route or the "save everyone" route. Trying to go in between those extremes will just get you an unsatisfying ending.

But in spite of those flaws, this was an excellent game. I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes there were more lesbians in their strategy games!

not enough Scarlet

美术方面人设立绘略有参差，剧情方面差强人意，数值方面用脚填的，内核方面含有正常女权内容。但是为了看女主二人少的可怜的互动的话，还是值得一玩的。勉强给个好评，希望未来可以优化剧情。