My pleasure. Copy/Paste from my October 2018
post in Gaming in General / Games Finished 2018.
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Tower of Time 7 o' 8 tentacles
A really fun, party-based RTS / RPG "tower crawler".
Fairly common elements but with some interesting takes and most are exceptionally well-implemented:
Battles can be paused completely with the space bar or slowed down (arrow time?) so you can give your crew instructions. Great for me as I can't twitch like I used to (and I never really could).
You (La Hero) doesn't directly participate but instead can choose to influence your champions' decisions at certain points. Your decisions are invariably popular with some of your party and unpopular with others. Having party members who are negative impact party battle stats.
Loot (equipment, gold, jewels, and blueprints) are used to upgrade buildings that cap your level or upgrade your equipment.
As you win battles, you unlock optional boss battles that you can use to both hone your strategy and get more loot. I used this mostly to get upgrades that weren't available otherwise (afaik), and gold that I spent to level up my characters.
Each tower floor is unique and helps to advance the story.
Fountains and scrolls abound that you can have a single NPC use (both positive and negative results are possible but can be sussed out)
Some of the fight maps are repetitive but the game tries to keep things fresh by adding portals (tower defence tinge here). Would definitely benefit from have less repetitiveness. If you played the pre-release version, difficulty is ramped up ... but mostly (imo) via increasing monster HP and numbers in swarms. The game also took away being able to place your party anywhere on the battle map to within a limited "circle". I feel that really takes away from the strategy aspect that was there before.
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I'll add some things that I forgot to include originally.
- It's not a constant slugfest. You can avoid enemies as you move around the tower. This lets you take a break to solve puzzles or look for hidden areas.
- The story is decent. You gain party members as they "hear of your heroics" (i.e. advance through the tower).
- I'm not going to spoil how the story evolves as you progress through the tower, but I thought that it was original and well done.