Ogre Battle

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Before the first battle, a fortune teller named Warren lays out tarot cards and asks you a series of moral questions. Your answers decide who you are, what kind of soldiers march beside you and, in a sense, what kind of war you are about to fight. It is a perfect introduction to Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, a strategy RPG that cares less about whether you win than how you win.

Twenty-five years after the Zetegenian Empire conquered the kingdoms of Zenobia, you lead the rebellion against Empress Endora and the sorcerers behind her throne. Units of fighters, mages and monsters move across each map in real time while day turns to night, and when two forces meet the battle plays out on its own while you issue orders: go for the leader, strike the strongest, pick off the weakest. Liberating towns earns gold and allies, tarot cards can swing a desperate fight, and some creatures are deadlier after dark, so timing an attack is as important as building the right unit.

Beneath all of that sits the system that made the game famous. Your reputation with the people and a second measure called the Chaos Frame shift with every town you free and every enemy you choose to defeat, shaping which characters will join you and which of the many endings you earn. Ruthless efficiency wins battles but can lose the war for hearts and minds, a remarkably sophisticated idea for a game that started life on the Super Famicom in 1993.

Created by Quest under director Yasumi Matsuno, with a sweeping score by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata, Ogre Battle launched the series that continued with Tactics Ogre, and its creative team went on to shape Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story. Even the names are a delight: both Ogre Battle and The March of the Black Queen are Queen song titles. Atlus's PlayStation release brought this cult strategy classic to a new console generation, and it is a rewarding way to experience the game where Matsuno's ideas about war, morality and consequence first took shape.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1993
Publisher
Atlus USA
Developer
Riverhillsoft
Players
Single player
About the game

It’s up to you to defeat the Empire. It’s been nearly a quarter of a century since the Zetegenian Empire first conquered the Kingdoms of Zenobia with a wrath of fear and bloodshed. You are the leader of a band of rebels who’ve fought to preserve the last shred of honor in this desperate time of treachery. Manage the ranks of a full-blown rebel army, complete with hundreds of characters, magic items, weapons and mystical Tarot cards. You must succeed in ousting the evil usurpers - your fate, and that of the entire population, depends on it.

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