Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber

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Most strategy games ask you to win a war. Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber keeps asking what kind of commander you became while winning it. You play Magnus Gallant, a freshly graduated officer of the Palatinean Army born into a noble family, posted to a southern frontier where the poor are taxed and policed to protect a privileged elite. Before long Magnus has to choose between the nobility he was born into and a revolution that might be right, and the game never lets that choice feel simple. Developed by Quest, the studio behind the Ogre Battle saga, it reached North America through Atlus in 2000, a year after its Japanese debut.

The structure is unlike anything else on the console. On the campaign map you deploy squads in real time, send them after towns, temples and enemy strongholds, liberate settlements as you go and keep a wary eye on stamina, because tired units have to rest and resting units can be caught off guard. When two squads collide, the view drops into a side-on battle where your formation fights on its own: you choose the targeting strategy, front and back rows decide who swings a sword and who casts a spell, and a charging gauge eventually unlocks the devastating Elem Pedra. That blend of real-time strategy and tactical RPG is why players still talk about it.

Beneath it all runs an enormous class system. Soldiers grow into knights, sorceresses, ninjas and beyond, with dragons, hawkmen and other creatures filling out the ranks, and classes branch toward light or darker paths as units grow. Your conduct feeds the hidden Chaos Frame, a measure of your army's reputation that shifts with how you treat liberated towns and how honorably you fight, and together with Magnus's alignment it steers how the story branches and which of its multiple endings you reach. The revolutionary Frederick Raskin, the young noblewoman Leia Silvis and the knights and generals of the old order all pull Magnus in different directions, and Destin Faroda, hero of March of the Black Queen, can join the cause.

Lush, painterly sprites sit on top of 3D terrain, giving the N64 a look closer to a storybook than the blocky polygons the console is known for, and a sweeping, orchestral-flavored score gives every campaign a sense of occasion. As the sixth episode of the Ogre Battle saga and the direct sequel to the Super Nintendo original, it is the chapter that rewards series devotees most, and on an N64 shelf it is the clearest answer to anyone who claims the console had no deep RPGs.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1999
Publisher
Atlus
Developer
Dual Corporation
Players
Single player
About the game

"Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber is a tactical RPG for the Nintendo 64. Featuring a gripping storyline with multiple possible endings, and a genre-defining character class system, this strategic epic has rightly retained its place in the hearts of tactical RPG fans for over a decade. The game tells the story of Magnus Gallant, a recently graduated officer of the Palatinean Army who is assigned to the troubled southern region of his native land. There he witnesses the plight of the lower classes – the victims of a tyrannical ruling elite whose only thought is for the preservation of their own lofty status. With civil war brewing, Magnus is faced with a terrible choice: to betray his own noble origins in the name of liberty, or turn a blind eye to the evils of his rotten society."

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