Been jonesing for a similar style of tactical RPG. Tried out some Disgaea demos, but the anime cringe and the sheer amount of shit on the stats screens turned me off.
I liked the focus on class/character building in those games. Been thinking about XCOM and Fire Emblem games, but I figure I'd fish for recs.
Weird that you like Valkyria Chronicles but don't like Disgaea. It's just as weeb/anime.
X-com isn't like FFT per se. It's "grid-like" but isn't really turn-based (outside of Chimera Squad). You take all your actions and then the aliens act, repeat.
Fire Emblem is the closet to it.
Tactics Ogre is basically the predecessor of FFT, right down the creators of FFT being on those. Look into those.
I knew someone was going to call me out on that. Yeah I... I dunno. I can only describe it as Disgaea being too 🤪 for me.
And yeah, I know some of the big differences with XCOM's gameplay but I get the feeling it'll scratch the tactics itch for me in a similar way.
Never heard of Tactics Ogre before today so sweet, I'll take a look
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