Unicorn Overlord

Unicorn Overlord offers a classic story of a lost kingdom needing to be reclaimed, but it delivers the narrative exceptionally well, with occasional twists that keep it engaging. With a large cast of characters, only a handful failed to hold my interest, which is impressive given the variety.

Gameplay resembles Fire Emblem but with more tactical maneuverability. While the standard relationship bonding is present, it remains enjoyable. Visually, the game shines with chibi-like characters on the overworld and more detailed close-ups during combat. The sound design blends well with the world, and the chapel acoustics were a particularly nice touch.

As for replay value, it doesn’t hold much appeal for me personally, as I rarely replay games. However, there’s still plenty to do post-credits, with the arena for testing formations and Uber Arena boss fights scattered throughout the land.

Overall, I give Unicorn Overlord a 9/10. It delivers a solid, self-contained story with great gameplay and sound design, and I never felt preached at about current issues. I thoroughly enjoyed this game and highly recommend it.

I hope you enjoy your time with Unicorn Overlord as much as I did.

PS: This review is my own words but I would like to note I used AI to shorten it a little to make it more palatable to the reader.

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter"-Blaise Pascal

Fantastic strategy game mixing team building, turn based encounters, and real-time movement. Because the order of actions in encounters are predetermined, a decent chunk of time is spent fine-tuning your squads' composition, moves, equipment, and orientations. With the sheer number of combinations to choose from, you can replay the game with entirely different but just as if not more effective squads.

Story is mostly just there to advance the gameplay. If you've played any JRPG in the last 20 years, you know what to expect here. It's not necessarily bad, but it isn't all that interesting, which is a bit disappointing after Vanillaware had a much stronger story in 13 Sentinels. Fortunately, they keep everything relatively brief and to the point, so you aren't stuck watching 20 minute cutscenes of a boring story after every battle.

If you are a strategy fan, I strongly recommend the higher difficulties - I struggle on hard difficulty in most Fire Emblem games, but breezed through hard difficulty here without any grinding.

A game with a lot of talking and not much plot. The game play, story, and experience felt average. I was engaged enough to finish it but in 6 months I'm going to need to check this space to remember if I played it or not. There was something superficial about every aspect of the game it looked good and it sounded like a good idea but none of it was jaw dropping or memorable. I would wait and get this one on sal.e

I won't say it's a bad game, but it just didn't click on me. Once again, Vanillaware just recycling stuff. I've played for 20 hours waiting for a moment the story said something interesting, but it just didn't happen.

Fun gameplay with great characters and some of the best stylizied art ever. Only drawback was a bland story.

This game is a crime, a sequel to dragons crown is what we need, but they decided to do this army manegement simulator crap. The pacing is so slow it kills the game. You dont even fight the enemies in real time nor turn based, is automatic, so you are left with the worst part of the game, army manegement nonsense, absolutely pathetic. What hurts the most is the beautiful art that gives life to the characters and story, but in the end it wont matter due to gameplay. No more tries.