Awesome! I finished the second episode of the story, so now I have an Angel Trainee in my party. Aditionally, I haven’t mentioned that I have a Warrior named Idiot, and a Cleric named Generic Healer in my party. The “Idiot” is just so the game can call him an incompetent idiot when I try to delete him, and the “Generic Healer” is so I can point out that I have only one use for her. I just love the game and the fact that you’re playing the, for now, evil side.

This is the game I’ve been waiting for. It’s every bit as great as the PS2 version, except there’s fewer voices here. I’ve completed the tutorial, created a fighter and a cleric pupil and got all the way to the first boss level. There, I got my ass handed to me by his minions (the mage is a pain). Then I started training for a while, and got some nice items. I will try my luck again tonight.

Since I have DSL here in Germany, I tried to play an online game. I won and my rating has now increased from starting 5000 to 5067. I may try to play some more later.

EDIT: I’ve played some more. First I won a game, which got me to 51xx (close to 5200). Then I lost about five games against some Japanese dude. He was high rated, so I dropped to 510x. Then I won a lengthy game against some player with a hearth in his name. This got me close to 5200 again. Meh!

I finished mission eleven finally (i made a counting mistake last time). All the missions before this one where extremely easy and I cleared them in one go. This one, I failed three times before completing it. It turns out, my tactics where all wrong. I tried to blitz to the goal, so I was losing units to fast. Now I took my time, and slowly killed the enemy units one by one. That way, I could use the other team as a support all the time, instead of just at the beginning.

Besides the one campaign mission, I also completed a few real time missions. It’s pretty fun, but not as much as the campaign. Some of the things a accomplished today got me a total of three medals. Only 297 to go!

Since this game got good reviews, I decided to try it out. It’s a nice game. When it comes to turn based strategy games, I usually prefer 4x or RPG elements. This one is more of a Panzer General type game. There are some RPG elements, so I like it because of that.
I’ve completed the first eleven campaign missions. I unlocked a total of five CO’s (commanding officers) and one of them even got his rank increased. Most of the missions where tutorials, so it wasn’t so hard. I don’t know how many missions there are, but I’m hoping it will get harder later on.

I didn’t expect to finish it so soon. The first two planets where long, but the final few where very short. I defeated the alien with dancing, and it wasn’t that hard. After completing it, I can now replay each planet on its own. There isn’t much point to it though except to collect some extra parts. My final level was 32. It’s a nice game, but not even the same genre as the PC version.