Symphony of War is a must-play for the SRPG-obsessed. Check out our review:
There's a simple delight to JRPG character customization. Extend that to an entire squad of characters on a tactical grid? Now you've got your classic Strategy JRPG, like Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics. Extend it to an entire army of several dozen squads? That's the rework you get in Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga.
Recruiting promising rookies and mercenaries off the market, fitting them into a squad, fiddling with their stats as they level up, and pushing them further up the large tree of connected classes is a satisfying core loop, with plenty of strategy knobs to tweak and levers to pull. It's also structured in a way that encourages you to explore, letting you freely drop characters back a class tier to try something new without any penalty.
All that customization is constrained by the gold you earn in missions and arena battles, which has to be spent on the market to get new units and artifacts. Increasingly specialized units also need increasingly specialized resources, which you have to buy from markets and retrieve from mines and villages during missions: Gemstones to make mages, horses for cavalry, iron for infantry, and rarer resources—sunstones, obsidian—the further up the class tree you get.
It's all carried off in bright, cheerful pixel art in battles, and more muted static character portraits during dialogue. The pixel art is actually especially nice, and really packs a lot of character and energy into pretty small spaces. Over it all is a cheery soundtrack, and though it's a bit thin, the tracks it does have are quite good—they capture the mood well.But what you're here for is the tactics, and that is where Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga shines.
When your squad attacks an enemy's on the battlefield map, we jump to close-up combat for two alternating rounds of attacks: Attacker first, then defender. Attacks like ambushes deprive your enemy of their first round of attacks. The attacks of most mages take time to charge up, so they don't do anything on the first round but lay out a powerful blast on the second. Gunpowder units fire on the first round, but can't fire again on the second.
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