Shattered Throne

I am in the process of playing multiplayer and have completed five campaign missions. Ideally, I would like to have a few more hours in the game before writing a review, but hastened the process because no one has put forth anything for a game that deserves better. First things first, Shattered Throne is fun. The video and screenshots remind heavily of Advance Wars, and the developer has said that that game certainly was an inspiration. However, this game brings in fresh new mechanics into play. =There is unit progression within a level - units gain xp for kills and level up. =Unit classes have unique traits - death knights resurrect as zombies after death, crusaders attack enemies adjacent to a target, etc etc. =There are units with AOE attacks =There are buildings that do different things, and the most basic building class - the village - can be upgraded into the other building classes. =There is a combo system that increases damage dealt to an enemy unit that is attacked cons...

Shattered Throne is a game with great core mechanics but sometimes questionable design choices. It's largely inspired by Advance Wars, and it does a good job of capturing a lot of the great fun in those games, but it's also quite ambitious and does a lot of new things to make it stand out. One of the greatest things about this game is all the different units. First of all, there are three factions that you can play as and they all have their own units. The factions are well balanced, and it's a lot of fun to strategize around their different playstyles. Each of the individual units also has a lot of personality, because they all have unique skills that can give them the edge in certain situations. The skill system is a great addition to the game, but one problem that can come up here is a lack of clarity. Almost all the skills in the game only take effect on either your phase or your enemy's phase, but there's no indication telling you this! It would be so easy to just put a li...

This is a wonderful light tactical battle game, reminiscent of Advance Wars and that type of game. It has nothing to do with Shining Force, so I don't know why that other reviewer compared them. There is a very nice variety of units, and all units have unique abilities. This really makes each unit unique, and gives you lots of tactical options. I have only played the first couple campaign battles. The maps are small, set to a single screen. But, there is a lot of terrain on the maps to deal with. Each piece of terrain gives units bonuses or detriments to attack/defend, etc. The tutorial popups explain nearly everything very nicely. They are quite well done. There are tooltips for most things (not everything). What is especially nice is the tooltips for every unit ability. You can see very easily exactly what every ability does. It would be nice to add tooltips to the unit stats, but hopefully that is coming. The stats are pretty straightforward, though. I had to ask ...

It is a good game with good content for a fair price. Updates seem to be forthcoming and I'm optimistic that it will be even better. It is not the best game in my library, perhaps not even the best tactics game, but it is certainly the best value in my library. I've paid more for less. Thumbs up from me.

What is this game? Short answer: Fantasy Advance War. You have three very distinct factions: Humans, which mostly operate on combos and simply strong units, elves, which specialise on mobility and guerilla tactics and the undead, which have a lot of regeneration abilities. You only control nameless mooks in battle, there are no heroes like in fire emblem. It really is more like Advance War in that way. But every faction has a number of different generals (two to three per faction I believe) who each have a passive and two active effects. The passive ones are things like taking over citeis imedately or all units having more health while the active ones range from healing to having everyone who is in a forest act again. Active abilities are powered by mana, which you get for combo kills. What are combos? Attacking an enemy will place a combo marker on that unit. If you attack that unit again with another unit without doing anything else in between (moving and attacking with one unit ...

Great game! It starts too easy, but it gets good later. First scenario that made me go hmmm was 10 or 11. I recently finished level 15 and you had to embark on a complicated amphibious assault. This scenario was a good example of level design overcoming weak AI. The huge diversity of special abilities for the different pieces and the hero powers are also very interesting. The no randomness for combat and undo as many moves as you want at any time alleviates what might otherwise be an overcomplicated combat system. I highly recommend this for anyone that likes this kind of game.

I bought the game for the background of "The Battle of the Spire of Dreams". P.S. It is very expensive on the market.

A seemingling light hearted diversionary game is marred by crippling bugs, poor performance and terrible UI. I keep asking myself, why is such a simple game always hanging? Why is such a simple gaming running at 503fps and consuming 50% of my cpu? Why do I keep trying to cancel a move and end my units turn in error; and why can't I cancel that partial move. Instead I must complete the action before being able to undo. Why do I seem to hate the characters I'm supposed to be rooting for. There are too many unanswered why's for me to recommend this. With a bit of polish it could have been a delightful time waster.

Shattered throne is a tactical battler/puzzle game with some interesting concepts that suffers from a lackluster presenation. Fortunatley the presentation is more on the bland side than outright bad and won't torpedo the entire experience for most people. This is the kind of game I would expect to be excellent when played on a phone and though I expect a little bit more out of games released on pc the quality of the underlying concept and systems are enough for me to recommend the game. It's probably not for everyone but it reminds me of the Advance Wars series and if that sounds like it might be up your alley your going to like what you find here. 6.5/10......If it were a mobile game.... 5.5/10......still a slight recommend on pc

Awesome game. It's like Advance Wars but better. There's tons of different unit types, scenarios, and challenges to keep the game fresh for many hours. It also comes with multiplayer (hotseat) and a map/scenario editor for when you run out of things to do. This game is super polished and has a suprising amount of depth considering it was created by a single developer. There is a sequel hinted at on the last level of the campaign, I'm keeping my fingers crossed Checkmark Games, keep up the good work!