Overall Rating 8/10
Great strategy game, easy to get into. Enjoyed the graphics and the promotion mechanic, which is quite similar to Fire Emblem series. The game tries to groups all actions, kingdoms, characters into three groups, hence the name.
Characters and Story
The characters themselves can easily be bucketed into their typical JRPG tropes. You have your noble-boy-scout hero who basically tries to offer a second chance to every antagonist who spent their lives enslaving and murdering people to prolong their reign. You have your typical female mage princess who tries to learn how to cook to make her would be husband happy. Don’t get me wrong, these are not shortcomings in any way, they evoke a kind of 90s JRPG vibe that you immediately recognize if you have played any of the older games like Dragon Quest or watched even one of those typical Shounen animes.
Charactes aside, it is the story, music and gameplay that had me glued to the screen for hourse together. We are introduced to a world consisting of three main kingdoms. Each representative of the kingdom had a unique feel and aspect to it and the colors and the general asthetic matched the portrayed behavior. Onbe of the first choice we get during the course of the game is to visit either one of the kingdom and this choice had me wracking my mind to decide which one to pick, both looked equally menacing and the whole situation made me feel that I would lose standing with the other one if I did not visit them.
The soundtrack although good is not as memorable as in Octopath Traveller where each character get their own distincitve theme and battle songs, which I missed in Triangle strategy.
Length and replayability
In the end there are multiple ending with one being a specifically considered the best ending. Ideally the game is meant to be played atleast twice, in which you realize the shortcomings of your decisions in the first playthrough which you would then apply the second time to fix. Loved this gameplay loop. Although there isn’t any specific rewind or time travel mechanism, like in games like Radiant Historia, playing the game in new game+ allows you to replay the same game with additional context.
I would highly recommend you to play this game without looking at a walkthrough/guide for atleast 2 playthroughs to really appreciate the subtle nuance and effects of your decision. But then again with a full time job some of you like me don’t have all that time so inorder to get the best ending looking at a walkthough during your first playthrough is sufficent.