Spellbinding Strategy: Magical fantasy meets real time strategy in this beautifully drawn adventure, filled with classic Vanillaware charm!Įnchanted Enhancements: GrimGrimoire OnceMore expands on the Vanillaware classic with a brand new skill tree, improved user interface, art gallery, and so much more!Īlluring Augmentations: Experience the bewitching adventures of Lillet Blan, now with remastered graphics and beautifully hand-drawn visuals in high definition! Harness the power of magic to dispel the secrets hidden within and discover the truth of the Silver Star Tower! All is not what it seems inside the tower walls-mysteries, monsters, and menaces lurk about. This can be a big ask for some players as there is an easy-to-pick-up and VERY difficult-to-master gameplay style at the root of magic here.Open the Grimoire once more with brand-new features to explore!įrom the developers at Vanillaware, the classic PS2 strategy game GrimGrimoire is being remastered for Nintendo Switch™! Join aspiring mage Lillet Blan on her journey within the Silver Star Tower, a renowned academy for magicians. GrimGrimoire OnceMore also requires the player to learn ALL its functions for the game to shine brightest. In these same circumstances, precision selecting a unit could go wrong due to an oversight button press, which may not feel like the player’s fault every time. “GrimGrimoire OnceMore has aged gracefully since 2007, and with its art style, that’s not a surprise.” Where I thought the enemy had two, there were really three. This has even happened with Dragon enemies. This has led to many stage wipes and retries simply because there were six demons instead of three. While the chaos that can arise from combat is fun, it’s incredibly difficult to determine how many enemies are stacked on top of each other at times. GrimGrimoire OnceMore does have some issues, though. The whole presentation is a job well done. Hitoshi Sakimoto and the sound team finish the setting flawlessly, adding mystery and wonder to menus, a sense of urgency to battle stages with brass horns, and tension when characters are speaking. Characters are dripping in detail, facial expressions are prominent and excellently worked into cutscenes, in-game units like the small Glamour elves sway back and forth with a whimsical bounce that gives off personality, and certain fearsome characters have sharp edges where necessary while softer characters such as the fairies have a softer feel. The art direction bleeds their signature style, and it is STUNNING. Vanillaware is back at it again with GrimGrimoire OnceMore. When all of the mechanics work, and the steep learning curve is overcome, GrimGrimoire OnceMore becomes a treat to play and addictive to boot. “Combat in GrimGrimoire OnceMore becomes chaos quickly.”Īlthough I did have a few issues selecting individual units for tasks when there was a huge pileup, the real-time game pauses when you’re cycling through, so it can feel tedious but never unfair. Holding X and scrolling your cursor over units of a different type allows for group movement, and you would think not having access to a mouse would make for a janky experience, but surprisingly the controls are responsive and work remarkably. Pressing up on the D-pad selects all the units of the same type in the general area of your cursor and allows you to move them. Luckily there are simple hotkeys the player can employ to make it slightly simpler. Although there is MUCH to learn, the tutorial does a solid job of weaving interesting story segments into learning exercises. Professor Gammel gives you a small lesson on the ins and outs of the university. Fortunately, the tower only accepts those recognized for outstanding magical aptitude. You are Lillet Blan, a new student at The Silver Star Tower, and you’re here to learn about magic. First, you come flying into a magic school on a dragon to meet an older Dumbledore-looking wise man referred to as Professor Gammel. A Coven of MisfitsĪfter pressing ‘New Game,’ the player is thrown down a well FULL of exposition. The original VanillaWare creation from 2007 is back in all its real-time strategy grandeur and stunning artistic direction for an encore in 2023. A myriad of past titles, such as the Metroid Prime Remaster, have been receiving the rediscovery treatment to bring former titles new glory, and GrimGrimoire OnceMore aims to do just that. There has been a renaissance gripping the gaming industry.
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