You've never experienced true joy until you've popped your daily 15mg adderall xr and spent three hours in the unicorn overlord units menu just to disband all of them after one battle because you got a cool new character that you want to build around.

I honestly think this might be the most meaningfully in depth strategy game I have ever played. Each new class (and most equipment) feels genuinely game changing in a way that was exciting all the way until the end. At a certain point it became a bit overwhelming trying to decide who I wanted to be using and pairing together, but I'd say I was fully engrossed with planning these units out for the first 60 hours of the game. I imagine it could keep that up for hundreds more if you're a true ogre battle sicko.

Every little aspect of this game feels so thoughtfully crafted to be engaging. From the animations in battle to the little mining minigame, each element was precisely crafted to be smooth and satisfying. When you pick up the little goodies you can start running away before they even get sucked up in to your inventory! Hard to explain why but that had me hootin every time.

There's too much to go on about that I love in this (have to mention coliseum real quick) but it is funny that Vanillaware just did the opposite of 13 Sentinels (combat - incredible, story - fine). The story is like one giant pile of tropes but I do find that charming. The whole liberation army schtick is enough flavor for me to dump an unreasonable portion of my life in to doing everything this offered. I haven't felly this compulsively drawn to 100% a game maybe ever.

Lastly, Unicorn Overlord is not only not a bad name but actually the best possible name that this game could have. If you play it for one second it's so obvious it should be called that. It's dweebs only in the liberation army. If you've ever gone on a date with someone in real life refund this shit asap.