incoming spergShow
The combat system is very XCOM, right down to the spastic camera trying to make the "action" look more kewl. Thankfully you can turn off all of this shit.
There is however a bigger focus on melee combat, what with many named characters being melee-centric.
One thing I find to be a clear improvement over XCOM (at least the first; no idea if the second one fixed this as well) is that you can actually ambush enemies.
In XCOM, as soon as a new group of aliens comes into view, they immediately notice you and get a free movement action to take cover.
In Troubleshooter, it is much more likely that you spot the enemy without them noticing. The game even highlights squares which fall within their line of sight. This lets you move all of your guys into position for some lulz, especially in combination with Overwatch (though that ability is sadly not as universal as it is in XCOM).
Another need feature is that you usually get generic cops assigned as backup. They are expendable, your earliest source for Overwatch, and providers of free health potions and hand grenades.
There's also some fun pottery going on, what with those cops being much more XCOM-esque while the actual protagonists are these shounen animu dudes and dudettes.
World building is somewhat weird. They explain enough about the city this is all set in, but I'm not sure if this is set in some modern day fantasy world, or the near future. Every single protagonist can just use magic, but it's never really explained.
The most confusing part is that this game has some Korean MMO mechanics for no reason other than it being mandatory I assume. Your characters have like a stamina bar that goes down with each mission and can be restored with food or just letting time pass in real-time. You'd probably have to grind for an entire day before this shit can actually run out.
Switching out your Masteries / Not-Materia also costs you some special resouce, but you get about two orders of magnitude more of that stuff than you'd ever use up. Not sure what the point is, really.
There is however a bigger focus on melee combat, what with many named characters being melee-centric.
One thing I find to be a clear improvement over XCOM (at least the first; no idea if the second one fixed this as well) is that you can actually ambush enemies.
In XCOM, as soon as a new group of aliens comes into view, they immediately notice you and get a free movement action to take cover.
In Troubleshooter, it is much more likely that you spot the enemy without them noticing. The game even highlights squares which fall within their line of sight. This lets you move all of your guys into position for some lulz, especially in combination with Overwatch (though that ability is sadly not as universal as it is in XCOM).
Another need feature is that you usually get generic cops assigned as backup. They are expendable, your earliest source for Overwatch, and providers of free health potions and hand grenades.
There's also some fun pottery going on, what with those cops being much more XCOM-esque while the actual protagonists are these shounen animu dudes and dudettes.
World building is somewhat weird. They explain enough about the city this is all set in, but I'm not sure if this is set in some modern day fantasy world, or the near future. Every single protagonist can just use magic, but it's never really explained.
The most confusing part is that this game has some Korean MMO mechanics for no reason other than it being mandatory I assume. Your characters have like a stamina bar that goes down with each mission and can be restored with food or just letting time pass in real-time. You'd probably have to grind for an entire day before this shit can actually run out.
Switching out your Masteries / Not-Materia also costs you some special resouce, but you get about two orders of magnitude more of that stuff than you'd ever use up. Not sure what the point is, really.
