Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes

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User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 46 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 46
  3. Negative: 15 out of 46

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  1. taazz
    Oct 19, 2010
    5
    Ehh...it's "OK" if you like those RPG games from 1990, with graphics upgraded to 1995. It makes me nostalgic for the good ole, simple days of turn-based combat. Put your wizard "here", put your warriors "there". For $15 from Steam, it's not the worst deal ever.
  2. jpanic
    Oct 24, 2010
    5
    I really enjoy this sort of game so I had very high hopes for the title. However... I found it very disappointing.

    The camera and mouse control is wonky and it's very distracting - there's a lag after scrolling which means after you stop scrolling, the screen continues moving. I know it sounds like a petty thing to commence a review with, but It got increasingly irritating until I    I really enjoy this sort of game so I had very high hopes for the title. However... I found it very disappointing.

    The camera and mouse control is wonky and it's very distracting - there's a lag after scrolling which means after you stop scrolling, the screen continues moving. I know it sounds like a petty thing to commence a review with, but It got increasingly irritating until I stopped mainly because I constantly felt like throwing my mouse.

    Onto the game itself. I enjoyed the humour and story, but the combat itself is very mealy and slow. There's almost no variation between characters or combats. You just continually click on enemies, trundle over and hit them. The camera control makes you feel like you're struggling with the map rather than romping through it in exploration mode. Also the leaps into battle are very sudden and felt more like a constant interruption rather than hazard. For some reason you play in a very zoomed-in view and there seems to be minimal actual tactics.

    The graphics are okay for a budget title, except for art direction for female characters which has a totally different style to the male characters which contributes to a patched-together feel. It would have been my preference for the female characters to look a little womanly rather than like four-year-old girls in bikinis (yes, I know it's a joke line - but they look like toddlers, not maidens).

    Overall - admirable effort, but a miss.    … Expand
  3. Orctownorc
    Aug 22, 2013
    6
    This game is definitely worth a buy and play for the $2.50 sale price. The graphics are ok, and the story is actually OK, despite many complaints. The humour is often mis-pitched, but this whole game is soaked in Scandinavian irony: Just like the Magicka game, the developers are full of self-loathing and cannot approach game design with anything other than TOTAL sarcasm. I don't reallyThis game is definitely worth a buy and play for the $2.50 sale price. The graphics are ok, and the story is actually OK, despite many complaints. The humour is often mis-pitched, but this whole game is soaked in Scandinavian irony: Just like the Magicka game, the developers are full of self-loathing and cannot approach game design with anything other than TOTAL sarcasm. I don't really mind any of that. But this game really suffers in terms of basic controls and pacing. The main reason is the way the game is CONTINUOUSLY paused to hit us with tedious MONOLGUE boxes. Not dialogues. MONOLOGUES. WHY? The game would have been so much better if they hired some voice actors to paint the picture with background noise rather than breaking up the gameplay with continuous spatial and visual obstructions. How can we appreciate humor if it is offered in a form that physically constrains our movement through the game world. Like a bullying Scandinavian who will never let you walk away from his bad jokes. Definitely auto-skip as much as you can.

    THE GROT REVIEW CRITERIA: After a long time writing reviews like an anus, think its time to set a few bad habits straight: Stop insulting designers. Show some respect for the design process and getting games in circulation. Hence (1) No Red scores. (2) Game scores as follows: Bad Game 5/10. Poor Game 6/10. Mediocre Game: 7/10. Good Game 8/10. Great game 9/10. Stella Game 10/10. To get 10/10 it must be a game that can be (theoretically) play-able for 1000+ hours. Not only great but near endless fun. Games may be bad or poor but making them should earn respect. Thus even the worst POS will still be a 5/10. 0/10 no longer exists in my vocabulary. Yellow is the new red. For the sake of accountability: you can reply if needed: Orctowngrot: Tim Rawlins: timtimjp@yahoo.com    … Expand
  4. overfiend87
    Aug 7, 2013
    6
    The game is a turn-based strategy where you have command of heroes who are attempting to foil the evil followers of "the mother of god". It starts out with the main character being a emo who was the only one ever to fail at the commander achademy and attempt to sacrifice himself until a Paladin names the "Holy Avatar" comes to your aid and inspires you to fight against the forces ofThe game is a turn-based strategy where you have command of heroes who are attempting to foil the evil followers of "the mother of god". It starts out with the main character being a emo who was the only one ever to fail at the commander achademy and attempt to sacrifice himself until a Paladin names the "Holy Avatar" comes to your aid and inspires you to fight against the forces of darkness.

    Like Deathspank, this game has tongue-in-cheek humour at fantasy styled RPGs and MMOs with some silly enemies that'll bring a smile to your face such as savage mushrooms and sabre-toothed bunnies. There are even green mushrooms that when killed you hear the maro 1hp trune play and even see a 1hp appear.

    All character have unique abilities and you have to think tactically in order to fight back and cut down the enemy. A fun little game and good to have a little laugh at too.    … Expand

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65

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. RPG Fan
    Jan 5, 2011
    65
    There is the seed of an interesting, enjoyable, funny, and simple SRPG in Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes, but it's buried in fertilizer.
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  2. Absolute Games
    30
    All in all, Grotesque Tactics is a shoddy low-budget game.
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  3. GameStar
    75
    A fresh and funny indie game. A real little gem, though not without flaws, but with lots of virtues missing from most blockbuster titles: charm, comedy and imagination- for a low price.
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