Tactics Ogre Reborn Reveals Details About Character Creation, Elemental Gods and Multiple Endings

Square Enix has revealed more about the revamped battle system of Tactics Ogre Reborn, including new insight into the character creation, use of elemental gods, and obtaining the various different endings in the game.

The game releases on November 11th for PC and Consoles.

Tarot Cards and Character Creation

Tarot cards are traditionally used in fortune telling, but they are also deeply connected to the Ogre Battle series, and Tactics Ogre is no exception. One particularly important role they play is in character creation. During character creation, after the player chooses a date of birth for the protagonist, Denam, they will be posed questions from several of the 22 tarot cards known as the major arcana. Denam’s initial stats will be determined according to the answers to these questions.

Elemental Gods and Divine Protection

The elemental system from the original Tactics Ogre will be revived in Tactics Ogre: Reborn. There are a total of eight elements: fire, water, wind, earth, darkness, light, lightning, and ice. Here are each of the Gods in the elemental pantheon:

Xoshonell, Goddess of Fire

Greuza, Goddess of Water

Nestharot, Goddess of Lightning

Vaasa, Goddess of Earth

Hahnela, Goddess of Air

Ishtar, Goddes of Light

Ashmedai, God of Darkness

As the final part of character creation, Denam’s element will be determined by selecting which god appears in the myth of Xytegenia he should seek protection from. Units other than Denam will also have a set element.

Matching a unit’s element with the element of the magic or weapon they use will allow them to unleash even greater power. For example, if a fire-element wizard uses fire-element offensive magic, it will inflict greater damage. Elements also have particular elements that they are stronger or weaker against –for example, the wind is strong against earth, and earth is strong against lightning.

Branching Narrative and Multiple Endings

Tactics Ogre Reborn features a branching story with multiple endings, where the developments in the story and its eventual conclusion will depend on the player’s choices.

The story unfolds from the perspective of a young man named Denam, the game’s main character. The destinies of those he meets and the history of Valeria will be shaken by the decisions he finds himself compelled to take. All kinds of shocking developments await the player, from characters who turn from friend to foe if the player’s actions go against their beliefs, to the chance for encounters with entirely new characters.

Units and Classes

In Tactics Ogre, the protagonist, Denam, will become the leader of his own order of knights. The individuals comprising this order who fight alongside Denam are known as units.

These units have a wide variety of classes, each with different abilities. Units primarily grow and become stronger by defeating enemies or being victorious in battle, purchasing equipment from shops, or learning magic.

The stats gained when leveling up are different for each class, with each class having its own characteristics –for example, intellect (INT) will increase more easily for a wizard, while a berserker will find it easier to increase strength (STR) and a knight vitality (VIT). Who will you make an ally, and in which class will you train them?

Battle System

When you move into a location on the world map where enemies are present, you will enter battle. After selecting which units from Denam’s order will participate and determining their formation, your troops will deploy. After they deploy, allied and enemy troops will be placed on the battlefield and the battle begins.

Tactics Ogre does not use a turn-based system. Instead, each unit acts in the order that their Recovery Time (RT) reaches 0. RT is calculated based on equipment weight, class, and actions taken –the order in which each unit acts continually changes, allowing you to enjoy battles with a deep sense of realism that fuses advanced strategy and intense drama as attack and defense by friend and foe interweave one another.

Tactics Ogre Reborn is an HD Remaster of the PSP game Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, which itself is a remake of a Super Famicom game of the same name.

The game will be released for the PS4, PS5, Switch, and PC on the 11th of November.

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