If you find that standard role-playing games take themselves too seriously, Grotesque Tactics might just be for you! Combining humor with loads of quests and a turn-based combat system, the game offers similarities that will be familiar to anyone who has played a ‘strategy-RPG’ on a console or PC before. The company draws comparisons to Fire Emblem, Shining Force, Disgaea, Heroes of Might & Magic and King’s Bounty. Only sillier, of course.

Read on for more details and the first gameplay video!

Here are some features:

* Round based, strategic fights with the funniest animation which could ever be seen in the RPG genre.

* In the fantasy world of Grotesque, there are beautiful woods and villages as well as dark dungeons ready for exploration.

* An ironic, deep and atmospheric storyline from which RPG fans will still sing ballads in a thousand years.

* Big, detailed and bad‑tempered boss monsters.

* The tactical RPG genre is given a brand new face thanks to amusing multiple‑choice conversations and dialogue riddles in Monkey Island‑style.

* Classic RPG elements: solving storyintensive quests, searching treasures, trading, level and power up your party members.

* Distinctive party members such as the arrogant hero Holy Avatar, the blood‑thirsty vampire Solithaire and the sweet but irritable angel Angelina.

* It’s possible to rescue half‑naked virgins from the claws of evil monsters who will follow you as groupie‑pets after the battle.

* Obsession: Every Evil Hero has its own, distinctive tic such as irascibility, telling endless and boring hero‑storys or abnormal jealousy. However, this negative attributes could also be used in a positive way in battles if the chosen one acts cleverly….

* Programmed by the Lead / Senior Programmer of Gothic 1‑3 Carsten Edenfeld and other keen, well looking RPG developers of Silent Dreams.

The game is being developed in German, but screens and video is already appearing in English. We don’t have a release date yet, but I’ll keep you informed as I learn more!

Until then enjoy the video – some of the clicking makes it too quick to read the dialogue, but there are so many ironic stereotypes and cliches packed into just four minutes that I can’t wait for the whole game to arrive!

Source: Grotesque Tactics