Not as good as the SNES Ogre Battle but this is very overlooked. Got quite a bit of depth.

More polished than the previous attempt. Doesn't feel as much an exercise in memorizing how to proceed. Also a solid strategy game with a decent story.

Love OB and its style on tactical RPG.

Never got into this game. I thought the gameplay was overly slow and meandering, and the plot never drew me in. The battle system has a lot of neat elements, but stuff like the stamina meter, revival, slow movement, etc made the game much slower than it needed to be. I've never played the original Ogre Battle on SNES, but this game feels like it's a hodge podge of experimentation gone wrong.

This one pulled me in a lot more than the SNES original. I've always found it a bit tough to go back to - almost entirely because the battles take so long - but I sunk comfortably over 120 hours into it back when it first came out. It has a compellingly cheeseball epic fantasy novel plot and great music and a million stats and ranks and classes and party formations to be micromanaged; the kind of game where a nerd such as myself can spend an hour just pouring over the menus between battles.