Banner of the Maid

Easily one of the better SRPGs around, only held back by subpar voice acting (which can be muted) and some sluggish animations (which can be sped up with CE).
People complaining about 'sudden/unexpected reinforcements' clearly can’t grasp tooltips written in plain English, so their reviews can be safely ignored.
The later chapters are best enjoyed on General difficulty for maximum masochism, as the combat difficulty ramps up sharply and managing your (very) limited resources becomes the most crucial part of the game.
More than worth the price it’s being sold for.

It's a fun little pseudo-historical turn-based strategy game, with some cute french waifus. The gameplay is the main draw, it's very similar to Fire Emblem but more forgiving with no-perma-death and free opportunities to level grind. It's simple to understand but there is a lot of depth with the skills you can learn.

The music is fine, the story is fine. It suffers from some not-so-great Chinese to English translation errors, but it does the job of getting you to the next fight.

The girls are cute, the boys are not annoying, there are a lot of missable collectibles if you're going for all achievements, it's just a neat little game that will keep you engaged for a good amount of hours.

Fun little turn based strategy game. The story line is ok, nothing amazing about full story but good enough to keep you engaged during the play thru. The art work is great, especially if you like the JRPG style anime girls.

The only bad thing I can say about it is the game play can be a little repetitive the longer you play. After first few levels it doesn't really introduce many new concepts as the game goes along. At about half way thru the story you may be bored and only continuing to play just to get the complete.

Not a difficult game to master, i played thru the full game twice, first time in most difficult mode and 2nd play thru in newgame+ in easy mode to pick up 2 achievements that I missed. Honestly you could probably complete the full game in about 30 hours if you turn off the battle animations and don't strive for perfection on the hardest setting. Beyond that there is no re play-ability in the game, and i don't see myself ever coming back to it but it was fun to run thru it once

犹豫了很久该给什么评价，说实话我认为值不上好评，但也没有到差评的程度，很可惜steam没办法只评论。游戏有点类似以前gba玩过的火纹。立绘很顶，但说实话玩法上存在很大的问题，总结一句话就是可玩性不高。一是兵种类型少，而且差异化不够明显。二是设计不合理的技能系统。看似有那么十几种技能，但技能之间缺少化学反应，甚至技能很多时候还和兵种特性冲突。举个例子，游戏里有种叫猎骑兵的的兵种，兵种特性是反击的时候增加攻击范围和不会被敌人二次追击。然！而！猎骑兵能学的技能里没有一项是能强化反击的，反而基本全是强化主动攻击啥的。反而是定位不知道是啥的线列步兵能学强化反击伤害的技能。其次就是这游戏意义不明的二周目，二周目甚至没办法继承装备，更离谱的是有一个强力道具直到通关了才拿大，然后拿到了以后根本没地方用，二周目又继承不了，真就是拿了个寂寞。

So let me get this straight about this game:
1. French references, with Napoleon and all.
2. With an Anime style/themed.
3. But with a Chinese voice actor.
4. The characters are, I mean the story have BIG plot twist.
Its ridiculous yet it works as a game, so why not.
This indie game is worth the money and I'll also be trying out their other turn-based games (if its on major discount). I think they made good quality games on this genre, and Banner of the Maid should be their main standard from what I would expect from the same developers.

Nice game, worth buying but dont expect fire emblem level quality. The music is great tho.

If I already played Fire Emblem then Banner of Main is definitely worth a try with few tweaks. If not just emulate those, then given Reverse Collapse a try and only after that return here. Only if you are a frankophile go straight for this.

Gameplay

Gameplay wise it's a classic SRPG with rock-paper-scissor combat sprinkled with some VN elements for story telling. Still the environments are quite nice, varied (not to mention they fit the story) and often quite well balanced. It's nothing groundbreaking but good enough to stand on it's own. To your disposal are mostly weapons (with little variety), extremely limited number of active skills and then some passives you can pick and unlock. Special mechanics in levels are rare, even though some concepts - like player choices affecting whether citizens will help you or not were quite refreshing. Unfortunately they usually went nowhere.

My main gripe with how the game plays is the abysmal speed things happen at. I would say installing Cheat Engine and making the game much faster is almost a necessity. Even in early stages I was constantly reloading saves and the waiting got quite tiring. Sure you can save yourself some reloads by grinding the character levels, but that requires to play certain stages over and over again where the slow speed comes into effect again. The devs really missed a mark here and I doubt it was ever playtested by a people who weren't the devs and already knew how to finish each stages effectively.

Also if the game forces player to use external cheat tools it's kinda straining their resolve not to start changing other variables - like idk money, exp, and so on.
Setting up players on this slippery slope is a failure of the devs.


Story

Story is essentially a retelling of early days of the French Revolutions with some arbitrary shadowy villans showed in. It's nothing special and don't expect some amazing plot twists - especially as general sequence of events copies our history so we all kinda know how things go. Still even for seeing a story with all these historical figures, most of them immortalized in European collective consciousness was nice. The devs clearly went beyond skimming a wikipedia article.

Presentation

Story is presented as a visual novel, which is quite ok for me, especially as the translations while not perfect is usable. Still I would have appreciated few more backdgrounds. As for game stages the devs went for classic pixelart + isometric view and it generally works well enough. At few spots It can be hard to judge how far player is from something on the grid due to tall grass or something, but given it's a turn based game it doesn't matter that much.

What is largely lacking is the audio experience. The game has very few music tracks, which is a shame. Vanguard Sounds have made some really nice BGMs and I would have liked to see more of their work here. Also the voice acting is essentially useless. Each character has only few lines they repeat to no end be it in gameplay or sometimes in VN sequences.

Conclusion

Overall if you are already a fan of the genre and have played most of the classics give this a try. However I strongly recommend to speeding up the game from the start, without it by the 8 hour I was so tired of it I put the game on pause for half a year.