Banner of the Maid

Don't be deceived by its look.
It features beautiful art, but it's not to make you forgive a bad game.
On the contrary, it's quite good!
The main thing I noticed and will remember is how perfectly balanced the game is.
You'll often find yourself in dire situations, with enemy reinforcements adding to the pressure, and yet you'll always find a way to break through and win.
I can't imagine how many hours of playtesting it required to be so close to perfection.
Highly recommended to any tactical loving players!

Banner of the maid without a doubt offers much more than it may initially seem. Beautiful form sells very good substance. You come for hot anime waifu in revealing dresses, leading french armies to victory (somehow I missed this part at history lessons), but eventually stay for exciting gameplay.
Initially I considered local battles as some casual filler. After few first challenges I already viewed them as some annoying obstacle. However... after few more battles this stuff eventually consumed me and I with excitement was looking forward for each new battle.
Each battle is more like a puzzle game. You have to make your best decisions to achiev victory within certain period of time. And... that's quite challenging should I say. Especially in General mode. Especially if you want to complete additional challenges. Especially if you want to collect all bonuses on the map. Espec... yeah, this is how I almost reached 90 hours milestone.
Story is better than you could expect as well. It was quite interesting to follow. It has it's fair share of humor, intrigues, even some drama. Local soundtracks are also very good. Not much but indeed very good. English translation is good and fully fulfills it's goal - I'm more than satisfied with the result.
As to my personal claims - the game criminally lacks hot keys. And an option to skip enemy moves. You will perform same actions hundreds of times. Move, wait, attack, consume, etc, etc. And you always have to wait until every single enemy unit makes it's move and you always have to perform every action manually via menu. You can skip battle animations (luckily) but the rest is still too time consuming.
Anyway, even with these cons - strongly recommend nonetheless. Especially if you like SRPGs. Recently I'm on my way to NG+, to finish some tricky quests from DLC, complete few missed challenges and overall - to rush through the game once more, with some nice bonuses.

Yes, I definitely needed to imagine Robespierre and Antoinette in the same room. Love the story idea, and if you like things about the Napoleonic era-- or just like Rose of Versailles for that matter-- you'll feel at home here.
Really simple yet deep enough in complexity to keep you wanting more. Definitely recommend to get the DLC!
Hint Hint: This game will sometimes turn out to be more puzzle solving than you think so be prepared to have to fight in a "this-way-or-highway" manner in order to beat certain levels.

My memories of what history class told us about the Napoleonic wars is a bit fuzzy so I don´t remember so many important military leaders of the time being big boobed waifu´s shouting in Chinese but I´m sure it´s historically accurate.
I won´t lie, the waifus artwork is like 70% of why I bought this game but honestly the storyline and characters are solid in my opinion.
It´s nice with something that´s different from the typical AAA american writing , the translation is so far mostly fine with some interesting quirks here and there.
The combat as far as I´ve gotten when writing this review isn´t super deep but it´s fun , easy to understand with snappy entertaining animations and sounds.
Again what´s not love about a line of napoleonic wars gunners line firing at the command of a well endowed waifu shouting in Chinese?
As a package I give this game a thumbs up though this is just with 2 hours playtime but unless something really bad pops up later on I see no reason I would change my opinion. But will update if I do.

wonderful game, quite challenging. Does crash a decent bit on steam deck though

Pretty good turn-based strategy game albeit with quite a lot of problems story and gameplay wise

The combat is good and you never feel like you have a lack of troops against an overwhelming odds of foes, even if they have more unit types that can counter yours.
Story is kinda meh to be honest, first half makes sense and enjoyable but second half is where it starts to fall over itself and become confusing or disconnected.
Visually the game looks great, characters are well done and the map layouts are good.
Finally the AI is somewhat imbalance in the later stages, I notice that they played fairly passive aggressive at the first half but in the second they become an absolute as*hole, staying in place no matter how close you are and will only move if they have a unit advantage or you left a healer open.
Other than them last two parts, a well decent game to play.

#Noonediesifyouplaywell
That's already a ton better than what actually went down in history. I love FFT, I love FE, so this one is already by default a thumbs up from me.