Triangle Strategy Gets Its First Character & Story Trailer

I’m far too much of a square to get into this game.

Day one purchase right here, since the developers are from octopath traveller i don't really expect too much from the story. More from the presentation, difficulty and battles though

Game looks great and considering this is from the same devs that made Octopath, it'll be great too. The demo was real fun as well.
Hopefully this style of games continues to find success.

Oh, boy. I am sure excited to play this great game. Cannot wait until it comes out.

The illicit salt trade? I don't know if I'm really going to feel the moral consequences of my actions if I'm helping people smuggle salt? I guess hypertension is bad?

@Purgatorium
In context, war broke out in their world between the three nations over salt and iron: The 'Saltiron War'. And it sounds like you may have to kill a key figure in nation that has the most salt to participate in the dark dealings.
I'm sure once you get to that part of the game the weight of the decision will be clear, lol.

I think I saw this trailer a while ago, but it doesn't matter. I want it!

@DDFawfulGuy No doubt salt is a primary ingredient for resurrecting the ancient necromancer lol.

@HedgehogEngine Even replacing salt with a more relevant resource isn't all that inspiring. My point is really the lack of moral weight to the salt trade. If we're talking imperial exploitation then we're talking. But without any more information "salt" isn't all that interesting and not comparably important.

Instant purchase for me. Really liked the demo.

I’m fine with salt being a resource source of conflict over something that has been done a million times like gold/food/weapons/etc and it’s not all that unbelievable either if it’s a significant economic factor which real life history shown it has at one point or another

@XiaoShao

I know that salt is important. Ya'll don't have to keep telling me lol. What I mean is smuggling salt doesn't seem to have any moral weight to it. The trailer suggests we will need to make this important decision but it doesn't seem morally important at all. It might be dangerous breaking the law in the world but morally it's just salt.

I'm not really taking it seriously. I'm just laughing. Like salt? Really? It's like the Star Wars prequels and the trade war. No one cared about the damn trade war. It's bland. It's not a conundrum.

Maybe that's what they thought. "Trade wars are bland. How can we make something not bland? Salt!" But seriously, shoulda used garlic.... or nutmeg. Will you sacrifice your egg nog to save your family?

@HedgehogEngine

I hope so. I expect more depth than the trailer lets on but if not I did like Octopath's story-less gamplay. Hopefully this will be a fun SRPG regardless of the spice they fight over.

Plz guys it’s not too late to change the title

@Purgatorium Considering salt was required to preserve food before refrigeration was a thing, peeps in Rome were paid in salt, hence the phrase : "Not worth their weight in salt".
Smuggling an item you would need to preserve food and help with every day life would be a valid premise.

I love getting pinged with fun facts about salt, don't get me wrong, but ya'll need to read what I said about it. It's not the value of salt. It's the moral weight of smuggling it.

Can I recommend "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky? Good stuff. He writes a lot in the microhistory genre. "Cod" is a good one. "Paper" too. "Consider the Fork" by Bee Wilson, one of my favourites. Damn, looking back on it, I've read a lot of microhistories... yeah so salt, I get it, my dudes. Love the fun facts, but I'm stressing the moral dilemma presented in the trailer that seems a little lackluster being about salt smuggling. Not salt itself as a valuable commodity. Cannot stress this enough. No one is saying anything bad about salt. In this house we love and honour salt. Just the moral implications of salt smuggling. It doesn't seem that exciting.

Salt takes the blame for the war but it was really Pepper from the shadows. (Comment sections 10 minutes later with tons of responses for real wars Pepper started instead of Salt)

@TuxDC The light or the dark. Salt or Pepper. You must choose your path. Where do you stand in the War of Seasoning? And yet, there is another. Heat and pain. The Fire Lord Paprika.

I was really excited for this until I played the demo. Every character seemed super bland to me. FFT is one of my all time favorite games, part of that was due to being able to make your own characters to raise however. This seems to lack that and none of the characters I encountered in the demo gave me any sense of "wow neat character".

That are some games that are so must buy that everything you see just put a smile in your face.

Is it me or is the voice acting noticeably better now compared to the demo from awhile back?

@Purgatorium I love the amount of “well actually,” comments that you are getting ABOUT THE SALT TRADE.

Freaking glorious. Caught me off guard. Apparently some people think salt is of the utmost importance.

I agree with you, though. Literally the most boring concept they could have mustered for a plot device.

@BloodNinja I try not to get salty about it. It was well meaning enough I suppose.

I am still looking forward to this game though, and while playing it I will fondly remember these comments.

@Purgatorium Enjoy!!