If we haven't had enough strategy RPG news from Square Enix this year, then the upcoming The DioField Chronicle brings a bit of a twist to the genre. And you can find out just what that twist is as a demo has launched on the Switch eShop today!
Calling itself a "Real Time Tactical Battle" game, this is Square Enix and Lancarse's attempt at trying their hands at some real-time strategy action. On a slightly smaller scale to those other veterans, of course. And with this demo comes our favourite modern-day addition — your progress carries over to the full game!
Previews for the game have been dropping since yesterday, and Game Informer got some hands-on time with the upcoming release — which is just one of many Square Enix titles launching in the final four months of the year. Check it out below!
You can download The DioField Chronicle demo on the US the eShop right here. The game launches on 22nd September, so that's plenty of time to perfect your tactical skills and hone in on your strategy ambitions.
Will you be trying out the demo? Are you interested in The DioField Chronicle? Let us know!
[source nintendo.com]
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How many hours of Diofield have I played? Well, how many slices of bread have you eaten in your life?
Looking forward to the demo.
I will definitively have to try this demo! I love SRPGs and Switch is the perfect console for them. Love that Square Enix is giving so much SRPG love to the Switch while I wait for a new real Fire Emblem
I'm excited for this demo. I was a bit cold to the "real time tactical" idea, but i just played through 13 Sentinels, and the tactical portions seem to have some similarity (not quite RTS, not quite turn based), and i enjoyed that. I'll have to see if i find this as engaging
I’m rejecting my humanity and becoming an SRPG fan, Jojo!
@LudicrousBeeswax me too. I have 13 Sentinels in the backlog so I can't quite tell, but these new real time tacticals cautiously call my attention. The same happens with Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, not completely sold on the new mechanics
So many quality srpgs on the Switch it begs the question: Sega, when are you going to remake the Shining Force 3 series?
At an average of 10 slices of bread a week I estimated 24,440 slices of bread currently.
Glad this one got a demo, I love the general vibe the game has, I love the artstyle and I love strategy (RPGS). But the real time combat is extremely iffy. Demo is downloading as I'm writing this.
I don't even have time for the demo lol. I'm deep into XC3 and Monster boy at the moment. And I'm trying to finish monster boy before Blossom Tales 2 drops. So little time! One day I'll get to this game though it looks great.
Game looks nice, I'm glad this and Tactics Ogre are coming to Switch this year.
Much more fun than I was expecting. Not usually into Real-time tactics usually but is really fun.
This looks like nope.
Welp this is gonna be a day 1 buy now.
Played a coupe of missions last night. I really enjoyed what I've played so far. Nice nod to FF with the Bahamat Summon. Will get this day one
I liked it but hated zooming in to the character when choosing the skills...
@BlackenedHalo. You can just push X and a menu will pop-up and you can choose specific character abilities like that without having to manually select the unit. Saves a lot of time.
@TartarusBlack No zooming this time?
Plenty of tactics ahead of me (I prefer turn based, I much rather take my time and plan my moves, or the combination, like Doorkickers, where you plan everything, see how it plays out, pause and adjust...), and plenty in recent past. Replayed Advance Wars, thinking about replaying Wargroove. Right after finishing X-COM 2 that I got on the sale when it was 5 euro's, with a eshop card of 50 that I got at 10% off (so basically 50 store credit, X-COM 2 for free with it), I didn't immediately want to dive back in with the expansion, so I "took a break" with Phantom Doctrine, a cold war tactics game from the creators of on of my favourite tactics games, Hard West. Both often on sale for 2 euro's. And that break... Well, I've been playing Phantom Doctrine for over 120 hours now, it's probably my new favourite, some obvious -mostly visual- flaws aside. Not to say it looks BAD all the time, but sometimes it does. I love how they use a system that makes every shot count, in both games, none of that "how could you miss a point blank 99% hit chance massive overkill attack ENTIRELY? TWICE IN A ROW? DID YOU JUST... Now I KNOW you didn't just miss it a THIRD time..." nonsense while an enemy insta-kills you across the map while you're in full cover. And Triangle Strategy is also in the pipeline, or backlog, and Fire Emblem is still in there as well. Next year or so, or the year after, I'll probably get Mario + Rabbids 2, I absolutely love the first game, and look forward to getting the second one after some price cuts. To anyone who thinks a fantastic game is worth full price, you're probably safe getting the gold edition of it day one. Quite sure it will be another gem front and center on the Switch's crown.
More Demo...still need to fini X3 and Digimon....ugh....
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