![]() They inherited their territory after capturing it from their human oppressors and hope to take advantage of Rance’s rise to weaken their neighbors. Another faction is led by a giant creature called a raccoon dog and his army of smaller furry ninjas. One of the first factions you go to war with is led by the leader of a strong unit of archers who has one of the best special skills for ranged units, but he’s beaten down by life and constantly pushed into making poor military decisions by his beautiful and spoiled wife. The leaders and subordinate officers of the game’s various factions each stand out in their own small way thanks to its well-drawn art and visual novel storytelling. Sengoku Rance's characters are some of the most distinct and memorable in the history of video games. ![]() To avoid this you could make the allied clan your vassal instead of invading them, but then you miss out on having greater control of their territory. However, if you attack the ally of this arms dealing territory they will begin to sell their weapons to everyone in the hopes of slowing your conquests down without having to actively engage you. For example, one industrious clan sells powerful weapons to its sole ally but also offers to sell rifle units to you. There are continuous choices and consequences to your actions as the game unfolds. For example, what resources were lost to ensure the victory? Were your best officers and units used up in the attack, leaving only scrubs and depleted troops available to defend what you won during that turn? What enemy resources were captured that would make the losses acceptable? How will the rulers of opposing factions react? Will your enemies seek an alliance, declare war, offer tribute in the hopes of staying neutral, or act in the shadows in an attempt to weaken your forces? There’s a lot of complexity in a typical grand strategy title, but Sengoku Rance is probably one of the most accessible and easy to learn of this genre. You are likely to be victorious on the field, but there are other factors which determine if the attack will have been worthwhile. During a given turn in a grand strategy game, you gauge the strength of your enemy and then build up the appropriate forces to take a territory you want. I'm going to take a moment to compare the strategic layer of Sengoku Rance to grand strategy mainstays such as Europa Universalis or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. Sengoku Rance, also known as Rance 7, is a strategic conquest RPG. The Rance series has featured various forms of gameplay throughout its history, from top-down dungeon crawling to first-person blobbering to isometric tactical combat. And so the irony in each of these games is that as horrible as Rance is, there are usually powerful human leaders and scheming demons who are a whole lot worse, requiring the oppressed to ignore Rance's crimes and call upon him for aid. An arbitrary system of divine level caps creates a class structure in which most people can never rise above their station, a divine level cap that Rance somehow avoided having assigned to him upon birth. The ruling class of the human kingdoms with few exceptions is petty and abusive. This deity is opposed by the openly malevolent Devil King who wishes to remake the world such that mankind would be even worse off. The chief god of the setting’s religious pantheon is an absent-minded whale who runs a crapsack world of violence and suffering for his own entertainment. In these satirical adventures, the eponymous character Rance cuts a path through the world seeking sex, profit and fame. The Rance series is the flagship RPG line from Japanese developer AliceSoft.
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