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About This Game

The Garden Kingdom, a land filled with beautiful gardens. One day, the long-undisturbed peace was to be broken, when a certain incident occurred.

Zoolians, beasts from the neighboring Zoo Empire launched an attack on Garden.

Protect what is important. Restore the livelihoods of the gardenfolk.

With the help of garderner Kurtz and his friends, face the Zoolians head on and defend the Kingdom of Garden.

Battle System

Garden Tale is a 2.5D simulation RPG with a focus on strategy.
　

In various places across the map there are plants with explosive properties called "Bonions".
Hitting a Bonion will cause it to explode, inflicting damage to units in the surrounding area.
　

If other Bonions are caught in the explosion, they will also explode, creating a chain reaction.
The larger the chain reaction, the larger the damage that can be inflicted, greatly increasing your Mana (which is required to perform skills.)
What's Bonion

【What are Bonions? (Part 1)】
Bonions are onion-like plants you will find spread across the map.
They take damage from attacks and will explode when their HP reaches 0.
Both enemies and allies caught in the radius of the explosion will take damage.

【What are Bonions? (Part 2)】
In this game, making use of the positions and properties of Bonions will give you the strategic edge in battle. Engulfing multiple enemies in a single explosion feels great. But you must avoid causing too much damage to your allies with explosions.

【Chaining explosions (Part 1)】
When a Bonion explodes, any other Bonions caught in the explosive radius will also explode. It is possible to set off a chain reaction this way.

【Chaining explosions (Part 2)】
Setting off a chain reaction not only increases the area in which you can inflict damage, but also increases the amount of damage itself. You will also receive more mana, which is required for performing skills.
Note your allies' position and health before setting off a chain reaction, in case they get caught up in the explosions.

　

【Bonion skills】
There are some skills attached to certain equipment which can be used directly on Bonions. These include skills that move a Bonion when you attack it, or grow Bonions quicker than normal. Becoming familiar with these skills will allow you make better use of the Bonions on the field.
Skills

You can give 1 unique skill and up to 2 skills for the weapon/armor of each unit.
　

Some of these skills are passive effects, deal damage to enemies, or control Bonions.
Try to make the best choice of weapons and skills for each stage and bring your enemies to their defeat!

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Title: Garden Tale
Genre: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Developer:
Bonion Games
Publisher:
AGM PLAYISM
Franchise:
PLAYISM
Release Date: 13 Sep, 2017

English,Japanese

I had high hopes for this game as a fan of turn-based strategy, but those hopes were quickly dashed. The only thing Garden Tale has going for it is the artwork, though some suspect character designs (Meryl) manage to tarnish even that.

Garden Tale prides itself on a trap system revolving around Bonions, exploding vegetables that can harm both enemies and allies. The videos and images show large-scale chain reactions that seem exciting and fun, similar to games like Disgaea or La Pucelle. The videos, however, lie about these possibilities in a shameful way, including fabricating combos for show on maps that, in practice, aren't possible to pull off. Indeed, one segment of the advert video shows a combo on one of the first few maps you play on, with a starting point that would require a long-ranged attack. The problem? There aren't any long-ranged attacks, particularly not at that point in the very beginning of the game.

And there lies the biggest issue with the trap system; there is no safe way to work within it. Bonions require an attack to detonate them and they explode over a large area, and several hours into the game and 5 characters acquired, I still only have melee attacks. Essentially, bulding a series of explosions thus means sacrificing a character to the fallout afterwards.

Except, that assumes the traps are worth building in the first place! Enemies are many per map, and they hit very hard, an issue exacerbated by the forced progression from map-to-map without opportunity to grind and level one's characters up. Bonions, further, cannot be pushed, pulled or thrown, they can only be moved with certain attacks done by certain weapons wielded by certain characters. This means, in order to set up traps, you have to spread out your characters, take several turns moving Bonions into range of each other, and then sacrifice a character to detonate them.

In practice, this will get you killed long before them just from enemy attacks, enemies which have your characters beat both in movement and attack range. The solution? Ignore the Bonions, and just attack the enemies. Not only is this easier, it's the only real effective strategy. Unfortunately, it's also the most boring one.

In the most aggregious lack of enemy diversity I've seen in any game in a long time, there are only two types of enemies, and fittingly two types of enemy sprites; a melee wolffoxthing, and a ranged wolffoxthing. Further, while there are a variety of skills, they mostly function on the Bonions which have since been established as effectively the most falsely advertised form of a gimmick a game developer can get. So, enemies are uninteresting, and skills - given that they function on a nonfuctioning system - end up uninteresting as well. In the end, the game comes down to hacking and slashing enemies in a very uninteresting, monotonous way alongside some of the worst, uneditable control and camera systems in modern gaming.

There is little else to save the game from it's badly thought-out battle system. Animations have no flair, music is forgettable, and the storyline and character development are on par with Creative Writing 101 alums at best. There's no way to grind, defeating the fun for people that enjoy that, no real way to strategize, defeating the excitement of one coming from better-made TRPGS, no multiple paths, no exploration, no choice, no point.

Even at under $10, I wish I could get my money back. There are far better experiences even in this price range for RPG fans. Skip this one until it's in the dollar bin where it belongs.. Just played the first two maps of this game, and I can totally say that's pretty fun ^_^

The chance to have chain reaction explosion by hitting Bonions, with the risk of potentially wiping all your characters, (that's what happened to me during the first map :P) adds a nice layer of strategy; carefully positioning them before hitting for the big blast :D

Gamewise, it is the typical Advance Wars \/ Super Robot Wars style game, on its side it really has a really nice character design; the characters so far have pretty nice sprites.

If you like the genre, it is a game that's worth buying (10\/10 would wipe my party again with a big chain reaction explosion :D ). this is ridiculous. Just played the first two maps of this game, and I can totally say that's pretty fun ^_^

The chance to have chain reaction explosion by hitting Bonions, with the risk of potentially wiping all your characters, (that's what happened to me during the first map :P) adds a nice layer of strategy; carefully positioning them before hitting for the big blast :D

Gamewise, it is the typical Advance Wars \/ Super Robot Wars style game, on its side it really has a really nice character design; the characters so far have pretty nice sprites.

If you like the genre, it is a game that's worth buying (10\/10 would wipe my party again with a big chain reaction explosion :D ). tl;dr version- Charged too much for a poorly balanced phone port.

Full Version-
I haven't had a good SRPG fix in a while and I was, to say the least, disappointed by what I was presented with.

It looked cute. Animation looked a bit stilted, but overall not too bad. The music is inoffensive, at least.

Then I started playing and realized it was a phone game port. The mouse was merely an analog to tapping.

The camera controls are sticky, and the menus large and intrusive. If I play a game with a neat aesthetic I want to be able to see it.

I got into the combat and it only got worse. The Bonions were either overpowered or useless. Overpowered when they were set up from the start to be taken advantage of. Useless when it required baiting enemies into their range.

What finally broke me was the first boss fight. I had given up on the Bonions and fallen to normal SRPG stragegy of just sending the heavy guy up front to wail while my others did whatever support they could.

Then the boss summoned reinforcements not only right on top of my crew, but these new troops also got an extra turn.

If I want XCOM-grade \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665t like that, I'll play XCOM.

Got my refund after wiping on the fourth map to a scenario I could not have known about and did not have any chance to react to.. I had high hopes for this game as a fan of turn-based strategy, but those hopes were quickly dashed. The only thing Garden Tale has going for it is the artwork, though some suspect character designs (Meryl) manage to tarnish even that.

Garden Tale prides itself on a trap system revolving around Bonions, exploding vegetables that can harm both enemies and allies. The videos and images show large-scale chain reactions that seem exciting and fun, similar to games like Disgaea or La Pucelle. The videos, however, lie about these possibilities in a shameful way, including fabricating combos for show on maps that, in practice, aren't possible to pull off. Indeed, one segment of the advert video shows a combo on one of the first few maps you play on, with a starting point that would require a long-ranged attack. The problem? There aren't any long-ranged attacks, particularly not at that point in the very beginning of the game.

And there lies the biggest issue with the trap system; there is no safe way to work within it. Bonions require an attack to detonate them and they explode over a large area, and several hours into the game and 5 characters acquired, I still only have melee attacks. Essentially, bulding a series of explosions thus means sacrificing a character to the fallout afterwards.

Except, that assumes the traps are worth building in the first place! Enemies are many per map, and they hit very hard, an issue exacerbated by the forced progression from map-to-map without opportunity to grind and level one's characters up. Bonions, further, cannot be pushed, pulled or thrown, they can only be moved with certain attacks done by certain weapons wielded by certain characters. This means, in order to set up traps, you have to spread out your characters, take several turns moving Bonions into range of each other, and then sacrifice a character to detonate them.

In practice, this will get you killed long before them just from enemy attacks, enemies which have your characters beat both in movement and attack range. The solution? Ignore the Bonions, and just attack the enemies. Not only is this easier, it's the only real effective strategy. Unfortunately, it's also the most boring one.

In the most aggregious lack of enemy diversity I've seen in any game in a long time, there are only two types of enemies, and fittingly two types of enemy sprites; a melee wolffoxthing, and a ranged wolffoxthing. Further, while there are a variety of skills, they mostly function on the Bonions which have since been established as effectively the most falsely advertised form of a gimmick a game developer can get. So, enemies are uninteresting, and skills - given that they function on a nonfuctioning system - end up uninteresting as well. In the end, the game comes down to hacking and slashing enemies in a very uninteresting, monotonous way alongside some of the worst, uneditable control and camera systems in modern gaming.

There is little else to save the game from it's badly thought-out battle system. Animations have no flair, music is forgettable, and the storyline and character development are on par with Creative Writing 101 alums at best. There's no way to grind, defeating the fun for people that enjoy that, no real way to strategize, defeating the excitement of one coming from better-made TRPGS, no multiple paths, no exploration, no choice, no point.

Even at under $10, I wish I could get my money back. There are far better experiences even in this price range for RPG fans. Skip this one until it's in the dollar bin where it belongs.. Entertaining enough. Very short. Fun to pull off a full room clear or near full room clear with bonion combo. Still very short. :P
Recommend but for me on sale is the way to go. I am accustomed to more hours for my money though I am unsure I would thumbs up it had it been substantially longer.. tl;dr version- Charged too much for a poorly balanced phone port.

Full Version-
I haven't had a good SRPG fix in a while and I was, to say the least, disappointed by what I was presented with.

It looked cute. Animation looked a bit stilted, but overall not too bad. The music is inoffensive, at least.

Then I started playing and realized it was a phone game port. The mouse was merely an analog to tapping.

The camera controls are sticky, and the menus large and intrusive. If I play a game with a neat aesthetic I want to be able to see it.

I got into the combat and it only got worse. The Bonions were either overpowered or useless. Overpowered when they were set up from the start to be taken advantage of. Useless when it required baiting enemies into their range.

What finally broke me was the first boss fight. I had given up on the Bonions and fallen to normal SRPG stragegy of just sending the heavy guy up front to wail while my others did whatever support they could.

Then the boss summoned reinforcements not only right on top of my crew, but these new troops also got an extra turn.

If I want XCOM-grade \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665t like that, I'll play XCOM.

Got my refund after wiping on the fourth map to a scenario I could not have known about and did not have any chance to react to.