For the King

This is a challenging strategy and tactical combat Fantasy game. You play a party of 3 adventurers doing quests to save the kingdom. It has 3 main modes: an overland mode where you move across and discover an isometric map, JRPG-style battles, and linear dungeon crawls. The 3 modes nicely dovetail into each other, leading to interesting strategic choices and a surprisingly deep game in terms of mechanics, tactics, and strategy.

THE GOOD:

• The best part of this game is the couch co-op. I was able to play this game with my casual gamer significant other and we really enjoyed ourselves.
• This game is like playing a really smooth, well-designed board game.
• The game's difficulty is really well-balanced. Along with the fact that save-scumming is very difficult (you can go back at most 1 turn), it can make the game a real nail-biter to play! I found myself frequently yelling obscenities at the monsters because it was so intense!
• The game's random mechanic (based on "slots" or 100-sided die rolls, basically) is very subtle, and it took me many hours of game play to fully realize its implications.

THE BAD:

• If you're looking for fun story or whatnot, this game doesn't have anything but the most simplistic plot. This isn't a bad thing if you know to expect that, but obviously the game would be even better with an engaging story.
• The character special abilities and the combat status effects are very poorly explained in the in-game documentation, and I had to refer to the Wiki a lot.

THE UGLY:

• The character classes are really weird and it can take a while to grasp how to build items for them.
• There's a Hobo class! ... !!!!