I decided I would go hard into magic and attacking from afar, so I built the rest of my team up around supporting and protecting my mages. Roughly halfway through the game, I had three elemental mages on my team: one for ice, one for fire, and one that was a bit of an all-rounder, with wind and electric spells on hand as well as a few nice support and healing spells. Let me give you a brief example of how this synergy all comes together on the battlefield. It feels a little bit like deck-crafting, in a way, and it’s very very satisfying to finally have your combinations click in a way that makes you feel powerful. Some battles have specific gimmicks too for example, one battle has you reaching a specific point on the battlefield with a certain character, and another has you dashing around the map to defuse bombs before they go off, which means that the team you’re used to using might not get the results you want, leading to a delicious loop of creating, deploying, and revising different combinations. It’s a wonderful little system, and its general simplicity, combined with the absolutely bonkers amount of different combinations, gives you the option to really focus in on how you want to play. You’ll only be able to bring 10 (give or take a couple) characters into any given battle, so you’ll have to spend some time figuring out how synergistic each character is with others, and if or where a new character could fit into that configuration when you recruit them. Because every character is unique in how they use their abilities - each character has passive abilities that can change the way even shared abilities work - there’s a lot of variability in the way you play.

For example, two spellcasters both have the healing spell Sanctuary, but other spellcasters don’t, and even other healers have different healing abilities that behave in different ways. What makes Triangle’s combat a little more unique is that there’s no classes or really much crossover between characters’ abilities at all each of the 20-odd characters you’ll come across and join to your party have almost a totally unique set of skills, with only one or two skills being shared between a couple characters.

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