Hero's Saga Laevatein Tactics is a long way from perfect. The battles are not swift, even by the standards of tactical games. Getting the characters and weapons the player wants is a remarkably random endeavor, also. Despite these flaws, the game as a pure tactical scenario actually manages to rise above more prominent choices on the DS such as the Luminous Arc series, delivering a unique and enjoyable tactical experience that should engross devotees of the genre.
Why is it that you can't have a strategy-RPG without some grand-scale war going down? Hero's Saga Laevatein Tactics is one of the newest additions to the popular genre, and it's more of the kingdom-clashing we've come to love. The impetus for battle this time revolves around mysterious weapons called "Vaettir Arms" that house the souls of powerful heroes past within them. There's a bit of flavor to the proceedings from some of the references to European countries in the text, but for the most part, it's a pretty familiar war story.
CheatCC says, "While Hero's Saga Laevatein Tactics has a few good things going for it in the gameplay department, the extremely cheap one-hit-kills super moves take much of the enjoyment out of the game. Add this to the terrible A.I., the cookie-cutter RPG storyline and characters, and the host of better SRPGs already available on the DS and there's just not much of a reason to pick up HSLT."
Hardcore Gamer writes: "One problem is that Hero's Saga plays like most SRPGs on the market with few exceptions. It's you and your troops versus a main rival and his/her troops in grid-based warfare, and like many genre entries, it has an incredibly steep learning curve. However, it does help separate itself from the pack with things like a unique class system. Instead of a traditional class system where class changes with the character's level, here, characters change class with their weapons. I don't recall seeing this before, and it actually works pretty well."
