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Talking Point: Triangle Strategy Is A Bad Name, Which Hopefully Won’t Matter

Looking forward to the next Mario title, Platform Jumper.

Nintendo is starting off the year rather strongly on Switch, with exciting games to keep us busy towards Summer. Despite fierce opposition the Nintendo-distributed game at the top of this scribe’s list is Triangle Strategy, which is coming to us thanks to Square Enix and continuing the visual style we first saw in Octopath Traveler. Yes, there are massive Pokémon and Kirby games too, but for fans of strategy games it’s hard not to be ever-so-slightly impatient for a title that, to be honest, has a rubbish name.

To clarify, though the look and of course the leadership of Square Enix (especially through producer Tomoya Asano) in the projects are the same, Triangle Strategy and Octopath Traveler have different contributing development studios. With Octopath Traveler it was Acquire, whereas for Triangle Strategy it’s Artdink. Both companies have a lot of experience and it makes sense that different teams would specialise in very different genres, but it’s a reminder that Triangle Strategy is very much its own game and the link with its HD-2D predecessor is largely limited to the rather handsome graphics engine.

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