Originally Posted by
celerystalker
I have that one. However, I know from reading RVGFanatic that you love you some magazines, and Nintendo Power did a bunch of great strategy features on it in Epic Center. If I remember right, the issue with Tetris Attack on the cover had one on how to get the most evil ending, and the... maybe Stargate? issue had another detailed one. I'll have to double check.
I didn't play it for years after I got Ogre Battle, as it looked overwhelming. However, I played through the japanese Neo Geo Pocket Color game first, as that was an excuse to ignore all of the micromanaging options and just play, and I fell in love with the actual gameplay, which made me way more receptive to understanding the deeper stuff later in english, as the "how to play" was second nature by then. If you ignore all of the alignment and reputation stuff and just beef up your favorite units to hammer your enemies, you'll find a super fun play, and you'll probably want to explore its systems a little by the end.