{"id":13795,"date":"2026-04-08T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13795"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:54:59","slug":"cross-tails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/cross-tails\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Tails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/cross_tails\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this game<\/a> ages ago during some random sale or another only to not get around to playing it until last month.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side of things the character customization and combat mechanics are nicely complex, easily on par with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Final_Fantasy_Tactics\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FFT<\/a>, while there&#8217;s nothing much to complain about regarding the visuals aside from their inherent simplicity. On the negative&#8230; the enemy AI is abysmal, the world map is just for show (you simply click on a location to start the event\/battle there, no actual movement between areas), there&#8217;s no mouse support whatsoever, and keyboard re-bindings are heavily restricted.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the control issues were the deciding factor in uninstalling it. No mouse support is one thing, but not being able to bind &#8216;back&#8217; to the F key? Just bizarre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought this game ages ago during some random sale or another only to not get around to playing it until last month. On the positive side of things the character customization and combat mechanics are nicely complex, easily on par with FFT, while there&#8217;s nothing much to complain about regarding the visuals aside from their inherent simplicity. On the negative&#8230; the enemy AI is abysmal, the world map is just for show (you simply click on a location to start the event\/battle there, no actual movement between areas), there&#8217;s no mouse support whatsoever, and keyboard re-bindings are heavily restricted. Ultimately, the control issues were the deciding factor in uninstalling it. No mouse support is one thing, but not being able to bind &#8216;back&#8217; to the F key? Just bizarre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[28,121,120,473],"class_list":["post-13795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-fantasy","tag-rpg","tag-tactical-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}