No offence, but the guy that made that map have no idea of the game and where to find the XP or equipment faster or do not know how to make a proper effective build for Dos1 (Fire twins boss at level 9 LOOOOOOL) o.o
* albeit an important one: demonstrating that turn-based combat can also still work, commercially
What? TB games have nothing to prove commercially. They´re a success.
Without even talking about the obvious FF; The third best-selling RPG franchise is Dragon quest, 81 millions worldwide ( doubles the witchers sales, 26 million more than Elder scrolls games). Dragon Quest XI, launched in 2019 sold over 4 million copies worldwide, and they are still TB games.
And let us talk about Shin megami tensei, Persona (11.1 million) Yo-kai watch (13 million) or Mana (12.3 million)
Octopath traveler, Ni no kuni, The "Tales of" series, Fire emblem, Fate etc... All games from no more than 2 years ago, all TB games and all with over a million sales. even DOS games in their niche had respectable sales.
In fact, if you take away North-America from the picture, half of the list of best-selling franchises are TB-games. TB games sold poorly...in USA.
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Best_selling_RPG_gameshttps://twinfinite.net/2018/11/heres-how-dragon-quest-xi-sales-rank-vs-other-popular-jrpgs-this-gen/...And the indisputable best-selling franchise of all times of any category is a turn-based game and always was. Yeah, it´s Pokemon.
