Stella Deus is Atlus' spiritual successor to Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth, and a Tactics Ogre clone that drew from contemporary JRPGs (e.g. SP + skill-learning, job quests, item synthesis, wearable abilities) when it wasn't recycling genre stereotypes (class advancement, unite attacks, recruitment conditions, etc.) or from its predecessor (AP system & adjustable turn orders + religious themes). There are exceptions - though: Zone Skills are passive, menu-defined buffs that strengthen those standing within a certain distance from its user (although its effect basically encourages dogpiling), and the convenient grind of its Catacombs system greatly improves over Hoshigami's Tower of Trials. Beyond that, they mainly offer lame quotations implemented in boring ways; the TRPG equivalent of a cover band.
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NOT a hidden gem please don't waste more than 10 bucks on this game for the love of god. the poor man's Final Fantasy Tactics in every single department, although some minimal details carried over to stuff like Persona 3, so maybe it was a necessary experiment. I'd love to write a proper review explaining why it is so bad but after the 40 hours it took to beat the main campaign I don't ever want to think about it again