I like the art style. I'd love to see some graphics from the game beyond combat missions. Some of these TBS games have insanely bad graphics when you're not actually fighting. Other than that, it seems like the kind of game I could play through and hate myself for wasting time on a happy ending (I HATE HAPPY ENDINGS!). If someone could elaborate on what the reviewer says about morality and how it's not a clear-cut case, I'd appreciate it.

There's good guys who are pure as newly-fallen snow and bad guys who eat babies regularly for all 3 meals of the day.

The difference from normal is that the bad guys score some victories every now and then, instead of looking threatening at the start then being punching bags for the heroes to smack around. They feel threatening, as opponed to incompetent scrubs trhat leave you wondering how the rest of the world needs your help to do anything against them.

The story sequences use the game engine combined with some rendering; if it was a movie the transition between combat and story would be considered somewhat seamless. You have a narrator at times but there's mostly dialog. You generally have 2-4 story scenes between each battle scene. It is skippable but you probably won't.

Well, the two main characters are sweet as cherry pie, but the rest of the squad isn't - the two lieutenants, Largo and Rosie, are racists who refuse to work with Darcsen, for instance, but are still 'good guys' - no surprise that they become more accepting later, in part due to certain events.

You have one enemy general who is a fervent racist, and an aristocrat (in a bad way), he also leads a forced labour camp. He is not a good guy, mkay? Yet he is the one who gets a human face; in a chance encounter in a wood, he does not capture our two heroes when it becomes clear they had tried to save one of his soldiers, and upon failing, buried him. It is made a point that his reason for fighting isn't blind nationalism or hate, but his soldiers.

Bit of a spoiler here - I haven't gotten to the ending yet so I can't say about that. Amusingly enough the other great empire - the atlantic federation - tries to kidnap Gallia's princess and force Gallia (your country) to become a puppet state. So while you have the 'white and peaceful' empire they're not good guys either; they just doesn't act as overtly.