Grotesque Tactics brings some corny humor to the Strategy RPG, but it looks nice and plays well. It's... fine.
The gameplay is straight turn-based SRPG in a nice looking 3d world. The story attempts to play on all of the cliches of JSRPGs, and even Western RPGs, with the young, know-nothing protagonist, a super vibrato-filled mentor, and lots of doe-eyed damsels filling out your party. The humor is pretty corny, and can be overly wordy, but is easily breezed-through.
You'll tromp through the main story, fight lots of semi-interesting monsters with a few twists to each section's main battle to try to make them more unique. As you wander through the wilderness, you can fight monsters at will, or try to avoid them, and they regenerate so you can choose to grind as you wish. I didn't find it necessary to grind much, because overall the game was pretty easy. You'll pick up lots of cohorts along the way designed to add to the humor aspects, and they work well enough, even if some of the humor bits get old quick...
The good:
* Nice looking 3d visuals, good animations, and a colorful game world, despite some annoyances with the camera views
* Solid, straight-forward turn-based strategy battles with a few interesting little twists to keep things from becoming a grind
The not-so-good:
* Long talky sections filled with very flat humor
* The base SRPG is pretty standard, and doesn't offer anything very unique outside of the attempt at humor/parody
Overall, it's not... bad... it's just kinda bland and may get old quickly for some folks. But it offers a light SRPG that's actually not bad.