I never played those ones either. Seemed like a huge scam selling two different versions of the game and then selling the ending that merges both as a separate DLC. A shame too because it did look interesting, and the big titty purple hair woman is still one of the hottest FE girls.
>Three Houses was rightly beloved for its colorful cast of characters >Three Houses brilliantly made the player feel like they'd stepped into the middle of a storied land, with historic links between characters and countries ripe for discovering >Fire Emblem Three Houses' cast resulted in an outpouring of love from fans for months on end
He doesn't even compare it to other games that aren't 3H, and all the comparisons say the same thing, it just sounds like a newbie to the series sad because this isn't Three Houses 2: Electric Boogaloo
What the hell do you expect, should he compare it to the Jugdral games for street cred with the 0.01% of his readers who are old enough to have played those game yet somehow still moronic enough to give a frick about gaming journalism? Obviously he is going to compare it to the popular recent entries, and comparing it to Fateswakening makes no sense when you specifically want to make the point that the characters and worldbuilding being shit like in those games is a negative.
There are but there’s no mandatory social stuff you need to do now like in three houses and there’s less romance overall/ localizers changed underaged characters S rank romance to friendships.
>localizers changed s support underage S supports to be friendships
Incredibly cringe if true, especially considering that was the normal in medieval europe
(me)
Holy shit this comment came out so moron what
I’ll just rewrite the whole thing >localizers changed underage s supports to be friendships
Incredibly cringe if true, especially considering that was the norm in medieval europe in which the games setting is based off
hell, it's normal now. alear is 17 in the files and he can't get with other 17 year olds because ???
these people would localize romeo and juliet to be about two very close FRIENDS killing themselves over their FRIENDSHIP.
>badass fricking hyper giga uber chad with an eyepatch that looks like a fricking aryan wonderchild who also is an unironic shizo that wipes out entire battalions on his own >every single character in the next game looks like a fricking vtuber or gachaBlack person, no exception
Unironically, and no bullshitting, what the actual frick were they thinking
>cheaply made garbage where the trigger and face buttons constantly break
Same as the ps4-5 controllers, only with a better layout. Really all the first party controllers suck and you should be buying some 3rd party shit though.
I liked three houses but if they’re toning down the monastery stuff I’m very glad, it was fine on one play through, second playthrough was toeing the line and was saved only by now knowing the class requirement, third playthrough was just tedious, I can’t see myself going back any time soon for the church route (esp. since it’s so similar to GD I hear) or higher difficulties
At most you're fricking around with rings and bands, which are more like accessories from which you can inherit some extra skills. Theres non of that class teaching tedium. I didnt mind the class teaching in my first playthrough, though it was nice, but like you said, the game expect you to play it 4 times and it absolutely sucks the fun out of it along with the 60% of maps being reused with every route
>awakening saves the entire fricking fire emblem series >oldgays hate this
You frickers would have killed your own game. You should thanks Robin and his daughterwife
Never got around playing awakening. How hard is it to pair units? In 3h it was pure jank, sometimes units would cap and i couldnt pair them up no matter what i did
>pick female robin because I think she is sexy >horrible support with certain characters >marry Chrom >literally isnt even that good of fricking support >welp that was it first play through and it was horrible >play MALE robin >amazing support >literally BROMANCE between him and Chorm >feels fricking godtier hero that have to make difficult decision as a male character >females support are unironically good >Lucina support is like 10/10 compared to the female version >evne fricking TIKI has better support
Female robin a fricking lie. She literally has nothing on her superior MALE brother Robin.
Male morgan can go and KYS. Female morgan is the king
Most of them don't talk about 3H story. They talk about the characters and worldbuilding in Engage being much less fleshed out than 3H. Which is true based on the leaks.
Then they must have played the wrong game because there are a lot of poorly written characters in 3H and the world building is only somewhat properly built out in one route.
They dont even know Engage has a story and character dynamics they clearly didnt bother to explore.
Most of us played the game and those reviews are full of shit.
NGL I play a ton of SRPGs but always ignored FE because I thought it was Nintendo baby shit, until a friend gave me a copy of 3H and I loved it.
I was stunned when I started working backwards and saw all the map variety. It's insane how lazy 3H was in that department, but I don't think it's something you'd really notice unless you had a broader grasp on the franchise.
>literally creates the perfect fire emblem game >universal loved >people debate about the games for thousand of hours >proceed to shit the bed extremely fast like morons >make moe garbage game with horrible artstyle
Watch it sell less then 2.5m. These fricking morons have no idea what they are doing.
Why do every FE game i find promising gets always shit on >FE Awakening looks good >Nah bro it's shit >I don't see the appeal in FE Fatea >Nah bro it's good >FE looks bland af >Nah bro it's the best FE >FE Engage actually looks like it can be fun >Don't bother, it's shit
Am i autistic?
Rosado ruined the game, I hate homosexual trap characters. Hope this game flops and we get another Awakening to save the franchise again. Engage is going to be the worst and weakest Fire emblem game in history
What incredible character and stories?
The girl that cucks you if she gets an a support with some random?
The girl that spouts "No u" when someone tells her why she's killing innocents?
The random Black person whose sideplot is completely irrelevant?
Lmao
It does. But just like every game since Awakening if the character is a minor they "LOCALIZED" it and the game doesnt age up its characters like the predecessor to keep it safe.
There's a ton of romance infact some was kept like pic related, other is there in japanese while the text tells you completely different things.
>"LOCALIZED"
What minor could be married previously, there was cousins going from marriage to companions before but ages were never confirmed until Three Houses started with it. What the frick makes you think NoA or any localizers in general would keep underage marriage.
Weren’t there a frick ton in fates and awakening, like nearly every child unit, also I know I shouldn’t expect any less from shitty incompetent NoA but it’s still incredibly moron that they do it and should just give us a translation that faithfully represents what was show in the original
No, the child units never had their ages confirmed, they were from the future in Awakening and another dimension in Fates. Ages were only beginning to be stated in-game staring from Three Houses.
I’m pretty sure lissa’s confirmed to be a minor in awakening and you can still breed her lmao
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Anonymous
No, she isn't.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Fe wiki claims as such, I don’t know if that’s reliable, but I’m fairly certain chrom pre timeskip is stated to be a minor which is why he doesn’t ascend the throne and stays as a leader for army after his older sister dies which would make lissa a minor
1 year ago
Anonymous
>FE wiki
Holy shit you may as well not used a source at all.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Sorry I don’t feel like booting my copy of fe:a and playing half the game or watching half a playthrough to find one line
1 year ago
Anonymous
(me) > Emmeryn's age is given as approximately 25 in a conversation between Chrom and Robin, and the artbook states Lissa is approximately 10 years younger than her.
From fewiki
1 year ago
Anonymous
>FE Wiki
You just made everything you said invalid. Surprise you just didn’t say Huffington Post is your source
There were no ages in Awakening or Fates, which is why you got comments like "the adult you technically are" in Fates about Elise.
That's the worst part about this whole censorship issue. Nintendo literally could have just pulled a Lyn and raised everyones ages, and no one would complain. The character ages in Engage are already moronic considering Vander is 45.
>which is why you got comments like "the adult you technically are" in Fates about Elise.
which was again purely dub-fiction.
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Anonymous
Correct I forgot to mention that when replying, I think that even in the original scene he calls her young or something which is why they would add that random adult line
There is a marriage system.
You give them a ring for the S support and you even get ASMR bed scenes with your S support where they have 2 sets of extra supports about how much they love you/are precious to you/are good friends/worship.
Japan has all of them, English only the 18+
The only ones that stay friends are the old mans, the midage lady and if I'm not wrong Clanne
>Be me >See Skelly girl >Discover she’s a berserker >Instant interest >Her brother is the priest unit I’m looking forward to using >Explicilty sexual ending
Lowkey a shame. If only the coomers had as good a taste as me, they wouldn’t be b***hing about a lack of romance.
SMT V had its own share of problems but that wasn't one of them, theres a reason why the game just faded away from Ganker the moment it was out for a week and the shitposters moved onto the next Switch exclustive
>muh boogieman
why is it so hard for you to comprehend other people might not like it? the combat is neutered and the game is mostly sand dunes, and what little story there is is trash. it feels like a tech demo.
So the reviews seem to be generally ignoring the gameplay beyond saying it implements its new features well and are instead focusing on how its story and character interactions are a step down from 3H, hence the much lower score?
I get the feeling more hardcore FE fans are going to end up enjoying Engage more. Though I'm sure the game will be fan review bombed over censorship.
If it effects the english localization and the other languages are mostly intact then it really is a NoA problem. I'll just put go with French or German.
I’m on chapter 3 and I already enjoy Engage more, the combat in 3H was absolutely awful. The story in Engage is nonsense, I’m not going to argue that, but it hits the standard Fire Emblem beats: there’s an evil dragon returning, you’re a good dragon shapeshifted as a person, you’ve got (mostly) blue hair and a sword, there’s 12 holy mcguffins to snatch, etc.
>Critic score will be low because the game is worse all around >guaranteed to get user review bombed because the vtuber character designs and normies hating weird e-girlcon shit
I don't understand anons. The same people who talk about how fantastic Dragon Quests games are, with basic and predictable stories, criticize Engage's story as if it were pure bullshit.
DQ has charm. All DQ fans know the stories are just very traditional; people play it for the charm.
Good enemy designs, likable characters, and the localization adds character to the individual cities. It really embraces the feeling of a lighthearted adventure very well.
Did it ever occur to you that the two fanbases don't fully overlap? I've never played a single Dragon Quest and don't care to. The fact is, Fire Emblem games set a much higher standard than this a long time ago and it's very disappointing to go from a damn near masterpiece like 3 Houses to a game that is a half-assed downgrade from it in every way. It's just more Nintendo laziness like what keeps happening to Pokémon. Removal of features and mechanics, cutting corners, restricting player choice and freedom. None of these are good things and should be criticized. A straight forward, generic anime story that you have no agency or control over is a big step back from what they have already done in the past. It's just uninspired and lazy, and seems like they wanted to cheap out on development costs.
There is romance but no marriage system. Whatever the shitty MC name is gives characters a pact ring but doesn’t ask them to marry them unlike Byleth.
By all accounts the game part of this FE game is better than 3H. Unless your favorite part of the game was the dating sim aspects. In which case, lame.
And much lower sales too. They fricked up and got rid of what people were buying these games for. This franchise was IRRELEVANT before Awakening. Even the Advance Wars series sold better.
I don't think it's less persona elements, but just that the game is undeniably smaller in scope. 3H had four different routes of story telling that people still debate about in the FE community today. Engage has one story that's generally considered to be safe and nothing special. It's a fair complaint on the reviewers part, but also dumb considering Fates had a higher score.
Engage has more maps than 3H.
Half of 3H is filler, bro.
>4 different routes
Those routes play and feel the exact same throughout 2/3 of the game. "Different" my fricking ass, that shit is quite literally rehashed.
>4 different routes
All of them are the same with slight variations of the same map. Even Fates had better map design than this garbage.
>muh maps
It's not about maps, it's about story narrative. That's what the source of the reviewers complaints are, not game play. If you can't understand that, just make low effort posts like
>3H had four different routes of story telling that people still debate about in the FE community today.
this isn't a point in its favor dipshit
instead of ones that actually understand the topic at hand like
I think the story will surprise people for how good it is after all this fake negative outcry.
The cutscene direction is stellar and the writing isnt bad. The villains also arent shit for once.
The narrative isn't a good excuse either because during the first half it's the fricking same for all routes and the second half barely changes that much. Look at Silver Snow and Verdant Wind for crying out loud.
Silver Snow and Verdant Wind may be similar, but they still have thematic differences such as the focus on the dynamic between Byleth and Edelgard vs the conditions Claude grew up in. And even if those two are similar, Crimson Flower and Azure Moon are still very different from Snow and Wind. Which is more than you can say about Engage having one route. That's why its smaller in scope from a story telling perspective.
>muh morally gray story
Guess what, it was also shit. Its only redeeming quality is that is not as bas as Fates.
Which is why I don't think it's enough of an excuse for Engage's story to be rated so much more poorly when Fates exist. Why only compare to 3H if you gave Fates, which has a worse story, a higher score?
I stopped going into 3H threads years ago because the """debates""" if you could call it that made me want to blow my brains out. between the god awful politics and the shipping how could you possibly find discussing 3H engaging anymore? how many times are you going to make the same tired arguments to people who echo back the same tired arguments before you homosexuals get bored? and now a new game comes out and you want to make it all about you. frick 3H, frick you, frick all 3H gays I hope IS doubles down on the jp appeal next mainline and you get permanently filtered from the series.
>4 different routes
Those routes play and feel the exact same throughout 2/3 of the game. "Different" my fricking ass, that shit is quite literally rehashed.
I think the story will surprise people for how good it is after all this fake negative outcry.
The cutscene direction is stellar and the writing isnt bad. The villains also arent shit for once.
I dream of a darker and more grim Fire Emblem with a bit more realistic designs and characters (not as realistic as pic related, though), but alas, I know I'm a minority on this aspect and cartoony / ultra colorful FE are what most people want. I also hate 3D Fire Emblem, they're just ugly games honestly, nothing beats 2D.
>I also hate 3D Fire Emblem, they're just ugly games honestly, nothing beats 2D.
A 2d FE game doesn't sell well at all.
Just look at the international rerelease of FE1 on the switch.
I'll hold off on judging the story. I think people nowadays conflate a simple story with a bad one. In my opinion a well executed simple story has much more value than one that tries defying expectations or having a lot of twists for the sake of it. For example my favorite manga is Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and that's a textbook example of a simple generic story executed in the best way possible. From what I've seen from the cutscenes and such, there's a distinct possibility this could be the case with Engage.
I don't know what your standard for a well executed story is, but the protagonist of a medieval fantasy war story donning modern yoga pants and engaging in some joint cooking with people that tried to murder him days or even hours ago sure doesn't fit mine.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be fine if Engage was the most generic ass >an ancient evil has awakened story out there, but it doesn't even appear to try to have the most remote amount of internal consistency or potential for immersion. Even the mobile game seems more concerned about actually trying to tell an immersive story, and that had characters running around in swimwear and reindeer costumes since year one.
For anons who are playing the game early: Do they actually manage to balance the game around the Engage mechanic? It seems so absurdly broken that it'd just make the game uninteresting to play.
Yes, the game actively shuffles the Engage characters you have and adds bosses/enemies who use them so that it's not one sided either.
The game gameplay is the best in the series easily.
I will say it here and now; this game will be replayed a lot by the FE community. 3H has a good first play, but then you want to drown to replay it, it becomes a huge mountain, it is the least replayed FE game by the community even though it has 3(4) routes, since it is very uphill and repeats many maps, as data 3H has less total maps than Engage that only has 1 route. 3H is double or triple in length, but half is filler. 3H is fine as a unique experience so as not to play it again and to remember it as beautifully as possible, not as a video game. Engage is a much better video game.
Imma keep it real bros this really doesn’t look that different mechanically from Three Houses (still doing hub world bullshit) and the moe art style’s a turnoff so this is gonna go in my “on sale for 20 bucks” folder
>2.5
That's insane. Like I've seen non functioning games score higher. It'd be one thing if the story was actively painful to get through but it seems like he just said could be better 2.5.
>story fans and journos got filtered so hard that they are still giving low scores despite everyone agreeing the tactics are great
I fricking love low iq story fans and journos, they always give the best salt.
i...i just wanted to ship my characters with each other and have them marry...
this "romance only for the self insert MC" trend is making me not wanna touch anything the fricking nips makes whatever it's anime or games
Agreed. I loved playing matchmaker with all the characters. It made me more attached to all of them. This shit might as well be XCOM where I just throw units into the meat grinder because none of them matter now.
I'm playing it right now but I'm only in chapter 5, the story is pretty standard so far, you wake up from your slumber, your mom dies, she tells you to collect the 12 rings to kill the evil dragon, and you set on an adventure across the continent meeting allies and helping people.
Personally I love it.
26 chapters with 15 paralogues and some other stuff like online functionality. Nothing is known about the dlc stuff other than some additional Emblems.
I believe a large part of that is because the character you play as, Shez, acts as a better avatar character than Byleth. Despite Shez being voiced and having a defined personality already, they bounce off the 3 House cast a lot easier because of their status as just another mercenary. Shez' C Support conversation with Edelgard comes into mind, and Lysithea's C support as well. Byleth being a string of multiple choice questions can't really compare to Shez' full on voice acting in the game. It's a shame that Byleth can only shine as a character in 3 Hopes where they get written off to the side eventually. Their supports with Jeralt really showed what could've been in 3 Houses.
Three Houses is much better than Three Hopes, but Shez was a decent player character and it did an admirable job of telling an alternate version of that game's story and giving different takes on the events and characters that only solidifies how great and well developed all of them are. It's extremely sad that a Dynasty Warriors spinoff is a much better Fire Emblem game than Fire Emblem Engage though. What the frick were they thinking with this shit? They basically are releasing a half finished game with a fraction of the content of Three Houses and a way worse story and characters. They should actually be ashamed.
>Why am I laughing? Apologies, friend. It's just that as a gameplay chad, your enjoyment of story, writing and characters... well, I find them to be amusing.
>What's that? A map in which I must defeat an army of enemies with single digit stats with my team of wyvern lords? No need, I've already calculated the outcome in my head. Mmm... perhaps I will oneshot the boss from across the map with Bolting next time...
The story is just shit. It has nothing to do with the monastery being out or not. Too much fanservice characters like Marth,etc overshadowing the actual characters. Feels like I’m playing a mobile game. Like that Fire Emblem Heroes crap that I never touched
>gameplay is universally praised >literally every bad review is just crying about "muh social aspects"
Oldgays finally got a video game again instead of a dating sim with paper thin gameplay. Don't give a frick about journos who have only played 3H (not even Awakening).
Wtf is up with the shit where you do pushups? I thought this was more like classic FE. I guess the two colored haired protagonist already gave it away.
Shit reviewers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjssGY4Nx78 FRICKING PLAY THE GAME >Fire Emblem Engage was reviewed by Hirun Cryer on PC and is also available on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. >is also available on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
I enjoyed 3H and the school setting
I don't understand why nuGanker all of a sudden hates it
3H had threads for months consistently whereas games releasing now dont
>Fire Emblem's big appeal was that its player characters all had defined personalities and lots of fun interactions with each other >this distinguished it from other SRPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics, or X-COM, where outside of a handful of main characters, the rest of your party members(or even all of your party members) are interchangeable generic units, often randomly generated >creates a feedback loop of fighting well together and then being rewarded with a new support cutscene that unlocked new combat benefits >game following Three Houses doesn't do this nearly as well as Three Houses >reviews reflect this
It's a fair cop.
The fact that the game doesn't have as many story variables as Three Houses which often had to adjust interactions based on what route, what chapters have occurred, shifts in dynamics(e.g. if you're between supports when Mercedes and Annette have their fight), should've made it easier to go wholehog on character interactions.
As it is, they made their bed, maybe they can squeeze out one more FE for the Switch or get one in for Switch 2's launch year.
They have a lot of non-support conversations. In her interactions with Hubert, Lysithea mentions she spends a lot of time with Edelgard, and they have a paralogue together along with Hapi(as the other character that was a slither experiment) raiding a slither base doing human experiments and hunting Cornelia.
Exactly this. I came to Fire Emblem because that made it unique and fresh. Take that away, and you have a series with combat systems that are bottom tier for its genre. No reason to play it over Tactics Ogre, Midnight Suns, Triangle Strategy, XCOM, etc now.
Yeah this, I don't get the "heh, I actually care about the gameplay" gays when FE is the fisher price toy of SRPGs. FE's writing was arguably never good, but its approach to story and characters was unique at least. Without that aspect to it, I have no idea why you'd bother unless you have an absolutely entry level knowledge of the genre as a whole. Which is also fine, but you don't get to act smug about it.
Exactly this. I came to Fire Emblem because that made it unique and fresh. Take that away, and you have a series with combat systems that are bottom tier for its genre. No reason to play it over Tactics Ogre, Midnight Suns, Triangle Strategy, XCOM, etc now.
Yeah this, I don't get the "heh, I actually care about the gameplay" gays when FE is the fisher price toy of SRPGs. FE's writing was arguably never good, but its approach to story and characters was unique at least. Without that aspect to it, I have no idea why you'd bother unless you have an absolutely entry level knowledge of the genre as a whole. Which is also fine, but you don't get to act smug about it.
I don’t know how FE gays can even brag when Tactics Ogre had a remastered this year
That's not what made FE unique. This is. Get the frick out of here with your shit tier JRPGs on the grid worship.
(another anon here)
I hate fliers and horse riders, I think those are for pussies and I refuse to play with them. Are some of those forced into your team, or do you have full cotrol over your team setup from the very beginning?
You get your jagen to train exp, your 2 retrainers are weak as frick so you have to use it, next chap you get your first lance unit is also a cav, you have to use it for this chap or get raped by lance units. after chap 5 you can swap it
Truly clasic start: Marth games, Ds or nes don't matter
Middle pointt: Gba games Fire emblem 7 to 6 (yes that order moron)
The new direction of fire emblem: Fire emblem awekening for 3ds
Just play 3h: self-explanatory
It has a lower score than fricking FATES. Don't even compare it to Three Houses. If you want to fricking bait people show off the Fates score. I forgot it was that high.
The romance in these games are so laughably fricking bad. Why do you need it in your trpg anyway? >Wow, I really cared about this shy girl and she got all red and started to like me bad, so cool
>discount >Nintendo
If you mean used game sure....
>jewtendo games going on discount
Pretty sure Three Houses was on sale a while ago.
A-List games like Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 3, etc. never get a discount.
B-List games like Super Mario 3D All Stars + Bowser’s Fury, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Metroid Dread and Fire Emblem Three Houses do get sales every ince in a while.
>A-List games like Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 3, etc. never get a discount.
They are 33% off on eShop, but only few times per year.
You can track prices on dekudeals.
All those games were on sale last month/November, either through the eshop's annual holiday sale or if you wanted physical, literally any major retail storefront. The only exception is Splatoon 3 but that'll probably be in the spring sale.
>boring series for waifu gays gets popular because switchgays just buy everything >new game is more waifu homosexualry and they don’t even have to try
Who cares.
>Three Houses is the best selling and most recent entry in the franchise, and the only other mainline FE on the Switch >why are reviewers comparing games in the same franchise and using Three Houses as a frame of reference
Every new FE changes things around, you're a fricking moron if you thought they were just gonna make Three Houses 2 >but muh sales
If that was the only thing they were doing it for we would be getting Awakening 5 by now considering it was the first game that sold a good amount, but they didn't
I dont mind the changes, shit i dont even mind the bland story, but what annoys me to no end is that im playing with a pack of clowns. Every one of these characters look like they came from a different game. I cant take this shit seriously. Also the music sucs The gameplay is actually nice though
>Three Houses is the best selling and most recent entry in the franchise, and the only other mainline FE on the Switch >why are reviewers comparing games in the same franchise and using Three Houses as a frame of reference
Based journos. Ganker shat all over 3H (despite being one of the most active Ganker communities) and it ended up being the best fire emblem in my eyes
This new FE seems like it took the more mature and unique storytelling that 3 houses had along with the school system it had and gutted it for some moebob abomination filled with “REMEMBER THAT CHARACTER FROM ANOTHER FE” basedboy fanservice >inb4 MUH MAPS autism
3 houses chads win again. Never listen to Gankers opinions. This game deserves to flop
>dude le best game ignore the vtuber shit >dude le gameplay is different even when it's the same but with stands/personas >dude muh toothpastechan >ends up being mediocre and Ganker being wrong again
The only well written characters were 2 out of 3 Lords in 3H. Why is everyone pretending that the entire rest of the cast are anime one-notes? Did everyone forget about Bernie?
>3H characters are all One note characters >Lysithea's one note is that she's the absolute best girl
how can other characters compete with writing like that?
>3H isn't chocked full of dating sim elements but at the very least it's the best compromise of those elements from throughout the series (Avatar gets S ranks but other characters still get paired endings at A ranks) >Engage actually doesn't change too much in this regard except remove paired endings for non Avatar characters >But because T S rank wasn't actually visible for some reason it let the impression that romance was gone spread like wildfire, which unironically impacted reviews >Confused Japanese Businessmen are probably going to tell IS to triple down on dating simstuff for the next game
Why the frick would rumors impact reviews? And it's not even a rumor, the lack of non-avatar paired endings is a fact and something that warrants bringing up and reflecting in reviews.
I looked at these reviews and from my perspective they made me more interested in Engage. The things people were upset about were mostly that some things I didn't like in Three Houses aren't in Engage.
Everything. They got rid of everything they were doing right, and cranked out a piss poor story. Nobody cares about Fire Emblem for the combat system, which is shallow and inferior to other games in the genre. The fact that Midnight Suns has a better attempt at the base and relationship building aspects between missions says it all. Because that game also has significantly better, fresher tactics gameplay.
>What went wrong?
Skimming throug the criticism: Essentially reviewers complain that it's not a dating sim anymore but praising the gameplay. Which is exactly what I wanted from a new Fire Emblem. I found 3H to have too much bloat in form of the freeroam and social bullshit.
>Heroes from past games are underdeveloped and don't add much outside of combat
how is this a negative? The focus should always be on new characters over cameos.
>Running around the Somniel after a battle gets old fast
Then don't do it? It's just like My Castle, everything you can do there you can do through a menu
It's much, much better than the Monastery at least
>Heroes from past games are underdeveloped and don't add much outside of combat
how is this a negative? The focus should always be on new characters over cameos.
>Running around the Somniel after a battle gets old fast
Then don't do it? It's just like My Castle, everything you can do there you can do through a menu
It's much, much better than the Monastery at least
You can stop being contrarian to defend a bad game now. It's ok to criticize when they frick up this badly. And Nintendo does nothing but keep fricking up this badly with all of their franchises.
Depends on what you're after
If you want all the big answers to the plot, go Golden Deer
If you want a character piece about a fallen prince finding redemption, go Blue Lions
If you're a waifugay, pick Black Eagles and then decide whether you want to frick the midget empress or the pope
For the love of god, do not make the same mistake I did and let Ganker meme you into doing Blue Lions. Its gay fujo garbage. If you’re a man and picked a male character, then anywhere else is better. You will probably be too fatigued to play another route after you’re done since the game is such a long slog
Awful bait, don't listen to this homosexual. The Blue Lions story is kino as frick. That group of characters are the heroes and protagonists, everyone else are side characters at best or villains. You get the true story of the game and an epic second half as they fight to save the world.
male-male relationships aren’t inherently fujoshit nor even romantic, you cannot even romance dimitri as male byleth
dimitri has probably the best character arc in the game, ignore this anon
The gameplay isn't even good. FE5, 6, 10, 12 and Conquest all have good gameplay so I know what it looks like, and this ain't it. They didn't even try.
I've been wanting to get into FE for a long time, but was always discouraged by the censorship. It seems like almost every game in the series is censored in the West, even some of the old games.
Which games aren't censored? Keep in mind I'll emulate all of them on PC so I can use uncensor patches if they exist.
Well the first six games and 12 aren’t officially translated (besides the first one which was limited release on switch and wasn’t a translated rom file, it was an original jp rom with text overlayed) so those are safe from censorship, awakening, fates, 3houses and now engage I know have varying levels of censorship, fates being the absolute worst offender, 3houses is probably the least tampered with of the modern era
It was too slow, even though FE4 is fun at times it just constantly grinds to a halt. I think that's why Kaga made FE5 basically FE3 part 2 (Hard Mode) instead. His maps in VS are bigger generally than FE maps but nowhere near Juggy maps.
>takes hours to complete a single level mimicking the feel of a grand military campaign every single level
You mean it plays like shit with one or two men killing every map on their own but taking forever to do so, and the maps directly reflecting the world map just makes Jugdral look puny rather than anything.
If it wasn't for Thracia actually making the scale much more clear, Jugdral would have felt like it could fit in a single country in the other FEs.
FE4 Maps are absolute bottom of the barrel bad.
Fire emblem would sell like dogwater if they tried to bring it over in nes era and would be pushed back to jp only again until melee, I doubt anything would change
I dont really know, but from how bland and straight the writing is, my guess is mc got hurt in the previous war and got corrupted by the fell dragon, hence part of his hair is red
Very early into the game he had a dream with him evil and fully red hair so I assume it's gonna be explained later, if I had to guess I'd say he's the offspring of a good dragon and an evil dragon and his hair turn completely red when he's overrun by his evil side
But who knows
Three Houses honestly. The maps are terrible, the story is awful and the game looks like shit. I don't know how it went above a 6/10 for anyone. What am I missing
I'm still buying it
The lame fanservice story that belongs in a musou game for one.
If only. They're toning down fanservice like mad. No more dragon e-girl like awakening, fir one.
fan service means fan service, it doesn't exclusively mean pusy
Both 8/10
Problem?
too anime for normalgays
too censored for animegays
I’m somewhat of a weeb yet it’s still too anime even for me.
you aren't a weeb then
These. It's a big yikes.
So, like TMS#FE?
Hit the nail on the head.
>nobody are wearing thongs
>"censored"
Stop thinking with your reproductive fluids
The english version is literally undeniably censored are you even reading the thread?
I play anime games for that. Stop ruining them.
too micromanagy with over complicated menus
>8/10
>bad
Remember when a 6/10 used to mean decent?
Guess you forgot 8.8
>Remember when a 6/10 used to mean decent?
No.
Kneel, 3troony
Nobody outside of contrarians disagrees that Awakening saved Fire Emblem.
Awakeningbros we won
3H was always gonna be better in the end.
Based. Feels good being a Awakeningfriend.
This is seriously the best Fire Emblem in history. I’m glad I spent 4 days hunting down a physical copy at Target
Same, literally went to 8 different stores
it's the only FE i played, i would have played the next one released on the 3DS but they lost me with all that version and DLC shit
I never played those ones either. Seemed like a huge scam selling two different versions of the game and then selling the ending that merges both as a separate DLC. A shame too because it did look interesting, and the big titty purple hair woman is still one of the hottest FE girls.
Awakening is my favorite game in the series tho.
Localization
I'm playing it in JP and the setting bores me.
>Worse metascore than Fates
It’s unironically over
>check the mixed reviews
>its full of people complaining about the useless persona social filler being removed
GOOD
>t. Trannies
how is this picture woke
thats the definition of demoralizing, im so confused
>filename
When you try to explain to a tendie how shit the joycons are, they just claim you manhandled them
>read the lowest review
>compares the game to Three Houses 3 times
lmao journalists are a joke
>Games within their own franchise shouldn't be compared to one another
>Three Houses was rightly beloved for its colorful cast of characters
>Three Houses brilliantly made the player feel like they'd stepped into the middle of a storied land, with historic links between characters and countries ripe for discovering
>Fire Emblem Three Houses' cast resulted in an outpouring of love from fans for months on end
He doesn't even compare it to other games that aren't 3H, and all the comparisons say the same thing, it just sounds like a newbie to the series sad because this isn't Three Houses 2: Electric Boogaloo
>and all the comparisons say the same thing
The 2nd comparison seems more about the quality of worldbuilding, you're right about the other two.
What the hell do you expect, should he compare it to the Jugdral games for street cred with the 0.01% of his readers who are old enough to have played those game yet somehow still moronic enough to give a frick about gaming journalism? Obviously he is going to compare it to the popular recent entries, and comparing it to Fateswakening makes no sense when you specifically want to make the point that the characters and worldbuilding being shit like in those games is a negative.
Wait there’s no social conversations like the a b c s rank convos?
There are but there’s no mandatory social stuff you need to do now like in three houses and there’s less romance overall/ localizers changed underaged characters S rank romance to friendships.
>localizers changed s support underage S supports to be friendships
Incredibly cringe if true, especially considering that was the normal in medieval europe
(me)
Holy shit this comment came out so moron what
I’ll just rewrite the whole thing
>localizers changed underage s supports to be friendships
Incredibly cringe if true, especially considering that was the norm in medieval europe in which the games setting is based off
Your second comment solidifies that you're a moron. Just stop.
Well consider we’re not living in medieval Europe and in modern times, stop making excuses for pedophiles you pedo
Ah yes falling for a 16 year old(that's when they consumated) when you're likely 18-19 is pedo. Fricking puritans deserve the rope.
hell, it's normal now. alear is 17 in the files and he can't get with other 17 year olds because ???
these people would localize romeo and juliet to be about two very close FRIENDS killing themselves over their FRIENDSHIP.
>adults can have sex with teenagers
>teenagers cannot have sex with other teenagers
What did NoA mean by this?
And also awful story and characters.
Engage has probably the worst cast of characters in the entire franchises. I don’t see not one well designed character
We went from Dimitri to VTuber shit in one game
>badass fricking hyper giga uber chad with an eyepatch that looks like a fricking aryan wonderchild who also is an unironic shizo that wipes out entire battalions on his own
>every single character in the next game looks like a fricking vtuber or gachaBlack person, no exception
Unironically, and no bullshitting, what the actual frick were they thinking
Conquest had that honor before Engage and it still had the best combat in the whole series. You're playing video games for the wrong reason my brother
You’re a homosexual
I can live with that. I'm still right.
No you’re not, you’re just moronic
About which part, character designs or Conquest' gameplay?
Anna is an 11 year old with abs and big thighs so I call that a good character design.
Anna gets a pass because it’s Anna, she’s already a beloved character and they can’t really ruin her design that much.
>shit character writing, emblems overshadow the new chars, and nonexistent worldbuilding
>these are persona social filler
Oh so fatesgays are also illiterate
I could not actually tell you what the story in my favorite FEs was about
why DID nintendo start shitting out the worst controllers in the industry anyway? everything up to and including the gamecube had great controllers.
Can't be the worst as long as the playstation controllers exist.
You meant Xbox. The Xbone and Series controllers are cheaply made garbage where the trigger and face buttons constantly break.
But even then still, at least neither Sony nor Xbox has the stick drift plague like all Switch controllers do.
>cheaply made garbage where the trigger and face buttons constantly break
Same as the ps4-5 controllers, only with a better layout. Really all the first party controllers suck and you should be buying some 3rd party shit though.
>check the mixed reviews
>its full of people complaining about half-assed MP and a story that doesn't meet the standard of the mechanics.
To much anime and barely any thought put into the plot.
so it's the same as 3H?
Thank God.
False, we read the plot and its good.
The characters and story look too much like the cringe, bad kind of anime. Like Xenoblade 2 or Valkyria Chronicles, rather than Three Houses.
Called it
The game is actually fricking great and the best game since conquest. Therefore, it's a journogay filter
>combat is the best
>story trash
>can't be a pedo
my kind of game
>can't be a pedo
that's where you're wrong, the protagonist is underage and can only have sex with older pedophiles instead of their peers
>underage
The protagonist is 1000 years old
As a long as there's no LGBT BBQ shit I'll give it a shot.
Anon everyone is bi
Sounds like cancer. Won't touch then.
Wait, really? Previous games only had like 1-3 gays which made troons seethe. But now they just made everyone gay?
more specifically, the romance dialogue is IDENTICAL between male and female Alear
he's wrong, nobody is Bi. they're all Alearsexual.
Alear must be a Futa too, because the women that S-rank talk about having children with her… especially her Draconic half-sister.
Adoption exists
>another kino SRPG for me
Can't stop winning
3HRT went wrong
Literally all the bottom reviewers didnt play the game and thought of comparing it to 3HRT instead like the Persoina players they are
I liked three houses but if they’re toning down the monastery stuff I’m very glad, it was fine on one play through, second playthrough was toeing the line and was saved only by now knowing the class requirement, third playthrough was just tedious, I can’t see myself going back any time soon for the church route (esp. since it’s so similar to GD I hear) or higher difficulties
At most you're fricking around with rings and bands, which are more like accessories from which you can inherit some extra skills. Theres non of that class teaching tedium. I didnt mind the class teaching in my first playthrough, though it was nice, but like you said, the game expect you to play it 4 times and it absolutely sucks the fun out of it along with the 60% of maps being reused with every route
>filtering persona secondaries
Best FE game in a while
>52 without the Nintendo bonus
LMAOOOOO
>92 with the “not playstation exclusive” deduction
Its over sony sisters
Don't lump me in with those homosexuals. I'm sick of all you tendies, snoys, and xbots alike.
It's a return to form for the series, which isn't going to be popular because the fanbase is full of awakening gays.
>It's a return to form for the series,
Playable female character and gay shit isn't a return to form anon.
>awakening saves the entire fricking fire emblem series
>oldgays hate this
You frickers would have killed your own game. You should thanks Robin and his daughterwife
Never got around playing awakening. How hard is it to pair units? In 3h it was pure jank, sometimes units would cap and i couldnt pair them up no matter what i did
Way easier in FEA, you can buy risen seeds to keep fricking BTFO enemies. Was super easy to obtain all support convos vs FE3H
Nice, might give a try finally.
>pick female robin because I think she is sexy
>horrible support with certain characters
>marry Chrom
>literally isnt even that good of fricking support
>welp that was it first play through and it was horrible
>play MALE robin
>amazing support
>literally BROMANCE between him and Chorm
>feels fricking godtier hero that have to make difficult decision as a male character
>females support are unironically good
>Lucina support is like 10/10 compared to the female version
>evne fricking TIKI has better support
Female robin a fricking lie. She literally has nothing on her superior MALE brother Robin.
Male morgan can go and KYS. Female morgan is the king
Less romance and social sim stuff and more strategy, so people got filtered.
Sounds like the game is for me.
Are these reviews implying that 3H story was any good?
Most of them don't talk about 3H story. They talk about the characters and worldbuilding in Engage being much less fleshed out than 3H. Which is true based on the leaks.
Then they must have played the wrong game because there are a lot of poorly written characters in 3H and the world building is only somewhat properly built out in one route.
The Black person character and the homosexual trap character ruined the game. Engage flopped hard even worst than three houses
I wonder if any of these journalists are aware of 3h's constant map reuse
They dont even know Engage has a story and character dynamics they clearly didnt bother to explore.
Most of us played the game and those reviews are full of shit.
Do you really think they played the game more than once?
NGL I play a ton of SRPGs but always ignored FE because I thought it was Nintendo baby shit, until a friend gave me a copy of 3H and I loved it.
I was stunned when I started working backwards and saw all the map variety. It's insane how lazy 3H was in that department, but I don't think it's something you'd really notice unless you had a broader grasp on the franchise.
Engage is Fire Emblem’s SMT5
Uhhhh church bad kill dragons?
the game is filtering newcomers to the series because it's going back to focusing on the gameplay
>literally creates the perfect fire emblem game
>universal loved
>people debate about the games for thousand of hours
>proceed to shit the bed extremely fast like morons
>make moe garbage game with horrible artstyle
Watch it sell less then 2.5m. These fricking morons have no idea what they are doing.
>universal loved
First, do more grammar drills you dumb ESL. Second, lmao in what world do you live in that 3 turds is universally loved?
>calling someone an ESL
>with that punctuation
lol
best selling FE game of all time
Was your favorite movie growing up Titanic?
>every game should be the same because I say so
please, do a favor to the world and stop breathing
creates the perfect fire emblem game
loved
debate about the games for thousand of hours
Anon Blazing Blad was 20 years ago it's time to let go
You meant Sacred Stones
>make moe garbage game with horrible artstyle
But enough about Three Houses.
https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/ask-the-developer-vol-8-fire-emblem-engage-part-1/
The developer has literally never directed FE before, it fricking shows.
>ENGAGE LOST
ENGAGE LOST
>ENGAGE LOST
ENGAGE LOST
>ENGAGE LOST
ENGAGE LOST
Damn snoygoys really are desperate aren't they?
Why do every FE game i find promising gets always shit on
>FE Awakening looks good
>Nah bro it's shit
>I don't see the appeal in FE Fatea
>Nah bro it's good
>FE looks bland af
>Nah bro it's the best FE
>FE Engage actually looks like it can be fun
>Don't bother, it's shit
Am i autistic?
Journos will never praise a game that goes against their values.
Play what you like. 3H is a waste of time with a shit story and characters.
You have the good kind of autism that can see though normalgay lies
Journalists are crying because Engage is not Persona or a VN WTF
All the bad reviews mention the combat like once, Awakening really was a mistake
624617650
Cope and seethe. You will never be a woman.
Arrest yourself and go to bed, neither will you, homosexual, frick off.
Rosado ruined the game, I hate homosexual trap characters. Hope this game flops and we get another Awakening to save the franchise again. Engage is going to be the worst and weakest Fire emblem game in history
Persona 5 was a mistake
P5 is better than FE, but I do get that FE needs to stop trying too damn hard to be P5. Good that Engage seems to be easing off of that, though.
Engage is 3H without the heart.
This. 3H has incredible characters and story. Sad to hear this one is badly written and leaves most characters undeveloped.
here's your (You)
What incredible character and stories?
The girl that cucks you if she gets an a support with some random?
The girl that spouts "No u" when someone tells her why she's killing innocents?
The random Black person whose sideplot is completely irrelevant?
Lmao
>The random Black person
Who? There are no blacks in Fire Emblem.
Dedue?
That is not a black man. If he is than I guess Archer is black too
They're both dark skinned with black features. So yes I guess Archer is also black.
Have you not seen the Black person in engage?
>The girl that cucks you if she gets an a support with some random?
What?
>Seethes about Claude and Edelgard
Let me guess, Rheahomosexual? They're always the most ass-blasted of every type of 3Hgay.
Hated the design of 3H and in general it looked pretty ass so i skipped it.
Engage looks actually promising enough.
definitely going to emulate it.
It's not 6/10
So it doesn't have romances? This game is going to bomb super hard if that's the case.
It does. But just like every game since Awakening if the character is a minor they "LOCALIZED" it and the game doesnt age up its characters like the predecessor to keep it safe.
There's a ton of romance infact some was kept like pic related, other is there in japanese while the text tells you completely different things.
>"LOCALIZED"
What minor could be married previously, there was cousins going from marriage to companions before but ages were never confirmed until Three Houses started with it. What the frick makes you think NoA or any localizers in general would keep underage marriage.
Weren’t there a frick ton in fates and awakening, like nearly every child unit, also I know I shouldn’t expect any less from shitty incompetent NoA but it’s still incredibly moron that they do it and should just give us a translation that faithfully represents what was show in the original
No, the child units never had their ages confirmed, they were from the future in Awakening and another dimension in Fates. Ages were only beginning to be stated in-game staring from Three Houses.
I’m pretty sure lissa’s confirmed to be a minor in awakening and you can still breed her lmao
No, she isn't.
Fe wiki claims as such, I don’t know if that’s reliable, but I’m fairly certain chrom pre timeskip is stated to be a minor which is why he doesn’t ascend the throne and stays as a leader for army after his older sister dies which would make lissa a minor
>FE wiki
Holy shit you may as well not used a source at all.
Sorry I don’t feel like booting my copy of fe:a and playing half the game or watching half a playthrough to find one line
(me)
> Emmeryn's age is given as approximately 25 in a conversation between Chrom and Robin, and the artbook states Lissa is approximately 10 years younger than her.
From fewiki
>FE Wiki
You just made everything you said invalid. Surprise you just didn’t say Huffington Post is your source
There were no ages in Awakening or Fates, which is why you got comments like "the adult you technically are" in Fates about Elise.
That's the worst part about this whole censorship issue. Nintendo literally could have just pulled a Lyn and raised everyones ages, and no one would complain. The character ages in Engage are already moronic considering Vander is 45.
They were faithful to how the devs wanted the characters to be aged, which ironically forced them to change some S-supports.
> Vander is 45
what the frick, he has snow white hair
>which is why you got comments like "the adult you technically are" in Fates about Elise.
which was again purely dub-fiction.
Correct I forgot to mention that when replying, I think that even in the original scene he calls her young or something which is why they would add that random adult line
There is romance but no marriage system. Whatever the shitty MC name is gives characters a pact ring but doesn’t ask them to marry them unlike Byleth.
There is a marriage system.
You give them a ring for the S support and you even get ASMR bed scenes with your S support where they have 2 sets of extra supports about how much they love you/are precious to you/are good friends/worship.
Japan has all of them, English only the 18+
The only ones that stay friends are the old mans, the midage lady and if I'm not wrong Clanne
>Be me
>See Skelly girl
>Discover she’s a berserker
>Instant interest
>Her brother is the priest unit I’m looking forward to using
>Explicilty sexual ending
Lowkey a shame. If only the coomers had as good a taste as me, they wouldn’t be b***hing about a lack of romance.
They straight up removed supports this time? Lmao.
the old games got exagerated scores because FE felt new to the journos at the time.
It's SMT V all over again
>B-BUT WHERE'S THE PERSOINA ELEMENTS?!!?!?
"Reviewers" should be gassed
And SMTV was shit so…
SMT V had its own share of problems but that wasn't one of them, theres a reason why the game just faded away from Ganker the moment it was out for a week and the shitposters moved onto the next Switch exclustive
smtv is trash and this game will be too and its not the reasons you think
Poor Eric, after all those threads where you claim that Soul Hackers 2 would destroy SMT V in sales you still won't give up. That's some dedication.
>muh boogieman
why is it so hard for you to comprehend other people might not like it? the combat is neutered and the game is mostly sand dunes, and what little story there is is trash. it feels like a tech demo.
Interesting take on the series, and I would love to talk with you about it. Will you invite me to your discord?
No Edelgard for transbians to worship
Censorship.
So the reviews seem to be generally ignoring the gameplay beyond saying it implements its new features well and are instead focusing on how its story and character interactions are a step down from 3H, hence the much lower score?
I get the feeling more hardcore FE fans are going to end up enjoying Engage more. Though I'm sure the game will be fan review bombed over censorship.
If it effects the english localization and the other languages are mostly intact then it really is a NoA problem. I'll just put go with French or German.
The European localizations are usually based on the American one.
Anon it's every non-nip language, NoE does the other languages, you think they're keeping the pedoshit? Just learn Japanese finally.
I’m on chapter 3 and I already enjoy Engage more, the combat in 3H was absolutely awful. The story in Engage is nonsense, I’m not going to argue that, but it hits the standard Fire Emblem beats: there’s an evil dragon returning, you’re a good dragon shapeshifted as a person, you’ve got (mostly) blue hair and a sword, there’s 12 holy mcguffins to snatch, etc.
>Now 3H gays will continue to act smug until the next FE.
I guess is finally time to leave Ganker for some time.
That’s what this was all about wasn’t it. It was never about genuine love for Engage, it was out of hatred for 3H.
At least the series is not under 80 yet
>Critic score will be low because the game is worse all around
>guaranteed to get user review bombed because the vtuber character designs and normies hating weird e-girlcon shit
I don't understand anons. The same people who talk about how fantastic Dragon Quests games are, with basic and predictable stories, criticize Engage's story as if it were pure bullshit.
Ganker just shits on anything because is the only thing in their pathetic lives that gives them dopamine hits.
DQ has charm. All DQ fans know the stories are just very traditional; people play it for the charm.
Good enemy designs, likable characters, and the localization adds character to the individual cities. It really embraces the feeling of a lighthearted adventure very well.
90% of DQ stories sucks, and no one journo complains.
>localization adds character to the individual cities.
If by that you mean that everyone talks in infuriating broken ye olde english you're correct.
Did it ever occur to you that the two fanbases don't fully overlap? I've never played a single Dragon Quest and don't care to. The fact is, Fire Emblem games set a much higher standard than this a long time ago and it's very disappointing to go from a damn near masterpiece like 3 Houses to a game that is a half-assed downgrade from it in every way. It's just more Nintendo laziness like what keeps happening to Pokémon. Removal of features and mechanics, cutting corners, restricting player choice and freedom. None of these are good things and should be criticized. A straight forward, generic anime story that you have no agency or control over is a big step back from what they have already done in the past. It's just uninspired and lazy, and seems like they wanted to cheap out on development costs.
That's so moronic.
>masterpice
>3H
It is literally the laziest FE to play again.
What, DQ games are infamous for how much people shit on their stories.
DQ has way better characterization than this shit. Don't even start with that.
>Comparing fairy tale stories with a generic "Am I kawai big bro?" anime tropes.
You lost weebshits.
My wife
Fire Emblem Awakening
The solution is simple: Skip the cutscenes, and enjoy the gameplay.
You could just play a better game in the first place then.
By all accounts the game part of this FE game is better than 3H. Unless your favorite part of the game was the dating sim aspects. In which case, lame.
https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2023/01/17/fire-emblem-engages-western-release-allegedly-gutting-all-romance-with-minors/#comments
people are buying this cencored slop
Hey! I was there on that thread! That’s so cool!
>Sankaku
Why do people still use that shit site as a point for anything.
>read a thread on Ganker
>make an article about it
pathetic
>Sankaku
Don't really keep up to date on Switch emulation, can I play this on Ryujinx or Yuzu without freeze-ups as it tries to load in shaders now?
>NMH3
>FE: Engage
>Bayo 3
>XBC3
4 failures in a row
After doing everything in Tactics Ogre Reborn, I shall enjoy this.
>Not even out
>already mindbreaks snoyggers schizos
Based IS.
>Quality gameplay
>Shit story
Conquestchads…
We.
Won.
I don't think the game is supposed to have a shit story, just one that reviewers are saying is a step down from 3H.
ENGAGE WILL BTFO 3HRACK!
>It's just a little bit higher than another censored game
The story is good, it's an accompaniment to a great game. It's not a bad story, the newspapers think that FE is Game of Thrones or some shit.
Less persona elements = lower journo score
And much lower sales too. They fricked up and got rid of what people were buying these games for. This franchise was IRRELEVANT before Awakening. Even the Advance Wars series sold better.
I don't think it's less persona elements, but just that the game is undeniably smaller in scope. 3H had four different routes of story telling that people still debate about in the FE community today. Engage has one story that's generally considered to be safe and nothing special. It's a fair complaint on the reviewers part, but also dumb considering Fates had a higher score.
>3H had four different routes
With less unique maps than a single route in Fates, so much more content, woah
>muh maps
It's not about maps, it's about story narrative. That's what the source of the reviewers complaints are, not game play. If you can't understand that, just make low effort posts like
instead of ones that actually understand the topic at hand like
>It's not about maps
Stopped reading there
kys
>muh morally gray story
Guess what, it was also shit. Its only redeeming quality is that is not as bas as Fates.
bad*
The narrative isn't a good excuse either because during the first half it's the fricking same for all routes and the second half barely changes that much. Look at Silver Snow and Verdant Wind for crying out loud.
Silver Snow and Verdant Wind may be similar, but they still have thematic differences such as the focus on the dynamic between Byleth and Edelgard vs the conditions Claude grew up in. And even if those two are similar, Crimson Flower and Azure Moon are still very different from Snow and Wind. Which is more than you can say about Engage having one route. That's why its smaller in scope from a story telling perspective.
Which is why I don't think it's enough of an excuse for Engage's story to be rated so much more poorly when Fates exist. Why only compare to 3H if you gave Fates, which has a worse story, a higher score?
I stopped going into 3H threads years ago because the """debates""" if you could call it that made me want to blow my brains out. between the god awful politics and the shipping how could you possibly find discussing 3H engaging anymore? how many times are you going to make the same tired arguments to people who echo back the same tired arguments before you homosexuals get bored? and now a new game comes out and you want to make it all about you. frick 3H, frick you, frick all 3H gays I hope IS doubles down on the jp appeal next mainline and you get permanently filtered from the series.
Engage has more maps than 3H.
Half of 3H is filler, bro.
>4 different routes
Those routes play and feel the exact same throughout 2/3 of the game. "Different" my fricking ass, that shit is quite literally rehashed.
>4 different routes
All of them are the same with slight variations of the same map. Even Fates had better map design than this garbage.
I think the story will surprise people for how good it is after all this fake negative outcry.
The cutscene direction is stellar and the writing isnt bad. The villains also arent shit for once.
>3H had four different routes of story telling that people still debate about in the FE community today.
this isn't a point in its favor dipshit
3H won!
The worst part about this game is that all of Veyle's fanart will be yuri and futa garbage.
Sounds based to me, ugly males btfo
>ugly males btfo
Troon speak
Cope dicklet
>
I dream of a darker and more grim Fire Emblem with a bit more realistic designs and characters (not as realistic as pic related, though), but alas, I know I'm a minority on this aspect and cartoony / ultra colorful FE are what most people want. I also hate 3D Fire Emblem, they're just ugly games honestly, nothing beats 2D.
>I also hate 3D Fire Emblem, they're just ugly games honestly, nothing beats 2D.
A 2d FE game doesn't sell well at all.
Just look at the international rerelease of FE1 on the switch.
I know they don't sell well, Im just saying 3D FE are hideous. People love garbage, it's nothing new.
I'll hold off on judging the story. I think people nowadays conflate a simple story with a bad one. In my opinion a well executed simple story has much more value than one that tries defying expectations or having a lot of twists for the sake of it. For example my favorite manga is Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and that's a textbook example of a simple generic story executed in the best way possible. From what I've seen from the cutscenes and such, there's a distinct possibility this could be the case with Engage.
I don't know what your standard for a well executed story is, but the protagonist of a medieval fantasy war story donning modern yoga pants and engaging in some joint cooking with people that tried to murder him days or even hours ago sure doesn't fit mine.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be fine if Engage was the most generic ass >an ancient evil has awakened story out there, but it doesn't even appear to try to have the most remote amount of internal consistency or potential for immersion. Even the mobile game seems more concerned about actually trying to tell an immersive story, and that had characters running around in swimwear and reindeer costumes since year one.
For anons who are playing the game early: Do they actually manage to balance the game around the Engage mechanic? It seems so absurdly broken that it'd just make the game uninteresting to play.
Yes, the game actively shuffles the Engage characters you have and adds bosses/enemies who use them so that it's not one sided either.
The game gameplay is the best in the series easily.
Does the game even know if you playing as male or female?
FEtards only care about maps because there's nothing else to the gameplay in these games compared to other TRPG's.
I will say it here and now; this game will be replayed a lot by the FE community. 3H has a good first play, but then you want to drown to replay it, it becomes a huge mountain, it is the least replayed FE game by the community even though it has 3(4) routes, since it is very uphill and repeats many maps, as data 3H has less total maps than Engage that only has 1 route. 3H is double or triple in length, but half is filler. 3H is fine as a unique experience so as not to play it again and to remember it as beautifully as possible, not as a video game. Engage is a much better video game.
You just convinced me to buy Engage, it does seem more replayable friendly
not with that shitty class variety
The variety of old games, gayot
Imma keep it real bros this really doesn’t look that different mechanically from Three Houses (still doing hub world bullshit) and the moe art style’s a turnoff so this is gonna go in my “on sale for 20 bucks” folder
A lot of the lowest review scores came from people who really liked 3H.
>2.5
That's insane. Like I've seen non functioning games score higher. It'd be one thing if the story was actively painful to get through but it seems like he just said could be better 2.5.
Unless I have the wrong site, it's a different critic, but they gave Scarlett and Violet a 3 https://www.gamesradar.com/pokemon-scarlet-violet-review/
I was just talking in general but that is crazy. I feel like some sites just do these bait super low reviews these days though.
>story fans and journos got filtered so hard that they are still giving low scores despite everyone agreeing the tactics are great
I fricking love low iq story fans and journos, they always give the best salt.
>there are people who play fire emblem for "combat"
i...i just wanted to ship my characters with each other and have them marry...
this "romance only for the self insert MC" trend is making me not wanna touch anything the fricking nips makes whatever it's anime or games
Good riddance, we don’t want shipgays like you playing the game. That shit ruins it
Explain, how does shipping "ruin" Fire Emblem?
Agreed. I loved playing matchmaker with all the characters. It made me more attached to all of them. This shit might as well be XCOM where I just throw units into the meat grinder because none of them matter now.
Please killyourself shipgay
>there are people who play games for the gameplay
Has someone already made a machine learning algorithm matching metacrtitic critic score with marketing budget of a videogame?
"Kill the Evil Dragon" is the core of the series, it's peak FE plot
I’m not buying it because I don’t want to kill her or the other girl in four hands.
stop liking evil women
I can’t just look at her they’re perfect
82 is still a good score you tards.
>all the low scores are complaining about removal of "muh social aspects"
Three Houses has done incalculable damage to this franchise.
Journalists have sentenced the series:
"Gray" story > Gameplay and maps
Do the people in here who even say "story bad" even read or played Engage?
I'm playing it right now but I'm only in chapter 5, the story is pretty standard so far, you wake up from your slumber, your mom dies, she tells you to collect the 12 rings to kill the evil dragon, and you set on an adventure across the continent meeting allies and helping people.
Personally I love it.
Much better version. Don’t like the homosexual mc he looks like a homosexual with that stupid haircut
Begone gross troon. Go ahead and make love to the rope.
Seethe dicklet
How long is the game
26 chapters with 15 paralogues and some other stuff like online functionality. Nothing is known about the dlc stuff other than some additional Emblems.
>Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is a better, deeper Fire Emblem game than a mainline Fire Emblem game
Fricking depressing. Nintendo shit the bed, again.
I believe a large part of that is because the character you play as, Shez, acts as a better avatar character than Byleth. Despite Shez being voiced and having a defined personality already, they bounce off the 3 House cast a lot easier because of their status as just another mercenary. Shez' C Support conversation with Edelgard comes into mind, and Lysithea's C support as well. Byleth being a string of multiple choice questions can't really compare to Shez' full on voice acting in the game. It's a shame that Byleth can only shine as a character in 3 Hopes where they get written off to the side eventually. Their supports with Jeralt really showed what could've been in 3 Houses.
Three Houses is much better than Three Hopes, but Shez was a decent player character and it did an admirable job of telling an alternate version of that game's story and giving different takes on the events and characters that only solidifies how great and well developed all of them are. It's extremely sad that a Dynasty Warriors spinoff is a much better Fire Emblem game than Fire Emblem Engage though. What the frick were they thinking with this shit? They basically are releasing a half finished game with a fraction of the content of Three Houses and a way worse story and characters. They should actually be ashamed.
>Why am I laughing? Apologies, friend. It's just that as a gameplay chad, your enjoyment of story, writing and characters... well, I find them to be amusing.
>What's that? A map in which I must defeat an army of enemies with single digit stats with my team of wyvern lords? No need, I've already calculated the outcome in my head. Mmm... perhaps I will oneshot the boss from across the map with Bolting next time...
The story is just shit. It has nothing to do with the monastery being out or not. Too much fanservice characters like Marth,etc overshadowing the actual characters. Feels like I’m playing a mobile game. Like that Fire Emblem Heroes crap that I never touched
>Too much fanservice characters like Marth,etc overshadowing the actual characters.
Tell me you didnt play the game without telling me.
Everyone downloaded the torrent already
>gameplay is universally praised
>literally every bad review is just crying about "muh social aspects"
Oldgays finally got a video game again instead of a dating sim with paper thin gameplay. Don't give a frick about journos who have only played 3H (not even Awakening).
Wtf is up with the shit where you do pushups? I thought this was more like classic FE. I guess the two colored haired protagonist already gave it away.
Joycon IR sensor judge if you are Ganker, if you fail you get the bad romantic end instead of the extended scene. A few mechanics hint at this.
>tfw havent been to gym in 2 months
Frick bros, i really should go back. Dont want my e-girlwife to make fun of me for skipping out
You literally don't need to do it even once, it's a very mild stat boost for the next battle and that's it
The character design is so fricking shit. Holy frick.
Shit reviewers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjssGY4Nx78 FRICKING PLAY THE GAME
>Fire Emblem Engage was reviewed by Hirun Cryer on PC and is also available on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
>is also available on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
>Fire Emblem Engage was reviewed by Hirun Cryer on PC
A fellow emulation bro, I see
The game is on PC homosexual
I enjoyed 3H and the school setting
I don't understand why nuGanker all of a sudden hates it
3H had threads for months consistently whereas games releasing now dont
Contrarians and braindead Nintendo slaves defending new product at all costs against people recognizing it is not as good as old product.
There's still probably going to be 3H threads after a month or two
>Fire Emblem's big appeal was that its player characters all had defined personalities and lots of fun interactions with each other
>this distinguished it from other SRPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics, or X-COM, where outside of a handful of main characters, the rest of your party members(or even all of your party members) are interchangeable generic units, often randomly generated
>creates a feedback loop of fighting well together and then being rewarded with a new support cutscene that unlocked new combat benefits
>game following Three Houses doesn't do this nearly as well as Three Houses
>reviews reflect this
It's a fair cop.
The fact that the game doesn't have as many story variables as Three Houses which often had to adjust interactions based on what route, what chapters have occurred, shifts in dynamics(e.g. if you're between supports when Mercedes and Annette have their fight), should've made it easier to go wholehog on character interactions.
As it is, they made their bed, maybe they can squeeze out one more FE for the Switch or get one in for Switch 2's launch year.
Lysithea and Edelgard have scenes together in Hopes?
They have a lot of non-support conversations. In her interactions with Hubert, Lysithea mentions she spends a lot of time with Edelgard, and they have a paralogue together along with Hapi(as the other character that was a slither experiment) raiding a slither base doing human experiments and hunting Cornelia.
Exactly this. I came to Fire Emblem because that made it unique and fresh. Take that away, and you have a series with combat systems that are bottom tier for its genre. No reason to play it over Tactics Ogre, Midnight Suns, Triangle Strategy, XCOM, etc now.
Yeah this, I don't get the "heh, I actually care about the gameplay" gays when FE is the fisher price toy of SRPGs. FE's writing was arguably never good, but its approach to story and characters was unique at least. Without that aspect to it, I have no idea why you'd bother unless you have an absolutely entry level knowledge of the genre as a whole. Which is also fine, but you don't get to act smug about it.
I don’t know how FE gays can even brag when Tactics Ogre had a remastered this year
Triangle strategy mogged tactics ogre reborn
That's not what made FE unique. This is. Get the frick out of here with your shit tier JRPGs on the grid worship.
>82
so if you remove the those 10 nintendo bonus points its a 72 so fricking bad
Incel chuds have ruined jrpgs with their vn dating shit.
Is the game too easy?
Playing in the hardest rn, chapter 9. It's not that hard, just the usual punishment for moron actions or push too many ennemy
(another anon here)
I hate fliers and horse riders, I think those are for pussies and I refuse to play with them. Are some of those forced into your team, or do you have full cotrol over your team setup from the very beginning?
You get your jagen to train exp, your 2 retrainers are weak as frick so you have to use it, next chap you get your first lance unit is also a cav, you have to use it for this chap or get raped by lance units. after chap 5 you can swap it
thx
so the game is bad
No it mean you are bad player if have to use rewind. fricking tard
It has rewind
Which fricking Fire Emblem game do you play if you've never played Fire Emblem?
Start with the one just named Fire Emblem for the GBA or with Path of Radiance for the Gamecube.
FE7 for the GBA. It was released in the west as just “Fire Emblem”.
Try it. It’s a great starting point with a beginner friendly tutorial chapter.
FE7 or FE8 probably
Truly clasic start: Marth games, Ds or nes don't matter
Middle pointt: Gba games Fire emblem 7 to 6 (yes that order moron)
The new direction of fire emblem: Fire emblem awekening for 3ds
Just play 3h: self-explanatory
It has a lower score than fricking FATES. Don't even compare it to Three Houses. If you want to fricking bait people show off the Fates score. I forgot it was that high.
toothpaste kpop mc + NoA'd
get nuked
Three houses was a dollhouse simulator for foids. I'm glad they are trashing the crap.
Finally, the third entry in the Tokyo Mirage Sessions trilogy (the second being Soul Hackers 2)
The romance in these games are so laughably fricking bad. Why do you need it in your trpg anyway?
>Wow, I really cared about this shy girl and she got all red and started to like me bad, so cool
Speaking of movies, is there any idiot around here who thinks that Alien 2 is the best?
It's a 7 points difference
Is Engage worth paying full price or wait for a discount?
Nintendo games never get discounted. Either pay full price or pirate.
Pretty sure Three Houses was on sale a while ago.
A-List games like Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 3, etc. never get a discount.
B-List games like Super Mario 3D All Stars + Bowser’s Fury, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Metroid Dread and Fire Emblem Three Houses do get sales every ince in a while.
>A-List games like Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 3, etc. never get a discount.
They are 33% off on eShop, but only few times per year.
You can track prices on dekudeals.
All those games were on sale last month/November, either through the eshop's annual holiday sale or if you wanted physical, literally any major retail storefront. The only exception is Splatoon 3 but that'll probably be in the spring sale.
this, I got 3 houses on sale 50% off for a physical copy during black friday like a year after release
>discount
>Nintendo
If you mean used game sure....
Hey now wasn't Koei Tecmo involved too? surely they'll discou... ppfffffhahahaha sorry couldn't get through that sentence with a straight face.
Nintendo deserves to be pirated anon
>jewtendo games going on discount
You think you can wait three months to Golden Week?
As an FE autist who's paying full price
NEVER purchase an FE game at full price.
>Buying a 30fps 480p Nintendo exclusive you can pirate now easily as ever
Why would anyone do that
>boring series for waifu gays gets popular because switchgays just buy everything
>new game is more waifu homosexualry and they don’t even have to try
Who cares.
>switchgays just buy everything
This explains NPD sales threads.
No lesbian lord that hates the church so the zoomers who were forced into religion by their parents can’t get into it.
The lowest reviews keep talking about the game is not like Three Houses.
>this game is nothing like the best game in the series
>this confuses the anon
The best games of the franchise is either Awakening, Path of Radiance or Binding Sword, but, ok
It's not like Awakening either, 0 paired endings outside of avatar and their chosen character.
Every new FE changes things around, you're a fricking moron if you thought they were just gonna make Three Houses 2
>but muh sales
If that was the only thing they were doing it for we would be getting Awakening 5 by now considering it was the first game that sold a good amount, but they didn't
I dont mind the changes, shit i dont even mind the bland story, but what annoys me to no end is that im playing with a pack of clowns. Every one of these characters look like they came from a different game. I cant take this shit seriously. Also the music sucs
The gameplay is actually nice though
>Three Houses is the best selling and most recent entry in the franchise, and the only other mainline FE on the Switch
>why are reviewers comparing games in the same franchise and using Three Houses as a frame of reference
It's selling at twice the pace of Three Houses.
Stop falling for the fricking COMG JRPG mirage.
Based journos. Ganker shat all over 3H (despite being one of the most active Ganker communities) and it ended up being the best fire emblem in my eyes
This new FE seems like it took the more mature and unique storytelling that 3 houses had along with the school system it had and gutted it for some moebob abomination filled with “REMEMBER THAT CHARACTER FROM ANOTHER FE” basedboy fanservice
>inb4 MUH MAPS autism
3 houses chads win again. Never listen to Gankers opinions. This game deserves to flop
Engage is a FE anniversary game that missed the FE anniversary. Thats why the story isn't hitting as hard as it's supposed to.
It definitely feels like an anniversary game. I'm getting real tired of the Emblem character bullshit already.
It was literally made to celebrate FE's 30th anniversary. So yes it IS that kind of game.
Three houses chads we are still the kings
3HT was the only game in the series with interesting characters and this fact will forever make FEgays seethe. Engage was never going to be good.
>dude le best game ignore the vtuber shit
>dude le gameplay is different even when it's the same but with stands/personas
>dude muh toothpastechan
>ends up being mediocre and Ganker being wrong again
Absolutely pathetic
The only well written characters were 2 out of 3 Lords in 3H. Why is everyone pretending that the entire rest of the cast are anime one-notes? Did everyone forget about Bernie?
>Did everyone forget about Bernie?
Based on certain threads, I can confirm ONE person sure as hell didn't.
>Did everyone forget about Bernie?
Nobody could forget about the absolute best girl in the franchise and the winner of this year CYL
>3H characters are all One note characters
>Lysithea's one note is that she's the absolute best girl
how can other characters compete with writing like that?
STOP supporting modern videogames
When will you homosexuals learn that every company is soulless now and paying them is encouraging more shitty games
I don’t care for it because it looks shit, and I heard they censored the frick out of it.
Why are engagegays so sensitive? Maybe it’s just shit like Echoes was.
8/10 isn't a bad score, though.
>3H isn't chocked full of dating sim elements but at the very least it's the best compromise of those elements from throughout the series (Avatar gets S ranks but other characters still get paired endings at A ranks)
>Engage actually doesn't change too much in this regard except remove paired endings for non Avatar characters
>But because T S rank wasn't actually visible for some reason it let the impression that romance was gone spread like wildfire, which unironically impacted reviews
>Confused Japanese Businessmen are probably going to tell IS to triple down on dating simstuff for the next game
And that's why you don't fix what isn't broken
>unironically impacted reviews
Why the frick would rumors impact reviews? And it's not even a rumor, the lack of non-avatar paired endings is a fact and something that warrants bringing up and reflecting in reviews.
Prob just some people malding about the toned down social garbage.
normies dont like it because its not like persona5.
It's Fates 2.0.
I looked at these reviews and from my perspective they made me more interested in Engage. The things people were upset about were mostly that some things I didn't like in Three Houses aren't in Engage.
>character options are cut down
>censored
>shit world building
So disappointed…
Everything. They got rid of everything they were doing right, and cranked out a piss poor story. Nobody cares about Fire Emblem for the combat system, which is shallow and inferior to other games in the genre. The fact that Midnight Suns has a better attempt at the base and relationship building aspects between missions says it all. Because that game also has significantly better, fresher tactics gameplay.
>no one care about the combat
frick you, leave my rock paper scissors game alone! ITS TACTICAL!
It runs smoothly for me. Keep coping.
dumb schizo
This is looking like the MH: Rise or Bayonetta 3 of Fire Emblem. It takes all the worst aspects of the series and makes it the focal point.
Except many people like Rise after SB. You're right about Bayo though.
>What went wrong?
Skimming throug the criticism: Essentially reviewers complain that it's not a dating sim anymore but praising the gameplay. Which is exactly what I wanted from a new Fire Emblem. I found 3H to have too much bloat in form of the freeroam and social bullshit.
I frickin hate zoomers. They want social sims and not video games.
>Heroes from past games are underdeveloped and don't add much outside of combat
how is this a negative? The focus should always be on new characters over cameos.
>Running around the Somniel after a battle gets old fast
Then don't do it? It's just like My Castle, everything you can do there you can do through a menu
It's much, much better than the Monastery at least
You can stop being contrarian to defend a bad game now. It's ok to criticize when they frick up this badly. And Nintendo does nothing but keep fricking up this badly with all of their franchises.
Guess what? I'm actually enjoying the game, way more than 3H
There's no need to lie.
Im playing through 3H right now whats the best route to take
Crimson Flower, it's objectively the best route in 3H.
Blue Lions. Objectively the true canon, the best characters, and most satisfying story/ending. It's not even close.
Depends on what you're after
If you want all the big answers to the plot, go Golden Deer
If you want a character piece about a fallen prince finding redemption, go Blue Lions
If you're a waifugay, pick Black Eagles and then decide whether you want to frick the midget empress or the pope
The ideal order is BL>GD>BE imo
For the love of god, do not make the same mistake I did and let Ganker meme you into doing Blue Lions. Its gay fujo garbage. If you’re a man and picked a male character, then anywhere else is better. You will probably be too fatigued to play another route after you’re done since the game is such a long slog
Awful bait, don't listen to this homosexual. The Blue Lions story is kino as frick. That group of characters are the heroes and protagonists, everyone else are side characters at best or villains. You get the true story of the game and an epic second half as they fight to save the world.
male-male relationships aren’t inherently fujoshit nor even romantic, you cannot even romance dimitri as male byleth
dimitri has probably the best character arc in the game, ignore this anon
My favorite FEs are Awakening and 3H. This doesn’t look very good to me.
The gameplay isn't even good. FE5, 6, 10, 12 and Conquest all have good gameplay so I know what it looks like, and this ain't it. They didn't even try.
6/10 without the nintendo bonus, wow
I've been wanting to get into FE for a long time, but was always discouraged by the censorship. It seems like almost every game in the series is censored in the West, even some of the old games.
Which games aren't censored? Keep in mind I'll emulate all of them on PC so I can use uncensor patches if they exist.
Well the first six games and 12 aren’t officially translated (besides the first one which was limited release on switch and wasn’t a translated rom file, it was an original jp rom with text overlayed) so those are safe from censorship, awakening, fates, 3houses and now engage I know have varying levels of censorship, fates being the absolute worst offender, 3houses is probably the least tampered with of the modern era
(me)
I also haven’t looked into echoes (gaiden remake) so idk if that’s safe from censorship
THIS IS PERSONA WITHOUT THE HEART
you will never be as good as persona, fire emblem troony!
Even SMT 5 has a better story than this trash. What happened ???
So I guess she's going to be considered the generic boring choice right?
Yeah
These designs are honestly so good, but its wasted on this shit story
What IS the story? I've just seen some chick die, and then your MC surrounded by fire and doing some crazed grin.
The kingdom of Badia is invading the kingdom of Goodia
where does this apparent good and evil choice come in? With the main villian?
Lol when will Nintendo get the hint that this team (wich also handled Fate and Awakening) has absolutely zero talent and need to be axed
>These designs are honestly so good
This is bait right? I dont remember the last time i saw such shitty designs
You don't remember 3 Houses?
I guess not, since i dont remember everyone dressed as clowns in it
>critics like a persona ripoff “fire emblem” game more than an actual fire emblem game
shocker
>fire emblem maps back in the 90s
>takes hours to complete a single level mimicking the feel of a grand military campaign every single level
Why did they scale the series back so hard after 4?
It was too slow, even though FE4 is fun at times it just constantly grinds to a halt. I think that's why Kaga made FE5 basically FE3 part 2 (Hard Mode) instead. His maps in VS are bigger generally than FE maps but nowhere near Juggy maps.
>takes hours to complete a single level mimicking the feel of a grand military campaign every single level
You mean it plays like shit with one or two men killing every map on their own but taking forever to do so, and the maps directly reflecting the world map just makes Jugdral look puny rather than anything.
If it wasn't for Thracia actually making the scale much more clear, Jugdral would have felt like it could fit in a single country in the other FEs.
FE4 Maps are absolute bottom of the barrel bad.
How different would the western reviews be if Fire Emblem was seen as the prestige legacy flagship Nintendo title its seen as in Japan?
Fire emblem would sell like dogwater if they tried to bring it over in nes era and would be pushed back to jp only again until melee, I doubt anything would change
agreed
the main character looks moronic. Blue hair would be fine. Red hair would be fine. Both interlinked looks moronic
Why is their hair like that? Are they a mix of the two different kingdoms?
no idea, I just assumed it was a spin-off. turns out it was a legit sequel. Frick me I guess
Their mother drank some radioactive toothpaste after being impregnated by pepsiman.
I dont really know, but from how bland and straight the writing is, my guess is mc got hurt in the previous war and got corrupted by the fell dragon, hence part of his hair is red
Very early into the game he had a dream with him evil and fully red hair so I assume it's gonna be explained later, if I had to guess I'd say he's the offspring of a good dragon and an evil dragon and his hair turn completely red when he's overrun by his evil side
But who knows
Three Houses honestly. The maps are terrible, the story is awful and the game looks like shit. I don't know how it went above a 6/10 for anyone. What am I missing
the academy added + 2 to grooming
Unironically because it had an evil route which SJWs thought was the good route
I always found it interesting how twitter lefties loved the imperialist route just because it had gay woman
People liked the dating simulator and the running around the monastery for 30+ minutes in between each missions.
And the autistics liked min maxing the characters like they did with Awamkening.
>People liked the dating simulato
I wish more people were this honest about it. Most people only care about the dating sim aspect of this IP now.
That's probably the exact same reason most people stop playing Harvest Moon / Rune Factory / Story of Seasons games once they get married
Nothing. It's an improvement on 3H, it just doesn't have the annoying persona-lite crap that western reviewers want.
What went wrong is you learned nothing from 2014 and you're still looking at metacritic.
>The Persona 5 tourists 3H brought in are getting filtered
This game is literally all I wanted to be.