First off, shout out to my friend for lending me his copy of the game so I didn't have to pay 60 bucks for it. I was unsure if I would like this or not and he was kind enough to let me borrow it so I didn't have to spend anything.
This game is really good! It's my first Fire Emblem game and I enjoyed myself for a majority of it. I picked Dimitri's route when I played and the story kept me interested the whole way for the most part. I know Claude and Edelgard have their own stories that are fairly different, but as of right now, I got what I wanted out of this game. I'll probably come back and play them sometime in the future when I have my own copy of the game.
Gameplay is fun for the most part. I really like the battle system and being able to assign your students any class you want. This game gives you a lot of freedom and I love it for that. You can experiment all you like. I think the parts where you walk around the monastery and interact with all the students and professors were cool...at first. The more I had to do it, the more boring it got. You'll be doing the same things over and over at the monastery so get used to that.
Music is really good! The battle themes feel really grand and I got a few tunes stuck in my head. The final battle theme especially.
Few complaints. This game is really ugly. Very muddy and just not pleasing to look at in most areas. The support cutscenes and story cutscenes all look horrid because it's just a bunch of 3D models and on a blurry 2D background. It kinda made it hard to get invested in some scenes. I also wish there was more story events happening between the beginning and end of the months. Stuff like your classmates all hanging out together and doing stuff together would make them all feel more connected. They only really bond in support cutscenes and I feel like it could have been better. Finally, the ending after the final battle felt really anticlimactic after the final boss. It felt like it tried to wrap everything up way too quickly. No final goodbyes or anything.
Overall, a really good strategy game and one I am glad I played! I'll probably play the other games in the series at some point and even revisit this one later on.
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(Byleth in Smash was still a dumb decision tho imo)
This game is really good! It's my first Fire Emblem game and I enjoyed myself for a majority of it. I picked Dimitri's route when I played and the story kept me interested the whole way for the most part. I know Claude and Edelgard have their own stories that are fairly different, but as of right now, I got what I wanted out of this game. I'll probably come back and play them sometime in the future when I have my own copy of the game.
Gameplay is fun for the most part. I really like the battle system and being able to assign your students any class you want. This game gives you a lot of freedom and I love it for that. You can experiment all you like. I think the parts where you walk around the monastery and interact with all the students and professors were cool...at first. The more I had to do it, the more boring it got. You'll be doing the same things over and over at the monastery so get used to that.
Music is really good! The battle themes feel really grand and I got a few tunes stuck in my head. The final battle theme especially.
Few complaints. This game is really ugly. Very muddy and just not pleasing to look at in most areas. The support cutscenes and story cutscenes all look horrid because it's just a bunch of 3D models and on a blurry 2D background. It kinda made it hard to get invested in some scenes. I also wish there was more story events happening between the beginning and end of the months. Stuff like your classmates all hanging out together and doing stuff together would make them all feel more connected. They only really bond in support cutscenes and I feel like it could have been better. Finally, the ending after the final battle felt really anticlimactic after the final boss. It felt like it tried to wrap everything up way too quickly. No final goodbyes or anything.
Overall, a really good strategy game and one I am glad I played! I'll probably play the other games in the series at some point and even revisit this one later on.
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(Byleth in Smash was still a dumb decision tho imo)