81 hours later and I finally finished one route out of five
Hoo boy....
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed this game a lot. I mean I was bound to. It's basically everything I like about Fire Emblem and more.
I picked the Golden Deer house because I've heard so many memes about this route and I wanted context. And yep, it's pretty damn wacky, especially the final map.
The combat is great as usually, I love the freedom of choice between classes. I do wish there were more weapons in the game. I had a lot lance users because more of the classes require leveling up lances. But eh, I wouldn't say that's a con or anything.
The English VAs are great, none come to the same level as SoV VAs but that's alright. I appreciate them going out of their way to voice everything.
The ost is alright, I'm not crazy about it. But now thinking about it, I never really a huge fan of FEs ost in general, aside from SoV.
The supports in this game are really wild. They range from really fantastic to absolutely awful. Which hurts a lot of characters who have really good premises but horrible execution cough cough Manuela, Ingrid cough cough.
The pacing in this route can be really off. Which is a very unique con to have on a FE game for me personally. The first half of the game is alright no problems there. But the second half, is kind of a big yikes.
(Spoilers) We spend so many chapters just preparing to attack defeat the Flame Emperor. And then we just get the full meat of the overall plot for Byleth and lore all dumped to us in the last two chapters.
WHAT?! HUH?! WHY?!
That's so lame, so much missed opportunities. I wanted to learn more about Shambhala, it looks so futuristic. Especially compare to the rest of Fódlan. Even learning about who the Shambhala descendants are, doesn't explain anything about the place. We also don't learn anything about the Final Boss, like why are they evil. I get why the one we fight is evil but why was the real one evil. I needed more, so much of the context felt heavily mishandled. Especially Rhea and Jeralt, they could do so much more with them but they don't. They hype up these characters but in the plot they serve as a hinderance more than anything else. (End of Spoilers)
Anyways, like I said earlier, this was only one of five other routes. Maybe they have hidden away some of my greater interest in the other routes or maybe not and I'll forever feel sad.
Hoo boy....
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed this game a lot. I mean I was bound to. It's basically everything I like about Fire Emblem and more.
I picked the Golden Deer house because I've heard so many memes about this route and I wanted context. And yep, it's pretty damn wacky, especially the final map.
The combat is great as usually, I love the freedom of choice between classes. I do wish there were more weapons in the game. I had a lot lance users because more of the classes require leveling up lances. But eh, I wouldn't say that's a con or anything.
The English VAs are great, none come to the same level as SoV VAs but that's alright. I appreciate them going out of their way to voice everything.
The ost is alright, I'm not crazy about it. But now thinking about it, I never really a huge fan of FEs ost in general, aside from SoV.
The supports in this game are really wild. They range from really fantastic to absolutely awful. Which hurts a lot of characters who have really good premises but horrible execution cough cough Manuela, Ingrid cough cough.
The pacing in this route can be really off. Which is a very unique con to have on a FE game for me personally. The first half of the game is alright no problems there. But the second half, is kind of a big yikes.
(Spoilers) We spend so many chapters just preparing to attack defeat the Flame Emperor. And then we just get the full meat of the overall plot for Byleth and lore all dumped to us in the last two chapters.
WHAT?! HUH?! WHY?!
That's so lame, so much missed opportunities. I wanted to learn more about Shambhala, it looks so futuristic. Especially compare to the rest of Fódlan. Even learning about who the Shambhala descendants are, doesn't explain anything about the place. We also don't learn anything about the Final Boss, like why are they evil. I get why the one we fight is evil but why was the real one evil. I needed more, so much of the context felt heavily mishandled. Especially Rhea and Jeralt, they could do so much more with them but they don't. They hype up these characters but in the plot they serve as a hinderance more than anything else. (End of Spoilers)
Anyways, like I said earlier, this was only one of five other routes. Maybe they have hidden away some of my greater interest in the other routes or maybe not and I'll forever feel sad.
ashenthea
8 months ago