The game that mostly saves the Fates trio due pretty much entirely to gameplay and map design, which is strong. Game is satisfyingly difficult on normal, which definitely isn’t the case for the other Fates games. Story and characters fall short of Birthright for me, but are far superior to Revelation. That said, the story and characters aren’t particularly engaging in any of the Fates games, so this isn’t really a big deal. I’d definitely recommend you turn your brain off and not get too invested in story or characters when playing the Fates games. Taking the story seriously in any of these games will most likely just lead to annoyance and frustration. If you don’t care about story in FE games or if you’re able to ignore ones that aren’t particularly enjoyable this is a very solid FE game.