Upon first getting my Switch last year, I had a list of games that I had always wanted to try. Though I could tell this game still lacked the soul of Fire Emblem, I always wanted to get an introduction into the Warriors subseries, whatever you wanna call it, through something I could recognize. Never really cared much about Zelda, and even Breath of the Wild disappointed me with its walkthrough requirement, considering I never had 60+ hours of time to waste accomplishing nothing, grinding against super tanky bad guys wandering around the land or something.
When I eventually got this game, I had very low expectations, considering I was one of the people who got angry at this game's lackluster representation for the series, as only Shadow Dragon, Awakening and for some reason especially Fates would be represented in the beat 'em up roster. I did the most sensible thing and picked up Marth and Caeda. Honestly, I really don't understand why Tiki was chosen to be playable besides having a Manakete on your side. However, the obvious problem is not only having limited representation, what with only 3 games to choose from, but the only good game included in the mix has the least representation. I literally listed all 3 non-DLC Shadow Dragon characters, and they're the only ones I like in this game besides the DLC additions of Linde, Minerva and Navarre, for the simple fact they too are from Shadow Dragon. A tally is most apt to get the point across:
Shadow Dragon: 6 (3 + 3 DLC) characters
Awakening: 9 (6 + 3 DLC) characters
Fates: a WHOPPING 12 (9 + 3 DLC) characters
Obviously Fates was the most recent entry at the time of this game's release, but did they really have the gall to overrepresent the worst entry in the entire series, even to this day? A lot of people got very angry at this lack of representation, and the answer to that criticism was to add Celica and Lyn to the party. Wow. They weren't even trying. And instead of respecting Lyn, they gave her forced anime physics that don't belong on her animations whatsoever.
There isn't really much to say about this game other than it's repetitive and boring. The story is generic and has poor dialogue to accompany it, but I guess the most notable thing this game does is marking the start of an alliance between Nintendo and Koei, the latter being the main designer of this game and its sequel, as the Warriors subseries was descended from Dynasty Warriors, which is better than both FE Warriors games in every way besides maybe the gameplay. Koei would later go on to help in developing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and considering that game was a mainline entry, that's a pretty big responsibility to levy over to another company.
From what I've seen playing through Fire Emblem Warriors 2, the gameplay is better there. Have next to nothing to say about it besides that, though.
When I eventually got this game, I had very low expectations, considering I was one of the people who got angry at this game's lackluster representation for the series, as only Shadow Dragon, Awakening and for some reason especially Fates would be represented in the beat 'em up roster. I did the most sensible thing and picked up Marth and Caeda. Honestly, I really don't understand why Tiki was chosen to be playable besides having a Manakete on your side. However, the obvious problem is not only having limited representation, what with only 3 games to choose from, but the only good game included in the mix has the least representation. I literally listed all 3 non-DLC Shadow Dragon characters, and they're the only ones I like in this game besides the DLC additions of Linde, Minerva and Navarre, for the simple fact they too are from Shadow Dragon. A tally is most apt to get the point across:
Shadow Dragon: 6 (3 + 3 DLC) characters
Awakening: 9 (6 + 3 DLC) characters
Fates: a WHOPPING 12 (9 + 3 DLC) characters
Obviously Fates was the most recent entry at the time of this game's release, but did they really have the gall to overrepresent the worst entry in the entire series, even to this day? A lot of people got very angry at this lack of representation, and the answer to that criticism was to add Celica and Lyn to the party. Wow. They weren't even trying. And instead of respecting Lyn, they gave her forced anime physics that don't belong on her animations whatsoever.
There isn't really much to say about this game other than it's repetitive and boring. The story is generic and has poor dialogue to accompany it, but I guess the most notable thing this game does is marking the start of an alliance between Nintendo and Koei, the latter being the main designer of this game and its sequel, as the Warriors subseries was descended from Dynasty Warriors, which is better than both FE Warriors games in every way besides maybe the gameplay. Koei would later go on to help in developing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and considering that game was a mainline entry, that's a pretty big responsibility to levy over to another company.
From what I've seen playing through Fire Emblem Warriors 2, the gameplay is better there. Have next to nothing to say about it besides that, though.