This game is the popcorn-eating equivalent to a Fire Emblem game.
The best part of it is the battles. Its fun to fight and level up, and the "engage" function adds some dimension to it. I thought at first that it was a cheap gimmick that just lets you win any battle automatically, but as you go further in to the story oooh boy it is definitely Not that. So if you think the engage feature is cheap, it does actually get challenging later on.
I honestly don't love the story of this one, and think it's kind of predictable and stiff. You can see where its going from a mile away, and leaves me with a really underwhelmed impression. I don't care about the mysterious girl. However the voice acting is A++ I absolutely adore the dimension the voice cast gave to these characters. It had me scrambling to unlock as many support conversations as possible! Super fun character interactions.
I like the character writing for the most part (stuff that's separate from the stale story, anyway). In my opinion, one of the best things about the Fire Emblem series as a whole is the support conversations, and these are really entertaining and fun. Its cool that you can have the characters support with the emblem characters, too (although those ones are very very brief with only two lines of dialogue per unit).
The art is.... hmm..... It's a hit and miss for me sometimes. I won't deny its very gorgeous, but I felt bothered that every woman had a childish face...? It was weird. The girls all had the same chubby cheeks and big eyes mostly. I like how the men are designed in this game, though. Again, the girls are cute looking! But I just didn't love the cheek thing going on. I dunno. Like it makes sense for the younger characters sure, but not the ones that are clearly supposed to be older.
If there's one more criticism I can fit in here, it's that I really don't love how the cutscenes and dialogue story scenes look. I hate the cheap-looking mocap animation....... and the backgrounds are just as offputting and flat as they were in 3 Houses, which I hated the look of. I hope IntSys is able to get more time to make their games or something so they can do a little more animating with the models they're working with.
Overall, I think this game is fun despite my criticisms. Don't expect a very deep story... its about as shallow as a puddle in my opinion, but it's worth playing for the fun gameplay. For once, I didn't mind that the story wasn't as strong.
The best part of it is the battles. Its fun to fight and level up, and the "engage" function adds some dimension to it. I thought at first that it was a cheap gimmick that just lets you win any battle automatically, but as you go further in to the story oooh boy it is definitely Not that. So if you think the engage feature is cheap, it does actually get challenging later on.
I honestly don't love the story of this one, and think it's kind of predictable and stiff. You can see where its going from a mile away, and leaves me with a really underwhelmed impression. I don't care about the mysterious girl. However the voice acting is A++ I absolutely adore the dimension the voice cast gave to these characters. It had me scrambling to unlock as many support conversations as possible! Super fun character interactions.
I like the character writing for the most part (stuff that's separate from the stale story, anyway). In my opinion, one of the best things about the Fire Emblem series as a whole is the support conversations, and these are really entertaining and fun. Its cool that you can have the characters support with the emblem characters, too (although those ones are very very brief with only two lines of dialogue per unit).
The art is.... hmm..... It's a hit and miss for me sometimes. I won't deny its very gorgeous, but I felt bothered that every woman had a childish face...? It was weird. The girls all had the same chubby cheeks and big eyes mostly. I like how the men are designed in this game, though. Again, the girls are cute looking! But I just didn't love the cheek thing going on. I dunno. Like it makes sense for the younger characters sure, but not the ones that are clearly supposed to be older.
If there's one more criticism I can fit in here, it's that I really don't love how the cutscenes and dialogue story scenes look. I hate the cheap-looking mocap animation....... and the backgrounds are just as offputting and flat as they were in 3 Houses, which I hated the look of. I hope IntSys is able to get more time to make their games or something so they can do a little more animating with the models they're working with.
Overall, I think this game is fun despite my criticisms. Don't expect a very deep story... its about as shallow as a puddle in my opinion, but it's worth playing for the fun gameplay. For once, I didn't mind that the story wasn't as strong.