Despite enjoying myself in the early- and midgame, no fire emblem game (besides Revelations) has left me with such a viscerally negative experience, so I'm just going to rattle off a bunch of things I disliked because the general gameplay is solid:

- My main gripe is just don't play Hard mode for this one. Ruined my endgame experience and made me dislike this game so much more than it probably deserves. Adding (unbelievably strong) ambush spawns and siege tomes and fortify staves to maps that originally didn't have them drags the gameplay out and makes you reset levels which would never have been a problem otherwise. Just give me a fucking turn to react if your going to spawn in wyvern knights which are stronger than the enemies i'm currently fighting jesus christ.

- Prologue sucks and its wayyy too long. Should've been like 5 maps at most.

- I despise Kris with a passion. And a large part of the 7th platoon for that matter. Just a bunch of voids of emotions or bad tropes.

If I were to replay this on normal mode, I would probably find myself rating it a 3.5/5 or higher, as the early- and midgame was fun, but the ambush spawns and siege weapons spam in endgame was genuinely miserable to play through.

Reviewed on May 18, 2023


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