Oh my fucking god dude. I try to not leave negative reviews on games before actually finishing them or at least settling on shelving them, but christ on a bike rev really is as bad as people say. I'll start by being honest and saying I hadn't played the fates games in years and just jumped on the hate train at some point or another because it was the "cool" fire emblem thing to do. In truth I...actually liked them a lot when they released? And just started hating them somewhere along the way. I guess.
Having replayed the two games I've found there's a lot I think I took for granted, like how much better my castle is than the monestary and somniel, the actually high production value, and how the 3ds fe games actually feel good to play. With "good to play" I'm really just referring to the general user experience like how snappy the menus and map controls are. Like, I'm sorry but 3H and Engage feel so choppy and slow in comparison it's insane.
This isn't a review on engage and three houses though, I've already made excrutiatingly long reviews on why I don't like those games, this is a review about how and why rev sucks, and how much worse it is compared to its two sibling games.
You probably know the fates map design quality situation already but incase you don't, the tldr is conquest good, birthright more like birthrout lmao, rev bad. And having played all three games back to back I can pretty safely say yeah that's exactly the case. In truth I think it's more like first half of conquest good, second half not as good, birthright more like birthrout (but ultimately inoffensive) and rev bad. Revs maps aren't just bad though, oh no, they're tedious too. They're gimmicky, and borrow a lot of the worst aspects from the other two respective routes while making them even worse to boot. I'm too tired to go in depth on why they suck, I just hope you like shovelling snow.
Unlike birthright and conquest the majority of the playable cast just...sucks? Like yeah dude please give me characters with their fucking chapter 9 conquest bases when they were already some of the worst characters in their own game except only playable 8 chapters later and unable to enter combat without getting one rounded on lunatic. Please spawn FOUR of them next a million promoted enemy cavs with inflated stats on a map that immediately follows what is already one of the worst maps in the game that you also can't save between. Thank you rev. Thank you maeda.
Also the story somehow still feels like an afterthought despite how blatantly obvious it was that they wanted you to get rev for the "true" route where azura doesn't die at the end and any mysteries are all tied up. The concept of rev alone already sucks considering the whole point of fates is that your choice is morally grey and there isn't a right one, but I guess there is a right choice if you're willing to shell out an extra 20 dollars for it. In spite of how poor fates' writing already is, rev still manages to feel like a fanfic where everyone loves corrin in the end no matter what. What little nuance the other two routes even had is totally eviscerated, the contrivances and plotholes basically double, and god i'm so tired this game fucking sucks don't play it idk
Having replayed the two games I've found there's a lot I think I took for granted, like how much better my castle is than the monestary and somniel, the actually high production value, and how the 3ds fe games actually feel good to play. With "good to play" I'm really just referring to the general user experience like how snappy the menus and map controls are. Like, I'm sorry but 3H and Engage feel so choppy and slow in comparison it's insane.
This isn't a review on engage and three houses though, I've already made excrutiatingly long reviews on why I don't like those games, this is a review about how and why rev sucks, and how much worse it is compared to its two sibling games.
You probably know the fates map design quality situation already but incase you don't, the tldr is conquest good, birthright more like birthrout lmao, rev bad. And having played all three games back to back I can pretty safely say yeah that's exactly the case. In truth I think it's more like first half of conquest good, second half not as good, birthright more like birthrout (but ultimately inoffensive) and rev bad. Revs maps aren't just bad though, oh no, they're tedious too. They're gimmicky, and borrow a lot of the worst aspects from the other two respective routes while making them even worse to boot. I'm too tired to go in depth on why they suck, I just hope you like shovelling snow.
Unlike birthright and conquest the majority of the playable cast just...sucks? Like yeah dude please give me characters with their fucking chapter 9 conquest bases when they were already some of the worst characters in their own game except only playable 8 chapters later and unable to enter combat without getting one rounded on lunatic. Please spawn FOUR of them next a million promoted enemy cavs with inflated stats on a map that immediately follows what is already one of the worst maps in the game that you also can't save between. Thank you rev. Thank you maeda.
Also the story somehow still feels like an afterthought despite how blatantly obvious it was that they wanted you to get rev for the "true" route where azura doesn't die at the end and any mysteries are all tied up. The concept of rev alone already sucks considering the whole point of fates is that your choice is morally grey and there isn't a right one, but I guess there is a right choice if you're willing to shell out an extra 20 dollars for it. In spite of how poor fates' writing already is, rev still manages to feel like a fanfic where everyone loves corrin in the end no matter what. What little nuance the other two routes even had is totally eviscerated, the contrivances and plotholes basically double, and god i'm so tired this game fucking sucks don't play it idk