Notes from my replay:
-Presentation and music is definitely a step up from the previous game, despite only being a year apart.
-Over-world map is neat, but Alm/Celica split is never really utilized for gameplay until the end at the Dragon Volcano.
-Disgusting difficulty spikes at certain points. Alm's first few maps into Act 4 were brutal. Geyse's Map is also a serious roadblock if you don't play around Catria and Palla.
-The story feels more character oriented this time around, rather than Marth just being the conduit for his story to take place. Alm and Celica have a great dynamic, despite this being an ancient game with little-to-no dialogue comparatively.
-Monsters are neat but either way too easy or bullshit hard. Encountering a biggle for the first time actually made me wanna rip my hair out.
-More than ever you NEED to train your pegasus knights up. Falcon Knight is the best class in the game, hands down. The triangle attack is also very, very effective at taking down some of the toughest enemies in the game, as well as getting you out of potentially tight spots.
-This feels like a neat experimentation to build off of the first game, but I can see why they chose to return to Archanea for the third game, as this one was a HUGE departure from the first game, almost feeling like a step backwards in the depth of strategy.
-Presentation and music is definitely a step up from the previous game, despite only being a year apart.
-Over-world map is neat, but Alm/Celica split is never really utilized for gameplay until the end at the Dragon Volcano.
-Disgusting difficulty spikes at certain points. Alm's first few maps into Act 4 were brutal. Geyse's Map is also a serious roadblock if you don't play around Catria and Palla.
-The story feels more character oriented this time around, rather than Marth just being the conduit for his story to take place. Alm and Celica have a great dynamic, despite this being an ancient game with little-to-no dialogue comparatively.
-Monsters are neat but either way too easy or bullshit hard. Encountering a biggle for the first time actually made me wanna rip my hair out.
-More than ever you NEED to train your pegasus knights up. Falcon Knight is the best class in the game, hands down. The triangle attack is also very, very effective at taking down some of the toughest enemies in the game, as well as getting you out of potentially tight spots.
-This feels like a neat experimentation to build off of the first game, but I can see why they chose to return to Archanea for the third game, as this one was a HUGE departure from the first game, almost feeling like a step backwards in the depth of strategy.