I really wanted to finish this, but honestly, after 24 chapters, I just stopped having fun. This was my first attempt at the Fire Emblem game, and I can't say I'm particularly impressed.
It definitely looks great. The animations are cool and the pixel art is well done. The music isn't bad, but it didn't really do much for me either. Storywise, what I read was pretty blah. Very generic stuff that felt really unengaging. I'm genuinely surprised that there are people who feel even remotely strongly, positive or negative, about this game's story because there's like very little to nothing here.
In terms of gameplay, I don't really think I can say much in terms of actual criticism because I absolutely suck at this game. This is apparently one of the easiest FE games, and yet I found it obnoxiously frustrating at times. Granted, most of those times were on the godawful fog of war maps that just felt annoyingly unfair. Let's just say I got tired of resetting the entire battle and save states were used frequently.
I will say though, balance is a major problem with this game. You have characters like Marcus and Oswin who are tanks that can take a shit ton of damage or just straight up negate it. Then you have little shit support characters that can barely take a hit who barely ever seem worth taking into battle outside of extremely situational things. Oh oops, I didn't check the attack range on all 20 enemies on the screen including the two that just popped out of nowhere last turn, and this one dude was in range of their attack. Time to reset! Yeah sorry no thanks. I think playing this really set in stone that if I'm going to play a strategy game, I'm much more suited to real time instead of turn based. At least I can somewhat improvise depending on the situation.
Despite all that, I hesitate to call this bad. Just not really my thing. I was enjoying it at first until around the halfway point. If it had a more interesting story to pull me along, maybe I would have finished it, but I can't get myself to care about what's going on. Way too dull and I have too many other games on my plate that I'd rather put effort into at the moment.
It definitely looks great. The animations are cool and the pixel art is well done. The music isn't bad, but it didn't really do much for me either. Storywise, what I read was pretty blah. Very generic stuff that felt really unengaging. I'm genuinely surprised that there are people who feel even remotely strongly, positive or negative, about this game's story because there's like very little to nothing here.
In terms of gameplay, I don't really think I can say much in terms of actual criticism because I absolutely suck at this game. This is apparently one of the easiest FE games, and yet I found it obnoxiously frustrating at times. Granted, most of those times were on the godawful fog of war maps that just felt annoyingly unfair. Let's just say I got tired of resetting the entire battle and save states were used frequently.
I will say though, balance is a major problem with this game. You have characters like Marcus and Oswin who are tanks that can take a shit ton of damage or just straight up negate it. Then you have little shit support characters that can barely take a hit who barely ever seem worth taking into battle outside of extremely situational things. Oh oops, I didn't check the attack range on all 20 enemies on the screen including the two that just popped out of nowhere last turn, and this one dude was in range of their attack. Time to reset! Yeah sorry no thanks. I think playing this really set in stone that if I'm going to play a strategy game, I'm much more suited to real time instead of turn based. At least I can somewhat improvise depending on the situation.
Despite all that, I hesitate to call this bad. Just not really my thing. I was enjoying it at first until around the halfway point. If it had a more interesting story to pull me along, maybe I would have finished it, but I can't get myself to care about what's going on. Way too dull and I have too many other games on my plate that I'd rather put effort into at the moment.