Upon revisit I honestly enjoyed Conquest a lot more than I had expected. A lot of things about the gameplay and unit investment clicked a lil more, and I actually put effort into pairing up characters for more gen 2 units this time which really carried my run in retrospect. Writing-wise I still skipped the story because… Well it isn’t good, but I did like the characters outside of their plot involvement quite a bit more on revisit. I read any new supports I didn’t have in my first run, which didn’t change my mind on some of the cast but I mostly liked it. Plus, the gen 2 kiddos are just so sweet and fun in their own right… I really loved the Soleil and Forrest support chain :) (in english, at least, never read the japanese one). I’m not even hyping up these goobers as peak fiction or some shit, I just found them to be more likable than at first glance. Still doesn’t save the story but like. I’ve learned to just tolerate it in favor of liking the characters as individuals and combined with the gameplay.
I definitely got a lot better at actually playing Conquest this time, like I mentioned I think putting more effort into gen 2 really helped (Master Ninja Soleil and Velouria in general are so fun!), but I also had a lot of fun trying out other units I never touched like glass cannon Peri in all her glory. My Corrin this run got unbelievably screwed this run though, I have no idea what I did wrong but she fell behind HARD and I’ll have to research the optimal thing to do with her for next time. Overall Conquest requires a metric shitton of game knowledge to even scratch at the surface at, and I think my lack of knowing how to inflate stats through pairups, skills, foods, forge etc really bit me by the last 10 or so chapters. I didn’t realize what I had done wrong but clearly I wasn’t playing correctly, so I’ll have to dive into getting advice and stuff for my next playthrough. That being said, the game was still damn fun, and I felt pretty satisfied at clearly getting a bit better this time around.
Conquest is a cool game. It’s not the best, and I have no idea if I’ll ever get good at it, but I’m pretty glad it exists. It fixed a lot of problems I had with Awakening on a mechanical level while also delivering a lot of characters I honestly still really like.
Ophelia/10
I definitely got a lot better at actually playing Conquest this time, like I mentioned I think putting more effort into gen 2 really helped (Master Ninja Soleil and Velouria in general are so fun!), but I also had a lot of fun trying out other units I never touched like glass cannon Peri in all her glory. My Corrin this run got unbelievably screwed this run though, I have no idea what I did wrong but she fell behind HARD and I’ll have to research the optimal thing to do with her for next time. Overall Conquest requires a metric shitton of game knowledge to even scratch at the surface at, and I think my lack of knowing how to inflate stats through pairups, skills, foods, forge etc really bit me by the last 10 or so chapters. I didn’t realize what I had done wrong but clearly I wasn’t playing correctly, so I’ll have to dive into getting advice and stuff for my next playthrough. That being said, the game was still damn fun, and I felt pretty satisfied at clearly getting a bit better this time around.
Conquest is a cool game. It’s not the best, and I have no idea if I’ll ever get good at it, but I’m pretty glad it exists. It fixed a lot of problems I had with Awakening on a mechanical level while also delivering a lot of characters I honestly still really like.
Ophelia/10
ThatMagicalMage
5 months ago