I played a randomizer of this game because I have despised Fates from launch and Conquest was the only one of the three routes I never played. The map designs were excellent, really making the most of Fates' Dragon Vein mechanic. The self-imposed difficulty of the randomizer was also a delight, since it forced me to come up with new strategies to tackle maps that were clearly designed for certain units. The writing was, of course, horrendous—I knew it would be going in, but after not touching the game for a few years, I forgot the real extent that this game goes to to pad its runtime and protect precious infant baby Corrin from doing any war crimes. Except for the time they kill an entire village of innocent Kitsune for actually no reason after 20 chapters of sparing enemy soldiers and/or having an NPC do the murder instead! Y'know, casual, unskippable genocide committed by our angel baby protagonist because we have to help their comically evil father sit on a throne that will prove he's comically evil. I hate this game.

Reviewed on Sep 04, 2023


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