ChikoLad
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I'm bored and felt like writing up some things, and figured other people may get some use of such a thread from time to time. So here goes.
Basically, just post any miscellaneous thoughts about aspects of the Fire Emblem franchise that don't really belong anywhere else. Particularly the kind of opinions that you know at least a subset of the community would probably go into a nerd rage over hearing, the kind you might not say just anywhere as they may rain on someone's parade or you know the community you're in wouldn't be a big fan. You could alternatively consider this the "Fire Emblem venting" thread. While it's OK to discuss some of the things brought up, I would like to ask that as a general rule, people keep things civil and don't try to tear down any opinions posted here. This is just a thread for people to get things off of their chest.
Oh, and opinions posted don't necessarily have to be unpopular, per se. More just things you feel might be a bit controversial if posted in an average Fire Emblem board/community.
I'll start with a few:
-I enjoyed Birthright more than Conquest. Played both on Lunatic Classic. IMO Conquest has some really stellar maps, but my big issue with it is that it has some really obnoxiously bad chapters too that can completely bottleneck your run unless you take drastic measures some would consider cheating. It feels like it's designed with My Castle and DLC abuse in mind (at least on Lunatic), since the game loves throwing some really ridiculous skills on some of the enemies, throwing tons of ninjas with bloated stats at you, and just some really ridiculous traps in terms of how reinforcements can be used in some maps. And besides that, the story was just bad, and the characters are way more hit and miss in Conquest. People consider the Birthright cast boring or too inoffensive, but IMO I appreciate how Birthright had these unified themes of cultural and familial heritages throughout it's cast. At the very least, the quality of the cast felt consistently solid, with a few highlights that I latched onto personally. Conquest just felt like it was trying way too hard to make most characters edgy or tragic, and it had WILDLY varying degrees of success (though the highs are indeed very high, like Nyx).
-Shadows of Valentia's map design isn't terrible. I feel like it's open plains maps had a bit more..."thought" behind them somehow compared to some of the more plain maps in other games. I admittedly find it difficult to explain what I mean in a cohesive manner though, and can understand where the criticism comes from.
-Heroes is really not that generous as far as gacha games go, and I find it's summoning system extremely outdated compared to others.
Basically, just post any miscellaneous thoughts about aspects of the Fire Emblem franchise that don't really belong anywhere else. Particularly the kind of opinions that you know at least a subset of the community would probably go into a nerd rage over hearing, the kind you might not say just anywhere as they may rain on someone's parade or you know the community you're in wouldn't be a big fan. You could alternatively consider this the "Fire Emblem venting" thread. While it's OK to discuss some of the things brought up, I would like to ask that as a general rule, people keep things civil and don't try to tear down any opinions posted here. This is just a thread for people to get things off of their chest.
Oh, and opinions posted don't necessarily have to be unpopular, per se. More just things you feel might be a bit controversial if posted in an average Fire Emblem board/community.
I'll start with a few:
-I enjoyed Birthright more than Conquest. Played both on Lunatic Classic. IMO Conquest has some really stellar maps, but my big issue with it is that it has some really obnoxiously bad chapters too that can completely bottleneck your run unless you take drastic measures some would consider cheating. It feels like it's designed with My Castle and DLC abuse in mind (at least on Lunatic), since the game loves throwing some really ridiculous skills on some of the enemies, throwing tons of ninjas with bloated stats at you, and just some really ridiculous traps in terms of how reinforcements can be used in some maps. And besides that, the story was just bad, and the characters are way more hit and miss in Conquest. People consider the Birthright cast boring or too inoffensive, but IMO I appreciate how Birthright had these unified themes of cultural and familial heritages throughout it's cast. At the very least, the quality of the cast felt consistently solid, with a few highlights that I latched onto personally. Conquest just felt like it was trying way too hard to make most characters edgy or tragic, and it had WILDLY varying degrees of success (though the highs are indeed very high, like Nyx).
-Shadows of Valentia's map design isn't terrible. I feel like it's open plains maps had a bit more..."thought" behind them somehow compared to some of the more plain maps in other games. I admittedly find it difficult to explain what I mean in a cohesive manner though, and can understand where the criticism comes from.
-Heroes is really not that generous as far as gacha games go, and I find it's summoning system extremely outdated compared to others.