Fire Emblem Fates General Thread

[Pink Yoshi]

You are the ocean's grey waves
Destined to seek life beyond the shore just out of reach
Yet the waters ever change
Flowing like time
The path is yours to climb

Welcome everyone! Post-Smash Ultimate, and after watching some playthroughs of this game, I figured why not create a thread for one of FE's most-known installments? Known for Corrin, Azura and all sorts of fun faces, Fire Emblem Fates is a game where you choose one of three paths to help cease a war in a far-off country.

Since FE Fates (or at least Revelations) has kind of an expiration date on it with the end of the 3DS E-Shop approaching, I wanted to create a thread where we could discuss this installment and what it brought. Celebrate its highlights, rant about its wrongdoings, discuss Corrin and other characters' hopes for the next Smash, that sort of thing.

I've already talked about why I really like Corrin on Zinith's Sm4sh character discussion thread, so if you wanna see why I got attached to him (yes, him), go check it out.

And with the closure of the E-Shop upon us...I'd really like to see a Switch remake of this (in)famous title where all its paths are available from the jump, like Three Houses. It'd be a great way for some of us to try out the game and what it offers in the future!

Until then...I'm Pink Yoshi, and have fun discussing Fire Emblem Fates!

 

[Swamp Sensei]

Arthur is amazing and I won't hear otherwise.

 

[Diddy Kong]

Overal Fates was a great Fire Emblem game, definitely influenced the route Three Houses took, and was the first game that had "grey mortality" in one of its paths. Very unique classes, especially the Hoshido ones! The fact Corrin the protagonist is a manakete was cool too. They luckily nerfed the tag team feature from Awakening and gave it strategic purposes that I actually long to have back in a new game, it also helped a lot with training weaker units and building support. Conquest was really challenging and had unique maps, but the story...?

The story in general didn't do all that much for me. Sure the backstory once it got explained was nice, just the execution on especially the Nohr side was terrible. "Lets do genocide so we can proof the main villain is actually evil". Meanwhile every Nohr sibling had their doubts from the start and the Revelations path makes this look extra dumb. Then again, Xander never looked as hypocritical to me as Edelgard, but maybe their situations aren't the same. For a first try in a Fire Emblem game with different routes where the main cast of one route becomes the enemy in the others the execution could be way worse. There's definitely the drama involved, and you can't recruit the soldiers of the other side in Fates, which only delivers the drama harder. It's definitely more fitting than Sylvain in Three Houses betraying his liege and closest friend whose families are almost dependant on each other for survival for finding the teacher of the Empire / Alliance hot.

Anyway, Fates changed the course of Fire Emblem and I hope to see this evolve further in the series. It gives the story more debt, and is great for replay value.