r/gaming • u/SaveADay89 • 10h ago

How is the new Fire Emblem?

I'm a big fan of the fire emblem games, but I will admit that I didn't like engage. I found the combat to be as engaging as ever, but the anime tropes and characters were really annoying. I liked 3H, though. My issues is that I heard the new one is heavily skewed towards the out of combat activities, particularly the social features. Is this true?

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u/GoodOmens182 7h ago

It didn't grab me like I was hoping it would. Once you get out of the prologue (which by itself is 7-8 hours long), you can go sometimes 2-3 hours or more of fluff between story missions. One of the early missions on one of the routes (Leda chapter 3) is basically completely weighted against the player unless you manage to play the exact moves the devs intended in the exact order they planned. I'm on story mission 5 of the first route after 15 hours of gameplay and pretty sure I'm going to DNF it pretty soon.