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/BarbarousJudge 7h ago

I wouldn't say there are hardly any supports. There are plenty. There are just quite a few characters that barely have any but the game also has nearly double the amount of characters. So while the amount of supports is reduced overall I think it's still more than fine and way less redundant at times. Some support conversations repeated character tropes way too much in 3H while FW trimmed them down to where most supports actually offer something new for the characters.

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u/NotThePersona 6h ago

I think they could have dropped a solid 10-15 characters from the roster and no-one would have noticed.
That is time they could have spent fleshing out the other 50+ characters and supports between them.

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u/defunctscrunko 3h ago

Fire emblem fan loves some story irrelevant scrimbo characters that randomly got lucky level up and carry the team.

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u/NotThePersona 2h ago

I picked pretty early so don't really have any story irrelevant ones.

But Mu is 100% carrying Leda's team. She is my new Hilda from 3 houses who I can just park somewhere and they will kill anyone who looks at them funny.

Seems to be dodge and regular tank rolled into one.