@karim's review of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
★★★★½
9/10. WOW, what a game. That was an amazing adventure that Fortune’s Weave took me on. The gameplay is so well-balanced between tactical strategy combat, life simulation, and board-game style overworld. There are so many overlaying systems that I grew to understand more and more throughout subsequent play throughs of Part 1 with different heroes. Everything from the gameplay, combat, music, controls, character customization, and art style were fantastic. The story and lore is so packed that it feels like an unattainable task to see everything that the narrative has to offer, which is a bit daunting. It took me about 113 hours to complete the game by doing every hero’s Part 1 and recruiting the prologue characters. While I don’t think it’s necessary to do that (and I don’t think the game rewards you enough for that), it’s nice to know you can go full steam with this game, or blast through it with one or two heroes I REALLY wanted to give this a 10/10, but I have too many small qualms in addition to the bloated narrative and the lack of rewards for doing all Part 1s. Part 2 is fun the first time but totally not needed to repeat 3 more times, and I wish I just skipped it entirely. The lack of weapon manuals to complement the magic and mount manuals resulted in reluctant grinding. Also it’s clear that the paralogue characters meant to be main heroes as well, and it feels broken in the narrative to cut them out of the main quests. Thankfully dlc for them is added, but it should’ve been included from the start. Finally, I’m really tired of silent main characters. Everyone has such amazing voice acting, except for your main character outside of battle cries, which breaks the immersion for me Overall, subjectively this would be a top 10 game ever for me due to the time investment and enjoyment. But critically I’d give it just a 9/10, although it’s certainly my game of the year so far
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