Elvis Starburst said:
inu-kun said:
I don't know, Fire Emblem Conquest also has high score on metacritic and that game was absolute garbage, JRPG's are between the genres that suffer worst from review gap if the series or creator is popular.
Never played it myself. What made it garbage? I heard it was more objective based and more difficult than Birthright. Was that all it was?
The gameplay was easily the best out of the Fates trilogy (And the freaking hardest) but the story was...kind of sort of the weakest. Kind of. See, I honestly like the interaction between the Nohr family a thousand times more than the Hoshido family, it just feels a lot more fleshed out, but the overall goal of the plot just feels forced. Basically the goal is to stop Garon who can't seem to go five minutes without ordering his kids to commit some kind of atrocity or letting his own personal psychopath Hans go and commit war crimes.
Because no one can just go over and stick a sword in Garon who might as well be dancing on his throne screaming "I'm evil, I'm evil, I'm evil." All of his kids just kind of submissively lower their heads and got along with it, although Leo is at least smart enough to try and subvert his orders enough to lower the death count, but even then that's just a half measure a half measure. It just gets really, really frustrating to see Corrin moping about how bad things are because of her plan to take down Garon. Which involves conquering all of Hoshido for reasons I can't go into without spoilers. It...it's just really frustrating because I can think of a dozen different ways to stop Garon without thousands of people dying.
Basically the problem with Conquest is that once you've played it, you feel liked Nohr was the "wrong" option. Mainly because there's no real good reason for the war that's given in the game. You only learn why Nohr is at war in Birthright, which is just such a stupid design choice that I can't even.
It's sad because I like the character's, but the overall direction of the plot, while having plenty of good moments, makes them feel like idiots.
Ugh. But if you like Awakening or any of the other Fates games, you'll like it for the most part, it's just that one aspect will probably bug you all the way through.
