/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9491883
On the one hand, it's one of the most tightly crafted games I've ever seen, and particularly impressive coming off of Shadow Dragon's general careless smattering of cavaliers and knights to wing spear across a map; on the other, I don't think I've ever felt so much sheer contempt for the player in a first-party release, and it'd take a lot to convince me to go back anytime soon. And that's not even the extent of it, either; from the hole in your wallet that never once gets plugged, to the Arenas so backloaded and so rigged against you entering one is like having a dev spit directly in your eye, to an endgame that had me get trapped in a corner for half an unironic hour as I was forced to desperately dig myself out from under an avalanche of *50* fully fledged stat capped god damn dragons, there's just nothin' else like it.

And honestly? I didn't even fuckin' care about Chris. They're just a blank slate for the other characters to bounce off of, wholly inconsequential. Plus, their presence allows for a good hundred+ actual support conversations and a whole sideplot added alongside in 5 uniquely designed gaiden chapters; yeah, their hat-wearing antics are dumb, but it's an inconsequential sort of dumb. And in fact, all that content they bring - combined with the Fire Emblem BS remake content included and the sheer replayability afforded by having your nuts kicked in in with new and exciting intensity - has me honestly convinced this might be one of the most content-rich FE games out there.