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Post Post #1 (isolation #0) » Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:00 pm

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They finally gave an EU release date! .. 20th May -_-
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Post Post #3 (isolation #1) » Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:39 pm

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I loved Awakening. Although it may have not been the strongest gameplaywise it was still solid and the character development in support conversations more than made up for it. I'm replaying it for maybe the fifth time now and still discovering new stuff about characters.
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Post Post #7 (isolation #2) » Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:13 am

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In post 5, Natirasha wrote:The worst part about Fates is the children.

They don't make any sense in the (Admittedly already-awful) narrative. They aren't broken like in Awakening. But, not just those things, but they also completely kill the pacing of the game and give you this giant mess of units you'll never use. Like, I never felt bored doing the child paralogues in Awakening but I guess that's because the game actually tried a little to incorporate it a little and also the game was slow and meandering, it made sense you could go bumblefuck off to somewhere else if needed. Here, it's just tonally inconsistent that you can go kill bandits in Hoshido while you literally just broke through into Nohr's capital or whatnot. The fact all the missions aren't in the slightest interesting and tend to have 'Awakening Syndrome' also doesn't help.

The children themselves are actually rather interesting characters(more than the last game's, I daresay), but my god I wish I didn't play through them. It killed every bit of enthusiasm I had for finishing both games now. I guess I'll wait for Revelation next week and get to chapter 23 there, too.

Oh yeah the other thing I don't like with modern FE is the maps in the lategame are just too big and sprawling. Sometimes, scaling down the level helps a lot to mix up the gameplay experience. Paradoxically, I actually found Birthright better in this so far. Missions like Chapter 18 or 20 were a very helpful change from the usual 'giant open field' maps that the mid-lategames have had recently. Not that I don't mind those open fields, but you need to mix it up sometimes...

Some of Awakening's kids were brilliant (i.e. Owain and Inigo)
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Post Post #13 (isolation #3) » Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:52 am

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In post 12, Fluminator wrote:My classmate just had his character blow a cousin. What a weird game.

It's basically a less violent Game of Thrones
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Post Post #18 (isolation #4) » Wed May 18, 2016 11:25 pm

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One day till European release!
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Post Post #22 (isolation #5) » Fri May 20, 2016 6:46 am

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Is birthright that bad? I've got it and am swapping it with my friend who got conquest after we have played them
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Post Post #28 (isolation #6) » Sun May 22, 2016 12:32 am

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Really enjoying birthright so far, characters are great.
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Post Post #33 (isolation #7) » Sun May 22, 2016 8:03 pm

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Favourites so far are Setsuna, Kaze and Subuki.
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