When I first heard about Fire Emblem I was like “Ew I don’t want to play chess” but then I heard that it is actually a dating simulator and then I knew I had to play it.
Fire Emblem is a tactical strategy RPG that also doubles as a dating simulator. You use your units on a grid to wipe out the opposing forces, and if your unit dies, they stay dead forever. This means whenever my favorite unit dies I have to reset the game.
However.
Nobody actually plays this game for the chess.
They play it for the dating simulator.
You can increase the bond between your units to make them do more damage or something but I just use it to ship people.
Also you can get children and send them into the battlefield and kill them or whatever lol
In all seriousness Fire Emblem is like what chess would be if it wasn’t boring. All your units have different attacks, weapons, movement, and abilities, some units being better than others.
There’s this one poo poo head on my team named Lorenz and he does like three damage on a good day and on a bad day he misses the enemy and dies by a counterattack. I really hate him but I’m going for a no death run so I have to reset when he dies which is annoying.
There are three difficulty levels in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. If you’re a beginner you’ll want to start with Normal or Hard since both of those modes are a cakewalk. I thought the game was super easy and then I went on Maddening mode and I realized that I actually have to think now? Like actually plan out my moves? The way I had been playing was just using my best unit to kill everything but now I can’t do that anymore.
So yeah don’t pick Maddening if it’s your first time.
The two Fire Emblem games you should play first if you’re looking to get into the series is either Fire Emblem: Three Houses or Fire Emblem Awakening.
Awakening is only available on the 3DS though so I’m not sure how accessible it is.
Which means Three Houses is probably going to be the one that most people play.
In Three Houses you’re a teacher dude (or girl) who sends literal children into battle (like an actual fifteen year old).
Three Houses is a baby game because it is the first Fire Emblem game to include a rewind feature, which means if you make a bad move you can go back a few turns and undo it. However, you can only rewind so many times so it’s not a permanent safety net.
Oh, I should probably talk about the setting.
Despite having that weeaboo anime art style the setting of the game is a European medieval castle kind of place. Everyone is fighting with swords or bows and riding on horseback. All the types of weapons have advantages and weaknesses.
Swords lances and axes have a pretty good damage output but have a short range.
Bows can take on enemies from afar but do little damage and bow users typically have less health and defense.
Magic people are like the same as bows but do more damage which kinda makes bows useless but my favorite character uses a bow so I still use them.
Cavaliers (horse people) have high movement and damage but die easily to magic.
And flying types (wyverns and pegasuses or maybe pegasi) have even higher movement than the cavaliers but do less damage and can be easily taken out by bows.
So yeah that’s pretty much Fire Emblem and why I like it. Don’t bother responding because you’re opinion is wrong and you’re just a hater. sayonara!