The next Fire Emblem

[Pristine20]

RolStoppable said:

Pristine20 said:

When you put it that way, it makes a lot of sense. It does defeat the SRPG elements though when you can power through the end with OP characters whcih defeats the whole idea of not allowing grinding. I do think it would have probably been best to maybe stick to Micaiah's team throughout (while maybe telling the story of Ike's team in the background) because it did seem somewhat pointless to have built her team so much only to discard the vast majority of them towards the end. 

It's only really the final in the tower where you can power through, because the preceding chapters in Part IV are quite open and challenging with all their reinforcements. But yeah, I am not too fond of the final either, because you have to select ten units in addition to the predetermined ones while everyone else gets left behind. You aren't forced to use the royal Laguz, but it's tempting to pick them.

The developers wanted to tell a story from different points of view, so the concession they had to make was that you have to discard a lot of the units you built up. Whether those are Micaiah's, Ike's or Geoffrey's, you have to leave a lot of them behind in the end. Focusing on only one group throughout the entire game wouldn't have led to such an impactful culmination of the events.

I have OCD when it comes to RPGs in general so I must use the most optimized team. I always take the Royal Laguz without fail and my favorite character, Elincia, doesn't even make the cut sadly. Yeah, overall, I like what they did with the game. I only wish there were sidequests and more content to pad it up like other SRPGs because when you're done with the story, there isn't much else. If only there was a way to keep things challenging while still adding side content...