Fire Emblem's new anime direction (RANT)

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Namiirei said:

Awakening in third place for the story ? Really ? (especially better than Radiant dawn ?)

It's one of the worst for me, with bad time-travel story, and non-interesting/déjà-vu story otherwise.

Awakening has some good point, but i really can't say the scenario is one of them...far from it . you don't play awakening for his story, at all. And that's why i wait the next FE, who will get a better story...because it's hard to do something worse than awakening.

I liked Radiant Dawn in the sense that it was a follow-up to my favorite entry, but I found the story prior to the Greil's Mercenaries' return to be less interesting than a lot of the others. I never did find myself caring that much about the Dawn Brigade, and that only got worse when they were forced to fight against Ike's team. The idea was to pit two sympathetic teams against each other, but I can't possibly think of scenario where I would have possibly rooted for Micaiah over Ike. I still can't figure out why someone who wasn't involved with the blood pact signing didn't just come up with a plan to tell Ike without arousing suspicion, it's not like Micaiah's team didn't know him or anything. Admittedly this was a character problem, but since a large part of story was dependent on it, it was something I found a bit annoying.

Awakening on the other hand, though definitely with its own cliches, had a multi-arc story I found more engaging. In particular, the portion of the the game after Emm dies and the Valm arc really kept me hooked. It had also had more strong emotional sequences that hooked me, moreso than RD did.