Fire Emblem Fates: Both "FULL GAMES" Each, DLC "Third Path" is a Full Game as Well!

[Cloudman]

outlawauron said:

Cloudman said:

Wright said:

Wish the developers didn't do this, but well. I hope this doesn't lead to bad sales, because I can't picture a lot of people purchasing everything (will VGC track each version separatedly?).

 

Like Outlawaron said, Blazing Sword offered three different campaigns included in the same game. They didn't sell them separatedly on different versions.

o: But Lyn's was basically a tutorial with lasted 10 chapters until joining Eliwood, and Hector's is mostly the same campaign, but with Hector as the lead and a couple extra missions and 2 extra characters. That doesn't quite seem the same as Fates in terms of different campaigns.

Honestly, I'm sure a similar summarization will be just as easy. We do know that the two versions are not completely separate as they share characters. I saw a prompt yesterday that appeared if you chose a decision only possible in the other version. It asked you to go to eShop to buy the other version. Considering other JRPGs who have different parallel storylines (having just played through Suikoden 3 which is a 80+ hour game with 3 storylines), this is the way to extract the most money, so I guess I can't blame Nintendo.

I'm not reading too much into the new into for Fates, but there are a lot of characters different per campaign, with 6 being shared/ 11 counting kids. On the prompt, that may be refering to after chapter 6, where the story splits. I don't know how different they are, but I hear there are at least over 20 stages each, and they are different from each other, along with characters, music, and classes, so it may not be as much cutting content out as you may claim it to be, but we'll have to see if that is true when the game releases in the west. As for games splitting stories, I can't think of any that take it as largely as fates claims to be, but we'll just have to wait and see.