Share Your Thoughts On A Game You Recently Played.

[The_Liquid_Laser]

firebush03 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Based on Fire Emblem games I've played before, I would rank FF7 Rebirth > Advance Wars > Fortune's Weave.  But you have to also realize that sometimes you feel more like playing a tactical game and sometimes you want an action RPG.  If you feel like playing a tactical game, I'd pick Advance Wars assuming you haven't played the games before.

I'm curious you're reason for placing FW behind AW? Would be nice to get Advance Wars Remake off my backlog list... its been there since April 2023 lol. Plus FW is a wopping $80USD. Could also give Astral Chain or Bayo a chance. Never played either of those, though I'd kinda want to replace FW with a tactics game. FFTactics may also be fun as well. Or I could go completely random and knock out Earthbound Beginnings, that's a game I have always wanted to play. Same goes for Banjo Twoie and the original Spyro trilogy.

Oof there's too many options!

I've had a lot more fun with Advance Wars than with any Fire Emblem game.  Fire Emblem games can be fun, (my favorite one was on the Gamecube), but even the best isn't nearly as fun as Advance Wars.  I personally don't like worrying about permadeath, meanwhile in Advance Wars you can choose whatever troops you want on most of the maps and it doesn't really matter if they die.  Advance Wars is more of a resource management game.  

Now, I do like games where you gradually gather a fantasy army and then level them up.  Final Fantasy Tactics is the best game like that.  If you haven't played that, then I'd go there first.  After that I'd recommend the Shining Force games on the Genesis before Fire Emblem.  If you're still itching for a tactical RPG after playing all of that, then that is the time I'd start digging into the Fire Emblem games.  (And even then, both Valkyria Chronicles and Heroes of Might and Magic 2/3 are close enough to this genre that they are worth looking into even before Fire Emblem.)