The game came out on Friday and yet some of you guys are already 30 hours in? Damn, the game must be insanely good then!

It really is.  I am jealous of all the people who are 30 hours in already.  Have not had a lot of free time this weekend, but I am loving what I have played so far.

I'm about 10 hours in. Yes it is excellent.

I've been so far out of the loop on videogames that I completely forgot about this releasing.

Ordered it, arrives tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

That's what I get for not clearing my schedule. -_-

I figured the game would get a solid 80-83. Instead it gets an 88, and is a massive hit with fans. So it'll probably wind up being a 10/10 game for me. 

I´ve been craving a jrpg to play on the Switch after Xenoblade 2 massively dissapointed me and Octopath failed to ignite my interest, though I never played a FE game this one is piquing my interest.

Ive just played this game for 8 hours strait.. long time since I did that.

I am not really sure playing it because of the "JRPG" label is very accurate. Fire Emblem is a completely different kind of game than Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Octopath Traveller. To put it another way, it's like being disappointed in Super Mario Odyssey as a Mario game and then going for Super Mario Kart instead.

Final Fantasy 12 would be significantly closer to Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

There are numerous other RPGs closer to Octopath Traveler; including FF7, and some other games like FF9 and I am Setsuna. Dragon Quest 11 is something sort of in the middle.

Fire Emblem is much more like the Disgaea series, Mario vs. Rabbids (though I haven't played it), and Banner Saga (haven't played that one either), although it has its differences.

Not saying you won't like Fire Emblem, but it's not the sort of game you think it is.

Love this game. Dont' know how many hours. Probably like 10. Just finished I believe the 3rd month?

Each main story battle is the end of a month, and I think i've done 3 things, so sounds about right.


BTW, question for those who are further in game. What is best way to 'meta' lets say. Like right now whenever a weekend comes around I basically always "explore". Noticed though that no new dialogues from characters each explore, they just each new month. Though exploring you do get to raise motivation for a enough characters to utilize them the best in lessons. I noticed when going to a battle at end of month that there were two "smaller battles" i could have done throughout the month, but iddn't. THen felt underleveled. Like lvl 4 guys fighting lvl 6 enemies. I still won. (Hard doens't seem that hard, imo. the free lunatic update will be nice). When exploring you get to replant plants and fish, which are nice items grabbers for no ability cost.

Then there is the seminar where you get a professor to teach people. You get skill experience as well as all those gain motivation, so tahts nice too.

Shoudl i do like one of each, each month? Explore on days that have extra stuff listed? Seminar when the most students attend one? Battle when the others look like nothing special?

What are you guys' strats for month at school?

My strategy for the first year was:
First week of the month - Explore
Second- Battle
Third- Explore

I've been trying to recruit a lot of characters so having two weeks to interact/raise professor level is necessary imo. Once you raise professor level enough (it could also just be a story progress thing, I don't know which) you can do more than one battle at a time in one week, which means that you can do your missions/paralogues.levelling in one week of the month and there's no need for another week of battles (unless you want to rush to complete all paralogues ASAP)

The seminar is pretty useless imo, you're better off doing Explore and then raising your own points that way. Students take care of themselves during the teaching weeks.