strike from behind, back to the wall
I like these games, I just wish gamers did, or at least for the reasons I do. Not many genres got so aspirational with their narratives as early as the TRPG. And if you’re about to ask about Advance Wars, it’s addressed partway through. I know there’s about 10000 I missed or didn’t discuss, but, and I know this is hard to believe – I haven’t played every video game.
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This video better have the fattest dislike bar ohhhhh my god please tell me about the characters you enjoy petting in Fire Emblem Fates PLEASE I NEED IT
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This article was helpful for blasting through the history at light speed:
https://toucharcade.com/2017/04/13/rpg-reload-glossary-the-early-history-of-tactical-rpg-video-games/
Advance Wars sales data (alongside other Nintendo IPs) found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/9mi3s0/a_comparative_analysis_of_the_review_scores_sales/
Sampled this for the reference to solo lunatic FE Fates. awakening stuff can be found everywhere if you’re looking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6pkHrqfJxk
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honestly really hate how much you shit on 3houses, i will admit i like fates but i cant say its a good game compared to the rest
but your whole basis is "waifu bad" without looking at basically anything else of the game or any other lines the characters had beyond it.
and for anyone looking at valkryia chronicles…..dont, just dont, if you dont like fates and 3houses story your not gonna like valkryia 4s story much either. i stopped playing it because of the fact of how stupid it got even if i liked the gameplay alot
Fully agree with that start!
1:25 source please?
11:30 Tf do you mean you been “holding it in”? Plenty of people have been leveling your exact criticisms of both games at them since the day they came out.
Ah yes, my favorite game genre- Tetris but with literal instead of metaphorical death.
If there is no mention of super robot wars here I will be sad
7:58
great bite at nintendo
My guy you Cannot talk about the weak stories of FE Fates and Awakening and Not compare it to the games with actually good stories/writings other than the gba games and POR/RD. Like honestly FE4 is really good in it's story telling and lack of short maps in order to make it more meaningful to the player. FE5 is great as a personal journey story. And FE15 is a really good mix of odd gameplay and great story that it's shoved its way into my heart as my favorite game and soundtrack in the whole goddamn series. Three Houses is also really good for what it is and in my opinion the story hardly suffers for having 3 1/2 routes like Fates did, though I'm sure fates sucked because of internal struggles. Theses games are GOOD, they just suffer from poor writing sure, but at least the gameplay of each game is fun and mostly fair.
It's not a TBT game but this video really makes me think of Suikoden and its tragic death. The first 3 games are really solid and it's sad that it's just been left to die by time.
raises hand I… like the easier difficulty options and ability to turn off permadeath. Allows me to enjoy the story and characters and not have to beat my head against a wall for hours and hours.
Everyone's talking about how great FFT's story is, and I'm just sitting here waiting for a new Advance Wars game…
Facts
What game is that at 7:47 ?
I love Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre, FFT, Knight of Lodis, Ogre Battle 64, Advance Wars, Disgaia, Phantom Brave, Devil Summoner games, and Fire Emblem from playing the SNES games on emulators before the GBA ones, and the GBA series, and the Cube/Wii series, and I have no problem with anything Awakening did, especially given the context of its creation (make a game that sells or the series is over). The romance/children thing was brought back from Genealogy, and even though it is admittedly cheapened with time travel nonsense (and the parents living lol), it's a mechanic from the most iconic game in the series and yeah, it's a lot of fun. Playing Awakening was the most fun I had had with a Fire Emblem game since playing Genealogy of the Holy War all those years ago, just because the combination of systems for efficient delivery of content, as you say, was so finely engineered. I have no criticisms of something designed to please if it does that excellently.
The PSP port of Tactics Ogre is resplendent (wasn't clear if you'd played any version of it, but it's as close to FFT as you can get, written when Yasumi Matsuno was at the height of his powers) if you miss Matsuno's storytelling. I certainly do.
Advance Wars came out at around an unfortunate time. 9/11. Yeah. Although it did well enough for IntSys to consider localizing FE. Although Days of Ruin also had problems with it's release in Japan, eventually never releasing to stores but only in there Club Nintendo program. Series had a rough time. time
Whoa whoa whoa, hey now… Kingdoms of Amalur does not "blow chunks". It's not amazing, but it's a pretty good game.
I'd also like to add that FE3H has been surprisingly popular amongst a ton of different demographics, including women and older players, so it must have more going on than horny waifu trash bait. You're welcome to your opinions, but generalizing and lumping things together isn't very fair.
FFT is still a game that fees like home whenever I turn it on. It’s soundtrack is the perfect background for just existing.
>>Video on war stories and tactical RPGs.
>>Not a single mention of SUPER ROBOT WARS, a crossover franchise of tactical RPGs that has been running for 30 years now.
I am sad and dissapointed this is our reality, do yourself a favor, and check it out, it has everything you asked for and more, and the best animation department on the entire genre.
Lumping Awakening with fates is so annoying and common. Sure awakening has clear flaws but its not even in the same ballpark of shit of Fates.
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I’d say Three Houses will be better for you. Fates was. It was a slog that didn’t pay off the check it was writing.
You really need to play three houses, aside from the weird camera thing you're allowed to do after a perfect tea time with a character it doesn't have any of the pandering that fates did. The stories and characters are well written and the themes covered in that game fall a lot more in line with the themes of older war story games you mentioned in this video. Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is another good one, not sure if you played that or not since you didn't mention it.
Please try out three houses it’s actually answers a lot of your complaints with awakening and fates and manages to speak a genuinely complex and interesting story all or stories with surprisingly deep characters while still having a good gameplay and characters
I want the return of fft and advance wars. They were the games that helped define my gaming tastes for decade of my life
Completely agree on awakening and fates being ruined by their writing but three houses is an entirely different kinda game. It reminds me way more of classic fe than 3ds fe and the game is about as far as you can get from a dating sim
Those descriptions from 2:30 on were …
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its kind of funny to me how Fire Emblem has went from that series people wanted to be more popular, to the one that a lot of people wish would go away so there personal favorite to take its place. Hell, even Fire Emblem fans have somehow gotten more and more snobbish over the years. The "SNES-era vs GBA-era vs Modern-era" battles are probably more long lasting than any war in the series at this point. I do also find it funny that you skipped the titles with probably the least amount of things you hate about the current franchise. Though I think a lot of the comments section. . . echoes that sentiment. But yeah, Three Houses is pretty good.
I'm a simple man. I see a silhouette of my favorite FF character in a thumbnail, I click the video.
I truly sympathize with your feelings about Fire Emblem; though I also think it's moved away from the gameplay I look for. I'm not a fan of the amount of customization you have now. Since shadow dragon, probably, it's moved more and more towards being an rpg rather than Srpg. It flattens the uniqueness of each character when they can be anything, even if it takes a little work.
RPG's lend themselves to power fantasies much more easily. Fire Emblem wasn't strong in that regard before. However it's become possible to do solo, or near solo, runs in the game and that does break the immersion.
You 100% should play 3 Houses; the support conversations are some of the best in the entire series and they've chosen to focus on a smaller cast with more logical support options
I highly recommend you play Three Houses, while it definitely has its fair share of fluff, it actually returned to the formula of meaningful story and characters.
Dos2 doesn't count?
I feel the same way about what Fire Emblem became. Everything you said here will be vindicated by God, I believe that.
Man. I miss vandal hearts. My copy was stolen (most of my ps1 games were stolen sadly. )
I feel you.
I feel like all my favorite genres have left me behind before i even hit 30.
Rpgs, tactics titles, and fighting games.
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Not enough waifus.
Soooo…are we just skipping Advanced Wars: Dual Strike? or Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin? Yeah, the series is dead now, but there were two entries passed the first one that if I recall did fairly well. Great video overall, I would have loved to see them covered, just felt like you ran out of time to do research on them or something since you skipped them.
There's a really good SRPG that came out late in 2019 you should give a try, it's basically a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics. It's called "Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark". It's understandably not up to FFT's level of depth in terms of the story, but the gameplay is absolutely top-notch.
Yoshitaka Amano artwork is amazing. But, the art looks something similar to metal gear's artwork. And it resembles a lot like it came from Rob Liefield.
The artwork on 4:00 is giving me Rob Liefeld flashbacks.
Man I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks like this about this genera.
Trpg masterpiece and underplayed gem
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Finally someone talks about Vandal Hearts! Thank you!
I also remember people criticizing the last Advance Wars game from going dark (as well as the loss of a few gameplay mechanics we all enjoy. So which is it? I honestly think the light bubbly atmosphere in the first two installments played a big part in Advance Wars appeal. I personally did not want to even try out the last entry after I've heard so much about how dark it went. I like my advance wars to not take itself seriously personally. There are other series for that.
Days of Ruin in the end was just doomed to be forgotten.
Dude you totally should play Three Houses.
The only unrealistic thing in Fates is that all of these one dimensional characters found each other. I would know. I'm pretty 1D.
I can tell you ain’t played Three Houses because while the ‘romantic’ stuff is there, it’s basically ignorable. The overarching stories are really thought provoking as well. Trust me dude give it a try (pick Kingdom or Aliance) and you’ll have a blast