Partridge Senpai's 2016 Beaten List
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Axiom Verge52.
Otomedius Excellent53.
JUMP Ultimate Stars54.
Dynasty Warriors 355.
Fire Emblem if: Byakuya (Birthright)56.
Fire Emblem if: Anya (Conquest)57. Fire Emblem if: Invisible Kingdom (Revelations) (3DS)
And so ends the last chapter of Fire Emblem if for me. To be perfectly honest, I'm a little torn about Revelations' on a "right to exist" level.
From a story perspective, there's the argument that having a path where both families win is a nice middle ground to have. This is also the only path where you actually get the titular "Fire Emblem," and also do the other thing that so many Fire Emblems end with (which I shant spoil, but you can probably guess). On another level, I really respected Conquest and Birthright for how bold their stories were in showing that war really sucks, and there may be winner but there are also a lot of losers. Those stories had a much larger impact to me, and I feel Revelations misses out on that by quite a bit.
On a gameplay perspective, Revelations has some of the most interesting level gimmicks out of the other if games. It also has SO MANY fucking characters, it certainly feels like if one was going to be inclined towards an ironman run, this would certainly be the game to do it in (there'd just be a million billion hours of ginding up a new guy every time an old one dies). However, that character overflow was kind of overwhelming, and I kinda felt bad that there were SO many characters whom I never used once. That said, every one of those characters (sans one) were already playable in Conquest or Birthright, so I'd already seen all of them to a satisfactory point.
Verdict: Recommended. This is definitely the FE: If game I liked the least, but I think that's down to me just playing 3 FE games in a row. Part of me feels like this game has trouble standing on its own because of how much better the stories were told in the two sister games, but part of me also feels like this game stands best on its own because it has all of the character content of those two games. I wouldn't really recommend playing
only Revelations, but if you can really only stomach to play one FE: if game, then I'd say it might as well be Revelations.
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