Also features a petting mini game where you pet your units on the touch screen that was changed for international release to *just* having them suggestively blush at you without the petting.
Apparently the author wrote something around 20k+ words for each route and went overboard to the point where IS had to cut down so much story to fit in the game hence why there is so much pacing issues, lack of lore and an overall terrible story.Honestly Fates pisses me off so much. The gameplay and soundtrack are so extremely high quality that I just can't fathom how they could have f'd up the story so consistently. What the hell happened?
If you're primarily attracted to the mechanical stuff, I'd skip the series entirely and try some of the better tactics games out there.
Yeah... play tearring saga I guess?If you're primarily attracted to the mechanical stuff, I'd skip the series entirely and try some of the better tactics games out there.
Valentia is soooo grindy, enemies constantly spawining on the overworld map were so tiresome, It's a great game for the artstyle, the characters and the Dungeons twist, but it's clearly a remake of a very old title.
As opposed to the story and aesthetic, which the OP seemed less enthusiastic about? Yeah.If you're attracted to the gameplay of the series, then skip the series entirely?
Huh.
As opposed to the story and aesthetic, which the OP seemed less enthusiastic about? Yeah.
Apparently the author wrote something around 20k+ words for each route and went overboard to the point where IS had to cut down so much story to fit in the game hence why there is so much pacing issues, lack of lore and an overall terrible story.
There are some hints that may have been outlined to be fleshed out at least in conquest consideringWe don't know the story was actually cut down, just that they hired Shin Kibayashi for outlines, but then he came back with full scripts. What we actually know is that they still added some stuff like creating Hinoka to have an equal number of siblings for both sides and the text related to gameplay mechanics since his script was written without any gameplay guidance aside from the game's basic chapter structure (which is why Fates suffers more than usual from introducing elements that then go on to be ignored, since the game itself was developed very separately from the plot).
The story is missing basic elements you'd see in other games like a continent's name and clear political structure because it was written by someone who never wrote any other FE story and only checked FE right before writing for this game. Although the final script and supports were by a bunch of other writers they clearly didn't want to fill in those holes since it could clash with the main writer's work (Shin Kibayashi was originally supposed to write a Fates manga too before the entire project disappeared. It wasn't supposed to be a one and done project).
This thread is bringing up so many awful memories of the writing lol. Remember when Xander
Pretends to be righteous and disapproves of Garon hiring literal murderers as lackeys but directly employs Peri as his personal retainer and then goes on to claim justice is an illusion because killing defenseless peasants for a guy who won't stop cackling and twirling his evil moustache is just protecting your country? He really is the worst and I hated how much they tried pushing him as some tragic Camus. That doesn't work when the thing you're conflicted about is whether aiding a literal goo monster's invasion of a peaceful country for no reason other than "me want throne" is the right thing to do.
i just think it's sooooo funny how
Garon is never portrayed as anything but laughably, cartoonishly evil, and the siblings have to intercede on Corrin's behalf multiple times to stop Garon from executing them, and they're all completely aware that Garon would happily execute any of them, and yet the entire invasion of Hoshido. Towards the end they sort of float the idea that the siblings think Iago is the bad influence, and yet they've seen multiple instances of Garon specifically being horrid and it's just... girl.
Very late into Conquest they kind of excuse that by saying thatRight, and to shit on Xander specifically a bit more bc he deserves it
How in Birthright Leo and Elise and even Camilla to an extent are all trying to undermine Garon discreetly because they know he's unstable at best or evil at worst, but their biggest obstacle is fucking Xander, who won't stop working for this evil dude to the point where he stabs his own sister and then makes a speech about how he's the real victim because he had no choice but to support Garon as the heir to the throne?? Because apparently taking out your evil dad when you and everyone else knows he is off the deep end quickly and efficiently instead of allowing an invasion is worse for the country and common folk.