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Gross, Kris needs to stay in their own lane instead of being forced as this super important godlike soldier that does everything from making tactics to butting in every scene.

It's what made this franchise memorable, the story and characters. It's not perfect but it's surely better than the fuck Fates was trying to do. Sue me, I can describe games how I want. I didn't call YOU a degenerate for playing them did I? Get over yourself.

It's not a standard, but its writing as a whole is better than the lows Fates gave us.

Except Fire Emblem has long been confirmed to stand out for being a strategy game focused on story and characters with every individual unit having a personality. Not the gameplay specifically. I could play better shit that makes my brain work more than any FE game if I badly prioritized gameplay over anything else. Gameplay is a boon for Conquest but not enough for me to say that shitty degenerate game was good.

And Kris somehow gets it over many OGs that fought by Marth's side since the beginning because of shitty avatar power.

With Marth's blessing~

He doesn't make every grunt his best friend though.

Yeah and it's just as forced and insufferable in Heroes

Being "designed as easy" doesn't excuse mediocre gameplay and feels like a bad excuse to deflect criticism. The gameplay is mediocre for many FE fans. If Fates wasn't so awfully handled it wouldn't of been torn to shreds. Awakening was decisive and managed to move on way easier than Fates. Three Houses is flawed but it's still better than Fates by the sheer factor of not shoving in children purely for the sake of following Awakening's footsteps.

Fates was a degenerate game with so much wrong that it naturally tore the fanbase up after an already divisive Awakening -Piggybacked Awakening rather than standing on its own to the point it literally shoved in Awakening characters -The worst implementation of children that will never be topped in sheer ridiculousness, their characters aren't that good either -Butchering localization for an already mediocre cast and story -Jank character designing -DLC Route that is objectively the best and undermined any true unique tragedy or unique point of choice Fates had -The villains were a laughing stock, even more than Slithers since they aren't blindly defended by an idiot like Xander -Fates children in the Jpn version could marry grown adults -"tECHNICALLY AN ADULT" -Being able to pet units' faces and they could make weird noises -Azura with a bunch of plot devices that show up suddenly and leaves the plot just as quick. -Camilla getting cutscenes with complete zoom ins on her ass and titties -"We trust Corrin so much we'll jump off a cliff for them!" -""Anankos is the TRUE VILLAIN!" The only good part of Fates was Conquest's gameplay.

Well why do you think it's an underrated pair? Because it's extremely forced and tacked on. Not once does Norne ever mention having a village friend not even in descriptions (just her and Draug) until Kris conveniently becomes an avatar. Katarina is also simply superior for a character like Kris than Norne, her personal arc revolves around Kris.

So leaving them with bullshit like "Marth's soulmate" is perfectly fine? No. The relationship with Katarina is kinda cute but Marth objectively deserves to be closer to characters like Merric.

Farina > Lyn Also, never rely on Heroes for anything outside of a fun extra.

Cut them out entirely Easy fix.

Kris deserves no pity. Being shoved into a narrative they don't belong in and being shoved as Marth's "super best friend" and making Merric move over to be Marth's soulmate is insufferable. The only reason the vast majority give a shit about em is their godlike customization and pity

Exactly, but a Revelation route

And look at that, Intsys completely shut down a golden route in recent Famitsu info. Just shows that the route is a bad idea if Intsys finds the idea terrible and would never make it. Thank god.

That makes no sense and never been established in story. Not even Progenitor God fusion Byleth could rewind that far back. Then that's not a golden route, just a cheap shot at trying to force sacrifice in a route that would objectively be better than the rest.

Oh yeah, Edelgard sucked at explaining herself and she's out here saying "I had nothing to do with that" right after threatening everyone's lives with an army in the Holy Tomb and having an axe in her hands.

Same thing. Verdant Wind feels lack luster when it's supposed to be about Claude yet it's taking the same shit from SS.

Silver Snow suffered from Claude's route shoving itself onto what SS established. Claude's route should've dug more into him than ripping the same shit from Silver Snow. If Verdant Wind was better, Silver Snow would have reasons for us to play it.

Fuck a "Revelations route" Byleth comes in way too late to affect anyone's lives. Divine Pulse canonically only works by a few moments. The characters and their ideals are too damn drastically different and a chance at making it work long passed before Byleth ever showed up. Intsys agrees since there is NO GOLDEN ROUTE. Not even with the new DLC on the way with a "secret 4th house". Just wait for the spinoffs if you want the characters happy and working together that bad.

Fucking Kris dude, how people could pity party or stan this avatar is beyond me. Literally more bland and bad than any avatar with no interesting weapon, design or character.

Nah, having stories like Rise of the Deliverance does the cast more favors than a trashy new route that would have a tough time balancing side characters. Limiting the cast to the Lords, Byleth, Linhardt, Ashe and Hilda allows for interesting ideas than chars of usual main routes. Where they usually just pitch in the main dialogue once with their quirk in group discussions and that's it.

Hilda's always recruitable too. She deserves this, she never had a fair amount of exclusivity or screentime in comparison to Dedue and Hubert. Dedue being a major part of Azure Moon and shows up in Verdant Wind more than Dimitri himself. Hubert also gets bucketfuls of screentime too. We directly fight the Empire more than the Kingdom in terms of overall routes.