Some people have Fortune's Weave early so I got to see some gameplay. If you can call it that. Holy carps, there were barely any maps in the three hours of footage I saw and the ones there were horseshit. Like walking simulator grade. Ew.

And so much of this story needed to be on the cutting room floor. Look, I like a good story as much as anyone but this is Fire Emblem, not a vn. Cut scene then talking then more talking. Then walk to the thing and get a cut scene. Then jump ahead a bit to another setting with talking, talking, cut scene and then talking. THEN we get a map?

Are you fuckin' with me, Ninny-tendo? What is this? The story is supposed to bookend the maps, the maps aren't a feature in your visual novel. Don't worry, no one's Switch 2 will fall asleep since the game requires the bare minimum interaction of pushing a button here and there.

Clearly, they wanted to tell waaaay more story than they had room for. There are four lord characters but they actually wanted eight. Honestly, they should've cut it down to two lords or at most three.

I still plan to watch other people play this but I'm glad I didn't plunk down money for it.

I just had a nightmare vision of Samus exhibiting modern game design brainrot, when every time she gains a new ability she loudly proclaims something like, "Hmm... wasn't there a blocked path this new beam could clear back in that one jungle area? Hmm... perhaps I should check. 7 screens up and 3 to the left, if I recall correctly. Yes, I do believe so. Hmm..."

God.

A bunch of negative Wolverine reviews hit my feed but I didn't care to even watch them. I saw the Metroid trailer or whatever in the Nintendo direct and Samus was talking way too much.

I forgot about this!

New Metroid looks so good: