I actually don't mind the monastery sections but it would've made for a better game if they trimmed the fat a little bit. They DID fix this in Three Copes (and by fix, I mean tearing it out almost completely) but it's almost a bitch to have to go back to the previous game just because you just want to fight somebody.
Yeah for as much as I love 3H, most of the maps are just pretty meh.
God 3H has way too many goddamn routes...I still have 1 and a half more to go. What's even worse is they all feel so samey (and their so fucking long too). I really hope IS never attempts to do that ever again. They tried that with Fates and that was an absolute disaster. For all the faults I can see already with Engage, at least its one route.
RD is a funny case since Chapter 4 had some of the hypest maps in the franchise (the tower chapters) but also some of the absolute worst (every map before the tower where all but the Izuka map are rout maps with shit loads of reinforcements)
3H kinda made me retroactively appreciate that Conquest and Birthright came with their own sets of maps and characters, even if Birthright as a whole is really dull.
The thing that also makes the pre-tower maps so disgusting to play is that your trained up units will be spread out across 3 groups and leaving one group too underhanded can lead to problems.
I really don't see how the same people made chapter 10 (one of the best map ever imo)
Hence why I said bipolar, Conquest in general felt like it had the best map variety in Fates imo while Birthright's were fairly forgettable overall and Revelations' were terrible and I agree chapter 10 of Conquest is easily one of the best defense maps the series has ever done.
I wish Crimson Flower was long
I wouldn't of minded it being short if it felt more polished, then again I am in that small sub category of Dimitri fans who dislike Edelgard but acknowledges that as a character she is fine.I wish Crimson Flower was long
I meant that it's going an little bit beyond that order of guardians. This thing is going to be an riot if the character reveals are mostly them expressing their loyalty to the MC.
I have already made my peace with the fact that as long as avatars/self inserts are a thing, everyone will fall over heels for chad/stacy thundercock/pussy. Really shows the change in philosophy from Kaga wanting the player and the protagonist to be 2 different entities to Maeda and Kusakihara making you the super special hero with unique powers who everyone loves and if they don't, they are a villain or eventually give in and start fellating you as well.
I used to be that way until I started liking Hubert, which makes me an Edelgard defender by default.
Honestly I didn't care for him much until I did VW, his emergency plan for if the Empire lost to the Alliance with that letter and how actually clutch the information in it was despite how certain he was that they wouldn't lose really won me over though I still liked Dedue and Hilda a bit more when it came to the "right hand man" character.
I didn't care for him until I played Three Copes. Now he's one of my favorites in that game but really because he reminds me of Ghirahim from LoZ.