I think gameplay aspects like how hard juggernauting is, show that they are aware of and pick up on some criticisms. It's just that they seemingly also still want to do whatever they feel like and at this point might legitimately not value aspects like writing this much.
Some of you people are fucking nitpicky babies. You sound like chicks. You can’t criticize Engage’s gameplay or maps so you have to find some other bullshit to complain about.
They've stated in interviews that the game was done in 2022 and they had a whole extra year to work on DLC. There was no time crunch once the 30th anniversary plans passed.
"I can't counter your complaints about the presentation, so I'm going to pretend you don't have any about the gameplay. Enjoy Somniel, stalker child."
The reason I said ‘some of you people’ is because it is limited to a few people who bring up the dumbest things to complain about. They do it for other games, too, not just Engage, and it’s annoying, bitchy behavior, very female coded, as zoomers would say. It’s the sort of gay dogpiling seen on sites like Reddit where the forum turns into a hivemind.
What's wrong with Shadow Dragon, exactly? Aside from the graphics?
Only major issue that I had was how the monastery momentarily locks a certain set of doors if you fast travel to certain locations because it hasn't finished loading.
Alright, what I hate about the gameplay of Engage is that there's hardly anything that's traditionally useful for most of the classes aside from an lot of them having some weird ability that allows for repositioning your units instead of something that's more beneficial for combat.
Which isn't good enough to set aside the fact that the aesthetics and plot of it is killing what would otherwise be one of the better games in the series
That was mainly me pointing out how ridiculous the character design can get, compared to their actual personality. Since a large part of the series has been mostly consistent (or lazy) with having the various outfits reflect the characters' personality or profession; and while Fates and 3H were vaguely approaching the line where it stops being believable. Engage is something that would have been better suited for the mobile game than anything else
I think our opinions about this game pretty much align lol. The engage mechanic felt like an overcorrection for battalions in 3H. Battalions felt like glorified stat boosters and ended up feeling a bit flat and contrived. Engaging, on the flip side, is way more altering and draws a bit too much attention to itself. If you don’t like the engage mechanics, the game won’t work at all. It’s like Final Smashes, something players will either love or hate.
The biggest problem, in my opinion, is adding the weapon triangle to a game that wasn’t designed for it, and then failing to account for that. The other major problem is that it made Marth a worse Lord in the Zeitgeist, combat-wise. Marth is supposed to be this hero-king of legend, literally titled ‘Starlord’ in Japanese, and he can’t kill the boss on higher difficulties? I get making the game harder is necessary and it’s difficult to make that work with Falchion, but IS could have come up with something, like scaling down Falchions effects or nerfing the orbs on higher difficulties to encourage the player to get Falchion and use Marth to kill Medeus, or let him use lances with a secret item or something, anything to make him look like less of a meme lord.
New Mystery is hell; you have to plan things out for days if you want to
It's also retarded that if you don't train Marth you effectively softlock yourself on the highest difficulties because they took away effective manakete damage from the final boss
Post-Kaga IS and their efforts to incentivize continuing despite fallen units just forget how he made FE1. Even though it will stop at a certain point, you'll always get units to carry you forward if you just kept going in that game, for better or worse. Merric and Excalibur, for example, are cool, but Wendell is great when you get him. And if something happens to him, Boah can take his place.
Path of Radiance did well enough that Nintendo gave IS too much budget for Radiant Dawn. That’s why it turned out to be a flop. I’m not exactly sure why. The marketing was good. Some possibilities are that there were a lot of competitive games out at the time, it had a reputation of being super fucking hard which may have turned off new players, and it had a woman main character who was not a sex symbol, featured prominently on the box and in ads.
Yeah those era factors are a good point. A lot of hardcore gamers were obsessed with online gaming at the time, too, and Radiant Dawn had no multiplayer or online features of any kind. It was a pretty rough era of dumb fads on both the casual and hardcore side, IMO.
And watch people claim that Ike is gay, again? Because we've already have people saying that it's ok for Chrom to be gay. And this was by an former janny, at that
The day I let the lame community posts stop me from enjoying something, please take me out back and tell me about the rabbits