Conquest is good, but Fates doesn't really hold up unless you know what's going on in Revelations.
It's better to view Fates as three separate games rather than a whole, because the quality of both story and gameplay varies wildly between the three. The general consensus is that Birthright has the best story (that is to say, it's very bland and inoffensive and follows a standard Fire Emblem plot), Conquest has some of the best level design in the entire series but a dogshit story in an already weak overarching narrative. I have never heard anything positive about Revelations on either counts. Music is great tho.
Aside from 3H handing out the occasional skill that reduces a single stat by 6 for one turn, it hasn't really came back unless you're talking about Heroes.
The difference between the sealing skills in 3H and shuriken in Fates is that it only targets a single stat at a time (unless you give a character multiple seal skills at the expense of valuable skill slots) and the debuffs don't stack, meaning you can't abuse it and vice versa. Gambits can also be bullshit at times but they're far more preferable to enemies capable of stacking debuffs and offing a valuable unit through sheer numbers.
As long as you don't care a single bit about the story or liking any of the characters.
dun matta bc the only relevant spoiler is that corrin and azura are cousins and that corrin isn't related to either royal family.
Play SS next. Both Fates and Echoes feature some heavy departures from the usual fare
Good to know, also apperantly I forgot to advance Ferdinand from his base class, no wonder he felt so shit. Now I'm grinding the shit out of Ingrid with axe to make her a Wyvern rider. Also got Leonie (cucking the entire school, at least if it wasn't for Hilda) and holy shit she's so bad, the whole promotion mechanic really fucks a lot of characters who have bad choices in their choice abilities.
Ingrid has a unique quirk which makes level up as an advanced pegasus knight when she's in another house. (it's the advanced ennemy exclusive version of the class)
No. The best you can do is Azure Wind and recruit everyone you can so the sole casualties are Hubert and Edelgard
No matter what you do or how many you recruit, someone is going to die.
Cus he is
From what I've seen, you need to know what you're doing, early on. You might get your ass kicked on one of the earlier levels if you're too aggressive.
Actually, for whatever reason, I love that concept. Maybe it's a malignant brain tumor.
I don't mind a difficulty spike, I'm more asking in the sense of the story. Will I feel like the odd man out jumping in at that point? Will I be tempted to just skip through all dialogue since it's references to earlier games?
I'll give him the bustiest girl to give him many children.