andracass

it's so fucking good

like, first they just kinda took all the best mechanics from all the FE games and kinda squished them together and it's easily the best FE game with regards to the actual gameplay
but there's just so much good

the soundtrack is incredible

the characters have a lot of depth to them

they got rid of all the stupid shit from the older games (hhhhh babyrealms)

like i'm willing to put it in my top 5 games right now

I felt pretty ambivalent about the game before release but I got quite; split routes had been done twice before in the series and neither one made me feel particularly hopeful about it this time. I'm not even halfway through by now but I already see myself replaying the game to get the other routes; it feels like this game does a lot of things specifically to fix complains people had about Fates.

Only thing I feel they kinda dropped the ball on are the classes; the highest tier classes have a lot of awkward requirements or abrupt end points. Also gender-locked classes just should not exist anymore.

One of the battle themes crack me up because it sounds like the chorus to an old Disturbed song, and I can never unhear it when it plays.