Fire Emblem Shadows

After playing this game for like 4 hours hours straight, I can deduce that I like it. I think the story is interesting, I like the characters, and a lot of people were saying how they don’t like the combat. I actually enjoyed. However, I did not enjoy how expensive those orb things are. If you want to buy 1 outfit for a character, it’s 150 orbs. And the 200 orbs option is 7.99! Correct me if I’m wrong but, THATS LIKE 8 DOLLARS FOR ONE OUTFIT! The outfits are really cute, but not cute enough to warrant spending that much on an iPhone game. Even if the game is fun. I would still recommend you play it if you’re interested. But not if you want to dress up your characters. (Also, you can get Dimitri as a playable character, and that’s why I gave this game 4 stars)

This game is a fantastic way to kill some time. Each battle is bite-sized and lasts about 3-5 minutes. The social deduction element suffers from the same problems all similar games suffer from — to have fun with it you need to play with people who are capable of paying even the most minute amount of attention, which sadly means 99% of people don’t qualify. However, the games are so fast and generally consequence free (you still gain in ranking when you lose, at least for a while) that it doesn’t bother me too much. You gain in power by leveling up all your characters, each of whom has four spells that level with them, three of which can be used by every other character as well. Super neat, though a bit confusing at first. If I have one complaint it’s that you’re gonna get one-shot a lot early on. Even later on progression, if you’re light and the enemy is dark and has a decently leveled spell that exploits your element you might end up one-shot. But it’s fun and worth your time.

At first I thought I would only like this game for its art alone, and while I need to go further to give the story more of a fair shake, I’ve gotten to like the gameplay somehow. It’s for sure a weird way to take Fire Emblem, ”mobile strategy with Among Us gimmicks” but its easy to pick up, and there’s a nice balance to either play for light as an easier way to play, or choose to fight for the shadow and go for a bit more of a challenge. I appreciate that I don’t have to work too hard to get new characters to play with, but I worry the strategy of “target myself to trick the others is a little too easy to pull off. Some get lucky guesses, but there really isn’t any penalty for offing yourself to get the heat off your back. This will be a hard game to balance, and I worry it’s going to disappear before it can reach its full potential. All in all, I like it, will probably play a lot of it over the next few weeks, but I hope they add some changes to make the gameplay more dynamic. And I want to see more of these characters.