Michael The X

Before you read this review, here is my standing in the franchise. My first FE game was Three Houses, but I went to play the GBA titles (Binding Blade, Blazing Sword, and Sacred Stones) after I finished all the routes. I then played Awakening, then all of Fates, then Geneology of the Holy War and Thracia 776, then Mystery of the Emblem (NES), then Echoes, then Path of Radience and Radiant Dawn. I still haven't played the Third Title. I want to share this so you know that I enjoy this series for its Characters and Gameplay, with story being a big thing as well, but if the former 2 are great independently, I can ignore the story in criticisms. Not in this ranking system, but yeah. Engage my second least favorite title, with only Revelations being behind it. It's not even close for 3rd least favorite, being Birthright. I get bored out of my mind when listening to the plot, the characters are (for the most part) boring and one note, like Fate's cast, and the gameplay is some of the worst I have ever seen in this franchise. The Emblems are objectively not a good addition and I personally don't like the class system of all these class types aside from Infantry, Armored, Riding, and Flying (, and Laguz in Tellius). Some are fine, like Qi Adept, but i hate Back up. Also, each map is a slog thanks to each unit only having 4 move unpromoted unless Cavalier or Flier, and 5 mov when promoted (unless your a armor, yet another case of IS making armors mid as hell). The devs designed the maps with the Emblem Skills in mind, but they forget that the good skills are temporary, only for 3 or 4 turns. Also, Maddening, thanks to this, is more stupidly designed than Three Houses later into the game. Early, it's genuinely solid, but otherwise, Maddening Mode is an awful experience, especially since your locked into fixed growths for your first playthrough, which I dislike. Makes the game overly repetitive and honestly makes units feel less distinct. If your a parent, or someone trying to get into this franchise, do not buy this game. Instead, buy Three Houses, or find a way to play the older titles, you or your child will have a much better time with those titles.

Boring and repetitive. The costumes are all boring, the character is slow, the minigames are repeated 50 times and you only press 4 A buttons. The platforming is so boring and uninspired to the point where Sonic Forces looks like a 10/10 game.

The game is bad because there is no point in fighting in this game, why keeps the turn based battle system from all the games (Except Super Paper Mario) and have no EXP? The previous entry in this series (Paper Mario Color Splash), despite being bad, still had a reason to battle but the system is horrible in the game. Origami Kings battle system is to repetitive and the bosses are absolutely bad in this game, espically Rubber Band, screw that boss. Now let's get into characters, or should I say, lack there of because all of them are just generic Mario characters and the characters Litteraly need to say "remember me" in order for someone to remember them, which Thousand Year Door did not have a problem with (Brought it up since I needed to for this) the only exception are Bowser, Bowser Jr, and Bobby the Bob Mob since he has no fuse. Speaking of Bobby, companions, they ar ok choices but why are they not traveling with you the whole time? It would just strengthen the game overall if they did. The art style looks fantastic believe it or not and I am stunned at it. That is the only semi redeemable thing about this game actually is the art. The pricw is to much, so drop it to 40$ and it will be a 3 star game. The price losses 2 stars since this game doesn't feel like a high quality game sadly and keep this in mind about me, I enjoyed Super Paper Mario over Thousand Year door since it keeped the Paper Mario roots but keeped it unique to itself.