It was a cool Fire Emblem game, there’s an enormous cast of characters, so much so that it’s really the only major drawback, you can’t use them all every time and even trying to use just your favorites often exceeds the limit of units in one area. Other than that, there’s a wide variety of characters, mostly new, but some old favorites from across the franchise. Great returning characters include Marth (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal), Micaiah (voiced by Veronica Taylor), Eirika (voiced by Kira Buckland), Lucina (voiced by Alexis Tipton), Byleth (voiced by Zach Aguilar) and Edelgard (voiced by Yuri’s wife, Tara Platt), Marth, Lucina and Edelgard being my personal favorites due to Marth and Lucina acting as mentors and Edelgard acting as a relatable, enthusiastic peer. Dimitri, who shares a slot with Edelgard, is played well by Chris Hackney, and the two with Claude, plus Byleth, if all are engaged and the House Leaders’ unit performs a certain attack, do my favorite attack in the game, Houses Unite +, where Byleth instructs the House Leaders to strike the foe one-by-one and gives you a bonus turn as a reference to his “Goddess Dance” move.
My top 5 new characters in this game were Yunaka (played by Laura Post, who was also Catherine in Three Houses and Melony in Pokémon, though Yunaka sounds and acts nothing like Catherine), Alear (played by Laura Stahl as a woman), Panette (played by Melissa Hutchison, who played Arval in Three Hopes), Citrinne (voiced by Brittney Karbowski, best known as Wendy Marvell in Fairy Tail and Camie in My Hero Academia) and Veyle (voiced by Megan Harvey, the voice of Sophia in Persona 5 Strikers). Yunaka is funny and exciting, though that is to mask her difficult past as a cruel assassin’s apprentice. Alear starts off bright-eyed and a little oblivious, and the game is mostly about her coming into her own as a heroine and the bonds she makes along the way. You can also play Alear as a man. Panette seems ladylike and proper on the surface, but underneath is aggression she is happy to unleash upon an enemy using her axes and Emblem weapons. Citrinne is a wealthy woman who seeks to pamper and spoil her friends and allies, but that stems from a past relationship where her own, personal gifts were seen as cheap by a “friend.” Veyle is a shy, slightly depressed girl that Alear has a close connection to, as well as other secrets that are plot important.
I didn’t like this game as much as Super Paper Mario or Three Houses, but it was in the general area of those games and around the same level as the Dynasty Warriors-inspired Switch games I’ve played (Hyrule Warriors; Age of Calamity, Persona 5 Strikers, Three Hopes), possibly better, it’s hard to say since Strikers and Hopes’ relationships between Joker and Makoto and Edelgard and Monica (respectively) have still stuck with me to now, and I even used Bond fragments to pay for all the bonds between Veyle and Eirika in the arena in this game solely because their actresses were Sophia and Ichinose in Persona 5 Strikers. I’d definitely say, while under Smash Bros. Ultimate, Three Houses, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Fairy Tail and maybe the Naruto fighting game, Persona 5 Strikers and tied with Three Hopes, it’s easily in my top 10 Switch games and it’s doubtful it’ll get dethroned. Next new one will likely be either Metroid Prime Remastered, Splatoon 3 or (this is coming in July, I pre-ordered it) Trails into Reverie.
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