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Pleinair92
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I don't think there's any reasonable definition of "casual" at all. It seems that it's mostly used to mean "game I don't like". Sometimes, it holds the connotation of a game that isn't head-smashingly difficult.
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marie-antoinette
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I was concerned about the bundles selling out fairly quickly online so I went out to Best Buy today and bought myself one. I love how shiny and pretty it is and I could finally get a good look at the image on the front (the two dragons around a sword).
I still wish I had the physical game but the pre-loaded one so far is working well. The only complaint so far is that I don't seem to have a game manual and I want to check out what pair up does, since it's an option I haven't seen in previous games. But I suppose that is what the internet is for! I played a bit so far and between that and the review I am very excited. Though I feel like perhaps I should finally finish Radiant Dawn before I get too far involved in this one. |
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Chagen46
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I didn't say it spoiled the experience. But one of my favorite things about games like FE is that they demand lots of skill and give good challenges. Man, what happened to the days when you didn't select an easier difficulty, but just sucked it up and grinded your skill till you got better? |
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Mr Adventure
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Difficultly settings have been around for decades. |
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Chagen46
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Yes, but games as a whole just used to be harder.
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ShinnFlowen
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Permadeath was always a nuisance in the Fire Emblem games as it forced you to restart the level. You could always let some of them die for fun or to act as distractions, but the characters you trained to become your aces are not disposable, especially on higher difficulties or near the end of the game when enemies are tough. It made training characters such as Nino in earlier fire emblem games insanely difficult unless you abused the infamous Coliseum.
You don't need Permadeath to create the tension needed to make a character loss significant. Look at games such as Final Fantasy Tactics or Valkyria Chronicles 2 where both games use different approaches to character defeats. Losing a character during either game would put you at a huge disadvantage and Valkyria Chronicles 2 penalized a character's defeat by preventing further usage of the character for 2-3 matches. Fire Emblem should just implement a more useful system through mimicking the Valkyria Chronicles 2 system, to encourage the use of different characters by making players train other characters in the party as backups. It would still make the defeat of a character detrimental, keeping players on his or her toes. *Complaining about casual mode is hilarious, since you might as well complain about easy mode existing. |
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marie-antoinette
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While I do think it's a bit odd that they gave the ability to turn off perma-death, I definitely don't really think it's an issue since you can still play with it (and I absolutely would never play without it because I've always considered it one of the best features of the game).
At least they learned from Radiant Dawn that people like unique support conversations. I don't even bother reading them in that game and I used to look up the support transcripts online and re-read/watch them constantly. |
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AiddonValentine
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I think it's hilarious how the guy who made the web series "There Will be Brawl" voiced Chrom in this game.
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Kit-Tsukasa
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Biggest downside to this game? Nintendo not shipping the physical copies/limited edition bundles on time. Some of us are still waiting for the game to even be available.
Other than that, can't wait for the rest of the DLCs to become available for this game. |
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Juno016
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"Casual Mode" is not for "wimps." It's for people like me, who suck at SRPG's and can't even get past the halfway point, at most, on all the other FE games. Kakusei has been the best thing to ever happen to Fire Emblem to me because the game is actually fun for me for the first time, since I can actually do something and control how things work out without having to call in my girlfriend to help me out.
And for me, I don't hate something just because I suck at it. I try and try and try with normal turn-based JRPG's because I love them, even though I seem to suck at them, too. I am quite good at FPS games, even though I don't really care about them at all. But for SRPG's like Fire Emblem, I've tried and tried and tried, and I just haven't been able to make enough controllable progress to enjoy them. Until this game, that is. So thank you, Nintendo/Intelligent Systems, for "Casual Mode." Insult or not, I've wanted to become a fan of the franchise for so long, and your consideration for my existence is appreciated. |
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Asrialys
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Was it Nintendo's fault? From what I'm hearing, some retailers had theirs on time. Many already bought their from Best Buy and maybe Target. |
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marie-antoinette
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The Best Buy I bought mine from had 5 of the combo bundles on their shelf and I did see one copy of the game as well.
But I did ask my college electronics store about ordering one in and they couldn't find it with their supplier. |
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Juno016
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It was Gamestop's warehouse shipments being messed up. They had it listed for the wrong release date and that caused all kinds of delay. This is pretty common with GameStop, but they usually still end up fixing it or getting the shipments right on time anyway. In this case, it ended up being late, and with such a big franchise, it has become a problem... |
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Charred Knight
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Thats because a lot of old games were incompetently done. Castlevania became much easier because you got more control over the character. In the early Super Robot Wars games, at least half your units were worthless wereas later the number of bad units are now significantly reduced, also in earlier games you had less options like no support defend/attack, you didn't have the ability to choose wether to counter, evade or defend. |
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AiddonValentine
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Just shows how much technology has benefited gaming. |
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