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Satisfying Action
Huge Fan-Friendly Cast of Characters
Standard Musou Fare
Fire Emblem Warriors delivers exactly what you want it to. It's got a huge cast of characters and the franchise's signature combat quirks copied onto the typical Warriors structure.
Fire Emblem Warriors Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch
Fire Emblem Warriors - Nintendo Switch Trailer - Tokyo Game Show 2017
Fire Emblem Warriors Gameplay Trailer - Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Direct 9.13.2017
A harmonious meeting of two traditions, Fire Emblem Warriors explores a different, yet no less beguiling, type of battlefield strategy.
The malleable quality of Fire Emblem's weapons-triangle and pairing systems make them a natural fit for the hack n' slash genre. Even when I could barely tell what was going on on the crowded battlefield and my troops were a little too codependent, I enjoyed directing the action and jumping in to be part of the carnage. And while Fire Emblem Warriors makes poor use of the Fire Emblem universe's story and history, we still get traces of the relationships between the characters that make it memorable.
Fire Emblem has the potential to make a great partner, but this badly made and painfully simplistic crossover is as disappointingly dumb as all the other Dynasty Warriors games.
Fire Emblem Warriors manages to stay consistently entertaining despite pacing issues and an uneven balance between action and strategy
Don't let Fire Emblem Warriors get lost among the many Switch releases
Fire Emblem's heroes are a natural fit for a Warriors game, but their world adds little depth to the aging and shallow hack-and-slash series.
With the power to pick up the Switch tablet and storm through History on the go, Fire Emblem Warriors is still going to get some play in my house despite its issues. It follows a set formula with very little in the way of risk-taking, but so long as you can stomach the idea of warring kingdoms with very little at stake other than your level-up bar, it'll probably delight you too. With some DLC meat on these bones it'll likely be a long, wild ride.
