Hi there! So I watched the quick look, and I'm pretty into what I'm seeing. If I had a WiiU, I would play this. I won't buy a WiiU just for this, but there are several games on it I'd like to play, so it may very well happen. Now, I think a big reason why I like this game is because I'm a Persona fan. And this game is heavy on the Persona vibes. From its narrative focus (Japanese teens ya'll) to its combat and interface.
But it's been a couple hours since I've watched the Quick Look, and I'm starting to wonder now. This game, from what tiny bit I've seen, looks like it's Persona with some Fire Emblem references. But that isn't how it was pitched. Years ago, we first heard of this as "Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem". Which brings me to the question: does this game deliver on that pitch?
Now, Persona is obviously part of SMT, but it's also kind of an outlier of the franchise. Most SMT games are much bleaker, more apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic, they have a lot to do with Order vs. Chaos, etc. Hell, even Persona 4 (site favorite) is an outlier of the Persona series, being significantly more upbeat that Persona 3, which was already more upbeat than Persona 1 and especially 2. With that in mind, I can't help but think that a fan of SMT would be really bummed by this game, because the pitch was "SMT" but the delivered product essentially boils down to a Persona 4 style game.
As for Fire Emblem, I would not be the first to say that, at first glance, the Fire Emblem characters seem somewhat tacked on here. They have amnesia, so they can't talk about their past adventures in the FE series, they only seem to appear in dungeons, and they don't have the character design they do from the FE games. Maybe this is because I have never played a Fire Emblem game before, but the only thing about Chrom's design that makes me think of Chrom from FE is that he's blue and his dialog box has the word "Chrom" at the top. It kind of comes off as pandering, as someone with 0 context for this game or the Fire Emblem games.
So obviously this is all just my own thoughts and conclusions, which is why I'm asking the fans to clue me in here. How are you liking this game? Is it meeting your expectations? Are you disappointed in anything? Do I have no idea what I'm talking about and should just shut up? Please, let me know, I'm very interested to see how fans of SMT and FE feel about this game.
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