Fire Emblem’s hack and slash spinoff just made me want to play Three Houses
by Ash Parrish from The Verge - All Posts on (#6174P)
Image: Nintendo Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, the Fire Emblem: Three Houses-themed hack and slash game, is pretty damn good - I just wish I could enjoy it. Three Hopes made a bit of a splash for its debut during February's Nintendo Direct. Fans had seen the familiar blue-red-yellow primary color scheme and hoped that the morose Dimitri, best boy Claude, and Edelgard and her merry band of fascists had come back in a sequel to one of the best Nintendo Switch games in the console's history. Some of them rolled their eyes to see Three Hopes was not Three Houses 2 but the next in a long line of licensed hack and slash games.
I was not one of those fans. I love hack and slash games. I voraciously consumed the middle handful of Dynasty Warriors and W...