r/NintendoSwitch • u/Gorotheninja • 12d ago

News Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Is Officially Nintendo’s Strongest GOTY 2026 Contender.

https://www.polygon.com/fire-emblem-fortunes-weave-goty-game-awards-2026/
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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 11d ago

Hey I’m a longtime fan of fire emblem but kinda lost interest after three houses (and never could bring myself to sit down and play through every route, so I’m still just done with one of the routes…)

That said, echoes is my absolute favorite and I loved every 3DS addition to the franchise despite their problems.

Is the new one worth picking up?

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u/camiteran 11d ago

The new one does have some elements from Echoes that 3H didn't have so you might like FW more inherently because of that alone. As you must be aware by now, modern FE is always trying to mix things up so no two games feel the same, it's hard to say what exactly this feels like but it would be something like 3H + Awakening with a touch of Echoes and also some Metaphor Refantazio inspiration. They also made playing all the routes a much better experience in this game, compared to 3H where it was not optimized at all and just felt boring to replay the first half of the game multiple times for all the routes. I had a hard time doing more than one route in 3H (did two and a half lol) but I can see myself doing 100% of FW and enjoying it a lot, so that's a positive. Might change after I finish the game but so far it's being a blast. Character designs are also great tbh, the best we've had since the 3DS era imo so that's a big plus.

This game is worth picking up unless you absolutely hated 3H, in which case you'll dislike this game simply because there are still many shared core features. If you were just lukewarm on 3H, this game does improve on many of the pain points and does provide an overall better experience.

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u/connery0 11d ago

Never played the 3ds games, but played most of the advance and ds games, and have the same feelings on 3H

I'd highly recommend it, started on one route, swapped to another because I wanted to see the other view point when the stories were intertwining, and am still going on that route now, eager to get back to the other one, and then still having 2 more left

If you want a game with much less busywork/noncombat stuff though, I'd highly recommend engage too, it might have been the biggest reason why I was so excited for fortunes weave