The Nerd Next Door

I know I said I'd be talking about Half-Life last time but then I realized how many shooters I have been talking about lately and decided to do something about that. So we're talking Fire Emblem, the Strategy RPG series that for the longest time was known more for being in Smash Bros. until Awakening propelled the franchise to heights previously unseen. It also does that Final Fantasy game where each installment, unless otherwise stated, is set in it's own world unconnected to other games. But I'm not here to talk about the overall series; I've been playing the old GBA games lately and I've noticed an issue with these games, the support system. Which has always had issues in some ways but feels more pronounced in the GBA games which are The Binding Blade (FE6), The Blazing Sword (FE7), and The Sacred Stones (FE8). Supports in Fire Emblem grant two units close to one another bonuses in combat and these supports can be leveled up to become more powerful. But when ...

I'm two months late but I beat one of the four routes of Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Nintendo Switch. Overall I found it a great game with a good story, good characters, decent writing, great gameplay, and not wallowing in the waifu oversexualization/dating simulation that pained Fire Emblem Fates . But one thing I noticed is how much Intelligent Systems borrowed from a long forgotten Fire Emblem, a name that rarely reaches western ears due to its Japanese exclusivity; Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War . Which also leads me to question if we're gonna see the long forgotten 4th game get the Echoes treatment like Gaiden did in 2017. But in order to understand what I mean, we need to look at what is borrowed to understand. Of course, the first and perhaps most important of these ideas is in story. Three Houses follows three heirs, Dimitri, Edelgard, and Claude; all at an officers academy for training. Of course in actuality you play a side character who I named...