My fav moment in the race was when everyone proc'd Rudolf's ult right into the triple podium win.

I guess Uma steers closer to strategy than any of these other things.

Probably the best reveal of all time.

Kinda brave of them to potentially end their FE advertiser on the eve of a new mainline FE game.

That said, it's also apparent that AoI has a different progression system when it comes to character growth. In AoC, your upgrades just added extra combo strings, but here, you're gaining new flourishes to your attacks bit by bit, giving units more character as you upgrade them.

Yes, you can now use any unit to tackle any kind of enemy, but the execution is eerily similar across the entire cast. Characters don't have widely varying/unique mechanics anymore. In AoC, this was bad b/c it gave you difficult matchups, but it was a nice kinda jank, y'know?

Riju could handle swarms and big/slow enemies fine, but suffered against moving and human sized enemies. This character is bad, but boy is she really fun to use. The problem now, is that everyone is useable in the same way. With the same pacing/motions.

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I posted about Age of Calamity a while back, noting how some characters just had completely bizarre and obtuse playstyles that some times made them unfit to tackle certain types of enemies.

This is one of those cases where it really is a shame that the competition couldn't step up to the gameboy. Superior trinkets fell in the face of a decades old tiny box.

You'll get the Robobot fiends on your tail for a take like that unfortunately.

I have it, it's quite spectacular!

We already had some QoL at launch that JP didn't have, so it wasn't a perfect JP launch state either, but a lot of it was outside of the racing/training mechanics that most folks wouldn't think too hard about.

I wonder if this would’ve happened if a 3D Mario game scared the fans as much as MP4 is scaring folks now. Is there just a contingent of silent 2D Mario fans waiting for their chance to strike?

Probably coincided when they stopped having it be distinctly Japanese as well. It's quite the different feel.

People joked that he would out Sonic Sonic, but... it literally becomes a 3D sonic game when he hits his ult.

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