![]() ![]() Fans are full of anticipation about what characters are returning, fan favourites like Melia and Nia have been heavily teased, but it’s still unclear what role they’ll play in the story. Surprisingly moved forward from its announced September release date, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 promises to bring together the worlds from the previous two games in a new grand narrative. Exactly where this alternate story will lead remains to be seen, but hopefully, Three Hopes can do for Fire Emblem Warriors what Three Houses did for the main branch of the series. ![]() The hack-and-slash gameplay is a big draw, as the Warriors branch of the series abandons the typical turn-based strategy elements. This new entry gives a new protagonist, Shez, who joins one of the titular three houses to take on the Ashen Demon, which the trailers have implied is Byleth, the protagonist of Three Houses. Everyone’s favourite characters are returning with brand new looks for fan artists to fawn over, from a slightly less edgy (but still very edgy) Dimitri to a long-haired version of grown-up Mercedes. It’s no surprise then that the next major release for the series is continuing in the Three Houses canon. Failing that, at the very least there should be the occasional cuirass or a chest that somebody has inexplicably left one gold coin in.įire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Switch, Jun 24)įire Emblem: Three Houses is by far the most successful Fire Emblem game so far, with over 3.4 million sales as of the end of 2021. A great modern RPG should take you on a journey and steep it in interconnected systems. Games that embark on vast narratives and give you some agency in them, whether that means your protagonist has a new pair of +5 charisma shoulder pads for the next big fight or their dialogue options actually change the course of events in the game world. When it boils down to it, role-playing in 2022 is about depth of experience. What even is an RPG in 2022? Such has been the cross-pollination of genre elements over the last few generations that where you’d once have described a game with XP, an inventory and upgrade trees as classic RPG material, now those markers only narrow it down to ‘a video game’.
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