As someone who bought the game on release: Damn, this review hits hard. 19 years later and damn, I'd rather play this game (or any of the other pre Fates-Games, for that matter) than any of the newer games. Kinda feels weird to hear a review from the viewpoint of utilizing Three Houses as a base, something you don't often hear in the fandom and yeah, from 3H as a base, PoR seems kinda antiquated, but yeah, I really miss those old "There's one promotion for your class and that's it". Really started disliking the "everyone can be everything!" mentality of newer games. It just takes away from the characters imho. Imagine Soren as a Paladin. It just doesn't fit. The same thing goes for Mercedes as an Armor Knight in Three Houses. It's just so weird. And those old recruitments are one of my favorite parts, especially those completely obscure ones like the re-recruitment of Shinon and Stefan. And on the note of prepromotes (and especially Titania in this case): In most cases, they are actually great units and if anything, people should use them more. Especially the Seth/Sigurd-Subtype of those Prepromotes (which Titania is part of). They are probably some, if not outright the best units in the game. But that's a debate that's been going on for literally decades at this point, so the short of it: Oscar can, statistically speaking, never outclass Titania, who is able to already basically solo the entire game with a few select key exceptions, either by not being available or by outright being unable to deal damage. Oh, and for the love of whatever being you believe in: Do NOT buy this game from second hand places. I like PoR. But damn, those prices should only be paid by people who really truly collect either Nintendo games, GC games specifically or are Fire Emblem Collectors. But paying basically the same than a limited edition of Thracia 776? Yeah, no. Oh, and one last point: The western versions of PoR are missing the japanese Maniac Mode and instead get an Easy mode, so it's not a mistranslations, it's just literally us missing a difficulty level in exchange for one of the easiest Modes in Fire Emblem history.
Wow, Great stuff here. I actually didn't know a lot of that, so thanks for mentioning all of that! I can see why some might prefer the old promotion system, and in a way, I do too, but I also enjoy just making things dumb for the hell of it once in a while. Glad I was able to reach such an enthusiast. Have a good one!
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As someone who bought the game on release: Damn, this review hits hard. 19 years later and damn, I'd rather play this game (or any of the other pre Fates-Games, for that matter) than any of the newer games. Kinda feels weird to hear a review from the viewpoint of utilizing Three Houses as a base, something you don't often hear in the fandom and yeah, from 3H as a base, PoR seems kinda antiquated, but yeah, I really miss those old "There's one promotion for your class and that's it". Really started disliking the "everyone can be everything!" mentality of newer games. It just takes away from the characters imho. Imagine Soren as a Paladin. It just doesn't fit. The same thing goes for Mercedes as an Armor Knight in Three Houses. It's just so weird. And those old recruitments are one of my favorite parts, especially those completely obscure ones like the re-recruitment of Shinon and Stefan.
And on the note of prepromotes (and especially Titania in this case): In most cases, they are actually great units and if anything, people should use them more. Especially the Seth/Sigurd-Subtype of those Prepromotes (which Titania is part of). They are probably some, if not outright the best units in the game. But that's a debate that's been going on for literally decades at this point, so the short of it: Oscar can, statistically speaking, never outclass Titania, who is able to already basically solo the entire game with a few select key exceptions, either by not being available or by outright being unable to deal damage.
Oh, and for the love of whatever being you believe in: Do NOT buy this game from second hand places. I like PoR. But damn, those prices should only be paid by people who really truly collect either Nintendo games, GC games specifically or are Fire Emblem Collectors. But paying basically the same than a limited edition of Thracia 776? Yeah, no.
Oh, and one last point: The western versions of PoR are missing the japanese Maniac Mode and instead get an Easy mode, so it's not a mistranslations, it's just literally us missing a difficulty level in exchange for one of the easiest Modes in Fire Emblem history.
Wow, Great stuff here. I actually didn't know a lot of that, so thanks for mentioning all of that!
I can see why some might prefer the old promotion system, and in a way, I do too, but I also enjoy just making things dumb for the hell of it once in a while.
Glad I was able to reach such an enthusiast. Have a good one!