#at this point I'd rather have an infiltration AU where the Nabateans'n'pals in Nopes try to infiltrate Enbarr's through secret passages
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randomnameless · 11 months ago
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It still amaze me how so many people are going to scream about how well written 3H is and demands another story like that
Nopes or FE16 anon?
lol
TBH, no FE game is really that "well-written" bar FE5 but the writing of the Fodlan games is really something... special.
You have a huge discrepency between the "shown" stuff and the "told" stuff and nothing that is ever shown is acknowledged, or if it is, it is in a very stupid way which makes everything so artificial, characters are discussing how the sky is purple when you see it being blue, and only in one route someone bothers correcting himself and it's supposed to be a great turning point, but the player was already, at this point, shouting at his screen in frustration.
In that regard, TS is better written and what is said matches what is shown, or characters react to what is shown to the point of changing their POV - dramatically - in the last chapters of the game lol
In a way, Fodlan games thrive on the player picking a fave and embracing their POV, regardless of what the game presents - sometimes it works because the sky is purple when the characters say it is, but sometimes, it's not and you... are not supposed to care, because your fave said the inverse, and never reconsiders.
So I wouldn't say it's well written, it's full of biased narrators but no narrator ever interacts with the plot events you're objectively playing through (especially in WC, remember Baldo'n'Waldi?).
So you're left with a blue sky, and having to pick characters saying the sky is red, yellow, green or sort of purple.
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