The latter option gives polygons jagged edges but, in the long term, is preferable to maintain the game's slick rhythm and pace.Īs in traditional Fire Emblem games, battles are won through strategic planning and reaction. The game can be configured to prioritise fidelity or performance. The musou games are built for the officer classes, not privates: focus solely on sword-to-sword combat without a crow's eye perspective and you'll soon lose. While, in the hands there may be few similarities between Fire Emblem's traditional mode - designed for sofa-bound generals, who may ponder and prod manoeuvres with an unhurried finger - and musou's frantic, urgent pad-mashing, there is symmetry here. With its feudal arenas, martial structures and panoramic cast of comrades, Fire Emblem, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems' foundational strategy series, is a more natural fit for musou's inflexible template.
But, thematically speaking, he's more apt to use it to chop the heads off daisies than murder a mob of military men. Link is no stranger to the 360-degree sword swipe. Nervously shuffling anonymous squaddies crowd the battlefields of these games, ranks through which you and your comrades spin and splice in weaponised pirouettes.
By contrast the "musou" genre (roughly and boastfully translated as "un-paralleled") is an impressionistic take on the chaotic medieval mêlée. He typically works alone, and never at the head of a battalion of devoted footsoldiers. On home turf, Link is a solitary warrior-errand boy. A harmonious meeting of two traditions, Fire Emblem Warriors explores a different, yet no less beguiling, type of battlefield strategy.įor all its idiosyncratic brilliance, Hyrule Warriors - the first time that Nintendo loaned its characters and mythology to Koei Tecmo in return for a fidgety battlefield opus (this time dressed in felt green) - was an untidy marriage.
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