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Compsognathus posted...

Birthright is just Awakening but worse.

I'm going to heavily disagree there, and I actually think it's the opposite.

I recently rebeat Awakening in pseudo-ironman form on my channel (95% ironman, but my first death was actually Robin and I just reset after the game over, so RIP to that) in order to do a series tier list video, and...Awakening is really really flawed. Its balance is completely off-the-walls awful with a lot of things being either completely gamebreaking and trivializing the entire game, or just pointless.

The last several parts of my run were just Chrom running through the game because there was never a real incentive to do anything else. It's purely a game of stats and a few really broken items, and it suffers for it.

BR, for all of its flaws, at least feels like it was properly balanced and at least has slightly more varied maps than what Awakening offers. Pair-up is still great and there's still some really overbearing stuff (like Ryoma), but it at least feels like there's more going on than just "Stack a ton of stats on one paired-up juggernaut and walk through the game."