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Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Switch, £49.99)
Verdict: Still Fire Emblem, still good
Oil, meet water. Water, meet oil. On the one side, a gaming genre known as ‘musou,’ which is thick with fast action and has you swatting away hundreds of enemies with each sweep of your sword.
On the other, the Fire Emblem series, which features slow, strategic combat and equally slow conversations with all your brothers and sisters in arms.
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes isn’t just a long name; it’s also a Fire Emblem musou game, the second since the original experiment back in 2017. And the crazy thing is: it takes these seemingly immiscible ingredients, gives them a