Fire Emblem: Three Houses ruined me for strategy-ish games on the Switch. Since my two-year run of playing (and replaying, and replaying) that particular game, I’ve tried a few other options:
- Trails of Cold Steel III – The combat system’s a bit weird, which I could deal with were it not for the fact that the abilities slotting system is a lot weird. If I have to have multiple wiki pages open every time I want to rework my gearing then I’m no longer having fun.
- Valkyria Chronicles – It has a neat mixed overhead-plus-first-person combat style, great idea, but each mission basically has One Best Way To Complete and if you vary from that at all then you stand a good chance of failing, and you have a near certainty of getting low rewards. Sure, brilliant strategist players could probably dig in on this… I am not one. I’m a filthy casual, remember?
- Triangle Strategy – The main thing driving me away is that I cannot get into the retro-pixel-art look. I know that sounds petty, and I’m not making a value judgement about the game or its fans, it’s just not for me. (Vyx is playing and enjoying it, and good on her.)
At this point I’m kind of giving up on doing anything on the Switch until the Warriors-like Three Houses spinoff/sequel/whatever arrives late next month. Sigh.