Fire Emblem Shadows Reviews

The shadow side is way too overpowered. They start off as part of your group, but they can and they will betray you. So as soon as the game starts you’ll probably get hit by an attack they take out most of your HP if not all of it. Then they kill the other person and let the monsters kill them.

Naga will come in and kill the remaining monsters so you can get to the traitor round. Then you pick the traitor, most of the time the game will not so subtly tell you who the traitor is, which is good. Since when you go into the traitor round, you’ll need the extra life in an attempt to survive longer than one round.

Guessing right means you get two lives, one is immediately used, since the traitor killed you in the first round. So you get to come back to life once in the second round. You start out with your one partner in a room full of monsters. If the room isn’t flooded with monsters, it will be when the traitor summons them and you are over whelmed. You do little to no damage while the traitor and the monsters can one shot you with ease.

Congratulations, you lost, again. . .Isn’t this fun?

I managed to make it to level 5 and I added skill that I thought might help me. Like healing, but I still can’t heal fast enough to keep up with the pounding I’m getting from the traitor and monsters.

Not that it’s a bad thing… Normally. I love Fire Emblem with a passion it’s one of my favorite games. So when a friend of mine told me about this and the chibi art style I was excited. Then I played it… And it’s bad. I don’t understand how the concept of this game works for Fire Emblem at all. I don’t understand how “ find the traitor “ and it being an auto battler that your only control is moving abilities around. I like the turn based old school ones. Where you learned about the characters and developed attachments and there is a goal. I don’t even know what the goal of this game is… I will say the absolute worst game in the series. I even told my friend night one of playing this slop it was awful. I feel the game could have been good with a different style like my original characters and all that and not ripping the name FE. The gameplay also gets old very quickly. As I said it’s an auto battler that you only can move abilities then “ guess “ who the traitor is then it’s another auto boss battle slop and win or lose yay. Maybe two minutes of gameplay at best? It’s just so drab and dull. I wouldn’t recommend it at all if you expect an FE game.

So, don’t get me wrong, I love this game and think its super fun. I think that there’s so many neat things about this being quick, bite sized content that’s easy to consume. The mechanics of voting out the Shadow player seems to be beyond me, however. I haven’t been wrong on a vote, because usually the shadow players never change their votes at all when the phase comes up. That’s not even the main thing that boggles me. There’s been countless times where I’ve played both Light and Shadow and I don’t play to kill, just to blend in and be fine, but I somehow end up with both teammates voting me out instantly. Perhaps this has something to do with playing with friends? Even then, there’s been so many times where that type of situation happens, then the Moon Room feels unbeatable because people just don’t play or they give up and don’t make smart decisions to beat the Shadow player. I feel like this game has a lot that it can offer to players in terms gameplay and what it has to offer, but it also feels like its limiting itself in the same, oddly uncomfortable ways.

Fire Emblem Shadows is a 2v1 auto-battler using a rock-paper-scissors damage system. The story and content are currently quite sparse and can be finished within 3 weeks of playing just the 4 matches a day asked by the battle pass. The monetization isn’t overbearing, consisting of a battle pass that lets you unlock an extra character, palette swap skins, and the ability to skip levels on your characters. However, the balance of abilities is very bad. There is a small pool of abilities that are necessary to be viable and no space to experiment with others once you have those. The shadow team players can also use equipment to be able to one-shot light team players built to maximize their health when the shadow player is only one level higher.

Fire Emblem Shadows is an autochess social deduction game that is extremely shallow in its design mechanics. My biggest praises go to its character design and music. Character art is gorgeous, and its music is very nice to listen to. Unfortunately, my biggest praises are the *only* praises I have for this game. While its intentions to create a deduction game that takes a few minutes to play are admirable, its mindless gameplay loop that lacks balancing (wins are usually weighted towards the light team) mixed with a social deduction game that only has a maximum of three players (very low for a *social* deduction game) and lacks any major social features outside of disciple customization, coupled with a weak story creates a game that both lacks the tactics Fire Emblem is known for and the tensity that a social deduction game has.

This is definitely some form of an experiment from Intelligent Systems, so it wouldn't do any good to sugarcoat any feedback. Perhaps this would be a fine mobile game published by a solo developer, but this is an IS game under the Fire Emblem IP. For an FE game, the strategy is dull, the "social" aspect adds nothing of real value, and it feels half-baked. Some clearly find enjoyment out of this game, and it's free, so definitely give it a shot if it seems to speak to you. However, if you're a Fire Emblem fan, odds are that this will fall completely short of your expectations. Not quite a one star game, as the character art is gorgeous. Of course, if you want great-looking character art, give FEH a try. It's pay-to-win but F2P is fun if you ignore some of the PvP shenanigans. Overall, Shadows is a mediocre mobile game and a terrible Fire Emblem game.

I do like the idea of a real time strategy game mixed with social deduction. Really, I do. It gives more opportunities to fake out players and try to take the win. And making every character, including legacy characters like Dimitri and Lyn beast races is really cool and finally fulfilling the meme of Furry Emblem. But the game is just SO luck dependent with how much auto piloting the game has. At the very least let me move my character so that I don’t pass another players path and potentially make my other ally an easy target. Deduction more or less doesn’t matter with how OP Shadow is. They do lots of damage, are a sponge, with the right spells can summon MORE enemies and heal themselves to prolong the game and potentially make a comeback, all the while Light just….gets a few extra lives. And if you died in the first round, you already lost a life. Also, locking characters behind a paywall is just really scummy. At least with Gacha, you have a chance to get it. But here you legit can’t get Lyn unless you fork over some money. I’d understand a bit if there was some kind of limit break system, but there isn’t any so you are wanting players to pay for a battle pass to unlock 1 character.

I do see potential in this game, and I get it’s not even 24 hours since the game released, but it needs some MASSIVE overhauls to even be considered a fun “social” deduction game. Light needs buffs for guessing correctly, like damage buffs, spell cooldown decreases, and HP buffs. Shadow should have a limit for how many reinforcements they can deploy and should lose the moment they die in round two. And should get penalized for dying in round one, such as longer cooldowns, and less HP. And for a personal taste, I’d like the characters to actually be more unique outside of a spell and weapon type. Perhaps a passive or one more unique spell to make the characters feel more distinct.

Also I’d like to see who the VAs are when in the profile screen for the characters. No idea why they aren’t there in a mobile game in the year 2025.

All in all the game is solid. Good game play and feels like a strategy game despite the auto fight. Tho the game play is repetative and a bit boring. I hope they had a sorta “co-op” dungeon mode. For friends to play 3 players, vs 5 hard levels. And at the end a random npc to fight as a boss. Other then that im only giving 3 stars because being the shadow is eather to easy, or imposible. The triangle damage system kinda gives tomuch power. If i play ref shadow and BOTH of the light are using blue damage spells? Im just kinda dead. Even with using green and blue soilder summons to help. It just feels like an imposible game to balance once more heros get added, lyn already being to strong to deal with if the one using it is smart.

Amazing game with an addictive multiplayer real-time strategy loop. There’s an incentive to grind each character out regardless of your favorite to maximize your personal customized load-out. Even the seeming “Pay2Win” aspects are kept under control, with each character having their own competitive rank, and each rank holding a level cap; no getting obliterated as a beginner!

The Bazaar adds another social aspect, acting as a stock market where all items are sold and bought by other users, who put up their own competitive price. It could use a better filter system, and an easier way to mass scrap junk items.

The Season Pass could very much use better rewards: by the time you reach later pages, receiving 15 Tokens feels like chump change. You’re also locked into only receiving points for Daily & Weekly Challenges, which you burn through quickly with little-to-no progress after Page 15. Even if minimally, a good 5 or 10 points per game would add to that incentive to grind!

Completely honestly, I didn’t even know this released until I heard the news indirectly. I played Fire Emblem Shadows for about an hour or two, and what immediately stood out to me was the lack of depth the game had. With only 2 rounds of combat and 3 people, all with generally low HP, auto-attacking instead of being able to control your movement directly, and a few gripes that might just be me issues, it felt sincerely half-baked at times. Some of the only good things I could say is that it was okay in concept, with skills being able to be used on tiles instead of just on people, and the 2D art and voice acting are both standout. Otherwise, it’s eh… it feels like a cash grab but I don’t completely hate it…

As a long-time Fire Emblem diehard, this game just felt like Heroes but worse. If you like Among Us and/or furries, it’s fine. The art is good at least. But the game graphics in general look cheap and low-effort. The only part of the game that feels high effort is the animated cutscenes, which look extremely good. Why couldn’t the entire game look like that? We’ve had games like Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail for years; mobile games can have high-quality graphics.

As for the game’s story, it’s barebones. For a game that heavily pushes the “trust nobody” narrative and appeared to emphasize the story aspect, the writing felt very underwhelming. Kurt’s “secret” was obvious from the first 5 seconds of playing. We know nothing about the world aside from Kurt’s country and the villains. The character designs are cool, I’ll give it that. Tl;dr this is a fine game if you just want to turn your brain off for a bit and play something. It just doesn’t feel like Fire Emblem.

Heroes in another world are caught up in the empire’s ploy to raze the kingdom. Two disciples fight in the name of the light goddess, Divine Dragon Naga, and one traitorous disciple falls victim to the nightmares of the wolf god Fenris.

If the disciples of light can deduct who the disciple of darkness is after the first round of a quick 2-round auto-battle RTS combat, they have a huge advantage going into the second round. Some heroes and lords from other titles find themself amnesiac in a new world, with new animal-based designs, and unique takes on their “evil” forms. Lyndis gets horse ears or becomes a centaur, Dimitri has cat ears and becomes a big blue lion…you get the gist.

It’s a decent spin-off, but it’s kind of alarming that this was shadow-dropped. I find the “social deduction” elements are so minimal to gameplay it very may well not even matter. It essentially boils down to kind of buggy PvP RTS combat.

I hope development continues on this nonetheless. It immensely respects the archetypes and history of the franchise. You even get green and red cavaliers that turn into a panther and a bull. That’s love. I see potential for a diamond in the rough here, but the rough is rough. Fire Emblem fans dissuaded by this, it might be worth to give it a chance in the future. But I don’t hate it.

This game is a fantastic way to kill some time. Each battle is bite-sized and lasts about 3-5 minutes. The social deduction element suffers from the same problems all similar games suffer from — to have fun with it you need to play with people who are capable of paying even the most minute amount of attention, which sadly means 99% of people don’t qualify. However, the games are so fast and generally consequence free (you still gain in ranking when you lose, at least for a while) that it doesn’t bother me too much. You gain in power by leveling up all your characters, each of whom has four spells that level with them, three of which can be used by every other character as well. Super neat, though a bit confusing at first. If I have one complaint it’s that you’re gonna get one-shot a lot early on. Even later on progression, if you’re light and the enemy is dark and has a decently leveled spell that exploits your element you might end up one-shot. But it’s fun and worth your time.

First of all, I want to say thank you for not making this another gacha. Yes there’s the 9$ battle pass for playable Lyn, but I think that’s not too bad when you consider that everything else gameplay wise is free.

For the game, it does feel a little barebones now, but I do think there’s fun in figuring out what spells to use and how to try to trick or figure out the traitor. I think with more types of spells in the future this game will get more interesting and have more depth, and this is a fine start.

Characters and art are good, I wish nothing but happiness for Kurt and Rose (surely they will never betray each other 😁).

After playing this game for like 4 hours hours straight, I can deduce that I like it. I think the story is interesting, I like the characters, and a lot of people were saying how they don’t like the combat. I actually enjoyed. However, I did not enjoy how expensive those orb things are. If you want to buy 1 outfit for a character, it’s 150 orbs. And the 200 orbs option is 7.99! Correct me if I’m wrong but, THATS LIKE 8 DOLLARS FOR ONE OUTFIT! The outfits are really cute, but not cute enough to warrant spending that much on an iPhone game. Even if the game is fun. I would still recommend you play it if you’re interested. But not if you want to dress up your characters. (Also, you can get Dimitri as a playable character, and that’s why I gave this game 4 stars)

There is no gacha. All micro transactions are completely optional and you can genuinely play for the love of the characters and gameplay, which the characters have really good character designs and the game plays really fast and u can always test out different characters for different roles which is really fun. There is no meta , there is no huge text of blocks, the story is fun to follow and interesting and all the characters stand out with classic archetypes with modern twists, Panther/The Green Knight is currently my favorite. I think fire emblem fans and new fans to the series should try this game because I’ve genuinely haven’t had this much fun since I started playing brawl stars 3 years ago

People are bashing on this game because it’s “not fire emblem”. But after going through the tutorial and gaining more characters and thus more deck variety, the game really opens up. I can’t wait for more characters and skills to be added to even further the variety and strategy.

It’s very quick to play a match and very low stakes. I think it’s great to just have a couple of minutes of fun at least and hours at most. Both the light and dark teams are fun to play and have different strategies to them.

Honestly idk how long I’ll be invested in this game, but it’s great for what it is, and there is surprisingly no pay Gacha element. There’s a battle pass and some costumes and that’s it, at least for now. So very free to play.

Admittedly, I felt that the gameplay looked a little simplistic when first watching the trailer. However, I found the gameplay to be somewhat addicting and a good way to spend 15 to 20 minutes playing. Gameplay is deeper than what is initially shown. Maneuvering with different skills to try and deceive and also to win is more complex than what is apparent, making it fun to learn as you play.

The character designs are in my opinion very interesting and unique, and I love the callbacks to classic Fire Emblem. The story is more on the basic side, but has me more captivated than Fire Emblem Heroes. I’m curious to see what this game will offer in terms of new character, characters from throughout the Fire Emblem Series and new modes and forms of gameplay that might be added in the future.

So like…I know a lot of people were skeptical about this game. Myself included. But I decided to play on my own and I ended up really enjoying it. The gameplay isn’t as simplistic as I assumed; there’s deep strategy involved and it strikes a balance between not being too lenient while also not being too harsh. The story itself is quite intriguing, and I even like it more than some of the books from feh. I think it’s a very fun and interesting ride. Also, you aren’t forced to spend money to get what you want. It all comes down to playing! I really recommend this game, and even if it looks strange at first glance, it’s a lot better than you’ll think. While there isn’t too much content yet, the game just started and I’m sure there’ll be a lot more coming in the future, which I look forward to!

Pretty cute game. I love the new MC (Kurt). Combat isn’t as complex as in a traditional FE game, but it’s still enjoyable, mainly because of the competitive aspect. Climbing up the ranks is always fun, especially if you’re playing as a villain, or in this game’s case, a Shadow.
Gameplay feels like a quick and simple version of Among Us: two friends, one foe. Just like in Among Us, the foe is disguised as a friend, and you have to vote them out. It might sound boring at first, but the more you play, the better it gets.
“An easier Among Us? Which was already an easy game?!” Sure, it might be easier, but that mainly comes from how short the matches are. The anxiety and rush of guessing who the foe is still remain. Unlike in Among Us, if you guess wrong, not all is lost, you still have a chance to fight.
This is where the game differentiates itself and adds depth. If you guess right, you get a buff and some health back. If you guess wrong, there’s a massive decrease in the buff and health you receive, which you’ll most likely need if the foe is genuinely good.

Anyway I’d say give it a try. I originally was with the crowd who thought this game looked lame from the trailer. Don’t judge a book from its cover though. And don’t follow the crowd. Play and form your own opinion. Anyway enough yapping. Let’s get onto why this game is TRULY peak…

- Buff Furry Shadow Dimitri
- Tomboy Shadow Kurt
- Interesting Story/Chars