Imagine that you’re forced into the emotionally turbulent concern of murdering your ain evil parent. Right arsenic you enactment up the nervus and springiness a heartfelt code astir it, immoderate random state kills them successful beforehand of your eyes. I should consciousness bad, but I haven’t stopped laughing. For a fewer unfortunate Fire Emblem Engage’s players, the concatenation onslaught mechanic has managed to ruin 1 of the astir affectional moments successful the game.

Royal children sidesplitting their evil begetter has been a longstanding contented successful the Fire Emblem series. It happens much often than not, and 1 of the astir enjoyable challenges involves trying to termination antagonists with their ain child. If you win successful landing the archetypal hit, you’ll adjacent get bonus dialogue. This usually involves the begetter being a portion of crap successful their last moments oregon accepting their destiny with calm dignity.

King Morion of the militaristic kingdom of Brodia does neither of these things. He’s been irreversibly turned into a zombie by the clip the service is acceptable to look him successful battle, and you tin usage his sons to termination him for immoderate added sadness. Both Diamant and Alcryst springiness impassioned speeches astir however profoundly they emotion their father, and their dialog feels genuinely touching successful a crippled different filled with hamfisted nonsense.

Except, uhhh, some players person reported that the “chain attack” mechanic has caused unrelated characters to termination Morion successful his sons’ stead. Chain attacks hap erstwhile characters designated arsenic “Backup” are wrong onslaught range, and they ever onslaught first. They besides woody a miniscule magnitude of damage—I don’t deliberation I’ve ever seen a backup onslaught woody much than 7 damage. But for immoderate overly cautious players, that spot harm was capable to termination a brag force that they had been cautiously whittling down.

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Fortunately, players are fixed a accidental to rectify their mistakes. Unlike its predecessor Fire Emblem: Three Houses, players person an unlimited fig of opportunities to rewind their ill-fated moves. The conflict besides doesn’t extremity erstwhile Morion dies, since he’s not the sole brag of that peculiar map. So what mightiness person been a frustrating infinitesimal conscionable ends up being a hilarious misstep betwixt gameplay and narrative.

Don’t worry, Fire Emblem traditionalists: It’s inactive reasonably casual to perpetrate fratricide successful this game.