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Lopen posted...

My only issue with Fire Emblem is too many of the characters could just be Marth Echoes and you wouldn't know the difference. Get some axe users or archers in there. Like Robin is an awesome character cause she actually does different stuff as opposed to almost every other Fire Emblem character in the game.

I would dispute this. There's:

Marth - Lucina
Roy - Chrom
Robin
Ike
Corrin

Marth, Ike, Robin, and Corrin all have very distinct playstyles. Marth and Roy were a lot more similar in Melee than they are now - Roy has some major differences that entirely change his playstyle when compared to Marth (also makes him way worse, oops). Lucina and Chrom, yeah, they're the Echoes. The only commonality is that they all have swords, but like, how many people in the cast just punch people?

I think the samey-ness of Fire Emblem characters to some people isn't in their playstyle so much as it is their aesthetics. The other sword users in the game have more distinctive visual appearances, which makes the Fire Emblem crew less appealing to some people who don't know them in detail.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.