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Roster of Characters<br />
Much of the appeal of crossovers like these lies<br />
in being able to play as a variety of different<br />
characters from the series being represented.<br />
Both Hyrule and Fire Emblem Warriors market<br />
themselves on the player being able to play<br />
as various protagonists and/or antagonists<br />
from the series’ past. Since Link is usually the<br />
only playable character in Zelda titles, and Fire<br />
Emblem is more about giving orders to units<br />
than actively playing as them, these crossovers<br />
present the first real opportunity for many<br />
people to directly control many characters that<br />
they may have always wanted to.<br />
In that regard, it’s hard not to feel at least a<br />
little disappointed in Fire Emblem Warriors, and<br />
its DLC, opting to pull from just three games:<br />
Shadow Dragon, Awakening, and Fates. Hyrule<br />
Warriors, at launch anyway, only featured<br />
playable characters from three games as well,<br />
but since then has added both protagonists<br />
and antagonists from titles across the series.<br />
Conversely, FE Warriors only offers characters<br />
from those three titles, even with its DLC. In<br />
fairness to FE Warriors, there are far more<br />
characters from the Fire Emblem series that fans<br />
really want to play as, so it would never have<br />
been realistically possible to satisfy everyone,<br />
but this doesn’t even seem like trying. The<br />
infamous “too many swords” excuse doesn’t<br />
hold up either, given the sheer amount of sword<br />
characters already included both in the main<br />
game and the DLC.<br />
And this doesn’t even touch upon the sheer<br />
number of clone characters included in FE<br />
Warriors, who reuse the same moveset.<br />
Camilla and Hinoka are similar to Cordelia,<br />
Celica is similar to Marth, Navarre is similar to<br />
Lyn, Lucina is similar to Chrom, Tharja is similar<br />
to Robin, Owain is similar to Ryoma, etc. In<br />
total, of the 34 playable characters available<br />
with DLC, ten have a copied moveset. By<br />
contrast, Hyrule Warriors has 29 characters, all<br />
with unique movesets. And this doesn’t even<br />
touch on some characters having different<br />
weapons, each of which provides entirely new<br />
movesets.<br />
WINNER: HYRULE WARRIORS
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