Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

The enemy AI in Fortune's Weave can push back hard on its own: in one dense-forest battle, Giant Bomb's reviewer survived only by hiding weaker units in the woods and routing stronger ones along a hidden path to flank the enemy. No source in this set mentions multiplayer as the difficulty backbone; the challenge comes from outnumbered, overpowering tactical situations and the scale of the campaign, which Pocket Tactics and TechRadar both describe as hundreds of hours of varied strategy.

Source: Giant Bomb Review

You can undo mistakes with Fortuna's Blessing, and the resource that fuels it replenishes over the course of a battle, so a wrong move or a unit death isn't fatal. The game still has dense, overlapping systems — the build stat is new, and Polygon notes that even with all its tutorials, some trial and error is unavoidable. RPG Site describes it as a dense, complicated game with many overlapping mechanics, so the early hours require patience with a lot of menus.

Source: TheGamer Preview

Pocket Tactics calls the scale and scope sweeping, saying it makes Three Houses look like child's play, with core strategy gameplay that is varied and most of the new ideas working. Eurogamer's 20-hour preview cites the scale, complexity, and ambition of the game. TechRadar points to a multi-path narrative, turn-based combat, exploration, and dungeon sections that keep pacing steady.

Source: Pocket Tactics Review

Expect long sessions: CGMagazine's reviewer was about 40 hours in before finishing just the first character's route, and had only seen a quarter of the game at that point. VGC's hands-on notes that the first part alone packs four individual paths and dozens of hours of activities, while Nintendo Life describes the game as lengthy with plenty of downtime between missions. Each mission and story path is long enough that a single play session will usually need to run for well over an hour.

Source: CGMagazine Review

Reviews are split. MobileSyrup calls the campaign "frustratingly bloated," saying the core loop is "buried under dozens of hours of tedium," while CogConnected notes "teeny tiny pacing problems" and frustration at the story pulling back "for a few dozen hours." TechRadar disagrees, crediting the dungeon sections with maintaining "excellent pacing throughout" across a world big enough for hundreds of hours. CGMagazine notes the scale directly: roughly 40 hours in, it had only seen about a quarter of the game.

Source: MobileSyrup Review