Just because it borrows the notorious challenge from Conquest doesn’t mean that fans of Birthright won’t also find lots to love in Revelation. Expect lots of trials by gales, skirmishes cloaked in fog of war, and everything in between, but the sheer variety from map to map is definitely a cut-above past installments and makes for a deeply engrossing experience over the game’s 27 chapters.

These draconic battlefields test the player’s ability to endure enemy barrages while also dealing with hazards at a frequent clip. I mentioned the exceptional map aesthetics in my Birthright review and the same holds true in Revelation, but the missions here strive to match (maybe even surpass) those of Conquest. And while the mechanics and faces all remain the same, there’s a slew of new content exclusive to this version that offers the best of both worlds for Fates owners. Where Birthright and Conquest break off into two very different flavors of FE, Revelation instead blends both sides together for a surprisingly robust experience. Billed as something of a final act, the aptly-named Revelation sheds light on the unseen forces lurking behind the scenes of Birthright and Conquest, but the fact that it’s a DLC offering rather than a standalone retail game is no doubt going to throw some people for a loop.įor $20, Revelation adds on to your preferred copy of Fates without all the charmingly brazen lock-on technology of yesteryear, and the package itself is effectively another full-fledged game.

If it isn’t weird enough that Fates has legitimized Fire Emblem as a series capable of multi-version releases, there’s also this matter of its third, digital-only path.

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