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5 min read"Kai is basically battling to get this wish granted. If he wins this fighting competition, his father's been imprisoned for sort of archaic reasons, and he's going to be executed. And he's pretty chill about it. He's like, oh, yeah, my dad's gonna die." That's Kirk Hamilton describing the protagonist of his current playthrough of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, a game that all three hosts of Triple Click (Matty Myers, Kirk Hamilton, and guest Lucy James of Friends Per Second) have been playing. The episode covers three very different games, from a sprawling tactical RPG to a messy superhero brawler to a surreal open-world action game, with a throughline of evaluating how each game's design and narrative ambitions succeed or stumble.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave — A Feast of Content, a Chore of Systems
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What you'll learn
- 1 Timestamped Outline
- 2 (00:04) **Episode Opening & Guest Introduction** - Kirk and Maddy welcome Lucy James (Friends Per Second, Looking For Game newsletter) to fill in for Jason
- 3 (03:54) **Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave - First Impressions** - All three hosts have been playing the new Switch 2 exclusive and share their early reactions
- 4 (07:32) **Fire Emblem: The Dungeon Crawling Problem** - The hosts dig into the odd real-time dungeon sections that feel disconnected from the tactical grid combat
- 5 (11:10) **Fire Emblem: What's Working Well** - Despite the complaints, the hosts emphasize how much of the game is hitting for them
- 6 (13:22) **Fire Emblem: The Four Protagonists & Story Structure** - The hosts explain the game's unique narrative framing and the four playable characters
- 7 (19:17) **Marvel's Wolverine - Introduction & Combat Critique** - Maddy transitions to discussing the linear 11-hour Insomniac game she completed
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Show Notes
Jason's on assignment, so Kirk and Maddy are joined by guest host Lucy James of the lookingfor.game newsletter and the FPS podcast! They share some early impressions of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, some final thoughts on Marvel's Wolverine, along with a (well signposted) spoiler discussion, and Kirk and Lucy also share some bonus early impressions of Control Resonant.
ONE MORE THING
Kirk: Control Resonant
Maddy: The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All (ongoing manga, soon to be anime)
Lucy: Ride Lonesome by Beck
LINKS & REFERENCE:
The timestamp for the Wolverine spoiler jump: 1:03:39
Lucy’s newsletter lookingfor.game and her podcast, Friends Per Second
Friends Per Second’s episode on Marvel’s Wolverine
Game File’s 2024 reporting on the Wolverine leadership change
Kirk’s 2017 Kotaku re-review of Batman: Arkham Knight
“Ride Lonesome” by Beck from Ride Lonesome, 2026
WhiskeyClone.Net - A Beck Fansite
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