Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Has A Surprising Turn-Based RPG Mode

Ever since Baldur's Gate 3 won a billion awards back in 2023, a chorus of steadily louder role-playing game fans have shouted from rooftops that traditional turn-based titles should make a comeback. Fast-forward two years, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a French-developed game writ large in the style of the JRPG subgenre, won even more awards and delivered a straightforwardly old-school turn-based combat system—with the modern bells and whistles that make it all shine.