The Fire Emblem Thread

[Kjaska]

What's wrong with three houses? I've played all of the games on the 3ds, GameCube, and Wii, and three houses is my favorite of the bunch

The writing was such hot garbage. Especially when coming straight from Shadows of Valencia.

 

[spekkio]

BROs, since my Fire Emblem odyssey is almost complete (only 3 Houses left), I've decided to post links to my mini-reviews, screens and other shit. Maybe this will be useful to somebody.

FE3 - Mystery of the Emblem (Snes):

mini-review
screens#1
screens#2
screens#3
screens#4
screens#5
screens#6

FE4 - Genealogy of the Holy War (Snes):

screens

FE5 - Thracia 776 (Snes)

screens

FE6 - Binding Blade (GBA)

screens#1
screens#2

FE7 - Blazing Sword (GBA)

Is missing. I probably used some "cool" post title and can't find it ATM.

FE8 - The Sacred Stones (GBA)

screens

FE9 - Path of Radiance (NGC)

mini-review

FE10 - Radiant Dawn (Wii)

mini-review / rant

FE11 - Shadow Dragon (NDS)

screens

FE12 - New Mystery of the Emblem (NDS)

screens#1
screens#2

FE13 - Awakening (3DS)

mini-review

FE14 - Fates (3DS)

mini-review / rant

FE15 - Echoes (3DS)

mini-review

 

[Matador]

People now want waifus, but what stuck in my memories is surviving and barely escaping nasty encounters with our Lord Leif and his band of rebels, and destroying the pedophile black wizards.

 

[Bohrain]

Then they realized that it's just better to cater to the pedophile wizard audience.

 

[Endemic]

People now want waifus, but what stuck in my memories is surviving and barely escaping nasty encounters with our Lord Leif and his band of rebels, and destroying the pedophile black wizards.

The child hunts were about sacrificing some of them to Loptyr and also getting new recruits.

But yes, the current team at IS is going with the waifu approach.

 

[Nirvash]

You guys are on drugs, fire emblem ALWAYS been big on waifus and loliwaifus.

OK, got 3 houses, blind maddening run... i had to give up after 55 hours.

Restarting, doing full fermale team now, i'm loving this.

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

You should be able to marry girls if they already had their first period, if God says it's alright who am i to question him? Now talking about FE, i don't trust IS with a genealogy remake, three houses character building saved the game for me but i hated the lack of the map design that was present in Conquest, i do enjoyed the maps of cindered shadows because they reminded me of conquest.

 

[Endemic]

OK, got 3 houses, blind maddening run... i had to give up after 55 hours.

Maddening doesn't really change how you play, just adds more tedium with absurd stat bloat.

 

[Nirvash]

OK, got 3 houses, blind maddening run... i had to give up after 55 hours.

Maddening doesn't really change how you play, just adds more tedium with absurd stat bloat.

Dude wat.

Clean maddening here is alot like "medium equip, no deaths" impossible xcom longwar.

You must calculate every single move, move around and bait well every single enemy group, optimize all you can.

I had to give up at ch 14, was unable to resist the aggro and had no stride for rushing the boss.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The difference between old FE and new FE is that old FE had at least some class. The character designs didn't look like they were ripped from 2010s seasonal anime schlock that was probably an adaptation of an isekai web novel. You didn't have loli sisters melting in the arms of their big brother and shrieking at the top of their lungs (the lack of terrible California dub voice acting helps). A FE4 remake could have the exact same script as the original, and yet the cringe modern anime character redesigns and the inevitable Nintendo dub will murder it. If they did what Square Enix did for FF12 and hire non-anime voice acting talent, ie people from theater, then it would go a long way to delivering on the serious drama of FE4.

 

[Endemic]

OK, got 3 houses, blind maddening run... i had to give up after 55 hours.

Maddening doesn't really change how you play, just adds more tedium with absurd stat bloat.

Dude wat.

Clean maddening here is alot like "medium equip, no deaths" impossible xcom longwar.

You must calculate every single move, move around and bait well every single enemy group, optimize all you can.

I had to give up at ch 14, was unable to resist the aggro and had no stride for rushing the boss.

https://old.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/d1sfcl/foreign_land_and_sky_in_2_turns/?sort=new

Sorry the video quality sucks, I don't have good switch capture software.

Unlike a majority of the sub I'm not very big on this game. This map however is probably the worst the game has to offer. Couple takeaways from this video:

• Wyvernlord is the best class for literally any combat unit, doesn't matter if they are weak in axes or are "supposed" to be a mage.
• Support gambits are nonsense.
• This map lies to you about both objectives and punishes you for playing to either of them.
• Same turn reinforcement meteor mage.
• This game can be EP focused if you want it to be.
• The side objectives are worthless.
• The map rewards are also worthless.

Maddening just slows the early game pace due to needing to meet tougher stat benchmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQqvot25Oik&t=0s ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKtOfIQqB_s&list=PLat3phFb0tWFCmhfkvRDWrKXX0dHmr6tC&index=1

These are LTCs so add a couple turns here and there for reliability, but the optimum strategy is still pretty much the same.

 

[Nirvash]

The difference between old FE and new FE is that old FE had at least some class. The character designs didn't look like they were ripped from 2010s seasonal anime schlock

Dude fire emblem always had some of the most generic fantasyanimedudes design ever.

What changed is modern hardware giving the chara more dumb details, just be thankful we don't have to suffer stuff like SE belts/overdesigned/edgy madness.

https://old.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/d1sfcl/foreign_land_and_sky_in_2_turns/?sort=new

Yes, that's the trick for some maps, you abuse +mov/tp skills and rush the boss.
But i had no stride gambit, you must plan for this shit.

Maddening just slows the early game pace due to needing to meet tougher stat benchmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQqvot25Oik&t=0s ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKtOfIQqB_s&list=PLat3phFb0tWFCmhfkvRDWrKXX0dHmr6tC&index=1

That's the damn tutorial.
Try that shit in the mission after, when the enemies start to walk over your frontline and one turn your mage/archer, or just 2 turn your best tank if in the open.
You are as frail as they are.

 

[GreyViper]

So is the latest There Houses Warriors and Dynasty warriors take of the previous FE game? I'm kind of confused here what's the time line, is maybe an alternative time line, since you see the main characters from the previous game there too.

 

[Hobo Elf]

So is the latest There Houses Warriors and Dynasty warriors take of the previous FE game? I'm kind of confused here what's the time line, is maybe an alternative time line, since you see the main characters from the previous game there too.

It's a 'what if' alternative storyline.

 

[Puukko]

There's... quite a lot to unpack here. That Pepsodent MC is probably the least appealing design in this series yet. Bringing back old characters for a Persona mechanic might be cool but I don't know why they're going this route since Three Houses was a success to my understanding. It's something you'd do after a dud to build popularity again. Lots of visual flair. I really liked the setting in TH and this seems decidedly more generic. The art style has moved a notch over to a more mainstream anime style which is a trend I lament. Xenoblade has been doing the same thing.

 

[Lord of Riva]

That looks so stupid I can't even...

 

[Tigranes]

It's amazing how if we didn't know FE from before and this was a random trailer for a random new game, we'd just say god damn shovelware, and we'd probably say that for half the recent FE trailers too

 

[Endemic]

The live action Genealogy trailer was way more fun than this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkN6BuKLOmM

 

[Yaksha]

The new mc looks like an anime mascot for Barcelona.

 

[qwertyuiop666]

Looks like they ripped off Genshit

 

[vibehunter]

Quite disappointed. Not only were the leaks about the MC true (wow that design is atrocious) but it looks like they're doubling down on the Fire Emblem Heroes style of game, yet having the audacity to put it in mainline. Get this gacha mobile shit out of here.

Hopefully the Genealogy remake is a real thing.

 

[Derringer]

Looks like they ripped off Genshit

The power of UE4 asset sweatshop swaps.... whoa......

 

[Kjaska]

Looks like decline on all fronts except the animations. I hope they don't make the hub as big as the not-Hogwarts from Three Houses, so the Switch doesn't have to constantly struggle with loading the assets while you're just trying to do the same task for the 30th time. The only hope is that there are some interesting maps and a couple of new good classes to explore. The writing looks to be on par or worse than Three Houses, which was atrocious already.

Are there any more remakes like Shadows of Valencia planned?

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

She's back.

 

[GhostCow]

There's... quite a lot to unpack here. That Pepsodent MC is probably the least appealing design in this series yet. Bringing back old characters for a Persona mechanic might be cool but I don't know why they're going this route since Three Houses was a success to my understanding. It's something you'd do after a dud to build popularity again. Lots of visual flair. I really liked the setting in TH and this seems decidedly more generic. The art style has moved a notch over to a more mainstream shitty Japanese pornographic cartoons style which is a trend I lament. Xenoblade has been doing the same thing.

This looks like shit, but I haven't played a game in the main series that I disliked and Three Houses was the best one yet, so I'll give it a shot. Also FemMC is super cute.