/r/fireemblem
A subreddit to discuss the Fire Emblem series of games, and associated media.
Fire Emblem is a fantasy tactical role-playing video game franchise developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. The Fire Emblem series is well known for its innovation and for being one of the first Eastern style tactical role-playing games, with a strong emphasis on Western forms of medieval folklore. The series currently spans 17 mainline titles and several spinoff games.
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| 5 No direct links to Fire Emblem gamefiles. | Fan patches/hacks are acceptable so long as they aren't pre-patched onto the original ROM/ISO. It's acceptable to discuss emulation without linking to illegal material. |
| 6 Please use spoiler tags for major plot events, regardless of the game. | Not everyone has played every Fire Emblem game. It is only fair they get a chance to go into a story blind for the full experience. Titles must be spoiler free. To use a spoiler tag in comments, by typing >!Beware the Black Fang!!< gives you: Beware the Black Fang!. |
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| 12 Have fun! | There are many games and different playstyles, as such there is no true way to play. Enjoy the series to your liking! |
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Is there a rom hack for playing as red team?
I saw Bad At Fire Emblem's "Can You Beat Lyn Mode As The RED TEAM?" video. Stuff like that had me thinking "Yeah, making a rom hack of the GBA games to do that seems easy and simple enough that somebody probably already finished a full fan game of it. All you'd need to do is swap which units are red/blue, change win/loss conditions, and setting the maps so that you don't carry over units (I'm not sure of the specifics, but setting unit deployability seems simpler than the many impressive things I've seen these rom hackers do)". However, I couldn't find it. Has it really not been done? It just seems like something so obvious that I figured someone HAS to have made it already, and I feel like I'm just looking at the wrong place or something.
06:14 UTC
What do you do after you fully complete all of your Fire Emblem games?
04:20 UTC
"I'll show you what a REAL crit looks like"
00:01 UTC
Bro happy as hell that he's gonna end you with a Steel Club
22:28 UTC
Any new rom hack recommendations like Sacred Echoes?
I recently got back into playing rom hacks after a few years of not playing them and I just finished Sacred Echoes which was phenomenal. So I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for newer rom hacks, and if there were any other good GBA rom hack remakes/demakes like Sacred Echoes. It doesn't have to be a completed one either, if you know any new interesting ones to keep an eye on let me know that too lol
22:07 UTC
My BF wanted to do an ironman on FE:9 together as my first FE game ever
Most of it is in the title
We started it yesterday, and i'm realy having a blast, although there's something he said that i have difficulty to grasp, it is, and i quote : "This Ike is so blessed what the hell is that", does that mean characters progression isn't streamlined but subject to RNG ?
19:59 UTC
The Edelgard (crimson flower) route is so painful
So I went into fire emblem three houses blind basically and not knowing where the story would lead or what the game would force me to do. I wasn't really taking recruiting characters seriously, I was just focusing on my house and only recruiting the characters I thought were funny or had an interesting personality. I didn't spend a lot of time upgrading my skills either, outside of the sword and authority, so by the time I made the decision to protect Edelgard , I only recruited Sylvain and Manuela. And thank god I got Manuela at least for Dorothea's sake.
By the time I realized I would be forced to kill some of these characters that I generally enjoyed talking to and watching some of their support conversation, I was heartbroken. I did everything I could to avoid killing them but some of them (IGNATZ, HILDA AND LEONIE, IM LOOKING AT YOU) left me with no other choice. I got so broken up when I had to kill Alois just bc I didn't want to use his unit in particular and the only characters I could save were Flayn, Seteth, and that bratty white hair girl that I can't even raise the support of lmao.
When I do play this game again on a different route, I'm gonna make sure I recruit as many BE students as I can, (except for Lindhardt he can die) because I cannot possibly fathom killing them.
17:35 UTC
FEctober #29 : Gotoh Archetype
Bao, a goddess once acclaimed throughout the continent, was once the protector who guided the five kingdoms against her brother, Ukiar the Dragon of Annihilation, giving them five legendary weapons and sealing the dragon with the pact of royal blood. Over the centuries, the weakening of alliances and the loss of faith of the population have rendered them powerless to manifest themselves physically.
It is the faith and determination of Sidra, inspired by the story of Bao, that revives the connection between the goddess and the people. Bao, first present in visions, leads Sidra to Farvel's legendary weapon. Finally, at the end of the story, she appears briefly to bless the weapons of the heroes - Sidra, Melissa, Olaf, Philae and the bearer of the weapon of Ishak - allowing these relics to be enchanted to face Ukiar. Before this act, Bao addresses a few personal words to each weapon bearer, symbolically linking them to the founding heroes of the kingdoms.
Although absent on the final battlefield, Bao can heal all units twice, and if one of the legendary weapon wielders has fallen during the story, she can step in in their place. Her victory will also mark her disappearance, because her duty to protect the people against Ukiar is accomplished. In her last words, she thanks Sidra and her allies, recalling that the unity and freedom of people are now in their hands, and that true power lies in the peace that they will be able to preserve.
17:04 UTC
what other maps are like this?
16:46 UTC
Would you want more free for all battles
I am fairly new to the fire emblem games. I’ve played awakening, 3H and engage. As far as I know free for alls seem to be a new concept introduced in the latest two games and I really enjoy the concept whenever I see them.
So my question is, since in the last two these types of battles are really rare, would you like to see a game that has more of these battles? Like maybe a game that’s focused on three kingdoms fighting at the same time?
16:42 UTC
Do you think we’ll ever see an anima lord?
With the series starting to experiment more, I wonder if we’ll eventually see a lord for every weapon type. In another post someone got me thinking about how fun a staff lord could be, and I think there are a lot of interesting narratives you could derive from the weapon the main lord uses.
For example if you had an anima lord, I immediately start to think of Three Houses but with anima, dark, and light magic lords for the house leads, and with the whole thing themed less medieval and more Harry Potter. Possibly with a lord that starts off fairly secluded and inept, and grows into a competent leader (or something else entirely). As opposed to the classic “person with a sword who’s good at everything (except the right growths) eventually kills a dragon/god”.
Also I know that Celica was kind of an anima lord before anima was a thing, but I’m really thinking more about what Micaiah was in terms of uniqueness compared to the rest (both for weapon type and narrative–e.g. willingness to commit war crimes…)
15:42 UTC
Day 29 of FE inktober - Oboro [OC]
15:31 UTC
Halloween Sommie
15:15 UTC
Which Fire Emblem NPC do you wish was playable?
15:08 UTC
Would you like "HD editions" of the 3DS games?
Maybe im wrong, but with some tweakings i think they could translate beautifully to the switch/Next Nintendo console, after all games like Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon HD shows that 3DS remasters to Consoles are not unheard of, and i think they could benefit greatly to be HD on the switch with all DLC included (and fates having both routes and revelations included on the game card)
15:06 UTC
Does anyone have an extended version of Veronica's battle theme in Engage? Trial of Heroes (Veronica, Heed our Call)
It's the only one which I can't seem to find anywhere, including DLCs, and I don't know how to extend it myself. It would be a big help.
15:05 UTC
Any good fanfics with male Byleth?
While three houses has a lot of great fanfiction I do get kind of annoyed looking for a new one to read with how lopsided it is in favor of female byleth, I don't have any problem with the character to be clear but I prefer to read stories where Byleth is a guy or where their are Byleth twins but whenever I go looking its almost a 4 to 1 ratio of stories where byleth is female instead of male. Does anyone have any recommendations for fanfics covering male byleth?
I'm really looking for ones that are preferably long or involve byleth with white hair but i'm willing to hear out anything that sounds interesting!
14:55 UTC
With the announcement of Xenoblade X: Definitive Edition, does this sign at Fire Emblem News coming soon?
I want to know if maybe some Fire Emblem News can come!
14:48 UTC
My Fourth Rhea Attempt by Me
14:34 UTC
If Ever Fire Emblem ever Got a Dissidia made Game like Final Final Fantasy, then one, which Villans should be featured in their respective Game? And two, which heroes would interact with the villans?
The villans themselves can be a mix bag because there are so many villans within the Fire Emblem community however for Question 1 I can think a couple ones would consider this part
Shadow Dragon, Medusa Echos, Duma Genealogy, Arvis Path of Radiance, Black Knight Radiant Dawn, Sephiran or Ashura Awakening, Vaildar Fates, Garon or >!Takumi!< Three houses, Serios or Nemisis Engage, Zephia
I want to know your guys opinions on this topic and let's see how it goes from here!
12:00 UTC
Which Fire Emblem character looks like or acts like Sonic the Hedgehog?
07:03 UTC
Mythic Hero - Hræsvelgr: Quieting Blade (Fire Emblem Heroes)
03:20 UTC
Radiant Dawn???
Give me your opinions: Is Radiant Dawn worth buying, is it better off just emulated, or not played all together?
03:16 UTC
I have played all FE games except FE4, FE5, FE12 and FE17. I have just finished Genealogy, these are my thoughts.
Things I liked:
- How every chapter is a big map with a lot of of castles to conquer and how you can see each enemy from each castle reacting and talking about your army each time you conquer one. The story feels more epic because it feels more cohesive. There are times in which some enemies agree to attack you from different castles at the same time, knowing that you are busy far away conquering another castle or some enemies will ambush you if they think that one of your own castles are unprotected. Like, it feels like they aren't waiting for their demise in their throne like most fire emblems, they are actively trying to get rid of you.
- That you can deploy all your units, without limit. Yes, it may not be efficient or wathever, but if you are just playing to have fun then you can use everyone if you want. In most fire emblems, you may get a cool character later in the game but if you already have a solid team you are forced to bench him. Also, this avoids having to play favorites and choose who to train (the hardest part for me in a fire emblem game 😂)
- The story is very good and tragic. I was very surprised seeing how good this is story was and how good was the writing considering this is a very old game. Also, this game doesn't have any regrets killing characters, specially main characters. The Quan and Ethlyn deads are probably top 3 saddest deaths of all the franchise, and for me, they are even sadder than Sigurd's.
- No stupid GBA support system. Characters can talk with each other freely, sometimes a condition is necessary (like being lovers or not being married) but most of the time conversations are free. So you get to know all the characters without needing to build a relationship with someone else (and without being limited to only 5 conversations like GBA games)
Things I disliked:
- Big maps are good as a novelty... but you are definitely going to hate them when you have to move your 5 move cleric across a big map. There are turns (like 5-6 turns, one after another) where the only thing you do is move units. Once I even forgot to move Lana because she was so behind that I didn't see her, she took almost all the turns until the end of the chapter to catch up. I definitely would like to see big chapters return, but foot units would need some compensation. That's why units with horses are much better, but balance in this game is...
- Talking about balance, it doesn't make sense in many ways. So, for example, the different physical weapons (sword, axe and lance) differ a lot regarding weight. Weight is a BAD thing, the more a weapon weights, the more speed your character loses. So a silver sword weights 3, a silver lance 12 and a silver axe 18!! So a character that uses axes will lose 18 points of speed comparing to another who uses swords (who will only lose 3). The game even seems to hate lance users and, specially, axe users. There are fewer of them compared to the vast majority that use swords. The foot-locked sword user that would be probably criticized for that in other games would definitely shine in Genealogy. For magic is even worse, all magics have the same power, they only differ in, again, weight. So wind magic is the best because it weights less than thunder, and specially, fire magic (which is trash because how much it weights). Why would I use fire (power 8 weight 12) instead of wind (power 8 weight 2). And I didn't even talk about holy blood.
- Holy blood. At first, it seems interesting that some characters are descendants from big heroes and that may give them some bonuses, but in this game holy blood is make or break. Holy blood increases grow rates, your weapon level (that you cannot increase any other way! Not even fighting) and sometimes people with holy blood are given big weapons with BIG bonuses (like +20 speed or some ridiculous stuff like that, I'm not exaggerating) You don't have ANY reason to ignore holy blood users, knowing that their descendants will be 99% better that if you only trained non-holy blood users.
- First gen units (mostly) have great introductions and dynamics. I can probably remember 90% of their names and their backstory. Second gen units aren't that memorable, tho. Most of them are a copy paste of their parents, they are introduced very quickly and before you know you have a full army of kids whose names I can't remember. They all feel cheap copies of their parents, barring some exceptions. I don't know if substitutes are better (units you get if the mother is dead or unmarried), but they also feel a little pointless if you are playing good enough. Maybe they give some variety in a second playthrough...
Some other personal thoughts:
- Lewyn is a scumbag and I couldn't stand him everytime he was on screen. And he becomes the "adviser" in the second gen, what a joke. How awful of a parent you have to be when you have Ced, crying because he never understood why you abandoned him or his mother, for only him to show no remorse or at least an apology! Do you think Garon from conquest was a bad parent? You haven't met this guy. Worst parent ever. He only gets a pass because he's insanely broken and he gets the second best legendary weapon of the game, but as character, he sucks.
- Ishtar, my beloved. You could have joined our troops if you wanted. Her backstory and all related to her family including Tailtu and Tine are one of the saddest parts of this game.
- Promotion bonus in this game are no joke. Like characters can get +6 str or +5 speed. And there's a class that randomly can wield every single weapon and every single magic when they promote (prince and princess) because yes.
- Deirdre and Julia... I don't know why they made Deirdre controllable only to be soo bad and available for like a chapter and half before she gets kidnapped. Julia, her daughter, is better in this regard, but light magic is very poorly available and even when you can give her the best weapon in the entire game, she gets it at the final part of the final chapter, when 99% of the game is done, she doesn't have much time left to shine (and she also gets kidnapped towards the end, lol).
Well, that was it. I'm going to play Thracia next so I can finally say I played the Judgral games and complain with the rest of FE users when they say they are forgotten or unfairly criticized.
02:21 UTC
Which Difficulty name do you prefer? Lunatic or Maddening?
Title pretty much says it all, which name for the highest difficulty do you prefer? Lunatic (Awakening - Warriors) or Maddening (Three Houses onwards)?
01:08 UTC
Looking for Fire Emblem lore experts.
I'm currently working on a Smash Ultimate story that works as a continuation of every fighter's own. And in that regard I'd like the help of people who know the story of the games well to provide me with course correction so as to faithfully portray the story and personality of every one of the eight.
Knowing just the game(s) of just one of the eight would help substantially. Fates and Awakening are the ones I need help with the most, though.
DM me if you're interested!
22:10 UTC
Myrrh Demands your Candy
21:34 UTC