The funny thing is, Radiant Dawn is now one of the most beloved games in this franchise, and its protagonist in Micaiah is one of the series most popular. It shows that they made a great game and fans today are not disappointed. Many people want the series to go back to Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn world building, base management style, etc. The difficulty charge was also the result of a translation error. The difficulty modes were Easy, Normal and Hard, but its a very misleading translation as the difficulties are actually Normal, Hard and Maniac. So when people played the game on Normal, they were in for a pretty tough experience. Play on Easy your first time - it's really normal.
I had the experience of playing POR on Hard and feeling proud of myself for doing it as my first fe on hard. Went into Radiant Dawn for a follow up and went hard again. I could not get past Zihark’s reintroduction without failing to recruit people and realized my mistake too late.
The way you swap armies and often found yourself underleveled also contributed to the difficulty. The game by itself is considered one of the harder fire emblem games even knowing the translation issues
@@Bonkussin I guess I'm lucky I kept my original copies. I still have them and go back to play them every year or two. I love these games. Probably why they cost a lot - anyone who owns them loves them too much to sell.
Fire Emblem is one of my most favorite games series of all time. It may not get the same level of recognition and respect as Final Fantasy, but it is a GREAT game series to me. My favorites are Shadow Dragon, Blazing Sword, The Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn and Heroes. I also like Awakening as well. I want to play Three Houses so bad.
I feel like fire emblem rose in quality as Final Fantasy declined in quality. Both are great series, but FF was great from the start hit its peak at 6 and after 10 just hasn't been anywhere near as good. FE was ok to begin with got great with Genealogy but never really was better than FF until path of radiance, and peaked with 3 houses. That's my opinion at least.
@@RicoLen1 i guess tldr is i prefer fe games to ff games only a couple i still like 8 9 and tactics. Wish i played 7 before i knew what Good graphics were lol
@KroNick_Abundance Nikolaos I never liked 7 that much to begin with but absolutely love the remake. I think by the time the remake is done it could well be my favorite in the series.
Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn is begging for a port to switch and a fresh coat of paint, maybe bring the two together? Easily my favorite 2 of the series. Hoping to play Engage soon
Radiant Dawn was my first FE game. I remember playing it so clearly in my freshman dorm room. I loved it and treasure my game disk to this day. Maybe the fact that it was so difficult has served me well over the years as a FE fan. Awakening has probably been my favorite title in the series.
I personally preferred Spirit Stones. I prefer the strategy and trying to keep everyone alive. I prefer to keep the relationship stuff as secondary instead of the primary focus like the newer games seem to go with.
@@flataffect Yeah, I just fear that it may be too late for us to receive another Fire Emblem game that is made in the same form as Engage for the Nintendo Switch. Engage is the first FE game that I've owned and played since Awakening. I just may have to settle for Three Houses after my time with Engage has worn thin, but Three Houses doesn't feel anywhere as Epic as Engage does.
Yeah the story of RD is not nearly as bad as people like to say. It actually makes perfect sense if you really think about it and is an excellent follow up to PoR.
Well, Intelligent Systems WAS about to give up on FE until the inclusion of Marth and Roy in Smash Bros. Melee brought new (Western) fans to the series.
I draw a lot of parallels with the "Tales of" series and the FE series. Both of them got their western start in the early 2000s with their breakout games, and they both sported an anime style that wasn't as widespread back in the day, back when anime was more of a counterculture thing in the west. Both series also have this thing where many of the installments are just different enough and have been coming out for years. This means that everyone will have their "one" that came out at the perfect time for them and that will remain their favorite. While I still love both series, Tales is sadly moving away from the style of gameplay that I play it for, and while my brain is happy that Arise is doing well, my heart isn't because I think it means the series will move in a different direction. Meanwhile, FE has always stuck to its guns when it comes to the core gameplay, and I love that it has never strayed far from that core. Playing Engage right now and I can't help but smile multiple times while playing.
Radiant Dawn was a fantastic game, people thought it was too hard because it was translated with "Easy Normal Hard" as the difficulties instead of "Normal Hard Lunatic" as they were in Japan. In reality it's only a bit harder than PoR. The series' dip in popularity was due to the Tellius games being released only on console and then followed by the remakes of 1 & 3, which were unbalanced and messy. Awakening is a good game but to insinuate it's better than RD is questionable.
Radiant Dawn was my first Fire Emblem game. I know the difficulty was a mistranslation but was accompanied by subtext. Easy was for newcomers to the series and have was for experienced players of the series. I picked easy and was enjoying playing.
Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones is my childhood Fire Emblem game which I've got as a birthday gift from my dad. Ever since then, I fell in love with the series.
I got into this series through Awakening. I was hooked and glad that the game saved the franchise. I've since played all three version of Fates, Echoes, Three Houses and now Engage. I also bought spinoffs like the two Warriors game and the Shin Megami collaboration game Tokyo Mirage Session FE Encore.
I came to Fire Emblem from Super Smash Bros and Advance Wars. Radiant Dawn was my first game and I loved it. I actually still preferred it over the 3DS games until Three Houses blew all of them away for me.
They need a modern Remake especially Roy game I have the game and Roy does not get his weapon till late in the game so he is worthless for most of the game. Also it features 3 endings which easily to be locked out the true ending because you did not beat some levels fast enough to get the sacred weapon side mission.
I remember the ending of blazing blade was so epic, and there was a huge cliffhanger with an evil dragon man, but the sequel was in Japanese. So crushing
this game is a treasure for me, fire emblem sacred stones are the best year of my childhood memory that happened to me, adulthood is hard, thanks for the video!
Something reviewers fail at is thinking about how game mechanics outstay their welcome when the game is replayed multiple times, such as in the case of Three Houses. Many reviewers of Three Houses praised the balance of the monastery and school activities to battles without thinking about their tedious and repetitive effect on players who'd want to play the game on all 4 routes. So what they found novel, dedicated players of Three Houses found repetitive, tedious and a giant waste of the player's time - these sections would often add 10+ hours of fluff to a 40-50 hour playthrough. As we see with Engage's reviews, many criticized Engage's lack of social sim elements and how the Somniel became more optional. But the developers made these changes precisely for players who wanted to put 200 hours into the game and didn't want to repeat tedious and repetitive social segments over and over - it really does outstay its welcome when you're replaying the game. Try to play all 4 routes in Three Houses and be honest with yourself - did the social sim stuff really not get old for you? Really? But it's not surprising how casual most of the reviews at various outlets would fail to recognize that as they likely only played the game for 30 hours. You're never going to see the monastery's problems if you don't even beat the game once, let alone the 4 times that were intended.
I've taken about a year off between each of the routes in Three Houses. It does get tedious. I'm only 10 hours into Engage so far. I like that some of the social sim stuff have been rolled back but I feel like the characters and support conversations are lacking depth. I hope in the future they can find a healthy middle ground.
I'm pretty sure if you do anything for 200+ hours it starts to be tedious. Like, I get the point and I myself beat it 3 times already so I know the feeling, but I'm still glad they put all this content there. Not everyone replays games several times in a year, and the first playtrough is much more impactfull then the following ones anyway. I'm playing engage right now and it's severely lacking in story, character, and writing department. I don't think there will be a second playtrough of engage because of that. OH, and a great way to make 3h less tedious on a new playtrough: don't ever recruit other houses units. That way units for each playtrough will be different, they supports won't repeat themselves, and you'll get a bit of new dialogue when you face them as enemies.
The problem is the devs didn’t make a decision about whether they wanted players to play the game once or multiple times. They definitely made choices that seemed to favor each of those options, with tons of repetition for repeat playthroughs but crucial story aspects exclusive to different routes.
@@ragvald8835 Fire Emblem is incredibly rewarding and addicting. The game design just works and it doesn't really get old for a lot of people. The replayability is incredibly high, even in games with only 1 route like most traditional Fire Emblems. The social sim stuff is tedious and repetitive, even within 1 playthrough but especially when doing multiple. There is no depth to it. It never changes. Plant and harvest flowers. Max motivation through the cafeteria. Earn money and professor ranks by spamming tournaments. Fish on high fish days. Ignore everything else. The monastery even works against the story after the time skip too. They inch a bit further towards their destination only to return to the monastery. It's honestly pretty ridiculous that they don't have a mobile camp of some kind. Even game of thrones had mobile camps. They didn't go back to their castles every month.
I can't express more how I love this franchise. Pokemon should follow suit and release a quality game instead of rushing projects for the sake of releasing it.
Awakening will always be my favorite! It was the one that got me into FE, not knowing that it would be the revival of the franchise. I miss thinking really hard which units I wanted to get married lol
Thanks to Super Smash Bros, I started emulating Fire Emblem when I was a kid, and god was the GBA ones a blast, even the GameCube one even with the emulation troubles. Good times!
Calling Radiant Dawn's story "laughable" is such a dumb remark. It was a very difficult game, but it failed because it launched onto the Wii, which people were not buying for JRPGs but the various motion technology that was the rage at the time.
Definitely one of my faves too! Doing the gorgon glitch is one of the most random and fun/OP things in the game lol. S-ranked Dark Tome Mulder with supports from Vanessa and Gilliam gave me the ability to hit for 101 dmg lol
I’ve given up on it happening on the Switch, so here’s hoping Nintendo’s next console adds GBA games to it’s online service so we can all replay those Fire Emblem gems from that handheld.
Radiant Dawn is fantastic and is now gaining a ton of popularity. I wouldn’t really call it a low point. It was poorly marketed which didn’t help either.
@@I_like_your_handle_Mister yeah cause i though more about making one like a real remake, then fe5 fully too and then release a pack with the two. not like making 2 half baked remake in one. so I change my statement : please remake both one at the time and once it's done bundle a collector with both
I don't care what anyone says, I loved Fates so much. I played all 3 paths back to back to back, and quite honestly I didn't even know there was a controversy about the series because I never tried romancing my sister. I especially enjoyed the 3rd path where I was able to bring peace to both kingdoms, and was shocked when I heard that too was a heavily criticized choice. I'm really quite thankful I didn't look online to see what the internet fans had to say about the series, because it never spoiled my experience and it still sits as one of my very favorite fire emblem installments, pretty much only behind 3 Houses and Genealogy of a Holy War.
Of course I knew about Fire Emblem because I've been a Smash player since Melee. I hadn't got into it until Awakening. Such a magnificent gamr made FE one of my favorite series ever. My favorite entry being Three Houses
Awakening is my first Fire Emblem game and it's still my favorite to this day alongside Three Houses and it's cool to know that Awakening could've been the last but made their breakthrough
Ok, couple things: 1. I can tell your research was reading GameSpot reviews because the line from Radiant Dawn's review about motion controls has always been a joke in the Fire Emblem fandom. 2. You skipped over the two DS games. Awakening didn't save the series directly after low sales of Radiant Dawn. There were two more games in between. 3. The Pokemon comparison for Fates has always been dumb because each version of that game is radically different, not just a few tweaks to encourage trading.
Well she did technically mention the two DS games, but she was wrong about casual mode being introduced in Awakening where it was actually in New Mystery (unreleased in the west though).
Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn are my favorites. I don't like how bad this video talks about these two games. Path of Radiance had a better story than the newer games.
Blazing Sword introduced me to the FE series, followed by The Sacred Stones and The Binding Blade. I played all the non-spin off FE games, except the Engage (will do in future), love all of them. FE is my favorite game series.
I don't remember why I started playing Fire Emblem. I have the vague memory of Blazing Blade being my first (emulated) played by chance, but I think that when I got my first 3DS, I wanted the very best games and they kept saying that Awakening was just one of the best games for the console at the time. Whatever came first, I love the GBA games and more recent entries have been a blast, such as Echoes and Three Houses, and it just goes to show how versatile the series can be. I haven't played Engage yet, as I'm going for the Divine Edition and I'm getting it in mid February for reasons, yet it's great to know that I'm in for a treat that pays special homage to earlier games.
Honestly I enjoy the franchise even with each game’s flaws I still enjoyed each game that I’ve played. Just hope they add Genealogy and Thracia on the Switch soon.
A little shocked echoes wasn’t mentioned as it was also a pretty important part of fe history. The divine pulse mechanic people came to love in 3h was from there. And the game is still considered one of the best in the series as it was an incredible remake of fe gaiden. But instead we get spin off games as honorable mentions.
That's because it's 1 of the best games in the series IF you ignore the gameplay part of that game, include the gameplay and it's easily the worst modern mainline game by far...
Umm, Radiant Dawn is one of the most beloved entries in the franchise. Also, you forgot 2 games that happened between RD and awakening. They introduced modern series staples like Casual Mode, Avatars and reclassing.
Fire emblem is the best series ever created! I have been playing since the 90s I have always loved it. I knew about it long before smash and got excited that games might come here. Also now seeing characters in Engage from other games that never made it are we going to see more remakes? please! I am a fire emblem die hard I would love to see all the original games remade. we really are only missing 3 games in the west.
Awakening changed my entire game library. I tried it out and went from FPS and open world RPG's to almost entirely turn-based JRPGs. Now I'm trying to scrounge up all the remakes and DLC I can before Nintendo shuts down the 3DS eshop.
Sacred Stones is my favorite. I love the pacing of the game and Seth and Eirika pair. Best battle is Engage. Best history is Awk. Best characters is Fates. Best music is 3Houses. Best MC is Echoes (With Celica) Every FE is good in different ways. With luck they will bring the 2nd generation feature again, but more like Agarest Generations of war where the history continue with the descendent.
I’m not sure if fates has the best “characters”. I feel three houses fits that category better. Whichever house you chose ALL the cast had in depth character, plus appealing designs. (Of course fates has super appealing designs too). Of course everyone has there own opinion though 💪
@@reiswindy Wow I was not aware of the rumor. Genealogy of War is certainly a close fit. Game has some interesting characters and decent story too. I really hope to see that remake. I was not expecting remakes after Echoes low sells, but FE4 is very close to Awk-Engage new games. It will bring fans from all kinds (Battle & Social) if done right.
To make this list, and mention that FE6 was scrapped for the N64 Disk Drive......but not mention how it released on PS1 under the name "tear ring saga" is a massive omission. Originally it was going to have a Fire Emblem name, but Nintendo sued the developers who at the last minute, changed the name of the game, characters and weapons. However Tearring Saga is a Fire Emblem game, developed by the same people who made the NES/SNES Fire Emblem games. Worth checking out, along with its sequels Berwick Saga (PS2) and Vestaria Saga (Steam)
@@mikethepokemaster2012 Tearing Saga was originally going to be an FE game, made by the developers of the original 5 FE games but Nintendo sued amd literally all they changed were names. It's FE in everything, but name. Worth mentioning as a side note, especially since they brought uo the cancelled game.
How about the next Fire Emblem game released in the US be one that was never released here? I'd love to see the Binding Blade released here. I really think a game that wasn't released here be next
I feel like more than Awakening, Geneology really influenced 3 Houses, what with the Holy Blood/Crests and Holy Weapons. Also Eldigan, Quan, and Sigurd feel like the precursors to Edelgard, Claude, and Dimitri, what with them being old academy friends who were seperated in their respective kingdoms (especially Eldigan poor guy). That's just a personal theory though.
I've been playing the series since Fe7 since it first came out, and I've never seen those advertisements for a lot of these games, they're so much cheese, it's great.
It may have popularized but it's still agreeable that final fantasy tactics was one of the greatest Tactics RPGs ever. I love fire emblem and have played like 3 games never completed them but I've been playing 3 houses recently and I am loving it the clas system is so good and the characters are wonderful I'm currently doing Blue Lions and my god the !!!SPOILER!!! 🚨 Time skip is so wild the characters I knew before are completely different and have different motives and likes now
Awakening and Genealogy of the Holy War are the best in the series. Most difficult, with the best plot, and the only games to feature 2nd generation children (Fates did it to, but it made no sense to the story). Also Awakening did not introduce the "casual mode" New Mystery of the Emblem did for DS.
It may be in my top 5 maybe even top 3 gaming series ever.. It stands out in my mind as perhaps the most captivating discoveries of the 2000's decade.. I'm just glad I had a GBA and bought it on a whim.. I think their may be a little too many characters tho.. Maybe they should tone it down a bit and stick with the fan faves..
Well good job on shedding some light on the darker early entries of the series while getting so many facts wrong. However what seems "laughable" to me is how reviewers in general found Awakening and Fates story fine but had issues with Radiant Dawn. P.S. Radiant Dawn is the 10th game Awakening is the 13th. I don't think the ultimatum from Nintendo was given after RD
Shadow Dragon for the DS is the reason why I fell for the franchise, I can't get tired of telling people to play it. Get an Emulator and play it (New Mystery of the Emblem too...)
Radiant dawn's review is terrible, everything else is fine but have they seen how it has aged over time? "Story is laughable?" but no comment on the story of engage other than "timeless classic no problem"? XD They comment on the difficulty not knowing the translation error - but say nothing about the support system which was a genuine drawback. Oh not to mention how most fans consider it one of the best stories (same with genealogy which they spend no time on).
The hate for the lack of motion controls in radiant dawn is so funny to me like, how on earth would they incorporate that 😭
If you play less videogames and use your brain a little bit more, you will be able to know. :)
@@schadenfreude6274 I'm not saying it would be impossible, it just isn't a natural addition to a turn-based tactical RPG
@@schadenfreude6274 so u figured out how to incorporate motion controls in fire emblem without it being a detriment?
@@g-luisy5253 :)
Bc radiant dawn had motion Control kinda keyboard and mouse like xcom and starcraft
The funny thing is, Radiant Dawn is now one of the most beloved games in this franchise, and its protagonist in Micaiah is one of the series most popular. It shows that they made a great game and fans today are not disappointed. Many people want the series to go back to Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn world building, base management style, etc.
The difficulty charge was also the result of a translation error. The difficulty modes were Easy, Normal and Hard, but its a very misleading translation as the difficulties are actually Normal, Hard and Maniac. So when people played the game on Normal, they were in for a pretty tough experience. Play on Easy your first time - it's really normal.
I had the experience of playing POR on Hard and feeling proud of myself for doing it as my first fe on hard. Went into Radiant Dawn for a follow up and went hard again. I could not get past Zihark’s reintroduction without failing to recruit people and realized my mistake too late.
I love the tellius games. they solidified my fandom for the franchise.
The way you swap armies and often found yourself underleveled also contributed to the difficulty. The game by itself is considered one of the harder fire emblem games even knowing the translation issues
@@lionablaze8747 Its sad that theyre so expensive and i don't know how to run an emulator
@@Bonkussin I guess I'm lucky I kept my original copies. I still have them and go back to play them every year or two. I love these games. Probably why they cost a lot - anyone who owns them loves them too much to sell.
Fire Emblem is one of my most favorite games series of all time. It may not get the same level of recognition and respect as Final Fantasy, but it is a GREAT game series to me. My favorites are Shadow Dragon, Blazing Sword, The Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn and Heroes. I also like Awakening as well. I want to play Three Houses so bad.
Im glad someone else likes shadow dragon and sacred stones like me!
Id rather play almost any fe game over any other ff games besides 1 maybe being fft tactics but then it's just like an fe game lol.
I feel like fire emblem rose in quality as Final Fantasy declined in quality. Both are great series, but FF was great from the start hit its peak at 6 and after 10 just hasn't been anywhere near as good. FE was ok to begin with got great with Genealogy but never really was better than FF until path of radiance, and peaked with 3 houses.
That's my opinion at least.
@@RicoLen1 i guess tldr is i prefer fe games to ff games only a couple i still like 8 9 and tactics. Wish i played 7 before i knew what Good graphics were lol
@KroNick_Abundance Nikolaos I never liked 7 that much to begin with but absolutely love the remake. I think by the time the remake is done it could well be my favorite in the series.
Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn is begging for a port to switch and a fresh coat of paint, maybe bring the two together? Easily my favorite 2 of the series. Hoping to play Engage soon
Radiant Dawn was my first FE game. I remember playing it so clearly in my freshman dorm room. I loved it and treasure my game disk to this day. Maybe the fact that it was so difficult has served me well over the years as a FE fan. Awakening has probably been my favorite title in the series.
Fire emblem is the chillest game. love the characters, lore, and RPG elements. Three Houses is my favorite!
I personally preferred Spirit Stones. I prefer the strategy and trying to keep everyone alive. I prefer to keep the relationship stuff as secondary instead of the primary focus like the newer games seem to go with.
@@connormclernon26 he says after engage came out.. it’s back to formula
@@flataffect Yeah, I just fear that it may be too late for us to receive another Fire Emblem game that is made in the same form as Engage for the Nintendo Switch. Engage is the first FE game that I've owned and played since Awakening. I just may have to settle for Three Houses after my time with Engage has worn thin, but Three Houses doesn't feel anywhere as Epic as Engage does.
@@SunDownSamurai while I do enjoy engage, there’s a reason three houses has become so many people’s favorite fire emblem game
@@ppparty4932 what’s the reason ?
Kind of sad, that Radiant Dawn got panned. Path of Radiance + Radiant Dawn is still my favorite Fire Emblem story
Yeah the story of RD is not nearly as bad as people like to say. It actually makes perfect sense if you really think about it and is an excellent follow up to PoR.
PoR and Radiant dawn’s story is far better than engage, imo.
Fire Emblem is my favorite franchise, I really love it.
The history of fire emblem is the perfect example of never giving up if you want to make it big.
Well, Intelligent Systems WAS about to give up on FE until the inclusion of Marth and Roy in Smash Bros. Melee brought new (Western) fans to the series.
@@_Just_Another_Guy I guess I’m one of the few people who learned about fire emblem first from the GBA game
@Liam Wilson Yo for real it's insane how few people know that the franchise already existed on GBA and gamecube. Lyn is bae btw.
Dope
@GreyPunkWolf I'm playing it on switch rn, Lyn is absolutely bae.
Even during their fire emblem history video GameSpot still can't get away from the stain of their infamous Radiant Dawn review.
I draw a lot of parallels with the "Tales of" series and the FE series. Both of them got their western start in the early 2000s with their breakout games, and they both sported an anime style that wasn't as widespread back in the day, back when anime was more of a counterculture thing in the west.
Both series also have this thing where many of the installments are just different enough and have been coming out for years. This means that everyone will have their "one" that came out at the perfect time for them and that will remain their favorite. While I still love both series, Tales is sadly moving away from the style of gameplay that I play it for, and while my brain is happy that Arise is doing well, my heart isn't because I think it means the series will move in a different direction.
Meanwhile, FE has always stuck to its guns when it comes to the core gameplay, and I love that it has never strayed far from that core. Playing Engage right now and I can't help but smile multiple times while playing.
Radiant Dawn was a fantastic game, people thought it was too hard because it was translated with "Easy Normal Hard" as the difficulties instead of "Normal Hard Lunatic" as they were in Japan. In reality it's only a bit harder than PoR.
The series' dip in popularity was due to the Tellius games being released only on console and then followed by the remakes of 1 & 3, which were unbalanced and messy. Awakening is a good game but to insinuate it's better than RD is questionable.
100% agree with this. In my opinion the series lost some of its magic after radiant dawn and hasn’t really gotten it back yet.
Radiant Dawn was my first Fire Emblem game. I know the difficulty was a mistranslation but was accompanied by subtext. Easy was for newcomers to the series and have was for experienced players of the series. I picked easy and was enjoying playing.
That’s not true. Fire Emblem 12: New Mystery of the Emblem was the first to incorporate casual mode, not Awakening.
Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones is my childhood Fire Emblem game which I've got as a birthday gift from my dad. Ever since then, I fell in love with the series.
Fire emblem is my favorite franchise of all time. Hope they continue to create more in the coming years! ❤❤
I got into this series through Awakening. I was hooked and glad that the game saved the franchise. I've since played all three version of Fates, Echoes, Three Houses and now Engage. I also bought spinoffs like the two Warriors game and the Shin Megami collaboration game Tokyo Mirage Session FE Encore.
I came to Fire Emblem from Super Smash Bros and Advance Wars. Radiant Dawn was my first game and I loved it. I actually still preferred it over the 3DS games until Three Houses blew all of them away for me.
They need to make these remakes faster. I want to play all the games but I'd prefer if they looked more modern.
Get good
@@broccyenjoyer What an intelligent comment.
They need a modern Remake especially Roy game I have the game and Roy does not get his weapon till late in the game so he is worthless for most of the game. Also it features 3 endings which easily to be locked out the true ending because you did not beat some levels fast enough to get the sacred weapon side mission.
Most of the older games have aged pretty well and are easily emulated.
GBA sprite animations are fire tho, they kinda more better than Engage ngl 💀
I remember the ending of blazing blade was so epic, and there was a huge cliffhanger with an evil dragon man, but the sequel was in Japanese. So crushing
the radiant dawn slander is crazy. one of the best games in the series
In your opinion
@@josephhisfriendfromschool no
@@Scion_of_light yea the gamespot radiant dawn review is absolutely embarrassing
this game is a treasure for me, fire emblem sacred stones are the best year of my childhood memory that happened to me, adulthood is hard, thanks for the video!
5:30 "It however inspired Fire Emblem Awakening..." *shows Fire Emblem Fates*
Besides that cool video.
Was looking for this comment x"""D
Something reviewers fail at is thinking about how game mechanics outstay their welcome when the game is replayed multiple times, such as in the case of Three Houses. Many reviewers of Three Houses praised the balance of the monastery and school activities to battles without thinking about their tedious and repetitive effect on players who'd want to play the game on all 4 routes. So what they found novel, dedicated players of Three Houses found repetitive, tedious and a giant waste of the player's time - these sections would often add 10+ hours of fluff to a 40-50 hour playthrough.
As we see with Engage's reviews, many criticized Engage's lack of social sim elements and how the Somniel became more optional. But the developers made these changes precisely for players who wanted to put 200 hours into the game and didn't want to repeat tedious and repetitive social segments over and over - it really does outstay its welcome when you're replaying the game. Try to play all 4 routes in Three Houses and be honest with yourself - did the social sim stuff really not get old for you? Really?
But it's not surprising how casual most of the reviews at various outlets would fail to recognize that as they likely only played the game for 30 hours. You're never going to see the monastery's problems if you don't even beat the game once, let alone the 4 times that were intended.
I've taken about a year off between each of the routes in Three Houses. It does get tedious. I'm only 10 hours into Engage so far. I like that some of the social sim stuff have been rolled back but I feel like the characters and support conversations are lacking depth. I hope in the future they can find a healthy middle ground.
By the time the war phase began, I was already tired of the monastery in 3H. I wanna play a War Game, not Persona.
I'm pretty sure if you do anything for 200+ hours it starts to be tedious. Like, I get the point and I myself beat it 3 times already so I know the feeling, but I'm still glad they put all this content there. Not everyone replays games several times in a year, and the first playtrough is much more impactfull then the following ones anyway.
I'm playing engage right now and it's severely lacking in story, character, and writing department. I don't think there will be a second playtrough of engage because of that.
OH, and a great way to make 3h less tedious on a new playtrough: don't ever recruit other houses units. That way units for each playtrough will be different, they supports won't repeat themselves, and you'll get a bit of new dialogue when you face them as enemies.
The problem is the devs didn’t make a decision about whether they wanted players to play the game once or multiple times. They definitely made choices that seemed to favor each of those options, with tons of repetition for repeat playthroughs but crucial story aspects exclusive to different routes.
@@ragvald8835 Fire Emblem is incredibly rewarding and addicting. The game design just works and it doesn't really get old for a lot of people. The replayability is incredibly high, even in games with only 1 route like most traditional Fire Emblems. The social sim stuff is tedious and repetitive, even within 1 playthrough but especially when doing multiple. There is no depth to it. It never changes. Plant and harvest flowers. Max motivation through the cafeteria. Earn money and professor ranks by spamming tournaments. Fish on high fish days. Ignore everything else.
The monastery even works against the story after the time skip too. They inch a bit further towards their destination only to return to the monastery. It's honestly pretty ridiculous that they don't have a mobile camp of some kind. Even game of thrones had mobile camps. They didn't go back to their castles every month.
Crazy that Radiant Dawn is actually the best game in the series. Critics were tripping back in the day.
If you want worthwhile opinions on video game quality, the mainstream game critics have never been the place to go
I'm assuming because they were too used to the gba style of fire emblem back then that they didn't give it a fair chance..
More like Gamespot's review of Radiant Dawn is infinitely terrible
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Conquest is a better game than Radiant Dawn.
I can't express more how I love this franchise. Pokemon should follow suit and release a quality game instead of rushing projects for the sake of releasing it.
Awakening will always be my favorite! It was the one that got me into FE, not knowing that it would be the revival of the franchise. I miss thinking really hard which units I wanted to get married lol
Love this franchise for staying persistent😤
Thanks to Super Smash Bros, I started emulating Fire Emblem when I was a kid, and god was the GBA ones a blast, even the GameCube one even with the emulation troubles. Good times!
Calling Radiant Dawn's story "laughable" is such a dumb remark. It was a very difficult game, but it failed because it launched onto the Wii, which people were not buying for JRPGs but the various motion technology that was the rage at the time.
She said what she said because she never played radiant dawn.
I love love love Engage but awakening will always be #1 in my opinion that game was just so good
At 5:30 you reference Awakening but that's actually Fates footage lol
Sacred Stones was my favorite out of all of them
Definitely one of my faves too! Doing the gorgon glitch is one of the most random and fun/OP things in the game lol. S-ranked Dark Tome Mulder with supports from Vanessa and Gilliam gave me the ability to hit for 101 dmg lol
Anyone else catch when she said about genealogy inspired awakening but showed Fates gameplay? Lol.
I’ve given up on it happening on the Switch, so here’s hoping Nintendo’s next console adds GBA games to it’s online service so we can all replay those Fire Emblem gems from that handheld.
Radiant Dawn is fantastic and is now gaining a ton of popularity. I wouldn’t really call it a low point. It was poorly marketed which didn’t help either.
The world needs a Genealogy of the Holy War remake.
sure but please make them not touching anything balance wise, genealogy is perfect as it is :) ( and bundle FE5 in the same remake :p )
Thracia 776 and Binding Blade too. Also New Mystery released outside of Japan.
@@VentsongeGaming Bundling the two is a horrible idea.
@@I_like_your_handle_Mister yeah cause i though more about making one like a real remake, then fe5 fully too and then release a pack with the two.
not like making 2 half baked remake in one.
so I change my statement : please remake both one at the time and once it's done bundle a collector with both
I don't care what anyone says, I loved Fates so much. I played all 3 paths back to back to back, and quite honestly I didn't even know there was a controversy about the series because I never tried romancing my sister. I especially enjoyed the 3rd path where I was able to bring peace to both kingdoms, and was shocked when I heard that too was a heavily criticized choice. I'm really quite thankful I didn't look online to see what the internet fans had to say about the series, because it never spoiled my experience and it still sits as one of my very favorite fire emblem installments, pretty much only behind 3 Houses and Genealogy of a Holy War.
Besides Ys, Fire Emblem is prolly the most tenacious RPG series
Of course I knew about Fire Emblem because I've been a Smash player since Melee. I hadn't got into it until Awakening. Such a magnificent gamr made FE one of my favorite series ever. My favorite entry being Three Houses
Awakening is my first Fire Emblem game and it's still my favorite to this day alongside Three Houses and it's cool to know that Awakening could've been the last but made their breakthrough
"It inspired Fire Emblem Awakening"
*shows an intro cutscene from Fates*
One of the best game franchise in the world.
Radiant Dawn was not a low point...sales wise maybe but that was mostly due to poor marketing. The Tellius games are arguably the best in the series.
Radiant Dawn is still my favorite FE game.
lol "disappointed in radiant dawn", it and path of radiance are the 2 best ones
Watching with the partner, she's upset they showed fates when mentioning awakening.
I defs love this history tho
Ok, couple things:
1. I can tell your research was reading GameSpot reviews because the line from Radiant Dawn's review about motion controls has always been a joke in the Fire Emblem fandom.
2. You skipped over the two DS games. Awakening didn't save the series directly after low sales of Radiant Dawn. There were two more games in between.
3. The Pokemon comparison for Fates has always been dumb because each version of that game is radically different, not just a few tweaks to encourage trading.
Well she did technically mention the two DS games, but she was wrong about casual mode being introduced in Awakening where it was actually in New Mystery (unreleased in the west though).
Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn are my favorites. I don't like how bad this video talks about these two games. Path of Radiance had a better story than the newer games.
Even after these years, I still simped for Lyn and Eirika
The blazing blade and sacred stones were the only FE games I played and I loved it so much. I wish we can use the old characters in the newer games
Literally Engage in a nutshell lol
Sacred Stones was my favourite until the greatness that is Three Houses released. 400+ hrs of wonderous entertainment. Having a blast with Engage now.
Really hope we get more of the Japan only games released worldwide! Especially if they also get the modern coat of paint
Some of the greatest series had such rocky starts which makes me appreciate them even more
Blazing Sword introduced me to the FE series, followed by The Sacred Stones and The Binding Blade. I played all the non-spin off FE games, except the Engage (will do in future), love all of them. FE is my favorite game series.
Even Ps1 got a Fire Emblem called Tear Ring Saga
This video is so precious, I want to put it on my wall. Amazing work. Love FE.
PoR and RD are by far the best games of the franchise!! Give it a try if you haven't played yet
I don't remember why I started playing Fire Emblem. I have the vague memory of Blazing Blade being my first (emulated) played by chance, but I think that when I got my first 3DS, I wanted the very best games and they kept saying that Awakening was just one of the best games for the console at the time.
Whatever came first, I love the GBA games and more recent entries have been a blast, such as Echoes and Three Houses, and it just goes to show how versatile the series can be.
I haven't played Engage yet, as I'm going for the Divine Edition and I'm getting it in mid February for reasons, yet it's great to know that I'm in for a treat that pays special homage to earlier games.
Honestly I enjoy the franchise even with each game’s flaws I still enjoyed each game that I’ve played. Just hope they add Genealogy and Thracia on the Switch soon.
@@Scion_of_light good to know
A little shocked echoes wasn’t mentioned as it was also a pretty important part of fe history. The divine pulse mechanic people came to love in 3h was from there. And the game is still considered one of the best in the series as it was an incredible remake of fe gaiden. But instead we get spin off games as honorable mentions.
That's because it's 1 of the best games in the series IF you ignore the gameplay part of that game, include the gameplay and it's easily the worst modern mainline game by far...
Agreed, i absolutely love SoV and its a shame they kinda ignored it.
Umm, Radiant Dawn is one of the most beloved entries in the franchise. Also, you forgot 2 games that happened between RD and awakening. They introduced modern series staples like Casual Mode, Avatars and reclassing.
It may be now due to fans but it still is one of the worst selling games
Fire emblem is the best series ever created! I have been playing since the 90s I have always loved it. I knew about it long before smash and got excited that games might come here. Also now seeing characters in Engage from other games that never made it are we going to see more remakes? please! I am a fire emblem die hard I would love to see all the original games remade. we really are only missing 3 games in the west.
This was an amazing video. Thank you!
Shuzou Kaga mentioned, this is a good video.
I miss the GBA, GC, Wii and Awakening times. Those were legend. (If GBA critt animations aren't your fav there's something wrong with you)
The moment I started chapter 1 of blazing sword and meet Lyn. I knew I was never turning back
I was wondering why the name Greg Kasavin sounded so familiar and I looked him up. He's one of the main guys at Supergiant Games now!
Trivia: The Blazing Blade (under the name of Fire Emblem) was referenced in Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door's English version.
Y’all really said genealogy inspired awakening then showed footage from Fates
Awesome History of Fire Emblem Video.
Awakening changed my entire game library. I tried it out and went from FPS and open world RPG's to almost entirely turn-based JRPGs. Now I'm trying to scrounge up all the remakes and DLC I can before Nintendo shuts down the 3DS eshop.
Nice Documentary
Dude i loved the sprite animations
Sacred Stones is my favorite. I love the pacing of the game and Seth and Eirika pair.
Best battle is Engage.
Best history is Awk.
Best characters is Fates.
Best music is 3Houses.
Best MC is Echoes (With Celica)
Every FE is good in different ways. With luck they will bring the 2nd generation feature again, but more like Agarest Generations of war where the history continue with the descendent.
I’m not sure if fates has the best “characters”. I feel three houses fits that category better. Whichever house you chose ALL the cast had in depth character, plus appealing designs. (Of course fates has super appealing designs too).
Of course everyone has there own opinion though 💪
If the rumours are true, then the FE 4 remake will be right up your alley, because they go the Agarest way of 2nd generation units
@@reiswindy Wow I was not aware of the rumor. Genealogy of War is certainly a close fit. Game has some interesting characters and decent story too. I really hope to see that remake.
I was not expecting remakes after Echoes low sells, but FE4 is very close to Awk-Engage new games. It will bring fans from all kinds (Battle & Social) if done right.
To make this list, and mention that FE6 was scrapped for the N64 Disk Drive......but not mention how it released on PS1 under the name "tear ring saga" is a massive omission. Originally it was going to have a Fire Emblem name, but Nintendo sued the developers who at the last minute, changed the name of the game, characters and weapons.
However Tearring Saga is a Fire Emblem game, developed by the same people who made the NES/SNES Fire Emblem games.
Worth checking out, along with its sequels Berwick Saga (PS2) and Vestaria Saga (Steam)
They aren't fe games in name. So they aren't going to include them.
@@mikethepokemaster2012 Tearing Saga was originally going to be an FE game, made by the developers of the original 5 FE games but Nintendo sued amd literally all they changed were names. It's FE in everything, but name.
Worth mentioning as a side note, especially since they brought uo the cancelled game.
How about the next Fire Emblem game released in the US be one that was never released here? I'd love to see the Binding Blade released here. I really think a game that wasn't released here be next
Thank you. This is such a wholesome introduction.
I feel like more than Awakening, Geneology really influenced 3 Houses, what with the Holy Blood/Crests and Holy Weapons. Also Eldigan, Quan, and Sigurd feel like the precursors to Edelgard, Claude, and Dimitri, what with them being old academy friends who were seperated in their respective kingdoms (especially Eldigan poor guy). That's just a personal theory though.
Exclusive titles should re-release worldwide..
No legit reason not to..
16:30
Me who didn't sacrifice Robin in Awakening: "oops"
"Would inspire fire emblem awakening" *puts in a clip from the opening of fates*
5:33 that’s…not Awakening.
I love Fire Emblem, it's a Legacy.
Here to say Marth is my 🐐
I've been playing the series since Fe7 since it first came out, and I've never seen those advertisements for a lot of these games, they're so much cheese, it's great.
It may have popularized but it's still agreeable that final fantasy tactics was one of the greatest Tactics RPGs ever. I love fire emblem and have played like 3 games never completed them but I've been playing 3 houses recently and I am loving it the clas system is so good and the characters are wonderful I'm currently doing Blue Lions and my god the !!!SPOILER!!! 🚨
Time skip is so wild the characters I knew before are completely different and have different motives and likes now
We need Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn remasters on Switch !
It’s funny thinking that it was the mobile game that got me into the franchise.
That's awesome. I love FEH, it calms me when I'm stressed.
Everyone starts somewhere
Did this woman mistake Fate for Awakening like lady learn your Fire Emblem names
Awakening and Genealogy of the Holy War are the best in the series. Most difficult, with the best plot, and the only games to feature 2nd generation children (Fates did it to, but it made no sense to the story).
Also Awakening did not introduce the "casual mode" New Mystery of the Emblem did for DS.
Awakening is one of the easiest games in the series lol
@@GrampsSteel lunatic plus has entered the chat
Technically for fates you could play the 3rd route right away if you bought the revelations version (collectors)
It may be in my top 5 maybe even top 3 gaming series ever.. It stands out in my mind as perhaps the most captivating discoveries of the 2000's decade.. I'm just glad I had a GBA and bought it on a whim.. I think their may be a little too many characters tho.. Maybe they should tone it down a bit and stick with the fan faves..
I remember reading about Fire Emblem in Nintendo Power and immediately wanting to play it. I would take Fire Emblem Blazing Sword to a desert island.
Well good job on shedding some light on the darker early entries of the series while getting so many facts wrong. However what seems "laughable" to me is how reviewers in general found Awakening and Fates story fine but had issues with Radiant Dawn.
P.S. Radiant Dawn is the 10th game Awakening is the 13th. I don't think the ultimatum from Nintendo was given after RD
Shadow Dragon for the DS is the reason why I fell for the franchise, I can't get tired of telling people to play it.
Get an Emulator and play it (New Mystery of the Emblem too...)
And I'm still play the GBA Fire Emblem to this minute!
I Like the 'old' graphic rather than the newer gen graphic!
The second remake on the nintendo ds was only released in Japan
Why can't I shake the feeling that the person speaking has never touched a fire emblem game...
Radiant dawn's review is terrible, everything else is fine but have they seen how it has aged over time? "Story is laughable?" but no comment on the story of engage other than "timeless classic no problem"? XD
They comment on the difficulty not knowing the translation error - but say nothing about the support system which was a genuine drawback.
Oh not to mention how most fans consider it one of the best stories (same with genealogy which they spend no time on).