Stop Caring About Fire Emblem
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Stop Taking Fire Emblem So Seriously
Fire Emblem is a Japanese fantasy tactical role-playing game franchise developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. First produced and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990, the series currently consists of seventeen core entries and five spinoffs.
The core gameplay revolves around discrete battles between the player's team of characters and enemy non-player characters across grid-based maps. The player and enemy each take turns moving their characters across the map and having them perform combat-based actions. The games also feature a story and characters similar to traditional role-playing video games, and occasionally social simulation aspects as well. A notable aspect of gameplay is the permanent death of characters in battle, rendering them unusable upon being defeated, although this aspect of the game can be turned off starting from Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem onwards.
The series' title refers to the "Fire Emblem", a recurring element usually portrayed as a royal weapon or shield representing the power of war and dragons. The development of the first game began as a dōjin project by Shouzou Kaga and three other developers, and its success prompted the development of further games in the series. Kaga headed the development of each entry until the release of Thracia 776, when he left Intelligent Systems. He went on to found his own game studio, Tirnanog, who developed Tear Ring Saga.
The series debuted in the West with the seventh game The Blazing Blade in 2003, under the title Fire Emblem. According to the game's director, this was because of the international success of the similarly turn-based Advance Wars.[1] The inclusion of Marth and Roy in the 2001 fighting game Super Smash Bros. Melee as playable characters is also cited as a reason. Many games in the series sold well, although sales suffered a decline during the late 2000s. This resulted in the series' near-cancellation until the unprecedented critical and commercial success of Fire Emblem Awakening (2012). This success was built on by Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019), the series' best-selling entry.
The series has been lauded for its gameplay and is frequently cited as the seminal series in the tactical role-playing genre, codifying various gameplay elements that would come to define the genre. Characters from across the series have been included in crossovers with other video game franchises, including the Super Smash Bros. series.
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holy shit donlot mentioned
Some things i would add:
A good reason to not care about missing out on content is to think of it this way:
If you enjoy the game a lot, you'll probably replay it and get another chance to see things you didn't get to see in your first run.
If you didn't enjoy the game, why even bother trying to see everything for something you don't care about.
Most FE games also give you more than enough tools, so be it units, items, etc to beat the game. People have solo'd many games with all kinds of units, so you can beat them even with a sub optimal team.
Lastly this may sound a bit cheesy but i think generally you can say this for both FE and life in general:
You can plan ahead for as long and as much as you want to, but once your plan makes contact with the enemy, it usually won't go exactly as you envisioned it. But that's life for ya. What's important is that you pick yourself up and just keep going if things don't work out. New plans can be made, new successes achieved, and unexpected heroes to be crowned, even in the darkest of hours. Only in very rare instances is it impossible to recover from failiure.
Donlot doesn't exist He's a PNG
@@Pogma776 so trve...
I don't disagree with you, I just don't have the time to replay games. a lot of my fun comes from knowing everything about the game and trivia. sometimes playing blind is fun, sometimes it is extremely frustrating. playing with a guide is definitely a crutch but sometimes it keeps me from putting the game down. min maxing is its own fun as well.
My life is already a long string of failures that I can't alter and probably won't come back from. Am I not allowed to course correct in my hobby either?
My issue is that my backlog is so massive and games already take so long to finish that I rarely ever replay games that take longer than 20 hours to beat, so I feel like I "have" to do everything possible in one playthrough. Which is a self-perpetuating problem because my backlog probably wouldn't be so big if I didn't spend so long trying to do everything in games that would take 80+ hours even if you beelined the story and did nothing else.
I think the best thing to do is remember, at the end of the day, Fire Emblem is still a Nintendo game. It's allowed to be fun and colourful and you're allowed to play it for fun. Like Zelda or Pokémon there are challenges and completionism involved, but it's not the entire point of the game. Pokémon has always been best played by using the Pokémon you like the most, and Zelda you can play without fussing over getting absolutely everything to beat the game. The only game in the series I'd say you have to complete it 100% is Majora's Mask, and that's only because it really is that big a part of the experience.
Either way, I've been wanting to get back into the series for a long time now, but I've been jaded by the absolutely horrendous fanbase ever since 2020, for you know what reason. But I think this gave me the push to finally try it again for real. Tusind tak :)
TLDR: Donlot is the ideal FE player.
Common Donlot W
Cope for bad math
I´m so bad at math, it would double my play time if I calculated every battle. I just have to...FEEL the stats.
lol 😂👍
Bugmen cant have fun without watching numbers go up.
Was gonna say: this is Mangs making peace with the god of numbers for dying continuously in hilariously preventable ways
For a moment I was like "Is this a King of Skill video?" for a second.
Yeah, that smiling Reinhardt caught me slightly off guard.
Noooooo I must keep arguing online with strangers about my pixelated girls
I love your pfp
@@acedelta12 thanks :)!
RUclipsr just said to stop caring about 90% of his content lol
Jk.
Mangs: "Just use units you like."
Thea: "I am literally a joke to you."
The units I like is all the units I first recruited most of the time lol
Or story important ones
I've loved the Fire Emblem series for 15 years, and I've never cared about how you're "supposed" to play. It's the only way to ensure that the game is fun.
But the characters aren't that interesting.
"Don't replay the level to get the best ending, you can just replay the entire game later!" We're reaching levels of Mangs Math that shouldn't even be possible! 😱
Exactly, i agree with the rest, but where the hell do I find the time to replay a whole game for a single ending ? In THIS ECONOMY.
That's how I do it, that's how I've always done it
Also what if we get a stat screwed lord and lose the only unit who can actually fight?
@@TrueBladeSoul *laughs in Phoenix Mode*
@@TrueBladeSoul if the guy can actually fight, you should not lose him.
Couldn't agree more, I've been saying this for years. Worrying so much about tier lists and which unit is better than what is silly in a single player non competitive game. If you're having fun playing that's all that matters and fun is unique for each player.
I agree that you should use whatever units you want but I don’t have the time to replay a game multiple times. And I have a back log of other games I wanna get to.
Imo the problem is that the casual players only play FE once, hence you feel like you need to play optimally since losing a unit feels like a huge setback regardless if it is or not. For instance if you had a support you were really invested in at B rank and lost one of the two you can't see the support ever since you're not gonna play it again.
Ironically, one does beat the game much faster when they don't reset all the time.
Which to every JRPG game that you had to keep your healer alive otherwise you have to get through healing items you hope to had enough
Mangs trying to justify why he's lost Marcus at the arena twice in a row.
I appreciate the advice, but we play games how we want to play them. I want to give Iron Man a shot, but in casual playthroughs I wanna play the game and experience as much as I can off the cuff.
Like Nintendo has already done?
So true, Fire Emblem is dead. Buy Skyrim.
@@iLegaultElder Scrolls 6 is going to be soooooo bad.
@@TheNuts1225 There is no doubt. It will be a buggy un-inspired shitshow like all other Triple A games (or quadruple A's lmao)
Best comment.
So true, Fire Emblem is a dead series same as Xenoblade Chronicles and Splatoon
I kind of like caring. Part of the fun of an Ironman is getting attached to a unit only to watch them die to a 3% crit and then having to work with whatever scrubs/meat shields that are sitting on the bench.
Xcom nation rise up
So true
Terminator bros do not fear Advent counter
Xcom kicks your butt until you like it
Shining Force gang reviving units for cheap after every battle
:)
Nothing is fun when you turn it into a chore.
tell that to factorio players LMAO
So play like exemblem? Got it
But Mangs, playing sweaty is part of my health routine. It helps my skin glow.
For me, the fun of FE is having units I like grow from nothing into absolute powerhouses (or whatever niche they have) and I like finding as many ways as possible to milk every bit of EXP I can (even the most time wasting, boring ways possible) and seeing how much I can break the game early on to make endgame a breeze. For example, in Chapter 6 of Andaron saga I spent over 700 turns power leveling Estelle and Lilinette to max so these otherwise niche characters could help out in the next chapters when it's really needed. That is the MOST fun I can think of. Or leveling Elise and Azura as much as possible so they can contribute more in chapter 10. You just gotta find your niche where you get the most enjoyment and go from there. Be sure to give new playstyles a chance too, as they may end up being your new favorite way to play!
I think the best travel advice I’ve ever gotten is “travel as if you’ll be back someday,” because otherwise the things you miss will weigh on you more than the things you enjoyed.
I think this is often good advice for playing video games, as well. Play them as if you’re coming back for a second play through.
6: Either you Throw the Javelin, or the Javelin Throws You on the Bench. ~Lord Ephraim
7: Stop Hoarding the god damn Elixir or I'll shove YOU into an Elixir
8: As a Friend, you are, replaceable. ~War Criminal Marth
No. I don't think I will.
I can understand the feelings in this video, though I find plenty of satisfaction in trying to get that perfect strategy and execution to get everyone through, alive and well (especially if you come up with creative solutions to accomplish it). That's a way I enjoy Fire Emblem. Your suggested way is definitely a lot more fun to watch though I'll admit, haha. I think the "optimal" ways to play the game are usually lame and I don't watch or pay much attention to trash like tier lists, I use the units/characters I care about and personally like. I don't think most people play optimally. I think they play some level of "trying your best from a casual perspective", myself probably included.
Honestly, I also think that going through without resetting in most FE games would make the games too easy if I'm being honest. There's a reason Donlot does so many unusual challenge runs on his channel. Fire Emblem games aren't usually hard if your only goal is to get across the finish line (unless you make a careless mistake with your lord, which is honestly one of the most frustrating ways possible to lose all that progress). Most of the time you can just make a few juggernauts handle everything, especially if you use all resources available to you liberally. The games give you so much its crazy. If you don't care about things like side objectives it becomes even easier since most of the time those aren't worth the investment to bother with them.
Plus, the idea of wasting an *entire* run in an ironman for literally nothing sounds way worse to me than just spending more time per chapter. 20 hours of progress that leads nowhere vs 20 hours of progress towards an inevitable completion. I don't have much time to spend on playing games, so just "losing" video games sounds like a waste. I don't have a stream of people to entertain with my failures, its just me staring at a screen.
I've beat nu-XCOM ironman runs before and its a little painful to lose (strong) units you've built up in that game, but that's part of the experience and it also has no story consequences (plus the story doesn't matter). With Fire Emblem, losing units just feels like you're making things worse for no real reason.
Also, in general I usually don't replay games that often. When I do its usually very rare and the game has to be *extremely* fun and also have unique replay value. I prefer to try new experiences when I can, so a game really has to wow me on my first playthrough to get me to replay it and even still its usually after some time passes. If Its a game I haven't played before, I intend to get the true ending on my first playthrough if that's an option because I want to see the best the game has to offer so I don't waste my time with some weak nonsense. FE7 was one of those rare games where I did replay it many times, but I can't say the same for the other FE games I've finished so far. Maybe its because I feel the characters of most FE games are weak/middling, writing-wise, and so I feel little attachment to them (and thus less reason to care about a game where things like story are a prominent aspect of the game).
Maybe I'm just attached to my way of playing the game, I know I've gone through that tunnel vision. Ironmans are frustrating and annoying to me to play through in the past, but I might give it a shot. The message at the end of the video is well-taken :^)
Oh, and since I didn't get a chance to say it after you came back: Congratulations again on getting married Mangs, when's the wedding video coming out? =p
Soon TM
Impossible. If any unit dies I must restart the whole game.
thanks for the advice, mangs! Now i hate fire emblem, and im unsubbing and will never watch another one of your fire emblem videos ever again! cheers!
"You can always replay the game later"
See Mangs the issue here is that Fire emblem is not the only games I play, I'm not even done playing all of them how should I expect myself to replay the same ones several times ?
If I let a character die it's over i'll probably never see his supports.
It's a bit of an issue I see when taking advices from streamers, or peoples too passionate about one specific lisence, when you can afford to spend a lot more time than the usual player on a single game your vision of what's a good idea gets a bit different.
I mean, Tellius and GBA games won't let you look all supports even after several playthroughs, so point still stands: if you for some reason wanna see that random thief backstory, you replay the game. If not, don't.
Who cares they are not lords.
Only lords lives matter.
There's also wiki too if you care about support
@@birdbig6852 you take that back, Peri is the best waifu!
That’s fair, but if you don’t have time to play fire emblem games that often, then I would consider just looking up supports that you are interested in/locked yourself out of viewing. Personally one of my favorite things about the handheld FE and pre GBA FE games are that they are very easy to emulate on a phone which means I can easily bring them with me and play if I’m waiting somewhere or have downtime between classes or at work
While I agree about all what's said about not caring that much for a random characters, stat boosters, and not desesperatly try to save them, I absolutely do not agree on the fact that you can give up on them if their death lock you out of the best ending.
I say that mostly because, nowadays, we don't have the time to get back and play another FULL run of a game just to achieve something slightly different when it's not a shorter, narrative driven game (like undertale for example). I'm just a mere student, and I already don't have the motivation, or energy, to get back to 3 Houses. Despite having liked the Edelgard route alot, and immediatly started a golden deer route, I just stopped at chapter 5 of my first new game + or so because I simply had new video games coming out that I also liked alot, high school then engineering school take care of, and all that Jazz. So I can't imagine how much less time I'll have doing that with a full time job !
So sure, redoing a game to get a different ending that changes the narrative halfway through the game and makes a GOOD difference because you made some secret choices ? Of course I can do that.
Doing a whole new game + with hours of grinding and newbie optimising trying to learn what's good and not to rush through the chapters until the game lets you save that unit you lost before ? I just can't, don't have the time, nor time to care, i'll just watch it on youtube at this point. So yeah that's why I just NEED to save these units, since I most likely won't be able to redo that route ever again or replay the game in a long time.
As Sonic says in that one song "It doesn't matter"
now what happens
I will never give up the fight
long as the voice inside me drives me to run and fight
it doesn’t matter who is wrong and who is right
what if i have fun optimizing things though. people have fun different ways man.
EDIT: I will say though, there is some good advise here. People worry way too much about really minor things like distributing a kill or two of exp. I'm still gonna reset if a unit I wanna use dies though cuz fuck that
Wait, People still care about Fire Emblem? Isn't the game called "Waifu-Emblem" by now?
EDIT after getting into the video:
Okay I really like your points, Mangs. Iron-man is the true way to play Fire Emblem. Moving on after losing a Unit and go through the entire game even tho you cared about the unit,
adds so much to this series. That is what makes Fire Emblem so fun in my opinion.
Here I thought this was going to be about how the series peaked with the Tellius games and is never getting back to that point.
Fates clears I'm afraid
Nah engage has the best story wdym?
3 houses is good
Sacred Stones is better, sorry
I respectfully disagree. My fun is saving everyone. It is the pain you feel when a unit dies that is the joy you feel when you succeed.
I am a completely opposite player, if a unit dies - no matter how useless, no matter how expendable, even if it was a unit I captured in Fire Emblem Fates, I will restart - even if it's Fuga's Wild Ride, even if it's Takumi's Nightmare Play House On Max Difficulty, I will restart for that unit.
I play Roguelikes. It's one and done for me. If I play ToME and I die? Doesn't matter that I have 7 more lives, that character is dead. I die once on Elona? That character is dead. That's how I play, and without that stipulation I don't get the same level of excitement.
I also play like this. I can't accept the fact of losing units I trained and cared about. If I lose someone, it's because I made a mistake and my enjoyment about FE is to be able to clear a map without making any fatal mistake.
Sounds like neither of you 2 have ever tried doing ironman runs then if you reset every time someone dies. Ironmans are fun. Games give you a million characters. It's a fun different play experience to randomly have to use worse/ untrained units.
This is why Casual Mode exists, for people like you and me (who get upset if units die)
"Let them die!" - Captain Kirk, letting people know how to play Fire Emblem
5:50 while I do see your point it's worth considering that a lot of people play through games only once either because they don't have that much time to play games in the first place and/or because they have other games they want to play instead of replaying a game they already played. Your advise makes sense for a Fire Emblem fan, a type of person who'll replay every FE game multiple times to see more of the game and to try different strategies. However if someone will only play through an FE game once and wants to see the true/best ending then it makes perfect sense to reset if they lose a character.
Ha ha, good video.
_Continues to wait until units hit level 20 before promoting them (which admittedly wasn't mentioned in this video) and hoarding stat boosters until my main army is level capped_
Hey hey, Memes are the best part of fire emblem who could take this game seriously when my 10 year old Dragon that's actually 200 year old and could solo people wheeze
Ditch fire emblem.
Embrace unicorn overlord
Whenever my local game shop decide to have it in stock, I have a gift card that waits to be used
Also different gameplay
@@tezereth I ended up digitally downloaded it after my ebay orderr was 2 weeks late. Hilariously, I got it yesterday physically.
Ngl, unicorn overlord stole me away from fire emblem
Finished the game a few minutes ago and while it was fun I'll stick with FE
(and yes, my inventory was full of stat boosters...)
Based af
I guess I'll keep throwing all the stat boosters onto my S rank Sword General Amelia
Good boy!
I use favorites all the time it's how i play fe my favorite units are Castor, the fe4 gen2 axe infantry and playable generics. I also bench Kris and robin for Gregor and Horace
most people dont have time to play games more than once so you probably are going to want to optimise some things a bit so you get to see as much as possible but you have to know your limits there
It’s a video game. Just have fun
I like how mangs phrased it: "Care less about mistakes use characters you like and be less optimal let go and fail take risks!"
this, this makes me happy, like really happy. mind you, I just wanna play them cause it's fun! fire emblem fun plain and simple. take it another way, look at a glass of water, half empty and half full! games just be like that sometimes enjoy them!
I mean, I played many fire emblem games, and now I realize that holy shit; I'm accidentally and unknowingly doing what everyone else does in the community optimal stuff blah blah and not going my own way
which I like to call the "blah blah" plot and macguffin nuh uh frick that! guns blazing mode engage!!!!" and just rush in.
I remember doing that and laughed so hard, but it was half not worth it and half so worth it!!! that I reset, and that made me realize this is what having fun genuinely looks like from time to time when people just don't care.
If you care you lose
I'm always enjoying fire emblem because i want to have fun playing hackrooms like Vision Quest, The last promise and now i'm getting a lot of fun playing Andaron Saga.
But please.. Enjoy Ourselves playing and get some fun and watch mangs streams to get more fun ( I got a lot of fun and laugh when i saw you failing your andaron saga iron man a lot of times in a short period of time but i was there to watch how you beat your own game )
Have a good day everyone
I clicked on your video because I like your videos
0:00
Game = fun
Honestly risks make things entertaining. What fun is there with no risk ever taken?
Mangs is this rationalizing your bad Radiant Dawn runs? Lol.
Difference between Donlot's lack of fear to fail and Mangs':
Mangs sometimes forgot what he learned from his mistakes, so much so that he makes a documented phenomena named around him
See: Mangs Math and Mangs Infantry
Alright, so I should just my stats boosters to the main lord since I'm going to stick with them, alright I'll give them to Baudimon .... This is why I have trust issues
Although I do agree with most of the things Mangs said this video, I just couldn't resist poking a little fun at him though
Just started FE awakening the other day and had to restart last night to save a character. I'm still really enjoying it but this is good to keep in mind that having fun is most important in my play through
I played an awesome chapter in FE Awakening last night.. I didn’t lose anyone except my fav character!
Maybe I’ll try casual hard for the first time being my ocd is killing me
There's always two playthroughs for me, one where I save everyone and one where I experiment with the gameplay. I love a good game for its story and memorable characters (of course this doesn't apply for every FE) but yeah, personally I prioritize story over gameplay
Thanks for the advice. I finally finished Conquest lunatic Mode by following these rules
Nah. I'mma keep using save states.
Because I only use the characters that tryhards tell me are the worst, specifically to make my life a living hell.
I wish I was more like donlot
Reject Paladins. Embrace Armor.
If I want play more recklessly I'll play Advance Wars since it's not so serious. I'll keep FE as my focus game.
Also the dragon at the end of the Blazing Blade is unfair so I think I deserve to want to keep a few people alive.
Playing FE1 and Shadow Dragon is the best way to not be afraid of losing units, most of the time you won't be arsed to reset for anyone
The last time I played Sacred Stones, I lost Saleh on the last turn of Chapter 19 because I forgot to unequip his bolting tome and get got doubled. Instead of replaying the entire chapter I just kept going and it was fine. It was a very freeing experience, honestly.
I find a lot of small niche and obscure players usually come up with their own strategies that the bigger players don't even realize exist because of the que-sera-sera attitude. The stuff you said about the "optimal solution" made me remember this.
In FE7 I used Lucius a lot because I thought he was cool, though but all my friends said he was weak and oft died cause of his low con/stuff.
That said, however.... I did an iron man of the o.g. Fire Emblem: Gaiden, so that ended horribly because there are few in terms of 'extra units' ... haaa.......... Shadows of Valentia where are youuu...........
Ahem! I guess the tldr version is just; have fun!
A bit of a clickbaity way of saying it, but great message. Ironman is great, and so is the mindset of playing and enjoying the games mistakes and all, it's much more seamless and quite a lot less stressful.
You really have a lot of leeway in most of these games to keep going.
I think the problem with the initial idea of the abundance of characters being meant as a punishment is that players will naturally be aftraid of the game snowballing with difficulty:
You already lost a strong unit so it being replaced by a worse one might lead to you using losing even more strong units in the future. It's a looming slippery slope that most players instinctively fear.
And the loss of progress sucks. Almost nobody likes having to start over from the beginning. I'll take doing a chapter again over having to rebuild a core part of the team from scratch. On a map I probably have never played or haven't memorised because I play a lot of games.
It's still starting over either way in my eyes but one hurts less in the long run.
9:10 wow.
Joke's on you egg, I clicked on this video because I wanted to have an excuse to avoid studying.
To this day I never care about tier list or growth units. If I like that character I will make it work no matter how bad thier stats are.
Thank you!
Actually pretty fun video-piece. I'd love to see more of this!
To quote Draco from the Rocky movies: "If he dies, he dies." Resigning to the cruel whims of RNG is the way to go in Fire Emblem.
I'm just here for a little clarification: Is the Unicorn Overlord playthrough done? or....?
Video ending on the RIP Lilina moment is peak content.
Why would anyone wanna play like Donlot when PH exists? 😊
"the title is not clickbait" well kinda sorta? More like in the sense the real meaning you had is not the first thing that comes into mind when seeing the title, but otherwise nice vid.
Yes I'm probably just nitpicky despite the fact it doesn't take away for me the enjoyment of the video ignore me
I've played Fire Emblem (7 mainly) with my brother since we were kids. Honestly, I get this. Unfortunately, it wasn't until a few years ago (3 Houses, I think) I started to follow some of these rules, funny enough. I use stat boosters on my faves, shake my head when I make a little mistake and try to move on. I still reset if I lose a unit and I still hoard expensive weapons, but I do find it easier to play Fire Emblem and come up with new strategies and have fun. So, I agree with this, but I don't think I can completely follow the rules on this. XD
This is pretty applicable to things outside of Fire Emblem
That's why I like the first few chapters of FE 10, if anyone dies it's Game over
I've always played Fire Emblem recklessly while using every single unit. I lose more than half of them on each run, but it's fun
If you want to train yourself not to hoard statboosters, play Thracia 776. You'll know exactly who's doing well and whose stats are struggling and need a buff, lmao.
I think Thracia is a good way to get used to taking risks, too, if that's something you want to learn. Both because of Thracia's "no absolutes" mechanic (hit rates are hard floored at 1% and hard capped at 99%) meaning there's always a risk, but also because it's just designed to be brutal. And there are many mechanics that simply can't account for what units will be "optimal" in many situations (no guide could expect that my Ronan currently has 8 Move and just rolled over the generally frustrating Chapter 16B with his maxed Mag and Spd + 3 move stars).
And on the subject of that Ronan on my current playthrough, I think he's a great lesson in motion: be flexible. Should I play the game again, Ronan might be absolute dog shite. In fact, it's statistically likely he will be. But he sure isn't now, so I chose to continue using him as long as he was useful. And he ended up snowballing this way. Using Ronan is not optimal by any stretch of the imagination, but *this* Ronan has been the optimal solution to some scenarios in *this* playthrough.
Just got back home from errands and was gonna play fire emblem on my phone and see this recommendation.
Thanks, I kinda appreciate Mango.
I designed my FE romhack under the sort of similar Kaga guidelines and told people to play it Ironman with a lot of mechanical facilitation for that (Near 50+ characters and items go to convoy when the character dies) - I wonder how many people did that?
In playtesting I did it both ways (ironman vs. whatever some dude died I'm moving on) and the ironman run was actually way breezier.
Playing too safe and optimal is a bore. Take some gambles and if they don't pay off, there's units on the reserve you may not have considered using initially and it'll give you a different perspective of the unit, maybe in a positive light.
but .... but ... the weapon triangle is real life!
A good example of a punishment unit in more modern FE games is Ena in Path of Radiance.
If you beat Black Knight in his final duel near the end of the game, your reward is a playable Nasir. He's a dragon with pretty solid stats for the final few maps.
However, if you lose said final duel, you instead get Ena, Nasir's daughter, who has flat out worse overall stats & growths.
In other words, Ena is your punishment for not beating the 2nd most brutally designed character in the game. Granted, its not the end of the world, since she's still good as an overall unit, and its still only 2-3 maps away from the end of the game. But at the end of the day, its still a punishment in the form of a character for your "shortcoming" as a player(I use shortcomings loosely, since Black Knight on higher difficulties is basically "Do 1 of 2 specific strats, pray RNG likes you.").
i just wish I could download save data to start out on hard mode in FE7 because all methods i find online doesn't work and forcing oneself to play easier to then repeat it is something that kills things for me, i need visual example "hands on" vs being told
Kind of an odd question but will you ever be going back to finish your engage ironman run? I just recently picked up engage again and found it really fun to play if you just skip the story similar to fates. There's even a randomizer that you can try to spice things up.
Part of my enjoyment with games I play is being a completionist, finding and doing the most stuff I can do in a single run. I like to keep all characters alive and doing the most of the game I can do.
This is one of the reasons of why I abuse of savestates and resets in my runs, I like to experience everything a game can give me.
The other reason is that I like playing games that makes my brain work. I hate to just press a button to win (like most games), the reason why I love Fire Emblem and other franchises of the same genre is because I can do just that.
It is not that I care with bullshit like stats or growths, rather I would play a TRPG game because of the puzzles in the chapters, the strategy I need to do to overcome them and the rewards I get while doing that (character backstories, world lore, rare items, etc).
Playing these hard games and challenging myself to best it in a "perfect way" helps me to release my stress, putting my emotions and brains to do something I know will reward me in the end, so it is never truly stressful, because I just need to hone my skills and do better next day.
There are many people that role-play as commanders or generals, either consciously or subconsciously, and many of those people can’t stomach losing men. On the other hand, there are generals who don’t care about their men.
I think the basic idea of games in general, is to just play the games in whatever format you find most enjoyable, regardless of what speedrunners, youtubers, purists or your friends say...
When talking about enjoying a game, the ONLY opinion that matters on how you should do that is your own. Taking inspiration and suggestions is of course a great way to find new things to try, but you should never feel obligated to play a game in a way you don't enjoy, just because someone on the internet says it's a "bad" way to enjoy the game.
Good advice and great video. I hate grinding or tainting to be optimal, and I enjoy focusing on the more enjoyable parts of the gameplay, so this really speaks to me in terms of encouraging playing FE. I think my biggest difficulty comes from trying to find motivation to play when you're otherwise spent from the grind of daily life. When you're tired and frustrated is also when it's most difficult to accept and swallow failure. I think in those circumstances it's good to allow yourself to return to the game with renewed energy and that acceptance in mind.
I hate how spot on this video is. This sort of thing is the EXACT reason I haven't finished an emblem game since Awakening. Despite being essentially end game in Conquest.
Ironmanning the GBA series games definitely gave me more prospective on the games. It made me think a lot more and I had to become more resourceful cause it's not just the units your losing but also their entire inventory. I don't think every game should be played in an iron man setting but it's certainly a nice change of pace when you play in a way that makes you utilize the tools you're given rather than just get mad and reset every time. And it makes those risky moves and super tight dodges that would otherwise kill your units much more intense.
This is why your FE livestreams are amazing and prove that you streaming strategy games while making them entertaining can be amazing.
Whenever streamers focus too much on the best moves, they remain awkwardly silent and they forget to interact with the audience thus making some detachment.
I never cared about tier lists or growths/bases. My favorite characters are usually those that I gravitate to the most based on their design/class/animations. I do, however, not reset for them because I really enjoy the immersion of losing my favorite soldiers and having the game feel like a real war. I also don't really care about builds in newer games if they don't fit the way that I personaly perceive the character in question.
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Ah yes. The good old Jobber Insurance of Kaga Emblems. Yeah. It is something I never realized why they are like that till recently. I can see why later games don't really have Jeigans as well as not have as huge of a roster as it once did.
Avoiding all discourse and just enjoying the games has made it so much more fun, also this video is why i always use the entire dawn brigade+laura+aran+every light magic user in radiant dawns final tower, feels good making the scrubs strong and feels even better getting to use purge 7 times a turn vs the dragons
All these arguments are reasons why I love Fe4 a lot.
The first one can be subverted with the Valkyrie staff allowing you to endlessly revive units so long as you have enough gold. Even then, FE4 has Turn saves but these turn saves would not save a unit if they are surrounded and guaranteed to die next turn, so you either reset the long dreaded maps of Fe4 or you just don't care about saving said units.
Fe4 gives you the holy weapons which has infinite uses so long as you repair them, but they cost 50k, so every hit a holy weapon uses is 2% of a unit's gold. Holy weapons are super strong but there is nothing more exciting than your Forseti User soloing armies like it's another tuesday.
While Fe4 has no stat boosters, it does have the Ring system, which is Superior IMO and the only game to bring it back in a way is Echoes/Three houses (Unless if you count Tonic which I don't but Tonics is a much more superior system). Either way, most of the time, these rings are overkill for certain thresholds on units, but in the right hands, it can complete a unit on reaching certain benchmarks in the arena and let them win a seemingly impossible fight through the power of One shotting vs Two shotting or Getting doubled vs not getting doubled.
Risk is what makes FE. While Fe4 is one of the least riskiest games in the series, the risk level of certain enemies and squads always makes me dread facing them in a good way. The endgame Flier sisters in Fe4 are infamous for being one of the most dreadful obstacles in the game as it just seems like bad RNG will have them tear your army a new one, but every time I defeat them, I always feel good that I was able to overcome it somehow. I don't think there is a single unit that can have perfect accuracy against them without stacking all the hit buffs from Charm Users, Lover bonus and leadership.
The funniest moments playing Fe4 for me has been realizing that Mages are utterly screwed if you let them get surrounded by even foot units, as they have 5 move while the mayority of non-armored units have 6 and more. The fact that Azelle can easily die in 2 hits and have no where to run in the prologue if you play recklessly is not frustrating, but comedic because Story wise, Azelle literally though he could Save Aideen when he is more of a liability than a asset to the army in the early game.Other moments includes Arden not leveling Defense ever and being 18 defense Promoted while Lex capped his defense 2 chapters ago. I think for this point, it's best to think of it that people should create their own stories, not just become frustrated that RNG screwed you over.
ive stopped carrying for fire emblem as a long time fan, i think my love for the series Died with awakening. but not for the reasons stated in the video, its not that i ever took it seriously.
its more so the direction of the series.
recent FE titles, they look like Vtubers, im sorry idk why but that's what they look like to me.
epic Animation department and over the top criticals seem gone, After radient dawn. every title after their attacks just get more booring, i miss thee flashyness of the older games.
there are a few more minor things, but these two reasons are the biggest for me.
For sure. (I'm 6'4 btw).
Done, already moved on to Unicorn Overlord 🤷🏾♂️
I thought the title was funny and saw that it was your video
To be honest I clicked for Edelgard...
wasn't april first 9 days ago