Exactly, this honestly seems like a decent novice attempt at someone's first romhack, bugs and all. But the hubris is what makes it hilarious, instead of just being a random wet fart that gets lost and forgotten.
God I wish FEH had ended with either Book 3 (The one that explores the realm of the dead & gave us our obligatory FE parent demise) or 6 (Which revisited the original conflict between Askr & Embla)
@@arceuse1999wait are you talking about the mangs fe6 balance patch? I rmb seeing a video on him talking abt his fe6 and 7 rebalances but I never played them, I thought some of his changes sounded pretty decent actually. Was it bad? I was gonna replay the gba fe soon so…
It is easily abusable too, which is funny considering that there are like 2 enemies made for it, ah yes you want me to capture the healer wotha rapier and not the soldier with a random brave lance
It kind of annoys me a lot that this project got so much fame and attention despite pretty much everyone who played it thinking it was bad, while there are so many genuinely fantastic, creative and well balanced romhacks out there that fly under the radar in comparison.
Couldnt agree more, its bewildering the attention this got instead of being ignored as yet another shitty fe6 rebalance. On top of that people seem to be following his attempts to work on a new version which is like, why? There are way better more talented creators that deserve that attention
I've noticed that 'redux' hacks get a ton of attention compared to original campaigns. Not just FE6 -- look at the quantity and popularity of the many, many FE8 remake projects out there. I suppose this makes sense since FE fans are already familiar with the base games and the idea of adding some sprinkles on top of a game they already like is appealing. Anyway, play Blessed Heart.
"killing machine:total critical rate is doubled" WHY?!?! RUTGER IS LITERALLY FAMOUS FOR BEING ABLE TO REACH 100+% CRITICAL CHANCES WITHOUT SKILLS THERE IS NO REASON FOR THAT
He allso has life and death,you also get an early +2 to all stats by roy and +4 speed from Saul and 4 average from clarinne you can casually have like 40 average speed rugter by the endgame.
to be fair the only reason Rutger can get over 100 crit in fe6, is because the swordmaster class in fe6 gives +30 crit that got nerfed to +15 in fe7 and fe8 so i think killing machine was meant to compensate for that, that said most of these changes he made, make me seriously question if he even play tested his game at all
@@Lightpaladin720 i honestly have no idea, and it really does baffles me, and personally I prefer it when people do remakes that they keep the changes closer to a bare minimum
I remember thinking "how are you even supposed to get through all this skill bloat" until I saw you casually ORKO Roland with an unpromoted Wendy on stream
Literally? Right? It's literally been describe by her Cecilia support that Roy has no potency in magic unlike Lilina. Seems like the main goal is just to power crept anyone. Especially Roy, the main character without much thoughts or efforts.
@@ItalienJackass3647People would also buff Renault in FE7, even tho the whole point of his statline is being a reference towards that support.(Low magic and otherwise stats close to promoted Sword users)
@@lpfan4491 Damn right man. But Renault with higher strength then magic would be funny. Or if reclass exist, he didn't thought about being a war cleric.
Saddest part is that literally all the maker needed to do was just copy & paste FE6 into FE8 with some QOL changes and I actually would've loved this hack (and, if he allowed it, would've been actually helpful to other hackers because FE6 is far more annoying to hack than 7 & especially 8). Literally everything else here did NOT need to exist
I agree! I actually genuinely enjoyed having a world map of Elibe to walk around on between chapters, even if the distribution of world map shops was extremely awkward and silly. In general, I think remake hacks often trip over their own feet trying too hard to 'fix' the games they're based off of.
Proyect FeRE6 is doing this and not long ago have enter Beta period with all parts of the game being fully playable. Its still very unfinish, but it plans to be as accurate as posible to Fe6 with the only new feature being Fe8 split promotions and thats it. I recomend it a lot and I would let this fraud of a "creator" to die in obscurity.
People often mistake changes they would personally like with common sense-changes(like say, decouple 19XX in FE7 from Lynmode because it makes no sense in story and negative sense gamedesign wise). I am incredibly afraid of doing a similar oopsie with RE7.
@@Shark3143Was the Elibe map one continuous chain of nodes in a linear fashion with no branching paths that is so long that you can't walk back to the start of the game form Bern because the path finding is too long for the game to know where it needs to go? Because I told him to change that like the week the hack came out and I'm curious if he ever bothered to.
I remember putting capture haphazardly in one of my hacks, and then people immediately using it to break the game in half. That hack i made was only 1 chapter, i couldn't imagine a whole game like that
@@joaoguilherme8083 It was something like "battle for galdea." It was for an Feuniverse hacking contest in 2019. I can't even find it myself now, and it was a too buggy to bother looking for imo.
"You had to scroll past the guy's FEH account to download the game" "Every character has an extremely long list of skills that give you far, far too many things to keep track of over the course of unit combat" Checks out
Slight correction on Resourceful: It DOES work but it ONLY works on skills that GRANT effective damage. Which in the case of the version of builder skillsys used by this hack is only Skybreaker and Slayer.
holy shit me cameo at 2:24 that aside though, as funny as it is to make fun of the guy for being "The FE6 guy", it's just kinda sad at the end of the day that people don't get the credit they deserve. (so thanks for showing our credits when you did!) People have access to a lot of assets through the public repo, yet for some reason they have the need to scrub our names out just so they can get the ego boost. It helps us when we do get credited since, we actually do work on these things!
I decided to try out this hack out of curiosity a couple weeks ago and quickly dropped it. The most glaring issue that stood out to me was the multitude of grammar mistakes, like the missing commas that Shark pointed out in the video. The original dialogue that was added felt like poorly written fanfiction too. It really speaks to the quality of this "remake" when the person making it couldn't be arsed to even proofread his own original dialogue...
...What was even the point in deciding to add Capturing to FE6? Yeah, it's a very fun mechanic, but half of that is because of how it ties into the story. Throughout the game, Leif's "army" is undersupplied and broke, and the only way he can keep his army afloat, especially in the early game, is often to take weapons from enemies. Roy doesn't have to do this at all. Is the guy trying to remake FE6 or just make an amalgamation of mechanics from other games taken out of context and disguise it as FE6?
You know, I think capture actually kinda makes sense for fe6, but only in the first section of the game. Since Roy's army is very understaffed and isn't really well funded. But after Etruia steps in... yeah, throw capture out the bleeding window!
@dustgraystone9448 Yup, I mean, say what you will about fates, but at least you can see some form of why capture makes sense.You know Corrin being a Shounin protagonist shouting super hero quotes and screaming "LOVE AND PEACE makes PERFECT sense by Fates standard (as you know😅)
Actually, yeah, an older Lyn showing up to FE6 on horseback is pretty cool! There genuinely are things I enjoyed in this remake, it's just the greater whole dragging them down for me.
@@EmissaryOfSmeagol The 'Adult Lyn' sprite is from the public asset repository. Its use was properly credited in this project, actually, so no issues there!
I remember seeing the FEU page and clicking away after seeing the Thanos gif, I had no idea how deep this rabbit hole went. Absolutely horrifying, thank you for this meal. Partially related, you made FE:Blessed Heart, right? It’s a favorite of mine is all, very fun!
7:30 This reads like Excelblem’s explanation for how you get Shura’s Boots. 14:35 Narrative wise, that doesn’t make sense, as Athos said that Roland and Durban’s spirits would pass on for good if they removed the seals on their weapons.
@@lpfan4491I'd rather have small things to show continuity between FE6 & 7. Like Raigh mentioning upon meeting Niime that Iris is the name of his grandmother. And she realizes that he & Lugh are her great-grandsons. At that point why not have say. An undead Lundgren as a new enemy with someone saying he got help from the Black Fang to poison Hausen even though he had nothing to do with the Black Fang in FE7?
@@lpfan4491 That's the kind of alteration that seems as dumb as ignoring the story of FE7. Like my idea of retconning it so Lundgren was in fact working with the Black Fang.
I hope people stop saying that one day. Harris is an emotionally driven hack who resents objective reasoning in argumentation and purely goes after people out of spite. He made exactly *one* video where he uncovered stolen content which was still filled with condescending and malicious jabs at creators without basis.
@@ori.g4mi Let's not forget there's someone who made a 10 hours long debunking of Harris' take on Dark Souls 2, showcasing how cherry picky, unfair, dishonest and purely emotionally driven Harris' take were despite his attempts at sounding objective with all his condescending tone.
12:30 No, see, that is the lifestreem, full of mako, from FFVII. Clearly, the creator of the true binding blade remake was 4 paralel universes ahead of all of us.
I watched this in VOD, and it's funny to see what kind of dire details you uncovered, presumably while doing digging for this video. I can't believe you even went deeper into Tower of Valni. That's true dedication.
I do want to say, being able to grind your benched units down into stat booster paste is some truly genius game design. They really took Shura's boots to the next level.
Hello, I'm UltraFenix, and I've been helping ZeN (AKA the binding blade guy) with new features for the hack, which is being completely redone to be a little more unique, different, and of course, balanced. The video was shared on the project's discord server, and will help a lot in improving things. I invite everyone to continue giving their suggestions and criticisms on the server's dedicated channels about the hack.
H5 is unironically fairer than several highest dofficulties, largely because you got tons of utterly broken tools: wing spear, General Sedgar(and reclassing nonsense in general), ballisticians, infinite range warp. The big issue is that 70% of the playable characters may as well not exist because they are just worse versions of someone else.
@@noukan42that was actually Kaga’s philosophy for the filler units. If you lost too many of the good units, you can still somewhat try to salvage the run by putting in the time to train up the filler units. Of course, no one outside of Excelblem would even think of doing that. Man has the patience to grind in Three Houses and Engage.
@@paperluigi6132 and i think it was an inherently stupid idea. If one is not skilled enought to keep thw good unit alive, they are not skilled enought to keep a weaker, underleveled unit alive.
I have a begruding repect for a remake that takes later FE philosophy of "I don't care about balance anymore, just let them do whatever" But bro stole them assets, scrubbed names off it and worst of all, made us FE Boomers look at Heroes some crimes cant be forgiven
12:07 That happened because if the final hit on a boss that's supposed to spawn a 'true boss' is a crit, the game glitches and doesn't spawn the boss! A fact I abused in my run of the game, with Killer Bow Sue, and Rutger (the character.) It's very consistent. This game is such a mess. I played one of the first versions of this hack 3 weeks after it came out. It's very disheartening to see nothing has gotten better. This hack is a mess and I feel bad for all the creators that were slighted in the creation of it. It was unfair to them to have their assets and ideas stolen in the name of creating something 'better' than the original work. I hope the hack creator sees the reception to his hack and grows as a person. He came in with a rather toxic mindset and I feel if his motivation for making the hack weren't out of spite or pride, he could have created something great. But instead things turned out like this. A rather unfortunate conclusion
@@Shark3143 No problem! At another point in the video I believe your Lilina activated the bug too. In 12x I believe. Definitely useful for warp skipping. That's how I played 14x
As a practiced Awakening rom-hacker at this point, I would really like to give "The Binding Blade Guy" some benefit of the doubt. You absolutely do not do this much work without real passion for the thing you're working on. Even if he didn't make all the assets, didn't do all the writing, didn't uh... well didn't do quite a few things himself, I still really appreciate where the effort came from. That said, I've only ever played FE6 itself, never PE or this. I was actually planning on using this mod for my next crack at FE6, but now I most certainly will not be doing that. This was a very informative video. Thank you.
Skills: Meant to make certain units unique, allowing for more freedom in strategies and make encounters more unique This guy: "20 nomads with Bowbreaker"
8:07 yeah in fact it's so bad you can just give all spirit dusts to Roy and have him spam the fire emblem for comedic effect and it's actually quite decent since its a 1 2 range weapon that doesn't break. I would know, because I did exactly that
Man even if managed to do a full remake of FE6 on Engage's engine that actually worked and looked good I wouldn't be calling myself "THE Binding Blade guy." When I clicked I was expecting you to be talking about Project Ember actually, which I enjoyed but knew other people had complaints about, but the title still seemed a bit harsh. So fairly relieved it was about a different project literally called "Remake" haha
Side note, it is possible to steal a firestone in fe6. If you let a thief get berserked near an enemy manakete, they will steal their firestone. It is risky but very fun
I just beat FE7 for the first time a week or so ago so I was looking for a way to play FE6. I came across this rom hack and was definitely thinking of playing it instead of the original - I’m glad I saw this video first!
The design philosophy for this hack probably used the "sure, bro" method: every time a question of "should we add/change this?" was asked, the answer was, invariably, "sure, bro!"
It's fairly easy to remove, so idk. The idea I personally had for a similar FE7 project would be to have a dimensional overlap of worlds as the explanation for keeping the creature campaign as an optional postgame-mode. I couldn't tell you why someone would put this random tower there to grind during the actual canon-adjacent storymode tho. Maybe the enemies are that broken because they grinded there too, lol.
My favorite part of Fire Emblem 6 "remake" is when he attack the final boss and said: "I'm the Fire Emblem 6 remake guy" and Fire embling all the Fire emblems.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, for going into depth on issues like reinforcement flags not working and the palette inconsistencies on battle sprites. As an FE rom hacker myself, proper analysis that understands the inner workings of the game is a rare treat.
I remember seeing the post a few months back and thought “oh wow fe6 in 8 that sounds like a fun little thing” and then started reading all of it and my enjoyment started draining more and more ive only watched the intro so far but thus game seems miserable to play and not in the like fe12 lunatic reverse way more like playing awakening normal mode kinda way
I've played a lot of great FEUniverse hacks myself, but I always evaded this one as something in the back of my head was telling me 'No', plus I had other stuff to do at the time. Never would I have imagined the absolute mess of a rabbit hole that this one hack had, and how deep it was. Hope that this video at least also indirectly spark some curiosity for people to search about the actually good FE hacks. Thanks for the video Shark!
I was the first person complete the hack and give feedback on the thread about the issue I had and I'm glad someone was able to go into more depth on the critisism of the romhack. The issue I have with the hack that was touched on only a little bit in the video is the complete lack of playtesting in the hack. I ran into 2 softlocks in my playthrough, the first being that you were unable to seize in the illa gaiden, and the hanon not spawning in the sacae gaiden (which apparently is still semi-active, as you seem to encountered some version of it).
Thank you for making this video. I get maybe accidentally forgetting to give credit once in a while, but blatantly taking other creators work and claiming them as your own in a community where the Fire Emblem repository exists, like how did this person expect that no one would notice, or even considered it? When I saw their post on FEUniverse, the minute I saw that they “added” Debias I turned away my interests completely. At that point, it only made me uninterested in the project, even with the updates it would get.
7:30 I have seen this video multiple times and I just realized that if you don't lose units due to route splits that means you can get both Larum and Elfin for double dance starts which means you can get infinite turns. Also is it possible to grind away characters that are needed for the good ending?
As someone working on a romhack for the very first time, I am very happy to say that our team, even in the VERY early stages of this project, is showing far more care and consideration to storywriting and game balance than was done here
Me and a few friends were watching another of our friends playing it, after a few hours we were laughing like we were going crazy, it was painful to watch
@@stefanarlio1579 he gives ages to the characters, two new endings are Lance with Clarine (22 with 14), Gonzo and Lilina (28 with 15) A extra thing to mention, Rutger was always treated to be in a range of more or less in his twenties, in the game he's treated as 17, somehow he doesn't have an ending with Clarine, but Lance does (Added endings are to be precise Clarine with Lance, Lilina with Gonzo, Astolfo with Igrene and Noah with Fir)
Noah with Fir and Astolfo with Igrene make sense at least, but the other two are just straight up illegal. Now ain't that what we asked for in our really bad FE6 ROM hack?
What's shocking is how a more recent version is less stable then the version I beat which was a year older. Which also had shana with a wing spear, a few prepromoted units were terrifying and actually straight unkillable at one point. As for the Riptide, PE technically ripped that off from the Buhji (i may have mispelled that) or as a certain egg refered to it the Pugi. Which has it's stats mirrored in every one of his meme hacks as his personal weapon. The only real thing I can say about the portraits though is, for the most part, the PE portraits already had been in the repo prior so i don't exactly believe those were "stolen" per se. Especially since the FE6 portraits aren't inherently compatible with the FE8 engine, so he'd need new portraits for the entire thing anyway.
Interesting that the PE portraits were temporarily in the repository -- I made sure to scour it while making the video and I didn't see them there. FE6 Portraits aren't hard to import into FE8, they just lack blinking animation frames, which would need to be drawn on.
What a messy situation😮 Always great to see a new video from you. You have such a unique and entertaining way of tearing stuff down. Can't wait for the rest of Radiant Dawn!😁 It's a shame that something like this has happened in the hacking scene😕
The Thracia elements, like all the unique weapons and skills sound really cool if the hack wasn't so unbalanced (from what you say). The thing with enemies having such powerful skills sounds like such a pain too; having to check them all before doing anything. Really tripped my up in FE5 where enemies often had effective weapons or you'd end up in the range of a ballista you didn't even realize was there.
This makes me so upset. I thought that Remake and Ember were completely different things that were just similar at the beginning. I haven't gotten far in either so I guess Im glad I saw this now rather than later.
I remember playing this hack a long time ago. Major bugs, unbalanced skills, and a Lilina starting at level 7 with WORSE BASES THAN VANILLA. Holy hell that was a giant dumpster fest
I hope the creator sees this video and improves their rom based on your points cause you brought up a lot of good points and this is something I thought about playing after finishing Project Ember
Well I plan on doing so. Edit soo does anyone know how to find a file with hard mode unlocked? Edit 2: This is a message from The Palace Of The Earth Sprphias. “We are all Sophia Fire Emblem” Edit 2.5: this is to say I’m going to play Oops All Sophias Edit 3 Y’know maybe I’ll check out No Redundancy
@@ultimapower6950Do you really wanna play your first run on hard mode? I've always found normal mode to be enjoyable enough, despite being a bit easy I suppose.
Ambush spawns are bullshit in vanilla ff6 and chapter 21 is rage inducing , I can't really blame them when the main character doesn't promote until the end of the friggin game
i'm so glad i watched this video. the game was on my to play list and i expected FE6 with the FE8 engine and a little bit of balancing changes, what i would have gotten was yet another power fantasy romhack that would make project ember blush
I personally play a Pokemon ROM hack that suffers a weird glitch with the music (Sword & Shield Ultimate GBA). Every once in a while, some of it just stops working correctly until you heal at a Pokemon Center. This is a glitch that the dev couldn't patch at all, but aside from occasional visual oddities, they managed to make a really good demake. This 'remake' is just pure laziness and greed, simple as that
You have to appreciate the stones on this guy for calling himself "the Binding Blade Guy" and then proceeding to shamelessly steal almost everything from a rom hack with actual thought and care put into it.
As a person who barely plays many rom hacks but plays a lot of the 3ds era of fire emblem (probably how I found this video.) I really enjoy your video and was fun to look at what not to do on making a fire emblem rom hack. Anyway, cheers if you see this.
bruh. I literally thought this video was going to be on project Ember lol. Really glad on what I got Bootleg project ember. It was a very entertaining video.
here's a hot take, FE games in general don't really need huge remakes that completely change the entire game, If a person wants to make some crazy hack that doesn't even resemble the original, they should just make an original romhack! EDIT: OH god its just mostly taking from another romhack, that's even worse lmao.
I think that the one who has the most need for this sort of thing is Fates Birthright and Revelation, in fact there are hack roms who try to do that but they aren't finished.
As a huge FE6 fan and someone who enjoyed (but hadn't finished) both Project Ember and this remake, I had no idea of all the issues plaguing this rom hack. This video surprised me since I don't really follow FE rom hacking so closely lately, I just look back every so often and in those times it's usually progressed leaps and bounds from when I last saw it. Great video, super informative, and kindly have my sub.
13:50 I know this was just a really unfortunate side effect of bosses having leadership stars and their effect not being turned off when they're noncombatants... But this would be kinda cool to see implemented (intentionally and with care) in another rom hack. Cutscene-only bosses temporarily boosting their army's performance while they're on the field, I mean.
When I saw this hack featured in the Emblemcon panel on FE6 reduxes I was exasperated beyond belief Glad to see a video being made on the creator’s scummy behavior and the hack’s highly questionable design decisions, hopefully it’ll get the word out to more people to steer clear of it
Ive tried this remake, my game keeps crashing on the opening cutscene on the chapter were you fight Narcian, i cant skip it so its basically unplayable for me which is kida sad but eh.
The reason the ch 16x sky breaks is because it uses the "cloudy" weather which is incompatible with on map HP bars, I'm not sure why but my guess is that the HP bar patch sprites conflict with how that weather type displays, my guess is the fact it animates, since the dragon temple gradient weather doesn't mess with it, and the only difference is it's lack of animation. As a side note I recommend if you want an alternate FE6 experience that's not just a rebalence check out hacks made in FE6 like Eckesachs, Yoder Route, no redundancy, or uh I guess second scouring [I don't think it's good but you might and hey, at least there's no theft!]... Those are the only ones I can think of at the moment, outside rebalances. If you want you can also check out my project Mina's Adventure, I'm pretty close to finishing the next update, which will add Etruia and Sacae.
Quick note on this. Clouds and HP bars are normally incompatible with each other (what would happen is cloud gfx would overwrite the HP bar gfx), but there is a fix. I don't know if that's used here, though. This particular bug with the clouds is caused by the hit effects in on-map combat overtaking the palette bank the clouds use, leading to a sudden change in the clouds' colors as soon as a hit lands.
6:08 I really enjoy how the reveal of the powerstaff ability is framed almost like a jump scare. Once my brain registered what I was reading, I actually screamed
Don't know how I got this recommended to me right when it came out, but I'm glad it did! I love looking at "disaster breakdowns" and such; Seeing it for a Fire Emblem mod is quite a treat! Great video.
I don't know why this joke came to mind a month later. But this is truly the Yakuza Kiwami of Fire Emblem games. Instead of remaking the game, the creator just pays lip service to other games, and also reuses assets from other games.
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It wouldn't be THAT bad if only the guy wasn't acting like he replaced the original game all by himself
Exactly, this honestly seems like a decent novice attempt at someone's first romhack, bugs and all.
But the hubris is what makes it hilarious, instead of just being a random wet fart that gets lost and forgotten.
To be fair, "I literally pulled a Thanos on Nintendo" is still to this day one of the funniest first impressions ever.
Like, I'm so confused as to what that even means lmao, like he deleted half the shit they own or something?
@@azelfie1041i guess its like “if nintendo wont do it i’ll do it myself to show them whats what!” idk its very weird
@@yggdrasilsaltar I'm sure Nintendo is threatened by someone calling themselves thanos lmao
@@azelfie1041 Oh I wish he actually deleted half their shit
@@kflemonicethen Nintendo would make sure to go for the head.
I can't believe the rom hack that constantly references Fire Emblem Heroes is wildly unbalanced
hey astro
God I wish FEH had ended with either Book 3 (The one that explores the realm of the dead & gave us our obligatory FE parent demise) or 6 (Which revisited the original conflict between Askr & Embla)
Hey Astro, how's the dog?
Where is lieutenant cosmonaut
>Binding Blade Guy
>Turns the game into Skill Emblem
The TRUE Binding Blade experience, according to someone who clearly only played ember and a kaizo hack for 12 minutes
Maybe add the old mangs romhacks to the mix
@@arceuse1999wait are you talking about the mangs fe6 balance patch? I rmb seeing a video on him talking abt his fe6 and 7 rebalances but I never played them, I thought some of his changes sounded pretty decent actually. Was it bad? I was gonna replay the gba fe soon so…
@@jhong1843 I mean the funny ones like sacred chairs and stuff, those become kind of insane at the end
@@arceuse1999 ah icic, never even seen those before lol, maybe I should be glad I didn’t
Adding capture with no regard for how it impacts the game perfectly summerizes this hack
It is easily abusable too, which is funny considering that there are like 2 enemies made for it, ah yes you want me to capture the healer wotha rapier and not the soldier with a random brave lance
The ego on display calling yourself the "Binding Blade Guy" then stealing so much is wild
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remember, if I don't like it. then I'm gonna act like my opinion only matters and fix binding blade
- BBG
And it not even working.
I mentioned this before but I also think using the "I'm the guy" gif is so funny when you consider what happens to the character in the movie next
Definitely gonna be remembered as the Binding Blade Guy. Poor bloke's identity now centered on his failure.
Is it really possible for a ‘Binding Blade Guy’ and a ‘Blazing Blade Girl’ to be in a relationship?
forbidden love
It kind of annoys me a lot that this project got so much fame and attention despite pretty much everyone who played it thinking it was bad, while there are so many genuinely fantastic, creative and well balanced romhacks out there that fly under the radar in comparison.
Couldnt agree more, its bewildering the attention this got instead of being ignored as yet another shitty fe6 rebalance. On top of that people seem to be following his attempts to work on a new version which is like, why? There are way better more talented creators that deserve that attention
I've noticed that 'redux' hacks get a ton of attention compared to original campaigns. Not just FE6 -- look at the quantity and popularity of the many, many FE8 remake projects out there.
I suppose this makes sense since FE fans are already familiar with the base games and the idea of adding some sprinkles on top of a game they already like is appealing.
Anyway, play Blessed Heart.
@@Shark3143Is that the one you made XD I'll play it if you play Pyrathi Warlords.
Super Thracia clears this garbage
@@Jotari Can you list those romhacks please?
"killing machine:total critical rate is doubled"
WHY?!?! RUTGER IS LITERALLY FAMOUS FOR BEING ABLE TO REACH 100+% CRITICAL CHANCES WITHOUT SKILLS THERE IS NO REASON FOR THAT
He allso has life and death,you also get an early +2 to all stats by roy and +4 speed from Saul and 4 average from clarinne you can casually have like 40 average speed rugter by the endgame.
tbh he should of gave that to Fir. There was no reason to give that to rutger when he already is good
to be fair the only reason Rutger can get over 100 crit in fe6, is because the swordmaster class in fe6 gives +30 crit that got nerfed to +15 in fe7 and fe8 so i think killing machine was meant to compensate for that, that said most of these changes he made, make me seriously question if he even play tested his game at all
@@abyssaldragon2442 Then why didn't he give that skill to fir is the real question
@@Lightpaladin720 i honestly have no idea, and it really does baffles me, and personally I prefer it when people do remakes that they keep the changes closer to a bare minimum
I remember thinking "how are you even supposed to get through all this skill bloat" until I saw you casually ORKO Roland with an unpromoted Wendy on stream
Hi serif
@@Juniperjungby hi serif hi junie
To manage to make one of the most unbalanced cast in the franchise even more unbalanced is very impressive.
@@genericworm2346hi serif hi junie hi gen
my mind can’t see or hear Roland without thinking of a certain other Roland who is in a quite obscure Korean indie game.
I can't believe Tommy Tallarico made a Fire Emblem romhack! His mother must be very proud.
When I saw roy with plus 2 damage,a magic stat
Literally? Right? It's literally been describe by her Cecilia support that Roy has no potency in magic unlike Lilina. Seems like the main goal is just to power crept anyone. Especially Roy, the main character without much thoughts or efforts.
@@ItalienJackass3647People would also buff Renault in FE7, even tho the whole point of his statline is being a reference towards that support.(Low magic and otherwise stats close to promoted Sword users)
@@lpfan4491 Damn right man. But Renault with higher strength then magic would be funny. Or if reclass exist, he didn't thought about being a war cleric.
theres a reason my discord has the "im the guy" picture as a sticker...and its not because we like this hack
Cake
*dies immediately*
Wtf is that dani doyle
Omg it's dani doyle
OMG it's DaniDoyle!!😮
@@michaelcaban1749 who's dani doyle?
But hes the binding blade guy
First-ever use of the phrase "blatant Wolt favoritism" 😂
Hear me out, you liked Wil in FE7 and now you want to play as homie's son.
The last time I played FE6 I did a "blatant Wolt favoritism"
Saddest part is that literally all the maker needed to do was just copy & paste FE6 into FE8 with some QOL changes and I actually would've loved this hack (and, if he allowed it, would've been actually helpful to other hackers because FE6 is far more annoying to hack than 7 & especially 8). Literally everything else here did NOT need to exist
I agree! I actually genuinely enjoyed having a world map of Elibe to walk around on between chapters, even if the distribution of world map shops was extremely awkward and silly.
In general, I think remake hacks often trip over their own feet trying too hard to 'fix' the games they're based off of.
Proyect FeRE6 is doing this and not long ago have enter Beta period with all parts of the game being fully playable. Its still very unfinish, but it plans to be as accurate as posible to Fe6 with the only new feature being Fe8 split promotions and thats it.
I recomend it a lot and I would let this fraud of a "creator" to die in obscurity.
People often mistake changes they would personally like with common sense-changes(like say, decouple 19XX in FE7 from Lynmode because it makes no sense in story and negative sense gamedesign wise). I am incredibly afraid of doing a similar oopsie with RE7.
@@Shark3143Was the Elibe map one continuous chain of nodes in a linear fashion with no branching paths that is so long that you can't walk back to the start of the game form Bern because the path finding is too long for the game to know where it needs to go? Because I told him to change that like the week the hack came out and I'm curious if he ever bothered to.
@@Neonlight3934 Does it have an feuniverse page? I couldn't find it
I remember putting capture haphazardly in one of my hacks, and then people immediately using it to break the game in half. That hack i made was only 1 chapter, i couldn't imagine a whole game like that
What's the name of your hack?
@@joaoguilherme8083 It was something like "battle for galdea." It was for an Feuniverse hacking contest in 2019. I can't even find it myself now, and it was a too buggy to bother looking for imo.
@@joaoguilherme8083 (Won't use capture to break it I swear)
"You had to scroll past the guy's FEH account to download the game"
"Every character has an extremely long list of skills that give you far, far too many things to keep track of over the course of unit combat"
Checks out
This hack is an "fe6 remake" but everything said here makes it seem like it's biggest influence was lunatic+ in awakening
Slight correction on Resourceful: It DOES work but it ONLY works on skills that GRANT effective damage. Which in the case of the version of builder skillsys used by this hack is only Skybreaker and Slayer.
Oh, hey, I didn't know that! Thanks for the correction.
We found the James Somerton of the Fire Emblem community
PFFFFT-
Is this guy going to pretend to kill himself over accusations made by a bald paedophile too?
holy shit me cameo at 2:24
that aside though, as funny as it is to make fun of the guy for being "The FE6 guy", it's just kinda sad at the end of the day that people don't get the credit they deserve. (so thanks for showing our credits when you did!)
People have access to a lot of assets through the public repo, yet for some reason they have the need to scrub our names out just so they can get the ego boost. It helps us when we do get credited since, we actually do work on these things!
7 gale force users,powerstaff,and rallies on one player phase,nice.
that sounds like a regular day in Aether Raids.
Man. Even with Fire Emblem hacking getting so much easier, people still find new ways to fail.
Very well made video!
That's probably why it's getting worse. The ease of access allows any schlameal to make a hack.
I decided to try out this hack out of curiosity a couple weeks ago and quickly dropped it. The most glaring issue that stood out to me was the multitude of grammar mistakes, like the missing commas that Shark pointed out in the video. The original dialogue that was added felt like poorly written fanfiction too. It really speaks to the quality of this "remake" when the person making it couldn't be arsed to even proofread his own original dialogue...
...What was even the point in deciding to add Capturing to FE6? Yeah, it's a very fun mechanic, but half of that is because of how it ties into the story. Throughout the game, Leif's "army" is undersupplied and broke, and the only way he can keep his army afloat, especially in the early game, is often to take weapons from enemies. Roy doesn't have to do this at all. Is the guy trying to remake FE6 or just make an amalgamation of mechanics from other games taken out of context and disguise it as FE6?
Yeah, and Thracia is balanced around the mechanic unlike this game. It’s such a bad idea to implement it carelessly.
"purpose...? for adding more mechanics...?" - THE Guy (circa 2023)
You know, I think capture actually kinda makes sense for fe6, but only in the first section of the game. Since Roy's army is very understaffed and isn't really well funded.
But after Etruia steps in... yeah, throw capture out the bleeding window!
Ye
@dustgraystone9448 Yup, I mean, say what you will about fates, but at least you can see some form of why capture makes sense.You know Corrin being a Shounin protagonist shouting super hero quotes and screaming "LOVE AND PEACE makes PERFECT sense by Fates standard (as you know😅)
13:09 ok, but that Lyn portrait is absolutely sick. And she gets a mount! I am here for this version of Lyn.
Actually, yeah, an older Lyn showing up to FE6 on horseback is pretty cool! There genuinely are things I enjoyed in this remake, it's just the greater whole dragging them down for me.
@@Shark3143 do you happen to know if the sprite is original to the hack, or appropriated from somewhere else?
@@EmissaryOfSmeagol The 'Adult Lyn' sprite is from the public asset repository. Its use was properly credited in this project, actually, so no issues there!
@@Shark3143 ty Shark
idk something about those eyes are way too off for me to enjoy. I can't put my finger on it though.
I remember seeing the FEU page and clicking away after seeing the Thanos gif, I had no idea how deep this rabbit hole went. Absolutely horrifying, thank you for this meal.
Partially related, you made FE:Blessed Heart, right? It’s a favorite of mine is all, very fun!
Thanks for playing Blessed Heart!
THIS is the guy who made Blessed Heart? Holy SHIT that hack was ungodly good. Kudos!
@@Shark3143 what is Blessed Heart?
I went to see it and it looks like it's a ROM made by the shark, I'm downloading it @@Seba20901
@@Seba20901A fucking awesome Rom hack that’s what
Omg. I’m ready to be petty about this. I was looking at this thread and I was just thinking like “man this audacity’s powerful”
Actual misery trying to get through this hack
Omg oomf
Sol is that you??
@@ValentiaAlm it's me!
Several constants will always exist for fe romhacks:
-Skill Bloat
-1 to 2 range bows
-Binding Blade rebalance remake romhacks for whatever reason
7:30 This reads like Excelblem’s explanation for how you get Shura’s Boots.
14:35 Narrative wise, that doesn’t make sense, as Athos said that Roland and Durban’s spirits would pass on for good if they removed the seals on their weapons.
Those scream sound effects really make it seem like an Excelblem video
Hot take, but contradicting FE7's narrative should be encouraged when making an FE6 remake. That's the only point I can give this remake.
@@lpfan4491I'd rather have small things to show continuity between FE6 & 7. Like Raigh mentioning upon meeting Niime that Iris is the name of his grandmother. And she realizes that he & Lugh are her great-grandsons. At that point why not have say. An undead Lundgren as a new enemy with someone saying he got help from the Black Fang to poison Hausen even though he had nothing to do with the Black Fang in FE7?
@@Rabbitlord108 I am fairly sure Raigh logically should not have that information.
@@lpfan4491 That's the kind of alteration that seems as dumb as ignoring the story of FE7. Like my idea of retconning it so Lundgren was in fact working with the Black Fang.
did you just hbomberguy a rom hack
I mean, this fucker is literally sounding like the James Somerton of fire emblem rom hacks, so I think it's well deserved.
No, he wasn't condescending.
No, he did this out of genuine interest in FE content instead of the desire to be "right."
I hope people stop saying that one day. Harris is an emotionally driven hack who resents objective reasoning in argumentation and purely goes after people out of spite. He made exactly *one* video where he uncovered stolen content which was still filled with condescending and malicious jabs at creators without basis.
@@ori.g4mi Let's not forget there's someone who made a 10 hours long debunking of Harris' take on Dark Souls 2, showcasing how cherry picky, unfair, dishonest and purely emotionally driven Harris' take were despite his attempts at sounding objective with all his condescending tone.
12:30 No, see, that is the lifestreem, full of mako, from FFVII. Clearly, the creator of the true binding blade remake was 4 paralel universes ahead of all of us.
I watched this in VOD, and it's funny to see what kind of dire details you uncovered, presumably while doing digging for this video. I can't believe you even went deeper into Tower of Valni. That's true dedication.
I do want to say, being able to grind your benched units down into stat booster paste is some truly genius game design. They really took Shura's boots to the next level.
There is something extremely funny about the amount of Wolt bias in this hack.
instead of being the Binding Blade guy, he should be the Wolt guy. considering he's probably the only one
Hello, I'm UltraFenix, and I've been helping ZeN (AKA the binding blade guy) with new features for the hack, which is being completely redone to be a little more unique, different, and of course, balanced. The video was shared on the project's discord server, and will help a lot in improving things. I invite everyone to continue giving their suggestions and criticisms on the server's dedicated channels about the hack.
I’m all for the project accepting criticism and working on improving. Thank you.
I'm glad he's willing to take criticism
Like a phoenix from the ashes. Best of luck! There's potential behind the concept.
The hero we need right here
Remove skills ffs.
Leave them on bosses for the true ~UFO DEFENSE~ experience.
We went from turning Shura into a pair of leather boots to be eaten to turning Elen into Spirit Dust to snort.
How did someone manage to make H5 of Shadow Dragon unironically look fair in comparison by unleashing this on the world.
Hey, at least shadow dragon H5 is only bullshit for the first few chapters before you can cheese it completely
H5 is fair ur just bad :)
H5 is unironically fairer than several highest dofficulties, largely because you got tons of utterly broken tools: wing spear, General Sedgar(and reclassing nonsense in general), ballisticians, infinite range warp.
The big issue is that 70% of the playable characters may as well not exist because they are just worse versions of someone else.
@@noukan42that was actually Kaga’s philosophy for the filler units. If you lost too many of the good units, you can still somewhat try to salvage the run by putting in the time to train up the filler units. Of course, no one outside of Excelblem would even think of doing that. Man has the patience to grind in Three Houses and Engage.
@@paperluigi6132 and i think it was an inherently stupid idea. If one is not skilled enought to keep thw good unit alive, they are not skilled enought to keep a weaker, underleveled unit alive.
I have a begruding repect for a remake that takes later FE philosophy of "I don't care about balance anymore, just let them do whatever"
But bro stole them assets, scrubbed names off it and worst of all, made us FE Boomers look at Heroes
some crimes cant be forgiven
Should’ve called themselves the Project Ember guy…
12:07 That happened because if the final hit on a boss that's supposed to spawn a 'true boss' is a crit, the game glitches and doesn't spawn the boss! A fact I abused in my run of the game, with Killer Bow Sue, and Rutger (the character.) It's very consistent. This game is such a mess. I played one of the first versions of this hack 3 weeks after it came out. It's very disheartening to see nothing has gotten better. This hack is a mess and I feel bad for all the creators that were slighted in the creation of it. It was unfair to them to have their assets and ideas stolen in the name of creating something 'better' than the original work. I hope the hack creator sees the reception to his hack and grows as a person. He came in with a rather toxic mindset and I feel if his motivation for making the hack weren't out of spite or pride, he could have created something great. But instead things turned out like this. A rather unfortunate conclusion
Oh, hey, thanks for explaining that bug! I guess you could use guaranteed Rutger crits to make warp-skips of gaidens more reliable and faster.
@@Shark3143 No problem! At another point in the video I believe your Lilina activated the bug too. In 12x I believe. Definitely useful for warp skipping. That's how I played 14x
As a practiced Awakening rom-hacker at this point, I would really like to give "The Binding Blade Guy" some benefit of the doubt. You absolutely do not do this much work without real passion for the thing you're working on. Even if he didn't make all the assets, didn't do all the writing, didn't uh... well didn't do quite a few things himself, I still really appreciate where the effort came from.
That said, I've only ever played FE6 itself, never PE or this. I was actually planning on using this mod for my next crack at FE6, but now I most certainly will not be doing that. This was a very informative video. Thank you.
Ah yes. The negotiator.
This will make a fine addition to my meme hack collection
Skills: Meant to make certain units unique, allowing for more freedom in strategies and make encounters more unique
This guy: "20 nomads with Bowbreaker"
8:07 yeah in fact it's so bad you can just give all spirit dusts to Roy and have him spam the fire emblem for comedic effect and it's actually quite decent since its a 1 2 range weapon that doesn't break.
I would know, because I did exactly that
I used this as well, his magic cap is surprisingly good and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than buying those 8000g wind swords with shaky accuracy.
Man even if managed to do a full remake of FE6 on Engage's engine that actually worked and looked good I wouldn't be calling myself "THE Binding Blade guy."
When I clicked I was expecting you to be talking about Project Ember actually, which I enjoyed but knew other people had complaints about, but the title still seemed a bit harsh. So fairly relieved it was about a different project literally called "Remake" haha
grinding your units into spirit dust sounds like a bit from an exelblem video
yeah, this is why rebalances are usually not what hackers get super excited about, haha
Side note, it is possible to steal a firestone in fe6. If you let a thief get berserked near an enemy manakete, they will steal their firestone. It is risky but very fun
The second I saw aptitude on Shanna I just had to roll my eyes bro. No fucking words.
I just beat FE7 for the first time a week or so ago so I was looking for a way to play FE6. I came across this rom hack and was definitely thinking of playing it instead of the original - I’m glad I saw this video first!
The design philosophy for this hack probably used the "sure, bro" method: every time a question of "should we add/change this?" was asked, the answer was, invariably, "sure, bro!"
Wh- why is the Tower of Valni in here??? 😂
the Laguz ruins are also in the patch, my guess is that they're a holdover from the FE8 world map
It's fairly easy to remove, so idk. The idea I personally had for a similar FE7 project would be to have a dimensional overlap of worlds as the explanation for keeping the creature campaign as an optional postgame-mode. I couldn't tell you why someone would put this random tower there to grind during the actual canon-adjacent storymode tho. Maybe the enemies are that broken because they grinded there too, lol.
I read that in the same voice of that sonic fandub guy going “Why is NASA there?!”
@@vesoralla2 HAHAHA
My favorite part of Fire Emblem 6 "remake" is when he attack the final boss and said: "I'm the Fire Emblem 6 remake guy" and Fire embling all the Fire emblems.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, for going into depth on issues like reinforcement flags not working and the palette inconsistencies on battle sprites. As an FE rom hacker myself, proper analysis that understands the inner workings of the game is a rare treat.
2:08 Me! That's me! I made that!! MOM GET THE CAMERA IM FAMOUS
This seems like a personal rom where you throw in all the mods and ideas that sound interesting to you
I remember seeing the post a few months back and thought “oh wow fe6 in 8 that sounds like a fun little thing” and then started reading all of it and my enjoyment started draining more and more ive only watched the intro so far but thus game seems miserable to play and not in the like fe12 lunatic reverse way more like playing awakening normal mode kinda way
His intro was the greatest ever. "The FE6 guy", "Pulling a Thanos on Nintendo". etc.
I've played a lot of great FEUniverse hacks myself, but I always evaded this one as something in the back of my head was telling me 'No', plus I had other stuff to do at the time.
Never would I have imagined the absolute mess of a rabbit hole that this one hack had, and how deep it was.
Hope that this video at least also indirectly spark some curiosity for people to search about the actually good FE hacks. Thanks for the video Shark!
These were great streams to watch! Woltinus will haunt me for the rest of my days.
Just an FYI for who's interested. The maker is redoing the remake from scratch pretty much.
Interesting
hopefully he does a good job, because the video rips him a new one but im kinda still interesed on playing it.
hopefully he fixes the glitches.
I was the first person complete the hack and give feedback on the thread about the issue I had and I'm glad someone was able to go into more depth on the critisism of the romhack. The issue I have with the hack that was touched on only a little bit in the video is the complete lack of playtesting in the hack. I ran into 2 softlocks in my playthrough, the first being that you were unable to seize in the illa gaiden, and the hanon not spawning in the sacae gaiden (which apparently is still semi-active, as you seem to encountered some version of it).
Thank you for making this video. I get maybe accidentally forgetting to give credit once in a while, but blatantly taking other creators work and claiming them as your own in a community where the Fire Emblem repository exists, like how did this person expect that no one would notice, or even considered it?
When I saw their post on FEUniverse, the minute I saw that they “added” Debias I turned away my interests completely. At that point, it only made me uninterested in the project, even with the updates it would get.
7:30 I have seen this video multiple times and I just realized that if you don't lose units due to route splits that means you can get both Larum and Elfin for double dance starts which means you can get infinite turns. Also is it possible to grind away characters that are needed for the good ending?
I remember watching my friend played this. Bors was literally the strongest being to ever exist somehow lol
As someone working on a romhack for the very first time, I am very happy to say that our team, even in the VERY early stages of this project, is showing far more care and consideration to storywriting and game balance than was done here
Me and a few friends were watching another of our friends playing it, after a few hours we were laughing like we were going crazy, it was painful to watch
Oh, almost forgot, several of the new ending are a Minor with a older person, take it as you want
I've heard a lot about this hack but THAT'S a new one. TF do you mean?
Least you and your pals got some enjoyment out of it
@@stefanarlio1579 he gives ages to the characters, two new endings are Lance with Clarine (22 with 14), Gonzo and Lilina (28 with 15)
A extra thing to mention, Rutger was always treated to be in a range of more or less in his twenties, in the game he's treated as 17, somehow he doesn't have an ending with Clarine, but Lance does
(Added endings are to be precise Clarine with Lance, Lilina with Gonzo, Astolfo with Igrene and Noah with Fir)
Noah with Fir and Astolfo with Igrene make sense at least, but the other two are just straight up illegal.
Now ain't that what we asked for in our really bad FE6 ROM hack?
What's shocking is how a more recent version is less stable then the version I beat which was a year older.
Which also had shana with a wing spear, a few prepromoted units were terrifying and actually straight unkillable at one point.
As for the Riptide, PE technically ripped that off from the Buhji (i may have mispelled that) or as a certain egg refered to it the Pugi.
Which has it's stats mirrored in every one of his meme hacks as his personal weapon.
The only real thing I can say about the portraits though is, for the most part, the PE portraits already had been in the repo prior so i don't exactly believe those were "stolen" per se. Especially since the FE6 portraits aren't inherently compatible with the FE8 engine, so he'd need new portraits for the entire thing anyway.
Interesting that the PE portraits were temporarily in the repository -- I made sure to scour it while making the video and I didn't see them there.
FE6 Portraits aren't hard to import into FE8, they just lack blinking animation frames, which would need to be drawn on.
He took away Shanna's :D face! 0/10
The spirit dust murdering was funny though. 4/10
Rip Shanna’s :D
Truly the greatest loss
What a messy situation😮
Always great to see a new video from you.
You have such a unique and entertaining way of tearing stuff down. Can't wait for the rest of Radiant Dawn!😁
It's a shame that something like this has happened in the hacking scene😕
The Thracia elements, like all the unique weapons and skills sound really cool if the hack wasn't so unbalanced (from what you say). The thing with enemies having such powerful skills sounds like such a pain too; having to check them all before doing anything. Really tripped my up in FE5 where enemies often had effective weapons or you'd end up in the range of a ballista you didn't even realize was there.
This makes me so upset. I thought that Remake and Ember were completely different things that were just similar at the beginning. I haven't gotten far in either so I guess Im glad I saw this now rather than later.
I remember playing this hack a long time ago. Major bugs, unbalanced skills, and a Lilina starting at level 7 with WORSE BASES THAN VANILLA. Holy hell that was a giant dumpster fest
I hope the creator sees this video and improves their rom based on your points cause you brought up a lot of good points and this is something I thought about playing after finishing Project Ember
kids these days will do anything to not play vanilla FE6 unfortunately.
Maybe it means vanilla fe6 is...
Get this:
Bad
Well I plan on doing so.
Edit soo does anyone know how to find a file with hard mode unlocked?
Edit 2: This is a message from The Palace Of The Earth Sprphias. “We are all Sophia Fire Emblem”
Edit 2.5: this is to say I’m going to play Oops All Sophias
Edit 3 Y’know maybe I’ll check out No Redundancy
@@ultimapower6950Do you really wanna play your first run on hard mode? I've always found normal mode to be enjoyable enough, despite being a bit easy I suppose.
@@Rengor1997😱😱😱😱😱how could you 😭.
Ambush spawns are bullshit in vanilla ff6 and chapter 21 is rage inducing , I can't really blame them when the main character doesn't promote until the end of the friggin game
i'm so glad i watched this video. the game was on my to play list and i expected FE6 with the FE8 engine and a little bit of balancing changes, what i would have gotten was yet another power fantasy romhack that would make project ember blush
we're so back
Honestly, the Blazing Blade guy seems like a more accurate name.
I personally play a Pokemon ROM hack that suffers a weird glitch with the music (Sword & Shield Ultimate GBA). Every once in a while, some of it just stops working correctly until you heal at a Pokemon Center. This is a glitch that the dev couldn't patch at all, but aside from occasional visual oddities, they managed to make a really good demake.
This 'remake' is just pure laziness and greed, simple as that
Oh yeah i've seen this Rom hack a few months ago.
I didn't know that it has this many problems but I think I still might wanna check it out.
You have to appreciate the stones on this guy for calling himself "the Binding Blade Guy" and then proceeding to shamelessly steal almost everything from a rom hack with actual thought and care put into it.
As a person who barely plays many rom hacks but plays a lot of the 3ds era of fire emblem (probably how I found this video.) I really enjoy your video and was fun to look at what not to do on making a fire emblem rom hack. Anyway, cheers if you see this.
bruh. I literally thought this video was going to be on project Ember lol. Really glad on what I got Bootleg project ember. It was a very entertaining video.
here's a hot take, FE games in general don't really need huge remakes that completely change the entire game, If a person wants to make some crazy hack that doesn't even resemble the original, they should just make an original romhack!
EDIT: OH god its just mostly taking from another romhack, that's even worse lmao.
I feel like most remakes should just have QOL and character rebalancing so the game wouldn’t be easy/unfair while also being still fun
I think that the one who has the most need for this sort of thing is Fates Birthright and Revelation, in fact there are hack roms who try to do that but they aren't finished.
The best romhack is Dorcas Emblem the Binding Dorc. This romhack proves that we’ll never have something as great
As a huge FE6 fan and someone who enjoyed (but hadn't finished) both Project Ember and this remake, I had no idea of all the issues plaguing this rom hack. This video surprised me since I don't really follow FE rom hacking so closely lately, I just look back every so often and in those times it's usually progressed leaps and bounds from when I last saw it. Great video, super informative, and kindly have my sub.
22:10 Percival's armor went to the school of Jorato's Hat
13:50 I know this was just a really unfortunate side effect of bosses having leadership stars and their effect not being turned off when they're noncombatants... But this would be kinda cool to see implemented (intentionally and with care) in another rom hack. Cutscene-only bosses temporarily boosting their army's performance while they're on the field, I mean.
When I saw this hack featured in the Emblemcon panel on FE6 reduxes I was exasperated beyond belief
Glad to see a video being made on the creator’s scummy behavior and the hack’s highly questionable design decisions, hopefully it’ll get the word out to more people to steer clear of it
Ive tried this remake, my game keeps crashing on the opening cutscene on the chapter were you fight Narcian, i cant skip it so its basically unplayable for me which is kida sad but eh.
The reason the ch 16x sky breaks is because it uses the "cloudy" weather which is incompatible with on map HP bars, I'm not sure why but my guess is that the HP bar patch sprites conflict with how that weather type displays, my guess is the fact it animates, since the dragon temple gradient weather doesn't mess with it, and the only difference is it's lack of animation.
As a side note I recommend if you want an alternate FE6 experience that's not just a rebalence check out hacks made in FE6 like Eckesachs, Yoder Route, no redundancy, or uh I guess second scouring [I don't think it's good but you might and hey, at least there's no theft!]... Those are the only ones I can think of at the moment, outside rebalances.
If you want you can also check out my project Mina's Adventure, I'm pretty close to finishing the next update, which will add Etruia and Sacae.
Quick note on this. Clouds and HP bars are normally incompatible with each other (what would happen is cloud gfx would overwrite the HP bar gfx), but there is a fix. I don't know if that's used here, though.
This particular bug with the clouds is caused by the hit effects in on-map combat overtaking the palette bank the clouds use, leading to a sudden change in the clouds' colors as soon as a hit lands.
6:08 I really enjoy how the reveal of the powerstaff ability is framed almost like a jump scare. Once my brain registered what I was reading, I actually screamed
This reminds me of Spider-Man Lotus or Sonic Omens where a fan who thinks they're hot shit ends up making a subpar creation.
Don't know how I got this recommended to me right when it came out, but I'm glad it did! I love looking at "disaster breakdowns" and such; Seeing it for a Fire Emblem mod is quite a treat!
Great video.
I don't know why this joke came to mind a month later.
But this is truly the Yakuza Kiwami of Fire Emblem games.
Instead of remaking the game, the creator just pays lip service to other games, and also reuses assets from other games.
This is random but where did you get the chomp sound effect on the spirit dust at 6:50