"the worst thing since their son" I understood that reference.

15 seconds in and we’ve already asked what happened to Dorcas. *I’m ready*

Hey Shane, after you finish all of the fire emblem retrospectives, can you do your personal ranking of the fire emblem games that were your most favorite and least favorite. Because it would be really amazing to see someones your opinion as you started out with old school fire emblem and ended with the modern ones.

Things that could have been added in this retrospective : - Hector mode and it's hard mode + it's point of view perspective. - The gaiden chapter this FE offers - Reference to FE6 characters (On the dessert chapter , if you visit a house , you might see Fae)

I like the historically-inspired fantasy setting. Sacae = Saka / Sacae tribe of Eurasian steppe nomads (tribe of Buddha) Ostia = Austria (Osterreich in German) Hector = Hector, hero of Troy Uther = Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur Athos = Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain, a monastic polity within Greece Nergal = Nergal, Akkadian/Babylonian god of destruction, war, and later also plague Ereshkigal = Ereshkigal, Sumerian Queen of the Underworld and wife of Nergal Durandal = Durandal, sword of the legendary hero Roland, a paladin of Charlemagne Bramimond = Bramimonde, a character in the Song of Roland ...and many more.

I'm going to forget this exists and then it'll premiere and I'll be crazy excited again

You forgot the most amazing innovation in the franchise Mines

Wow, now that you mention it... I remember the characters more than the events of the story.

I think in general the gba games aged very well. Fantastic and memorable characters, got most players into fe in America, look beautiful, and much more

This was the game that got me into Fire Emblem. You can thank Marty and Roy for it since they were in Smash Melee

Shane man I love these videos, I got into fire emblem heroes in 2017 and remember getting characters like Matthew and Florina. I then saw a video on KZfaq and saw that I could download Fire emblem 7 on my wii u and that’s what I did. It was so nice to see characters like Florina and Matthew who I learned about on my phone appear in the game. I grew to love this game and I’ve played through it quite a number of times. I’ve been waiting so long for this to come out and I’m thankful you’re making this series, you’re awesome man

This One Is By Far My Favorite In The Series

Honestly, I appreciate the simplicity of the plot. It’s not always fantastic, but it’s chill, the characters are likeable, and it’s fun. Part of its issue is certainly the translation not being perfect, but it’s just a relaxing, fun, fantasy time.

23:31 YES! I'm doing a similar project to you (except as a veteran and not an outsider) and that was exactly my reaction: while this game's story is iffy, its story*telling* raises the bar significantly compared to everything else that came before it.

Thank you for this video, I've played this but forgotten all the story and needed a reminder

33:32 yo this guy actually killed vaida on unfulfilled heart

There is one thing you forgot was added to the gameplay in this one. The rain and snow, both of which sorta suck.

So excited for this video! Fe7 is my first fe game that i played and i love the series as a whole since!

i've been watching this series since the beginning you've been doing a brilliant job with this series! i wish i could make it to the premiers but my timezone is radically different from yours.

My second favorite game in the series. Good video.

I KNEW your voice sounded familiar, but couldn't put it together until the end of the video that you were the Warrior's Dojo guy.

I wish FE7 and 8 kept the difficulty and enemy scaling of FE6.

You are doing Gods work. "Iconic"!

Actually just bought a reproduction cartridge for this game so I’m excited to watch this tomorrow.

28:56 oh my god, I cannot express to you how much I wholeheartedly agree! I cannot stand the obsession with “new for the sake of new” that permeates so many fandoms now, purely because people either can’t hold their attention to a franchise for some reason or simply can’t recognise when they’ve simply had their fill. It’s the reason why people keep obsessing over Pokemon changing when all it ever needed was to provide a new well designed adventure with quality of life updates each time. And this naturally lead to gen 9’s incredibly disastrous release state.

This game has such a great place in my heart. I remember playing it and being unable to beat Hector or eliwoods story's. So satisfying when i finally beat it as a teenager. And even more exciting to trash Hector Hard mode as an adult.

This is the first game I've played. I am glad to see that it still stands in high regard by someone who is unaffected by nostalgia. It just confirms to me that it was a good FE game. I also like how you compare the story with the best one (in your oppinion and mine too) genealogy. Some other people asked already and I am also curios, after you finish them all make a list with your personal ranking of all fire emblem games.

Sacred stones was my first Fire emblem

I still love this game.

I’d like to see a remake that combines Blazing Blade with Binding Blade and implements a Geneology of the Holy War-style system of inherited skills.

im so excited for this

Came here from being near the end of Engage and not being able to shake the fact that it was missing something important.. Subscribed because this game was my first FE game and was my base line for all other games in the franchise I played afterwards, including the ones that came out before this one 🤣. Radiant Dawn and Echos of Valentia videos will be my next to watch 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Who else started replaying FE games after you started this series???

could've swore this was the first FE to not have those shitty ambush reinforcements. surprised you didnt mention that

34:54 I see you're super cultured

I like how you paired hector and Lyn 😁

Can't wait for When we inevitably get to Fates

This is actually my first Fire Emblem ever played, and I think they should have done a game about the actual Scouring itself, with the eight heroes as one of main characters. I dunno if there is already one made for it, but yeah I hope they will soon

Sain is, and always will be, mah boi.

This was my fisrt fire emblem and I still love it , it is more limited in some aspects compared to modern Fire emblems, but the core mechanics are here and it is fun , it is challenging (unlike sacred stones) and in my opinion has a great cast of characters.

Never really understood the plot criticism for this game? I found it to be great, then again the vast majority of my experience with it is in my enamored childhood playthroughs

This game got me into Fire Emblem, and I still love it. Maybe the story isn't the best of FE, but imo it's still a great game.

Hearing this game called most people in the wests first was really surprising to me lol, I couldn't read when this came out let alone play, and p much everyone IK irl who plays FE is younger than me while people who wouldve been old enough to play at the time preferred computer games or hadnt picked up gaming as a hobby yet, personally my first was FE8 and the rest of the players I know started in 3DS era! Neat how general age range can affect perspective like that!

Yessss!! My favorite Fire Emblem game ♥️

The first game I got on my SP I had no idea what I was in for, such a masterpiece.

The question on everyone's mind is. Wuh happen to Dorcas?

Leila. :(

I actually like how this game fleshed out the political instability that led to the war of its prequel. Nergal and the Black Fang destabilized Bern by exacerbating King Desmond's paranoia which in turn would cause Zephiel to instigate the Second Scouring.

There's just a certain charm about the GBA games that the newer ones have lost. Something about the art direction, keeping that fantasy/fairytale-esque aesthetic, and the stories taking twists and turns while building the characters... Oh how I miss the FE of yore...

This question isn't related to this video, but I was curious about something in Fire Emblem 5. What did you think when August was telling Leif about Seliph and August said that people were working to turn Seliph into the hero he has become? I'm asking because Seliph being setup to succeed by certain powerful people was one of your critiques of generation 2's story. Obviously, I'm not trying to say that them acknowledging a weakness in the prior game's story therefore fixes that weakness. I merely want to know if you got some sort of satisfaction, even very slight satisfaction, in picking out a story flaw that even the developers decided to address. Though of course them mentioning it doesn't mean they admit it was a flaw, but whatever, this question is getting too complicated now. :P

great!!!!!!!!

Into the west... YEEHAW!!!!!

My thoughts on Fe 7: I would actually argue it’s the best game to start out with. For the reason being it’s simply to understand and there’s no skills or anything too complex. Hector hard mode gives a pretty good challenge without it being cheap. While yes you can absolutely cheese this game with Marcus, the game doesn’t really expect first time players to do that or any mad LTC strats. As far as plot goes to be honest: It’s definitely not the best and it has it’s glaring problems, but the cast of characters and (mostly) sympathetic villains more than make up for it. However one of my biggest complaints on this game is Lyn just her entire existence just frustrates me to no end. Mostly because she’s not in Fe 6 anything she does or any development she gets just feels wasted and honestly the game would be better off without her and she’s also really boring as a character(her gameplay doesn’t help her case either). Don’t even get my started on the shipping wars. I still must say with all that in mind it’s still a really fun and enjoyable game. Overall I give it 7/10

Surprised you didn’t talk about Advance Wars, since that game was also directly responsible for bringing the series westward.

Yoooo where's that artwork from at the opening of chapter 2? It's beautiful.

I have emulator for gba And I'm Still playing FE7

Beautiful mess is an accurate description of this game, it has some notable lows but the highs are amazing.

22:40 FE7 Story

Love these videos! Is the shorter length due to the lack of changes between FE6 and FE7?

Game I started with :)

A+ intro

Shit, this entire video got me nostalgic... Lyn, Eliwood, Hector, Nils, Ninian, Pent, Louise, goddamn, if only my GBA still worked. Oh well, thak god for the VBA. I also never understood why people did the whole "planning support pairs" in the GBA Emblem games. I never cared for it. I mainly did Support when I found out that certain units had Paired Endings. My all time favorite pairs in the GBA Emblem 7 are: Hector/Lynn or Florina or Farina Eliwood/Ninian - the only pair I consider "canon" Sain/Fiora Erk/Serra Guy/Priscilla or Erk/Priscilla Lucius/Raven Canas/Nino or Nino/Jaffar Rebecca/Lowen Rath/Lyn

Ah yes... My first Fire Emblem game... Hello again, old friend!

YOU FORGOT ABOUT THIS GAMES GREATEST ADDICTION Monks

Eliwood Killing Ninian was one of the most disturbing scene in the Franchise

Mekkah is my favorite FE KZfaqr. But when he made the series about FE7 left a bad taste in my mouth. Mekkah is still the only FE KZfaqr I consistently watch. I subbed immediately to this channel when he kept dishing up this great series. Keep up the good work ShaneBrained.

I really appreciate your attempts at being objective in this series. It is fun to understand what people like in Fire Emblem games, I find it much more interesting to see the continuity of the series - or any series - to see if the spirit of the game is consistent from first game to the most recent one. That way, we can have a discussion if any given Fire Emblem game is a good Fire Emblem game beyond the fact if it is a good or enjoyable game in its own right. For example, many people started with this game, while a large chunk started with Awakening, and another chunk started with Three Houses, which while good in their own rights, may or may not be good Fire Emblem games. My standard, since I haven't played the original games like you have is Path of Radiance, which was my first. All-in-all, I'm very curious how the localized FE games fare as you get to them.

Good video, the map variety in this game was a mixed bag in terms of execution (Battle Before Dawn being an awful map to play regardless of difficulty for example) and did u play HHM by any chance?

I time I came this early, people said Lyn mode was good.

I love this story. Hector shoulders so much. I ship him and Lyn every playthrough without fail too.

Expect the new mystery of the emblem

Gonna be on Switch online expansion pass soon!

I think the want for "innovation" in games is a very modern idea. In the times of FE6 and FE7 I think it would have been more accepted to have similar games, as long as they didn't come out too close to each other. Which back in the day was also not a huge issue. Heck even today I would argue that too much innovation can be detrimental to a series.

Two things: pretty sure the 2x effective damage in FE7 is a bug yeah? There are some other wonky moments that make me think something happened with the international release and just wasn't fixed. And you didn't play Hector Hard Mode??? Damn that's the real meat of this entry Shane.

I really enjoy these videos but a little part of me dies inside every time you pronounce "marquis" as mar-qwiss and not mar-kee. LOL

fe7 is definitely my favorite fire emblem game

I miss my big bro Hector

25:32 heh I see you too are a man of culture

Sacret stones is next and is probably the beggining of the best parts of the series.

25:33 Was that a RLM reference?

one of the things i noticed is fe 7 does not even feel like a fe plot. it feels like a normal jrpg story. there isnt really a war being fought either.

After you beat the game, can you select Hector mode after doing Lyn's mode? Or are you forced to do Eliwood's again?

batta the beast is still the best first boss in all of fire emblem

I’m confused by your comments about the translation. I had the original GBA release and noticed a ton of spelling errors in your footage not present in my copy. Also, you keep saying the story is bad, but don’t really go into why it’s bad. I think it’s one of the strongest stories in the series. Very disappointed in the lack of analysis compared to your other vids

What happened to dorcas

Can you show the tutorial to turn AFFINITY on?

Anyone know what the song is at 28:56

Fire Emblem 7 that was the first Fire Emblem game to ever be released into the west, would not have been a successful release on the GBA if it were not for Marth and Roy being characters in Smash Bros Melee. That is perhaps my honest opinion of this game and to me, this was my first Fire Emblem experience as I am sure others who were around my age would also have to agree with if they were Smash Bros Melee fans and first knew of the Fire Emblem series thanks to Marth and Roy from that Smash Bros game. I did my research at the time back then thanks to gaming mags, so I knew all about the difficulty and permanent deaths that gamers would have to expect while playing the older Fire Emblem games especially on emulators. Thankfully for newer gamers to the series, the option to play Casual mode or Classic mode is one I honestly think is a good idea to give newer fans a fresh introduction with Casual mode and give them an option if they are good enough to take the challenge to play their second playthrough to try the Classic mode so they can try to play Fire Emblem the way it was traditionally made.

Dorcas

Mekkah fans kept laughing at that joke until the end of the video

I’ll take FE7’s story over FE6’s any day of the week.

Sorry. I'm only about four minutes into the vid, but I've gotta take off real quick to replay this game. I'll be back to watch the rest of this video when I'm done tho. 🤙

Effective damage is x3 in the Japanese version

I actually got really invested in Lyn’s story, and for it to be ripped away after 10 chapters made me so annoyed - after emotionally investing - that I’ve still never played the game through lol. Eliwood is a bit dull :/

With every new video I'm looking forward to the next with more anticipation. Will you enjoy the Tellius games (while shitting on FE10s support system and the "unique and exciting" map objectives of part 4)? What will your gameplay view of FE12 look like? And how much of a shitshow are Awakening and Fates going to be? You still have several FE entries ahead of you but I would like to see a review of the series as a whole at some point discussing the heights and lows of the series from your perspective. :P

Wait, what's wrong with the story?

22:27 why is that cute?!

Marquis is pronounced like "Mark E"

I really like your analyses but this time, you missed so much.

Watching this a couple hours after the previous one, I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention this game's difficulty, or rather lack thereof. The numbers are stacked so much more in the player's favour compared to FE6, it's crazy. Personally, I find that this results not in FE7 being more well-balanced than FE6, but in the balance problems shift to a different place. Instead of the weakest units requiring ungodly amounts of attention to work at least somewhat, we have FE7's *top* tier units completely breaking the game in half. Marcus, Pent, Sain, Kent, Raven... all of these (sometimes with a bit of training required, but still) can kill whole groups of enemies in a single turn. It also means that units without access to axes, lances, or horses are automatically kinda bad. Not unuseable, but units that do can simply do everything a poor little myrmidon and more. One balance problem removed, another one added. TL;DR: Yes, FE7 has fixed a fair number of FE6's worst aspects, but I found the latter's general map and enemy design to be quite a lot better. Great video, though! I just like to argue. ;)