Also Emiya: ''Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right.''

Agreed

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- This is something that I could have been more clear on, but I don't blame players or think that players are "playing wrong" if they choose to restart. I do think that the choice the game leaves you with (play through mistakes OR restart and try again) is a bad choice to force on players. I remember the first times I played Fire Emblem and I always reset out of fear, and players, especially new players, making decisions because they fear being soft-locked or screwing themselves later is not good. So, this isn't the players fault, but rather the games failing to communicate how much more interesting they can be if you play past mistakes. This is why I actually think that Divine Pulse/Turnwheel are great additions because they allow players to have a baseline of allowed mistakes and add a third option to turn back time rather than restart or push through. Still though, I don't like the idea of the games encouraging restarts. It's a punishment for poor play when rewards for good/fast play (such as saving villages) work much better at making the games fun. Resets just feel bad. - That's not really a goal of this video to come up with ideas to rebalance casts for difficulty, but I do think your suggestion at the end about scaling stats (a la hard mode bonuses) is good to at least give you more workable units. - I think that it's a good point that difficulty options give player choice and affect balancing, but I do think that it's important for mid-to-late game characters to be serviceable no matter what difficulty. They should be worse than trained units who've been around forever, but getting whack characters instead of serviceable characters feels bad and makes the games feel more punishing rather than more interesting. I like these disagreements though because they depend almost entirely what you want out of perma-death and how much you value emergent gameplay narratives vs. keeping characters alive. Personally, I want perma-death to be something that can always be pushed through (outside of game-over conditions) because I value a more reflexive play style.

It’s weird that Leiden and Belf are just... so great compared to when the join over others... I think they end up better than the average Christmas cav at the beginning of the game.. I think only Cav Kris has a shot at beatingn their bases at level 13 The only bad thing about them is average weapon ranks (i believe they have C lance, D sword) which can be aliviated quickly with an arms scroll

@@rontheauraknight9606 I don't use those Sable Knights much because by that point my team is filled with Kris, Marisha, Caeda, Palla, Catria, Erzel/Wendell, Feena, Sirius, Minerva, and even Arran if he can reclass into something useful. At least the blue and green dudes have short term usage in the early game. I don't really want to spend resources on these guys. I'm also pretty sure that if you use Luke heavily, he will be better than the Sable Knights.

@@rontheauraknight9606 C rank is really the only rank that matters, you have access to forged steel and effective lances, which is really all you need in fe12. I think they’re great failsafe options

@@Bunnymafia8150 that is true I guess I’m only halfway through my first H1 run just so I can learn the chapters through experience (and unlock the second male set) and it’s not like Shadow Dragon with it having a weight stat

No she is a cursed abomination and should not be able to exist. HOW DID YOU EVEN DO THAT MAN!?

In path of radiance, depends on when they die, but characters feel sad and bring up a tragic death once or twice.

Echoes has post battle mourning lines

Agree

Yeah, it's difficult to hear what he's saying at some points because of the music blaring in your ears

Lol yeah the vid's not bad but damn the audio tho

what did you say about my waifu!?

WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE HORNS

I remember when I finished echoes Tobin died, during the credits we can read what is their life after and when I read that grey became depressed and an alcoholic bc Tobin died I felt so bad and can’t let character died now :(

​@@hulloitsme3842 Wait fuck never played Sov does that actually happens??

I discovered fe in the same way! However I lost so many units that it actually became unbeatable. Then again I'm alot better at fe now. If I had my save file for the final map that consisted of Erika, Ephraim, Seth and all my unpromoted bench like a level 8 Garcia and a Marisa I could just barely promote at level ten, I may have been able to beat it now just from abusing Seth and myrrh.

I think that players want to avoid any gameplay risks, because many of the games have avoided characters dying in the story, but there definitely are a lot of players that do what you said and reset out of guilt. I think letting characters die is just one of those things you just have to break out of, and the games could definitely be designed to better discourage soft resetting. Even if you're a more casual player, I'd recommend giving one of the games (maybe like Birthright or Sacred Stones a try while iron manning it; you may be surprised how much more fun it makes the game).

@@ProfessorBopper Yeah I mostly feel bad about losing characters, but I also really enjoy the feeling of making my favourites strong! Maybe if they add a difficulty that causes you to lose any exp/levels gained in a map for a character who falls in combat, but not kill them permanently? Like a Casual+, you can afford to have someone "die" a couple times but do it too much and they become unviable. Alternatively you could punish the player by removing their availability for 1 or more levels afterwards as they recuperate.

I reset because then I won't have that unit, like if canas dies, then no dark magic. It's not out of guilt.

Thanks! I actually have headphones now so I can better mix the audio! It’s excited and it definitely frustrates me to hear the sound mixing in these videos

So bad that he can’t even be picked for the bottom tier team. Is Tomas the most forgettable character in the franchise?

@@ProfessorBopper no, he is Solon, the savior of all

@@ProfessorBopper idk Ralph’s from Thracia 776 is probably more forgettable random midgame hero with average basses and the most generic design ever dude looks like a village mpc

Fe5 is best girl; the second most complicated availability (except maybe like fates or 3h idk much about either) and a fatigue system I get the "elitists" praise it but I'm a turtling loser and it's still the most fun fe game imo

I recently played Undertale and a lot of the ideas in that game like the game keeping track of your actions through the Flowey character and other endings depending on which characters you kill would be great to implement in Fire Emblem to make permadeath even more impactful and meaningful. Like for example you let a unit die and then reset, then at the end of the game someone kept track of your resets and talks to you about it.

Perma-death definitely causes problems with the story, which is why “I can’t fall here!” Has become such a meme. The games haven’t really figured out a good way to rectify perma-death with story. What helps the bloated FE6 army, I think, is the presence of supports and a much better art style than FE11/12 where most characters have little story and generic designs. And, for your final question, almost never

Fe 11 and 12 is fine

@Zxylo 5 The gap between Fates' story and the other games is not nearly as big as most people think. Outside of Corrin (who really is an awful main character), Fates is not any worse than most of the generic FE stories (which is basically all of them except FE5 and 9, and I really like 8's story, but I know that's contentious).

Honestly, it's the sort of thing that is better for a second playthrough. I played wayfoward ducktales remastered, and basically, there is no reason to start with the medium diffaculty, because it is way too easy go get stuck in a death loop without experience. So easy mode basically not punishing you for dying is basically neccessary to actually learn the levels without going insane with repetition.

yes I agree. though the game should be able to juggle both

You don’t play Fire Emblem? Lucky!

Give it a go! I'd recommend starting with Sacred Stones or Path of Radiance

Definetly on higher difficulties. Been playing FE7 lately and matthew died, but got replaced in the same ch lul

I thought so too at first but then I got sick of babysitting every unit some of them always getting into danger so I learned to deal with the permadeath. I only do deathless now on higher difficulties as occasional challenge runs to make my big brain do maximum strategizing.

It hurts so bad

Agree