You're too cute for words and your dancing is adorable.

This is literally the argument that Classic Spyro fans throw at Skylanders fans! And I know this because I’m a fan of the latter.

This is a really good video but tbh, your comment is the best thing I've seen on the internet this month.

That's what I think when you diss Mario Kart Wii

@@tirzahroseroot i haven't heard of Skylanders in a good decade, holy shit.

Very true

engage weeb levels is really high gotta say, Citrinne looks nice though

That’s not a bad take at all. The character designs have only gotten more extreme with the times. I dig it.

Exactly FE was always "anime af". But the look of anime changed through the ages and as a result in 2022... we now have vtubers in FE because of course we do.

While very true, FE has shown it can do anime without looking generic and cutesy. For example, the FE Echoes artstyle is still anime, but it is incredibly cool, sleek, and grounded.

We would've gotten the third planned Tellius game for starters.

I think of this all the time. PoR and RD had such a great story premise without the weird dating sim aspect these recent games push.

Doubt it lol. We all know they been thinking about that dating simulation for a long time. I still favor FE1,3,11,12 lol xD the original and the remake lol

@@wakkaseta8351 there was a 3rd planned one? Omfg

If only 😔

The gameplay was kinda boring and already in thr end cycle of 3ds. Moreover, it just remake when people obviously hyped the new title over remake.

@renren5660 I can definitely agree that the gameplay wasn't innovative by nature! I did like the concept of the "free roam" dungeon especially with how it was utilized for the grima lore but it was mostly a slog. I still just really liked that old style nature of writing they did and wished they kept to it. New innovations with old story patterns basically would be nice imo

@@renren5660 its a remake of a game majority of people didnt play

it wasnt perfect at all

Spoilers for those who didn't play the game. Ok I'm going to be honest here: Is it really though? Cause I found Echoes' story to be stupid. Not Fates level of so stupid, but still stupid. I honestly thought Awakening had a better story than whatever Echoes was going for. Seriously, you go through the entire game being told that Alm was a nobody. A farmer of a popular warrior, but not a noble one. And we see Alm being told so many times that he's not fit to lead or that he can't be a strong person because he was born and raised as a nobody. And we see how it divides the other characters if they should stick to Alm or not because he's not noble. But he proves them all that no matter who you are, even if you aren't a noble, you can still be strong... Until the last 30 minutes of the game where they revealed that Alm is Prince and that his dad was the King, and they seriously pulled a "I am your father" bs... That is SO stupid and defeats the whole point of Alm's entire character! Or how about the beginning of the game makes you think that Alm and Celica will fight in a tragic and sad way, giving us the impressions that they went from friends to enemies. Only to reveal that...Celica was just being mind controlled for like 5 minutes and there was NO build up to that fight 🤦‍♂. Like are you kidding me? Again, sure, Echoes' story is better than Fates...But that's not saying much. Echoes story is just plain bad.

And then the pairing the games pushed to be the alternative to the incest (corrin/Azura) ended up being the ACTUAL incest pairing lol.

Iirc, the “mother left me a scroll that says this actually isn’t incest” part of Fates was added during localization so Fates could keep its T rating in the west. In the Japanese version, the text is just “I don’t care if it’s forbidden, I love you anyways,” and you’re meant to believe that you have a happy inbred family until the big reveal later. FE censors come out swinging every game fr.

@@innerbeast415 *bruh.*

Listen man I may want revenge, but I am also patient

And that's why you don't S rank with anyone who has royal/dragon blood in fates.

FE2 has always been underrated, even back in the early 2000s people treated it as "the worst" just because it was very different. I find with a lot of those "2" games from back then, which they always made quite different from the originals, you should go in pretending it's not from the series it's named. Zelda 2 is an amazing game, if you don't go in expecting a Zelda 1 sequel. Yeah it sounds stupid and like I am making excuses, but you will get more enjoyment out of the game with that mindset. I went in to FE2 the same way and ended up liking it more than FE1 (keep in mind at the time there were only 6 games).

The curse of being released in the waning years of the 3DS lifespan, rip

I’m definitely part of the problem unfortunately. Despite wanting to play it, Ironically I didn’t even own a 3DS anymore because I sold it after awakening for quick cash going into college. And as a broke college student at the time I couldn’t rationalize spending money on a full priced game on a system I no longer owned just to support an old series I no longer had faith in. I think perhaps part of the problem is how many old school fans that would theoretically Support better games, don’t, because they no longer own 3DS’s and Switches? (I mean if tactics games are you thing there’s loads in the PC indie space) I’m even morbidly curious about Engage but probably will never play it because I’m not spending $300+ so I can play one game I don’t even have much faith in :(

I do wonder why they seem to have a habit of this. Thracia 776, Radiant Dawn, Echoes If I’m optimistic maybe they know these games wouldn’t sell as well at end of a console lifespan anyways so decided to make some games that appeal to the more hardcore audience. If I’m pessimistic, Nintendo sees poor sales and goes “oh clearly it’s the games that are the problem and not the time of release or lack of marketing” 🤦‍♂️

I think it struggled bc it was on the 3DS post-Switch

based

The protag looks more like if colgate have a crossover with Fire Emblem

Same. Bashed it when I saw the leaks and now I'm buying it day 1.

@@ferrihunter3749 That's why I call the protagonists Pepsi Man & Toothpaste-Chan respectively

Today we joke about pepsi hair. tommorow we wake up with pepsi hair

Wasn't it basically just forcefully pushed into the game because the eugenics mechanic in Awakening was so popular?

⁠@@shizachan8421yeah but tbh fates handled it much better. the child units in fates can actually keep up in a no grind run but in an awakening no grind almost all of the children turn out too weak to be usable by the time you recruit them, which is a massive shame because no grind is probably the most enjoyable way to play awakening.

The last shred of hope was stepped on and vanished when Edelgard's emblem arrived in this privilege-festered land, and instead of telling us to f*ck off, she happily offered her assistance. I mean, I didn't condone her actions either, but really girl? You're going to help _these_ new brand of Seiros, specifically?

>world war How can it be a world war ? By your logic the warring states period in Japan is a world war too because they didn't have contact with people off their island

​@@joshuabrant3487its not a world war, but it is a continent wide war like the 30 years war.

​@@tinyblutgang The REAL Edelgard would walk up to Lumera and punch her in the face

@@abstr4ct_c0nt3ntSO TRUE

Honestly some people will still complain that’s the new art style is killing the game and further proof that FE is dying.

FE4 remaster is coming soon

@@therealjaystone2344 alternatively they could just sell the old games on the e shop oh wait they won’t because of some weird stupid policy. Well I’ll just settle for remakes cause I ain’t got that much time to figure out emulating.

@@2265Hello Unlike Super Mario Bros. 2/Lost Levels, localizing the older FE games for an e-shop release would be a lot of effort, so of course they won't do that. I'm still completely shocked that they did it with FE1.

@@DrewPicklesTheDark or they want to squeeze out more bucks with some remakes. Which is fine if they only update graphics and add some QoL features and keep the gameplay the same.

Never forgetting my first playthrough 🔵🐺

And I'll never forget my first playthrough of ⚫🦅.

never forgetting my first playthrough either 🟡🦌

As infuriating as the discourse is from time to time, I think it's overall a positive. Not many games can provoke so much discussion. 🖤 🦅

I feel like if it had been given just a few more months of development it could have been in my top 5 favorite games in general but unfortunately it was rushed a bit to much (still think it's a great game though)

No f*cking way!!1!

That’s Hero King Marth and the Pegasus Knight Caeda.

Until their Descendant Lucina continued where their legacy left off.

Does Caeda forcefully coercing a bunch of enemies into joining the army really count as "friendship", though?

@@XellosNi Of course it does, what else could it be

I think one of their biggest issues was locking the prequel storyline behind DLC (the one with Laslow, odin and severa.) It honeslty explains a lot of the plotholes in the story and kind of adds a lot more depth to Anakos

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my friend gave me blazing blade in jr high. and i played that game so many times i cant even count. and story wise i still think its the best. let alone the gba games graphicaly looked so much better.

@@SilentMeteorite Fates had a very troubled development. Lets just say the writing a story for all three campaigns was alot harder than Intelligent Systems thought!!

Lunatic + is unbalanced. Beating it is not hard, just tedious. Skills being basically "overpower this with your OP characters" on lunatic +.

I mean when most people talk about the difficulty of a game they are usually referring to normal mode. The whole "sadistically unfair and overtuned" difficulty modes didn't really start until Shadow Dragon. This is probably why people say "FE5 is one of the hardest!" it's because FE5's _normal_ difficulty is a step up from most games. All that said, I still think FE7 is the best introduction game to the series, which is no doubt what Nintendo had in mind when they made it.

Even without DLC it's not that hard to beat, just tedious due to the RNG. Literally the optimal strategy is feed everything to Robin and their child and let them solo the game

@@DrewPicklesTheDark Well that’s because Fe5’s Normal mode was miswritten. FE5’s difficulty modes list as “Easy, Normal, Hard” Where it should be “Normal, Hard, Lunatic” So FE5’s normal is just the hard mode of every other game.

@@thelostician You are thinking of FE10 (Radiant Dawn). FE5 (Thracia 776) didn't have a difficulty setting, though you could input some button commands to make an "elite mode" which gave all your characters an in-built paragon skill (paragon was called elite in the Japanese games).

FE fans imo tend to be over dramatic. But I don’t think the design or Mika’s art style was a good choice for an FE game. Really I’m just gonna play it for the gameplay.

the video literally says the gameplay looks fine at the end about Engage

I don't think anyone likes the MCs design. It looks ridiculous.

@@kylewoodowens4488 weirdly enough it’s actually grown on me. But it only looks good in Mika’s art style.

@@2265Hello Her designs are fine to great. 3D models just couldnt capture her art to the point the faces all became sameface in 3D when her designs arent

Really? I felt like engage closer to a normal fire emblem game. Three houses for me was pretty polarizing because it made the game a lot more appealing to casual fanbases. Still, the old fire emblem players sort of hated the Monastery exploration part of the game even if I loved it. Engage sort of brought back the old playstyle of the fire emblem games even if the story is the weakest in my opinion. The best part of three houses was the removal of the kids and marriage system which I despised.

Yeah the writing really is a major step back and I f*cking hate how people are saying that its "good that they're returning to form." Engage isn't a return to classic FE, it's a return to 3DS FE. The FE era that I hate the most. Part of the reason why I love Three Houses so much is that it ditched most of the stuff that the 3DS games did: bland/bad story, forgettable characters, the dating sim aspects among other things. While Engage didn't bring back the dating stuff, the story is boring and almost every character than isn't a royal is forgettable.

@@hyperm8 When people say "returning to form", people are referring to the gameplay mainly. A lot of the old fans didn't like the gameplay for three houses and found the lack of weapon triangles and poorly designed maps and poorly designed maddening mode. Three houses made fire emblem appeal to a wider audience but was the most polarizing release for fire emblem fans despite the amazing story. The gameplay and feel of the game for engage feels solid. Storywise, it's probably up to preference. Some people love the story for the 3ds titles but some think it's god awful. Path of Radiance would be the type of story we would all love to have but it's not as appealing to the masses like Three Houses. I think the perfect in-between would be to have a story like Fire Emblem Shadows of Valentia or Binding Blade

​@@kevinnguyen8631 I remember the opposite. Many people upon hearing the Weapon Triangle being gone in 3 Houses were going: "Oh well, it was never that big of a mechanic anyway." Despite the fact that one complaint I ALWAYS hear about RD is it's removed on the highest difficulty, and how in Fates it played a noticeable role in damage, hit, and avoid rates, especially with dual weapons.

Engage is a fun game, but it makes no sense. It's all the way back to black & white good & evil distinction that makes no sense at all. The world building sucks or is nonexistent and the characters are paper thin with no motivations or personal relationships or goals in their life. It's a step back alright. The game looks and plays well though and I enjoyed it for what it was, but I can't even take a discussion where someone tries to compare the two seriously.

They did?

​@@AkameGaKillfan777a lot of people do xd and then they will argue for hours on social media about their house leader being the best and yati yata and i'm like "bro you didn't even finish the game" The worst case is when people only play crimson flowers

@@clementrasset4477 Where's your proof?

​@@clementrasset4477 In all fairness, I'm just impressed anyone subjected themselves to finishing a single path. I would sooner self delete than run around the monastery one more time, or have another tea party, or play another incredibly straightforward and bland combat scenario. Felt like I was spending more time running around the monastery than engaging in the story and playing the battles combined, and the battles in that entry aren't even fun.

​@@clementrasset4477 Edelgard stans are the worst. Crimson Flowers and its consequences have been a disaster for Fire Emblem discourse.

Jokes on you, FE was always "weeb", it's only following what's currently trending in Japan when it comes to anime.

@@CuteHimbo this ^^ Line up past FE games with anine from the same time period and you will see the similarities

It didn’t change. FE has always been weeby. Trends simply change as do character designs over time. Awakening didn’t sell better because of any changes, it sold better because it was actually marketed unlike previous games. Plus it had some nice character designs unlike some of the previous games with radioactive-green hair.

@@Melkac I agree.

@@Melkac The dating sim side mechanic was definitely a change, taking it a step further with the coomer-bait skinship mechanic of FE fates. I know Awakening was the first to get any actual widespread marketing but you can’t say that nothing has changed. Characters look way more marketable now obviously.

Glad that Micaiah’s Radiant Dawn Brigade crew moved to Askr instead.

Fricken hard on higher difficulties but gold

Probably because the character who's supposed to be the "lord" of the game isn't playable for like 75% of the game, and the game spends more time with the previous protag than the new one. Oh, and the save transfer system would glitch and break if you used original model Wiis. Believe me, it took Micaiah fucking years to finally live down the Mary Sue accusations and to get actual character development, because the game she's supposedly the lord for spends more time with other characters. All in all, there's a lot of reason why Radiant Dawn didn't sell well lol.

@@Aleph3575 exactly. Awakening, Echoes, Three Houses and Engage are all way better designed games than RD, PoR, no hate intended, but I mean that's exactly what this video is full of. Hate, and bitter saltiness by some culturally ignorant f-boi who doesn't understand Japan or Japanese media and that the games he loved playing as a kid are from the country he's trying to shit-talk lmao

It came out the same day as motherfucking Mario Galaxy, that was literally just suicide for the franchise, what the hell was Nintendo thinking

We won’t see a FE7 remaster for a long time and what’ll do to Lyn to screw it up just to appeal to the modern audience

@@therealjaystone2344 since when does Nintendo appeal to the modern audience?

@@marthaawah8948 not now but sooner once Japan is bowing to the west

@@therealjaystone2344what would she look like if Nintendo tries to appeal to western audiences

@@phor8567 hint: like a man

Shez is a wonderful protagonist

I really enjoyed it, but he's spot on about the unsolved mysteries though (Shez/Arval) 😅

@@nuibaba280 Real talk, Shez is the closest we got to Ike in terms of protagonists. The uncouth mercenary kind who's not particularly smart but has a good heart. I dig that.

@@YuryVVV Based, one of the best protags in FE. Just held back because of 3 Hopes... Sad.

Yeah it kind of made me reexperience my first FE3h play through all over again, the additional lore was nice and the remixes of the ost were cool, (best of all, byleth is barely in the story!) so it wasn’t a very polished or innovative game but definitely a pleasant experience.

I feel that way about anime art in general honestly. I loved the gritty semi-realistic look of a lot of 80's and early 90's anime, not the cutesy, bubbly plastic look of a lot of modern stuff.

@@nightmarishcompositions4536 It's been said that the reason Shouzou Kaga left Intelligent Systems is because he hates the idea of FireEmblem being in 3d. When I saw the Graphics of Three Houses and the Art style of Engaged I have to say, (He was RIGHT). The good news is that there are other Strategy games to chose from thanks to third parties. Valkyria Chronicles 4, Triangle Strategy, Wargroove, Live a live, Tactics Ogre Reborn, and Front Mission.

Looks like shit... to you.

@@nightmarishcompositions4536 That older style anime was a lot closer to the western 80's an 90's action cartoons (which also had much better intro themes than more modern series). And anime was originally derived from western animation styles, both that kind and Disney styles.

especially since it's not like there aren't good designed anime aesthetics out there.

The fact that he used two DC weapons as a reference is fucking hilarious considering how much IS overvalues DC as a skill in the first place compared to everything else.

@@filipearaujo9981 very true, Dmitri is one of like, 3 units with actually good DC prfs

Gacha games: *Not even **_once._*

We kinda went over 6 books so far after events of Dragalia Lost and Codename S.T.E.A.M.

Veronica is now finally friends with Alfonse.

It's in the way I originally thought they were releasing Genshin Impact on the switch when I first saw the first leak. I couldn't have for the life of me linked it to FE without context or description, and not having played Genshin past the early chapters, it seemed completely in the cards for what I envisioned a Genshin switch sequel/port to look like.

I could easily detect if its a Genshin one or not though. The grass is too dim.

@@pauloazuela8488 Also the only buff characters and characters with facial hair are NPCs and he's not too generic looking to fit in with them (Referring to the third character)

Dude, what are you on? Genshin may have it's lows but character design wise it's pretty up there and it has to be since that's what they sell you and where they get money from. Engage character design is just shitty beyond any other anime game I've seen so far.

Genshin has much better and appealing character designs though

You took the thoughts right out of my brain and put them in writing. Thank you for bringing up Alfred! He is a fairly interesting character that suffers from this artstyle as well as the forced infantilization now strong in the FE series, which unfortunately isn't exclusive to Alfred. I nearly let Chloe kick the bucket after an irritating map where I couldn't be bothered to reset anymore, and luckily for Chloe, I decided to put my switch down for the day so that I might redo the map another time with a better mindset. Cue her support with Louis where she _finally_ displayed an ounce of self-awareness, impressive insight and understanding. Louis was one of the characters I actually liked and invested in earlier, so Chloe benefitted by being his retainer buddy, but I don't think I would have otherwise cared to look deeper. This kept happening across the board for the early cast, particularly the girls. Don't even get me started on Framme, I struggled not to kill her on purpose, and Yunaka didn't get much screen time either. Haven't touched Anna, she's a literal child. Hortensia still irks me, and I can barely take Timerra seriously. It's not that the male cast suffers less from the bubbly filter, it's that once you get down to at least one or two of their immediate supports, their personality usually shines through, whatever personality they might have. You're encouraged to at least grind up most of the guys and their supports out of curiosity for brand new characters, whereas with the girls it's almost as if half got intentionally written to be grating and obnoxious, so naturally you're less inclined to invest in them unless you're a sucker for five childlike waifus (and counting). Basically the cast improved the farther we got from the beginning bar for a few exceptions, so it's no wonder the starter crew lagged behind. Just like you said, I wound up benching people temporarily as soon as the Brodia gang joined, even poor Etie got benched for Alcryst, and I'm now grinding everybody from Firene and Lythos to an acceptable level so that they can promote and get better level gains soon enough. It's baffling how some of these characters require you to go on a journey to find something to care about them. I thought we were moving away from bland characters, but I was clearly wrong. If nothing else, I'm quite happy that Panette is both extremely enjoyable _and_ a powerhouse with Ike. By the way, that's another thing. After the Fell Dragon stand-off where we get our rings snatched, we're fresh out of Emblems. We're given Lucina and Lyn, and unless we grinded everyone up to bond level 5 with Tiki and El/Dimi/Claude prior, we're given a pretty strong incentive to go for the solid characters with the better skills and good growths. I don't even know Jean's purpose in my roster anymore, and the lil' guy is supposed to be the prodigy! He's lost in a sea of units I tried to train simultaneously while on a blind, Hard, and Classic run. Definitely my mistake. Clanne's sadly been outshined by Citrinne and Ivy, even though I kinda liked him to begin with. On another note, Celine is also surprisingly interesting, but boy did it take me some time to dig that up! She reminded me a little bit of Flayn with her mannerisms, mature mentality and overall approach to things from the jump. The Genshin design somehow didn't hinder her character for me, although you do have to grind her up a bit to get past the surface level talk of tea and flowers, which tied in rather nicely with her retainers. Those two are enamoured with an idealistic life, so they take comfort in picturesque things and the glorified happiness of others, but the important thing to remember is that both Louis and Chloe find other people's lives and behaviour fascinating because they're always adding layers of narrative on top to compensate for the mundane. Celine brings up seemingly tedious and trivial stuff again and again because she _knows_ and wants them to find comfort in experiencing every day to day joys. She wants to create a peaceful environment that's happy and joyful within the realm of possibility, letting others know they're a part of a narrative that's _good enough_ to be happy about. Her whole thing with peace took a while to set in for me, but it's actually amazing once you digest the information. It could be the translation team taking liberties that kind of over simplifies it, as with the digging for Alfred, hence you having to look for the meaning behind their words and actions. . which you really shouldn't have to. . not every single time. Anyway, I found her refreshing. She's not shy about telling Louis that he shouldn't risk his safety to provide extravagant joy, and that having everyone by her side is something she doesn't take for granted, but reminds everyone it's what matters at the end of the day: the simple, trivial little chats over tea where everyone's alive and not fighting for their necks, or their nations and their people. I still haven't gotten Celine's A support with Chloe, but judging from how it's been going so far, I take it she will try to similarly ground Chloe to reality while reassuring her that their lives can be perfectly fine without all that fanfare. Celine's so poised and proper that it's hard to get under her behemoth shell of a skirt, but she's great. EDIT: Oh, and the support you mentioned where she basically trauma bonds with Alcryst? I think that's what cemented the Flayn vibe for me. It reminded me of Flayn's support with Dimitri where they both confess to the reasons behind their insomnia, and I thought that was a pretty cool throwback. Speaking of Dimitri, the trailers for Engage had me questioning Alfred's design a little, but now I can scarcely link the two together apart from the hair. Alfred's honestly just as refreshing as his sister, and it would've been nice if he had been developed beyond the characterisation sprinkled in between the main story and supports. There's a limit to how much characters can do or even grow in Engage, which disappointed me. I mean, Alcryst immediately gets over his father's asinine death in his C support with Ivy after she says she's sorry, despite how adamant he was about his grudge against her and Hortensia. I was thrown aback because there seemed to be a good chunk of development waiting to happen. . only for it to fall flat. Alcryst starts off as the first person who tells you it's _okay_ for Elusians to believe in what they believe. He has some reservations about them because of the fricking Fell Dragon worship, a real deity who's wrought chaos, war, and destruction, but he's never cruel or judgmental, and far be it from Alcryst to judge anybody. Then Elusia launches a full on assault on his country where Hyacinth snipes the king after losing to him in combat, which is a complete dishonour by Brodian customs, and they haul ass with his father's corpse back home. As if that wasn't bad enough, they do this so that the Fell Dragon can _drink_ the king's blood before reanimating the poor guy into a Corrupted. Talk about disrespect. Alcryst is visibly f*cked by the events, and although Diamant can rationalize the Elusian princesses collusion to appease their father, Alcryst can't tolerate having them in the Divine Dragon's army and voices this very emotionally. I was super interested to see how the circumstances might change Alcryst's beliefs and stance on Elusia, how his character would be handled in order for him to overcome those burdens and inherent bias later on. Well, somebody made the call to scrap the logical turn of events because they figured it was convincing to have Alcryst forget about everything after one apology from Ivy. I wish we didn't have to mine for substance in characters, and that by the time we found a speck or two, it wasn't overshadowed by an extreme, constant character trope. . or worse still voice acting that had me borderline missing Lorenz of all people. If they wanted a light-hearted and plotless gathering of bubbly characters, they should've just made another love live entry. This stings.

The game has a "replaceability" problem with the characters. You have no reason to keep using characters you get at the beginning of the game due to limited deployment slots and strictly better units being recruited. Why would I ever use Clanne when I get Celinne literally 3 chapters after him and she's just better than him in practically every way AND she comes with an Emblem practically made for her? Then, just as you get used to Celinne, BAM you get Citrinne who is just better. Boucheron? lmao Bencheron is more like it. Pretty much the only early game unit that doesn't require significant investment to not get completely outclassed the minute you get someone of a similar class is Louis and even then he starts to fall off when Jade shows up, who can also be replaced by the defense oriented Timerra when you get her. Why bother with Lapis when you get Diamant and Kagetsu within 3 chapters of recruiting her? So yeah you have all these neat backstory things revealed in supports, but this game is one of the hardest to grind supports in (made a bit easier by the new patch but I think you need DLC for it) AND its just not worth it when you're probably just gonna be replacing each character with someone else unless you grind the shit out of them.

Oh my gosh, wait so Alfred’s supports with Celine are different in the Japanese version??? I remember her checking up on him and him digging holes, and she was like wtf? I’m baffled that the localization would recontextualize what was going on 😭 He is my favorite out of everyone in Engage tbh. I used him on Maddening and his Defense stat becomes so big by the end of the game. He can hold himself down very well, way better than Diamant tbh. Also this game is so much harder to get supports in than in 3 Houses. All those monastery activities really helped, and people just had to be in range to attack a person to get support points (I believe) whereas in Engage they need to be RIGHT next to each other. And Engage isn’t like 3H where there’s a big replay factor. Getting some of these better supports takes FOREVER, and some people just don’t care enough to play the game that long.

@@tinyblutgang I recommend Unicorn Overlord, its strategy RPG published by Sega.

It didn’t. It sold 750k copies. It just didn’t sell as well as Fates and Awakening.

I'm sure they knew it was going to be the niche one of the 3DS games; they released it right before the Switch so everyone was saving their money for that.

Yeah, the only 3ds game that I liked too. But the gameplay definitely wasn't a strong point for Echoes.

Really vibe with the experimentation in topics recently! Love you Captain!💙

What are you talking about? The artstyle of this game has been a major point of contention since day one.

@@-lord1754 but he is right. There’s a lot of people who have gaslight themselves into thinking it has good art or that Mika is a good artist (she’s not)

@@paladinslash4721 She is a good artist, cope further. Although I do think that they didn't do a great job of turning Pikazo's art into ingame models.

@@skeletonwar4445 Case in point.

Exactly, they've always done this lmao.

"I hate Skill Emblem, I'm going back to PoR."

​@@AkameGaKillfan777 I hate graphics emblem, I'm going back to og fe on the nes

​@@cinderguard3156 I can't believe some people are stupid enough to think all Anime is exactly the same. They're just like American boomers who think all animation is for kids.

Who’s gonna tell him

SoV's story is shit, Awakening's is objectively better, and if you disagree, you are just proving yourself as a biased elitist.

please god i want a fe4 remake so bad

​@@wiiwii2964We all do, but I swear on all things holy, if they insert an OC or an Avatar and ruins the tragedy of the original story, I will be so sad

​@@Winter_Symphonyfor what it's worth i don't think they will. FE4 is too story focused to be played with and they advertised Sigurd through Engage so he's ought to be the main face of the remake as well

​@@clementrasset4477they almost did with echoes, but dialed back since it would've been impossible since the whole two routes thing (although you can say Faye's...worship of Alm is a remnant of this) With genealogy, im pretty certain they're going to add one. Its the OG "anime dating sim chess" game of the series, they definitely will find a way if they already tried to with gaiden. The problem is that the amount of plot contrivances I fear it will bring considering how the avatar will interact with the SPOILER and then how each mother and her two children have pretty set in stone stories so its going to jarring for the avatar's kids being tacked on too with specific pairs.

Yeah TMS is lowkey one of the best entry level RPGs. It's not super serious but not terrible and the sessions really make you feel like you're strategizing. It's honestly pretty good.

And you can attribute that to Atlus being the kings of turn based RPG design.

The protag sucks but rest is fine. Bought it when it released and was okayed by it.

I’m 7 years old and this is deep

I had to bend over backwards trying to get my hands on the uncensored version, but other than that TMS is a fantastic game that deserves more visibility

i love me some anime titties, but god damn does the banner saga handle everything else so much better than fire emblem these days. in the banner saga you aren't just a dozen dudes fighting a dozen other dudes and thats the entire war, any combat you personally partake in is just a small section of a much larger battle. you don't just move on from some big event, you have to deal with the fallout. the personal stories are just a facet of much bigger things going on. i wish fire emblem had that going for it.

@@comyuse9103 Three Houses was the perfect opportunity for them to do something like that, given that it's a story about an officer school. Instead of leading armies, though, the characters use them as equipable items.

@@EmperorSigismund i'd say three houses does it better than any other modern FE game at least, the implication is that those battalions are actually fighting alongside you. i don't remember how awakening did it, but i think fates wasn't usually that great about it and engage is the worst yet, from what little i've played you literally take an entire castle as maybe a little over a dozen people with literally no back up of any kind. no faceless soldiers, nothing. it has been a really, really long time since i played the radiant games but, iirc, they also implied there was a much bigger battle happening outside your immediate gameplay where appropriate, so it isn't like the devs haven't thought of this before

You should try BERWICK Saga. Recently fan patched to english

That is because the lead artist on the game is Bae's artist.

you say that like it's a bad thing; vtubers are gorgeous and mika pikazo is a wonderful artist with a great style (well i can see why it wouldn't appeal to everybody tbh)

@@ryangallagher9723 I say it like its a bad thing because it doesn't appeal to me. Not for Fire Emblem

@@LuxLoser I recommend Unicorn Overlord, its strategy RPG published by Sega.

@@orangeslash1667 I would trust you, but why are you copy and pasting your comments

Hey, don't lump me in with all you, I didn't buy em. /hj Seriously though, I left the series almost a decade ago now, and haven't bought a single game since. Makes me rather sad; Fire Emblem was previously one of my favorite game series.

Well to be fair, Three Houses has sold 4.12 million copies as of now, so it’s the best selling Fire Emblem game by a good margin. If anything, the execs at Nintendo/Intelligent Systems might be pushing the devs to make another game maybe not EXACTLY like it, but similar. Guess we’ll have to see what the next mainline FE title looks like.

@@dianaburn2474 I recommend Unicorn Overlord, its strategy RPG published by Sega.

Agreed

The design is nice but the art isn't fantastic though, just better than everything that came later

How is that 2000's-how-to-draw-anime-tutorial artstyle is peak? Any other FE has better artstyle than that lmao (even the first because how goofy they are)

@@jefinathariwirza6578 odd opinion, Tellius had great characters in personality and design. I'd say it was peak of the series.

@@jefinathariwirza6578 80's and early 90's art styles were the best imo. They've gotten significantly worse over the years. Now everything looks plastic and overly cutesy.

If I remember correctly, the artist/character designer only made designs for VTubers prior to working on Engage, hence why the main character has toothpaste colored hair. I don't know the source of this nor can I confirm its validity, so take it with a grain of salt.

@@leomassafm160 no, mika pkazo is a professional illustrator and character design that has unique traits by using bright pop out color but coordinated well. And yes she designed one of hololive ( a massive vtuber company) one of their member design. So she is also technically vtuber artist

I'm also rooting for Genealogy of the Holy War, Dark edition, literally the same dark story in plain sight, they better make that game Rated A.

@@leomassafm160 the topthpaste hair is intentonal not accidently since it will be part of the story not because the artist was a vtuber prior to engage Trust me artists like that have a lot of experience which can be seen in their portfolio which they usually show big game companies and if she was only a vtube artist they wouldn't have hired her.Her designs are superb

@@guinnmyahslaysstaymad that's literally what I just said

It's sad that they apparently tried to fix something they so blatantly failed at. If I have to look at the Solmian nobility again, I might ask for a refund.

@@tinyblutgang I recommend Unicorn Overlord, its strategy RPG published by Sega.

Agree. The most "anime" things I can think of in the interim between Kaga leaving, but before Awakening is me grasping for straws. I can only really think of like...Saul from binding blade who's contrasted by the rest of the cast being...incredibly grounded and diverse (Niime I'd the only playable old woman in the series), Neimi/Colm's "relationship" (which is just oozing with red flags) and I guess a couple of things I might be misremembering Lyre says in RD which I just go "yes, we get it, she's a catgirl" and even then Lethe is treated with respect and not reduced to just catgirl tropes. Shadow Dragon sacrificed support conversations, but gave us some strong character writing for Marth. Outlier might be self-inserts. Thankfully you can remove Mark from the story so you don't get those random moments where characters turn to the camera to acknowledge your presence and then promptly ignore you. New Mystery is when the writing was beginning to be written on the walls. Kris has a normal backstory and earns his way to being Marth's bodyguard yes...but then they exaggerate just how...much Kris means to Marth's war effort that he ask Marth to rewrite his feats as Marth's own, Elice says something about Marth being weakminded, Kris takes a lot of lines from characters in FE3 (granted he's also used as the person people exposition too as well). Then you have the (honestly can I call this an archetype?) resident self-insert worshipper character in Katarina (its a little underbaked compared to the likes of Tharja, Camilla, Ivy/Framme and Edelgard in routes that aren't hers Edelgard pls why are you saying you wished you got to walk with Byleth in the Golden deer route). Idk, I just don't like when games go all self-insert gratification especially because it comes at the expense of writing. Why does Byleth pull Dimitri out of some of his funk when three of his childhood friends and three of his retainers are all right there. Why does Edelgard have to wait for you to return for her plans to work? Just bugs me. >In an interview about Berwick Saga, Kaga had no idea what a tsundere is I don't know why I found this so funny

Yeah. Having overpowered units kill everything in 1 hit is good, actually, at least for some of us. I’m dumb af so if I can circumvent my lack of strategy with big number, I’m satisfied. Just play on lunatic I guess (or don’t grind).

@@Melkac the "death of strategy" comment wasn't me slagging off on sacred stones, it was referencing the end of video words to comment. SS is an easy game, but that's okay! Not everything has to be Lunatic Reverse or CQ Lunatic or Thracia, sometimes you want your Gaidens, Genealogies, or your Sacred Stones, 'coz it feels nice to be strong and wing things.

Funny that you mention Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Three Houses may as well be based on it (one of the devs straight up said they based Claude on Wen-li), Edelgard is basically "Female Reinhardt with all the settings turned up to 11".

Ike from the Radiant games was heavily influenced by Guts from Berserk.

I like it too, it’s my favorite

*"i hAte you"*

Fates wasn’t even that bad really. The soundtrack, and gameplay alone is reason enough to play the game and I think it’s biggest issue was it’s narrative. There were some good moments, but overall plot and world building wasn’t its strong suit.

The plot is... it's something. But the gameplay and aesthetics were so glorious I don't even care, it's 100% my 2nd favorite after Echoes.

I like fates since it was my first fire emblem game

Yeah, I still played church for the sake of completion, but it's so much wasted potential, they should have let you play with Rhea ngl, I love Setheth, but he isn't made to be a "House leader" type character, but Rhea is, and it would have been a nice chance to see more about her story, specially the past.

Hopes learned it's leason and didn't do a church route and just gave the church characters to the Kingdom.

Honestly, I don't care if there's many swordfighters, I just want characters other than Fire Emblem being added every tuesday. I was really hoping for some Megaman representation, like Zero from the MM Zero series, or maybe Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden would have been cool. There's a lot of characters in the game that are the only ones from their series, so maybe some extra characters from their series' would be nice. I dunno, just... not more FE guys, there's like 8. I don't know how many Mario characters there are, but it's either a tie, almost a tie or FE flat out has more, and that's... pretty excessive

Honestly, the issue is more on the abilitys since there are soo many non-fire emblem fighters who use swords

hector.

@@zakalot who would also prove my point on how superficial the argument is because he'd still end up swinging the axe like any other sharp weapon and how he learns sword proficiency after promoting.

Fire Emblem is about weapons other then Swords. Spear classes, Axe classes, Fist classes, Tome classes, Bow classes, mounted classes. If you sent out a party using the FE characters in Smash... wouldn't a map in FE be nightmarish? Marth, Roy, Lucina, Ike, Chrom, Corrin would all be redundant. Robin and Byleth has to carry them. At least Byleth can switch between his three weapons which give him heavy attacks, ranged attacks, or close but quick attacks when pressing down speci... oh wait that is Pokemon Trainer. Pokemon Trainer better represents Fire Emblem then Byleth. Min-min does as well. Pyra and Mythra do better. Incineroar's counter works better in representing FE then Marth's. Lucario's Aura represents the counter system better then Marth. Joker's counter without his Persona does better. Fire Emblem is treated like gutter trash by how it is represented in Smash, it deserves better treatment. It isn't the opinion "too many sword fighters" because by design of Fire Emblem itself, your team comp in smash is too many sword fighters. You'd be ignoring most of the game's mechanics and suffer for it. You are by the rules in Fire Emblem using too many sword fighters.

As someone who gaslit themselves in exactly that fashion when I was younger, that is absolutely part of it. FE characters have always blatantly been anime characters (if the prevalence of candy colored hair wasn't a dead giveaway) using only marginally non-standard designs to make them look a bit more grounded. Though Engage definitely seems like they swung a bit far in the opposite direction after 3H and that groundedness is barely there. But given the general tone of the game I really don't care, it fits. They're clearly going for a bit goofier since it's a game made as an anniversary celebration. I'm imagining a version of Engage with GBA or even Telliis designs and it does nothing but tonally clash.

This is just his xenoblade video again lmao. Love this guy's content but I think he's somehow deluded himself into thinking he's not a weeb

Nah dude . . . I hate that just because something is "anime" people think it just gives developers free reign to make something as comical and garish as possible. It's not about anime not being cool or whatever. It's about how pandering to tasteless weebs not only ruins the aesthetic of the series but the gameplay as well. When does Fire Emblem stop being Fire Emblem and just becomes any generic anime rpg. I guarantee you if they did this with Final Fantasy people would complain too. It's quite literally the Ship of Theseus argument. If you're convinced I'm being unreasonable, then I'll just say there are still things I like a lot about Engage, and I would consider the core of Fire Emblem to still be intact. I just think as we keep moving to the overly cutesy aesthetic that it will keep clashing with the more tragic and serious elements of the series like death and war. Also, as the developers lean into the sort of life sim components it affects the strategy and how streamlined the gameplay is more and more.

In fairness to the older games before awakening. They honestly didn't feel like anime games at all. As well the stories were just more interesting imo. Everything from the characters to the politics and world building took itself and it's story far more serious than something like fates, not saying that being more anime like is even bad. Just that it's hard to really take these characters seriously with whatever trouble they may have, when I can put a fox tail, beret and hipster glasses on my characters. I'm glad three houses at least gave us something impactful and morally gray, a huge step forward from Fates black and white world. Hopefully engagement ring will have some kind of good story and conflicting plot

Anyone who cries about Xenoblade being "anime" I assume played Xenoblade 1 on wii and has literally never touched any of Takahashis prior games.If anything Xenoblade 1 is the odd one out in terms of style.

"weebish" If anime styles stopped changing around the time of Fire Emblem 1, then all FE games (and related/unrelated anime) since would resemble the anime styles of that era, duh Fire Emblem was always "weebish"

Unfortunately the term weeb has been extremely misused, because the correct term of a weeb is someone who disowned their own nationality and proclaimed themselves as japanese, best example of that is Geese Howard from the King of Fighters series

@@groudon2006 It's fine. Sooooooo many terms have been misused nowadays by people to refer to stuff they don't like that it's not surprising

@@groudon2006 First time into people claiming words? Weeb has been watered down for some years now.

Tell me you only know of Fire Emblem through Smash Bros without telling me you only know of Fire Emblem through Smash Bros.

@@brandonwilliams6119 Not sure how you even came to that conclusion from me liking the series and saying it's been a weeb series since day 1 but go off. To further burst your bubble, never played smash bros. I have too good of a hygiene for that.

Anyone who picked Claude as their forst playthrough are automatically based. Good choice my fren

I mean, it fits edelgard

Yeah, same with xenoblade, when there was controversy with xenoblade chronicles 2 artstyle

Yes, though the most recent titles have really embraced it's weebish inspirations rather than borrow form them. Same with the Xenoblade 1 to 2 transition.

@@johnbazan8674 Was there controversy with the art style? I thought it was more so the character designs.

I think a lot of people are missing the heart of the changes. Yes, the story is rather constant, but it’s mainly the design of the characters that have been significantly more “weebified.” Specifically, the over-the-top characters that fit more and more into common tropes (Awakening kids are especially notorious, for example Owain and Severa are really out of place compared to prior characters)… and the significantly increased sexualization, with the dating sim aspects culminating in heart-filled S-rank support romances, as well as more and more unnatural clothing and designs that make the characters look more like they come from modern day Japan than a medieval fantasy setting

@@CouchTomato87 I couldn't agree more on the unnatural "modern-looking" clothing designs. I have been seeing this more and more in Japanese fantasy lately and it bugs me. It's like they can't stand to have a character dress in medieval clothing unless it's some snooty noble we're supposed to hate.

oh snap, you got the same Tifa avatar I've been using on Discord, hell yeah!

@@JeannieLove ayeee

@@cloudtg462 It's been said that the reason Shouzou Kaga left Intelligent Systems is because he hates the idea of FireEmblem being in 3d. When I saw the Graphics of Three Houses and the Art style of Engaged I have to say, (He was RIGHT). The good news is that there are other Strategy games to chose from thanks to third parties. Valkyria Chronicles 4, Triangle Strategy, Wargroove, Live a live, Tactics Ogre Reborn, and Front Mission.

@@orangeslash1667 Wdym when you saw the graphics of Three Houses? Yeah they look bad, but so does every single FE game that isn't pixelated. The Tellius models look godawful, the DS models look terrible and then there's Awakening characters with no feet which has been said a million times already.

@@hyperm8 Awakening characters not have feet is more of a nitpick. I can forgive the flaws of Fates because the characters were designed by the No more Hero's artist Yūsuke Kozaki. The second reason is the game kinda looked good for a 3ds game and there wan't any other strategy game on the 3ds out side of Stella Glow. With Engage not only is Mika Pikazo is huge down grade from Yūsuke Kozaki, but without the 2d portraits of characters talking to each other, the issues of the game's graphics become even more noticeable.

Awakening was when I first realised I really _sucked_ at Fire Emblem because I couldn't for the life of me play on classic without messing up every single map.

daymmm

i personaly love how the desins look

@@konstantinos-iliasstrempas4594 you have bad taste

@@Molten2004 i hink i have a good taste and also i think its realy sad for you old fans to hate the art of anime if this series had failed we anime fans would move o ather anime like strategy games the olmy loss in this situation is you old fans

@@konstantinos-iliasstrempas4594 Nah. You have bad taste.

Every FE first trailer always had people being skeptical

same here. the jump from the dark fantasy anime style of three houses to the over the top genshin impact gacha game style of engage... it was very jarring... i'm not sure if i can take any of the characters seriously. three houses definitely had goofy characters, but a lot of them were pretty normal looking and decent I guess? They felt grounded and it was fun to chat with them and all because they felt like real people, especially blue lions. here in engage... holy crap. i'm afraid i'm not gonna be able to connect with them emotionally at all...

I mean, you still have everything that came before Three Houses to play

@@ashokrohan7232 ig fe now also looks like botw since people said that genshin was visually a clone of botw yeah? and botw was said to have great graphics and artstyle even on the switches meager hardware. lets be real, we're not getting any ReAlIsTiC graphics until fe isn't on switch.

@@nikolowolokin genshin character designs are not even close to botw. And I don't care about realistic graphics. It won't work with FE. FE3H struck a nice serious tone with most of its characters. Can't say the same about engage. It looks like a circus show

Try as I might, the only offender that comes up on search results is our own brand of Colgate-chan. I genuinely cannot remember a single anime that had such an ugly character design, and I've watched many of your average shoujo/shounen tropy ones. You might've had a cast that landed on every colour of the rainbow, sure, but at least they stuck to their own colour scheme, damn.

@@tinyblutgang I tried and came up empty as well, honestly I'm glad about it, pretty hard to look at lmao

The point that you are missing is that older artstyle was actually grounded and practical looking as opposed vtuber looking crud we have now.

@@AtillaTheFun1337 it's not like I don't get that that's what he's saying, but that's how pretty much all anime transitioned over the years They were all somewhat grounded and practical, and eventually evolved to be much flashier over time

@@AtillaTheFun1337 and that also doesn't mean I like the new style, I'm just stating that it wasn't necessarily Fire Emblem that changed, but rather what became expected from the anime oriented art style by modern competitors

@@Cybersomnia One problem is that Shouzou Kaga the creator of Fire Emblem left Intelligent Systems years ago. To make matters worse most of the people that worked on FE Blazing Sword are also gone.

@@AtillaTheFun1337 Are you implying that Vtuber art is bad?

It had a style, but instead of sticking to it, they decide to pander to the lowest common denominator bug eye anime characters that look ridiculous in the context of the series, and even within their own games

@@jamespilgrim3774 fire emblem games have always looked similar to the contemporary manga and anime styles at the time

probably just fe boomers trying to gatekeep the series to newbies 😷

@@jamespilgrim3774 so games can’t change and develop over 30 fucking years?!?! go outside i beg

@@jamespilgrim3774 as if the Gameboy fire emblem series never had big eyed anime soldiers?

>Doesn't take itself seriously "No mother, please don't die, I've known you for 2 chapters!" "I guess I had the family I've always wanted all along."

It saved it from irrelevancy or outright death but sadly had to sacrifice the series dignity to weeaboosim. Even the shift from awakening to its dlcs and fates is a massive leap. I mean did we really have to smash face first into camila's "personality" at the end of conquest? The problem isnt the games being anime, they always have been. The issue is that devolved from semi serious 80s, 90s style anime to big anime titty girl whose personality might as well just be for the rule 34 artists. Take Tharja's personality in awakening where she actually has an actual decent character in her supports and everything else afterwards kept flanderizing the yandere and "sexyness" parts of her design over everything else. I actually feel embarassed playing the games past base awakening in front of other people.

no bro ofc they were from back then so ofc they look like the same time period but these are all giant sparkle eyes neon hair which is not in the slightest way its old previous medivel color pallet back then

I would be haunted by the Awakening children in my nightmares if that game had tanked as a revival entry, and actively participating in some remote, obscure corner of the internet for FE rejects to talk and cope together. It would've been the Great Gaming Depression for niche JRPG. On the other hand, we would've never gotten this aspiring Mirage prequel. I also like to imagine what other title would've taken up FE's place in Nintendo's roster should Awakening have failed. The only answer that somewhat satisfies what newer FE fills is a mix between a dating visual sim and a TBA dungeon crawler, which is probably what Dungeon Princess was going for.

Points at Advance Wars & Golden Sun

I agree, Fire Emblem The Binding Blade was developed by potential crew for From Software Surviving all that to engage Roy with Cecilia was worth it

mfer talks as if fire emblem wasnt anime back in the 90s jesus christ touch grass!