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kradeelavLearn my thoughts on Fire Emblem - (gank'd from Prax over on bsky :3 )
You're tagged if you want to do it ~~
1. First game played
2. Best Story
3. Most hours in
4. Favorite male character
5. favorite female character
6. Best villain
7. Favorite class
8. Most replayed
9. Permadeath or no
10. Japan only games played
11. Favorite support conversations
12. Most underrated female character
13. Most underrated male character
14.Villain you wish you could recruit
15. Favorite weapon
16. Swords, Axes, or Lances?
17. Favorite mechanic
18. Least favorite mechanic
19. Feature the series should bring back
20. Feature the series should remove
21. Weakest story
22. FE or Advance Wars
23. Favorite music track
24. Favorite level
25. Recommended starting entry in your opinion
26. Portable or console entries
27. Most overrated male character
28. Most overrated female character
29. Fire Emblem Heroes
30. Hot Take
1. First game played: (Does being a Roy main in SSBM count :p) Path of Radiance.... changed my life for so much the better. <3 i saw titania and soren's official art back then and honestly just fell in love with the character design on the spot. when my aunt gifted me a copy by chance i was done for. (fwiw her favorite character was volke when i showed her what all the characters looked like :p )
2. Best Story: Mentioned it to Prax, but Tellius i think still has some incredibly incisive writing that's going to stay timeless.
3. Most hours in: Considering that I have something like 70+ replays of Path of Radiance alone.... :D;; for a large chunk of my life whenever I had a big ~*life change/event*~ i would replay PoR to ground me. the last few years I've made an attempt to play other games (plus fates poleaxed me briefly), but i'm kinda overdue for one!
4. Favorite male character: what'dya think the person with several zihark icons and a whole shrine is going to say... :p him, gunter, valter, legault canas, (it's gotten to the point there's a running joke about my thing for purple traitor bastards).
5. favorite female character: Sanaki, Nailah, Titania, Camila, Corrin, Tanith....
6. Best villain: GUNTER FIRE EMBLEM YOU WILL REMAIN FOREVER ICONIC (to me) <3 I also thought Petrine, Travant, Valter, Lehran, Vaida were mega cool.
7. Favorite class: i have a soft spot for swordmasters for obvious reasons, but wyvern lords and dark mages are always a staple in my runs. generally i like tankier (edgier) classes who can take a hit and make shit Die. (swordmasters are kinda included in my definition of tanky with the dodgetanking tbh).
8. Most replayed: Aside from the tellius games, fates: revelation! there was a year when i was basically playing a rev run every other month for fanfic meta reasons lmao. generally i've played most FE games at least ~3 times.
9. Permadeath or no: almost always, yes. I think the only time I skipped it is in the harder modes of awakening/conquest; awakening when i was speedrunning trying to get to the spotpass characters, and some of CQ's maps are really unfair if you don't use the royals who are all mounted/flying with a good two-range attack. (I'm decent at beating revelation without the royals though).
10. Japan only games played: FE4, 5, 6; I think the only games I haven't played is 1, 2, 3, SoV, and Engage. (SoV is on my to-play list, the others are not).
11. Favorite support conversations: gunter/corrin s support with that fucking whip will never fail to make me grin :3c
12. Most underrated female character: Almedha, Reina, Orochi. i like the older ladies too :3c
13. Most underrated male character: Nasir - for as plot-important as he is in FE9 arguably to the level that soren is, i almost never see him mentioned in fandom! he's not even in heroes!
14. Villain you wish you could recruit: I know you can recruit Bryce in the bonus maps for fe9 but he was so cool. ;a; baby's first dilf crush in some ways.
15. Favorite weapon: nosferatsu, runesword :3 i looooove weapons/gimmicks that effectively steal HP and give it to you ( < totally not bright eyes related nosirree /s :P )
16. Swords, Axes, or Lances? axes probably by a slim margin; generally accuracy is not an enormous issue as much as strength is (especially for tellius), and hand-axes are just strong enough that once when they're available you can almost consistently run a game with those alone. i'd say bows over lances for me though.
17. Favorite mechanic: the bonus tower/ruins in sacred stones were so cool.... i almost remember that as much as the game itself, there was a sense of like... lore eeriness to both of those levels and exploration that lent itself so well to the monster/gothic apocalyptic vibe? i always wished ashera's tower had a similar 'bonus leveling' system where you explored way *down*.... (almost made a game of it myself lol)
18. Least favorite mechanic: i don't miss having to guard merlinus' caravan wagon in defense maps lmao. also having to train in the arena "in" the level itself and always risking a shit ton of levels if you had to restart.
19. Feature the series should bring back: devil axes!! did not like the gimmick weapons in fates (underpowered to the point of uselessness) but i loved how fe7 handled gimmick weapons like the devil axe - where there was genuinely a real risk to it attacking yourself but it was also powerful enough where you were tempted to use it. FE8 also handled monsters in such a cool way.
20. Feature the series should remove: sorry for like, harping on 3H LOL but really not fond of the 'wandering around the castle' minigames that 3H introduced (or a lot of stuff 3H introduced....). i think fates did a pretty okay job of making the base/castle stuff basically optional if you're just there for strategy/story rather than blorbo doting, but blorbo doting gets old pretty quick.
21. Weakest story: three houses; i liked hubert okay back when i played it but i've really soured on it lately.
22. FE or Advance Wars: real ones would say berwick saga :p
23. Favorite music track: FE7's main theme goes so hardcore.... i can still hum it on command, likewise the dread isle theme i think.
24. Favorite level: ch26 of revelation genuinely rewrote my brain for the horny villain vibes <3 that said 'shades of evil' and 'blood runs red' in early PoR have a magical storytelling vibe that genuinely just take me back to a very specific nostalgia, PoR's talrega map also has some incredibly great hidden lines if you use jill, and ashera's tower is still absurdly solid "climax" gameplay/story/design with just the right level of inhumanity/eeriness.
25. Recommended starting entry in your opinion: FE7 is so solid across all aspects; while my heart says either one of the tellius games, path of radiance's graphics are kinda janky and it's a bit easy (and RD has the 'need to know everything from PoR' aspect) .... the newer games are a lot flashier but there's a lot to love there with FE7.
26. Portable or console entries: i feel like console entries get a little more of the white glove treatment and love from the devs, plus they're easier for my bad eyes.
27. Most overrated male character: any lord or non-tellius royal character oh my god; i am a certified lord-hater. (part of why i like f!corrin and ike to a lesser extent so much is they both buck so many of the trends there).
28. Most overrated female character: pick anyone in 3H.
29. Fire Emblem Heroes: for a while there in 2020-2022 i played it regularly; fortunately right about the time when zihark got in. the strategic gameplay was fun, and the idea of collecting all of your favorite characters is a pretty solid one. that said the powercreep and some of the gacha-y changes in the last year have really put me off to the point I don't play it anymore.
30. Hot Take: my shipping opinions would get me shot XD (i have written about it on here in an older post but you'll have to go find it.)
You're tagged if you want to do it ~~
1. First game played
2. Best Story
3. Most hours in
4. Favorite male character
5. favorite female character
6. Best villain
7. Favorite class
8. Most replayed
9. Permadeath or no
10. Japan only games played
11. Favorite support conversations
12. Most underrated female character
13. Most underrated male character
14.Villain you wish you could recruit
15. Favorite weapon
16. Swords, Axes, or Lances?
17. Favorite mechanic
18. Least favorite mechanic
19. Feature the series should bring back
20. Feature the series should remove
21. Weakest story
22. FE or Advance Wars
23. Favorite music track
24. Favorite level
25. Recommended starting entry in your opinion
26. Portable or console entries
27. Most overrated male character
28. Most overrated female character
29. Fire Emblem Heroes
30. Hot Take
1. First game played: (Does being a Roy main in SSBM count :p) Path of Radiance.... changed my life for so much the better. <3 i saw titania and soren's official art back then and honestly just fell in love with the character design on the spot. when my aunt gifted me a copy by chance i was done for. (fwiw her favorite character was volke when i showed her what all the characters looked like :p )
2. Best Story: Mentioned it to Prax, but Tellius i think still has some incredibly incisive writing that's going to stay timeless.
3. Most hours in: Considering that I have something like 70+ replays of Path of Radiance alone.... :D;; for a large chunk of my life whenever I had a big ~*life change/event*~ i would replay PoR to ground me. the last few years I've made an attempt to play other games (plus fates poleaxed me briefly), but i'm kinda overdue for one!
4. Favorite male character: what'dya think the person with several zihark icons and a whole shrine is going to say... :p him, gunter, valter, legault canas, (it's gotten to the point there's a running joke about my thing for purple traitor bastards).
5. favorite female character: Sanaki, Nailah, Titania, Camila, Corrin, Tanith....
6. Best villain: GUNTER FIRE EMBLEM YOU WILL REMAIN FOREVER ICONIC (to me) <3 I also thought Petrine, Travant, Valter, Lehran, Vaida were mega cool.
7. Favorite class: i have a soft spot for swordmasters for obvious reasons, but wyvern lords and dark mages are always a staple in my runs. generally i like tankier (edgier) classes who can take a hit and make shit Die. (swordmasters are kinda included in my definition of tanky with the dodgetanking tbh).
8. Most replayed: Aside from the tellius games, fates: revelation! there was a year when i was basically playing a rev run every other month for fanfic meta reasons lmao. generally i've played most FE games at least ~3 times.
9. Permadeath or no: almost always, yes. I think the only time I skipped it is in the harder modes of awakening/conquest; awakening when i was speedrunning trying to get to the spotpass characters, and some of CQ's maps are really unfair if you don't use the royals who are all mounted/flying with a good two-range attack. (I'm decent at beating revelation without the royals though).
10. Japan only games played: FE4, 5, 6; I think the only games I haven't played is 1, 2, 3, SoV, and Engage. (SoV is on my to-play list, the others are not).
11. Favorite support conversations: gunter/corrin s support with that fucking whip will never fail to make me grin :3c
12. Most underrated female character: Almedha, Reina, Orochi. i like the older ladies too :3c
13. Most underrated male character: Nasir - for as plot-important as he is in FE9 arguably to the level that soren is, i almost never see him mentioned in fandom! he's not even in heroes!
14. Villain you wish you could recruit: I know you can recruit Bryce in the bonus maps for fe9 but he was so cool. ;a; baby's first dilf crush in some ways.
15. Favorite weapon: nosferatsu, runesword :3 i looooove weapons/gimmicks that effectively steal HP and give it to you ( < totally not bright eyes related nosirree /s :P )
16. Swords, Axes, or Lances? axes probably by a slim margin; generally accuracy is not an enormous issue as much as strength is (especially for tellius), and hand-axes are just strong enough that once when they're available you can almost consistently run a game with those alone. i'd say bows over lances for me though.
17. Favorite mechanic: the bonus tower/ruins in sacred stones were so cool.... i almost remember that as much as the game itself, there was a sense of like... lore eeriness to both of those levels and exploration that lent itself so well to the monster/gothic apocalyptic vibe? i always wished ashera's tower had a similar 'bonus leveling' system where you explored way *down*.... (almost made a game of it myself lol)
18. Least favorite mechanic: i don't miss having to guard merlinus' caravan wagon in defense maps lmao. also having to train in the arena "in" the level itself and always risking a shit ton of levels if you had to restart.
19. Feature the series should bring back: devil axes!! did not like the gimmick weapons in fates (underpowered to the point of uselessness) but i loved how fe7 handled gimmick weapons like the devil axe - where there was genuinely a real risk to it attacking yourself but it was also powerful enough where you were tempted to use it. FE8 also handled monsters in such a cool way.
20. Feature the series should remove: sorry for like, harping on 3H LOL but really not fond of the 'wandering around the castle' minigames that 3H introduced (or a lot of stuff 3H introduced....). i think fates did a pretty okay job of making the base/castle stuff basically optional if you're just there for strategy/story rather than blorbo doting, but blorbo doting gets old pretty quick.
21. Weakest story: three houses; i liked hubert okay back when i played it but i've really soured on it lately.
22. FE or Advance Wars: real ones would say berwick saga :p
23. Favorite music track: FE7's main theme goes so hardcore.... i can still hum it on command, likewise the dread isle theme i think.
24. Favorite level: ch26 of revelation genuinely rewrote my brain for the horny villain vibes <3 that said 'shades of evil' and 'blood runs red' in early PoR have a magical storytelling vibe that genuinely just take me back to a very specific nostalgia, PoR's talrega map also has some incredibly great hidden lines if you use jill, and ashera's tower is still absurdly solid "climax" gameplay/story/design with just the right level of inhumanity/eeriness.
25. Recommended starting entry in your opinion: FE7 is so solid across all aspects; while my heart says either one of the tellius games, path of radiance's graphics are kinda janky and it's a bit easy (and RD has the 'need to know everything from PoR' aspect) .... the newer games are a lot flashier but there's a lot to love there with FE7.
26. Portable or console entries: i feel like console entries get a little more of the white glove treatment and love from the devs, plus they're easier for my bad eyes.
27. Most overrated male character: any lord or non-tellius royal character oh my god; i am a certified lord-hater. (part of why i like f!corrin and ike to a lesser extent so much is they both buck so many of the trends there).
28. Most overrated female character: pick anyone in 3H.
29. Fire Emblem Heroes: for a while there in 2020-2022 i played it regularly; fortunately right about the time when zihark got in. the strategic gameplay was fun, and the idea of collecting all of your favorite characters is a pretty solid one. that said the powercreep and some of the gacha-y changes in the last year have really put me off to the point I don't play it anymore.
30. Hot Take: my shipping opinions would get me shot XD (i have written about it on here in an older post but you'll have to go find it.)
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Date: 2026-01-23 05:34 am (UTC)shipping hot take: when we were playing PoR, i thought Nasir and Ena were together until it was revealed that he was her grandfather. and now i want fic that ships them even more. there are ZERO fics tagged Nasir/Ena on ao3