So! Voting’s over! Now, I’ll present to you the results, which are… interesting.
First of all, the Story ranking.
By the popular vote, the FE game with the best story is:
FE9: “Path of Radiance” with a total score of 4.57 points!
The second place belongs to FE4 with 4.41 points and the third to FE5 with 4.02 points.
The award for worst story goes FE14 “Fates” - Revelation route with an abyssmal 1.33 points.
I must say I’m surprised. I was sure FE4 would win by a large margin, but it seems you really like the FE9 story!
FE15 and the Blue Lions and Golden Deer routes of FE16 made it high, too. From the Kaga games, FE4 had the best story, from the GBA age it was FE8, FE9 was the best of the peroid before Awakening. Awakening was bashed very hard, getting the penultimate place before all the Fates games.
Gameplay!
The award for the best gameplay of the series goes to:
FE14 “Fates” - Conquest route with 4.11 points!
Not very surprising, Conquest is universally agreed to have the best gameplay despite its abysmall writting.
The second place goes ex equo to Blue Lions route of FE16 and FE10 with 3.86 points. Next we have the Golden Deer route with 3.83 points (closely followed by Black Eagles route with 3.8).
The award for worst gameplay goes to (again) Revelation. It’s a bad game.
Surprisingly FE6 got much worse score than the other GBA games.
Characters!
The award for the best characters in the series goes to:
FE9: “Path of Radiance” with 4.33 points!
Seems you really like FE9!
The second place goes to FE15 with 4.2 and the third to FE4 with 4.02 points.
Not really surprising all of these games are known to have great characters and story.
And the “award” for the worst story goes to:
Birthright!
Yes, not Revelation. I agree with that verdict - Birthright characters are so blad and boring.
Music!
And the award for the best music goes to:
FE15: “Echoes: Shadows of Valentia” with 4.53 points!
Technically the second place goes to Black Eagles and the third to Golden Deer, but I decided to merge FE16 for this one (since the music is mostly shared) which gives them a second place with 4.21 points. The third place goes to FE10 with 4.11 points.
The award for most bland OST goes to FE1 with 3.28. It’s kinda obvious as it was the first game and the software wasn’t particulary great yet.
The difference isn’t very big though, the music is very good through all of the series.
Difficulty!
And the award for the fairest diffculty in the series goes to:
FE9: “Path of Radiance” with 3.7 points!
The second place is FE8 with 3.62 and the third FE7 with 3.5
The difficulty seems to be either “OK” or “BULLSHIT” There’s little in between.
The award of most bullshit difficulty unsurprisingly goes to FE5 with 2.35 points. Well, it’s FE5 after all.
And now, overall score!
The award for the best FE game ever made goes to:
(drum rolls)
FE9: PATH OF RADIANCE WITH A TOTAL OF 4 POINTS!
Wow, you really like FE9. I must say I did not expect that. I would think that either FE4 of FE16 would win. But no - FE9 won! Nice!
Here’s the whole list:
1st place:
FE9: Path of Radiance
: 4 points
2nd place:
FE15: Echoes: Shadows of Valencia
: 3.87 points
3rd place:
FE4: Genealogy of the Holy War
: 3.8 points
4th place: FE16: Three Houses - Golden Deer route: 3.76 route
5th place: FE16: Three Houses - Blue Lions route: 3.73 points
6th place: FE16: Three Houses - Black Eagles route
and ex equo: FE10: Radiant Dawn: 3.64 points
7th place: FE8: Sacred Stones: 3.61 points
8th place: FE5: Thracia 776: 3.49 points
9th place: FE7: Blazing Sword: 3.41 points
10th place: FE16: Three Houses - Church route: 3.4 points
11th place: FE3: Mystery of the Emblem - 2nd book: 3.37 points
12th place: FE3: Mystery of the Emblem - 1st book: 3.21 points
13th place: FE14: Fates - Conquest: 3.18 points
14th place: FE6: Binding Blade: 3.11 points
15th place: FE11: Shadow Dragon: 3.08 points
16th place: FE13: Awakening: 3.06 points
17th place: FE12: New Mystery: 3 points
18th place: FE2: Gaiden: 2.96 points
19th place: FE14: Fates - Birthright: 2.81 points
20th place: FE1: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light: 2.8 points
21st place: FE14: Fates - Revelation: 2.54 points
I would like to thank everyone who voted. You guys and gals are the best!