We need more knight triangle attacks. Think of all the best FE games. They all have knight triangle attacks. FE6, FE12 if you reclass Cord, Bord and Barst into knights, FE8 if you hack the game to make Vanessa, Tana and Syrene knights. Clearly the recipe for success, which has been forgotten by IntSys, is knight triangle attacks. #BringBackKnightTriangleAttacks
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Bland level design has been turning me away from later entries in the series.
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You know what the REAL problem with modern FE is? The oft-overlooked deficiency that makes the recent games feel drab and uninspired?
I’m sure we all know that modern triple-A game development requires a lot more in terms of man hours and money, largely due to the increasing complexity and fidelity of cutting-edge graphics, animation, and sound. This results in more effort to create less content. For example, I suspect the reason for 3H’s egregious map reuse was the fact that each map was a fully-rendered 3D environment with impressive but ultimately unnecessary detail. But what’s even sadder - what we’re poorer in than maps these days - is characters.
No, I don’t mean the playable characters - the devs give those their full effort, as they should. I mean the villains. The bosses. There is a breed of delightfully despicable, fascinating, scruffy little villain that is sadly going extinct. These named bosses, with their unique portraits and dialogue, are so good at worming their way into my heart - into yours too, I suspect. Who among us does not have a favorite little quickly-killed-off bad guy whom we love in all defiance of their limited screentime? But to the modern game developer, it’s simply not worth it to make a 3D model and hire a voice actor to deliver three lines of dialogue in one chapter. Therefore the big bad these days has 2-4 medium bads that they send out for the heroes to foil, repeatedly, and we only get to kill them in the penultimate chapter if we’re lucky. The rest of the maps we face faceless monsters, playable characters turned villain (since they’ve got the assets already), and an early-game bandit leader, begrudgingly kept on out of tradition. I shake my head and weep at what Fire Emblem has become.
(In case anyone couldn’t tell, yes this is a shitpost. While my scorn for modern-day graphics nonsense is quite sincere, I still love the games despite their flaws and I think the series is going strong.)
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This franchise is diseased, rotten to the core. There’s no saving it.
Awakening wasn’t the exact start of it but it was the accelerant.
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SigmaRaven aka Bigmood
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SO TRUE
Every time I post “what if FE has tanks”, or “what if FE had an archer lord”, I keep getting referred that hack or whatever. I don’t give a crap about hacks, I’m trying to talk aboiut FE, damn it.
Hacks like Tearring Saga are poisoning FE.
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lack of sauce, play yggdra union
(I didn’t play engage but I did fw what they were cooking gameplay wise (which is low key just making it more yggdra coded lol))
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It was better when I was in the target audience. FE needs to bestow upon me a fountain of youth for it to be great again
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First they added Venin weapons, and those were fine in moderation, but then they had to go and add Poison Strike, and now every knife is poison??? When will it stop???
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Okay but as a bossman enjoyer, this is unironically true. Engage with its like, six bossmen makes me so sad. They had an absolutely wonderful bossman in Nelucce who makes the most of his limited screentime, made history by creating the very first ever female brigand boss and then proceeded to just stop having bosses on chapter 9.
If we had more throwaway bosses we wouldn’t have had to fight the Four Clowns over and over for like half the game and they could’ve been the threat they deserved to be. #BringBackBossmen
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The next game is going to focus even harder on making your units into gods so the player doesn’t have to think.
Time-wasting filler content and minigames will become more mandatory with each game.
Time and money will be wasted for animations, gimmicks, minigames, anything so the guy who just made his OP units even more OP can feel like he’s a genius responsible for choosing that growth, even though a youtube video told him what options to focus on and which ones were traps.
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The next game will make going to the gym mandatory (in home)
Want to increase your unit’s Speed? Run with your switch
Want to increase your unit’s Strength? attach the joy-con dumbells to your controller and start lifting
Want to increase your HP? Don’t worry, here is your Emblem Diet.
Want to increase your Resistance?
You’re screwed. Cope.
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Gotta get that Sunday Church attendance up if you want Resistance. Of course, you’ll have to bring the Switch with you for the service.
Defense will be hard to train though. The new Switch Punching Bag accessory will be made available for the game for $29.99 so that you can finally make armor knights good again.
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Would it be silly of me to say that keeping half of the series locked away in Japan is a bit poisoning? The nostalgia games only work because we had to pirate all those old titles, except for the first game getting a remake (but not the sequel, let’s keep that in Japan again). Square wizened up and brought over all the FF games a long time ago, what’s IS waiting for? What’s Nintendo waiting for?
Like, I’m not wrong, am I? I didn’t miss a big classic FE collection, did I?
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Unironically, Ring Fit integration into Engage would have been awesome. I’m already exercising daily again (I was a REALLY fat kid/teenager because I was fed awful food and normally never allowed out) so it’d be cool to combine mandatory busywork minigames and important daily exercises. It’d be sort of like removing those mandatory busywork minigames, or at least what makes them a blight on game playability and replayability.
Sega was selling the roms on Steam before they remembered they’re a corporation in a capitalist country and decided to scam people with buggy rereleases of games they already owned. Nintendo should do that too. They won’t, this is Nintendo we’re talking about, they unironically hate people and get away with things Blizzard and EA couldn’t dream of. But it’d be cool if they did remember Steam and the Eshop lets companies sell roms. Man, I miss the Eshop.
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I think the question is kind of stupid. i don’t think there’s anything actively bad about modern fire emblem. Obviously there have been design choices and trends along the path which haven’t been to my liking, but honestly if you play a handful of the early, mid, and new games I don’t feel you’ll find huge distinctions in quality among the different eras.
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Oh, we had a Fire Emblem like that and it was pretty good
its called Wii Sports Resort, where true to the Fire Emblem Franchise, half the enemies need to be doubled in order for you to even kill them
weird that they pulled a gaiden echoes and removed the weapon triangle
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It was all swords anyways.