I binge watched all your snes reviews after watching this one and came right back here. This playlist is godly and you are the most underrated youtuber I know. Keep at it!
Hi. I've been recently playing this game and stumbled on this review and wanted to give my take. *note: I liked the review. Especially when it was acknowledged as a good game despite having a bad experience playing it. I think it was a somewhat fair review with what you experienced. This is going to be a chonky boi so thanks to anyone reading. Hints: the complaint about how you were supposed to know that thief's can open Bridges and that the armory triggers wyvern riders can be solved by visiting villages who tells you those things. Granted this can be missed but at least there are answers that point you in the right direction. Permadeath: I played Fe6 trying to keep all of my units alive and my 2nd Fe game that I played through. It was a chore and I had a bad experience with the game. A year later, I came back and had a better playthrough with less resets. This is where I realized that the game is designed around your units dieing. There's even a staff in Fe3 that let's you revive a dead unit. Granted there are still a few characters that you will want to reset for but the game gives you enough tools such as more units, and a revival staff to keep on trucking. It is even possible to beat medius using parthia, mercius, and Tiki without using the falchion, even though it might be difficult. Experience and Conclusion: Obviously, your experience of the game will be effected on how experienced you are at playing the game. Playing Fire emblem casually and then playing Fe3 is a tough transition and shows on how it would be a struggle to get through. Especially when you're trying to get through the game super fast. I'm more experienced with oldschool fire emblem and took my time, therefore liking the game more.If you ever comeback to this game as a more experienced fire emblem player having learned from past playthroughs, I think you will enjoy the game and respect it a little more. After replaying fe6 I respected it a little more even though, it's far from my favorite Fe game or favorite game in general. In Conclusion, I am not trying to say this game is the best and ur bad at fire emblem. I'm trying to defend this game despite the slow gameplay, having to replay 3 chapters if you die at the final boss, and being potentially soflocked because I overall enjoyed/ am enjoying this game. Goodluck if you ever play Thracia, that makes thos game look sooo easy in comparison, and thanks for reading my tiny essay. It took effort and time to make this exist. I'll be watching ur other videos now.
I MISSED THIS ON PREMIERE DAY!? OOF. Never got into the Fire Emblem series, but my cousin LOVES it. He's big into the perma death thing and the hardcore strategy twist.
Genealogy is a good game if you play it with save states. And you should play all classic videogames with save states, because almost all of them were made to keep kids busy for a long time despite little actual content.
@@thewingedavenger1007 To be fair, Genealogy was designed with saving at any time in mind anyways, so using savestates isn't changing the experience that much in the first place.
@@thewingedavenger1007I would disagree, unless you are using it to put it down and pick it back up later. If I played Castlevania with save states, I think I would be mad at myself.
You know, I used to be similarly neurotic about keeping everyone alive until I came across Excelblem, who taught me that it's not just okay but it's hilarious when you lose units and hours of progress. Seriously, watch his Ironman run of "How to Beat Fire Emblem 11 in the Worst Way Possible". It will change your life.
The only advice I can give here for the classic fe games is just keep going and don't worry too much, the less you give a fuck about deaths, the less tedious the game becomes
I couldn't tell you exactly why but more than any other SNES game you've reviewed I kind of want to play this game now xD Maybe it was the Fire Emblem Smash music that did it. Huge props for getting through such a trying and titanic experience. Loved this video by the way, exceptionally entertaining and well edited! That dragon final boss looks cool lol
Actually the story of fire emblem isn’t good until genealogy of holy war, but that how game story were in the nes with early snes era. Final fantasy one through three were basically the same game story wise when it was on nes, same with early dragon quest, but at the time it was considered good deep story.
No fucking way. Final Fantasy 1 (the first game, only the first) actually has a CONDENSED, short, no-nonsense story telling. "Oh, my Item, thanks! Here, take this." "I'm fine, you can go now. Bye." No nonsense... that was lost in future releases... Pokemon games also have short, condensed story telling, self-aware too. Japanese story telling is usually HORRID.
This is a great example of a game which would benefit greatly from the existence of Cheat Codes in it, so people that can't be arsed with the slow painful strategy can rush through the game with invincible units and appreciate the environments, the graphics, the story, etc.
after playing Xcom games I have developed detachment towards humans (just kidding) doesn't matter how many times I play that game, it's always hard accepting that a unit died, even more after you built up its attributes
You say book 2 is more forgiving but is still really easy to be locked out of the final few chapters and the good ending. The ending you do get is still more satisfying than being forced to stop at the final boss at least. Also while most of your complaints in this video are totally valid, if you'll allow me to be mean for just a second: haha, you risked replaying 3 chapters on a 30% that was absolutely your fault.
I beat Thracia (FE5) a couple years ago. It was traumatizing but somehow I find myself wanting to play another FE on the SNES. Thank you for reminding me what I am getting into...Think I might play Legend of Mana instead.
does it matter? I`m adulting hard nowadays. Finding a whole hour to play is a privilege and if savestates weren`t a thing i would never finish a game like these. So i just play them and limit myself as much as possible but i wont replay loner scenarios 5 times.
I didn't know here on Book I you could also get soft locked just as the original FE1, wth. Well I agreed with most of your points this time around. Like the exact same thoughts on the mountain dragon knights part. I like FE3 but it really doesn't respect the player's time.
Based review, even though I like FE3 and its remakes. I actually like the remakes more. They move like 20x faster lol. I can't stand this slow motion Super Nintendo shit lmfao.
@RoanokemimionRS the only issue with 5 is that nothing is telegraphed. Not the gaiden maps, not the scrolls, not the secret dancer promotion, nothing.
If it took you so long to beat this game then there's something with playstyle, not the game Most of your complains came from incompetence, the game is simple and not that hard. Story is also good. And also, I don't see why having to move your units one by one is a problem, the game is a SRPG so that's kinda a point
Live A Live? If you look at the title screen, you'll notice the game is called "A Live Evil" (where "live" is pronounced as in a live concert). The word "A" is in the forefront, making it the first word, and the last word is clearly "evil".
Waaaaait wait wait wait You bought all the Fire Emblem games and skipped the story sequences? So you got them.... only for the gameplay?? But I thought you said Shin Megami Tensei 5 SUCKED because even though the gameplay was fine, the plot didn't capture your interest 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I remember when the Nes version came out and everyone went crazy over it. "Oh my god! YES! Finally we get to play this old classic." We got a limited time to buy this old game. Only the original Nes. Not the SNES remake. The original NES game. NO not the DS remake either. Just the Nes version.... Not interested in the sligthest. I played Shado Dragon on the DS to death. I have no interest in playing an inferior version of that game. Even if it is really cheap.
this is one of those games that shows how designers can use frustration to lead to celebratory release. this one is too slow in terms of pace but I think the core works because of the frustration, not in spite of it.
FE really, really went down the wrong path, at the end of the 3DS when it became Nintendo's number two after Pokemon, with all the QOL improvements of life... Fire Emblem to me was all about the risk and reward of item and experience management, and it's designed even if you lose a character a map, you should be able to finish the game
"Four Worthless Bodies" I dunno, man. Sirius and Merric are supposedly pretty good guys. You'd have to suck massively to screw over Sirius short of killing him. (If you DID get Sirius killed, then you actually have my condolences.)
I'm with you on the story... before diving into the series i heard how some stories were incredible and how some are not that good. Still trying to find those incredible ones cause i actually read some books and in all honesty there is NOTHING original o outstanding in any FE i played so far. I did enjoy 4 and PoR/s stories but i wouldn´t say they are legendary or even great....
Damn. I thought I was the only one who skipped all the story in these games! I absolutely hate the story from what I can tell. I love 3 houses but I can not handle all the talking. I really just want to fight man.
@@chadmolitor6691 all the talking in japanese games get very tiresome after a while holy shit... if the story was even good, but not even that... horrid pacing too (might have something to do with the fact that japanese are born into a meat-grinder system having to go full-time school during their youth and jumping into full-time work in their adulthood, including "drinks with boss"... basically no free time)
no free time meaning "no time for developing imagination or creativity" just a bunch of robots and I think that reflects directly in their "story" telling skills (visibly lacking)
@@chadmolitor6691 that's why I enjoyed Pokemon series, they were self-aware enough to limit the story to a few lines at a time (not paragraphs of nonsense) and they would even break the 4th wall with the player sometimes... Final Fantasy 1 been surprising me a lot too (Square wanted to "fix" the game, meaning "worsen" it, but luckily the dev who coded it encrypted the code and flipped the finger to them, guy called Nasir, interesting character for sure)
4:00 the careful ironic selection of background music from a RACING GAME to use in a video talking about such a painfully slow game Internet Clapping ensues. Well done 🤣🤣🤣
Damn. I thought I was the only one who skipped all the story in these games! I absolutely hate the story from what I can tell. I love 3 houses but I can not ha idle all the talking. I really just want to fight man.
I binge watched all your snes reviews after watching this one and came right back here. This playlist is godly and you are the most underrated youtuber I know. Keep at it!
Welcome to Kaga Emblem.
Hi. I've been recently playing this game and stumbled on this review and wanted to give my take.
*note: I liked the review. Especially when it was acknowledged as a good game despite having a bad experience playing it. I think it was a somewhat fair review with what you experienced. This is going to be a chonky boi so thanks to anyone reading.
Hints: the complaint about how you were supposed to know that thief's can open Bridges and that the armory triggers wyvern riders can be solved by visiting villages who tells you those things. Granted this can be missed but at least there are answers that point you in the right direction.
Permadeath: I played Fe6 trying to keep all of my units alive and my 2nd Fe game that I played through. It was a chore and I had a bad experience with the game. A year later, I came back and had a better playthrough with less resets. This is where I realized that the game is designed around your units dieing. There's even a staff in Fe3 that let's you revive a dead unit. Granted there are still a few characters that you will want to reset for but the game gives you enough tools such as more units, and a revival staff to keep on trucking. It is even possible to beat medius using parthia, mercius, and Tiki without using the falchion, even though it might be difficult.
Experience and Conclusion: Obviously, your experience of the game will be effected on how experienced you are at playing the game. Playing Fire emblem casually and then playing Fe3 is a tough transition and shows on how it would be a struggle to get through. Especially when you're trying to get through the game super fast. I'm more experienced with oldschool fire emblem and took my time, therefore liking the game more.If you ever comeback to this game as a more experienced fire emblem player having learned from past playthroughs, I think you will enjoy the game and respect it a little more. After replaying fe6 I respected it a little more even though, it's far from my favorite Fe game or favorite game in general.
In Conclusion, I am not trying to say this game is the best and ur bad at fire emblem. I'm trying to defend this game despite the slow gameplay, having to replay 3 chapters if you die at the final boss, and being potentially soflocked because I overall enjoyed/ am enjoying this game. Goodluck if you ever play Thracia, that makes thos game look sooo easy in comparison, and thanks for reading my tiny essay. It took effort and time to make this exist. I'll be watching ur other videos now.
I MISSED THIS ON PREMIERE DAY!?
OOF.
Never got into the Fire Emblem series, but my cousin LOVES it. He's big into the perma death thing and the hardcore strategy twist.
If you are going to play Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776 you wil rage like a dinosaur streaming.
Genealogy is a good game if you play it with save states. And you should play all classic videogames with save states, because almost all of them were made to keep kids busy for a long time despite little actual content.
@@thewingedavenger1007 You're kinda right. I think that gives retro games some unique charm.
@@thewingedavenger1007 To be fair, Genealogy was designed with saving at any time in mind anyways, so using savestates isn't changing the experience that much in the first place.
@@thewingedavenger1007I would disagree, unless you are using it to put it down and pick it back up later. If I played Castlevania with save states, I think I would be mad at myself.
You know, I used to be similarly neurotic about keeping everyone alive until I came across Excelblem, who taught me that it's not just okay but it's hilarious when you lose units and hours of progress.
Seriously, watch his Ironman run of "How to Beat Fire Emblem 11 in the Worst Way Possible". It will change your life.
The only advice I can give here for the classic fe games is just keep going and don't worry too much, the less you give a fuck about deaths, the less tedious the game becomes
I really enjoy watching your "reviews" because they contain a lot of "insight". You're really "good" at what you do. You're my "favorite" youtuber!
I also use "quotes" in sentences. Yes, he's an "youtuber"
I couldn't tell you exactly why but more than any other SNES game you've reviewed I kind of want to play this game now xD Maybe it was the Fire Emblem Smash music that did it.
Huge props for getting through such a trying and titanic experience. Loved this video by the way, exceptionally entertaining and well edited! That dragon final boss looks cool lol
Supposedly the snes sequels are better. This one is still fun though
Whats funny is that until Awakening this was THE best selling fire emblem game.
Actually the story of fire emblem isn’t good until genealogy of holy war, but that how game story were in the nes with early snes era. Final fantasy one through three were basically the same game story wise when it was on nes, same with early dragon quest, but at the time it was considered good deep story.
No fucking way. Final Fantasy 1 (the first game, only the first) actually has a CONDENSED, short, no-nonsense story telling. "Oh, my Item, thanks! Here, take this." "I'm fine, you can go now. Bye." No nonsense... that was lost in future releases... Pokemon games also have short, condensed story telling, self-aware too. Japanese story telling is usually HORRID.
This is a great example of a game which would benefit greatly from the existence of Cheat Codes in it, so people that can't be arsed with the slow painful strategy can rush through the game with invincible units and appreciate the environments, the graphics, the story, etc.
LOL the orbs thing is the ultimate meta-fire emblem. They give you chances to not only lose your level, but your whole game.
This madlad skipped Three Houses' story. What a power move.
7:48 These play so much like separate chapters that the remake went and made them three chapters
Love the SNES art style but would want this with the GBA speed. There's gotta be a ROM hack for this.
To defeat Medeus in book 1 you can use Tiki
You do know this game is disinged with you losing units
shame I'm a Bad Gamer™
after playing Xcom games I have developed detachment towards humans (just kidding)
doesn't matter how many times I play that game, it's always hard accepting that a unit died, even more after you built up its attributes
You say book 2 is more forgiving but is still really easy to be locked out of the final few chapters and the good ending. The ending you do get is still more satisfying than being forced to stop at the final boss at least.
Also while most of your complaints in this video are totally valid, if you'll allow me to be mean for just a second: haha, you risked replaying 3 chapters on a 30% that was absolutely your fault.
The guy in the new profile pic suits you
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This is one of the best videos you've made in a long time. Keep It up
You speak the truth!
I beat Thracia (FE5) a couple years ago. It was traumatizing but somehow I find myself wanting to play another FE on the SNES. Thank you for reminding me what I am getting into...Think I might play Legend of Mana instead.
Legend of Mana is cool! I never see it get mentioned, but I had fun with it.
You were playing on an emulator and I have doubts you had the self control to resist using save states to save several hours.
does it matter? I`m adulting hard nowadays. Finding a whole hour to play is a privilege and if savestates weren`t a thing i would never finish a game like these. So i just play them and limit myself as much as possible but i wont replay loner scenarios 5 times.
@@Lwilibert Why so defensive? I'm not going to come to your home and slap the controller out of your hand for save scumming.
"sets my piss ablaze" has to be the funniest expression I've heard in a long time
I didn't know here on Book I you could also get soft locked just as the original FE1, wth. Well I agreed with most of your points this time around.
Like the exact same thoughts on the mountain dragon knights part.
I like FE3 but it really doesn't respect the player's time.
I knew someone who had this and when I said I never played it he looked at me and said 'this game will break you'.
Just wait till fe 4
Based review, even though I like FE3 and its remakes. I actually like the remakes more. They move like 20x faster lol. I can't stand this slow motion Super Nintendo shit lmfao.
I am a really big fan of your reviews, they contain a lot of insight and I'm literally binge watching them all lol coz their so good :) keep it up!
I think it's funny that another game, also published by Nintendo, smash bros. has a blue haired guy named Marth. How'd that one slip by?
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!
Fe4 and 5 are significantly better from a qol improvement however. The game play of fe4 is very unique while fe5 is just weird.
Fe5 the best one
@RoanokemimionRS the only issue with 5 is that nothing is telegraphed. Not the gaiden maps, not the scrolls, not the secret dancer promotion, nothing.
If it took you so long to beat this game then there's something with playstyle, not the game
Most of your complains came from incompetence, the game is simple and not that hard.
Story is also good. And also, I don't see why having to move your units one by one is a problem, the game is a SRPG so that's kinda a point
Facts. There's a reason why Japan thinks this is the best FE game and is really the only one to appear on Japanese magazines' best game lists.
I love your reviews, also i'm excited to see your thoughts on Live A Live
Live A Live? If you look at the title screen, you'll notice the game is called "A Live Evil" (where "live" is pronounced as in a live concert). The word "A" is in the forefront, making it the first word, and the last word is clearly "evil".
@@thewingedavenger1007 It means a lot more after you play the game, you realize why the title has "evil" in it
You make excelent reviews! Conglaturations! You are a great poser!
Waaaaait wait wait wait
You bought all the Fire Emblem games and skipped the story sequences? So you got them.... only for the gameplay??
But I thought you said Shin Megami Tensei 5 SUCKED because even though the gameplay was fine, the plot didn't capture your interest 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I fucking love this game
I remember when the Nes version came out and everyone went crazy over it.
"Oh my god! YES! Finally we get to play this old classic."
We got a limited time to buy this old game. Only the original Nes. Not the SNES remake. The original NES game. NO not the DS remake either.
Just the Nes version.... Not interested in the sligthest. I played Shado Dragon on the DS to death. I have no interest in playing an inferior version of that game. Even if it is really cheap.
this is one of those games that shows how designers can use frustration to lead to celebratory release. this one is too slow in terms of pace but I think the core works because of the frustration, not in spite of it.
are there cheat codes in this game?
I would love to cheat my way through a game like this just to appreciate the levels, the environments, etc
how slow these games can get tends to be why i can't get into srpgs.
FE really, really went down the wrong path, at the end of the 3DS when it became Nintendo's number two after Pokemon, with all the QOL improvements of life...
Fire Emblem to me was all about the risk and reward of item and experience management, and it's designed even if you lose a character a map, you should be able to finish the game
"Four Worthless Bodies"
I dunno, man. Sirius and Merric are supposedly pretty good guys. You'd have to suck massively to screw over Sirius short of killing him. (If you DID get Sirius killed, then you actually have my condolences.)
Brown Bricks.
Yeah.... there's a reason I don't want to play FE 3
are there Cheat Codes to rush through the game?
or at least I would attempt some kind of ROM hacking to boost my units and don't care about dying
@@FeelingShrednope. You gotta push through it with your brain. The game is an RPG, but also a STRATEGY rpg.
I'm with you on the story... before diving into the series i heard how some stories were incredible and how some are not that good. Still trying to find those incredible ones cause i actually read some books and in all honesty there is NOTHING original o outstanding in any FE i played so far. I did enjoy 4 and PoR/s stories but i wouldn´t say they are legendary or even great....
Fire Emblem walked so Disgaea could run lol
And then Disgaea tripped at full speed due to the auto battle function.
Damn. I thought I was the only one who skipped all the story in these games!
I absolutely hate the story from what I can tell. I love 3 houses but I can not handle all the talking. I really just want to fight man.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
@@JasonGravesPoser DOZENS? 😳😳😳
@@chadmolitor6691 all the talking in japanese games get very tiresome after a while holy shit... if the story was even good, but not even that... horrid pacing too (might have something to do with the fact that japanese are born into a meat-grinder system having to go full-time school during their youth and jumping into full-time work in their adulthood, including "drinks with boss"... basically no free time)
no free time meaning "no time for developing imagination or creativity"
just a bunch of robots
and I think that reflects directly in their "story" telling skills (visibly lacking)
@@chadmolitor6691 that's why I enjoyed Pokemon series, they were self-aware enough to limit the story to a few lines at a time (not paragraphs of nonsense) and they would even break the 4th wall with the player sometimes... Final Fantasy 1 been surprising me a lot too (Square wanted to "fix" the game, meaning "worsen" it, but luckily the dev who coded it encrypted the code and flipped the finger to them, guy called Nasir, interesting character for sure)
4:00 the careful ironic selection of background music from a RACING GAME to use in a video talking about such a painfully slow game
Internet Clapping ensues. Well done
🤣🤣🤣
Damn. I thought I was the only one who skipped all the story in these games!
I absolutely hate the story from what I can tell. I love 3 houses but I can not ha idle all the talking. I really just want to fight man.
Swiper no swiping!