Gaming I Don't Pick Fights I Can't Win: The Fire Emblem Series

Just in time for all that New Game + targeted DLC.

 

Well, that's my first playthrough finished. Got to say I don't regret picking the Black Eagles and I'll definitely consider it my canon playthrough. Taking down both the Church and the nobility? Sounds good to me.

I really liked the little "what happened to..." bits at the end as well. Some surprising but enjoyable pairings I must say.

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Yeaaaah, well I didn't buy the DLC luckily. I was thinking of getting it if they release new actual story content, like a whole new arc or something. I would definitely play that. I don't think I'd replay just to get a few new playable characters or outfits, though.

 

So I have started to really dive into Awakening..liking it so far, though I miss the opportunity to mingle in a set base like Three Houses.

Speaking of, Three Houses is up for Game of the Year at the Golden Joysticks. It has my vote already. Definitely my game of the year.

 

I want that to be a Genealogy remake on the sole condition that Imran Khan's speculation is on-point and they put it on Switch. Because otherwise I think my heart would break.

 

I mean more in the sense that I'm worried they may have just axed it entirely.

 

It's less "the numbering is funky" and more "the numbering doesn't exist." It was always a fan thing, and if it weren't for the fact that English language information clarifying this was so lacking for so long it'd be looked at with the kind of odd but understanding glance you give to someone who insists on calling A Link to the Past "Zelda III."

For example, in the US this was just Fire Emblem, in Japan it was Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken, the fans call it FE7 to "distinguish" it (I'm guilty of this myself), but, well:



Note the distinct lack of a 七 anywhere on that box.

Consequently, there isn't a uniform standard, and you get odd things like remakes being counted. It's mostly fading out of fashion as the series keeps going, and we'll all be better for it.

 

You should be highly skeptical of any theory coming out of SF, in particular one that assumes a Nintendo/IS convention is based on something from the western internet fandom - most interviews tend to indicate they do not understand the western fandom in the slightest, much less want to copy our numbering schemes. I think it's more likely that numbering was used as a placeholder during development if no title existed, which is why it gets "weird" immediately after the remakes (which, being the first "officially" numbered games in this bizarre narrative, should already be a red flag) and "never" included the cancelled BS title.

As for whether we'd be better off with official numbering - yeah, maybe, but Nintendo clearly isn't interested in official numbering, so portions of the fandom continuing to insist on the release order numbers strikes me as a combination of losing battle and gatekeeping hokum. I'm not a fan.

 

Which kind of inadvertently exposes the problem with this idea: it's not that clear cut. For example, half of Mystery of the Emblem ("FE3") is also the original game, so it trips up at the gate. This is the sequence of direct sequels a numbering scheme imposes:

1/half of 3 -> (2 but no one cares) -> half of 3 -> millennia of nothing important on the main continent -> 11
First Act of 4 -> 5 -> Second Act of 4
7 -> 6 ("Where did Mark and Lyn go?" you ask? **** you, that's where.)
9 -> 10 (Finally, the FE equivalent of the DMC2 situation)
8
12
13

And people had a conniption about FFX-2!

Edit: Anyway, somehow I got on this tirade train despite my real desire being to drool about the outside odds of a Genealogy remake that incorporates the plot and levels from Thracia into one big Jugdral epic, just do it you cowards it's all the same engine.

Also real talk that's the only way I'd ever replay Thracia, ugh.

 

I am definitely keeping an eye on whether they might have a fifth route or a story expansion of some kind. Because THAT I would buy the heck out of.

I would love love love to see a remake or two on Switch. Preferably using the lovely engine developed for Three Houses.

 

I agree, I suspect a lot of folks agree, but we may want to brace ourselves for the possibility that "Echoes" was just supposed to mirror "Fates" from a branding perspective. Which would double suck because the hell with Fates.

 

Guess who has one more battle left? That's right, ya girl is gonna finish it tonight and put Ramza to shame

 

I took like an extra two weeks to beat Awakening because I rerolled every possible spouse twice so yes, please beat it faster than me.

 

Lol you weirdo. But yeah, I finished Awakening. And I decided

Spoiler

to sacrifice Robin to ensure Grima doesn't come back.

Now I am gonna start Fates: Birthright to begin with. Then Conquest, then Revelations.

I also just bought a copy of Shadow Dragon. So I can finally know Marth as more than just a mythic or Smash Bros. character

 

Wow, my condolences.

 

Made it past the decision point and started Birthright. Liking the world so far.

 

Now if they had just remembered to make anything else stand out, or be engaging, or not lock the true route behind the DLC-only option...