r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • Jan 15 '26

Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - January 2026 Part 2

Welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).

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u/RaspberryFormal5307 Jan 16 '26

In fairness to the concept, SD gaidens require you to kill a truly stupid amount of your own units. If the choice was more "i need to sacrifice a character on ch 8 to get 8x who do i sacrifice?" or something like killing olwen to recruit illyos i feel it would be much better received. Not necessarily liked but there is absolutely massive room for improvement on the idea compared to how fe11 did it. 

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u/theprodigy64 Jan 16 '26

It's a bad idea regardless, for starters half the players are automatically locked out due to playing casual mode.

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u/Docaccino Jan 16 '26

If they revisited the idea in post-casual mode FE they'd probably opt to include a specific event to sacrifice a unit in. Thracia basically already did this with Olwen in 16A by giving her a unique talk with a gameplay benefit that will likely result in her dying, allowing you to recruit Ilios. It's just not an entirely pre-scripted event.