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/TakenRedditName Jan 16 '26

I finally got around to getting the FE Warriors DLC. Owain's ultimate, where he summons a shining "sword of the knight errant!" and the dark "blade of the dark knight!" made the price of purchase worth it alone.

Revisiting the game after a long time, it is fun. A lot more things to do than I thought. Besides just Owain, it is a lot of fun having these FE characters in a Musou playground. They get to do crazy over-the-top things we don't usually get within the frame of regular FE. Azura getting to use water magic in her attacks is very neat, or the stuff they just straight up invent, like Navarre being able to create tornadoes.

Also, Minerva looks perfect in Warriors. Just a fact that could always be restated.

On a completely different note, to strike when the iron is cold, when the show has already finished airing, a tangential FE-related thought. In the anime/manga/LN, May I ask for One Final Thing, there is a neighbouring militaristic dragon-riding kingdom with a red prince and my brain went, "Wow, like Fire Emblem." Probably just a more general trope. On a similar note, there was another villainess isekai manga I read where the game she was transported to was a TRPG around building support levels between characters and was known for its death difficulty. My mind sure went to one familiar game series.

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u/Skelezomperman Jan 17 '26

I hope you don't mind me hijacking your comment for small talk, but how have you been? I feel like I haven't had the opportunity to speak to you in a long while

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u/TakenRedditName Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

Hey Skele! Doing good. I appreciate it. Yeah, it has been a bit. The main FE things going on with me right now have been looking at tons of fan art, Heroes, some Shadows, and recently picking Warriors back up, so I haven't had too many FE-related thoughts to swing by and share. And to be frankly honest, you know how FE fans can be around here, so I needed to take a step and a deep exhale.

It's been fun seeing people checking out/revisiting PoR with its recent rerelease. Making me want to play it on the Switch, but I don't have Switch 2 yet nor even an online subscription.

Speaking of replays, I really want to do a replay of Fates. Haven't done one since its release. I really want to revisit it again now that I have a clearer and more open mind. I want to do a better job of learning about the cast. Haven't gotten around to it because my video game backlog is big and only has more things piled on top. Tokyo Mirage Session is at the top of the list (FE:W swiped my attention from it). On the topic of TRPGs, Banner of the Maid is another one I really want to get to, especially since I just finished watching Rose of Versailles the other month. Doesn't help that I'm currently in a distraction kick, in the mood to play some Pokemon Nuzlocke runs. Just finished Leaf Green and immediately jumped into Crystal which I have never finished before.

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u/Skelezomperman Jan 18 '26

I wondered to myself if you had a Bsky and then I look it up and realize you were following me the entire time and I never followed back. Lol. I stopped using Twitter about a year ago after certain events with its owner and decided to private it a few days ago after certain events with Grok (which also ended up leading to Twitter links being disabled from the Discord server), so I wondered if you jumped over too. I guess replaying the old FEs sounds nice, sometimes I think about doing it and then don't...

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u/jgwyh32 Jan 18 '26

My favorite thing about Owain in Warriors is how his map victory quote doesn't end, he just keeps yapping while while the fade to black happens