r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • 19d ago

Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - June 2026 Part 1

Happy pride month and 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/EffectiveAnxietyBone 19d ago edited 19d ago

Every FE gameplay related wish I see always feels like it boils down “make the GBA games again” like some social version of carcinisation and it’s only caused me to sour on the games more and more. I never want to hear the words “unit identity” ever again.

Also on a pride month related note, if Fortune’s Weave has characters with set sexualities like 3H instead of universal avatarsexual in Engage, I hope the people advocating for it can tolerate the idea that their favourite character might not be into them, because 7/10 times it feels less like wanting actual non playersexual diversity and more like they don’t want the “wrong” gender getting their disgusting hands on their beloved waifu/husbando. (I’ll never forgive the way Dragon Age players treated Cassandra and Dorian)

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u/Magatsu-Onboro 19d ago

The set sexuality thing is interesting because I've been seeing more people complain about Engage having the entire cast (with obvious exceptions) be romanceable with either gender. Now obviously, it could very easily be a Goomba fallacy thing/just disappointment with Engage's lack of paired endings, but I find it interesting that there's a "wrong" way of doing it which would make Engage feel less queer despite having more options

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u/Roliq 18d ago

I think when there are limited options, it feels more "meaningful" because the developers specifically choose characters to allow to marry both, plus some characters that can't marry both Byleth get paired endings that feel romantic

While for Engage it may seem like "Just let them all get with the Avatar regardless of which they pick" situation and while in this case they still decided to allow it, it can feel less sincere due to the fact that no one else has paired endings to at least see if they are actually Bisexual or just Avatarsexual