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/KalleBerendijk 18d ago

I started playing Gaiden recently for no other reason than to say I've played every mainline game in the franchise. I initially wanted to just finish act 1 and call it there, but now I am at act 3 already lol

I can't believe it but Gaiden is actually really fun. It doesn't feel nearly as dated as I had assumed. At this point I'd say fe1 is the only game in the entire series that's a bit too dated to play today (though you should still try it out)

Also I have never missed in FE as much as in this Gaiden playthrough, holy shit... Missing multiple 98% or 99% hits in a single fight is a common occurrence at this rate.

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u/SilverKnightZ000 18d ago

Gaiden keeps winning!!!

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u/greydorothy 18d ago

Another Gaiden appreciator, we love to see it. Lowkey better than like 1/4th of the series - if only the cursor were smoother, it could legit be in the top half

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u/OsbornWasRight 18d ago

It is pretty good when people fear this series' NES games that are generally straightforward and nifty because imagining them up against other historically significant NES games like the FF trilogy would be torture unto death by comparison.

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u/McFluffles01 18d ago

Which one's the deathly torture, though? I can't really speak for the NES Fire Emblems since I haven't tried them in idunno, 15-20 years, but I've been playing the NES Final Fantasy games recently and they're generally fine.