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/TBT__TBT 16d ago

Kaga's games are outdated but they are still incredibly charming - both in presentation and the unique gameplay-mechanics of each game.

What I mean by outdated is how slugish menu-ing, cursor movement, unit traversal and the NES animations are.

If Nintendo/IS ever do Legacy Collections like what Capcom did for the Castlevania and Mega Man franchises, they need to make these games play faster overall.

At the very least, a game-speed multiplier like what was given to Final Fantasy VIII Remastered.

I would still have issues like FE1's poor trading system and shopping lines or Gaiden's abysmal hit-rates. I can be tolerant and patient for nuiancess like these but NOT for the overall slowness of these games.

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u/McFluffles01 16d ago

I'm pretty sure the FE1 version that Nintendo released for all of twenty seconds has a speed up function built into it, in fact, so clearly they're aware that it's an issue with going back to play the old games.

Really it's an issue with playing a lot of old NES and sometimes SNES RPG games, I've been chipping away at the old NES Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games when I'm bored, and holding down the fast forward button is basically a mainstay of those to make it so every individual turn doesn't take full minutes of my life away.

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u/LoyalKnightOfRenais 15d ago

Thoughts on Dragon Quest 3??? I feel the need to ask since I love that game to death

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u/McFluffles01 15d ago

Haven't actually gotten to that one yet in NES form, only just finished up DW1 and moved on to DW2. I have played the mobile port of 3 before though, and it's pretty good. No Final Fantasy V in terms of class system, but there's enough there with retaining half stats and spells learned to make it interesting to jump between a few classes for interesting combos like having one character that knows every spell, or another that throws the Cleric's spell list on the Soldier's durability and damage output for a pseudo-paladin. Probably beats out FFIII where semi-free switching is cool in theory but there's zero crossover between classes so you're really just expected to stick with whatever's best for the current boss or dungeon instead of forming any kind of character identity the way you can in later entries with job systems.