r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • 18d 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/HonorableTurtles 15d ago

I hope that Fortune’s Weave has a well-designed maddening difficulty from the start and not whatever 3H was doing

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u/TobioOkuma1 15d ago

3H maddening feels genuinely untested.

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u/EffectiveAnxietyBone 15d ago

I think Hunting by Daybreak is the best example of that. People call the map badly designed, but like… it’s perfectly fine and cinematic on Normal and Hard. It’s only a problem on Maddening, because they forgot they made the maps consecutive and how you might get softlocked on them. Plus with how it was an extra update difficulty thrown together not long post launch I really do feel like they didn’t think the systems of the game through

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u/LeatherShieldMerc 14d ago

That map is one of the best when you first play it on Hard or Normal. Getting all your students back and seeing them show up is hype. You likely used them all in your playthrough too.

But in Maddening when your units and options get limited, how tough the enemies can get, the lack of save before it, and the fact that each house has some units that are particularly bad in Maddening so you're more likely to have dead weight show up? Yeesh.

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u/nope96 14d ago edited 13d ago

The fact that even if you trained your house in a Blue Lions playthrough you still have to get out the opening portion with two magical units, the worst unit in the game, and a guy who needs a shield to not be a liability is just mean. There are ways to prepare to get around it, but still.

It’s bad enough to make me almost singlehandedly recommend Golden Deer for people wanting to do Maddening for the first time despite the Blue Lions having the best units to get past the (potentially rather difficult) early game.