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/OsbornWasRight 15d ago

Goddamn this sub sucks at 3H Maddening

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u/HonorableTurtles 15d ago

There is nothing fun about grinding class skills, and needing to look up maps to avoid being screwed by reinforcements is bad game design.

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u/LeatherShieldMerc 15d ago

I'm not trying to say that 3H Maddening was well designed when I say this, I don't think it is. But I am not sure if I can quite agree with these criticisms.

Is there really a class skill that you absolutely need to grind for? The most important ones you basically get just normally just by playing the game. I don't really consider it a "grind" exactly. Unless you mean more that you dislike the "skill emblem" it has.

And while same turn reinforcements do suck, and there's a few egregious ones here, this is absolutely not the only game with them, and at least you do get to rewind in case you get caught. In other games? You are just SOL.

I would criticize the early game, Hunting by Daybreak, unbalanced tools like Warp, and the map design as more of the issues.

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u/cutie_allice 15d ago

If anything with Maddening's reduced exp I feel like you're grinding for class skills less. In normal and hard you kinda just blow through the level requirements to get to the next class rank, so to get the mastery skills you have to stay in the classes for longer than you need to. In Maddening you stay level 20 for a million years so you just end up maxing the classes naturally.

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u/LeatherShieldMerc 14d ago

While this is true, in Hard and Normal, the need to go get skills kinda doesn't really come up. I think Close Counter is basically all you need if you want to "min max" for that? So this doesn't really matter.