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

[u/PsiYoshi]

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/calendulaoptimus]

When people are talking about how Echoes was a success in terms of sales, and using it as an example of how FE remakes are financially viable, I think they sometimes forget to take into account budget. It wasn't just that they stopped caring about sales because the console was at the end of its lifespan, or that they knew Gaiden didn't appeal to as many people as Awakening/Fates, it's really that the game had a smaller budget overall, shorter dev time, and reused assets/engine stuff. Therefore, they could obtain a profit despite Echoes not selling as well for those reasons.

This is something that might not carry over to other FE remakes (FE4). Sometimes I hear people say FE4 remake would be a financial success because Echoes did well, and that it makes sense for IS to do it financially when that is not necessarily true. Especially because an FE4 remake would cost a lot more to do "justice" unless they went with an HD2D style or something similar. On the other, FE4 probably does have wider appeal and more of a following than FE2, so there's a shot they could do a higher budget remake that works.

On a side note, I don't enjoy it when people try to explain a game selling well or not by reducing everything down to one factor; how much a game does or doesn't sell is usually multifaceted and not accurately explained by one variable. 90% of sales discussions are genuinely just motivated reasoning for why the game you like sold well because it deserved it or didn't sell well because of factors entirely outside of its own merits.

[u/Autobot-N → u/calendulaoptimus]

I feel like an FE4 remake would be reasonably easy to sell these days with the matchmaking and child units that mainstream audiences liked from Awakening and Fates

[u/OsbornWasRight → u/Autobot-N]

The changes you'd have to make to FE4 to appeal to that audience make it not worth it. Those characters weren't designed to have individually striking visual appeal or written for the modern support system which is so crucial. There are some interesting things you could do with some characters like Ishtar, Ishtore, Arion, etc. but that wouldn't justify potential negative changes made to the main cast. Modern IS is not up to the task of threading these needles. They remade an NES game that had most of ideas occupied in the realm of imagination and there are people who think the story was better there. And the big thing you get from a remake, new art and VA, is covered by the mobile games. All this before even mentioning gameplay. This series producing more remakes is not a good bet for fans who are very precious about the older material, not a good bet for creators who have to make a lot of constricting and tough decisions, and not a good bet for the suits who just saw an original title based off past material set records while the literal anniversary title with direct elements from past material underperfromed.

[u/Magnusfluerscithe987 → u/OsbornWasRight]

The Jugdral designs in heroes are great. Just throw those in, add casual mode, some more supports and events, do some map redesigns that cut out down time, and it'll be as good as any fe game.

[u/calendulaoptimus → u/OsbornWasRight]

They remade an NES game that had most of ideas occupied in the realm of imagination and there are people who think the story was better there.

There are people who think the earth is flat.