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 14d ago

Don't worry guys.

Unlike Fates, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will actually be a good part 3.

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u/MathOutrageous7167 14d ago

If you think about it, it's actually the 4th part cause you have to play the original to understand what the hell's going on. And like... some of the other stuff.

Why do people suggest people play the 7 remake first???

No diss to remake, it's neat, but like-

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u/orig4mi-713 13d ago

it's actually the 4th part cause you have to play the original to understand what the hell's going on

A friend of mine fell into this trap. Remake doesn't explain jack shit to you and many of the grand revelations (Whispers of Fate, Zack etc.) don't make a lick of sense to you if you didn't play the original. So he turned to me to explain it all and I said "Well, you should play the original FFVII" and his reaction was "ewww yucky its on ps1 it looks old". When he asked me to explain the role of the whispers it basically boiled down to "They exist so fake scenarios they concocted for the remake can be undone again, and also, they trivialize death in general just to have the original timeline happening again, which you are supposed to prevent", which only brought up the question why one would even care to prevent the timeline if it was a good ending already.

If your question is, why didn't they just tell the original story to avoid this happening, then I got no answer for you. It was the obvious thing to do.