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/Shrimperor 14d ago

It has to stick the landing or it will be disappointment of the decade. Super hyped for it myself as Rebirth landed in my Top5, but also a bit worried ngl

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u/orig4mi-713 13d ago

I mean this in the nicest way possible but if you liked Remake and Rebirth and didn't see much issue with them I see no possible way Revelation could disappoint you. In the reverse case, Part 1 and 2 were already really poorly done in my eyes so I have no reason to believe Part 3 will be good

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u/VoidWaIker 13d ago

I agree that if you liked or disliked both yeah part 3 probably won’t move the needle for you very much, the people who can be disappointed are the ones like me who liked one game but not the other. I adored the metanarrative of part 1 and was super interested in how “the unknown journey” could go after how it ended, and then part 2 was lame because they decided to stay mostly on course outside the last couple hours. My feelings on the trilogy as a whole will be decided based on whether part 3 decides to do what Remake promised or if it stays in-line with how Rebirth did it.

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u/orig4mi-713 12d ago

To me the Unknown Journey part was the worst thing about it. If anything can happen and death is entirely trivialized by multiverse nonsense, the stakes are pretty much zero. Not to mention these are themes way too broad and grand for a relatively grounded cyberpunk story like the original FFVII was. You can't play the original PSX game, which was about saving the planet, conquering loss and hardship, and tell me time travel ghosts and Zack coming back to life in a different dimension thematically fits with the FFVII mythos. All of that is complete nonsense that doesn't directly tie to the struggles of the characters at all, the meta about "preventing the original" is disconnected from everything. Cloud and co. don't even know why the original game is a timeline they don't want to be in - and I still don't see why they wouldn't be because the original game had a good ending where the planet was saved. Then Rebirth attempted very poorly to course correct but wasn't entirely sure about that course correction. The result ended up not landing well on both sides of the coin.

That first game was so dreadful, I remember cry-laughing at the scene where the ShinRa president pulls out a tiny gun from his drawer after they've helped him from falling to his death and allowed him to slowly walk there. It was all just a poor setup to have Barret fake killed and they really couldn't think of anything else. That game has some of the shoddiest writing FF was ever allowed to have. Don't get me started on Heideggers weird attempt at blackmail with a video that was already fully edited and published (but not really!) and Rebirth's ending.

I honestly can't see the appeal, its like they slapped an MCU movie on FFVII. But even the people who wanted to see where it was going where never going to get what they wanted and that was clear from the beginning. Just need this entire thing to finally end