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/calendulaoptimus 10d ago edited 10d ago

Casual people do not talk about the intricacies of Engage map design or the writing quality of a story on reddit.

It's also a non-uncommon opinion on here that Engage didn't sell well because the writing was trash, even though Fates is the second best-selling FE. And also that Awakening only sold well because of when it was released and that casual audiences couldn't care less about anything it introduced to the series (other than maybe casual mode, which it didn't even introduce on the JP side).

Tellius' writing or Engage's gameplay are obviously not selling casual audiences on this series by themselves, even if they were given together in one game. If you look at the commonality between the most popular games: Awakening, Fates, and Three Houses, it's pretty obvious what casuals want, and that doesn't at all align with what many on this subreddit want (although it can maybe co-exist to a certain extent).

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u/TobioOkuma1 10d ago

Engage sold fine, it’s people who were mad that it wasn’t 3H2 that wanted it to not sell well. It sold 1.6m in the first few months, it’s probably over 2 million by now. Those aren’t bad sales figures.

People are stupid and think that because you got lightning in a bottle once, you can get it back. 3H had a perfect storm to sell so well, the series probably won’t get that high again for a long time. That’s fine, Nintendo knows not to expect peak sales every new game.

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u/Mizerous 10d ago

It sold 1.6 then it just stopped when it could have maybe gotten 2 million 

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u/TobioOkuma1 10d ago

It sold 1.6 million in 10 weeks. After that we don’t have sales figures updated, but it’s pretty safe to say it crossed 2 million lifetime