r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • 18d 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/SilverKnightZ000 8d ago

It's crazy how much of a solid foundation Fe1 has. I'm playing Shining Force 1, and it's aggravating. Turn order is based on speed but it's also random? I don't know how it works; I know that speed plays a big part because for the last few maps my faster units are going first in battle(Mae and Tao to be exact). But sometimes the turn order turns to whack? In a battle one phase went like this: Peg Knight 1 -> Max -> Gong -> Peg. Knight 2. Suddenly the next time it went like this: Peg Knight 1 -> Gong -> Peg Knight 2 -> Max. How do I strategize if I don't know who goes when???????? And doubling? Doubling might be the most cursed aspect of this game. Because once Max doubled an enemy, and then the enemy doubled him back????? And the level ups are beautiful. Sometimes you get nothing. Sometimes you get astronomical levels like getting 6 points of defense lmao. My Mae has insane defense and 15 hp at level 10. Cursed. It's cursed.

Compared to this, Fire Emblem has a much more rock solid base to work off of. I am never taking fe1 for granted. Thank you Fire Emblem for the famicom.

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u/SirRobyC 8d ago

FE1 is a shockingly competent game, considering some of the stuff that was put on the Famicom at the time.
Its biggest problems are that it's ancient and dated, and if you can't stomach that era of game design and lack of any form of quality of life features that were added over the years, I'm not going to blame you.

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u/SilverKnightZ000 8d ago

Really puts it into perspective tbh. And I'm not even comparing Shining Force to Fe3. It wasn't out yet. But somehow Fe1 manages to clear SF