it's just simply too easy imo like I finished it on lunatic with almost zero trouble and that was when I was not good at fire emblem

I now want a fire emblem anime. Nintendo please make one!!

"Birthright is like blazing blade while conquest is like new mystery of the emblem" And revelation is like echoes/gaiden which have too many gimmicks and horrible level design.

While I think your father trying to kill you twice is a little more than "daddy issues", I otherwise agree.

Nah man, i avoided BR because i cant bring myself to betray my Nohrian homies.

I don't particularly care for Zephiel as a villain either, though thats probably due to my dislike of FE6 as a whole. One theory for why he changed so much was that his assassination attempts lead to brain damage that changed his sense of morality, in particular the poisoning.

loved both of these thanks for posting them.

Very nice summary. :D

Maybe I would like it. Sandbox elements are what I enjoyed most about thracia, and thats my favorite game lol

Also, I don’t think her statement is all too ignorant, Ike *did* kind of just stampede through, create a power vacuum and fail to address it through his own disinterest in politics. While Ike isn’t solely responsible, I’d imagine it’s the fact that he’s worshipped as a hero that would push her further back into her stance of hating him as a counter to the narrative he’s only done good

Avaliablity matters for characters. For skills, it's a no brainer

12 years ago bow btw

Funnily enough, I played Birthright as a kid BECAUSE the community kept saying it was the newbie game. It was my third FE game, and the first one I actually beat. I barely remember anything about it, but I'm excited to play it again someday

This guy spits facts. Except idk about if conquest wasn't designed for veterans. What's your source on that? Either way, Birthright is pretty good with a fair amount of fun to be had.

Narcian is a pretty central villain for more than half the game yeah. I'd also say Arcardo is pretty important for a good chunk of the game. Especially since they both are supposed to exemplify the corrupt nature of humans that Zephiel hates so much.

I like to think that all of the decisions of byleth are based on logic because of the way he/she was born and the decisions that include Edelgard are the only ones that he/she take with the heart

Thanks for helping me understand what was going on. I wish it was more directly addressed in more of the stories. Does Dmitri ever even hear about TWSITD?

I appreciate how Intelligent Systems, at least in my opinion, puts gameplay above all. Fates is probably my favorite engine (don't know the right word for this) to play on.

ngl Ive been playing this game for a week and it sucks so bad. FE shadows of valentia ON TOP

I thought Fire Emblem Three Houses already has an anime opening.

I have to agree with you even though i love Zephiel originality and to teach us about misanthropy and nihilism but the issue is explained throughout this video. It should showcase through the game with his past and why he dove further in misanthropy and if he had more screentime and more discussions and his presence more frequent he would at least be more intriguing and even his plans and build more of his "threatening" villain status. Also perhaps have soliloquy of his misanthropy and psychologically horrify our protagonists and Roy about his thoughts on humans and for his thoughts on dragons perhaps he sees them as gods so makes them above humans in his jaded and underdeveloped motive and view. He is the main antagonist next to Idunn so he should be more present through the story Elibean Nights had the perfect explanation and story telling about his extreme misanthropy. Heck a video game i am developing has a zephiel type of villain but with more depth, presence, interaction as one of the main villains and with more "justified" and horrifying endurance to the life they had. Thanks for your video

Playing birthright after conquests hits me really hard when I see my little sister Elise died😭😭😭

There is one thing I like about birthright more than conquest. And that's the creativity of the builds. Fates as a whole IMO has some of the MOST fun unit building out of any fire emblem game thanks to all of the wonderful skills you can get. Paladin Sakura, Close Counter Vantage Takumi, Ninja Silas, and so much more! There's more of an incentive to reclass units in this game than awakening. While I love conquest for it's stronger level design. It doesn't give you as much freedom due to the limited grinding. Therefore, it's difficult to be able to build every single unit the way you want to. Birthright however gives you FAR more grinding, which encourages the player to come up with more creative builds for your units. And that's why I like it so much! Also, yes Ryoma does trivilize birthright lol. You can mash end turn and win with him EASILY. However I typically reclass Ryoma to give him more creative options so he's not a crutch. Since there are better ways to use him (shoutouts to bad at life for coming up with a great build for him). Also, since Ryoma joins kinda late, you don't get to abuse him AS much

Awakening was my first game but now it is not even in my top 3 probably not even top 5. SoV, FE8, 3H, FE4, and PoR are probably my favorites in around that order but FE8 and SoV are really close and swap back and forth between being my favorite. My actual favorite game is Sacred Echoes, which combines the two sort of. It took me quite a few years to try older games though. I was casual mode only until probably 2018 or 2019 then started trying older games preawakening in like 2020. Now I have played every game outside Archanea.

The stigma that Birthright is meant for newcomers comes from the pre-release info dumps, specifically 4.1.2015 Nintendo Direct. They very specifically state that Birthright is better for newcomers in second pre-release info dump. It is very intentional. They do also state that it's designed more like a traditional Fire Emblem.

It's an extremely reliable skill lol Also Nosferatu exists and does the same thing waaaaay better

Ill be honest, when I was a kid I only picked Birthright because I disliked how the fanbase reacted to Camilla. But personally I just like how cool and unique the Hoshidan classes are in the broader context of "mideval" Fire Emblem.

As someone who played BR as the very first FE game they've played Birthright good

So, based on my no-grinding, hard mode experience: Galeforce is insanely good on exactly one or two flying units, since it allows the flyers to be problem removers (Galeforce Cordelia did an excellent job clearing archers or mages safely), but it is exp-prohibitive on any unit which is not already a Pegasus Knight. However, it's basically free on said units to pick up Galeforce and reclass to Falcoknight for the stat boost. Admittedly, I like my flyers and really enjoy being able to outmaneuver archers. Sol, on the other hand, has a bad habit of letting me down and I often compare it unfavorably to evasion skills, especially when said evasion skills are so free to get. Sol just doesn't heal enough consistently to justify attempting to tank hits you normally shouldn't. I will give it props for shrugging off chip damage, thus saving Physic staff uses but this isn't a game where chip damage is the problem. The problem is the one or two enemies with high damage that manage to roll well on hits. That's not taking into account that Hero, while not being an overly tedious class to go for, is absolutely not free. There's plenty of cash, even with missing some chests and some bad hording habits, so Mercenary's Armsthrift isn't necessary and Patience is generally a worse version of Myrmidon's Avoid skill. Fighter, on the other hand, I find so bad a class that I can't even use Vaike except as a backpack. And bypassing those by reclassing at 10 promoted effectively makes it a level 15 skill anyways. All of this at the cost of an actual level 15 skill, because Axebreaker is a wasted skill slot for the Hero class due to its already fine evasion and not having any axes it needs to worry about. I like Sol. It's cool and sometimes leads to amazingly ridiculous moments, but Awakening just isn't the game it shines in.

ok now do rev

Yeah I tried a birthright iron man and lost way too many units but I got Ryoma and I was like you know what Ryoma solo's birthright I got this... I didn't have this. It was the last chapter too...

I love Fire emblem Fates so much from its ost and overall designs for the regions and characters some of them can get a lil goofy but I love it so much and to me is more fun to replay then other fe games. Though I think the class system is the best I thought three houses class system was terrible cause of how it gender locked the classes which gimped some of the characters

This is good stuff!

I think I might be the only person who didn't think Birthright was that easy... Solely because I heard all the criticism surrounding Ryoma and while I deployed him, I refused to use him unless it was an emergency Honestly BR without Ryoma abuse felt harder than Awakening, which I recently steamrolled again

I remember when it came out i was in highschool, i liked it enough to play them all but the only things that stuck with me was the art direction and music

Absolutely worth it. Citrinne is best girl.

They should have made Zephiel recruitable in FE7. And have the excuse that his father's okay with it since he wants his son dead. Also the supports could build his character.

Potentially one of the most underrated Fire Emblem games to date. If you can get past the limitations inherit from the game engine, the story is extremely charming with great dialogue if a little bloated. Since growth rates are low in this game, none of the maps are made around it, focusing more on weapon utilization and proper positioning. The only downsides are that its questionable if the entirety of the story will ever come out considering Kaga's age and this being a passion project made with a small team

Yeah ok I'll play the game.

Even as a fates defender, there are serious issues with its weapon system. You discussed forging, so I won’t talk about it, but the weapon system is still poorly balanced IMO. Notably with regard to higher ranked wpns. They suck, S- rank ones especially. The downsides are simply way to great to make these weapons useful. It’s even worse because in fates weapon level is an absolute slog to raise, so why would I even bother wasting so much time to get x character to B rank lances when a silver lance is a side grade at best? IMO, higher tier weapons should be upgrades, not side grades. The silver lance should be strictly better than the iron lance, because it should be a reward for getting a character to B rank lances. Fates S-rank weapons are some of the worst in the franchise, with only Excalibur and pursuer really seeing use. It doesn’t help that only specific classes can use them, and even than it will likely require grinding or planning far in advance to achieve S rank in a given weapon type. If fates were to receive a remake, the weapons system would definitely be the main mechanic I would focus on improving.

and yeah I think people complaining about birthright are a loud minority. Game was received and reviewed well for a reason.

idk what it is with FE fans and grinding. Just don't grind if you want a challenge? People do this in many other RPG's and not to mention there's multiple exploits to grind up a unit even without an open map. Not to mention, most the games can be beaten with 0% growths so I find the whole xp distribution thing to be overrated. Towards the end of most FE games on my first playthrough I grind the crap outta units with all the reinforcement spawns or with arena + support abuse combo lol

Speaking as someone who prefers Conquest and hates Revelations, Birthright is just...Birthright. It exists. Middle of the road entirely, I just don't care for it in any capacity. It's not as tough as Conquest, and it isn't as mind numbingly frustrating as Revelations, but nothing really draws me in when I try to replay it. I've even attempted silly shit like Sky Knight Sakura, sort of like a Wyvern Elise, and it's just meh. The game probably isn't bad, if I could remember what it was like, but it is what it is

This kinda gave me a bit of hope for FoW maps. Though, originally, I stated that I think that FoW should've just been outright removed, because of the fact that its a deliberate hadicap, and one can argue that's not real strategy.

Birthright was the first FE game I ever played, so it holds a special place in my heart.

I beat Camilla's chapter by using Ryoma with a Corrin backpack and some healing items from the convoy. He absolutely trivializes the game if you let him. It's not on the level of Chrobin, but it can still be done, even with the pair up changes. I only properly used him on one prior map, and it was with an E rank Katana to make sure all he was doing was bringing enemies down to low health, any other time was as a backpack, and often he was gone entirely. A nearly minimal-investment Ryoma was still capable of enemy-phasing a late-game map with only the help of a guard stance bot and some snacks. I didn't dislike Birthright but that part about Ryoma broke my brain. Personally my defense of Birthright would have focused a lot more on the amount of creativity Fates' systems afford you when the game isn't as hard as Conquest. Birthright is a game where you can get away with Azura marrying Kaden and Corrin marrying Selkie to get a total of four Nine Tails units, and I think that's hilarious in a good way. Additionally because skill design is generally better than it is in Awakening and Pair Up got changed to be more consistent and less powerful, this ends up being a more interesting game to do that kind of stuff in than Awakening. It genuinely is a game I'd recommend to a newcomer if they're not interested in something hard off the bat because it's a decently-paced sandboxy RPG with 30ish party members and several elaborate systems for skills and reclassing.

Birthright's 1st half is so fun and fine

違和感無い！

Finally someone who also played Birthright. Glory to Hoshido

Finally, someone with a brain. I started Birthright semi-recently and am now about halfway through Conquest. I honestly loved it. It has it's flaws sure, all games do, but some of the things talked about like you mentioned are blown way out of proportion. Hell some were straight up lies. One thing I heard was that it's never specified ingame why Nohr started invading other kingdoms, when it's explained exactly why in chapter 22 of Birthright. I didn't hear this one very often but heard it nonetheless. Stuff like this makes me question if people actually hate Fates, or hate the version of Fates they made up in their head