DO NOT Click This Video if you HATE FIRE EMBLEM 7

[@Faerghast]

Hi viewer! Happy new year. Please don't forget to comment down below and leave a like, as it greatly helps with search! Thank you!

[@Russelliguess]

I did it

[@espelhodasconstelacoes]

love these vids of yours, man! happy new year! God bless ya and Jesus loves ya!

[@pyguy7]

Who made the art of your avatar character

[@squatch1565]

To speak on Lyn Mode and story: 1. Lyn Mode is still helpful to this day due to how different things have become. In my experience, I found it after playing the 3DS games, and Lyn Mode helped me learn about Rescue mechanics, Canto, a lack of a hub or overworld, and the use of different promotion items depending on class. Even if a lot of it goes over the basics, I still say it’s worthwhile for new players whose only experience with FE is on the Switch, for example. 2. In my opinion, there are two ways to get hooked on a story: the plot and the characters. While the plot isn’t as rich as some other games, the characters more than make up for it. I still remember laughing at the interactions and banter between the three lords, thinking Raven looked cool and (on a second playthrough) being shocked that he was recruitable, getting emotional at the CG of Eliwood crying over his father, etc. That’s something I think all the FE games have going for them: even with plots that are barebones or just suck, the characters can make up for it through their individual moments, personality, and supports.

[@Dakress23]

Kishuna's gimmick is so damn cool. It's a shame FE hasn't revisted the idea of an unit being so wack that it forces the player to play outside of their confort zone just because they happen to be on the map.

[@Justic_]

The Magic Seal feels like something they very much would/should have done in Engage, even as just a thing for one map, have there be certain zones on the map where a unit can't use tomes... on the other hand this might've conflicted with Micaiahs inheritable that gives Silence-immunity...

[@noiseisgold3n42]

I mean, if there was a way to interact with it, it could have been interesting, but in a game like fe, where you invest in units, I think it just feels bad if some of your units just have to.. sit out.

[@CappnRob]

@@noiseisgold3n42 Kishuna never trivalizes a whole map. There's always space to work around him, so your magic users can at least do healing, either at long range with Physic or up close. Plus in 2 of his three appearances, you know he's already there, so you can just.... not deploy magic users for those chapters. Even if you've invested into every magic user possible, you have alternatives.

[@lpfan4491]

Notably, magic users are still largely helpful in the chapters he is in. The seal only negates the casting of magic, not magic itself, so you can still shoot attacks or heals into the area.

[@noiseisgold3n42]

@@CappnRob You completely misunderstood what I was saying. It's actually impressive.

[@cascade1460]

As someone who played only the 3ds games and 3h, fe7 was my first "old" fire emblem game, I instantly fell in love with it, I think it has some of the best stretch of maps in the series from 16 to 22, also the character moments really got me, Eliwood hanging onto his father's hand as if to will him back to life after the events of Dragon's gate is really powerful imo

[@schmae3503]

Kishuna's gimmick is one of those moments in FE that made me wish we got more bosses with niche forms of abilities more often. Not saying applying Kishuna's gimmick to every game would work, but it's still a really cool thing.

[@Outshinedsg]

More complex mechanics does not necessarily equal better. For me, FE7 is the quintessential FE experience, where all the core FE mechanics are present, but none of the distractions. If I were to rank FE games, FE7 would probably be in my top 3. This is probably a hot take, but I would much rather go back and replay FE7 than 3 Houses, for example.

[@Treebohr]

The quintessential Fire Emblem experience, you say? I see what you did there.

[@musiikkimies9241]

@@Treebohr Dude's gonna have Morphs after him in no time 😂

[@lpfan4491]

Is it a hot take? I thought people agree that Three Houses is better as a story and less as a game.

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

​@@lpfan4491a hot take what I stand by is that three hoises story is still badly executed and a 5/10 at best. Some simple fore emblem stories are better in execution despite not being as complex. Three houses story is a mess in execution

[@lpfan4491]

It is a mess, but it is still the best part of the game besides the music.

[@greenscorpion64]

As someone who will defend this game to high heaven, acknowledges its shortcomings, and considers it among my favorite games of all time, this was a treat to watch! Thank you for showcasing just a few of the things that makes FE7 so special! And yeah, I crushed on Lyn when I first played the game and still do!

[@gabrielrussell5531]

Mark is the best Avatar: the narrative doesn't worship them, they aren't an overpowered unit, they aren't the center of the narrative, they never say anything stupid, the cast aren't lining up tonhave their babies, and their contributions are your contributions: your tactics.

[@JaredClaunch]

^ Exactly This!

[@whiteraven1992]

Same could be said of Robin, to be honest. And Kris, of course.

[@Jdudec367]

They don't feel that interesting of a character as say Robin who is all of those things like Mark but is OP but still is a actual interesting character.

[@Tyler-ob4qp]

The only downside with mark is that they could have given him dialogue and a personality, kept him as the main PoV character while still not making him a unit. I feel like we're one step away from perfection

[@lpfan4491]

Honestly, I don't really understand why the fanbase dislikes Robin because they really are more of a reverse-self insert. They aren't cool because you are them, you are cool because Robin is you. If there was no customization, they would still work entirely fine as a character and the praise they get is essencially the same as other tactician characters in the series usually get for good choices.

[@j.o.t.4212]

With this being my the first installment like most of us across the ocean, FE7 feels like the purest form of Fire Emblem. Lyn mode was a solid tutorial to introduce new people to the game to prepare you for the brutal reality of permadeath, and the mechanics like the weapon triangle and flier’s bow weakness are at some of their most basic compared to mechanics in future installments that changed them for better or worse. And of course with it being the first game, the characters are so nostalgic for a lot of us. I love picking this game back up again and again for its sheer simplicity.

[@JustCrazyDK]

3:54 Technically you can get a couple more Light Runes. One from the Caelin Soldiers in castle Caelin if I believe one of them survived. A stealable one in the Fog of War in the Uhai Map on the Dread Isles. Finally, the last one on Cog of Destiny,which again, you can steal. So there are actually 6 Light Runes. Might be one more I missed, but that's all I got.

[@Faerghast]

dang! i stand corrected

[@armorbearer9702]

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

[@rapidshipper]

Something neat about "Mark" I noticed, is they actually could affect Gameplay in minor amounts. Depending on the Tacticians Rank and Birthday, like their month (and bloodtype in JP) could add bonuses to units who share the same affinity in things like evasion, and hit rate. I thought it was kind of neat you could use the tacticians birthday to benefit a group of units in Eliwood/Hector's story mode. I think the max was about 10% if the tactician rank got ten stars?

[@isleschild]

Love FE7 to pieces, as it was my introduction to the series, but I'd be extremely skeptical of a FE7 remake. They'd probably make the avatar a playable unit, and they'd turn shove Lyn into everything. I like Lyn... everyone likes Lyn. But because everyone likes Lyn, a remake would basically turn her into the fanservice icon she's become, instead of the bright-eyed sacaen daughter of the plains that she once was.

[@TheTenzen12]

Mechanics aside, I am firm believer that FE7 is in top2 FE games when it comes to character writing and I wish new games learned from it's support conversations.

[@RTU130]

👍

[@Faerghast]

FIRE EMBLEM 7TH!!!!!

[@Flipnote_Peppe]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@heatth1474]

One aspect you didn't mention enough about Lyn mode: it is just a cool story with charming characters. It is simple but it is effective. And, importantly to me, it introduces all characters and they all feel like they matter. Because the cast is so small, most of them continue to have input in the narrative until the end, and all of them have their epilogues. One of the biggest appeals of Fire Emblem is that every unit is a character with its own personality and story and Lyn mode showcase that very effective. You are familiar with every character by the end of the mode which is is fun. I think part reason Lyn mode get such a bad rep in the fandom is because the community as a whole holds Hector Hard mode as the only "true and valid" FE7 experience. A lot of the discussion around the game is based exclusively on that mode to the detriment of everything else. I've even see people saying that playing Lyn mode before HH is cheating, which is ludicrous. That kinda of discourse inherent devalue Lyn mode as something superfluous and irrelevant for the game, instead of it being integral part of the game. Speaking of which, Hector mode is the true experimental mode I actively dislike. Not because the mode itself is bad, of course, but because I think it actively harmed the game. The main problem is that it is just not different enough from Eliwood mode. It is functionally just Eliwood mode+. A couple of chapters are different and some of the cutscenes are changed but the story is largely the same and you have more gaiden chapters to play with. The end result is that after you unlock it you don't really have much of a reason to play Eliwood mode again as Hector is basically the same but better, so the main mode of the game gets overshadowed. To makes matter worse, I don't think Hector mode actually holds up as a narrative either. Because the story is largely still the same, even though the protagonist is supposedly now Hector, the story is still largely about Eliwood. It is just an awkward situation all round. I think they realized this because because by the next game they tried again to have multiple protagonists, but their different modes are actually different enough so you can have more of a reason to play one or the other.

[@lpfan4491]

Honestly, the best way to play the game is to patch the game to make route select accessible from the start and have hard mode apply its bonuses to Lyn mode and Eliwood mode too. I actually think Lyn mode is fairly fun to play, but the forced tutorial on normal mode actively makes me want to sleep. And Hector mode is just not fun. It inconsistently ranges from "essencially just as easy as Eliwood mode" to "actual hell", so there is no reason to play it in my opinion outside of the exclusive content.

[@heatth1474]

Honestly, I never finished Hector hard mode because it is too annoying. But when replaying I find hard to justify not playing Hector normal because of all that exclusive content. And the fact that the much of the exclusive content don't really have anything to do with Hector just annoys me. The Kishuna thing is a big example but even minor stuff like Karla? Why would she be Hecor locked? You can still recruit her boyfriend and brother as Eliwood. It is like they just decided to pick some characters at random and locked behind the extra mode.

[@lpfan4491]

Something amusing about Karla is that they really wanted to make extra sure she is routelocked. 1: She obviously only appears on Hector, that we all know. But... 2: Speaking to her is also Hector locked. If you romhack to make her appear for Eliwood, you cannot interact with her without further editing. And... 3: If you interact with her, then the event after the battle between her and Bartre...is also Hector locked. The interaction just awkwardly ends without properly resolving if you don't patch that event too.

[@heatth1474]

@@lpfan4491 Lol, that is actually funny. Must be very frustrating for the first people who tried modding that

[@alicevioleta3184]

i like Hector, but damn, the FE community has made me hate discussions about FE7 because, yes, everyone only mentions HHM and my immediate reaction is "bro, who fucking cares?". i would, no hesitation, trade HHM for an extended Lyn mode.

[@armorbearer9702]

Happy New Year! I agree that Lyn mode was a great way to introduce new players to the series. Additionally, I will say that Nintendo was right to add the tactician. The relationship between Lyn and Mark was a great experience.

[@puffles5535]

I didn’t know Nergal was Ninian and Nils father and he went mad. Wish I could play these older games. I only knew so many of these characters because of Feh.

[@GreatBeanicus]

Honestly a majority of players, even dedicated ones likely didn't know. The info is locked behind the toughest challenge in the game, defeating kishuna in a single turn without magic users, Twice.

[@r.c.3813]

If your willing to pay for it you can play fe7 via the Nintendo switch online expansion pass. Besides that your only options are either buying a old ds and a fe7 gba cartridge or emulating it

[@Testbug000]

Use your Nintendo gameboy on PC/Mac?

[@heartnet40]

​@@GreatBeanicusI've never been a fan of often the fanbase at large forgets that the GBA trilogy was a sort of "return to basics" step for the franchise that reestablished momentum for the series when they came out. Hell the main villians themselves are all individually the major tropes the series has seen divided into each game. (Zephiel the evil conqueror, Nergal the evil cultist, the Demon King the ancient evil.) With the exception of Fates, these games are pretty much the last games in the franchise that stick to simplistic lore and worldbuilding and that's something that needs to be remembered, especially since Intsys wrote the stories the way they did because they understood the limits of the GBA.

[@lpfan4491]

The revelation is locked behind Nils having reached an arbitrary high level in Lyn mode and then playing Hector mode...again, entirely arbitrarily. Granted, there is also no story reason why beating Kishuna unlocks the chapter, but at least there is a gameplay reason of it being a challenge to do(Even if sadly one with a random chance to fail through no fault of your own).

[@Goosaphone]

This game deserves all the love. I hate that it became cool to dunk on it constantly. It's fine to criticize things whether we enjoy them or not, but why is it that we feel the need to preface with "I know it's flawed but" everytime we discuss the many, many positive aspects of FE7?

[@shipambrosia]

I love FE7. Of course I like Hector and Lyn but I LOVE Eliwood. I see him genuinely considered to be a “boring” lord and tbh I don’t get it. I would do anything for an Echoes style remake with full voice acting in FE7

[@klissattack]

Fe7 was my first FE game so it definitely has a soft spot in my heart. Printed off the guide back when internet was hard to come by lol

[@whitewolf3051]

My first Fire Emblem game as well. Lyn was my first video game character crush, much better than Eirika from Sacred Stones in so many ways. Actually bought the strategy guide for the game, which I still have. I even have the guide for Sacred Stones as well.

[@Tesla2586]

@@whitewolf3051 Lyn and Eireka would have been great friends. Hector and Ephraim would have gotten along too for various reasons. Lyn and Innes would have also gotten along since they both strive to be as strong as possible to prove themselves.

[@Flametix]

Good highlights. FE7 gaidens and Hector mode chapters together still feel like my preferred approach to bonus chapters. I like how they naturally take place at specific times within story arcs that still could have happened either way, and specifically the overarching mystery aspect of seeing more sides of a story develop or just a side battle that would've been glossed over is fun.

[@ivanbluecool]

Not using the cart to ram enemies 0/10 immersion

[@rekenner]

I didn't realize that the simplicity of the GBA FE games was something that was widely critiqued. I started the SRPG genre with Final Fantasy Tactics when I was 1o or 11 or so. That was a hell of a deep end to jump into, but I loved it and while I had some... false starts on finishing FFT, I had done so before playing FE7. I was 15 when it came out and I got it shortly after. I had also played a handful of other SRPGs by that time, including Shining Force 1 and 2, which are pretty similar to the GBA FE games. I found the simplicity of FE7 to be pretty fun, and I tend to view it as a measuring stick for the complexity level of other games, although I'm of the opinion that a well executed simple game has a lot of value.

[@VanchaMarch2]

FE7 is one of my favorite games of all time. My brother and I have played it dozens of times both separately and together since we were kids

[@cjt217]

Lyn mode taught me a ton about boss abuse chapters. That was so helpful later on!

[@minoas-sunbro]

FE7 will always be my favorite. I live the story and the progression made me replay it many times. I had no idea about most gaiden chapters until years later. Also a side note for Lyn’s story: It was a tutorial that was kinda annoying after many playthroughs, but the way you could make a specific character op and then use them later on in the game was an awesome feature!

[@Vherstinae]

FE7 is still my favorite Fire Emblem to this day. One of the narrative ideas that really worked for me was that most of the world has no idea that the apocalypse almost happened. Only a few dozen people are aware of just how close the world came to devastation.

[@coryfusting9294]

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who love Fire Emblem 7 and THE ENEMY!

[@ploppman7524]

FE7's self-insert being as hands-off as it was is, especially in hindsight, very refreshing. Every chapter having one character that can pop in and say something to you was a fun little surprise. Was gonna call it mini-game but there were little to no hint who would come and say hello each chapter. I think the best way to do paralogues is to reward people for doing all of them. Especially if the reward is backstory for the main villain. It's not like FE6 where you miss out on crucial story if you don't get all the paralogues unlocked and done. And backstory for the villain is a more interesting reward than the little snippets you got from three houses' paralogues. Although that might be because accessing all of FE7's paralogues is a bitch on account of actually killing Kishuna.

[@Oz1455]

It's been years since I truly sat down to play a mainline FE game, but this has opened my eyes to things I sort of overlooked in my teens. I really liked the characters, and I think the gameplay was great, extensive and ambitious for a GBA game. I still own the games in physical cartridge, so it'd be great to try them again.

[@Balmung60]

It was also really neat that FE7 had a ton of custom unit sprites and probably the single biggest relative weakness of FE8 is that it doesn't have them

[@marcgomez8391]

Man, I dream of a remake that includes both FE7 and FE6 in the same game. I love both the originals, but a remake that connects both parts, FE4 gen1-gen2 style, would go hard. Making Mark a playable customisable character would also work really well. They could also give you the option to keep them unplayable for a more original experience. Maybe one day.

[@CaptainAstronaut]

Real FE Fans NEVER Skip Lyn Mode 😤

[@anaiahgames63737]

Aye aye captain lyn mode is a true sign of being a fire emblem fan

[@heavyarms55]

If you hate FE7 FIGHT ME! This is the game that brought me into the series. It's the literal first game I ever sought out and had to look for. No one knew Fire Emblem in early 2000s. But just by chance a friend happened to have been given it at random. I watched him play it and thought "Hey that looks like Advance Wars but with swords and Magic, I HAVE to play that!" and like 6 game stores and 2 weeks later, I got a copy used. I've never looked back! Still love revisiting the game every few years.

[@BadatStuff]

When I was a kid and I successfully begged my mom to get me a GBA and this game (because all the cool kids are playing with Gameboys lol), I had no idea what I was getting into. I remember my little kid mind was like "whoa...that was a crazy story" and I went out of my way to restart chapters if a SINGLE character died when I was watching all the conversations every character could have Then years later after I finally got a computer I was able to get a ROM and search around the internet to see if I'd missed anything, it actually blew my mind that Hector mode wasn't JUST a second copy cat campaign after Eliwood's (which is what I thought it was), but actually had a ton of extra content I think the "Hector mode would have been DLC if launched today" is pretty accurate. I had to look up ways to unlock all the goodies in Hector Mode. The fact that it was technically still Eliwood's story, but added so much extra content blew my mind that this was a game I'd played as a kid in the early 2000's and it was only years later I'd learned there was THIS MUCH content that I'd missed as a kid because I was a foolish kid Lyn mode gets some unnecessary hate, but I loved how it functioned as a a nice introduction to a band of characters, even if only Lyn and the twins really participated later. The characters seemed cool and the little setup for the rest of FE7's main plot and the gaiden subplot was well done

[@TriggerTheStrong]

I started this game back in 2009 but didn't start past the tutorial (like Chapter 5) until Fall 2014, beating the game around February 2015. Happy 10 years of experiencing this wonderful game! Definitely going to replay it on NSO soon.

[@serezelveydawn]

4:35 WHAT HOW HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT TO USE THE MINE SO GUY DOESN'T ATTACK ANYONE OMG.

[@cookiecthulhu]

it's nice to hear FE7 spoken of in such positive light, more often than not i just hear complaints :'') and yeah, Lyn mode was a blessing back in early 2005 when i first started playing! also it had the nice addition of doing a sort of "HA, the game isn't over yet!" which i really liked. Lyn mode felt like a complete story, and yet there was more! was very excited about that back in the day :>

[@Xan4591]

FE7 may not be the best FE game, but it was definitely the best way they could have introduced the series to the West. People complain Lyn mode waters down the whole game experience, but I like to look at it this way: without a tutorial to teach 12 year old me what a strategy game was, I never would have gotten into the series (or genre as a whole). I'm not unique in this. There are many people out there that must have loved the game because FE7 must have sold well enough that they realized localizing future games was a good idea, transforming FE into the well-known IP it is today. So much so that we can argue and disagree that there are too many representative characters in the Smash series

[@santiagodrexler1624]

People forget that there was a time in the mid 2000s when the English-language FE community preferred FE7 to FE8 because it was longer and more challenging. It's not the best game ever made, but it contributed something of value to the series and it is tragic that a lot of people don't respect it anymore. Thanks for making this video highlighting some of those contributions.

[@MattMorency]

I think the rings get reimagined as heron skills in the Tellius games.

[@cd4playa1245]

I’m playing through Hector Hard Mode recently and this is my absolute favorite fire emblem experience to date. I haven’t played them all, but I have played the majority of the series.

[@whitewolf3051]

FE7 was my first Fire Emblem game when it first came out, and Lyn was my favorite character from the very start. Eirika from Sacred Stones seems one note compared to her. Kind of *wish* that Lyn *could* support with Mark, or he *could* support with her only.

[@rigistroni]

Neat video, would love to see you go over similar things about other games in the series.

[@YukeWeiss]

FE7 was my first and honestly I adore the simplicity above all. I remember playing it on Visual Boy Advance and just getting so invested in the story, even if I ignored the Lords in my first playthrough and somehow managed to eke out a victory.

[@fla_vee]

Yessss, FE7 appreciation!! Hearing you talk about it just made me realize once again why Blazing Blade has a special place in my heart. 😢💜

[@kakalukio]

FE7, together with 8, is FE at its best. The older games suffer from UX issues, and general jank that simply hasn't aged all that well. The newer games tend to rely too much on gimmicks that get in the way of the core FE mechanics. FE7/8 is just pure FE, with no pointless frills.

[@chavothemouse6687]

Fe 7 is by far my favorite game in the series and I didn’t play it until much later, I do have the strategy guide that came out so many years ago so I may be biased in that regard

[@Treebohr]

I first played this game when I was about 12. It was the first game I ever emulated and my introduction to strategy games. I've been feeling the urge to replay it again, since it's been years.

[@Ox9707]

Fire Emblem 7 was my entry into the series as a literal child (like 10 or 11 years old). It was accessible for me to learn, play, beat, and enjoy thoroughly. Some of the key things that I still love to this day are the sprite work and 2D animations, especially the criticals. The prior games in the series may have been more advanced mechanically, but I never would’ve been drawn to them like the GBA Fire Emblems. I’ll always have love for FE7, in spite of its imperfections.

[@kazekamiha]

This makes me want an FE7 Remake...

[@BrittBelmont-k9m]

I loved the self insert loved that the characters acknowledged my existence. It really made me feel part of the world instead of for some reason knowing what’s happening also thank you I did not know that Hector‘s mode had a different perspective and I will now be playing through it. This was the game that started my fire emblem journey and I’m glad it’s finally getting some love.

[@tbahr123]

Every time I play FE7 I still play Lyn mode and enjoy it. It’s just a little prologue to start raising up some of those units, who are all memorable

[@SobmicSSBB]

Quintessence? DO understand! I'd have thought Fates and Engage with their wacky stage hazards would've had something like Kishuna reappear and even expanded upon with areas where physical attacks don't work, but I guess not. As someone who started with FE7 and played it many many times back in the day turning me into the ultimate FE enjoyer I am today, I used to be someone who looked down on it for being the popular pick despite being more of a mixed bag than what came before and after, same with FF7, but thankfully I and a lot of others mellowed out over both over time. A well researched and articulated video, even if it might exacerbate even more that FETubers "are GBA worshippers." One more understated quality is that this might've been the only time in FE when dragons were presented as a real apocalyptic threat, whereas in others you start slaying them left and right by the first third. The game not only told you that it's the end of the world if the dragon's gate is unsealed, but also directly showed it with the brief glimpse during the first trip there and the Fire Dragon being a formidable final boss, save for Luna. This directly contradicts with FE6 though, so I can see why it's understated in the first place.

[@hiddenleaf414]

FE8 was my first FE game and man those sprites and action visuals brings me back.

[@MythrilZenith]

Lyn mode might be on the overbearing side of tutorials, but I think it's easy for "in-group" mentality to make people forget just how abstract some of Fire Emblem's mechanics are, as well as just how oblivious some people can be. For the series' first attempt at a guided tutorial it manages to cover almost every basic mechanic and lean into some suggested strategy, without fully dictating every single move (though it does a lot of that). Later games eventually had better tutorials, sure, but before this we just got "here are some units, go capture the objective," with MAYBE some gameplay relevant information hidden in houses or villages. In a world moving away from paper manuals as the primary method of information delivery, Lyn Mode was a welcome sight, even if I personally feel the early Eirika chapters in FE8 did it better.

[@CoHzus]

Thank you so much for making this. This was really fun to watch and brought back a lot of memories. I love this game. It was my first fire emblem after seeing Roy in smash bros melee ❤

[@FlipsidebyLanaDelRey]

It’s been like 6 years since I first played fe7, and it’s still one of my favorite games of all time. While Genealogy of the Holy War is my personal favorite, Fe7 is a close 2nd and the Fire Emblem Game I play the most. The story is simple yet effective and shows a great journey and this is coming from someone who doesn’t need great stories to enjoy games. And the characters? Easily one of the best cast in the series. Eliwood is my favorite lord alongside Sigurd and it’s such a joy seeing the interactions between the three lords. I also really love the map designs as a good chunk of them reward fast play. That’s my personal favorite way to play Fire Emblem, which is why Fe4 is my favorite game. Overall great video and I agree with everything stated!

[@OctAugNov]

One thing I also think that's missed, is that FE7 is the first game to have more progressive sliding difficulties as well as a selectable lord. I feel like ENM - > HNM -> EHM -> HHM is a much more balanced and nuanced difficulty slider than something like FE6 normal to hard mode or FE9's difficulties. Heck, I don't even think FE11 with its 5 difficulties does it as well as FE7 in this regard. In my eyes, it would take until Fire Emblem Fates Conquest to reach the same tier of perfection that sort of reached in FE7 with you having a fully customizable lord (I don't care what people say about Corrin's character, Corrin is an amazing lord from a gameplay perspective), and progressive difficulties with none of the difficulties feeling like particularly large difficulty jumps. As for corrections, I think the only slight one I'd add is this: the Lyn mode argument for the Japanese doesn't even have to happen, because you can skip Lyn mode in the Japanese version if you link FE6 up with FE7. So IS was just bringing their A-game for FE7 in general. I like FE7, I think it's a good game, and a lot of the pushback I think that happened against it was that people did that in a form of weird elitism because it was the first game that was easily accessible to play. My first Fe was FE4, and I still think that FE7 is one of the better ones in the franchise. To a certain extent, I get why it hasn't been remade, it's still good and there's still places you can access it. If it got remade, I'd love to see it done keeping most of the same features but adding in some of the stuff that was in the original plotline like letting Lyndis use Durandal. That's such a cool thing that got dropped.

[@miguelolmedomorell2740]

Hello! I love your videos, specially your video essays, or when you dive deep into the lore of the games. I was wondering if you were planning on doing something similar for the Tellius games 😊

[@MrDarksol]

All I'm just gonna say is as someone who isn't that super big into the series and only played like a handful of games, I still like Lyn even after all these years later. Although I will admit it is interesting to see some concepts from this game that either do come back in future games or aren't in future games. That being said though the next fire emblem game has to be better than engage.

[@GeoSage1137]

It feels like it's rare to find a fire emblem fan who doesn't hate at least one fire emblem game. Thing is, even a bad or bland FE game still stands above 90% of other games for me, and I like it

[@Ardefisty]

FE7 was, as planned, my introduction to the franchise, I played it to death, and I still love its story and characters (Rebecca my beloved). Over time, I played a lot more FE entries, and the more I played, the more I realized how FE7 is a sacred middle ground were everything clicks and comes together. The Tellius games have likable characters, but also new mechanics that felt underwhelming and a slower flow of battle. The 3DS entries focus too much on avatars, supports and "raising" your units. FE6 is a great transition from Kaga to the modern formula, but the characters don't have too much depth and thought. FE8 adds skills and has great characters, but the game is insultingly easy. The biggest downside of Blaze it Sword is from its terrible support system, but that was also present in 6 & 8, other than that (and its REALLY hidden gaiden inside a gaiden), it holds up as one of the most decent entries.

[@DrewMolina]

I had started a text based Role Play site based on Blazing Blade. It started super basic where eventually the story had evolved far beyond the Elibe games went. We included classes from Sacred Stone then eventually added things from Awakening. Over the years it felt more like a real progression than the actual series took. As fans of the series we recognized the positive of the series and added it to our formula. Out of the Fire Emblem RP sites it was one of the top ones for years, IMO we did a better job of keeping elements from global classic FE with a mixture of modern FE that both could enjoy if it was a game.

[@icetailgreg]

My first fire emblem game! And my original cartridge survived my gameboy advance so being run over by my moms car, must have lucked into high defence growths

[@BalsamicThunder]

I really wish people people would stop acting like Hector mode is the only one that matters and downplaying Lyn/Eliwood routes. Eliwood gets flack because it requires Lyn's more than anything.

[@Weatherman4Eva]

FE7 was my first Fire Emblem and I honestly think it might be THE best fire emblem to introduce somebody to the series (unless you only want fire emblem for dating high school kids)

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

3:08 Or, if you're REALLY smart, grinding Wallace to level 20 before using said Knight's Crest so that he could actually be good in the main story. 😂

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

Hector is an absolute jock chad, and I love that about him.

[@radiantherooftellius1138]

Oooo a fe7 video!!!!! I love it so much with all my heart!!!! Lyn means so much to me and seeing a FE7 video from ghast is awesome!😊

[@SotheAlbion]

FE7 is still to this day my favorite and most played game.

[@Enjoysaeli]

It's still so good to this day, I really don't get why people are so mean to FE7. Like, yeah, it's a little simple, sure, but it's so solid at the core of what the franchise is, the characters are really fun, and the plot, while maybe not super interesting, is good enough to carry the runtime. And as you said, the Hector mode flip to keeping it focused on Eliwood's quest, but putting Hector's emotions to the player's attention is a great thing, especially if the player wanted to learn more about him where they might not have in their first run. Admittedly, I'm also fully in my nostalgia bias, since it's literally the game that made me love SRPGs, so I mean, it deserves the praise for making the genre a little more visible here, whereas people might not have played Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, etc. FE7 is ALWAYS a game I can come back to, do a run, and just relax. Hope you had a good NYs, Ghast!

[@bastienchalvin5242]

The narrative of Hector mode, the optional (and hellish difficult to unlock'em) and that freaking Luna that can simply rekt everything you worked for without any solution better than prying, is what i remember of that game, everytime i think about it. Even today, after having played many (too much maybe) times the game, checked many times the wikis, searched both for news personal challenge or simply informations, i still discover something about a character or another. To think a game made in 2004, on a GBA, is *that* good and durable is just... wonderful. What i'd like to, is to see/understand the original version. Because for every games, there's sometime a LOT of things can change, and those changes can be quite big (Think of Black Knight from PoR and the warp powder, or even the meaning of Heritor of Arcadia from Shadow of Valencia). Having the comparaison between the original vision of the creators, and what we get, finding what work have been done, understanding the point of view, the intention, and how it's influenced our vision and understanding of the licence, would be amazing.

[@usvidragonslayer3091]

FE7. The game that got me into Fire Emblem in the first place.

[@RexZShadow]

FE 7 had a really nice game guide too if anyone still rememeber those things. I brought the ones for FE 7 and 8. Man i miss those.

[@JoeSmith-db4rq]

Video title is specifically targeted at Dani Doyle 💀

[@Tesla2586]

People are allowed to dislike popular games and love the most unpopular games. If anything I find it fascinating when someone has an unpopular opinion and it harbors intelligent discussion. Unless its Pokemon. You just get murdered if you dont agree with the masses on that one. x_x

[@JoeSmith-db4rq]

@ oh if it’s not clear, I love Dani as a content creator and I’m really glad her voice is out there to add more nuance to discussions surrounding FE7. As Dani herself has said, it’s become a bit of a meme on their channel that she dislikes the game and the title of this video just made me think about it. I fully agree with what you said and am glad we have videos exploring FE7s strengths and weaknesses from multiple perspectives 🙂

[@despicableone4495]

@@JoeSmith-db4rq *his, *himself, *he

[@JoeSmith-db4rq]

@ am I missing something? Does Dani not use she/her pronouns?

[@blueblade6174]

Well Fire Emblem 7 is my favourite video game ever so I'm definitely clicking this!

[@titanictnt7476]

When I was playing Fire Emblem 7 again, I noticed lethality, but didn't know that it had a name, so I just called it a "Super-Crit."

[@Rabbitlord108]

This feels like it was made in response to something made by a certain other person's video that talking about FE7 negatively.

[@heatth1474]

On the gaiden storyline. I mostly agree it is a coo aspect of the game, but I do think it is harmed by the stupid obscure requirement. I actually think the "get Nills to level 7" one is the worst. It is the easiest one if you know about it, but it is the one it is hardest to find by yourself, I think. It have been a while so I might be misremembering it, but I remember to always have to grind before seizing the castle at the end of Lyn route to get Nills to the right level, even if I used him in ever chapter and every turn. And I was never a max efficiency player, I wasn't beating any records regarding turn count, but still, there was never enough experience if I play the game without grinding. I am honestly not that against obscure gaiden requirements (though I think they should be hinted in game), but when you have to do something counter intuitive for no reason something have gone wrong. It is made worse by the fact that many of the other requirements involve low turn count, so functionally the opposite requirement to leveling up Nills. I also hate how the full thing is locked the Hector mode for seemingly no reason.

[@mrkisukes]

FE7 was my introduction into the series proper (after Melee of course). I remember play that game ad-naseum followed then by FE8. We even got the Nintendo Power guide book to FE7 which is how we learned about the gaiden chapters and split map and recruitments. I'm pretty sure that's also where we learned about abusing the rescue mechanic to grant a character pseudo-infinite Ninian's Grace for arena abuse. I'm pretty sure it was a trick featured in one of the last pages of the guide.

[@ggGulis]

Wait, people actually disliked FE7? But... Its amazing, why would anyone hate it for just being a bit simpler

[@maddoxbellrose7679]

I love fire emblem!

[@deltaangelfire]

It occurs to me I never REALLY played FE7. I played through Lyn mode and when I started a new game and Lyn was not my protagonist, I just didn't care anymore.

[@oneclout6643]

If FE 7 had the class system of FE 8 I think so much more could be opened up. That would be my biggest upgrade to the game

[@VongolaRain011]

I love this game so much because this introduced me to the series. Lyn will always be best girl for me in Fire Emblem. If I ever got to live the day that this game is remade on a better console, I hope they would not change this much. Same story, same gameplay but with better battle animations (Not saying that the GBA sprites are not good, they are GODLY for that console) and give us those fully animated cutscenes. Jaffar one shotting Leila and Eliwood using Durandal on Ninian will be epic.

[@Raylightsen]

FE7 is literally the best fire emblem ever made of the entire franchise.

[@SproingBoing]

The maps where I had to deal with Kishuna's sheer presense are still etched into my memories more than 20 years after playing FE7 on release. I'm practically *_begging_* them to bring back boss units with weird gimmicks like Kishuna, or to go further back Gharnef's bizarre immunity to everything but an extremely specific weapon/weapon type. Not saying everything needs to be balls to the wall crazy, but I feel like they'd be amazing if properly foreshadowed to allow the player to adjust for even the *possibility* of running into them later.

[@Seloliva1015]

I love Lyn mode, it was my first game true, but it is enjoyable and cute

[@tuvillo]

Dancer rings were present with Heron songs, no? Also as for Assassins, Jaffar is great but Volke does it pretty well too, story-wise.

[@JulieLamia]

You mention FE7 having a tutorial for the teenagers new to the series... I first played this game when I was five, I think. Imagine if I *didn't* have Lyn Mode to hold my hand. 'course,i was still awful at the game and tried to juggernaut Oswin and Wallace (lol) through the entire game, eventually softlocking myself at the finale because I had a genuine skill issue.

[@EmoURYU]

My dream game is a remake of 6&7 together. Wont happen and if it does il be 50 cuz we STILL waiting on FE4s remake 😂😂

[@gabodevilmaycry22]

Fire Emblem 7 stablish the games being the first game to be release in the world and people love it so much that it save the series in some ways, and after watching this video i can say that any fe fan needs to play all games to really enjoy and discover the difference of each title, what started it all, what change and what was left forgoten, is just such and amazing series and fe 7 always hits hard with nostalgia cause the player is in the game as the strategist, so the bonds with each characters feels real years later, amazing video hope to see more videos showing what each game brought to the series cause is really cool to know more if this beloved franchise.

[@r.c.3813]

I played fe 7 after fates, awakening and fe8 but i wasn't that bothered by lyn mode i liked most of the characters in it so it was pretty fun. I was also very frustrated when i found out i couldn't have more than 5 supports and sain was maxed out so i had to replay lyn mode if i wanted him to have a paired ending and i missed like 3 gaiden chapters.

[@kiraangle2823]

Its amazing how sinple fe remains to this day, even with everything added up to engage. Ive been playing ogre battle and shining force and they really add a lot of texture

[@drdoom700da]

Wow this video was really good I honestly forgot how much I loved this game

[@maxspecs]

FE7 taught me to TRUST NO ONE.

[@ApocalypticApricot]

Blazing Sword is the third Fire Emblem game I played (after Shadow Dragon and 3 Houses) and it is by far my favourite. There are a lot of critics of this game, but it's always stood out to me as being the perfect mix of rich and unique, while not being overly complex or relying on a single unique gimmick. 3 Houses, for example, is definitely not a bad game, but they lean too heavily into the explore the monastery time, and in order to push the "different routes" approach, they reuse way more content (maps, story, etc.) than I think they should have. Replaying it can feel boring, especially slogging through the pre-timeskip where the missions are all the same despite the game implying that the different houses got different missions. The new things that Fe7 tried out seemed much more polished to me, and were supported by the existing mechanics in a way that I feel was much more natural and led to more replayability. I'm glad you brought up Lyn mode, because while it is a tutorial and can feel like annoying for veterans, my first time playing I was annoyed at the basic "here's how you walk, here's how you attack" tutorial being forced on me, but it then showcased a lot of more complex and new mechanics that I wasn't familiar with and would likely have missed. Even on a later playthrough where I went back to the normal mode for a run, I was reminded of a couple things I had forgotten about. I'm really happy to see this game getting more positive attention! Thank you!

[@mochachip4727]

Never understood why Lyn mode was so handholdy because I started with sacred stones so it felt unnecessary. Then I tried to get a friend into fire emblem with fe7 and they immediately got Florina killed by an archer so nevermind I get it

[@tootsie_]

If Dani Doyle ever clicked on this video she would explode