How the Creator of Fire Emblem was Exiled - Part 1

[@lucky_crit]

I heard he left Intelligent Systems because the coffee sucked. ✦ *Twitter:* bit.ly/luckycrittwitter ✦ *Discord:* bit.ly/luckycritdiscord ✦ *Bitchute:* bit.ly/luckycritbitchute

[@amandagreene4990]

Very understandable, have a nice day. ☕️

[@Rainos62]

I got a feeling he wanted to make his own studio and branch out because it seems like he wanted to tell his own story but nintendo wasnt going to let him under his current directive so he left and made his own studio to do that. Its kind of like what happened to the tales of series where the creator of tales of phantastia is actually the creator of star ocean and its made by a bunch of people who were working on tales of phantasia. I got a feeling its something simialr to that. I think after the lawsuit he wanted to be out of the limelight for a while so he left and kept to himself.

[@cabbusses]

You post this in jest, yet I DO remember a notable translation of a shareholders meeting where investors were complaining to Nintendo about the low quality of the company cafeteria.

[@qazentro4444]

I've always thought that Kaga was a pretty big tragedy in the game industry. Fire Emblem and Famicom Wars are both considered pioneers of the tactical rpg genres as far as I'm aware, so he should've gone on to have a really prosperous career being such a trail blazer, like Hironobu Sakaguchi for example after he left SE and formed his own company, but instead suffered from a lawsuit that probably did a big hit to Tirnanog, made two games with them that never went overseas, and then disappeared off the face of the earth for like a decade or so until he suddenly announced he was working on a free SRPG again. It just hurts for me to consider what he might've done or had to put up with in that quiet period.

[@lucky_crit]

I feel the same way, honestly. A true pioneer and his style is still being emulated and played with even now in modern FE

[@Everdistance]

At least until you read interviews with him and realize he was an insane sexist.

[@jironamos7650]

@@Everdistance And that clearly is bullplop when Thracia 776 Characters actually exist. Stop taking tumblr as facts.

[@jironamos7650]

@@Everdistance If anything, the most controversial thing the guy wrote was one of the character arcs of Tear Ring Saga where they just reveal one character wasn't actually black but rather "smeared in mud", just because she wanted to look ugly out of dishonor, but thats actually based on biblical facts where darker skin tones were considered to be wielded by "morally inferior individuals", and ohhh surprise, this is a medieval game so its obvious there would be religious lore. You are outright saying that if people write anything related to biblical lore they are actual genocidal or something? Of course you don't.

[@jironamos7650]

@@Everdistance To shorten it, Kaga didn't wrote that because he thought it was a good thing, but rather as a critique. Is like saying that Black humor is bad because it presents oppressing situations while black humor is used to make fun out of the oppressor.

[@Percevalko]

1:23 Kaga wasn't born in 1950, the date on wikipedia is a placeholder. Over the years kaga dropped some clues about his age and it's roughly around 63-68, meaning he was born at one point after 1954 Edit 2024: Kaga has confirmed that he was born in 1955.

[@lucky_crit]

Thanks for letting me know, it's kinda like most of the info out there is questionable. That does make sense, though, as 36 getting into game dev seemed a little on the late side

[@cabbusses]

@@lucky_crit Dagnabbit, you gave me hope in the video and then shattered it in the comments.

[@ericjamesraackf]

@@cabbusses honestly I'd still say GO for it it's become an easier process to break into game development especially with things like Dreams on PS4/5

[@CappnRob]

A good introduction to Kaga but one thing I want to remark on is that Archanea absolutely is darker than people give it credit for. While the first game was certainly a more straight forward good vs evil tale, Mystery of the Emblem serves very much as a sort of blueprint for what Genealogy would go on to dive into. A noble hero being sent on political subjugations by his parent state only to later turn against them over the abuses they commit with their authority is present in both games, and FE3 also totally flips on its head the legacy of the titular Fire Emblem itself by showing that its desecration caused the dragon degeneration as well as the founding of Archanea. All of human society that Marth knows is rooted on this betrayal of dragons. Now yes, Genealogy would go even darker still (Marth succeeds where Sigurd failed in his rebellion largely due to Marth not being so bone headed as Sigurd), but Kaga was never content to just sit comfortably with normalcy in his games. Every one of them tried going a bit further and being different as they could.

[@MrSentinel07]

The man seriously has a talent for story and world building. A good reason why Genealogys still holds up well to this day. IS''s current writers could learn alot from him (and from Koei Tecmo's writers from Three Houses for that matter).

[@blackbird7781]

Ehhh... the guy was not the only writer so crediting it all to him is douchey to the other writers and others who helped make those games. Yet he always takes all the credit. Also the stories in those games are pretty flawed

[@lucky_crit]

@@blackbird7781 I mean it doesn't help that we know very little and the behind the scenes of all of it is so hush hush. Like it would be much easier to credit the whole team if we had more information. But as the lead scenario writer of FE1 and the director of FE 2-5, he certainly had a big hand in it and made a lot of the big calls

[@blackbird7781]

@@lucky_crit agreed. I just wanna hear from the rest of the staff as well tbh. Imagine their stories and contributions!

[@RetroNerdyGamer]

Honestly, I think Awakening was fine writing wise... Fates on the other hand was trash... Echoes was a remake so that's still about the same as Gaiden, probably a bit better and Three Houses while not perfect has a lot going on that's great and I think whatever is wrong with it is because at some point they had to finish it so they cut off some of Crimson Flower's content and copy pasted Silver Snow into Verdant Wind if that makes sense. There's cut content in Three Houses as well so yeah...

[@RocketSlime]

@@RetroNerdyGamer awakening was messy tbh its arcs didnt flow particularly well into eachother wallharts arc didnt need to exist and could have been a great dlc the time travel was inferior to the gen 2 mechanic story wise compared to fe4 and was mostly used for waifu/husbando based gameplay instead of something deep, grimas cult is just shitty loptyrians and even more inferior to gerxel cult from trs and the game has tons of other issues

[@Kale13000]

Didn’t know genealogy was quite that serious in tone… that simultaneously makes me both want a remake of it more and also terrified of a remake. I worry that if it gets remake it will end up getting sterilized and just be another sub-par story that doesn’t do much besides carry the gameplay

[@lucky_crit]

Yeah, I'd definitely be nervous to find out what they do with the child hunt stuff. I don't feel like they would disrespect it per say, but I would really wonder if that stuff would make it in the same way without alterations..

[@MrSentinel07]

@@lucky_crit I doubt they'd change it, given they've been very emphatic about it in Heroes.

[@orange6259]

I’m not too worried myself based on how the previous remakes were handled. Its clear the company holds a high respect for Kaga’s games. And when they remake them they do their absolute best to keep the game feeling like the original while also improving it to the modern standard. Incest and other morally dark actions in the story are condemned by the playable characters and the story as a whole ,so there would not really be any reason fir censorship.

[@blackbird7781]

@@MrSentinel07 that and 3h and the tellius games have gotten far darker than geneology ever got. Only change would likely be removing the incest bullshit

[@mcihay246]

@@blackbird7781 It's gotten far darker after? The Child Hunts on the surface just seems like a reason to be "dark just because dark." However, the concepts behind the reasoning of the Child Hunts actually played a part in Germany around the era of the Nazi Regime, and arguably in present day. Something is far darker, when it seems realistic.

[@lopodoesthings]

Gunpei Yokoi was never shamed from Nintendo He had always planned to retire from Nintendo after the Virtual Boy, but since the Virtual Boy flopped he decided to not leave his legacy at that and then developed the Gameboy Pocket to compensate for the failure of the Virtual Boy and then left. Why is a GameFAQ's fan theory treated with the same weight as actual fact here when there's plenty of evidence to state otherwise

[@marsbitrona5920]

I was just going to leave this comment. Yokoi being punished for the Virtual Boy failing is one of those unfounded Nintendo rumors that never seems to go away, like Miyamoto saying he didn’t like Donkey Kong Country or almost any quote ever attributed to Sakurai.

[@manapeajuice]

yeah, i wish youtube dislikes were still a thing :T

[@rickydargence5948]

wrong, he was killed by Yakuza, source: My uncle is John Yakuza

[@Orcawsom]

That user, Endgame is also a bit of an infamous troll on Gamefaqs.

[@xraymind]

I just finish watching LowSpecGamer's video on the GameBoy. The video had quoted an interview with the 2nd in command at RD1 and the CEO of Nintendo was surprised when Gunpei handed in his resignation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJ2xc4aFr7Cobck

[@Ultimabuster92]

Well, considering how Fire Emblem turned out to be over the years... i wouldn't change a thing. The games arent't perfect, some are better than others, but i like those flaws and little imperfections. Who knows how the series had turned out, if things happened differently? I don't care, because i'm happy with what we have and what we will get in the future.

[@blackbird7781]

Exactly!

[@ZackSNetwork]

Exactly, we cannot change the past and the very direction the series is going in has made it more successful than it has ever been. FE4 and FE5 had the best stories in the series however I strongly prefer the newer games gameplay and art style wise.

[@blackbird7781]

@@ZackSNetwork eh I would argue the tellius games have better writing

[@matmil5]

Part of me wants to say "I'd erase thracia" but despite its flaws, it introduced many good mechanics so... i agree

[@Suleiman2000]

Also i wanted say that kaga wasn't the only one who was never mentioned in a video game franchise Moriama also got out of konami after creating what was a great VG franchise suikoden series Months before suikoden 3 was released he got out from the konami and his name wasn't on the credit of suikoden 3 though he made most of the work on it 😐

[@1calv]

Personally, part of me is glad Kaga left IS. If it hadn't been for that, Kaga would have never made Berwick Saga, which is the most impressively ambitious and bold SRPG I've ever played, and one of my favorite games. Considering how there seemed to be a lot of disagreements between Kaga and others while he was at IS, he probably would not have made such a game there. The Vestaria Saga games are amazing too, VS2 in particular (currently being translated) I'd say even rivals BWS in terms of how unique it is. He's even still working on the Vestaria Saga project.

[@lucky_crit]

That's really interesting, I didn't know just how beloved Berwick Saga was. I will definitely have to try it at some point

[@Rengor1997]

@@lucky_crit Don't get discouraged by how different it seems to FE - it still has the same gameplay spirit. It's probably my favorite "FE Saga" game overall - IMO only really beaten out by FE12 in gameplay and top of other things like characterization and plot

[@skyblue6092]

currently playing Tear Ring Saga and was wondering what actually made Vestaria Saga so unique for you? I only seen a couple video and screenshot from the steam page

[@1calv]

@@skyblue6092 The map design is much more complicated and puzzle-like than the typical FE game, especially towards the lategame.

[@skyblue6092]

@@1calv i see, thanks! I quite like that in Kaga games too

[@DominicanStud101]

Awesome video! I can’t believe it’s been 5 years since I’ve been following your channel. I’ve always found video game history interesting in general. It’s funny how Kaga thinks players should move on from dead units but players always strive for the perfect ending Kaga says to not chase.

[@lucky_crit]

Thanks so much for tuning in for all these years, really means everything 🙌

[@ourdivinemouseoverlord3308]

Do FEs 1 through 5 have ambush spawns like FE6 does? If so, how can he legitimately expect a player to not reset when they can lose a valuable unit through no real fault of their own? As for getting the "perfect ending", I hated FE6 because I chose to Ironman it when I played it so I obviously didn't get to play the endgame chapters after I beat Zephiel. Do those games do something as stupid as that too?

[@justincruz2937]

@@ourdivinemouseoverlord3308 yes Fire Emblems 1 through 5 have Ambush Spawns even on Normal Mode like The Binding Blade does though haven't seen much of ambush spawns from Gaiden to Binding Blade but I know for sure the very first Fire Emblem had Ambush Spawns due to actually playing the game and took me multiple resets of the whole game on Chapter 1 to do a complete playthrough of the 2020 localized limited time release version.

[@saliver5909]

Now I want a Kaga "I DID THAT" sticker lol

[@lucky_crit]

That's such an incredible idea

[@absoul112]

I'd say the quote regarding permadeath only works in a handful of games. Too rarely, does a playable character's death affect the story in a meaningful way. Best examples I can think of are in Thracia, Tellius, Kaga Saga games, and Echoes.

[@matmil5]

As one Ytuber said, the point of permadeath is not visible when there is little reward/additional things to make us consider leaving a character dead worth it in the long run. Most of us would probably reset when a character dies, because you lose a character you invested into and get NOTHING in exchange

[@anthonyplasch7779]

@@matmil5 and the funny thing too is shadow dragon incentivizes the player to get units dead in order to unlock gaiden chapters

[@overlordreviews7351]

It also doesn't help that the cast is getting smaller and smaller with each new game, making replacements a hard thing to find

[@raiden5386]

Please make a Part 2 sometime! This video was great I'd love to see the conclusion

[@The_Triple_Point]

love the video buddy! you did a great job with it! looking forward to pt 2

[@lucky_crit]

Thank you! Cheers 🍻

[@Mante_killa]

Hope you finish this!

[@Acrnavy]

That incest theory sounds funny given the existence of Awakening, Fates, and Three Houses.

[@lucky_crit]

They're still using his material. LOL

[@armorbearer9702]

I am fascinated by Kaga's philosophy(6:38). I think this is what makes Three Houses so good. You can see a lot of these concepts in Three Houses.

[@byronvonedmund]

6:15 Sakurai is pretty much the "daddy", pushing Marth and Roy into Smash Melee

[@xibalbalon8668]

Still hoping for a part 2

[@lucky_crit]

Sorry for the wait, with all the Three Hopes hype I haven't been able to get back to this, but I promise I will!

[@maxmorgan3370]

Ah! I can't wait for part 2!

[@lucky_crit]

Thank you! Please stay tuned.

[@alexgiannousis9688]

Props on getting a sponsor that actually made me go back and watch the promo when I was intending to skip… definitely relevant to your audience 👀

[@lucky_crit]

I've absolutely had the problem of not being able to buy stuff I wanted from Japanese stores before, so this one seemed like a great one to work with! If you check it out I hope you really like it!

[@Ricewarrior01]

Choked on my drink the moment Endgame was mentioned.

[@AmonsRealm]

Where is part 2

[@SonGoku-hd6ro]

A lot of RPG developers left Nintendo for Sony since the PS1 was more suited to handling that genre. I think that's the most likely reason as to why Kaga left, especially with him being on record stating he wasn't certain about the idea of FE being in 3D. I don't think his departure is anything juicier than that

[@lucinae8512]

I personally see Fire Emblem as an evolution of the Wars series. Yes, Kaga did contribute elements that are now staples of the franchise and Nintendo don't give him the credit he deserves. But it was more of good timing with Intelligent Systems putting the right team and tools together, rather than having an auteur with revolutionary ideas and vision in charge like Hideo Kojima. Also my favourite part of Tear Ring Saga was the backstory, which involves a wave of migrants coming from a foreign land across the seas (which was supposed to be Archanea), and clashing with the native people over land and religion. Some of the natives fled and repeated the process in a new contintent, which became the backstory of Berwick Saga. Gameplay wise, TRS plays very similiarily to the early FE games, whilst Berwick and Vestaria deviate enough from even modern FE games to be their own things.

[@shadowsquid1351]

Exactly! I had no idea AW came 1st but now that I know I think it's really stupid when die hard fans say Kaga = FE, when we know how everything started.

[@blackbird7781]

Agreed. It has far more to do with the team rather than any singular personn

[@sevasentinel4146]

Unexpected series, but I look very much forward to it. Also, have you ever heard of Golden Sun? What ever happened to it?

[@westonmeyer3110]

He has Golden Sun videos.

[@sevasentinel4146]

@@westonmeyer3110 I was attempting to be sarcastic. I know he's talked about the series, but not if he's covered it in-depth like this Kaga series.

[@lucky_crit]

Someday I'll make another Golden Sun video for sure

[@westonmeyer3110]

@@lucky_crit By then Camelot will announce a sequel.

[@Rogar555]

Yeah man, the well runs super deep with Kaga and Nintendo. But this does make me curious on the series as a whole because if we haven't seen the fallout with him, Fire Emblem as a whole would have been much much different.

[@lucky_crit]

It's definitely really interesting to think about. What would things be like if he was like the official face and current director of Fire Emblem?

[@BrassCandy]

I tried looking for part 2 for 5 minutes until I realized this video came out 2 days ago…

[@lucky_crit]

Hopefully next week or the following, please stay tuned!

[@BrassCandy]

@@lucky_crit Can't wait! It's a pretty interesting story so far. I just can't believe I didn't check the release date for this video before searching for something that wasn't there 🤣

[@cabbusses]

Good on namedroppiing BS Fire Emblem in this! I have a feeling IntSys had a deeper relationship with the Satellaview than many of Nintendo's other first-party devs. (Besides BS Fire Emblem, there were also Super Famicom Wars and Pandel De Pon contest version designed specifically for Satellaview. Also, BS Fire Emblem is one of the few Nintendo Soundlink programs to have a nearly 100% original soundtrack, and it's pool of voice actor talent is nearly twice as large as even the BS Mario games.) Considering how Nintendo was already souring on the Satellaview by the time BS Fire Emblem was even broadcast, do you perhaps think that has influenced Kaga's decisions? PS: Don't forget to record some footage of Emblem Saga Predule from Dengeki Playstaton D43 for the next video.

[@Oblivionknight]

Great video! Looking forward to the next part

[@lucky_crit]

Hey, thanks for checking it out!

[@DoTtA1123]

excellent excellent vid cant wait for part 2

[@lucky_crit]

Thanks so much for watching! Soon!

[@GerardMenvussa]

Dude created an RPG with romance elements on his own, I guess in a low-level programming language too, and he only got 3rd place? Makes you wonder what the 2 first ones were XD

[@cabbusses]

I don't know what the winners of the specific one he entered were, but contests like that spawned IP such as Corpse Party and Yume Nikki, if I recall correctly. A comedy RPG called "Cock-a-doodle-doo" is also in the pool of contest winners, and that one is notable for having been on the Satellaview along with BS Fire Emblem.

[@leoistari]

Well, when I send two groups of characters to cover different parts of the map I imagine they have their own conversations according the fights And terrain

[@lucky_crit]

"How much you wanna bet I could throw a pigskin over them mountains"

[@Slenderquil]

I hope SRPG studio gets mentioned in some capacity in the next part. It's pretty interesting that kaga used a game creation software so long after being connected to stuff like rpg maker in the past with Tirnanog

[@lucky_crit]

Absolutely!

[@Linx-007]

Nice video, I had a great laugh at the perma death part.

[@gligarguy4010]

This was a pretty good documentary. I knew some things about the guy but not much (since he wasn't even mentioned in the anniversary book). The idea of going 3D on the N64 is one I probably would've been mixed on too at the time, so I can see where he's coming from on that. For years I've seen people strangely insist his games were the only good ones, and I still don't really get it (liking the original Gaiden has to just be a meme, I hope). I suppose I'll never get it, then...

[@giffica]

WHERE IS PART 2

[@thehedgehogdriver4591]

Here's hoping all the Fire Emblem games become available for a single (or several) systems. I would buy a switch just to play all the FE games. Granted the only one I've played is Radiant Dawn (FE 10) on the Wii. And no, I haven't looked into emulators though I'm tempted (don't even know where to start looking or where is trustworthy). To be honest, though, I prefer Radiant Dawn's art style to the newer ones.

[@morcatna4767]

AWESOME VIDEO LUCKY CRIT! 7:26 Also where did you get that blue lions flag 👀?

[@lucky_crit]

Etsy!!

[@sammace7169]

part 2?

[@justinjeffrey8193]

Great documentary. Well done.

[@myghostflower]

imagine using endy as a source 😭😭😭

[@lucky_crit]

I just liked that particular theory as a thought experiment. I did preemptively state that most of the stories were theories or just conjecture, so

[@Orcawsom]

"Gamefaqs user Endgame" holy shit, now THAT'S a name I didn't expect to come up. do keep in mind he was a famous troll in the gamefaqs days though.

[@lucky_crit]

Yes, I'm aware, I just liked that fan theory they shared, even though it does have some inaccuracies

[@Orcawsom]

@@lucky_crit 'pologies, did not see how many others pointed this out until after I had left the comment.

[@gligarguy4010]

Lol I felt the same. That's a name I haven't heard in like a decade.

[@revivalfromruins]

"Can Happiness Be Achieved Without Sacrifice? Please Tell Me The Answer Some Day" - Professor Kaga Shouzou, Father of the Fire Emblem Series

[@Ephraim225]

10:00 DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYTHING THAT USER SAYS.

[@kevingame3198]

I was I was think about that xenoseries creator would helm future fire emblem games after xenoblade 3

[@CyclonSilver]

"Endgame post gets brought up" Well that's... pretty funny, actually. Just so you know Stevie, Endgame is easily the worst troll the FE portion of gamefaqs has ever seen. His reign lasted a good dozen years, too, which is impressive. The vast majority of people won't care at all though obviously, so eh, just saying. ... but yeah that theory about Gunpei Yokoi is pretty widespread.

[@lucky_crit]

I was aware of his controversial status in the community but I was pretty certain that rumor wasn't just made up (and I liked this theory a lot) so I rolled with it!

[@RoboticEdward]

@@lucky_crit I think you shouldn't have done that then because in this era of going back to the source and Did You Know Gaming taking their research more seriously, a random GameFAQs post is the last thing you want to consider.

[@lucky_crit]

I mean I prefaced the entire section saying it's mostly hearsay and conjecture.. Just a fun little mental exercise to consider the number of things that could have happened

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Part 2 when?

[@ariancontreras4358]

I liked how in FE4 the child system had a narrative point. Because you will lose most of the parents. The creators of Fates and Awakening didn’t understand why the child system worked so well for the story in Genealogy. It was just some fanservice thing instead.

[@alasswholikeslazersxx959]

Aaah love that history!

[@lucky_crit]

Thank you for watching! Glad you liked it.

[@SilentVinyl]

Fascinating

[@JEANS__]

Kaga loved sages :)

[@Antonio-is2cn]

So he's real life Marth!?

[@noishfanboy1141]

in all my years in the fire emblem community i think this is the first time i have ever seen an image of young kaga.Let alone a high quality young kaga

[@lucky_crit]

I used ai to upscale one of the old crusty kaga pics lol

[@noishfanboy1141]

@@lucky_crit well good for you ig for making the thumbnail look nice 👍👍

[@jive238]

Holy Shit I can't believe you made a video and quoted endgame, there's no way you can be a fire emblem fan(or gamefaqs user for that matter) and not know who that jack wagon is. Just hearing endgame and gamefaqs in the same sentence makes me pissed, i feel like i'm being trolled.

[@lucky_crit]

I understand his infamous status. I just came across that theory and liked it as a thought experiment. I did say we weren't sure about the truth and that most were just theories or conjecture..

[@shadowsquid1351]

Always heard about Kaga but never really understood the idol worshipping lol, why some fans hype him so much to the point they say FE before & after Kaga? Imo game development is a group work so we can't push 1 name over the others, Imo FE got better with time, GBA & after are much better than before. If Kaga was the FE guy thoses elitests make him out to be then how come his games after getting out of IS aren't anywhere as good as FE? Rant over! Great video 😁

[@jumpy23]

His games post-IS were published by an obscure indie studio and never localized, but popularity (in the west--they actually outsold contemporaneous FE games in Japan) does not equal quality. Tear Ring Saga and Berwick Saga are incredible games.

[@shadowsquid1351]

@@jumpy23 Opinions I guess, I didn't like his games after FE tbh, but I wish he succeeds doing his thing.

[@Ultimabuster92]

Thank you! 100% agreed

[@krimsonkatt]

@@jumpy23 Vesteria Saga was officially localized. The translation is very good and surprisingly extremely funny, even though the game is quite generic as it's made in SRPG Maker with entirely default assets. Though if you can read Japanese the original Japanese version is free and open source while the steam version with multi-language support including English costs $20 and is copy protected.

[@jumpy23]

@@krimsonkatt Haha don't worry I know, I own VS1 and I'm eagerly awaiting VSII.

[@anonynmoose6460]

The Endgame callout lol.

[@jacobcapistrano6731]

By Kaga!

[@baibac6065]

I thought it was Kishi-sensei

[@valemontgomery9401]

Bruh lmfao, I don't even remember the context behind that comment other than a likely awakening reference

[@lucky_crit]

Hahahahaha how does it feel to be featured

[@valemontgomery9401]

@@lucky_crit Hilarious

[@Vulpas]

Subbed

[@aleelrecopilador702]

Kaga, sometimes i praised because his ideas. But sometimes, i want to strangle him about his ideas...

[@Suleiman2000]

Tbh i like playing dark themed games especially in middle ages but incest isn't my thing so maybe I.S doesn't like incest as well Well...... That if we forgot fe8(though referenced but not seen) and fe14 then It's true 😐

[@liamwilson7549]

As much as i want a genealogy remake I think the community needs an FE6-7 remake more. Not many people know about genealogy, but many people know roy and Lyn because of smash bros. It seems only logical to make an FE6-7 remake since more people will be interested, especially the newer fans who have only played awakening or higher.

[@therealjaystone2344]

Imagine an fe4 remake to be an emulation for a limited time just like fe1 remake

[@liamwilson7549]

@@therealjaystone2344 legend of mana is getting an anime, if square Enix can show love to their old franchises so can Nintendo.

[@therealjaystone2344]

@@liamwilson7549 unless there’s money to make… a lot of money.

[@liamwilson7549]

@@therealjaystone2344 fire emblem heroes has made Nintendo well over 1 billion dollars alone btw lol

[@therealjaystone2344]

@@liamwilson7549 IS takes the credit for making mobile games so

[@amandagreene4990]

The music, especially in the beginning fits so well. 😅 Almost an eerie/mysterious tone lol. Reminded me of Lavender Town...

[@lucky_crit]

Gotoh's theme from FE1!

[@blackbird7781]

Well I wouldn't really call him exiled. And a lot that happened he did end up doing to himself. Hate me all yall may want but the guy has himself to blame

[@lucky_crit]

Nintendo refuses to speak his name as if the guy's Voldemort. He wasn't even mentioned in any 25th anniversary stuff. Whether partially his doing or not, he's ousted for good and can never return to his sweet homelands of Archanea, Valentia, and Jugdral!

[@blackbird7781]

@@lucky_crit fair point, but I just view it hard to call him exiled. More of self-exiled if anything.

[@RoboticEdward]

@@lucky_crit That's just a Japanese thing. When you get blacklisted from any industry you are just never going to be mentioned ever again. It happened to an actor named Pierre Taki who voiced Olaf in Frozen and Kingdom Hearts III, as he initially played a character in the Sega game Judgment, because he was accused for having Marijuana, causing Sega to recall the game and modifying his character's look and voice(KHIII was recalled too). I hate that getting shunned in Japan essentially has this happen and I want that to change, but here's the thing: Kaga fucked himself over no matter how you look at it. The name of the game and a lot of names within the game itself were borderline plagiarism. If you wanna debate the ethics between copyright and the creator than by all means, I'd even agree, but at the end of the day Kaga did something that would shake the entire gaming landscape in Japan.

[@thepotatoofheaven]

I mean people who are exiled are exiled whether it's self inflicted or for a poor reason

[@blackbird7781]

@@thepotatoofheaven not quite. There is a difference as it highlights the reasons. Otherwise you give someone more credit than they deserve

[@Langas_LVDC]

Hard to not emphatize a little on Kaga after the Emblem Saga demand fiasco, to me that's Nintendo being at its absolute worst. And even the refusing to acknoledge even his existence on the company's part. I hope someday they can get on better terms, specially if they plan on remaking Jugdral.

[@lucky_crit]

Yeah, really a shame to not see his name anywhere even in the 25th anniversary materials.

[@sirkoopa2412]

Eh idk. To me its ok. Yeah its shitty nintendo won't ever acknowledge kagas existence ever again but kaga did make a fe game with the intention of it being able to stand next to the rest of the series lol. Even without playing it and just watching the game in action, its just fire emblem. Even reviews of the game mentioned its just fire emblem. I also recall reading kaga took development tools with him when he left IS.

[@lucky_crit]

Oooh, that's interesting. Maybe it really was a salty exit and he took more than he should have

[@blackbird7781]

Well.... kaga did a highly illegal thing and did himself in in that case, so its understandable they would have bad blood. And that is nowhere near the worst thing nintendo has ever done lmao

[@trainelviajero]

interesting

[@Shootingfoul]

Emblem Saga? Come on man, the name?

[@Azzie_S]

Personally I preferred Fire Emblem from after he left IS. I played TRS and it just seemed like the most obnoxious elements from FE1-5 put into a blender. Obnoxiously low movement for knights (3 move is he insane?) , mages,etc. insane numbers of swords compared to ever other weapon type, ridiculously oversized maps, enemy summoners clogging maps up with summoned monsters. Indoor maps with tight corridors with spammed reinforcements. Poison bogs. Because FE6 had most of this excised and slowly introduced the systems in new (and in my opinion more polished ways with fairer weapon stats,etc.) you can see the very distinct difference in philosophy between Kaga and Intelligent Systems. It sort of feels like Kaga was making games to please himself rather than the playerbase. It feels like he was a bit of a drag on the game as a strategy/tactical game in favour of elements that he personally enjoyed that weren't always fun in practice.

[@kuraux56s59]

I very much agree with this. While I like Tear Ring Saga's story. Outside of the questionable gameplay decisions you mentioned. These questionable design choices continue even more in Berwick Saga and Vestaria Saga!

[@dragoneye6229]

Kaga only reached his peak after leaving IS. Berwick and Tearing are top tier games in the genre and no FE game will ever touch them. FE is the kid friendly version of the Kaga Saga. Even Vestaria was harder. You simply could not do everything and get everything even at peak play without giving yourself a massive chance of losing someone.

[@gligarguy4010]

It's for the best FE got easier, since it's what made the series bigger. Most casuals are not great at this genre. I looked into the other games he's made, and they look interesting. It's a shame the TearRing games don't look like they came out in the US? Would've loved to play it, and maybe I'll play Vestaria too someday if it comes to consoles.

[@Everdistance]

Personally I'm glad the insane sexist who says women should be mothers is gone from the series.

[@Naglfar94]

What the heck are you talking about?? and how tf is that even remotely sexist? If you don't get out of here with that crap ain't nobody got time for that.

[@aggroincarnate2763]

Can you pinpoint me to where this remark features?

[@roxisultimate8152]

Yup i am agreed

[@KimeruDerHund]

I think you should also look to the possible antisemitic overtones of all of his games, that might be an explanation to why his games never touched the west although they had the best sales out of everything before awakening

[@GoonCommander]

honestly It's kind of natural for game series to get "worse" over time, or rather they just become less like they used to because they have to appeal to a different, newer, and probably bigger audience. And I'm sad that we likely will never get more games like Jugdral.

[@lucky_crit]

I still feel like we will get Jugdral remakes (in my mind, sooner than we might even expect) but the real question will be if people will still prefer the originals or not. I guess it's always sort of gonna happen

[@Whurlpuul]

GoHW was the best FE game

[@aaaaaaabeet2841]

That’s al lie. I created fire emblem

[@lucky_crit]

Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't know

[@xravenx24fe]

If it was done, Kaga did it first

[@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031]

Shame Unintelligent Systems fell to darkness after he left…

[@roxisultimate8152]

Lol no

[@ZeroTheorie]

Fire Embem, lmao

[@DiogoJ1]

And good riddance. Kaga was holding the series back with his pechance for making games ridiculously unbalanced.

[@joedan5366]

Kaga did it first

[@matmil5]

Tbh i find his games, while interesting and well written, quite a hassle to play, kind of. Geneaology has that "different" factor holding it up, but Thracia... God that game is cancer, and i won't be concerned otherwise. I think he should write books and not make games, if he were to make such abominations.

[@brandonwilliams6119]

Kaga was so based for Super Famicom Wars he gave us the greatest CO Hetler, while also innovating the for the Fire Emblem games, giving them cool and interesting mechanics. Modern Fire Emblem really sucks with the stupid self inset avatar and of the dating sim elements. People that defend Modern Fire Emblem are even worse but I digress.

[@gligarguy4010]

Don't worry, I think I'm the worst too.

[@raychii7361]

He should go ask Xbox a partnership

[@Ultimecea90]

Geanology and Thracia should get a remkae sometime soon than IS throwing more shit game out there, 3H is decent with the whole teacher thing and faction for more playability But lets be serious and get back to the roots here. The world needs the best 2 FE game of the franchise and it needs to be done. the only reason IS refuses to do so could only be account due to Kaga, after all Kaga saved FE series when FE 4 is supposingly to be the last of the franchise itself Awakening literaly copied and modified whole FE4, and that somehow revived the FE franchise both in Japan and the West so technically, Geanology remake would beat that 3x over

[@cindysnuts]

It really makes me wonder if there CAN be an Archeanea remake! Such a dark tone would be a real departure from what Nintendo likes to do even in the best of times, but on top of having a sticky history with the lead developer?? Idk I’m split on if it can happen! The only thing telling me it could still be a real possibility is Heroes. They’ve been fairly consistent with adding beloved fe4 & 5 units into it over the years, and I’m sure it’s drummed up a lot of intrigue in the games in non-Japanese markets since 2017. The market demand is definitely THERE at this point, but does the market even really know what it’s asking for at this point? How would such a serious story be received by, say, Game Informer or Polygon (as we know a lot of studios really look at those scores)? Should they edit out the incest? I prefer my stories without it… but I mean I already know it’s THERE. It might help save the ESRB rating tho… ik the story is very dark apart from all that… but sexual violence and taboos are almost guaranteed an M rating in the West. Unless they heavily censor it w/out editing it out?? Seems like the worst of both worlds… but the most likely answer to me. Like, it’ll be Fates level incest, yknow? And that’s T for Teen. Much to think about when it comes to the remakes!