Rating Every Fire Emblem Game From Worst To Best - 80 000 Subscriber Special

[@Mangs1337]

Thank you so much for subscribing, it means a lot to me

[@rafaelrocha2458]

No Mangs, thank YOU for being this amazing person and entertaining us every single day, keep up the good work and i wish nothing but the best for your future.

[@reyesas]

Dude Ive been watching your gameplays from advance wars/super famicom wars. Its really entretaining to just watch you having fun there.

[@SergioRodriguez_3659]

No matter how bad a day goes by, I always find myself on a better mood after watching your streams and the like. You sure know how to brighten someone's day, keep it up!!

[@alexlee4154]

We will follow this fantstic egg to victory for as long as we can.

[@crimsonking7179]

Thank you Mangs for the entertaining content these past years. I remember finding your channel when I started Awakening, then because you talked about the other FE games, I was encouraged to play them all. I know that we hound you for not paying attention and blaming the game for your mistake, but I still appreciate your effort, knowledge, content and overall just being a amazing person. Ps. Hilda best girl

[@papersonic9941]

Mangs: "You can Skip a bad story, but you can't skip a bad map" Warp Staff: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@Anon-yz1xr]

The new games don't have warp staves, and are worse for it.

[@papersonic9941]

@@Anon-yz1xr Three Houses has it as a spell, as does Echoes if you wanna count it. Also Fates technically had it but it was DLC I believe

[@james8981]

Lol your right

[@absoul112]

after you're used up, yes.

[@FloraOfTheCats]

If it’s bad enough you can’t skip it

[@kirbymastah]

Least favorite FE is Revelation Wow, what a revelation

[@zacharyyoungblood7013]

@Wil E Revelation would be better if: 1. They destroy the entire game 2. They make a good game in it's place

[@Neefew]

Mangs: I hate ambush spawns Also Mangs: FE6 is my favourite game

[@Eltrotraw]

That shit made me paranoid of every staircase and fortress in that game

[@jacobluegering9175]

I think that game is usually pretty good at making the ambush spawns not feel horrendously cheap, either by giving you a warning of where they are coming from or by putting them in places where you'd have to be playing to game badly to be jumped by them. There are a few instances of them being unfair, (I'm raising both my middle fingers to those damn fighters that spawn when Echidna does), but I would say that overall it's an aspect that the game handles better than other games.

[@GodSejeong]

Me: I hate 10 mages ambushing me all at once. Also me: My favorite FE game is Thracia 776

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

@@jacobluegering9175 Missur Cavaliers/Paladins and Bern Wyvern Riders say hello.

[@asmodeus58XX]

It's actually one of my least favorite games because of it. Especially in missions with lots of recruitable enemy units, especially Hero of the Western Isles, you'll just restart, and restart, and restart, until you realize exactly where to put every unit. Chapter 10B is even worse, because Gonzales is now included with the rest of the bullshit.

[@Aaroncfx10]

2:25 #18 Fire Emblem Fates ~Revelation~ 8:18 #17 Fire Emblem Fates ~Birthright~ 11:16 #16 Fire Emblem Gaiden 14:24 #15 Fire Emblem Awakening 20:04 #14 Fire Emblem New Mystery Of The Emblem ~Heroes Of Light And Shadow~ 23:25 #13 Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon And The Blade Of Light 26:15 #12 Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance 30:31 #11 Fire Emblem Thracia 776 36:48 #10 Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn 42:53 #9 Fire Emblem The Blazing Blade 49:06 #8 Fire Emblem Mystery Of The Emblem 52:28 #7 Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon 56:54 #6 Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones 1:01:13 #5 Fire Emblem Echoes ~Shadows Of Valentia~ 1:07:44 #4 Fire Emblem Fates ~Conquest~ 1:13:15 #3 Fire Emblem Three Houses 1:22:09 #2 Fire Emblem Genealogy Of The Holy War 1:27:12 #1 Fire Emblem The Binding Blade

[@maibignutt6434]

you are a legend my dude!

[@RobbieBlair]

Thanks for this!

[@sokkvabekkr5973]

Thank u so much

[@beckyg1423]

Ty! :)

[@benjaminmartin2922]

how is it possible to prefer awakening to fates BR? Birthright is an excellent game , awakening is a joke. I also dont get how sacred stones can be put above blazing blade. And 3H on the top ? (hard mode is far too easy).

[@Lucbraga4]

The best fire emblem is the friends we made along the way

[@Aquamarina0814]

Ohh yeahh!!

[@james8981]

HELL THE FUCK YAH MY MAN

[@neog8029]

TBH, That sounds like it came straight from the Revelations script. WOOOOO, FRIENDSHIP!!!

[@zkitty11]

Some of the best fire emblems are the friends you make along the way

[@DarbiniG]

And oh were friends made

[@floricel_112]

The egg: "NOBODY asked for a gaiden remake" Ghast fuming in the background be like

[@illusionofquality979]

Good. Gooood.

[@ReineDeLaSeine14]

I wasn’t asking but I was hoping

[@xuanathan]

Bro I made a post about how they should make a Gaiden Remake the day before the trailer dropped after finishing Gaiden.

[@geenobe9941]

"I guess i've grown softer over the years." Saying over the years confirms that boomer mangs is canon.

[@Mangs1337]

Heh *sipps*

[@TrueLadyEvilChan]

"Soft" boiled Egg.

[@NightSwamp]

@@Mangs1337 Boomer Mangs

[@geenobe9941]

I also hate how Three Houses constantly reuses maps, however i think the reason for it is due to the zoom in feature. If you zoom in you can see that all of the maps have insane amounts of detail put into them, more so than any other map in fire emblem. It isn't like they have preset tiles such as in the gba games with your sand tile, your castle tile and your desert tile. Hell there's even stuff that you would miss if you didn't zoom in such as the Church Golems in the Sealed Forest, Flayn being behind the Death Knight in chapter 6 or the Russian writing on the walls of Shambala. Also cool how when you fight in the Enbarr palace, if you zoom into the throne room it looks exactly the same as the room you see Edelgard coronated in on CF. Edit: One thing i want to add on relating to fe4. Gen 1 of the Manga improves the experience even more when re-playing. After reading the manga and re-playing, i was really invested in Characters like Tailtyu and Azel, who have barely any dialouge in the actual game and are left as rather one note, but are fully fleshed out in the manga with them facing hardships, having motivations and backstories and the like. It makes all of the characters much more enjoyable, instead of only having Sigurd, Quan, and Lewyn be the only fully fleshed out characters.

[@marcosgonzalez7042]

Yeah the Manga adds a pretty good feel when you re-played the game, it's a shame that the traslations are at the start of chapter 7.

[@estebest]

People tend to forget that the zoom in feature exists since it's not very useful, but yeah there is a surprising amount of detail on each map when you look through it. Also when zoomed in you realize that the maps are just massive. It definitely added to the development time of the maps. But I also think that people tend to underplay how many maps Three Houses has. I was counting every map I could remember and I counted 36 unique maps. That's more maps than a lot of older Fire Emblem games have (and I also could have missed some). It's really the paralogues and auxiliary battles that are the culprits of map reuse. It certainly would have been nice if they were all unique maps, but man that would have been a lot of work.

[@iwantmoney3598]

Holy shit yes, the Manga is super fun. My only grip is there is a lot of incest tendencies but is FE4 after all.

[@isaic16]

I didn’t realize there was a manga. As someone who was a bit intimidated by the maps in 4 but wanted the story, would the manga be a good first experience, or should I play the game first and then read the manga?

[@Link3000XD]

tehres russian writing in shamballa!?

[@AnimeRPGFreakKenny]

80,000 people who love to see egghead make pitfalls and fail at FE

[@samirjohnson4524]

Kenneth Thieu why do you people make fun of him like that anyway?

[@zedrips9985]

@@samirjohnson4524 he was uh... He was making a joke

[@xuanathan]

Samir Johnson Because he’s a man from Norway who plays FE the poor way

[@propottsie6672]

“I’m having a lot of fun iron manning echoes right now” Nothing has ever aged worse than that statement.

[@GobaGNon]

Literally nothing

[@melvinlu9663]

I feel like he's gonna enjoy maniac mode PoR even less than Echoes

[@Nalucha]

Melvin Lu you know he’s already done PoR maniac mode, right?

[@melvinlu9663]

@@Nalucha he has also done an echoes LP before, it doesn't change the fact that he's probably still not going to enjoy it considering enemies take a million years to die and enemy phases take ages to go by

[@RockstarEddie-rk1rm]

That line aged worse than FE1

[@neog8029]

Radiant Dawn only at #10? Of course...Interesting maneuver. Edit: Congrats on 80k, you glorious egg!

[@Sebastiancarajo]

I could congrats you... Or i could use the Warp staff

[@Aether776]

"Radiant Dawn released on the Wii U" - Mbangs

[@alexgiannousis9688]

Wil E it was... backwards compatible...

[@czar17_28]

If Sacred Stones ever gets a remake, which it should, I hope we get about a dozen more chapters. Sacred Stones is held back by the fact that is simply missing more. There are times were the group just travels somewhere seemingly free of conflict or struggle. Eirika just walks into Jehenna, Ephraim just walks out of Grado, together they just walk back into the palace in Renais. Plus Eirika and Ephraim take so much of the development in the game, I just wish there was more for everyone else.

[@JtheTechnician]

Sacred Stones got me started on Fire Emblem and i want it so badly on the switch

[@playboydojo]

I would not be upset if they added a L'Arachel route.

[@paperluigi6132]

@@playboydojo Like a mini route. This is the only example I have, but it could be something like Linkle and Cia's stories in Hyrule Warriors.

[@tituscaesar6960]

you heard the man, a dozen more floors of valni! and twice the draco zombies in lagdou. make fomortiis a little easier too, he's too difficult to beat reliably

[@czar17_28]

@@tituscaesar6960 You think Sacred Stones is hard?

[@EduardoGarcia-id5pt]

The list is pretty much what I expected a tier list from Mangs would look like. Can't really say I agree with a lot of what Mangs says on each specific game or their placement, but it is his opinion and I respect where he's coming from. Anyways thank you for years of Content, and I hope you continue to grow in the future. Good job on reaching 80K subs you Egglord.

[@nateperkins9860]

I would like to know your placements

[@Haarwyvern]

Path of Radiance&Radiant Dawn were too low but it's a good list overall.

[@jonathanwisco1310]

Mangs: " I like Black Knight when he's just a random nobody who's evil and mysterious." Also Mangs: "Nergal as a villain makes no sense at all." Also, congrats on 80,000. That's almost half of Radiant Dawn's roster.

[@davidtolbert8446]

to be fair the Black Knight's motivations are simple but make sense in path of radiance, but Nergal's motivations are contradictory and illogical

[@sumerian88]

​@@davidtolbert8446 That's the point. The continuous use of Dark Magic in the Elibe Fire Emblems has a strong propensity to make them FORGET about WHY they wanted power in the first place. Nergal wanted to initially reclaim his children, which he did, but he forgot that this is what he wanted in the first place, and just sought more power for the sake of power. He wanted to harvest his children to summon even more powerful dragons, which he would then harvest to become the most powerful being in the world. It didn't make any sense, but that's precisely what Dark Magic does to a person. It can erase their personality and make them forget their initial purpose and motivation : the magic gives the person power, but can consume it in the process. Which is where the irony lies : what is power without purpose? Bramimond may be one of the only Dark Magic users to have sufficient mastery to be able to not forget about why he wanted power (to slay Dragons and protect humanity), but he's an exceptional case because he was very well aware of how carefully such magic has to be approached. He also lost most of his personality in the process, but still kept his reason.

[@davidtolbert8446]

​@@sumerian88 No that's really not the point. Literally nothing Nergal does ever makes sense. The fact that Nergal's use of dark magic made him forget what he actually wanted is fine, and could have been interesting if better developed, but it does explain the b.s. about Nergal's teleportation abilities, the fact that he could have just killed the party at any time, the fact that he had what he needed to summon the dragons for a big chunk of the game but didn't because that would have ended the plot. The "Dark magic made him crazy" excuse can only go so far. You should check out Mekkah's FE 7 plot video series, at least the video on Nergal, because if you don't stop to analyze his motivations in the story it can be easy to miss how stupid and poorly written he actually is.

[@sumerian88]

@@davidtolbert8446 Ok, I see what you mean. I thought the overarching story of Nergal was interesting, but the execution is indeed flawed when you put it that way.

[@iloveminicactialot6895]

@@davidtolbert8446 the reason why he didn't kill the party or summon the dragons was because he was injured and he didn't have enough energy (don't remember the name). Still, I do think it could have been done better.

[@GeaForce]

-My favorite Fire emblem is the first one -You mean the one with Marth? -No, the one with Hector

[@voltron77]

Haha

[@judesmith7771]

Mangs: I like finishing let’s plays *looks at any recent non fire emblem LP by mangs Sure you do mangs, definitely.

[@RaMraM-zm1el]

@@rexmon2592 ye me too T-T Sigurd needs avenging

[@PyrelordPazuzu]

*Looks at unfinished Winnie Pooh Home Run Derby*

[@davidtolbert8446]

still out here waiting for fe 7x

[@TheHDEpics]

earthbound

[@sauce4279]

More negative to revelation: in chapter 25, you can get softlocked.

[@Mangs1337]

How?

[@sauce4279]

@@Mangs1337 if you lose all your units on one side and have an enemy stand between the elevator and the ground, the elevator can't move. This isn't a problem if you've already used the dragon vein. But if you haven't, you have to restart the map.

[@seththetactician6712]

@@sauce4279 The only thing I got from that were the words "enemy stand"

[@james8981]

Oof

[@moltz4866]

@@sauce4279 You don't even need to lose any units to get softlocked in that part iirc. One time in one of my playthrough one of the elevators just simply stopped working for some reason so I had to reset the game.

[@zkitty11]

55:04 Of course the OVA isn't a point towards Shadow Dragon - it's five

[@genivieven490]

Nuts!

[@tpayne7020]

Let them all go?! But *Maaaars!*

[@ZacManGamingX]

After 3 years and a ton of ironmans I'd love to see an updated version of this video (including Engage)

[@SpicyAvocado]

I remember seeing Awakening and being like, "Oh hey it's Marth and Ike's game, right?" I'm happy I picked up that game cuz now I've gotten into the whole series and am looking forward to a FE4 remake. Blazing Sword is the best one though!

[@ScytheJackal]

Konosuba icon, respect.

[@N0T4K0P]

Awakening: not in the bottom Me, an Awakening scrub: Thank Naga

[@GRK_2024]

for a second i thought u said the n-word

[@thegreatfirebolt1815]

I saw a KZbin video that was called “Path of Radiance if everyone but Ike dies” my first thought, Mangs

[@krissjames7276]

"I'm having a lot of fun Ironmanning Echoes now" Oh, you sweet summer child...

[@TheMadRedHatter]

80,000 people that like to disrupt a Norwegian guy trying to play Fire Emblem.

[@fleeceblanket9515]

23:03 "I personally think that taking away the avatar as a whole would just make Fire Emblem better." The Red Lotus liked, subscribed, and hit that bell.

[@Bethany38326]

This was the first mangs video i ever saw. Going back to it it's kinda surreal, because how just watching one video opened a door to things that completely changed my life. ❤️

[@iLegault]

cute

[@oof776]

Huh, based

[@Fabiocean2000]

PoR: "The animations ruined it for me." Shadow Dragon: "The animations suck but I don't care that much."

[@red5t653]

At least with Shadow Dragon you can see what's happening. With PoR, you get nothing, so yeah, no real point. Also, Shadow Dragon's animations are at a decent speed. PoR's aren't.

[@Anon-yz1xr]

Shadow Dragon animations are just bad 3d model, PoR animations show no data and are incredibly slow. Even on map animations are absolutely tediously slow.

[@JoelBurger]

I think that wouldn't be so bad if the disparity wasn't so huge. Animations not being great and numbers not showing up is apparently enough to drop a game by about 12 spots.

[@gothphoebe]

You can skip the animations in shadow dragon/turn them off, cant do that in PoR.

[@summysailar]

They both suck in their own ways of animation and models. For me, SD has a certain charm to it while PoR is just straight up lifeless and blocky.

[@expio4257]

As someone who loves FE6 to pieces, I'm so happy I'm not alone anymore. On a side note, I really like Thracia's ost. Gives me a Mannheim Steamroller vibe and I love it.

[@trunkynugget]

Thracia's soundtrack should be good but the soundfont is just really bad. Remixes of the soundtrack always sound really awesome.

[@MangoMarc]

"It came out for the Wii rather than the Gamecube, so obviously the graphics are a lot smoother". The Wii isn't exactly stronger than the Gamecube, at least not to a significant extend. There's a reason some people call the Wii a "Gamecube with motion controls". I do agree, that Radiant Dawn looks much better than PoR, I don't think that's because of the hardware, however.

[@GD-ep5fl]

@@Malhonn well the galaxy games prove that the wii can be good graphically

[@BigKlingy]

"Two Gamecube processors duct-taped together" is how I often hear the Wii described.

[@MangoMarc]

@@Malhonn the gamecube can handle Twilight Princess, the gamecube could handle Skyward Sword. Some series, like Mario Kart, arguably look better on Gamecube than on Wii

[@seththeace6217]

The ironic thing is that the radiant Dawn footage was captured on GameCube, take a look at the ui

[@MrMarinus18]

The animations of Path of Radiance look really stiff an awkward for the Gamecube though. The animations on the 3DS are leaps above it and the 3DS is actually slightly weaker than the Gamecube.

[@MrMarinus18]

29:30 I think a reason why they are slow is because it's in 3D and the Gamecube came out in 2001. Making the overland animations slower gives the Gamecube more time to load in the battle animations. So I think they did it to ensure it would be a smooth transition and there wouldn't be an awkward lauding pause for every battle animation.

[@maxschuldes913]

I love path of radiance man, its gotta be in at least my top three if not number one. The story in my opinion is very engaging and believable. I totally believe every single character. And it breaks the mold in so many ways going from rag tag team of mercenaries to winning the war just so much fun along the way. With some great writing for the supports whether I'd be lethe meeting new beroc like ziahark to making her believe that they are good. Or Jill leaving the echo chamber of Daien and discovering new beliefs. It also deals with hard subjects like racism and revenge, death and finding family amongst friends. There is no giant dragon taking over the world, it's just war. I love it. Ps. Marcia is best girl

[@patrickweller5254]

Agreed. I love the tellius games so much.

[@neintimesthegeek1337]

The game is slow, long, and there's nonreal difficulty balance. Visuals are ugly and look dated for their times. Music and atmosphere all looks and feels the same. All characters feel the same as any generic anime/jrgp bunch.

[@sympathism]

@@neintimesthegeek1337 have you met my boy malakov

[@neintimesthegeek1337]

@@sympathism ONE character. A SINFLE CHARACTER. And the bastard is a drunkard

[@sympathism]

@@neintimesthegeek1337 Its a single example. Want more? How about Volke, Muarim, Sanaki, Reyson, Ena, etc

[@benjammin6423]

Mangs you're an absolute saint! Thank you so much for being so considerate and not spoiling any of the plot.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

I was really surprised how low Awakening was on the list, I haven't played all the FE games, but I actually really enjoyed Awakening a lot. I might go as far as to call it my favorite in the series, that I have played. I really think the pair up mechanic is kind of cool, I think that the idea of pairing units together to exaggerate their strengths or cover their weaknesses is an interesting twist on the the old Rescue mechanic, and a fair trade off for reducing the number of units you have on the field. The fact that it also helps to facilitate the newly improved Support mechanic, which is better in Awakening than it arguably has ever been to date, which also ties in with the future children, I think is a fantastic example of gameplay-story integration. I'm being rewarded extrinsically (with stronger units and easier maps) by doing things that I naturally want to do, and that also reward me intrinsically (getting to see fun and unique support conversations and learning the backstories of my characters). This is important I think, because of the fact that during the pre-Awakening era, characters rarely got any more development or dialogue after their introduction unless they were a Lord, a major villain, or an NPC. Awakening totally changed that, and that change has remained to this day. And as far as the future children go, yes I do agree that they are very OP compared to their parents a lot of the time, but I think the essential components you failed to mention on that point are 1. The paralogue missions for them are optional, therefore skippable/missable, 2. Most of them are hard as BALLS, especially on higher difficulties, so being rewarded with a powerful unit for going through the trouble of completing a difficult mission is a perfectly fair and acceptable reward, and 3. They generally join at a fairly low level compared to your main army, so they require feeding to get up to speed in the first place. That being said, if there's one thing you said about Awakening that I fully agree with it's that Act 2 is really bad; I'd have to play the game again to see if the map design criticism holds up, I honestly haven't played in years, but I remember it distinctly being my least favorite part. It felt so disconnected and out of place compared to the rest of the game, almost like they came up with Act 1 and 3 and realized that it wasn't long enough, so they inserted some pointless B-plot about a foreign conqueror to pad the time.

[@Mojo1356]

Honestly I’d argue act 3 is the low point. Between the dumb point of Robin being the baddy’s son being pushed so much and the fight not amounting to much since Grima comes back anyways, that last act needed another script check. Act 1 is the only one that is decent.

[@slowpokefriedrice]

Watching this video made me realize that it’s been 7 years since Awakening’s release, holy shit. I started off as an Awakening Baby and now I constantly praise the Tellius games lmao

[@boldknock7436]

Thats me but replace awakening with echoes and replace tellius with Thracia and fe6

[@tubbs6077]

Dragonite Gaymer Im also an awakening baby but how did you get access to the Tellius games? I tried to buy them both since I own a wii but the ones you can buy are super expensive since they don’t make the game anymore. I’ve been dying to play those games but I just cant figure out how to acess them haha :’-)

[@DarkGreenFire]

@@tubbs6077 arrgh me matey, if you wish to experience the Tellius games you should find a dolphin, it'll allow you to play the Tellius games as well as other wii and gamecube games.

[@tubbs6077]

Junglo Unglo Oh geez thank you so much! But does dolphin cost any money to get? Sorry, Im still pretty new to emulators in general.

[@byletheisner6791]

TubbsofSteel It should be free as far as I know

[@moobmab]

I’m calling it Egghead, 2020 will be the year you hit 100k. Still, cheers to 80k!

[@moobmab]

Blake Blast Either something big involving multiple FE games, a possible remake making its debut, a romhack, or something Binding Blade related kek

[@maxthemagelord5757]

That comment aged like milk

[@patrickweller5254]

@@maxthemagelord5757 this aged badly haha

[@tahamohammad8842]

2021 here, he’s at 96k

[@imnotnarcian]

@@tahamohammad8842 the comeback we all love to see

[@MetaDash]

Thank you for all the great content Mangs. FINALLY one of the most long-running questions for Q/A has been answered!

[@michaelshan22]

Oh boy, here we go. This one won't be controversial at all. Also, grats on 80K subs Mangs.

[@fubu72]

Don't quote me here but, if you check Fates credits I think those who worked on map design are listed under "Level Design". IIRC there's three people, two also had the same role in Awakening, but I think a past director (PoR I believe) also worked there for Fates. FEH has one of those three working as their Level Designer (which feels consistent), but sadly Three Houses doesn't even have that specific category in its credits. Seriously I'm not entirely sure who the heck worked on Conquest level design but Bring Them The Hell Back For The Next Game. #HashtagBringThemBack

[@sebaschan-uwu]

Facts conquest had really fun and good map designs. I just finished binding blade and while those maps are comically oversized the map design was still good most of the time even if they weren't entirely "fun". Now that I replay awakening (especially on hard mode) I realize just how dogshit the maps are

[@despicableone4495]

@@sebaschan-uwu Was shitwakening your induction into the series bro

[@NamelessGamer29]

Out of all the games I want to be adapted into a movie/TV show, Genealogy is definitely #1. The story is just begging to get a Game of Thrones style treatment.

[@Kairos_Akuma]

You been Secks, murder and a bad ending?

[@GobaGNon]

@@Kairos_Akuma maybe cut that last one

[@christianvisperas7438]

"Taking Risks is a good thing" - Mangs Yes Mangs. If I learned one thing from you that is, I need to gamble in order to profit. Now I have no money.

[@ecmg8368]

Great video Mangs. My first Fire Emblem was Awakening admittedly, and I have been playing the later iterations thus far. I would say Echoes caught me by complete surprise. The music in the title screen alone. It was beautiful and gave me the impression that the story & adventure was going to be amazing. I definitely have to play the older titles. This list helped me a lot, so thank you

[@fatcthulhu4904]

Congrats on 80k been here since 90k

[@Paprika_Real4]

Wait….. T H A T’ S I M P O S S I B L E

[@Dawn_of_the_Dan]

Thanks for curating the ENTIRE Fire Emblem series! Very valuable insight for those of us just getting into the Japanese-exclusive releases.

[@Bichnir]

My favorite Fire Emblem is also The Binding Blade. And Roy actually is one of my favorite lords in the franchise despite having never played him in smash because he's not a super human or anything, he is a dude doing what he can concerning the task at hand and when he's not at some point, the plot doesn't wait for him to move.

[@GoInDryPulloutWet]

80k subscriber special number 2? for the memes

[@arronk3]

"i thought three houses was going to be fates 2.0, but it wasnt, so happy" literally me when i finally bought it months after release

[@loganhollingsworth1675]

Hey man just want to say I love fire emblem, love what you do, i think you have a lot of really good opinions regarding the game series. I mean this literally you my favorite fire emblem youtuber. I got started on path of radiance on an old GameCube a few years back and today i look back on that time with a lot of nostalgia. there's no game series quite like fire emblem. these games truly transport you o another world. I played the game alongside family members and we would each have to voice and read characters in the dialogue as we played. It was alot of fun and a good family memory. anyways enough rambling. Love you man hope to see more videos in the future. (*writing this a bit drunk so excuse grammar hahaha)

[@an0rangutan]

My favorite has always been Radiant Dawn, the story isn't great and there's too many characters, its weakness is not having the ability to have long character revealing supports like Awakening, I believe that feature alone would bring the game up a few notches and give it more replayability. My favorite aspects were the difficulty, the characters that did get to shine, the Laguz (always an awesome treat in my opinion) and the length, beating this game on hard feels like a real accomplishment because it's so long and difficult unless you purposely pick all of the best characters to level up (which I never did, Nolan was my main boy the whole game) Honestly, if they modernized this game, I wouldn't really mind, but I don't think it's necessary and they'd probably ruin it by adding external levels to grind to living hell, which would defeat the difficulty and each individual choice of the games design. Imagine in chapter 2 you used all your healing items but now 3 levels later you can't heal Geoffrey enough and can't complete it without him dying because you made an amateurish mistake a few levels prior, every choice in RD has a lasting effect because there's no going back and there's no grinding outside of the story, so getting through it your way feels like an absolute accomplishment.

[@sympathism]

Theres one issue I have with fe3h, is that most of the characters dont matter towards the global story. You can literally take out 6 students of each house and most of the teachers, and the main story doesnt change one digit, no matter which route you take. This on top of a main character just being a plot device, makes the 3 houses leaders, (and maybe their right hands) the only relevant characters towards the whole story.

[@NobleMonster]

Hey, just found your channel and been consuming this good stuff all day. Thanks for the FE videos.

[@randomladyaj]

I haven't played all of the fire emblems but Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn are still my favorites.

[@thejam0451]

Been here for since forever. Love you keep sticking to it.

[@noahlloyd3012]

Say what you will about Fates, I certainly do. But at the very least, you have to admit that for better or worse, nearly every single map is memorable. I can vividly remember almost every single chapter and every single hurdle I had to overcome in Conquest and Birthright. Most other Fire Emblem titles don't have that. In fact, it's one of my biggest gripes with Three Houses. Even though so much of it is stellar, and most of the maps are competently designed, they lack something to make them stand out from the rest. 90% of them start to blend together after a while. Not Fates though. Whether it's, "Oh, I love this map!" Or, "Oh God, here we go with this map again." Love them or hate them, they stay in your mind. They make you think about how to beat them long after you already have. That's a quality I wish more FE games had.

[@slufffyg503]

Noah Lloyd I feel like all the weird maps also gave me a bunch of moments where I have to risk everything on a strategy that would only work on said map, making it a lot more memorable

[@noahlloyd3012]

@@slufffyg503 Oh yeah, it's honestly impossible for me to not take a risk now and again when I play conquest. It's just not possible to avoid it, at least for me.

[@noahlloyd3012]

@@lobsterp3821 True. The ice tribe village will never not be beautiful.

[@catherinedefreitas5715]

Congrats on 80k, Mangs. Being a KZbinr is, in my opinion, one of the hardest jobs to have. No matter how much I facepalm with decisions you make in some Ironmans and games, I still admire you for the amount of time and care you give to your channel. Here's to another 80k! PS: the first shitpost I ever saw from you before I ever played FE anything was "I'm a green unit". I still watch that to this day and it's common for my husband and I to call each other green units when we make dumb decisions or mistakes 😂

[@Scraxivele]

Having grown up with Advance Wars i only got into Fire Emblem last year, and my friend whos a big fan recommended I play the GBA trilogy first, and play it backwards. So I started with Sacred Stones and then Blazing Blade and then Binding Blade, and playing them in that order really did make me fall in love with the series.

[@chimbychimbson]

Oh god he’s gonna hit 80,000 again soon. I wish this wasn’t happening, he got me into fire emblem with his videos. But what’s best is better off being done than being ignored. I’ll miss you, egg

[@deadshota736]

What are you talking about...

[@traskmaster9265]

This video portrayed to me more than anything else how deep mangs love for fire emblem goes. Every person has their favorite fire emblem and his speech about fe6 spoke to me. I’ve never even played fe6 but his feelings about that game encapsulate so many of my feeling on radiant dawn, my personal favorite. Rd is an enormously flawed game, I agreed with most of mangs opinions on it. But despite this it is a game that I love unconditionally and can come back too any day. I hope this channel hits 100k because he definitely deserves it.

[@zyvan3179]

I'll admit I was an awakening baby. I technically played FE7 first on my schools laptop during summer driving school but I only made it like 5 chapters in but that was enough to get me into the series. Awakening will always hold a special place in my heart because it got me into the series and I love some of the characters (Lucina is best girl) but I recognize it isnt the best FE game but I'm glad enough people bought it to revive one of my favorite franchises now. Also I like to think the dawn brigade is supposed to be a rag tag group of misfits that arent supposed to be good. But I doubt it was intentional And about Echoes. I just dont know why but I cant get into it. I can see it's a good game it looks beautiful sounds beautiful and everything. But for some reason I just cant. I guess it's just not for me

[@Mojo1356]

Shadows of Valentia is aces for the writing, but the gameplay is booty. I’d say it’s probably the worst modern gameplay title. Yes- even more than Revelations,

[@mmcanhaoable]

Fire emblem fates birthright was the reason why I got so into fire emblem. It hurts a bit to see how hated it is, but I really loved it (specially the characters)

[@user-pv9pv4xf9c]

Yeah it's a good game. FE fans are just lame by and large lol.

[@crogurk8459]

Pretty good list but honestly I feel like you gave FE 12 a bit toooo much flak, for me it fixed a lot of the weird things on Shadow Dragon with a bunch of units and specific classes feeling useless, graphics looking a little nicer and how gaiden chapters worked. I can't blame you for not liking Kris as a character but as a unit he was fun mess around with, he really felt like a test for what would become standard in the series (which I still find it's fine but avatar units could use a little more work), but the way they made his side story with the assasins was kinda cool. Difficulty is really strange imo, you got a good variety though I can't deny, the game got quite some fun challenge in some like Hard and Maniac but after maniac the game gets quite infiruating. But I still think it was one of the highlights of the series and I really want it to come to the west some day. Still other then that it's a good list and it's nice to see FE 8 not get so much hate for once.

[@nuibaba280]

Nahh, Kris being trash and making characters worse like Marth and Jagen while cucking Merric out of the best friend spot makes me seethe til this day.

[@JoelBurger]

The hate for Kris is way overblown. It's not like they turn out to be the secret son/daughter of Medeus or something like that, like all the other self-inserts. They're just a person who helps out, and beyond taking some lines from Jagen, they don't intrude upon the story as much as people like to say they do.

[@nuibaba280]

No, fuck a Kris. Kris ruining an established narrative and being forced as Marth's soulmate is fucking awful. At least those other avatars are apart of their own bad stories that are mediocre with or without them. Kris held FE12 back.

[@JoelBurger]

@@nuibaba280 Again, you're really overselling Kris's role in the narrative. Kris is presented as a good friend to Marth, but nowhere near a "soulmate", and the game's story otherwise is the exact same as it was in FE3. People really overestimate how much Kris's interjections factor into things; everything plays out the same way, and it is still very obviously Marth's story with Marth in the leading role. Kris is only a little above Mark in terms of story impact, yet people act like he turns out to be the chosen one and the true king of Archanea or something that ruins FE3 forever.

[@nuibaba280]

Wrong. Marth calls Kris his other half and Awakening confirms the translation is basically accurate by referring to Kris as a soulmate. FUCK A KRIS. Kris took the strategy scene, the retreat scene against Hardin is taken to be about "as long as Kris is here everyone will be safe". Kris was not needed.

[@silvertipstudio9622]

This video made me realize that people shouldn’t be bitching about dating sim elements in fire emblem since it’s optional and the gameplay is still there so it can only be a plus

[@GreatBigHill]

By the same logic no one should bitch about a bad story in a game since you can just skip it making the story optional.

[@silvertipstudio9622]

@@GreatBigHill I disagree with story it’s something you want but ends up being lackluster for the dating sim elements it’s something you don’t want but you can skip

[@darkmatterpancake]

The FE6 map where the entire remaining enemy army comes after you is absolutely the most afraid I have ever been going into a fire emblem map.

[@michaelpodgorski1692]

I really appreciate you making the distinction between what you like and what you think is good.

[@TheVikingDoctor]

I feel that Radiant Dawn has the best situational story in the series. The situations that it puts you in are by far the most compelling. In chapter 3, the main characters you used in the previous game are these legendary units that are far better than any of the other units you have used previously, and you get plenty of time to level them up and make them even better. You go to fight an empire far more powerful than your opponent ever was in the first game, and then you have the Dawn Brigade fight your units from the first game. The Dawn Brigade is far weaker than the Greil Mercenaries, and I feel that makes the act 3 chapters where you play as the Dawn Brigade actually the most fun. The chapter where you defend the castle from the Greil Mercenaries and the Laguz is particularly exciting. Not to mention that Elincia's Gambit is the best battle in the series hands-down. It is a lot like how Skies of Arcadia or Tales of Symphonia have very cliche stories, but the situations you are put in and the overall journey and progression of those games give them very amazing scenarios to play through.

[@deepwaters3631]

I'm playing Binding Blade right now, I'm having such a good time! So excited to finish

[@kirbymastah]

36:50 - "Moving on! And yes i'm wearing different clothes now" I never would've realized it from listening to this video until you said this. Kinda shows how consistent the video editing is :P Props!

[@MrMarinus18]

I think the presentation of Echoes is superior to that of Three houses. While three houses obviously is on more powerful hardware the hand-drawn portraits, fluid animation and amazing cutscene's give the edge the Echoes. I actually rate Echoes above Three Houses. I started with Awakening (Yeah, I'm one of the 'new generation') and played the 2 other 3DS games as well as Three Houses. I would rate them Echoes, Three Houses, Awakening and finally Fates. I really like the smaller scope of Echoes. It makes the story feel so much more personal and allows so much more focus on the characters. I do have a few gripes with the story though such as Alm becoming the leader so soon when he's still very inexperienced and completely unproven.

[@zaganmadness7063]

Happy 80k egghead, been here since your Last Promise playthrough and have loved you ever since

[@nuibaba280]

>FE12's section gives Kris the shit they deserve I love you way too much Mangs

[@nuibaba280]

Also Shadow Dragon appreciation!? You lovable egg you are such a chad

[@nuibaba280]

@Wil E Good taste, the writing was also super charming.

[@Genethagenius]

Congratulation on 80K Mangs!!! I was really surprised about where “Path of Radiance” showed up in the list, but that’s because it is one of my favorite FE games. I love the story, the characters, and also the bonus EXP system. When it was “FE Echoes: Shadows of Valentia” was first announced and explained, I was not interested in it at all. But I finally gave it a try and really, really liked it! The story, the characters, and everything else made it one of my favorite FE games. I was an “Awakening” newbie but I’ve went back and played all the FE games now and love the series, however, it might just be because it was my first FE game but I still love “Awakening”! It definitely has a lot of issues, but I loved the characters, story, even the “waifu” mechanic. I’ve beaten a few FE games multiple times but none more than “Awakening”. I also really love “FE 4: Genealogy of the Holy War” and really hope that it gets the “Echoes” treatment like “FE: Gaiden” did.

[@sharly1201]

Bro, the final was so emotional. I love the saga and the first time I see your videos, I was so excited that you felt the same. You're amazing and you'll persist in our hearts.

[@asahitownboys]

Can't wait for the next 80k special!

[@Shireikai]

Mangs talking about Fates Conquest: "Yeah the story is bad, but you can skip it" Also Mangs: " Yeah FE7 and 10 have a bad story, so that's why they're lower"

[@auraguard0212]

Conquest's story is basically "Oh shoot, they chose the bad team, how can we railroad them into the plot we spent the most time on anyway?", but they really tried to make it tough and interesting gameplay-wise. It ruins the two main characters of Fates, but I think IS (incorrectly) assumed that you wouldn't be playing Conquest for the story anyway.

[@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263]

@@auraguard0212 they could have been trying to revert garon or something etc and making internal fight. But I bet the director was like “No! They have to fight Hoshidans!”

[@thekinglydragon]

Off the top of my head, the fire emblem games I've played ranked would be 5. Conquest 4. FE6 3. Awakening 2. Echoes 1. FE7 Looking forward to expanding this list in the years to come!

[@aaronjackson6880]

Congratulations on 80K! Keep making Great content! You say Thracia is not for new fire emblem players, but ironically your first play through made me fall in love with Fire Emblem as a new player who’s only experience was Fates. Thank you for your content!

[@jatinjamalta4114]

Congratulations man hope you get 100k soon just keep those Fire Emblem videos coming 👍

[@FIFAmusicMAN]

Congrats Mangs! So Happy to have found your content and hopefully many tens of thousands of more subscribers will come your way in the coming years!

[@laprayprey]

Thank you Mangs for drawing casual newcomers like me to the FE series Your passion for FE4 is really convincing me to try it next after Three Houses even though I’ve been iffy about trying the really old titles (before PoR) because GBA / Older titles tend to take a while for me to get used to the graphics

[@Sultan-uj4jl]

I want to share the fact that I was an awakening baby cause I was recovering from an accident and got that game as a gift because it was “like legend of Zelda” and now I’ve played every game and I’m trying to finish up my Silver Snow play-through of Fire Emblem 3H.

[@MrNickolay1986]

Yeah, hard to believe it myself, but Awakening really introduced me to the series, though I didn't like Awakening itself. But after I played it a little, I started googling around to see what's this Fire Emblem is about. And turns out there are plenty of different Fire Emblem games out there. So, one way or another, Awakening did revive the series.

[@carlospolk5033]

Oh Mangs is rating each FE game. I chant “I bet it’s Fates. I bet it’s Fates” as commentary starts. 2:20 I knew it! Lol

[@jeannemoore9843]

Fates is both the best and worst game because it is Amazing and Actual shit

[@tyronetiggums6441]

Fates does have some really good elements: not everything about the writing is trash (the characters themselves land inoffensive/positively more often than not) and the gameplay *is* the best in the series when given good maps. Latter's mainly contributed to Conquest but still.

[@kadenthefoxbat1450]

4 is my favourite. Glad to see you really enjoyed it too. =)

[@arnavmekala4578]

Happy 80000k Mangs, I have wanted this list for so long and I am so happy to finally see your opinions on all of the games. I hope you could do a big project with someone who has also played all the fire emblem games and someday combine your rankings and make a “definitive ranking” of all the fire emblems games so we can have more conversations between different opinions and see a completely different ranking. Thank you for all the great content and hopefully we get more amazing fire emblem games so we can get more memes and more criticizing. This is why I love fire emblem and why it’s my second favorite video game franchise(first being Zelda). Below is my personal ranking of all the fire emblem games

[@sugarflakes1497]

80,000. Holy shit that’s insane. Congrats Mangs. You deserve it!

[@sonogrande7628]

Looking cool joker

[@blindwizard7891]

It hit me around number 6 that Conquest hadn't been mentioned. I was happy to see it as number 4 since Fates holds a special place in my heart being my first fe game, despite the glaring weaknesses you pointed out Mangs and I'm more than willing to admit to. It was interesting hearing your thoughts on each game in the series as a whole video after hearing bits and pieces of your opinions across multiple videos. Great video overall as usual and congrats on a well deserved 80k subscribers.

[@altha201]

Congrats, Mangs! Like your content, waiting for FE4 ranked run and FE5 normal run on channel.

[@theoneandonly1368]

Damn I’ve been around since 5k subs, first video I watched was the history of the weapon triangle and if it wasn’t for mangs I would never get to “experience” games like thracia 776 and Genealogy, so kudos eggman and hopefully we can all celebrate the 100k sub special

[@Nimta]

Mangs: "You can skip a bad story, but you can't skip a bad map" Also Mangs: I like the games that are very poorly designed and only have good stories best.

[@ZeroHayabusa]

Really good list! The only thing I would say I would have liked from this video is maybe focusing more on what you like/love about the games as you got to the top half of the list rather than your dislikes. I understand wanting to explain why some games are lower than expected but I'd be way more interested in hearing you focus on what you really enjoy from the games.

[@stephensewell2042]

I just can't fathom having Awakening, the game that saved the franchise, as low as you have it. The mechanics are fantastic and the characters were incredible.

[@beatsbyadmiralz5915]

The Absurdist fates has all those gimmicky weapons that you simply don’t need

[@thisismyusername7631]

The characters were too gimmicky and artificial. The maps were mediocre.

[@MrSupersonic2012]

It's funny, technically my first exposure to Fire Emblem outside of Smash Bros Melee was Sacred Stones because of the 3DS ambassador program. I played a little bit of it and liked it, but not enough to really get deep into it. Awakening came out and it was getting all kinds of hype. Picked it up and loved it, it's still in my opinion a really good game. Even if a lot of people in the old school community don't agree it is a matter of taste. Awakening in my opinion deserves all the praise it gets for introducing so many people to the series and saving it in one fell swoop. I of course went and played some other games in the series, and sure Awakening isn't my favorite anymore, but I still love it. Shadows of Valentia is probably my favorite of the new games. It was simpler, but had a lot of the more modern mechanics and just overall pretty good. Sacred Stones is also a personal favorite too. But Path of Radiance is, imo the best Fire Emblem game that I've beaten. I just love that game and I am so glad I was able to get a copy of it before they started getting ridiculous in the price range.

[@lanceareadbhar]

Congrats Mangs! Love your content.

[@junkor0140]

I understand the loving a game so much you can’t understand why or how you still find so much joy. For me it’s resident evil code Veronica. I have played that game at least 50 times trying to speed run it or just kick back with a friend take turns at different spots when u play as different characters and have some beers!! Here’s to 20k more my beautiful egg man

[@DanBottiglieri]

> Mangs > 78K subscribers > 80,000 subscriber special Videos that didn't age well

[@Great-in-General]

Your love of FE6 is nearly the same kind of love I have for FE8. Even in spite of the easy difficulty, (Which I will never find to be a problem) its something that allows me to really spread my creative wings and truly get to experience the game in a new light with branching promotions.

[@Uhm511]

Hi Mangs! I started from Three Houses and absolutely loved it. Now I'm playing Echoes (act 4) and really enjoying it! Just wanted to say I really love your content, keep it up :) Congrats for the 80k!

[@prodkwop]

Davide why don’t you play older games they’re better

[@Uhm511]

@@prodkwop I've been enjoying Echoes so not many complaints there ^^ the characters are cute and the story is interesting (hate cantors and don't really love dungeons though). I'll play others for sure! Do you have any advice for which one to pick up next?

[@prodkwop]

Davide Yeah, if you know how to install emulators I would definitely recommend FE6, FE7, or FE8, if you like cute character design these three games are for you, the battle animations are really cool too. FE7 and FE8 are on the Wii U GameShop I’m pretty sure, so if you have a Wii U you’re all set there

[@loganeidell8778]

My favorite is Binding Blade too. I grew to love it the more experienced I got with the series.