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This is the craziest review I’ve ever seen. Much of the early stuff you list is preference based nit picking and the points about strategy at the end (eg peter being a “necessity”) and pacing are simply wrong. While Peter is definitely the best character many others can pretty easily keep pace. The lacking of a breaking point as you say seems silly as you can save from the battle map and at any town and can thus put the game down virtually any time you want.

1:31 ...Holy shit... was that really necessary ??? ...DOWN-VOTED !!!

I like how FEH legit went "Anna is a multidimensional entity, just like the gods and the dragons" and that's that lol or rather... in FEH, the one who suggests the ritual to bring a Summoner from another world, using the special (and unique to a Summoner) weapon Breibadikk is... Anna. She is the one who knows about a weapon that opens dimentional rifts and rules a Knight Order in a kingdom named after a God of OPENING (Askr). OH I THINK YOU CRACKED THE CODE

Thank you for your positivity on this game. I was a bit disappointed by difficulty and the aesthetics, but they improved several things and the psynergie ds System is great. Its a golden sun game and i wish there were more of them

And in Engage's credits you can see Engage Anna finding her sisters... Awakening and Fates Annas

17:00 "Lang had a Cancer. Marth took the Cancer."

Engage is decent since many are either team Three Houses or Team Engage. I personally enjoyed Engage with it being my first game

What is more confusing, mystery of Anna or The Zelda Timeline?

I actually cried so godamn hard the day it was cancelled. Still not over it

Casual can still have punishment aspects to it: in a playthrough that you can't grind for EXP outside main chapters, a character dying early becomes weaker and weaker as the chapters difficulty increase...it can come to the point of not being able to complete a chapter, a "game over" "softlock".

With the Hardcore Nuzlocke in Pokémon, if we had the ability to rename or chose the name for the other characters, losing them would be more heart breaking

Shining Force 3 is my second favourite game of all time after Final Fantasy VII. I recently played Scenario 2 & 3 for the first time and it was an absolute dream come true after spending so many years wanting to experience them. I even tried playing them years ago with a printed paper translation, I wanted to play them that badly. For anyone else who’s played these, don’t forget about Shining Holy Ark. That’s also an incredibly under appreciated game.

three years late to this, but whats a pretty interesting tangential detail to the Crest of Ernest bit, is that each of the crests lost to history (Aubin, Noa, Chevalier, Timethoes and Ernest) are only seen in their major form. and while its clear the first for have a specific origin in setting, the fact that Fodlan is the only place to have gone all in on this Inherited/Gifted magic of Crests and bits like the consistency of Anna knowing about the Dragon Gates or at least conveniently working near them. all gives some interesting credence to the idea that Crests/Holy Blood could potentially be concepts in most FE settings just the culture and story had no reason to discover them so Anna's crest of Ernest hides out in most settings unseen and not helping, but this also results in Fodlan's Anna being extra secretive and also finding no reason to extend the trust she does in other places, because surely somebody would ask questions about her truely unique crest that she wants to keep under wraps as it creates trouble about a crest who's progenitor is left unwritten. Really adds to the idea that the Anna of each game isn't really "Native" to that world, and the merchant clan of Anna and her family being gifted knowledge and means to fan out and also a need to blend in. the thing i like best about all of that I could even seen the idea that maybe they're given name isn't actually Anna at all, but something that could easily be shortened or extended then shortend to Anna, Morgan -> Morgana -> Ana for example. This to some extent even works to account for Feena who hadn't taken up the merchant trade so chose not to adopt the name conveniently dodging around any questions about her and Anna by proxy. All of this is to say depending on the game the degree of this Anna is a character knowledgeable of the web of connected timelines and chronologies who in some sense recognizes the players observation of the tale and acts as a guide of sorts, even the strange locations of older games secret shops or the mostly not secret nature of the member card she has you get in 3H on top of the semi consistent 4th wall breaking either in her choice of lines or more directly, even down to the fact that secret shops consistently contain rare and valuable items you otherwise have very short supply of dracoshields and goddess icons and the like basically being relics or treasure, and yet Anna finds herself in position to have the vast majority of these items in the games that feature in map secret shops or otherwise one of if not the only suppliers of them. In short amazing theory on the dragonpact idea for Anna and her brood of Anna's even if the games don't give us much to go on in a lot of cases. and to some extent thats fine, though Fodlan did her dirty by not giving her supports. (and making Trickster such a crappy class, but thats besides the point.)

I just did my first "ironman" with a blind path or radiance run and it was fun. Yes i got half of the characters killed and missed out on a ton of receuitment but thay gives the game more replayability. 😊My only reccomendtion if you're going to do an iron man is to play on normal instead of hard mode. Doing both could make it impossible to progress especially on recent games.

Great video. Fascinating for nerds who have played both games religiously for decades. I have had these same thoughts many times, i.e. that Shining Force 2 is objectively better in so many ways, but there are tangible and intangible aspects that make Shining Force 1 better for me. Some immediate disagreements on memorability: The kraken battle is infinitely more memorable and better in every way than the two ship battles from Shining Force 1. I might give a more thoughtful response later with other details for discussion.

Felix and Sheba also went to Crossbone Isle

That warning is real. I had basically 1 character and the beast tamed enemies for the final battle of sc 2

Anna has two modes she engages in, capitalist or Lover

your crazy. SFII is my all time favorite.

"Dark Sol, Dark Dragon, and Zeon fought", the most unfortunate white-washing translation error. They had to remove religious references including Lucifer, who is the third devil king. Dark Dragon was not one of the devil kings who fought at Arc Valley, it was Lucifer.

I never thought about it but there is a difference in the battles. It might be mostly that SF2 relies way more heavily on the overworld. SF1 had a lot of unique battles. SF2 had a lot of grinding battles. There were some unique ones though. The caves (they had to engineer their own software based parallax scrolling for the cave spotlight and cloud backgrounds), the kraken, the chessboard, some of the town fights. Battles that had guests or units that changed sides. But SF1 has a lot more battles that stand out as unique. The ship battles, laser eye, orb cave battle, circus battle, skull castle, kane battle, runefaust castle/ramladu, the tower to get Alef/Torasu, there's lots.

Well, the first two games are widely and wisely considered as masterpieces for 20+ years, and this one just got a meh. Not playing with the original characters is one of the reasons, those flaws that were mentioned here, and the 3D graphics were disappointing to me (they should stayed pixel art).

I love both for different reasons, but 2 is overall better. I only wish sf2 adopted more of the steampunk aspects of 1, which they incorpoated into 3. Three is ultimate sf game and nothing has rivaled it since. All classic amazing games that no other strategy RPG has come close to capturing its charm

when the game was in game pass I genuinely enjoyed playing crosscode, even with the difficult puzzles and complex mechanics. but I felt like that made this whole game even more fleshed out. all in one game, and I didn't have to switch to another one to experience fun combat, challenging puzzles or an intriguing storyline. this game includes multiple genres in a way that leaves you satisfied and not too overwhelmed with how much there is to do sadly though, when I reached the "final boss" of the main story I couldn't beat it. my level was too high to get enough exp from the side quests I ignored and too low to sufficiently power up the circuits to have even the slightest chance at the fight without being beaten in just 2-3 hits. I completely forgot about being able to lower the settings to make the fight easier and just ended up never finishing it. still had the game installed though, long enough to finally buy it myself with the money I earned. and I am so glad I did. despite knowing all about the plot twists and characters, it was still so much fun to live through these experiences with them. I can't help but get emotional when luke and lea are spending their time in vermillion wasteland, trying to find a way out, together. this time it was actually a lot easier to play through the game, probably because I already had some experience I feel like the only thing this game really lacks is more "tutorials" for its mechanics. most of it is just figuring it out by yourself. to me, that's a lot of fun, as long as it's not almost impossible to figure it out. but sometimes crosscode really doesn't make it easy to find a solution

A Fire Emblem game without Anna is like a Final Fantasy game without Sid.

It is so funny that the community is so largely against the core mechanic of permadeath that the act of playing the game normally as intended is considered an "ironman challenge". Its a shame that because the devs are so aware of the communities general apprehension for permadeath that they've completely shit on the mechanic in most modern entries

Also did you know that you can lose the fight against Karst & Agatio and still continue the story?

Hm, I can hardly call my top 10, but Belinsk Ruins, Alchemy Dynamo, Ayuthay, Eclipsed World, Snowdrift Shrine & Battle! Chaos Hound would be on it most likely. Lemuria, Garoh, Aqua Rock and Walking Forward With Determination too!

About Jenna not appearing: She is supposedly residing in Kalay as the game mentioned in a dialogue but.. that place is never visited and alongside some other.. information about the game, I think the game had quite some cut content around. For example: You can see two of the four elemental lighthouses on the worldmap, but trying to visit those places is pretty much undoable, and from how it looks like they were supposed to be visitable and perhaps linked to the Apollo Sanctum area. And why Felix & Sheba aren't appearing imo is more of a Tuaparang interference and "would you like to know what is going on in the western part of this world?" moment. Let's one wonder when Golden Sun 4 is about to show up so that the missing links get connected, like I finally wanna see how Takeru looks like who's trying to rescue Felix, who might be traveling around with Piers due to what the game teased. While at it, Nowell might very well be the mercury adept of GS4's first party due to what was also being teased and sounding like is going on with the builtup for GS4.

I started in Fates Weeabo edition, and was a chill road.

Don't feel bad for using the assist mode. As long as you enjoy the actual game. I used guides and video tutorials all the time

over 90 hours of playtime and didn't finish by 100% yet. I love this game so much

I was wondering where the hell is apollo sanctum during golden sun and tla it feel like this sanctum just pop up out of nowhere in dark dawn

17:16 Anna's lucky this isn't the realm of Drakengard or she'd lose something with that pact

"What happened to Dorcas?"

I just stumbled onto this series via the machinations of UA-cam's algorithm and I'm really digging it! Are you still making SRPG reviews, by any chance? (If so, I may have some game recommendations for you!)

The graphics are awesome!!!

Hobo: Tough life of a bum. Literally a bum simulator, with crafting, rpg elements and even multi-branch storyline. Takes place in a fictional city in Czech republic, Preslav. I adore this game, can someone recommend any similar, modern setting, preferably European city/village? Other things do not matter. Thanks in andvance.

Are there any military style rpgs out there?

FE7 being on switch GBA selection made me pick it up. Loving it so far. Chapter 27

I kind of hate everything this game stands for

The dungeon design definitely peaks with the first

I agree with a lot of the arguments you make here, but I take issue with your conclusion that classic mode is irrelevant. Even if I am resetting for every character death classic mode still forces me to consider deaths in my tactics. If you play on casual mode then sacrificing a unit is a viable strategy for a lot of situations, and that is why the punishment of permadeath is still important IMO

Zylo.

Tried playing but gave up with talking in camp. I played at one time for 45 minutes before I actually did anything. Well try later when in mood.

Anna was like the Pokemon franchise's Fire Emblem equivalent of Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny. She has a huge number of siblings across the outrealm. She's a great unit to use in Awakening and Fates especially if you choose to promote her as your magic unit.

Three is definitely the most unique game in the series and by far one of my favorites. They knew that the Sega Saturn was coming to an end and that it needed to be wrapped up, so disc 3's story is wonky, though throughout the whole thing it needs a skip cutscene button. Also, hidden items, unless there's something really important, need to just be in treasure chests and not patches of grass or the sides of a wall.

Start the series with Thracia 776 if you're a masochist

I started playing SF3 two years ago using a Satiator using my original Saturn from the 90's on a 24 inch Sony CRT TV via component cables. Simply lovely to look at. I love this game so much that I recently started replaying it, trying to avoid some of the mistakes I made the first time. If you have the funds to afford a Satiator, it is definitely a great way to play all of the Saturn games on original hardware.