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Great analysis! While I would agree with you in a vacuum, the issue is that there are a ton of external variables in Awakening that make other skills less important. Firstly, you are right in that pre Gangrel, it is incredibly hard for unpromoted units to have any promoted level 5 skills assuming that you're going fast. Risen farming is pretty tough in Lunatic and experience decay also makes it harder to get experience without significantly slowing down (double digit turn counts for maps even though it should be fine to clear all pre Gangerel maps in at most 5 turns). Even if you plan out experience routing really well, Robin is the only person who has the opportunity to get Sol. And then the problem with this is that there's a huge opportunity cost with not going for Galeforce (since you likely get Sol during or a map before the Gangerel map). I don't contest Sol is awesome in that map (and even the next map!), but the issue is that post those 2 maps, with the exception of 3 maps, everything else is a kill boss map. And this is where galeforce really shines since the ability to end maps early is really valuable in not fighting extremely tough enemies. Even in the rout maps, galeforce still earns value because of its power in positioning (this isn't as powerful as Sol, but Sol doesn't provide the same value on kill boss maps, which are the majority of maps in the game post Gangrel). And this is value that Galeforce alone can provide. You can't do the same tricks with just rescue staves. Speaking of rescue staves, they also help make galeforce extremely powerful because, with rescue in conjunction to galeforce, you're able to cover huge swathes of the map at a time (much more than if you didn't have galeforce). And this is great for those kill boss maps. Sol's activation rate is also an issue. Yes, while you would typically have 40% activation rate towards the end game, that's still less than a coin toss so basing your strategy around it isn't great imo. Another issue is the class you get the skills from. You'd need to go Mercenary -> Hero for Sol versus Pegasus Knight -> Dark Flier for galeforce. While pegasus knight might seem like a weaker class, the ability to fly is really nice and, versus mercenary, you get the option of Javelins for 1-2 range combat (I do concede that Javelins are relatively rare and weak, but at least until promotion, you get enough javelins from Kellam, Sumia and post chapter 7). On promotion, you upgrade from javelins to tomes for Dark Flier, while with Hero, you're stuck with hand axes (or short axes, which are pretty unreliable) for a good majority of the game. Of course, if we look at Lunatic+, then these disparities get exacerbated and galeforce is heads and shoulders above sol because the best way of clearing Lunatic+ maps is to avoid the enemies entirely and it's really easy to die to Lunatic+ enemies, even with sol and good 1-2 range becomes even more valuable due to skills like counter.

Since nosferatu tanking is just easier way to beat lunatic sol can be detrimental when you almost always have full hp and sol proc has advantage over skills like ignis, luna or vengeance. In which case you don't want sol at all. However on lunatic plus when enemies have counter you almost never have full hp so sol becomes much more valuable. Combine sol with nosferatu and you counter the counter. Galeforce can be used to get rid of 2 enemies with counter or just kill the boss in defeat the boss maps. But I do agree sol is usually better than galeforce when you're soloing the game. In the final map however I always unequip sol because I want ignis or vengeance to proc instead. This is of course considering lunatic and lunatic plus where you're most likely soloing the game with avatar, other difficulties you can do whatever. I guess you could also say galeforce is better on kill boss maps and sol is better on route maps. Sol becomes better the more the game is enemy phase so conquest for example sol is just shit, actually there every proc skill except astra and rend heaven are shit. Just use both where it makes sense.

Zephiel really could have benefitted from a midquel between Blazing Blade and Binding Blade. Maybe Zephiel's the protagonist and as you play, the situations he finds himself in become more and more trying, even after the death of his father and ascension to the Throne of Bern. It's only near the end does he snap and become a person who very much could become Binding Blade's version of him. Definitely just a lot of Live A Live Oersted vibes. Zephiel _feels_ like he should have more potential than this

Bruh this is the wrong game

Awakening is a good game. And I'm tired of people telling me that I'm wrong for thinking that.

It's kinda sad to see the comments here only talk about Nosferatu. There is no overlap between Sol and Nos (except for Cordelia), and the discussion is about Sol being better than Galeforce (which also has no overlap with Nos... except for Cordelia). As for the contents of video, I agree. Personally, I think Galeforce is overrated for two reasons. 1. I don't see the appeal of the extra turn for most units. For support units (Staff units, Rally units, and Olivia), I think it is fantastic as it allows them to both pick off an enemy and still perform their supportive abilities. For typical offensive units, they can take one enemy... and then fight another one? This is something that can just as easily be done on Enemy Phase where they are likely to be taking on multiple enemies anyway. The only use for Galeforce on offensive units is as a free Canto... however... 2. You have to grind for it. Outside of Cordelia and Sumia, you need a Second Seal in order to get it. In order to get Galeforce on the other units, you either need to SS Lissa and Maribelle through Pegasus Knight and Master Seal them into Dark Flier for 15 levels (so 10 base class levels + 15 advanced class levels) or you MS Lissa and Maribelle, grind them for 10 levels, then SS them into Dark Flier, and then grind for another 15 levels (so 10 advanced class levels + 15 advanced class levels). Olivia can only do the former. That's a lot of leveling up just for one skill. Here we have a skill that requires one to go through 2 whole classes just to get what? Canto with a kill condition? I think it is fine for the first Gen units that can get it, but I don't think it is as that good on second gen units unless you are building them for Rally support. I think it would be better to pass on more general exclusive skills or skills for classes they don't want to grind through.

Since 2017, when the “Fates Bad” discourse was a general conception, I always said that Fates had good gameplay, the story wasn’t to my liking, but nothing that mashing “start” didn’t solve

Most confusing story for an RPG I ever played. WHAT A POS story telling. Sorry, but I really wanted to love this game. Instead i'm hating the story part.

POOR STORY TELLING by the DEVS. Blue Lions route didnt really let you confront the slither group.

Just play echoes

Man this video was really good, your channel definitely deserves more subs. And I hope to see you post more videos at some point too!

enemy phase oriented, means the bulk of enemies is weaker, so your units (ryoma essentially) just stay still, kill everyone and not die... so yeah, a game more casual friendly Also Ryoma don´t trivialize the game... only the first 22 chapters?

This isn't a guide. It's you rambling on about your thoughts on the game.

The main thing that always stopped me from trying Fates was that I hated the protagonist. From the bare feet, to them being extremely dumb and oblivious, they're just not the best protagonist the series has seen...

I don’t get what’s wrong with some people. Picking something over another solely because of “fanservice” or because “it’s harder” is really stupid in my opinion. The second one i get, but that doesn’t give anyone a right to trash talk it…..

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

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

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

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

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

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

loved both of these thanks for posting them.

Very nice summary. :D

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

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

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

12 years ago bow btw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ok now do rev

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

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

This is good stuff!

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

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