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What is the song playing in the background, I don't know when it starts or stops but specifically at 2:10 I've had that stuck in my head for months but can't remember the name!

"What Makes a Bad Fire Emblem Unit?" Me: Can You kill things FE Unit: Yes Me: You're good Me: Can you kill things FE Unit: No Me: Can you eventually kill things FEU: Yes Me: We'll come back to you Me: Can you kill things FE Unit: No, I'm a support only class that can't keep pace with the other units Me: You're trash

I kinda rather not have a Avatar unit. I diffidently wouldn't mind having 1 or 2 characters added just so we can name and customize them(which may or may not influence where and when they join). I play the early Avatar games just to make new characters and have fun, even when I make bad ones. Especially the bad ones! Just maybe not make them a gameover condition, just make them like every other character not the protag. Making Oifey the Avatar is an interesting idea, but I rather them just add a character with a couple lines and events like the rest and be done with it. Let the player write the story/fanfiction. Heck maybe have a few more "generic" soldiers be added to make Sigurd's army feel bigger and maybe allow the substitute children to be playable in gen 2 even if the "canon" children are born. ...with obvious changes to inventory and background but still allowing them to play the substitute role in case gen 1 characters weren't paired. And if you are worried about having twice as many unites to control, then just max out the units you can have at any one time at 24. Maybe make a mode where it's much more faithful to the original?

I'm always hesitant to pick certain classes given that all but three of the maps are aggressive combat, making slower tank units essentially outpaced. Turning Traitor, Hamil Canyon and Last Hope are the only chapters where defensive heavy units are key, every other map is better suited to fast moving aggressive units

...Wow, when you said 'depends on what you mean by 'bad'' you weren't kidding. Making encounters a breeze is what makes a *_good_* weapon/unit/character/tool/whatever to me, no matter the game or genre. I think you god "bad" and "unfun" confused; for an example from a completely different genre, Kratos' Blades of Chaos in the originals and shred every fight very efficiently with little effort -- they're _amazing_ weapons. They're also boring to use once you get over the thrill of being a living Beyblade.

The Pokedex entries are accurate and canon and ignoring them is stupid.

I saw the title a while ago, and put the video aside for later thinking you were out of your mind. You, uh, actually sold me on this. I don't know what else to say. Here's a sub, I guess.

I would really like an avatar character to be added into a FE4 remake, but I don't think your idea really fits the bill for an avatar. Oifey is a character. A tragically underused one, but he is his own man. In Fire Emblem, an avatar has to have multiple prerequisites, not least of all being the ability to change their name and their gender, for example. Not to say Oifey wouldn't work if he was a different gender and a different name, but he'd no longer be Oifey. Consider Kris, as an example. While Kris does butt into the screentime of Jagen, Kris is not Jagen. You don't delete Jagen entirely from the story to make way for Kris. The most elegant solution for an avatar character in the first generation, in my opinion, is to make them a blank slate fully customizable unit who joins in the prologue of Gen 1. Maybe they could be Sigurd's retainer, or a friend from his academy days, or a knight of Chalphy. It doesn't matter, but make room for player expression. They will be there for the whole journey, they can get married so you can ship yourself with the Gen 1 cast, and it'd be fun for multiple playthroughs. By the time of Chapter 5, perhaps you could have your avatar as the one who escorts Oifey, Shannan, and baby Seliph to Isaach on Sigurd's behalf, surviving to the second generation and serving the role of a mentor/Jagen type character to Seliph. Alternatively, your avatar could go with Sigurd and company, dying in Belhalla while your avatar's children (if you got married) take up their legacy in the second generation, like Morgan in Awakening or Kana in Fates. Something like that would definitely make Chapter 5 more personal, seeing your own custom character get killed and having to play through the second half of the game.

Man I just use what I think is fun. Having my knight get attacked 8 times in a single turn and only take 2 damage is euphoric to me. I also just like using a variety of characters because it becomes boring to rely on the same 5 or 6 of them. Honestly my hottest take is that I don't think there's truly any "bad" units. Maybe it's naivete, maybe it's optimism, but I like to believe that any unit can become powerful with enough effort from the player.

To break from the unending negativity of this comment section, i'll be honest. I actually very much like this idea, although I see avatars as just the "perspective character" in this case. Oifey seems defined that way, most similar to Kris (if done slightly better), and I'd be perfectly okay with that. Painting the picture of how he would feel, and his impact on the story by being a unit, having more supports (although probably no inheritors) to connect him to the cast? This could work. I think it bears expanding upon.

Corrin isn't very good he's one the best units in the game Heck in CQ/BR he's top 3 and in rev he's 1st Also do you even know what contrived means lol

Lol its funny how hes just like ok bye at the end of the video

Canonically Exeggutor loses one of its head and when a loose head finds other heads an Exeggcute is "born", oddish spread its seeds at night, muk is born in contaminated water at night, etc. there are many other examples and I don't know if they even bother anymore explaining how each species reproduces. the Breeding mechanic is bad and might be one of the worst things Pokémon did to its lore, every Pokémon reproduces the same way which makes all Pokémon feel the same and boring + is the reason baby Pokémon exist the old lore made Pokémon feel like strange creatures with alien origins, and breeding basically destroyed the cool monster concept and turn it into grandma's pet that I can duplicate infinitely in my backyard, until I get the right GENES of course (total opposite of Pokémon's message)

I'm just saying Armor knights wouldn't get doubled nearly as often if they brought back Pursuit.

I wanna see Oifey on Sigurd's back like Miquella on Radahn.

Avatars are fucking cancer.

There's a big glaring hole in your argument, and that's the fact that Genealogy is already a complete story that does not need an Avatar.

12:55 As someone who has an unwrapped copy of Engage on his shelf and is waiting for a good opportunity to sell it off, I can tell you this: Alear is the *WORST* Avatar in the franchise. Alear is *ALL* the problems an Avatar can have and then some. Personality that breaks the immersion? Alear is a wishywashy mopeball who tries to run away on the first fight and breaks down crying at the death of someone he/she just met. Pointless reason to have an Avatar? Alear makes no big player choices and the game never justifies having an Avatar other than "the other games did it". And then there's what detractors call the "Avatar Worship"... It's hard to get worse than having an Avatar that is LITERALLY worshiped by the whole land. It gets especially glaring once you find out about your past, in which... SPOILER ALERT It turns out Alear was a reluctant follower of the BBEG who turned on him, got shot in the back in return and has NO noble acts between taking out the BBEG in the past and now, as Lumera kinda just built up all that hype about Alear while the latter was in a coma. Really, whoever wrote this crap should never write a Fire Emblem game ever again.

Not sure if this would work for FE4, but I do love the idea of an avatar who exists across multiple generations, growing up and going from a young advisor to a wise mentor over the course of the game.

Yeah Alear is just straight up not an avatar in my opinion. Theyre literally just a main lord that the player is allowed to name, thats it. They have their own personality and arent any more customizable than any other character outside of their gender, theyre genuinely just a character whose name you get to pick.

Multiple problems with this idea. 1. The point of the avatar was newer to improve the narrative of the game, the point is to make bland character who the player can easily project themselves onto and who everyone praises and loves 24/7 in order to sell the power fantasy. They are a marketing tool, not a narrative tool. The only real exception is Shez, but that's because Shez was pretty explicitly made in response to the criticism Byleth got from the fanbase. 2. Avatars being a marketing tool also means that replacing Oifey with an original avatar in FE4 would mean that there's 1 less character that IS and Nintendo can sell you in Heroes and through other merchandise. Why would IS sell just additional Oifey alts in Heroes when it could also sell alts for the new female and male avatar instead? 3. Avatars in FE are meant as a type of power fantasy, that's why they are always among the best units in the game or sometimes arguably the best units in the entire franchise like Robin. Making it so that Oifey wasn't playable at the start and was Sigurd's errand boy ruins the power fantasy. The only real solution would be like how FE12 does it where Mark just does everything instead of the rest of the cast, however, the problem is that Sigurd is by the design of FE4 the strongest unit of the first gen and even if the avatar becomes stronger than him in chapter 3, they will still be overall overshadowed by Sigurd. 4. The world doesn't revolve around Oifey. In every FE game to feature an avatar, aside from FE7 where they were still experimenting and Kris who is more debatable, the most important people in the world are the avatars. However, in FE4 Oifey isn't the one who defeats Arvis and Julius and saves the world and its instead Seliph and Julia. Oifey cannot get the book of Naga of the Tyrfing and that means that the players would feel alienated by being the third wheel in the story. Ultimately, an avatar character doesn't really fit into the game and trying to make a character like Oifey into the avatar is like trying to put a square into a round hole.

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Maybe if it was like New Mystery (but toned down even more) it could work. But the avatar would very much have to be in the background. Basically, have the avatar start out as like a Chalfy/Grannvale Tactician joining Sigurd's group on campaign. The avatar could also be one of the survivors of "that event", and could witness both Sigurd's fall AND Seliph's rise from the sidelines. 25:30 This could potentially be solved with Echoes-esque Memory Prisms.

No Fire Emblem should ever have an avatar, every game that used one worsened the writing. Avatar worship destroys the main characters themselves & their struggle/story, it gets worse when romance is involved 💀 Having an avatar fundementally ruins the writing bc of the pandering & babysitting, why? Because the avatar represent the "player" & the company don't want the player to feel bad or be offended by a flawed avatar so they make the avatars boring & without personality or meaning, take out Byleth for example & all house leaders would have to rely on their allies rather than a walking corpse, or look at Corin.. then again I think maybe it's better to forget he/she ever existed 😑

More than making an avatar, your idea would be better if ofiey was a second lord or simply naming him like in FF7 lol

And why we don't make two avatars? The first one, a kind of Finn of Sigurd or Edain, the second, the son/adoptive son of our first character

Now this is Genealogy content I can get behind!

Dude with all due respect you just recreated the concept of script rewrites. You know the ones Shadow Dragon and Echoes did without an avatar character? Your pitch doesn’t even qualify since your pitch had no control of their appearance or their name. What you described is pov character.

4:28 Absolute Wrys erasure.

Echoes didn't have a avatar why the hell would you want to risk FE4

I 100% agree with you. Now that you've presented me with this, I'm actually hoping that they add an avatar for the game. I never actually seen the problem with an avatar within these games. It even helped me to feel connected to these games. I haven't played So what if I want to have a power fantasy? I feel like avatars can improve, and I do feel like it has some signs to continue on improving. Maybe some choice systems could work along the way that feels more meaningful that makes you connect with the character that you have.

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Honestly, having a avatar in FE4 would be fun, and their kid being friends with Seliph

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I originally played FE4 when i was a teenager. I just replayed it as an adult with 4 kids and man does it hit different. Something about your kids continuing your fight is powerful.

I can't say that this would be a good idea, instead I'd go to Thracia 776 to add units; My top picks; 1. Salem; the dynamic that a former Loptyr Cult member would add would be great, plus imagine the boss conversation potential here. However do the first ever playable Dark Mage in the series justice and make him more than just a good staff-bot. The story potential that this opens up would be a *COLOSSAL* missed opportunity if they didn't add him. 2. Saias; could make Valflame usable by the player through him, plus could flesh him out more in the process, just give him a unique version of the High Priest class that allows him to use fire magic. 3. Sara; Manafoy's granddaughter, do I need to explain this one or the story potential that it brings to the table? 4. Brigid as Eyvel in the second gen; that could be fun and be a stronger connection between the two games, if she wasn't killed in the first generation that is. 5. Troude and Perne of the Dandelion Bandits; would make for some interesting interactions considering that the scale of the fight is far bigger than what they're used to. Plus would be a little odd to have Salem but not them. Plus the whole former bandit thing, they may not have been evil bandits, but they were still bandits and other members of the army might have issues with that. 6. Xavier; feels odd that he wouldn't follow Leif past Manster, yes I know that he'd be a general in the game with the largest maps, but it would fit. Overall I picked characters that would be able to have interesting stories tied to them, that or had confirmed ties to notable FE4 characters. This wasn't a bunch of ass-pulls, but rather characters who would add something to FE4's story.

I can solidly disagree with Byleth being the best Avatar. A big thing Avatars accomplish is both giving the player a PoV character similar to them, and also letting them self-insert a little bit, all while role-playing. On paper Byleth would accomplish this, but in practice, Byleth has two main features holding them back. The first is being so blank a slate, that they're actually cardboard. Byleth has zero personality, and only began to gain one in Hopes and Heroes. Robin was designed with various personality traits in mind, ones that show up in story and supports, so the player has something concrete to latch onto. Meanwhile, Byleth has absolutely nothing to connect themselves to the player, and so relies solely on their gameplay role and nothing else, leading to them feeling more like a vessel for the player than a part of the world. Despite being such a blank slate, Byleth is too established in the world. We know Byleth's actual date of birth, the circumstances of their creation, and what their life was like prior to the player stepping into their shoes. Robin similarly, sidesteps the issue both with amnesia, and with having their time after their mother took them from the Grimleal to be left unexplored, so you could infer a life on the run, one in a village, or some other wacky explanation of your own. Byleth is incredibly rigid, and even has an Ashen Demon nickname, which then conflicts with the gameplay when they're a level 1 commoner with only D rank swords. Game hypes them up as an experiences mercenary and then makes them a villager archetype like the rest of the student cast because gameplay-story-intergration is hard, small indie dev studio, please understand :( In short, Byleth's net zero personality traits gives the player nothing to relate to or connect with, isolating them from the player, and their place in the world having just enough detail and establishment on the details, like Corrin, prevents them from having the flexibility that the player can infer little details and add a piece of themselves as well. Also being hailed as a skilled merc with years of experience only to spawn at level 1 in the starting class is the choice of all time.

I get where you're coming from, but I greatly disagree with your take. Good video, though.

09:21 Now that's a fucking take, I won´t say if it's a good or a bad one, but I can respect it

You really don't make a good case here, and honestly, I'd say it's because you have the complete wrong mindset about Genealogy.

i think this could be super cool if they make the original available legally and easily worldwide first

_sees thumbnail_ me: *_YOU WHAT!?_*

I could just say "Don't worry is ok to be wrong" but am not going to sugarcoat it Gordon Ramsay would vomit seeing what you intended to cook and put you in jail

As long as Oifey has a MANDATORY moustache in Gen 2 regardless of your choices

Let me guess, you hate that women and men don’t have the same constitution and are weaker than men like in real life and thus making Fire emblem sexist, like that other retard that covers Fire emblem on UA-cam!

That’s literally what’s making Fire emblem worse, those damned avatar characters! No character personality at all!!!!

Just give Oifey more screen time. Keep Oifey as Oifey

This video definitely made me rethink the avatar story. After alear, i felt so detatched from the world, as my only big decision was who i gave my friendship ring to. But this, from the storytelling, and the narrative purposes of it make so much sense. And vrings a strong connection from gen 1 to 2. If IS did this, it'd be the most cinematic way to remake the story. But they'll probably just give you a pointless avatar for gen 1.

Please don't make the Avatar some dragon child who can't remember their past and is the child of the evil dragon kthanksbai.