I decided not to speed up the animations for this one, largely because there are barely any videos on UA-cam showing these animations in high quality so I thought it was important to make sure all parts of them could be seen. As before, let me know if you prefer these things sped up or slowed down as I will probably do another for Fates at some point. Also apologies for some lighting issues on a few of the clips but I think it turned out well anyway!
I don't think you should speed up any of the animations for any of the videos of your fast forwarding how are you going to show the animations we can't base in the animations high quality if it's being fast forwarded
@@BenFM but yes you should show the tank that's in fire emblem Fates but please don't fast forward the animation because I can't watch them they're going so fast like I can't even enjoy the work that they put into the enemies but thank you I hope you listen to this request
The slow walk, slow unsheathe, shield drop... Alm has so much swag. He fights like he's got all the time in the world, unlike his enemies whose time he's about to cut short
5:01 Dude just walks up to a dragon Says "Alright" like it's just another day And proceeds to split the dragon's head Man these animations flow into each other so well it feels like a cinematic
tbf this happens after the whole fiasco of crossing the seas full of pirate ships with dragons to get to Archanaea, so I guess he's pretty used to it by now
@@avengerfive9407 I'm hoping they continue the Echoes series - the team behind SoV poured such a huge amount of love into it, and it shows with every piece of it.
True was really disappointed when I saw it on three house how can the gba and 3ds handle a weapon triangle attack but not the switch and Also kinda mad with lethality wish they can keep it like on fates and awaking
To be fair, 3 Houses animation was a collaboration with Kohei Tecmo, the company that is responsible for Warrior titles. The animation team responsible for past Fire Emblem animation did less work on 3 houses as IS only gave a few designers and some composers to help with the game. Kohei did a lot of the work. Now with Engage, IS in complete control of the animations. So it will be of similar quality as past games.
One thing the series needs to return to is how the camera moves with the Skogul and Spartan classes. Because the units are wearing heavy armor the camera shakes to make their movements seem heavy. It's such a great touch that adds so much to their animations.
@@BenFM I was actually looking into that last night and you're right, it only happens when he's in the hero class. He also happens to become the hero class in the cutscenes afterwards, although that might just be when he's unpromoted.
Honestly people don’t talk about the animations in this game enough especially the critical hit animations. The way the characters more and how fluent they look, and even when they dodge and attack looks so well animated is still the best I think we’ve seen so far (still have to see what Engage has to offer, that’s looking pretty good so far though). Alm’s overclass crit animation looks so menacing though he just walks slowly to kill his opponent like buddy you still in there? 😭
They do not talk about it enough! I've recommended it to all my FE friends, but those who haven't played it don't get it or don't want to! But they are so fantastically amazing, I cannot get enough.
Three houses wasn't lacking epicness or even a sense of style, it was lacking polish. A lot of the models were good but a lot of the animations were copy-pasted rather than unique, too many attacks reused animations, a lot of the expressions and acting performances were too stilted. With Three Houses it wasn't a lack of budget or a lack of talent or even direction but merely a lack of time. You can see this in not only it's animation but also lack of game balance. A lot of game mechanics just weren't playtested enough to make sure they were balanced. They wanted an epic Fire Emblem game in the beginning of the Switch's life.
Echoes is not very epic compared to most of the recent games but I consider that it's biggest strength. It feels smaller and much more intimate and personal. Also while the game strains against the technical limitations of the 3DS the amount of polish more than compensates for it. This sense of intimacy and polish is what Three Houses doesn't have. I think Echoes is the perfect Fire Emblem game for people to start with. It's a simple story that's easy to get invested in and a simple but engaging battle system that's very streamlined and intuitive. Three Houses and Fates can be very daunting with just how many mechanics are in it and just how many options are thrown at the player.
The SFX when hit it's so satisfacting in 3DS Fire Emblems, I really can ''feel'' the impact of each blow. I really missed this STRIKE sound in Three Houses and Engage :(
My favorate hit SFX in this game has to be Sagitae. If you crit, every hit has the crit sound, so the spell turns into a machine gun of *crunch* sound effects as your enemy gets turned into swiss cheese. It's great.
Honestly playing it on release, I always loved the fluidity for the combat. The transition into the fight, straight into an attack to blocking / dodging into another move. You can tell they really put alot of thought into the choreography of the actions and I love them for doing that. Especially the sfx of impact of the hits. It gives the overclasses the craziness amd omph that you expect to see. Valentia is definitely my favourite 3DS Emblem.
But the class/character design gives me chinese fantasy mobile game ... I didn't like it at all. The ambience in Echoes is amazing, even the battle scenarios.
I'm sad that my 3ds broke because I miss these animations. Especially that casual walk from Alm as a Conquerer. It's so simple, but it shows you how powerful Alm truly is. I love Alm, and doubly so because he's one of the few left-handed main characters.
I was hoping Alm would make it as dlc for an emblem ring, he's a bond ring tho so it really sucks.. Making him left handed really fleshed out his character too, it was so much more than a plot point to me.
5:00 Damn. Alm walking up to that dragon like that is pretty much badass! You know he meant business with that stride. Plus the way he unsheathes his sword like that is cool too.
The problem with the DLC classes is that they get rid of each character individuality, each character had a unique color pallet no matter the class they were promoted to, they even had unique winning poses, but all of that is gone when they are promoted to overclasses (except for Alm and Celica of course), everyone look and act the same in the same class, which was kind of disappointing
@@FrankzoisBack its the main reason I never purchased the overclasses. Also little known fact, playing your file on any 3DS without the DLC renders any overclassed unit useless. They default to a "?" class that has 0/1 move and cannot attack.
The only mark I can give against Echoes' animations is that the faces on the field models were nooooot meant to be looked at closely like what happens in a few cutsdenes. Otherwise it's marvelous and def the best animated FE on the 3DS Edit: It still absolutely slays me that Alm's Conquorer crit doesn't even have him break stride. Man walks up confidently and splits your skull.
One detail I really like about Alm and Celica's overclass animations is how they slowly march toward their target before striking Really sells just how powerful they are in their prime as well as gives the enemy just enough time to realize just how much they messed up
Truly, though what fascinates me more about Alm's and Celica's is demonstrating them fighting like Ike in a range situation. Though they do need to be close combat and chance to see em.
@@ChaolaoFueChi noticed it too. Each Class and lvl they gain more range and power. Although Ike with Ragnell, especially in Radiant Dawn is unmatched.(Black Knight Dead) Adept, Aether, cancel, guard, pretty unstoppable.
The animations of Echoes are definitely way better than 3 Houses despite having a less powerful system. You can really tell that they poured a lot of love into the game.
I think the animation is better BECAUSE it was a weaker system. That forced them to focus in cinematography and impact since they couldn't use fluidity, polygon count and smooth textures as the 3DS couldn't handle that. They had to nail the basics. A reason why the old chiptunes are still great today is because they are strong melodies. They had to be strong melodies cause that was all they could be. The 8 and 16 bit systems couldn't make pleasant sounds so you had to have a strong melody to make the beeps and boops from the system come across as appealing.
I knew I wasn't the only one that loved echoes' animations. You're probably the only person to upload the special final hit animations for certain classes, they are sooo smooth!
Honestly it's cool looking at the animations of the 3DS games. With each game they got more dynamic and cool and the models kept getting better. Awakening was trying to bring back a similar feeling to Radiant Dawn's great animations but put onto handheld and not as lengthy and a bit more energetic, then Fates refined the framework and gave us more animations specific to classes as well as a lot more distinct animations overall that harken a lot more back to the GBA games, and then you have SoV's perfection and flow with tons of different animations for different states of fighting like dodge to counter or taking minimal damage to counter and it really makes each fight exciting, even complete with dynamic and smooth camera angles and transitions for finishers and long range bow attacks. Not to mention unique victory animations for each character. SoV has yet to be matched in terms of presentation - in tons and tons of things. In that regard, I see that Three Houses is kind of the Switch's Awakening - where animations and models are more rough and there isn't really a lot of flow to the combat but it's still not bad. Meanwhile, Engage looks to be really upping the anty for animations and models. Even seem to be ditching critical/skill cut-ins for just close ups which I think will be better for combat flow. Excuse the wall of text I just love me animation! Had to gush lol
Yeah the awakening ones weren't like amazing and then fates got really cool and sov was awesome. Yeah Three Houses is kind of a stepping stone for Engage :p Oh don't apologise I love animations too :)
Something not shown in this video but that I love anyway is the Alm versus Rudolf cutscene, where after wearing Alm down and shielding several attacks, Rudolf throws away his shield to prepare to deal the final blow… And of course, when it’s Alm’s turn to deal the final attack of the game, after wearing down his opponent… he does the same. Throws aside his shield, and does an incredible jump slash to finish them off.
I still think about this time 2 myrmidons fought each other with a low chance of actually hitting each other, so the whole fight was a dance of them swinging and dodge rolling around each other. It looked so cool
HOLY CRAP THANK YOU!! I was waiting YEARS for someone to finale make a video dedicated to Echoes battle animations, the fact that they look so natural (some are over the top but anyways) in the way the enter the battle, the way they hit, dodge and counter a failed enemy attack was so damn smooth, Echoes is definitely the best in that regard for now, but Engage looks promising in that aspect as well
Echoes is such a gem that I still play every once and a while to this day, the real shame is the price of the over classes but other than that it’s pretty perfect.
Man, I miss these; the flow of combat in this game was on another level compared to Awakening and Fates. The zoom-in, the characters rushing in with their weapons drawn, the hits, the finishing blows or critical hits, all of it flows naturally from one thing to the next.
After playing Engage and watching this again I can tell where some of the animations came from lol Still genuis they did that whole entering the battle animation where you can actually see them run into battle
Maybe a hot take but it's sad to me that celica gets so much attention and IS just forgets alms existence. I really like him and wish they'd give him some more love 😭 I hope we see him in engage in some form
The art direction in Echoes really is the best in the series. From the character portraits, to music, and animations it all looks so good. They only place I'd say it's not the best is that the prerendered cutscenes from Awakening and Fates do look better than the ones in Echoes, but that's genuinely the only area where it isn't the best
On god one of my favorite details in this games animation is when the villagers start combat by running into the fight. Its small in the grand scheme of things, but it felt way more natural then having characters being on a battlefield and starting each battle standing around and pulling their sword out of the ground
@@BenFM includes Alm too, though it's strange to see it used in 1 ranged attack, I wonder if it was supposed to have 2-5 range but since they already have their range weapon types, Bow & Arrow for Alm and Magic for Celica
My personal favorite animations in this game are the dodge and counterattack animations. So many good ones like the paladin's horse doing a back-kick or the Baron Sparta kicking the opponent. It was great.
The entrance and the dodge animation into straight counter attack are what make the battle animation look so good compared to other titles. It's so fluid.
oh my god thank you so much for this video i never had most of these classes so im glad to be able to watch them...im so obsessed with lukas' animations...thank you so much!!!
Echoes deff got some of the cleanest looking animations in the FE series for sure. the crits are very satisfying- one of the wildest parts of all the various FE crit animations throughout most of the games in the series I've seen on youtube is how Path of Radiance's legit the only one in the entire series that doesn't even have a crit animation collection on youtube, which is incredibly weird. I'm legit still surprised how none's been done for that game even now cuz some of the crit animations in Path of Radiance were very cool, especially Ranger Ike's non-kill crit(which in itself is rare to see w/o killer weapon)
@@BenFM Radiant Dawn had some swag. Like noticed in this game SOV will start combat running(or Walking in Alm and Celica case) In Dawn it's like a duel. You noticed it a lot during Ike and the Black Knight fights.
The base archer counterattack at 1 range is also cool, when I saw that I had a lot more respect for Tobin. I belive they do a Caulde, it's been a while.
Its funny that I found this video as I have been telling people for years that echoes has the best presentation in the franchise. I think engage may now take that place, but it doesn't in any way undermine how absolutely beautiful echoes is. For the time and hardware it was incredible.
SoV is easily one of the best "remake/mechanics " in FE history. The composition and SFX to the action models is perfect. The revival and weapon drops are fantastic
I forgot that "Dread Fighters" in Echoes were *basically* ninjas. Though seeing the Yasha class for the 1st time, I see it should be "ninjas with the power of the force." 3:32-3:37 Lukas: "THIS. IS. *SPARTA!!!"*
Finally for the longest time I wanted to show off these animations since I didn't see anybody on UA-cam showing them off but I didn't have a capture card. Hands down the best animations in the series
no its insane how fluidly the horses and especially the pegasi move. like i so rarely see mounted combat look just as smooth and powerful as the infantry
The 3DS is to 3D what the GBA was for 2D. It didn't have the most brute force and was relatively basic in it's features but it could handle most things you threw at it very quickly and fluidly.
I think it was partly due to IS not working on it but Koei are able to make some great animations too so yeah I guess just they didn't have time to not sure :/
Man this takes me back… I remember I cannot afford the dlc classes so I just used the base classes to clear the endgame dungeon. Good times spammed a lot of summons for bait which allowed my units to live lmao
The best part is that I'm pretty sure the combat music is synced with all these animations, so for example hits are in sync with the percussions of the songs. Same goes for parrying and counter-attacks (although you need to not speed up the animation)
I recently received New 2ds as a gift from a friend and the first thing I did was download a bunch of games I was interested in, including the Fire Emblem's parts. And the first FE for which I started to play so tightly was Shadows of Valentia (since it was translated into my language). And I'm still amazed at how beautiful, smooth, mesmerizing the battles of each class and each of the characters look. Excellent sound of hits, smooth animations of dodge blocks that pass without delay into an attack or a last hit with a crit, finishers are unique for each class. The gods in this part of the animators knowingly "ate their bread." It even seems to me that at first they conducted IRL battles to calculate the best movements and skills, and then they drew animations, taking real choreography as an example.
This is my first FE and my favorite, this game conquer my heart at a point i can't never forget it. The characters (oh my god Clair, i love you), the ART, the OST, the gameplay, the swamp and desert maps, BOATS! What a MASTERPIECE.
We didn't know how good we had it with Echoes and I miss it so much. My favorite art direction in a Fire Emblem game ever and we'll probably never get it again. Engage also has some pretty killer animations, but the character designs and art direction is... a bit out there for my tastes. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever get quite get back to this kind of Fire Emblem. Oh well, at least Hidari did the art for the 2DMV of my favorite original song in Project Sekai for my favorite group. (Vivid Bad Squad's Moonlight.)
I havent seen most of these before since I got into echoes a little too late. But wow Alm just walking up to the dragon and slaying it in one slash, can't get any more boss than that.
Oh no, I still remember Echoes animation to this day! BWahhaa! ... Actually, you know what was a really cool moment for me? The chapter with Blake, so a bunch of Geni's invoked soldiers were just around him, and I watched him one by one cut them down. Scary mid-boss music playing, badass Myrmidon animations just tearing them through. Blake looked so cool and I will never forget that. His flips, his counters, his swings, all while being some mid-class. Beautiful.
I just picked this game up before the store closed. I was impressed with the animations for a 3DS game. It’s very impressive. The art is also gorgeous.
Echoes was a great sendoff for the 3DS. So much was put into this one game that's a remake of an NES game most of the world never got. Absolutely stunning.
I decided not to speed up the animations for this one, largely because there are barely any videos on UA-cam showing these animations in high quality so I thought it was important to make sure all parts of them could be seen. As before, let me know if you prefer these things sped up or slowed down as I will probably do another for Fates at some point. Also apologies for some lighting issues on a few of the clips but I think it turned out well anyway!
I don't think you should speed up any of the animations for any of the videos of your fast forwarding how are you going to show the animations we can't base in the animations high quality if it's being fast forwarded
I think it's great either way!
@@epicgamer35dude89 :D
@@BenFM but yes you should show the tank that's in fire emblem Fates but please don't fast forward the animation because I can't watch them they're going so fast like I can't even enjoy the work that they put into the enemies but thank you I hope you listen to this request
@@BenFM yeah like they attack right after a block or attack adn dont wait a few seconds after they got attacked i liked it
The slow walk, slow unsheathe, shield drop... Alm has so much swag. He fights like he's got all the time in the world, unlike his enemies whose time he's about to cut short
Ahaha great description of it
Why would a Saint King run to a brigade 😂. He just Slayed his father AND God.
5:01
Dude just walks up to a dragon
Says "Alright" like it's just another day
And proceeds to split the dragon's head
Man these animations flow into each other so well it feels like a cinematic
I love how he just strolls up and doesn't give a fuck
tbf this happens after the whole fiasco of crossing the seas full of pirate ships with dragons to get to Archanaea, so I guess he's pretty used to it by now
Did he just walk up slowly and down smash
@@marcthomas5949 dammit i got beat😂
Literally the dio walking meme
Echoes art direction and music are easily the pinnacle of the series, wish we'd go back to it
I agree tbh
But what about its map desing?
(jk)
I really hope the rumored FE4 remake is in the same style of Echoes. Hopefully they can get Hidari to do the character art again.
@@avengerfive9407 I'm hoping they continue the Echoes series - the team behind SoV poured such a huge amount of love into it, and it shows with every piece of it.
@@avengerfive9407 The map design might be trash though.
When you go from the Triangle attack in Echoes and compare it to 3 houses, how can you not feel disappointed
Such a ridiculous downgrade. How can you just have a normal combat art animation for such a fabled move
True
On the bright side, it looks like Engage will use magic for its triangle attack and with their animations so far, I think it's gonna look sick
True was really disappointed when I saw it on three house how can the gba and 3ds handle a weapon triangle attack but not the switch and Also kinda mad with lethality wish they can keep it like on fates and awaking
To be fair, 3 Houses animation was a collaboration with Kohei Tecmo, the company that is responsible for Warrior titles. The animation team responsible for past Fire Emblem animation did less work on 3 houses as IS only gave a few designers and some composers to help with the game. Kohei did a lot of the work. Now with Engage, IS in complete control of the animations. So it will be of similar quality as past games.
It’s a special kind of aura when Alm starts combat by walking up slowly at the opponent, seemingly defenseless
They’re stunned by his greatness
Mathilda jumping off her steed to attack got me together 😳 badass
That might even be my favourite it’s fucking amazing
Jumping ON afterwards is what sells it.
One thing the series needs to return to is how the camera moves with the Skogul and Spartan classes. Because the units are wearing heavy armor the camera shakes to make their movements seem heavy. It's such a great touch that adds so much to their animations.
Yeess they do it so well
Echoes has the best character art. Very distinct from its artist.
I love it's style
Hidari's art is absolutely peak FE art
I agree. The sepia filter definitely added a rustic charm to it. I put Hidari up there with FE goddesses Sachiko Wada and Kita Senri now.
@@MidnightCapricorn2696 hidari is god. Personally I think his best work is his vocaloid designs, but his fe art has a real charm to it
This is why I hate most echoes art in feh. A lot of character look so bad compared to their echoes art. Clair is an excellent example.
Alm throwing his shield in the final boss is my favorite animation in the series, even in gaiden. It's so cool
Yeah I really wanted to get that but I fought Duma and killed with Alm and it didn't play it. Unfortunately I think it doesn't work in his overclass
@@BenFM I was actually looking into that last night and you're right, it only happens when he's in the hero class. He also happens to become the hero class in the cutscenes afterwards, although that might just be when he's unpromoted.
@@Slenderquil It's a shame cause I really wanted it in here but all the vids I found on youtube were just really low quality
@@BenFM If you have a save from before the fight, you could try using a cheat code to make alm a hero
@@Slenderquil oh well I should have tried it. Bit late now haha, could do a tiny vid of it
Honestly people don’t talk about the animations in this game enough especially the critical hit animations. The way the characters more and how fluent they look, and even when they dodge and attack looks so well animated is still the best I think we’ve seen so far (still have to see what Engage has to offer, that’s looking pretty good so far though). Alm’s overclass crit animation looks so menacing though he just walks slowly to kill his opponent like buddy you still in there? 😭
It's all so smooth and awesome! And yeah Alm's is hilarious ahaha just doesn't even register the enemy as a threat
They do not talk about it enough! I've recommended it to all my FE friends, but those who haven't played it don't get it or don't want to! But they are so fantastically amazing, I cannot get enough.
The only downside of Conqueror Alm is he loses the unique animation when he finishes the final boss, lol.
I love gold knights counter attack animation if an opponent misses where they get kicked by the horse.
This is the kind of epic-ness three houses was missing.
It’s good to know we’ll see similar animations to this in engage.
Yeah Echoes seems to be following suit a bit
Three houses wasn't lacking epicness or even a sense of style, it was lacking polish. A lot of the models were good but a lot of the animations were copy-pasted rather than unique, too many attacks reused animations, a lot of the expressions and acting performances were too stilted.
With Three Houses it wasn't a lack of budget or a lack of talent or even direction but merely a lack of time. You can see this in not only it's animation but also lack of game balance. A lot of game mechanics just weren't playtested enough to make sure they were balanced. They wanted an epic Fire Emblem game in the beginning of the Switch's life.
Echoes is not very epic compared to most of the recent games but I consider that it's biggest strength. It feels smaller and much more intimate and personal. Also while the game strains against the technical limitations of the 3DS the amount of polish more than compensates for it. This sense of intimacy and polish is what Three Houses doesn't have.
I think Echoes is the perfect Fire Emblem game for people to start with. It's a simple story that's easy to get invested in and a simple but engaging battle system that's very streamlined and intuitive. Three Houses and Fates can be very daunting with just how many mechanics are in it and just how many options are thrown at the player.
The SFX when hit it's so satisfacting in 3DS Fire Emblems, I really can ''feel'' the impact of each blow. I really missed this STRIKE sound in Three Houses and Engage :(
Yeees the hit sounds are so satisfying! I think Engage will be a bit better for it than Three Houses there are some weighty animations and noises
@@BenFM yeah, and from the video that showed the use of the draconic time crystal it will emphasize how much you've screwed up when you lose a unit.
I never thought you guys were Fire Emblem fans
I would surely love to see your channel covering Lost In Thoughts All Alone in Portuguese
I absolutely love the Omega Yato hit effect in Fates, the slowdown and sparks just emphasize the sheer pain of what the fully awakened Yato can do.
My favorate hit SFX in this game has to be Sagitae. If you crit, every hit has the crit sound, so the spell turns into a machine gun of *crunch* sound effects as your enemy gets turned into swiss cheese. It's great.
The way the Spartan SLAMS his weapons down and proceeds to POSE over their corpse is a chad move!💪
Honestly playing it on release, I always loved the fluidity for the combat. The transition into the fight, straight into an attack to blocking / dodging into another move. You can tell they really put alot of thought into the choreography of the actions and I love them for doing that. Especially the sfx of impact of the hits. It gives the overclasses the craziness amd omph that you expect to see. Valentia is definitely my favourite 3DS Emblem.
Yeah the fight choreography is just *chefs kiss*
the sfx 🤤
It really makes it *feel* like a critical hit
The animation is not super fluid. However it's WAY better posed and the cinimatography is way better than three houses.
I'm so happy that Engage inherited Echoes's battle animations
Yeees tehy're shaping up nicely
But the class/character design gives me chinese fantasy mobile game ... I didn't like it at all. The ambience in Echoes is amazing, even the battle scenarios.
@@rheizelkot7715 that girl fighting in her princess dress 💀
@@rheizelkot7715 i love chinese mobile game.
Arknights and genshin impact are especially good
@@rheizelkot7715 chinese mobile game? lol what not even close
I'm sad that my 3ds broke because I miss these animations. Especially that casual walk from Alm as a Conquerer. It's so simple, but it shows you how powerful Alm truly is. I love Alm, and doubly so because he's one of the few left-handed main characters.
Yees the casual walk gives so much power to alm
I was hoping Alm would make it as dlc for an emblem ring, he's a bond ring tho so it really sucks.. Making him left handed really fleshed out his character too, it was so much more than a plot point to me.
Alm literally put those Links to shame lol
Can't believe it's been almost 6 years since this masterpiece came out.
Time flies
5:00 Damn. Alm walking up to that dragon like that is pretty much badass!
You know he meant business with that stride.
Plus the way he unsheathes his sword like that is cool too.
So badass
The designs for the DLC classes were in a league of it’s own. Legit, all the outfits were unique and amazingly detailed!
They were so so good
The problem with the DLC classes is that they get rid of each character individuality, each character had a unique color pallet no matter the class they were promoted to, they even had unique winning poses, but all of that is gone when they are promoted to overclasses (except for Alm and Celica of course), everyone look and act the same in the same class, which was kind of disappointing
@@FrankzoisBack its the main reason I never purchased the overclasses. Also little known fact, playing your file on any 3DS without the DLC renders any overclassed unit useless. They default to a "?" class that has 0/1 move and cannot attack.
I love how they enter battle just swooping in and wasting no time
Straight into the acting I love it
Alms VA did such a good job at his battle yells, truly a rallying cry for his army
Ahaha
The guy's just a stellar VA altogether, he's always bringing his a-game to his roles
The only mark I can give against Echoes' animations is that the faces on the field models were nooooot meant to be looked at closely like what happens in a few cutsdenes. Otherwise it's marvelous and def the best animated FE on the 3DS
Edit: It still absolutely slays me that Alm's Conquorer crit doesn't even have him break stride. Man walks up confidently and splits your skull.
Haha yeah tbf it was on a much smaller screen then! And yeah the Alm crit is awesome lol
IMO one of the best remakes of all time. Even the voice acting is some of the best I've heard in a long ass time
Huge agree
facts
I really don't know why this game wasn't more popular. It was so damn good
Release time mainly :(
Man Echoes has such awesome animations
And they don't look TOOO exagerrated
And by that I mean stuff like the bone breaking movements or stale ones
Haha yeah I mean there are so many good ones
Dreadfighter animations though
One detail I really like about Alm and Celica's overclass animations is how they slowly march toward their target before striking
Really sells just how powerful they are in their prime as well as gives the enemy just enough time to realize just how much they messed up
Yeeeees it's so cool
Power walk is realllllllllllllllll.
Truly, though what fascinates me more about Alm's and Celica's is demonstrating them fighting like Ike in a range situation. Though they do need to be close combat and chance to see em.
@@BenFM Why would a Saint King 🤴 and Queeny 👸of 2 Kingdom Fused as one after slaying God run to some brigade? 😂😂😂
@@ChaolaoFueChi noticed it too. Each Class and lvl they gain more range and power. Although Ike with Ragnell, especially in Radiant Dawn is unmatched.(Black Knight Dead) Adept, Aether, cancel, guard, pretty unstoppable.
This is my favorite game in the series for many reasons. The Story, Characters, Music and Fighting animations are really well made.
Agreed, I love it all
Chapters:
0:00 Harrier (Falcon Knight Overclass)
0:42 Triangle Attack!
1:06 Skogul (Gold Knight Overclass)
1:29 Yasha (Dread Fighter Overclass)
2:12 Dread Fighter
2:29 Enchantress (Priestes Overclass)
3:04 Guru (Sage Overclass)
3:20 Spartan (Armoured Overclass)
3:40 Falcon Knight
4:07 Exemplar (Saint Overclass)
4:18 Rigain and Conqueror (Celica and Alm Overclasses)
5:15 Ragnarok Ω Ultimate Combat Art (Celica)
5:39 Scendscale Ultimate Combat Art (Alm)
Isn't Skogul the Gold Knight Overclass?
@@NarrowSpark96 Absolutely correct, not sure why I typed that lol! Thanks :)
The animations of Echoes are definitely way better than 3 Houses despite having a less powerful system. You can really tell that they poured a lot of love into the game.
Yes they're beautiful
I think the animation is better BECAUSE it was a weaker system. That forced them to focus in cinematography and impact since they couldn't use fluidity, polygon count and smooth textures as the 3DS couldn't handle that. They had to nail the basics.
A reason why the old chiptunes are still great today is because they are strong melodies. They had to be strong melodies cause that was all they could be. The 8 and 16 bit systems couldn't make pleasant sounds so you had to have a strong melody to make the beeps and boops from the system come across as appealing.
I have never seen the yasha's 2nd hit animation because of that classes' high crit rate. Thank you for this.
Ahaha I had to unequip his crit sword :P And my pleasure :)
I knew I wasn't the only one that loved echoes' animations. You're probably the only person to upload the special final hit animations for certain classes, they are sooo smooth!
Can’t help but love echoes! I’m happy you enjoyed seeing them :) really wanted to showcase these awesome animations
Honestly it's cool looking at the animations of the 3DS games. With each game they got more dynamic and cool and the models kept getting better. Awakening was trying to bring back a similar feeling to Radiant Dawn's great animations but put onto handheld and not as lengthy and a bit more energetic, then Fates refined the framework and gave us more animations specific to classes as well as a lot more distinct animations overall that harken a lot more back to the GBA games, and then you have SoV's perfection and flow with tons of different animations for different states of fighting like dodge to counter or taking minimal damage to counter and it really makes each fight exciting, even complete with dynamic and smooth camera angles and transitions for finishers and long range bow attacks. Not to mention unique victory animations for each character. SoV has yet to be matched in terms of presentation - in tons and tons of things.
In that regard, I see that Three Houses is kind of the Switch's Awakening - where animations and models are more rough and there isn't really a lot of flow to the combat but it's still not bad. Meanwhile, Engage looks to be really upping the anty for animations and models. Even seem to be ditching critical/skill cut-ins for just close ups which I think will be better for combat flow.
Excuse the wall of text I just love me animation! Had to gush lol
Yeah the awakening ones weren't like amazing and then fates got really cool and sov was awesome. Yeah Three Houses is kind of a stepping stone for Engage :p
Oh don't apologise I love animations too :)
Something not shown in this video but that I love anyway is the Alm versus Rudolf cutscene, where after wearing Alm down and shielding several attacks, Rudolf throws away his shield to prepare to deal the final blow…
And of course, when it’s Alm’s turn to deal the final attack of the game, after wearing down his opponent… he does the same. Throws aside his shield, and does an incredible jump slash to finish them off.
Yeah it’s awesome! I wanted it but literally couldn’t record on my save cause Alm doesn’t do it on the replay
I still think about this time 2 myrmidons fought each other with a low chance of actually hitting each other, so the whole fight was a dance of them swinging and dodge rolling around each other. It looked so cool
Ahaha love that in sov
HOLY CRAP THANK YOU!! I was waiting YEARS for someone to finale make a video dedicated to Echoes battle animations, the fact that they look so natural (some are over the top but anyways) in the way the enter the battle, the way they hit, dodge and counter a failed enemy attack was so damn smooth, Echoes is definitely the best in that regard for now, but Engage looks promising in that aspect as well
In my opinion, echoes has the best animations. Each characters have their own unique pose animations which is a nice touch.
@@winterxx1555 saw the engage animations. It looks so good, it's the currently the best battle animations to date.
and they kept Alm as a Lefty, unlike Zelda's Link......
2:20 Gray's goofy expression followed by a badass execution is so damn funny for some reason
Loooool he’s dorky af and u gotta love it
Echoes is such a gem that I still play every once and a while to this day, the real shame is the price of the over classes but other than that it’s pretty perfect.
I can't stop myself playing it at least once a year it's so awesome
Man, I miss these; the flow of combat in this game was on another level compared to Awakening and Fates. The zoom-in, the characters rushing in with their weapons drawn, the hits, the finishing blows or critical hits, all of it flows naturally from one thing to the next.
Yeees they were so good
After playing Engage and watching this again
I can tell where some of the animations came from lol
Still genuis they did that whole entering the battle animation where you can actually see them run into battle
My Favorite and very underrated, heck, even each character has unique win poses.
I love the unique poses so much
Maybe a hot take but it's sad to me that celica gets so much attention and IS just forgets alms existence. I really like him and wish they'd give him some more love 😭 I hope we see him in engage in some form
He has quite a lot of alts in heroes! He'll probably be added to engage later as dlc
This video alone made me get fe echoes. I'm loving it. Please make more for other fire emblem.
Great to hear, Echoes is my favourite game :) I've got some other compilation videos like this for Engage, Fates and Three Houses too!
The art direction in Echoes really is the best in the series. From the character portraits, to music, and animations it all looks so good. They only place I'd say it's not the best is that the prerendered cutscenes from Awakening and Fates do look better than the ones in Echoes, but that's genuinely the only area where it isn't the best
Yeah that's true the pre rendered cutscenes are the only slightly off part
It's so cool to see the Yasha overclass finishing an enemy by using his mind
That move is awesome
On god one of my favorite details in this games animation is when the villagers start combat by running into the fight.
Its small in the grand scheme of things, but it felt way more natural then having characters being on a battlefield and starting each battle standing around and pulling their sword out of the ground
I love it also
I love that most classes have special animations for attacking after dodging/blocking.
So cool
Love how Celica slashes the enemy from a distance
That badass wind attack
@@BenFM includes Alm too, though it's strange to see it used in 1 ranged attack, I wonder if it was supposed to have 2-5 range but since they already have their range weapon types, Bow & Arrow for Alm and Magic for Celica
Echoes also made bows look cool, too. Most FE games, bows are pretty underwhelming, but in Echoes they have tons of range and look cool.
My personal favorite animations in this game are the dodge and counterattack animations. So many good ones like the paladin's horse doing a back-kick or the Baron Sparta kicking the opponent. It was great.
Yeee they’re so cool
The raw SWAGGER from that dodge at 3:06
Dawg now I want overclass ascended Boey in Heroes
Brooo yesss. We need Mae and Boey FEH alts in any case ASAP
Such a underrated gem
So underrated
underrated? nah
The entrance and the dodge animation into straight counter attack are what make the battle animation look so good compared to other titles. It's so fluid.
Yeah flows so nicely
oh my god thank you so much for this video i never had most of these classes so im glad to be able to watch them...im so obsessed with lukas' animations...thank you so much!!!
My pleasure ❤️ I love rewatching it as well, such cool classes
Echoes deff got some of the cleanest looking animations in the FE series for sure. the crits are very satisfying-
one of the wildest parts of all the various FE crit animations throughout most of the games in the series I've seen on youtube is how Path of Radiance's legit the only one in the entire series that doesn't even have a crit animation collection on youtube,
which is incredibly weird.
I'm legit still surprised how none's been done for that game even now cuz some of the crit animations in Path of Radiance were very cool, especially Ranger Ike's non-kill crit(which in itself is rare to see w/o killer weapon)
Echoes will forever be my favorite in the series.
Amazing anims, best in the series personally. Probably Engage will give it a run for its money.
Yeah Engage has SoV to beat
@@BenFM I mean Sov was beaten by Radiant Dawn
Unfortunately it did not
@@BenFM Radiant Dawn had some swag. Like noticed in this game SOV will start combat running(or Walking in Alm and Celica case) In Dawn it's like a duel. You noticed it a lot during Ike and the Black Knight fights.
Literally the best in series ever, maybe not now with engage but I haven't played it yet.
Honestly i love the slow walk of conquer alm gives the same vibes as black knights 1 range animation has.
Haha yeah badass af
The base archer counterattack at 1 range is also cool, when I saw that I had a lot more respect for Tobin. I belive they do a Caulde, it's been a while.
Oh yeah it is pretty cool acc
its impressive how both alm and celica are able to by raw strength defeat the enemy with air pressure generated by their swords thats dope!
So slick
Its funny that I found this video as I have been telling people for years that echoes has the best presentation in the franchise. I think engage may now take that place, but it doesn't in any way undermine how absolutely beautiful echoes is. For the time and hardware it was incredible.
I’m working on an engage one of this
SoV is easily one of the best "remake/mechanics " in FE history. The composition and SFX to the action models is perfect. The revival and weapon drops are fantastic
I forgot that "Dread Fighters" in Echoes were *basically* ninjas. Though seeing the Yasha class for the 1st time, I see it should be "ninjas with the power of the force."
3:32-3:37
Lukas: "THIS. IS. *SPARTA!!!"*
Looooool
Yeah yashas are great as well aren't they, awesome
Echoes walked so Engage could run, amirite
Truth
Too bad Three houses triped along the way
Finally for the longest time I wanted to show off these animations since I didn't see anybody on UA-cam showing them off but I didn't have a capture card. Hands down the best animations in the series
Happy I could help :)
Crits from Dread Fighter Gray is the stuff of nightmares...
Pretty sure the Pegasus finishing blow animation was reused in Engage as a crit so they're definitely aware this game ruled
They knew how slick it was
Echoes feels like the most polished game in the series to me.
Can only agree
Helps that it is a remake. Maybe in 10-20 years we will see a three houses with better art and animations and more complete story.
no its insane how fluidly the horses and especially the pegasi move. like i so rarely see mounted combat look just as smooth and powerful as the infantry
It's so slick
The 3DS is to 3D what the GBA was for 2D. It didn't have the most brute force and was relatively basic in it's features but it could handle most things you threw at it very quickly and fluidly.
I wonder why in three houses they felt like they needed to tone down the attack animations🤔
I think it was partly due to IS not working on it but Koei are able to make some great animations too so yeah I guess just they didn't have time to not sure :/
i doubt they made the conscious decision to make the animations more bland. it's probably just cause it was a different team
echoes solos Mid houses and Mid hopes
That is some heavy ahh copium. Echoes is underrated but not that much.
Well maybe three hopes cuz that story wass ass
Played several FE games and this is one is still my favorite... Everything in it is too notch.
Think its my fav too
5:00
Did he just walk up, slowly, then crit?!?!
God the game looks so good. I forgot it was in 720p 60fps.
Looking back, I wish I'd have purchased the DLC classes before eShop went down for the 3DS
Reminds me so much of the gba or radiant dawn crits. Wish the next game will do these kinds of animations again
Man this takes me back… I remember I cannot afford the dlc classes so I just used the base classes to clear the endgame dungeon. Good times spammed a lot of summons for bait which allowed my units to live lmao
Haha yeah gotta abuse the invokes
The best part is that I'm pretty sure the combat music is synced with all these animations, so for example hits are in sync with the percussions of the songs. Same goes for parrying and counter-attacks (although you need to not speed up the animation)
Echoes was the pinnacle of Fire Emblem and Im so glad to see a showcase of this beautiful game's art in a quality it deserves
❤️ I can only agree it’s the pinnacle
How much I would love HD remakes of the 3ds games only the lord would know
Would be awesome
5:19 FE Engage makes a lot more sense now
And the soundtrack is a BANGER!
Facts
I recently received New 2ds as a gift from a friend and the first thing I did was download a bunch of games I was interested in, including the Fire Emblem's parts. And the first FE for which I started to play so tightly was Shadows of Valentia (since it was translated into my language). And I'm still amazed at how beautiful, smooth, mesmerizing the battles of each class and each of the characters look. Excellent sound of hits, smooth animations of dodge blocks that pass without delay into an attack or a last hit with a crit, finishers are unique for each class. The gods in this part of the animators knowingly "ate their bread." It even seems to me that at first they conducted IRL battles to calculate the best movements and skills, and then they drew animations, taking real choreography as an example.
This is my first FE and my favorite, this game conquer my heart at a point i can't never forget it.
The characters (oh my god Clair, i love you), the ART, the OST, the gameplay, the swamp and desert maps, BOATS!
What a MASTERPIECE.
Such an incredible game maybe my fav game of all time
Conqueror Alm drawing his sword, walking up and down-smashing lives rent-free in my head.
Iconic
It's the Legend of Dragoon nostalgia for me. Amazing animations, effects and sounds
Gotta love the sounds
We didn't know how good we had it with Echoes and I miss it so much. My favorite art direction in a Fire Emblem game ever and we'll probably never get it again. Engage also has some pretty killer animations, but the character designs and art direction is... a bit out there for my tastes. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever get quite get back to this kind of Fire Emblem. Oh well, at least Hidari did the art for the 2DMV of my favorite original song in Project Sekai for my favorite group. (Vivid Bad Squad's Moonlight.)
I havent seen most of these before since I got into echoes a little too late. But wow Alm just walking up to the dragon and slaying it in one slash, can't get any more boss than that.
Such a beast
Oh no, I still remember Echoes animation to this day! BWahhaa! ... Actually, you know what was a really cool moment for me?
The chapter with Blake, so a bunch of Geni's invoked soldiers were just around him, and I watched him one by one cut them down. Scary mid-boss music playing, badass Myrmidon animations just tearing them through. Blake looked so cool and I will never forget that. His flips, his counters, his swings, all while being some mid-class. Beautiful.
Yeah he was actually a super scary boss and seeing those animations for the first time was awesome!
Overclassing brings back good memories. Still remember rushing duma with all my Harriers lol
Definitely one of my favorite games. I replayed it last year upon buying Alm Amiibo and the DLC, and I am so in love.
I love that ❤️
I just picked this game up before the store closed. I was impressed with the animations for a 3DS game. It’s very impressive. The art is also gorgeous.
It’s the best
5:00 that was WAY too smooth
🚶🏻
Holy shit these are the abimations that take me back to the GBA days, god
Echoes was a great sendoff for the 3DS. So much was put into this one game that's a remake of an NES game most of the world never got. Absolutely stunning.
What a game
The yasha class just doing a backflip kick filled up with slamming down a sword o. The enemy fills me with so much joy and life
Love that one so much
Of the five FE games I've played, Echoes was my favourite. Everything was so spot on.
My fav too