What's so weird to me is that *no one* can agree on what the best FE game is. It just goes to show that we all play this series for different reasons and that all the games have their own strengths and weaknesses!
To be honest, while I can believe that of most games of the franchise, I have a hard-time believing a fan of this series could actually think Fates is the best. That game is such a mess.
So far for me the ranking is TH SoV Awakening Warriors Fates Sacred Stones Rest of them I have not played so far because they are still extrem expensive and they have neither free movement nor Casual mode to avoid the way overrated Permadeath.
@@konstantinkunz2256 The DS Fire emblem games also have ways to prevent perma death so that's a recommendation if perma death is intimidating, Shadow Dragon on DS gives you replacement units if your army ever runs thin so you can't ever get into a completely unwinnable state, and New Mystery of the Emblem introduces Casual Mode to avoid perma death altogether Downside Shadow Dragon is expensive and New Mystery never came out in the west, the best way to play both games would be to emulate them, New Mystery has an English fan translation so you can play as if it did come to the west as well and it is quite simple to set up if you have a PC
@@Katie-hb8iq I like Fates. But sacred stones is just special to me and I think Awakening's cutscenes were done better than Fates, even if they run on same engine etc.
1. Summoner is a fine choice for Ewan. 2. I disagree on the story. There are great moments for some characters, (Joshua, Cormag, Myrrh) the villains are compelling (Valter, Caellach, Selena) and Lyon's corruption is tragic.
Just Because He's *"CLICHÊ"* That Doesn't Automaticly Make It Bad, In Fact, Lyon, Along With The Black Knight & King Zephiel, Is Among As The Best Set Of Main Antagonists In The Series, Seriously, These 3 R Amazing
@@redjackal7823 He needs heavy grinding and comes at a point in the game when the player most likely already has a working army. Sacred Stones being so easy makes training him even less worth it. Training him isn't efficient in the slightest because it just puts the game at a halt to train one more unit that won't be necessary. But he's fun to use as a Mage Knight or Summoner.
I still really like Sacred Stones' story better than other games though I don't like how the game makes Ephraim top dog throughout most of the story. At least the other lords were more engaging seeing them develop but with him he's basically the same as he started except now he's going to be king.
you're an idiot and the fact anyone liked this just proves how unintelligent they are cause they clearly did not think this through when reading it as you did not when posting it. Is Dark souls hard because it did everything wrong? Is mushihimesama futari black label god mode hard because it did everything wrong? And on easier difficulties it did everything right? This is a completely stupid mind state you have and it makes no sense. If its sarcasm. You suck at it, because its blatantly not clear in a text based communications where I can not hear you emote your sentence in a way that clearly reflects sarcasm. Sacred stones did nothing itself wrong but does have problems. the developers think the western audience is just ignorantly stupid.. Don't blame a piece of plastic for the developers stupid beliefs on the western market.
Magma Overload entitlement to what? My thoughts and opinions? So what? Lol cry about it. I argued my point and he has every ability to argue his. Ill consider them n possibly agree or disagree. The entitlement is probably just my white privelage tho honestly lmao jk
Magma Overload then argue how it is. I am not unreasonalble. Keep tellin me with no factual or reasonable basis n ill continue to think you are the moron who can not formulate a counter argument. So entitlement was a dumb choice tho lol
I'm pretty sure Ghast also covered two other Sacred Stones character, Forde (One of Ephraim's knights) and Lyon (the main villain), in Support Science. I do still agree with your point about the game being piss easy though, being able to grind messes up the progression but it's far too tempting not to. Also Seth breaks everything at base level.
SS was my first FE and I've played every game since. I still remember those days, staying up way past my bed time playing it. My playthrough was essentially Colm dodge tanking and criting or procing silencer on everything. I have loved thief/rouge characters since Locke in FF6 so when I met Colm I knew what I had to do... So I gave him literally every stat booster and more kills than anyone else and he ended up hard carrying me the entire game. I'm probably remembering this wrong but I think I remember my Assassin Colm procing a Silencer on the final boss. Part of me is saying "No that didn't happen because the final boss should be immune to the instant death skill" but the other part remembers the start up animation for Silencer, the purple flashes, and me literally jumping with joy because I beat the game.
Honestly all the four remaining from the seven lords of this game can get their own route (Tana being an intense training bullshit, Innes having an espionage filled assassination route, Joshua being the badass that he is, and L' Arachel's bizzard Adventure) (also Lyon alternative universe stuff)
"Nice girl who doesn't even know what a ballista is has to go on a generic quest (like, what had Eirika achieved before she reunited with her brother? Nothing!) with her steroid-infused boring retainer wasting your time until her ADHD brother comes in" When we could have had *"Complitely unhinged mad princess going apeshit trying to avenge her dead parents purging the world from monsters by hitting them with her staff, joined by a friendly cool dwarf man and a sly merchant that doesn't even wanna be there in the first place"*
@@gembocobo9484 that would be a cool concept. The same way hector mode and lyn mode change the recruitment order she could have dozla and Rennach join first instead of at the end of the game. Dozla acting as a jaigen perhaps
Nintendo switch remake of sacred stones or something similar would be so amazing. Ephraim for smash would be also be amazing. I feel like sacred stones was an excellent step for the series and offered some great gameplay and even chapters and could use a revamp of story of the game on the same continent ! Ephraim could really be a big franchise character given his unique use of lance and potential adaptation of him into Smash and further developing his and Erika’s story in a switch remake 👏
1:31 Here's a moveset idea for Ephraim: Stats: Ephraim will be a medium-weight character along the lines of Roy and Chrom. His walk speed will be similar to Ike, but his dash speed will be exactly the same as Marth. His air speed will be similar to Sonic. He will be a spacer similar to Marth, with good combo potential. However, some of his moves will have quite a bit of endlag. Now onto his moveset: Jab: Ephraim will first strike his opponent with the blunt end of Reginleif, followed by a slash from its pointed end, and then start a rapid jab with his lance. Forward Tilt: Ephraim will swing his lance like a Naginata, having quite a bit of reach, but also having endlag. Up Tilt: Ephraim will swing Reginleif upward, which will have a pop-up effect, setting Ephraim up for follow-ups. Can kill at high percents. Down Tilt: Ephraim will thrust his lance downward, similar to Marth's down tilt, but with more reach. Dash Attack: Ephraim will lunge forward with his lance reaching forward, having heavy knockback and kill power. Forward Smash: Ephraim will Thrust his lance forward, dealing heavy damage and knockback. Up Smash: He will twirl his lance above his head like a helicopter, having a multi hit effect. Down Smash: He will first thrust his lance forward at a low angle, then swing it backwards at a low angle. Neutral Air: It will be similar to Palutena's Neutral Air, but without the magic effect. Forward Air: Forward lance thrust Back Air: Backward Lance Swing (can spike Up Air: Upward Lance Thrust Down Air: Downward Lance Swing (similar to Ike's Down Air, and can spike) Neutral Special: Ephraim throws a Javelin. Holding down the B button will charge up the Javelin, allowing it to go further. Side Special: Similar to Ike's Side Special, but with a lance thrust. Up Special: Ephraim twirls his lance like a helicopter, propelling him upwards, puuting him in freefall at the apex of the move. While the lance is twirling, any fighters caught will be locked in a multihit effect. Down Special: Counter Final Smash: Ephraim will dash forward with his lance, and any one fighter caught will be the one afected. The move cuts to a cinematic where Ephraim's horse runs over the opponent, then Ephraim mounts the horse and deals a devastating blow with the Sacred Twin Lance, Seigmund. The cinematic ends and the opponent is launched offstage.
One thing lost in the fog of unspecific world building, is it's strongly implied that the reason most nations did not live in fear of the Grado Empire is in the name itself. Grado was founded by the hero Grado, and the other nations by his henchmen... Renais, Frelia, Rausten, Jehhana, these nations were all vassals of Grado to start with. Grado's invasions of the other nations were not driven by standard desires for conquest, but by a combination of darker factors. The realpolitik of the other nations not actually being under Grado's control corresponding to a cultural distance growing between the nations, gives the Gradoi* a rather nasty chip on their shoulders which sees most of them way too eager to exterminate the Renaites* once the order is given. Then the desire to undo the power of the sacred stones necessitates invading the other nations to get to their stones. *Yeah! I made up demonyms for the nations of Magvel(Willing to bet a C-note that when an official pronunciation comes out it'll be "Mag-well") because, aside from Frelia with the Frelians, they literally never Gave us any. So I just found myself saying Gradoi for people from Grado. Renaites for Renais, Jehennites or Jehennese for Jehenna, Raustenese for Rausten, Carcinoi for Carcino.
Hey man. I know you're not doing youtube right now but I rewatched this tonight. You are knowledge and have hilarious delivery. If you ever come back, I'm here for it 100%. Hope you are doing better.
This was my first fire emblem game and tbh I love it ! Of course nostalgia is playing a part on that but like I said this introduced me to this awesome series So yeah I would love a second game in Magvel And Ephraim for Smash!!
Sacred Stones was my very first FE! I played it on my grandpa's Game Boy when I was about 10, a few years later I started getting into the rest of the franchise, right around the time awakening came out.
It's 2022. The GBA came out in 2003. How damn young is your grandpa? I had a GBA as a kid and I'm only 32. Your grandpa either collected game boy consoles into adulthood, or managed to have grandkids by like 40 or younger. I am vexed by both possibilities. Back in 2003 VERY few adults were into gaming relative to today.
Sacred stones was my first, so it will always have a place in my heart near the top of the list. I still need to get around to playing the others, but emulations are pretty tricky to deal with, and I can't even entertain the idea of buying them.
Summoner is one of the best classes in the game. Free exp every turn, free meat shield that enemies target with priority. Don't know why some people think it's bad.
Lets be honest here...if Eirika had a more forgettable character design, most of us wouldnt even remember her, FE8 is my favorite game, but oh god most of the other characters in the game are more interesting than her design and character wise, there is a point that you forget that Eirika exist and L'Arachel just becomes the main ''Lord'' next to Ephraim since she gets a very interesting background, the best supports and have a lot actually important dialogs in the game, you could say she is actually the main character.
So Sacred Stones was my intro to the franchise, after being introduced to FE characters through Melee. This game will always have a place in my heart, and was actually my fav until awakening, because I like variety, and having options. This was the only game until awakening that let you choose class changes, like you said, and I love that.
I'm surprised you're not a fan of FE 6. If you ever deign to give it a try again, I'd suggest playing it while keeping the map design in mind. It has some of the best maps in the series with multiple objectives per map and incentives for efficient play. In this way, I'd say it's pretty much the perfect opposite of 8 or Echoes. It's got some of the most thought put into how the player will/should play the game, but unfortunately suffers from some quality of life, playtest, and minor balance issues. Of course, take this with a grain of salt, as this is all coming from someone who loves old Fire Emblem and loathes, as you put it, the newer RPG mechanics. The way I see it, I have countless games where I can grind and teambuild, but only classic Fire Emblem manages to pull off tactical gameplay and resource management in such a perfect convergence. Anyways, thanks for the video. I think you're criminally under-watched and have especially been enjoying your FE content.
Yeah, I absolutely adore FE 6, Zephiel is my favorite villain too. If it ever gets a remake, Roy isn't just a worse version if his father, characters and classes are more balanced and honestly ... the characters and plot being even more engaging, I can see it becoming my favorite game. Remove ambush reinforcements though, fucking hell.
Slendy Agreed , I don’t want fe 6 to be the Roy and Merlinus show . Also what would you say isn’t balanced about the classes in fe 6 specifically ? I’d agreed that some of the characters are but what classes are ?
Fácilmente he terminado más de 5 o más veces este juego y simplemente puedo decir que es perfecto, hay que decir que si tiene una historia muy cliché como cualquier libro de literatura de aventura, pero por dios, los personajes, la música, los villanos y los escenarios son oro puro, y volver a jugarlo con otras unidades completamente diferentes a otras partidas le daba rejugabilidad inmensa incluyendo asi la división de historia que sucede entre Eirika y Ephraim, simplemente en la nostalgia y si pueden decir que es fácil, pero recuerdo haber llegado al bosque donde luchas contra el padre de Myrrh con solo 8 unidades ajajajjaajaj para mí era lo más épico recuerdo sacrificar a Saleh para vencer al padre, y de pequeño me quedo la espina de que nunca lo pude pasar, y lo recuerdo con mucho cariño la verdad! Videojuego de mi infancia! 😫
I can't say that the Characters don't have "Character". Gilliam is an example, and I personally think that he his one of, if not, the best character for a knight in the series.
You're the first game content creator I've seen other than myself who uses an SM58 mic. I stream games with one. Very good taste, I must say. Don't know about you, but the reason I use an SM58 and not a more typical condenser mic is that I started out as a music recording hobbyist and then transitioned into streaming. I originally got the SM58 because it was good for loud rock or metal vocals, but I found it was plenty sufficient for recording high quality commentary as well. What a classic, cool microphone. Only cool people like us use it.
This was my first fire emblem game and my first game boy advanced game. This is one of the few games I beat when I was really young. So this game has a special place in my heart
After being completely blown away by awakening, (first FE game to be fair) Fates taught me to never get too hype for a game on the off chance it might not be worth all the hype. It was a very painful lesson...
Birthright, and from what I've heard/seen conquest had an even worse story. That's not even what bothered me though, every single character was so one note and annoying, they didn't have any personality. Awakening looking back had a mediocre story too but all the characters were so much fun and lively.
When playing Fates, it didn’t disappoint me as much as I played this game called Paper Mario Sticker Star and that game was the most disappointment I ever had in my life of gaming. In my opinion, Birthright was my least favorite out of the three routes. I only liked Fates gameplay than it’s story. My next Fire Emblem game to play is Genealogy Of The Holy War. (I wanted to get my hands on that game) After playing this Fire Emblem And Path Of Radiance, I find Fates to be an okay game and not really the best game when it comes to story.
Shadow Dragon is a solid game. Strange for you that it seems you don't really care about it when you proclaimed that you're a fan of the "less is more" style. It absolutely rocks that simplistic style and owns it.
Great video, love the analysis! But I have to respectfully disagree with you on Ephraim and Eirika being bland lords. Ephraim, in my opinion, is one of the best lords and one of my favorites in the series along with Ike and Roy. I think he is beautifully fleshed out in the flash back scenes with Lyon where we see, as we do in the present, that he is quite hard-headed and not well-read. We see him being brash a lot in the story, too, when he goes to Renvall and is a complete badass there. We also are treated to the fact that he didn't seem to get along with King Fado and didn't seem to want to be king near the beginning of the story--he even says in one of the flashbacks that Eirika would be a much better leader. In contrast, as the game goes on and he gains control of the army and his dad dies, we see him become more and more responsible and more of a leader. Eirika is really great, too. We see her go from needing to be defended all the time to actively stepping up both in flashbacks with Lyon and in the present to learn swordplay (something she isn't fond of) to become a better fighter and not a nuisance. And Lyon is sincerely one of my favorite villains in the series and maybe one of them in general. I think the heart of the story is really the friendship between Eirika, Ephraim, and Lyon, and it really is a touching, well-written story. It hits me hard both as an adult and when I was a kiddo. As a side note, Ephraim and Eirika also have some of my favorite supports! I loved seeing how awkward he was around Tana in their support and how snide Eirika could be in her support with Innes! I rambled a bit here, and it's probably obvious, but I adore this game through and through and it will always be a favorite. ^u^
I My first fire emblem I played was Sacred Stones I liked it so much, it has a lot of negative points, but the story I love, I love the characters I wanted a remake of it so bad
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is the most professionally made game of the GBA era. Graphics, animations, art, levels, items, replayability, design, UI, length, story, music, mathematic and more elements are just near perfectly made. Older Fire Emblem games (GBA era) are more natural like and little more amateur. Sacred Stones is much more professional. I really wish to see a remake of this game. (On PC :D!) This is my most loved game of all times btw :), second is Silent Hill, third is Mount&Blade: Warband and the 4th is Age of Empires III.
Heroes: use Axes and Swords Berserker wielding Swordslayer: "You're a sword unit." Hero: "I am literally holding an axe in my hands, RIGHT. NOW." Swordslayer: "Nah, you a swordsman." Hero: "I don't even have any swords in my inventory!" Swordslayer: "skill issue."
4:57 Grado was the most powerful nation, but they were also the most peaceful. Both Emperor Vigarde and his son Lyon hated violence, so their invasion caught their decades long ally way off guard. I think the story of Sacred Stones is of similar quality to most Fire Emblem stories, though it doesn't have any notable twists in it. The best part about Sacred Stones is the supporting cast, imo. Very, very high quality.
Sacred stones was my first game and I love it. I love the recruit units and the music. I love the art. Ephraim is one of my favorite characters. Also cormag looks cool
I love leveling up and grinding because the inner completionist in me wants me to be as strong as possible. So the game is just easier no matter what. No matter the FE game, that's what I want to do.
Fire Emblem fans are Fire Emblem's biggest haters. I haven't played a Fire Emblem game I don't like. Too easy to grind in Sacred Stones? Don't grind. Do ironman runs. Limit yourself.
I prefer FE7 because Geitz can use killer axe & brave bow at base w/ no speed penalty… gets HHM bonus… can single handedly wipe out 20 wyverns on enemy phase… and has a gigantic pink bow
I have played two fe games so far. I am not sure what its called but its the one with the leader wearing a chinese blue dress thing. That was fun but it doesnt hold a candle to five stones. Once i got a phone emulator i just dived into it in all my spare time. I do a ton of grinding and just wipe an army with a couple chars. Ive leveled all the mages. Cavaliers and archers all that to 20 and then promoted. Ur right in saying it lowers difficulty a great deal but then there are map objectives like recruiting and getting all the treasures. So i focus on tearing up the enemy tissue paper and getting everything i can. Only at chapter 18 or 19 i think and about to get amelia to lvl 20 and make her a paladin to go with frans. This is my third playthrough
You know it's funny. Shadow Dragon was my first fire emblem game. It's definitely not my favorite, but still important to me for introducing me to FE. Binding Blade is my favorite FE and after that Sacred Stones and then I'd say Fates. Also, Lute is really cool to me, I can see why she would be boring to ther people tho. Her gamer tag is XxLutexX hahah
Sacred stones was the game that made me fall i love with the series and is still my favorite to this day even if I admit it isn't the best storywise. Also please do a Cipher video I love that game but it's hard to get my card game buddies to give it a try.
My Moulder came out as a tank with 15+ defense. Colm became Tanky too... Favorite thing is making Tana a wyvern Knight to take advantage of pegasus knight's natural resistance.
You only lose 1 resistance by going wyvern knight so you're not taking advantage of much. Wyvern knight is way better than Falcon knight because you get +4 con on a 5 con character
I get what some of your problems with the story are, but you're being too harsh. It's one of the better ones. It might feel like it's on a way smaller scale than FE 7, but it's actually huge, you simply don't realize it much because the world building as you mentioned is a bit lackluster, and less variety of different people are involved in the story. And you clearly didn't look too much into everything. I feel like you skipped the story first time already, not just all the later runs. Lyon is way more complex than the other evil dude possessed by real bad guy. Frankly, he's still that at his core, but the best executed one, because a lot of the stuff he did was by his own will. Although he did get completely corrupted in Eirika's route, which is stupid and sad. And for the characters you seem to just have picked the weaker ones to prove your point. I could do the same with a lot of characters in FE 7. Yes, they exist, but a pretty stupid move to show the bad ones exclusively. And really? Awakening has like the worst gameplay of the entire series, you call that shitshow an improvement over Sacred Stones?
This game is perfect for challenge runs. I.E. you can only play sword characters, female characters only, etc. Only where possible obviously. The grinding problem is also fixed if you exercise some restraint and set some restrictions for yourself. For example, you can limit yourself to only one Tower of Valni run between every chapter--which incentivizes you do as many floors as you can, instead of just grinding the first floor for that easy Entombed exp. You can also do skirmishes for extra XP, but only if it's on your way to your next objective. Stuff like that. At any rate I'm glad to see Sacred Stones getting some love, usually I just hear people hate on it for being too easy. It's a really fun game.
You should play Fire Emblem Sacred Trilogy Reskin. It's a modified version of sacred stones and aims to cover up all the downsides of actual game Sacred Stones. Try it. It's worth it. I am saying this because I am already playing it. 1) New battle animations 2) Skill system 3) Leadership system 4) Difficulty increased 5) Bunch of exclusive classes for important characters. For example Seth. 6) Infinite uses of dragonstone for Myrrh. It's ineffective against monsters but it's range is increased to 2. 7) A fixed growth for all units by the creator just to ensure that your units neither get RNG screwed nor RNG blessed. Enjoy.
I’ve played Iron-manned this game more than any other game in the series. Thank God this game is short and most of the late game can be LTC’d! I know this game is easy, I just play it the most because I know I can commit just enough time to complete the playthrough.
I love all of the gba fire emblem games. But for some reason 6 and 8 have more chapters that I find tedious. Whereas 7 might have one or two of those, 8 has about five or six. And 6 has about ten. Either way , they are all extremely fun and have amazing replayability. I have been playing these same gba games since 7 came out, and I'm still playing all three. Love this video man keep up the great work
The sad thing about the Twins is that L'Arachel becomes more of a main Lord than them story-wise, starting in the very chapter where they retake their own castle, and despite being optional. Although, that is great on her part at least, breaking out as more than "just" a comic relief one-noter.
Sacred Stones has a lot that is lackluster but I will always defend it for its characters. In particular is the story arcs for Joshua and Cormag. Even with little in the way of in story attention they have amazing arcs.
Awakening is my favorite because it was my first but I loved playing through Sacred Stones. I don't grind because I don't have enough gold to but more weapons.
I'm just here to be one more to vouch for Sacred Stones. Some "die-hard" FErs call it too easy and bash the story (I dunno man, plenty FEs have simpler stories) but FE:TSS is really a true work of quality that I wish Nintendo gave a try at that format again (Yes, Echoes, I know, but yeah, AGAIN) PS : I'd really like a lore-wise return to Magvel, linking it to the rest of FE series
I find it interesting how you call FE7 Rekka no Ken, but you call FE4 Genealogy? But, more to the point, I gotta say I agree with you on...well, almost everything here. Sacred Stones was the first FE game I played (that I actually enjoyed, anyway...), and it's what really got me into the series. I'm not 100% sure it's my favorite, but it's definitely in the top 2 or 3. The story isn't anything amazing, sure, and it's a bit easy, but it's just...fun. I hadn't really thought about how later games drew on the ideas started in this game, but I can definitely see that now that you say it. I haven't seen all of what games you've done yet, but I'd love to see one on one of the SNES era games, maybe Mystery of the Emblem? Also, EPHRAIM FOR SMASH
in fe7 if you have sain, kent, florina, and wil die before the chapter where you get dorcas, you cannot win on normal mode since lyn is forced to talk to dorcas. the enemies get to the girl you have to protect before you can.
i like that you can freely move on world map and it was first game i think to get this anyone know which parts also have this feature? awakening i think also
"I shouldn't have to make that choice." Proceeds to provide no actual explanation for why you shouldn't need to decide not to grind if you don't want to grind, just that you shouldn't. "The final boss has less Hp that Rekka No Ken." Objective misinformation they both have 120 Hp, Dragon has more Res(20 Def, 30 Res), Fomortiis has more Def(25 Def, 25 Res, with 1 more of each on Hard), your units are simply much stronger in Sacred Stones. Something I love in Sacred Stones is how the characters actually feel as strong as the story and dialogue implies them to be. Seth is a perfect example, he's a famous general known specifically for how strong he is, and at any point in the game you can just drop him onto the map and watch him go on an unholy tear through basically anything shy of a Dracozombie.
Sacred Stones is MY favorite for the simple reason of GRINDING! and not gonna lie... grinding the colosseum matches for OVER 100 turns to walk away with Natasha, Joshua, and 100,000+ gold in the SAME CHAPTER... DANG that felt AWESOME! oh, and EPHRAIM FOR SMASH!!! btw, you mentioned that this is a "stand-alone" but i would ALMOST bet money that Fire Emblem Three Houses MIGHT have QUITE A BIT of MAGVEL's THREE countries in a distant future because if memory Serves me correctly as it has been years since i played Sacred Stones then post game as credits roll and we learn about the heroes lives after the conflict Grado is absorbed by Renais and the Mecrhant Country (please forgive me but i dont remember several of the countries names) where Moulder and Innes are from and one of the eastern country's merge for rebuilding and survival purposes leaves THREE kingdoms... but i could be CONPLETELY wrong on my hunch so dont take it as gospel. lol! what's a guy to do if he cant hope?!? 😍😍😁
@@littleplague5988 Thank you. I am itching to buy another copy of Fire Emblem Sacred Stones because of this video and several other references I've seen and heard lately. Realistically I believe that Fire Emblem Three Houses having ties to Sacred Stones is overhoping but the possibility (outside the realm of the developers, of course 😆) still exists. My personal opinion and gut instinct are leading me to believe that Fire Emblem Three Houses is more likely to be a lead-in or tie-in title to an upcoming Geneology trilogy remastered and translated for places outside Japan but once again... A guy can dream up a storm and still be frozen like Scrat's "acorns"! 😂
Say what you will about the plot, Fe8 had some great characters. Joshua, Cormag, Gerik and Rennac were all interesting and charming characters of the playable ones. Then it had perhaps cliche, but definitely fun villains like Valter and Caellach who were so transparently rotten it was hard not to enjoy them. As well as nuanced antagonists like Glen, Selena and Orson. Not to mention that Lyon himself was pretty well built up.
Hello there. Fire Emblem 8 has a unique saving grace: it's code allows for custom skills and custom User Interface. There is an hack for this game, "Fire Emblem 8 Skills" that pretty much modernizes FE8 in a lot of way and makes each character unique and they learn also skills at set levels (unpromo ot pormo) while starting with personal skills that make each char unique. FE8 is the pick of old-school GBA FE even related to the source code. Example: Garcia has +20 crit on attack phase whenever he attacks, plus he gets at level 10 a skill that allow him to ALWAYS double if he has less than 50% of his HP... furthermore, relating to what class you promote him, he will gain different skills at both level 5 and level 10 promoted. FE8 with Skllls + Ui Improvements >>>>>>>>>>>>> FE8 Vanilla >FE7 > FE6 Try it out guys, it's a world of fun.
checked, doesn't have (the code can't allow it, you probably are thinking about some custom made games with other types of tools outside of gba rom editing)
Last chapter, Julia killed herself on my units. Can't kill the boss without her special weapon, but I had it set to save after each turn, couldn't restart chapter...
What's so weird to me is that *no one* can agree on what the best FE game is. It just goes to show that we all play this series for different reasons and that all the games have their own strengths and weaknesses!
Very well said man
To be honest, while I can believe that of most games of the franchise, I have a hard-time believing a fan of this series could actually think Fates is the best. That game is such a mess.
So far for me the ranking is
TH
SoV
Awakening
Warriors
Fates
Sacred Stones
Rest of them I have not played so far because they are still extrem expensive and they have neither free movement nor Casual mode to avoid the way overrated Permadeath.
@@konstantinkunz2256 The DS Fire emblem games also have ways to prevent perma death so that's a recommendation if perma death is intimidating, Shadow Dragon on DS gives you replacement units if your army ever runs thin so you can't ever get into a completely unwinnable state, and New Mystery of the Emblem introduces Casual Mode to avoid perma death altogether
Downside Shadow Dragon is expensive and New Mystery never came out in the west, the best way to play both games would be to emulate them, New Mystery has an English fan translation so you can play as if it did come to the west as well and it is quite simple to set up if you have a PC
@@Katie-hb8iq I like Fates. But sacred stones is just special to me and I think Awakening's cutscenes were done better than Fates, even if they run on same engine etc.
1. Summoner is a fine choice for Ewan.
2. I disagree on the story. There are great moments for some characters, (Joshua, Cormag, Myrrh) the villains are compelling (Valter, Caellach, Selena) and Lyon's corruption is tragic.
Caellech the best villain aside from god Lyon
I can’t stand Erika’s stupidity handing Lyon the Maguffin. Completely destroyed my view of her.
@@crown9413 I liked her stupidity. I saw it as a great joke of how stupid royals can be..
The story is weak, but some character writing and support conversations are good
@@crown9413 I'll never get how people think it's "stupid." Like, this is very much exactly the choice her character would let her make every time.
Also the art is absolutely fantastic! Every character looks super cool and the UI is classy
SolidSnake684 I would argue that the kaga games have better art styles, for example fe 5 looks amazing for a snes game
@@arman_llc624 Definitely.
>Lyon is a cliche character
*heavy breathing*
Couldn't agree more. I get riled up when people throw dirt on my favorite FE character.
*internal screaming with the fury of a thousand demon kings*
Just Because He's *"CLICHÊ"* That Doesn't Automaticly Make It Bad, In Fact, Lyon, Along With The Black Knight & King Zephiel, Is Among As The Best Set Of Main Antagonists In The Series, Seriously, These 3 R Amazing
Lyon am becoming even because you didn’t let me poke Eirika ephriam.. you pay both will pay....
Bardock SkyWalker facts, they’re literally my top 3 and Edelgard
“Don’t make ewan a summoner” WHAT
"Don't turn Ewan into a summoner"Excuse me w h a t
Ewan is just so bad but Summoner is honestly the second-best or even the best choice for him
Ewan Druid is better
froschkoenig4 What? Is it because he has lower stats or you tell me.
@@redjackal7823 He needs heavy grinding and comes at a point in the game when the player most likely already has a working army. Sacred Stones being so easy makes training him even less worth it. Training him isn't efficient in the slightest because it just puts the game at a halt to train one more unit that won't be necessary. But he's fun to use as a Mage Knight or Summoner.
The Legacy of Gaming lol nah, you must be joking
I still really like Sacred Stones' story better than other games though I don't like how the game makes Ephraim top dog throughout most of the story. At least the other lords were more engaging seeing them develop but with him he's basically the same as he started except now he's going to be king.
Sacred Stones did too many things right and became too easy.
you're an idiot and the fact anyone liked this just proves how unintelligent they are cause they clearly did not think this through when reading it as you did not when posting it. Is Dark souls hard because it did everything wrong? Is mushihimesama futari black label god mode hard because it did everything wrong? And on easier difficulties it did everything right?
This is a completely stupid mind state you have and it makes no sense.
If its sarcasm. You suck at it, because its blatantly not clear in a text based communications where I can not hear you emote your sentence in a way that clearly reflects sarcasm.
Sacred stones did nothing itself wrong but does have problems. the developers think the western audience is just ignorantly stupid.. Don't blame a piece of plastic for the developers stupid beliefs on the western market.
@@DevaPein Holy shit I've never seen so much entitlement in my life, you wrote so much damn stuff about a single statement.
Magma Overload entitlement to what? My thoughts and opinions? So what? Lol cry about it.
I argued my point and he has every ability to argue his. Ill consider them n possibly agree or disagree.
The entitlement is probably just my white privelage tho honestly lmao jk
@@DevaPein Entitlement was just something I used because I didn't know how to describe your new level of stupidity
Magma Overload then argue how it is. I am not unreasonalble. Keep tellin me with no factual or reasonable basis n ill continue to think you are the moron who can not formulate a counter argument.
So entitlement was a dumb choice tho lol
A video about Thracia 776 would be good
I'm pretty sure Ghast also covered two other Sacred Stones character, Forde (One of Ephraim's knights) and Lyon (the main villain), in Support Science. I do still agree with your point about the game being piss easy though, being able to grind messes up the progression but it's far too tempting not to. Also Seth breaks everything at base level.
Yes! Someone who agrees with me that Ephraim should be in Smash!
SS was my first FE and I've played every game since. I still remember those days, staying up way past my bed time playing it. My playthrough was essentially Colm dodge tanking and criting or procing silencer on everything. I have loved thief/rouge characters since Locke in FF6 so when I met Colm I knew what I had to do... So I gave him literally every stat booster and more kills than anyone else and he ended up hard carrying me the entire game. I'm probably remembering this wrong but I think I remember my Assassin Colm procing a Silencer on the final boss. Part of me is saying "No that didn't happen because the final boss should be immune to the instant death skill" but the other part remembers the start up animation for Silencer, the purple flashes, and me literally jumping with joy because I beat the game.
Recruits=pre promotes *claps*
Actually if I'm not wrong Ghast's favorite FE unit is Duessel from this game lmao
He really needs to do a support science on him
He talks about it here
ua-cam.com/video/F_mCS3FBd7s/v-deo.html
Its Gerik, that's why he Gerik is the only SS Support Science. But he does love Duessel
Let's be honest: L'Arachel should've been the main lord, anyway.
or maybe be the hector mode equivalent only she only has staves before promoting so it is extra hard for her
Man i wished Fado had a king class.
Honestly all the four remaining from the seven lords of this game can get their own route (Tana being an intense training bullshit, Innes having an espionage filled assassination route, Joshua being the badass that he is, and L' Arachel's bizzard Adventure) (also Lyon alternative universe stuff)
"Nice girl who doesn't even know what a ballista is has to go on a generic quest (like, what had Eirika achieved before she reunited with her brother? Nothing!) with her steroid-infused boring retainer wasting your time until her ADHD brother comes in"
When we could have had
*"Complitely unhinged mad princess going apeshit trying to avenge her dead parents purging the world from monsters by hitting them with her staff, joined by a friendly cool dwarf man and a sly merchant that doesn't even wanna be there in the first place"*
@@gembocobo9484 that would be a cool concept. The same way hector mode and lyn mode change the recruitment order she could have dozla and Rennach join first instead of at the end of the game. Dozla acting as a jaigen perhaps
Nintendo switch remake of sacred stones or something similar would be so amazing. Ephraim for smash would be also be amazing. I feel like sacred stones was an excellent step for the series and offered some great gameplay and even chapters and could use a revamp of story of the game on the same continent ! Ephraim could really be a big franchise character given his unique use of lance and potential adaptation of him into Smash and further developing his and Erika’s story in a switch remake 👏
>fe8 has a forgettable story
*growns of increasing discomfort*
LPFan compared to other fe’s it does but its not bad
1:31 Here's a moveset idea for Ephraim:
Stats: Ephraim will be a medium-weight character along the lines of Roy and Chrom. His walk speed will be similar to Ike, but his dash speed will be exactly the same as Marth. His air speed will be similar to Sonic. He will be a spacer similar to Marth, with good combo potential. However, some of his moves will have quite a bit of endlag. Now onto his moveset:
Jab: Ephraim will first strike his opponent with the blunt end of Reginleif, followed by a slash from its pointed end, and then start a rapid jab with his lance.
Forward Tilt: Ephraim will swing his lance like a Naginata, having quite a bit of reach, but also having endlag.
Up Tilt: Ephraim will swing Reginleif upward, which will have a pop-up effect, setting Ephraim up for follow-ups. Can kill at high percents.
Down Tilt: Ephraim will thrust his lance downward, similar to Marth's down tilt, but with more reach.
Dash Attack: Ephraim will lunge forward with his lance reaching forward, having heavy knockback and kill power.
Forward Smash: Ephraim will Thrust his lance forward, dealing heavy damage and knockback.
Up Smash: He will twirl his lance above his head like a helicopter, having a multi hit effect.
Down Smash: He will first thrust his lance forward at a low angle, then swing it backwards at a low angle.
Neutral Air: It will be similar to Palutena's Neutral Air, but without the magic effect.
Forward Air: Forward lance thrust
Back Air: Backward Lance Swing (can spike
Up Air: Upward Lance Thrust
Down Air: Downward Lance Swing (similar to Ike's Down Air, and can spike)
Neutral Special: Ephraim throws a Javelin. Holding down the B button will charge up the Javelin, allowing it to go further.
Side Special: Similar to Ike's Side Special, but with a lance thrust.
Up Special: Ephraim twirls his lance like a helicopter, propelling him upwards, puuting him in freefall at the apex of the move. While the lance is twirling, any fighters caught will be locked in a multihit effect.
Down Special: Counter
Final Smash: Ephraim will dash forward with his lance, and any one fighter caught will be the one afected. The move cuts to a cinematic where Ephraim's horse runs over the opponent, then Ephraim mounts the horse and deals a devastating blow with the Sacred Twin Lance, Seigmund. The cinematic ends and the opponent is launched offstage.
You're forgetting the fact that Lyon was only pretending to be controlled by the demon. That's the big twist. He was in control the whole time.
One thing lost in the fog of unspecific world building, is it's strongly implied that the reason most nations did not live in fear of the Grado Empire is in the name itself. Grado was founded by the hero Grado, and the other nations by his henchmen... Renais, Frelia, Rausten, Jehhana, these nations were all vassals of Grado to start with. Grado's invasions of the other nations were not driven by standard desires for conquest, but by a combination of darker factors. The realpolitik of the other nations not actually being under Grado's control corresponding to a cultural distance growing between the nations, gives the Gradoi* a rather nasty chip on their shoulders which sees most of them way too eager to exterminate the Renaites* once the order is given. Then the desire to undo the power of the sacred stones necessitates invading the other nations to get to their stones.
*Yeah! I made up demonyms for the nations of Magvel(Willing to bet a C-note that when an official pronunciation comes out it'll be "Mag-well") because, aside from Frelia with the Frelians, they literally never Gave us any. So I just found myself saying Gradoi for people from Grado. Renaites for Renais, Jehennites or Jehennese for Jehenna, Raustenese for Rausten, Carcinoi for Carcino.
Hey man. I know you're not doing youtube right now but I rewatched this tonight. You are knowledge and have hilarious delivery. If you ever come back, I'm here for it 100%. Hope you are doing better.
This was my first fire emblem game and tbh I love it ! Of course nostalgia is playing a part on that but like I said this introduced me to this awesome series
So yeah I would love a second game in Magvel
And Ephraim for Smash!!
And Smash for trash. If you actually have standards regarding fighting games.
#EphraimForSmash
"Plucky prepromote units"
Ah, yes, Ross, Amelia, and Ewan. My favorite prepromotes.
@@neog8029 they carry the game.
@@nathanm5533 More OP at base than Seth.
@@neog8029 He StEaLs ExP fRoM gOoD uNiTs.
"Overall I *feel* safer using Amelia"
-That one guy in Mekkah's debate video who didn't bring anything to the table
My first fire emblem ever. Remember replaying this trying to do perfect runs even if it takes me fuckton of tries
I love Sacred Stones, it's one of my favorite games in the series.
Sacred Stones was my very first FE! I played it on my grandpa's Game Boy when I was about 10, a few years later I started getting into the rest of the franchise, right around the time awakening came out.
It's 2022.
The GBA came out in 2003.
How damn young is your grandpa? I had a GBA as a kid and I'm only 32. Your grandpa either collected game boy consoles into adulthood, or managed to have grandkids by like 40 or younger. I am vexed by both possibilities. Back in 2003 VERY few adults were into gaming relative to today.
My Grandpa would just play Battlefield 1942 all day lol.
Sacred stones was my first, so it will always have a place in my heart near the top of the list. I still need to get around to playing the others, but emulations are pretty tricky to deal with, and I can't even entertain the idea of buying them.
Summoner is one of the best classes in the game. Free exp every turn, free meat shield that enemies target with priority. Don't know why some people think it's bad.
There is another big reason why Sacred Stones is the best Fire Emblem game. It has the best waifu, Eirika, and the best villain, Lyon, in the game.
and Ephraim is up there in best husbandos, with Hector and Ike.
@@iae8793 our boi Gordin is best husbando
And seth best pre-promote
Lets be honest here...if Eirika had a more forgettable character design, most of us wouldnt even remember her, FE8 is my favorite game, but oh god most of the other characters in the game are more interesting than her design and character wise, there is a point that you forget that Eirika exist and L'Arachel just becomes the main ''Lord'' next to Ephraim since she gets a very interesting background, the best supports and have a lot actually important dialogs in the game, you could say she is actually the main character.
i have no idea what makes larachel that interessting.
So Sacred Stones was my intro to the franchise, after being introduced to FE characters through Melee. This game will always have a place in my heart, and was actually my fav until awakening, because I like variety, and having options. This was the only game until awakening that let you choose class changes, like you said, and I love that.
My favorite fe game, although also my first so might be biased.
Although no denying joshua best swordmaster ever
Joshua 2nd best swordmaster ever, technically
@@GrassPokeKing who beats him?
@@albionflux Ismaire, his mother, mostly because she's a MI... uh... because she's very pretty :)
Cuz of my childhood and the cool characters the monsters and stuff, i love dat game the most
I'm surprised you're not a fan of FE 6. If you ever deign to give it a try again, I'd suggest playing it while keeping the map design in mind. It has some of the best maps in the series with multiple objectives per map and incentives for efficient play.
In this way, I'd say it's pretty much the perfect opposite of 8 or Echoes. It's got some of the most thought put into how the player will/should play the game, but unfortunately suffers from some quality of life, playtest, and minor balance issues.
Of course, take this with a grain of salt, as this is all coming from someone who loves old Fire Emblem and loathes, as you put it, the newer RPG mechanics. The way I see it, I have countless games where I can grind and teambuild, but only classic Fire Emblem manages to pull off tactical gameplay and resource management in such a perfect convergence.
Anyways, thanks for the video. I think you're criminally under-watched and have especially been enjoying your FE content.
Only thing I didn't like about fe6 is that the axes are so unreliable
I managed to get that game for my gba for 30 dollars! pretty good deal! and yea I rarely use axe units
Fe 6 is my favorite
Yeah, I absolutely adore FE 6, Zephiel is my favorite villain too.
If it ever gets a remake, Roy isn't just a worse version if his father, characters and classes are more balanced and honestly ... the characters and plot being even more engaging, I can see it becoming my favorite game.
Remove ambush reinforcements though, fucking hell.
Slendy
Agreed , I don’t want fe 6 to be the Roy and Merlinus show .
Also what would you say isn’t balanced about the classes in fe 6 specifically ? I’d agreed that some of the characters are but what classes are ?
Fácilmente he terminado más de 5 o más veces este juego y simplemente puedo decir que es perfecto, hay que decir que si tiene una historia muy cliché como cualquier libro de literatura de aventura, pero por dios, los personajes, la música, los villanos y los escenarios son oro puro, y volver a jugarlo con otras unidades completamente diferentes a otras partidas le daba rejugabilidad inmensa incluyendo asi la división de historia que sucede entre Eirika y Ephraim, simplemente en la nostalgia y si pueden decir que es fácil, pero recuerdo haber llegado al bosque donde luchas contra el padre de Myrrh con solo 8 unidades ajajajjaajaj para mí era lo más épico recuerdo sacrificar a Saleh para vencer al padre, y de pequeño me quedo la espina de que nunca lo pude pasar, y lo recuerdo con mucho cariño la verdad! Videojuego de mi infancia! 😫
I can't say that the Characters don't have "Character". Gilliam is an example, and I personally think that he his one of, if not, the best character for a knight in the series.
You're the first game content creator I've seen other than myself who uses an SM58 mic. I stream games with one. Very good taste, I must say.
Don't know about you, but the reason I use an SM58 and not a more typical condenser mic is that I started out as a music recording hobbyist and then transitioned into streaming. I originally got the SM58 because it was good for loud rock or metal vocals, but I found it was plenty sufficient for recording high quality commentary as well. What a classic, cool microphone. Only cool people like us use it.
This was my first fire emblem game and my first game boy advanced game. This is one of the few games I beat when I was really young. So this game has a special place in my heart
I got this game as a birthday present when I was a kid and have played through it countless times. Glad to see that it's justified.
After being completely blown away by awakening, (first FE game to be fair)
Fates taught me to never get too hype for a game on the off chance it might not be worth all the hype.
It was a very painful lesson...
Birthright, and from what I've heard/seen conquest had an even worse story. That's not even what bothered me though, every single character was so one note and annoying, they didn't have any personality. Awakening looking back had a mediocre story too but all the characters were so much fun and lively.
I thought Fates was a decent game, not the best but it was nowhere near a disappointment to me unlike so many that claim it was.
When playing Fates, it didn’t disappoint me as much as I played this game called Paper Mario Sticker Star and that game was the most disappointment I ever had in my life of gaming. In my opinion, Birthright was my least favorite out of the three routes. I only liked Fates gameplay than it’s story.
My next Fire Emblem game to play is Genealogy Of The Holy War. (I wanted to get my hands on that game) After playing this Fire Emblem And Path Of Radiance, I find Fates to be an okay game and not really the best game when it comes to story.
Ryan Robinson I liked Awakening better than Fates.
Path of radiance and radiant dawn are my favorite, I really want a radiant collection on switch
Nicholas T Considering how much the original games are online I agree
Shadow Dragon is a solid game.
Strange for you that it seems you don't really care about it when you proclaimed that you're a fan of the "less is more" style.
It absolutely rocks that simplistic style and owns it.
Great video, love the analysis! But I have to respectfully disagree with you on Ephraim and Eirika being bland lords. Ephraim, in my opinion, is one of the best lords and one of my favorites in the series along with Ike and Roy. I think he is beautifully fleshed out in the flash back scenes with Lyon where we see, as we do in the present, that he is quite hard-headed and not well-read. We see him being brash a lot in the story, too, when he goes to Renvall and is a complete badass there. We also are treated to the fact that he didn't seem to get along with King Fado and didn't seem to want to be king near the beginning of the story--he even says in one of the flashbacks that Eirika would be a much better leader. In contrast, as the game goes on and he gains control of the army and his dad dies, we see him become more and more responsible and more of a leader. Eirika is really great, too. We see her go from needing to be defended all the time to actively stepping up both in flashbacks with Lyon and in the present to learn swordplay (something she isn't fond of) to become a better fighter and not a nuisance. And Lyon is sincerely one of my favorite villains in the series and maybe one of them in general. I think the heart of the story is really the friendship between Eirika, Ephraim, and Lyon, and it really is a touching, well-written story. It hits me hard both as an adult and when I was a kiddo. As a side note, Ephraim and Eirika also have some of my favorite supports! I loved seeing how awkward he was around Tana in their support and how snide Eirika could be in her support with Innes! I rambled a bit here, and it's probably obvious, but I adore this game through and through and it will always be a favorite. ^u^
Radiant Dawn is still my favorite.
My favorite GBA Fire Emblem is The Binding Blade.
Same here.
Naoto Ueda Good taste
Same
I love jaffar and nino
@AJ Aiman You are thinking of Blazing Sword. Binding Blade is its predecessor (and ironically, sequel), which is a superior game.
I remember as a kid I thought Ephraim and Eirika were Nils and Ninian but grown up. Boy did I get jebaited.
A recommendable game. Thank you for your persuasive piece.
Finally, a man of taste.
This could have just been : "Generals have enormous swords" -the end.
13:23 have you ever tried playing Garcia?
I see mentioning the best fe UA-cam in existence ghast
I love ghast so much oh my lord
I loved Lute so much when I got Awakening I modeled my Robin after her. Full mage named Lute with purple hair.
The mods using FE8's engine are amazing too
I My first fire emblem I played was Sacred Stones I liked it so much, it has a lot of negative points, but the story I love, I love the characters I wanted a remake of it so bad
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is the most professionally made game of the GBA era. Graphics, animations, art, levels, items, replayability, design, UI, length, story, music, mathematic and more elements are just near perfectly made. Older Fire Emblem games (GBA era) are more natural like and little more amateur. Sacred Stones is much more professional. I really wish to see a remake of this game. (On PC :D!)
This is my most loved game of all times btw :), second is Silent Hill, third is Mount&Blade: Warband and the 4th is Age of Empires III.
I remember playing this as a kid and having a girl crush on Tana, and boy crush on Ross, Ephraim and Franc.
Heroes: use Axes and Swords
Berserker wielding Swordslayer: "You're a sword unit."
Hero: "I am literally holding an axe in my hands, RIGHT. NOW."
Swordslayer: "Nah, you a swordsman."
Hero: "I don't even have any swords in my inventory!"
Swordslayer: "skill issue."
4:57 Grado was the most powerful nation, but they were also the most peaceful. Both Emperor Vigarde and his son Lyon hated violence, so their invasion caught their decades long ally way off guard. I think the story of Sacred Stones is of similar quality to most Fire Emblem stories, though it doesn't have any notable twists in it. The best part about Sacred Stones is the supporting cast, imo. Very, very high quality.
Just discovered your channel and I appreciate the FE retrospects. Also, Comrades is an amazing track!
Sacred stones was my first game and I love it. I love the recruit units and the music. I love the art. Ephraim is one of my favorite characters. Also cormag looks cool
I love leveling up and grinding because the inner completionist in me wants me to be as strong as possible. So the game is just easier no matter what. No matter the FE game, that's what I want to do.
Since it's the only mainstream fire emblem I've played yes it's my favourite also I grind in pokemon soo yeah I really love this game
shadow dragon was the first one i played and it got me hooked so it will always be special to me in that regard
Fire Emblem fans are Fire Emblem's biggest haters. I haven't played a Fire Emblem game I don't like. Too easy to grind in Sacred Stones? Don't grind. Do ironman runs. Limit yourself.
I prefer FE7 because Geitz can use killer axe & brave bow at base w/ no speed penalty… gets HHM bonus… can single handedly wipe out 20 wyverns on enemy phase… and has a gigantic pink bow
I have played two fe games so far. I am not sure what its called but its the one with the leader wearing a chinese blue dress thing. That was fun but it doesnt hold a candle to five stones. Once i got a phone emulator i just dived into it in all my spare time. I do a ton of grinding and just wipe an army with a couple chars. Ive leveled all the mages. Cavaliers and archers all that to 20 and then promoted. Ur right in saying it lowers difficulty a great deal but then there are map objectives like recruiting and getting all the treasures. So i focus on tearing up the enemy tissue paper and getting everything i can. Only at chapter 18 or 19 i think and about to get amelia to lvl 20 and make her a paladin to go with frans. This is my third playthrough
You know it's funny. Shadow Dragon was my first fire emblem game. It's definitely not my favorite, but still important to me for introducing me to FE. Binding Blade is my favorite FE and after that Sacred Stones and then I'd say Fates. Also, Lute is really cool to me, I can see why she would be boring to ther people tho. Her gamer tag is XxLutexX hahah
Sacred stones was the game that made me fall i love with the series and is still my favorite to this day even if I admit it isn't the best storywise. Also please do a Cipher video I love that game but it's hard to get my card game buddies to give it a try.
what are the extra classes for the recruits? I can't find anything on google or youtube about it.
My Moulder came out as a tank with 15+ defense. Colm became Tanky too...
Favorite thing is making Tana a wyvern Knight to take advantage of pegasus knight's natural resistance.
You only lose 1 resistance by going wyvern knight so you're not taking advantage of much. Wyvern knight is way better than Falcon knight because you get +4 con on a 5 con character
I get what some of your problems with the story are, but you're being too harsh.
It's one of the better ones.
It might feel like it's on a way smaller scale than FE 7, but it's actually huge, you simply don't realize it much because the world building as you mentioned is a bit lackluster, and less variety of different people are involved in the story.
And you clearly didn't look too much into everything.
I feel like you skipped the story first time already, not just all the later runs.
Lyon is way more complex than the other evil dude possessed by real bad guy.
Frankly, he's still that at his core, but the best executed one, because a lot of the stuff he did was by his own will.
Although he did get completely corrupted in Eirika's route, which is stupid and sad.
And for the characters you seem to just have picked the weaker ones to prove your point.
I could do the same with a lot of characters in FE 7.
Yes, they exist, but a pretty stupid move to show the bad ones exclusively.
And really?
Awakening has like the worst gameplay of the entire series, you call that shitshow an improvement over Sacred Stones?
This game is perfect for challenge runs. I.E. you can only play sword characters, female characters only, etc. Only where possible obviously. The grinding problem is also fixed if you exercise some restraint and set some restrictions for yourself. For example, you can limit yourself to only one Tower of Valni run between every chapter--which incentivizes you do as many floors as you can, instead of just grinding the first floor for that easy Entombed exp. You can also do skirmishes for extra XP, but only if it's on your way to your next objective. Stuff like that.
At any rate I'm glad to see Sacred Stones getting some love, usually I just hear people hate on it for being too easy. It's a really fun game.
I love this game through and through.
Replaying for the some dozenth time just for inspiration for DM material as I just started running dnd.
Fav game between these.awakening and three houses
You should play Fire Emblem Sacred Trilogy Reskin. It's a modified version of sacred stones and aims to cover up all the downsides of actual game Sacred Stones. Try it. It's worth it. I am saying this because I am already playing it.
1) New battle animations
2) Skill system
3) Leadership system
4) Difficulty increased
5) Bunch of exclusive classes for important characters. For example Seth.
6) Infinite uses of dragonstone for Myrrh. It's ineffective against monsters but it's range is increased to 2.
7) A fixed growth for all units by the creator just to ensure that your units neither get RNG screwed nor RNG blessed.
Enjoy.
I’ve played Iron-manned this game more than any other game in the series. Thank God this game is short and most of the late game can be LTC’d! I know this game is easy, I just play it the most because I know I can commit just enough time to complete the playthrough.
I love all of the gba fire emblem games. But for some reason 6 and 8 have more chapters that I find tedious. Whereas 7 might have one or two of those, 8 has about five or six. And 6 has about ten. Either way , they are all extremely fun and have amazing replayability. I have been playing these same gba games since 7 came out, and I'm still playing all three. Love this video man keep up the great work
The sad thing about the Twins is that L'Arachel becomes more of a main Lord than them story-wise, starting in the very chapter where they retake their own castle, and despite being optional. Although, that is great on her part at least, breaking out as more than "just" a comic relief one-noter.
the replayability of SS is so good
I think the ui etc. Is darker because this was the first game to be released after the sp. The older games look the same with gba color correction on
Sacred Stones has a lot that is lackluster but I will always defend it for its characters. In particular is the story arcs for Joshua and Cormag. Even with little in the way of in story attention they have amazing arcs.
Awakening is my favorite because it was my first but I loved playing through Sacred Stones. I don't grind because I don't have enough gold to but more weapons.
Who's your favorite character in the whole franchise? Mine is Titania and Lute.
Sacred Stones was my first FE game and I enjoyed it very much. Ephraim for SMASH!
I'm just here to be one more to vouch for Sacred Stones.
Some "die-hard" FErs call it too easy and bash the story (I dunno man, plenty FEs have simpler stories) but FE:TSS is really a true work of quality that I wish Nintendo gave a try at that format again (Yes, Echoes, I know, but yeah, AGAIN)
PS : I'd really like a lore-wise return to Magvel, linking it to the rest of FE series
I find it interesting how you call FE7 Rekka no Ken, but you call FE4 Genealogy? But, more to the point, I gotta say I agree with you on...well, almost everything here. Sacred Stones was the first FE game I played (that I actually enjoyed, anyway...), and it's what really got me into the series. I'm not 100% sure it's my favorite, but it's definitely in the top 2 or 3. The story isn't anything amazing, sure, and it's a bit easy, but it's just...fun. I hadn't really thought about how later games drew on the ideas started in this game, but I can definitely see that now that you say it. I haven't seen all of what games you've done yet, but I'd love to see one on one of the SNES era games, maybe Mystery of the Emblem?
Also, EPHRAIM FOR SMASH
FE7 and SS are amazing, loved them both on Wii U.
Sacred Stones is my favorite Fire Emblem game because it has Lute.
in fe7 if you have sain, kent, florina, and wil die before the chapter where you get dorcas, you cannot win on normal mode since lyn is forced to talk to dorcas. the enemies get to the girl you have to protect before you can.
Saying Ewan shouldn't be a Summoner was genius for engagement sir
9:30 wrong, watch his 3rd video.
First fire emblem I ever played, still my favorite too.
i like that you can freely move on world map and it was first game i think to get this anyone know which parts also have this feature? awakening i think also
"I shouldn't have to make that choice." Proceeds to provide no actual explanation for why you shouldn't need to decide not to grind if you don't want to grind, just that you shouldn't.
"The final boss has less Hp that Rekka No Ken." Objective misinformation they both have 120 Hp, Dragon has more Res(20 Def, 30 Res), Fomortiis has more Def(25 Def, 25 Res, with 1 more of each on Hard), your units are simply much stronger in Sacred Stones.
Something I love in Sacred Stones is how the characters actually feel as strong as the story and dialogue implies them to be. Seth is a perfect example, he's a famous general known specifically for how strong he is, and at any point in the game you can just drop him onto the map and watch him go on an unholy tear through basically anything shy of a Dracozombie.
Sacred Stones is MY favorite for the simple reason of GRINDING! and not gonna lie... grinding the colosseum matches for OVER 100 turns to walk away with Natasha, Joshua, and 100,000+ gold in the SAME CHAPTER... DANG that felt AWESOME! oh, and EPHRAIM FOR SMASH!!! btw, you mentioned that this is a "stand-alone" but i would ALMOST bet money that Fire Emblem Three Houses MIGHT have QUITE A BIT of MAGVEL's THREE countries in a distant future because if memory Serves me correctly as it has been years since i played Sacred Stones then post game as credits roll and we learn about the heroes lives after the conflict Grado is absorbed by Renais and the Mecrhant Country (please forgive me but i dont remember several of the countries names) where Moulder and Innes are from and one of the eastern country's merge for rebuilding and survival purposes leaves THREE kingdoms... but i could be CONPLETELY wrong on my hunch so dont take it as gospel. lol! what's a guy to do if he cant hope?!? 😍😍😁
Moulder and Innes are from Frelia
@@littleplague5988 Thank you. I am itching to buy another copy of Fire Emblem Sacred Stones because of this video and several other references I've seen and heard lately. Realistically I believe that Fire Emblem Three Houses having ties to Sacred Stones is overhoping but the possibility (outside the realm of the developers, of course 😆) still exists. My personal opinion and gut instinct are leading me to believe that Fire Emblem Three Houses is more likely to be a lead-in or tie-in title to an upcoming Geneology trilogy remastered and translated for places outside Japan but once again... A guy can dream up a storm and still be frozen like Scrat's "acorns"! 😂
Say what you will about the plot, Fe8 had some great characters. Joshua, Cormag, Gerik and Rennac were all interesting and charming characters of the playable ones. Then it had perhaps cliche, but definitely fun villains like Valter and Caellach who were so transparently rotten it was hard not to enjoy them. As well as nuanced antagonists like Glen, Selena and Orson. Not to mention that Lyon himself was pretty well built up.
Hello there.
Fire Emblem 8 has a unique saving grace: it's code allows for custom skills and custom User Interface. There is an hack for this game, "Fire Emblem 8 Skills" that pretty much modernizes FE8 in a lot of way and makes each character unique and they learn also skills at set levels (unpromo
ot pormo) while starting with personal skills that make each char unique.
FE8 is the pick of old-school GBA FE even related to the source code.
Example: Garcia has +20 crit on attack phase whenever he attacks, plus he gets at level 10 a skill that allow him to ALWAYS double if he has less than 50% of his HP... furthermore, relating to what class you promote him, he will gain different skills at both level 5 and level 10 promoted.
FE8 with Skllls + Ui Improvements >>>>>>>>>>>>> FE8 Vanilla >FE7 > FE6
Try it out guys, it's a world of fun.
fe7 also has a skillpatch i think
checked, doesn't have (the code can't allow it, you probably are thinking about some custom made games with other types of tools outside of gba rom editing)
SACRED STONES STORY WAS SO GOOD HOW DARE YOU.
How does one get into an unwinnable situation in a game with Sigurd and Seliph tbh?
Last chapter, Julia killed herself on my units. Can't kill the boss without her special weapon, but I had it set to save after each turn, couldn't restart chapter...
@@BeyondPolygons RIP, you may've been able to fight Julius with Seliph or Ares if you gave one of them a Power Ring
"They are featured in the card game"
There is a card game?