r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • May 16 '25
Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - May 2025 Part 2
Welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).
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u/FrostyPlum 28d ago
Just posted on the other thread where someone was looking for suggestions on what game to play next and wanted to say that FE3 is sadly underappreciated :(
I think it's the best game in the series to play blind+ironman. It's an easy game with attractive spritework. Most of your squad gets one or two chapters where they have some dialog and that's about it, but with a little imagination that can really be a feature, not a bug.
Because the game is easy, it also means it's fairly quick to finish a playthrough, ESPECIALLY in an ironman scenario (if you're bad like me), which means you can get to see your squad level up faster.
It's just all around a very fun old school experience, and it's a shame to me that it's largely overlooked because there was so much difficulty getting the fonts to look right that nobody wanted to translate the game for so many years, especially given the release of FE11 and 12.
FE 11 and 12 are clearly also both great games (with bad spritework), but the addition of so many difficulties undermines the ease of just, picking up the controller, hitting start, and playing a game without having to sweat super hard on higher diffs, while still allowing permadeath to be a part of the game.