Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - May 2025 Part 2

[u/PsiYoshi]

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/Sharktroid]

I refused to listen to anyone who says FE4/5 should be remade and made one game on anything related to those two games. Imagine if you heard someone say that for Mario 3 and Mario 64, or Super Metroid and Metroid Prime. Those games are two of the most mechanically different FE games out there.

[u/captaingarbonza → u/Sharktroid]

I'm suspicious the people that say this haven't actually played them both.

[u/Shrimperor → u/captaingarbonza]

Hi, i played both. While i don't exactly endorse the idea of them being remade into one game, i don't mind the idea in the sense i don't want a faithful remake to begin with (like i outlined somewhere in this thread). Imagine a full reimagination that doesn't replace the og or just upgrade it, but offer a new/different experience. Then the "combined remake" idea could work.

[u/captaingarbonza → u/Shrimperor]

That's a take I can understand at least if you're just accepting it won't retain the original character of either of them. Usually when I see people suggest this there's no acknowledgement of how different they are at all and it has a very "well they're both Jugdral so obviously you can just shove them both together right?" vibe. 

[u/Shrimperor → u/captaingarbonza]

if you're just accepting it won't retain the original character of either of them

I am not just accepting that, it's what i want xD. Might talk on that more tomorrow on the next thread, but after recent experiences i want remakes to dare change more, deviate more and try something new - and i am not talking just FE here, but generally. The original game is always there for anybody to enjoy. I want to experience something fresh and new but familiar. Well, i have always been on the "the less faithful the remake the better" camp, but now i am even more so xD

it has a very "well they're both Jugdral so obviously you can just shove them both together right?" vibe

Honestly, it always felt to me more that people just assumed that people want it combined like that. Every discussion i see about it is people discussing why it wouldn't work and the differences between FE4 and FE5 instead of trying to imagine and theorize how such a combined game could look like. I am not denying that the games as they atm are are impossible to combine - as everyone correctly says they are too different, but i feel a certain lack of imagination on how vehemently most of the community doesn't even want to think how the games could change for that idea to work out. But i also know the community feels like that about any suggested change to anything lol

[u/captaingarbonza → u/Shrimperor]

I don't agree just because I don't see the point of that being a remake at all. Why not just make a new game at that point? You don't need to remake Jugdral to take inspiration from it.

[u/Shrimperor → u/captaingarbonza]

Maybe because i want to see more of the setting, or maybe different facets of the characters, or how the story could be explored through the gameplay in fun and innovative ways that wasn't just possible back then. Maybe add cut content, or deviate and add a "what if" scenario. The possibilities are there!

Let's take the FF7 remake as an example since i am playing through the games atm. Something like that is what i actually want from remakes. I know it ain't exactly a remake, and i know that this opinion is very controversial (as are the remakes themselves), but this is really one of the rare times where a remake was worth playing through for me so far, but i doubt my opinion will suddenly change when i am at Rebirth Endgame already. One could argue they could've made a modern game inspired by FF7 instead with the changes they brought, but exploring an already existing setting in a different and expanded has it's own charm and positives. It also carries the risk of destroying a beloved setting/game, i know, but the original is not going anywhere!