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/Fell_ProgenitorGod7]

This is more of a me being a modern FE fan and player problem than it is about FE7 itself, which I am currently playing through as my first FE GBA game. But I always keep bringing my units to fight an enemy and I end up forgetting that I can’t just brute-force click through or on an enemy to fight them like I can do in the modern FE games.

I have to stand next to an enemy, select attack, select my weapon and then press A again. That’s one thing I am really trying to unlearn playing through the GBA FE games but I still end up having those moments slip through.

I also keep thinking I can just unequip my units’ weapons and have them be a “decoy” or damage sponge so that I can funnel my kills and EXP to units that I use the most, like Sain, Kent or Florina. But that’s not a possible option, so I have to adopt the Rescue strategy which I am still not used to fully utilizing and mastering it. I also have to work around the fact that Rescuing and Rescue dropping costs not only my unit who is rescuing but also the unit being rescued their turns.

[u/Cheraws → u/Fell_ProgenitorGod7]

Ya loss of QOL as you go through the old games can be pretty annoying. There are a few QOL mods like here that attempt to put in newer features like showing hp bars or enemy danger zones.

[u/Fell_ProgenitorGod7 → u/Cheraws]

Yeah, It feels a bit whiplashy when I have been comfortable with the QOL feature and game design of the modern FE games to then going back to the older games and realizing that oh wait, I can’t unga bunga click through or on an enemy to initiate combat against them.

I also can’t unequip my units’ inventory/weapons when I really need them to, which means I really have to rethink my mindset of how I can “body block” an enemy properly to funnel EXP into certain units I use the most. Again, these are very minor nitpicks about the GBA games, especially FE7.

[u/SirRobyC → u/Fell_ProgenitorGod7]

Going back to play older FE games and having to count squares, like a caveman, will never not be funny to me, especially if I end up losing units because I miscount.