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Melhor Fire Emblem que eu joguei... História bacana tirando a Celica sumir para ser uma sombra do alm no final que me encomodou , OST MARAVILHOSA, melhor artstyle da franquia na minha opinião e sobre plot é um jogo sobre fé em suas crenças tbm e a conclusão do berkut com a noiva dele é deveras creppy em...(Ele não merecia redenção) E claro tenho que falar que o pós game disso aqui onde vc faz conexão com o awakening é um purgatorio em formato de jogo.

Echoes is strange. I wonder what made them choose gaiden to remake over fan favorites like thracia or GoHW. Echoes is remade and even features new segments which is nice! Unfortunately, it shows its age as a nes game.

The bad.

- Maps are very simplistic. Terrain effects are barely relevant on hard difficulty and most of them are empty spaces with nothing happening. The fault lies with the fact that levels aren't built with as much care as fates or awakening, because a lot of them are little grunt fights.

-The dungeons are neat the first time but you quickly realize how tedious and boring these environments are. The fatigue system is annoying, and the random encounters take forever. Imagine playing Final Fantasy but ever random encounter took 3-4 minutes and didn't give you anything of value and little EXP. These dungeons may hide permanant stat buffs, which does promote actually exploring, sadly it is very bare bones.

-The story is boring, plain and simple. Some characters are interesting and overall better written than fates ever was, but its not enough to carry the nes era story. Also, it has some weird brother sister love thing happening that I did not jive with. With how much alm and celica simp over each other too, it was naseuating at some moments.

The Good.

-Weapons have no durability now and they are function more as stat buffs than required tools. I like this because they also give skills if you use them enough, which makes weapons unique even to non-main characters.

-The music is pretty good. I don't have much else to say on this point, they just took the old composition and remade it with actual instruments this time and not nes boops.

-Again, characters are better here than they were in fates, some are kind of one note like alm's femcel childhood friend whos name I already forgot. But the characters that are required to come with you are actually the best ones and enjoyable.

-The turnwheel is great for the health of the game and the franchise. This isn't xcom, every unit has character and importance so losing them would be annoying, or getting hit by a 5% crit and losing a unit is also annoying. It doesn't happen too often but my units also can't seem to land a attack ever at 90% hit rate so who knows? I do wish that, like in three houses, if main character dies, you could use turnwheel instead of being forced to restart. One level I played, celica got crit off 7% and I had to restart the whole thing.

I do like some of the changes but they changed so much I hesitate to call this a "remake". If you were to change so much of the game, why not just change the whole thing? Modernize the gameplay, touch up the story. Maybe they did do these things, I haven't played the nes game so I can't say, but the old nes game still feels like an old nes game but now theres monotonous dungeons.

I really need to replay this because I do want to try and get some of the characters I missed out on in my intial playthrough. Once you get through the ick of people raised like siblings end up together, its a great fire emblem over all. Definitely better than Fates thats for damn sure.

best fire emblem 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️


Easily a recommend from me for anyone who has never played a Fire Emblem. Amazing character, voice acting, art, and music. The one big flaw is the map design as they are just the maps from the NES title Fire Emblem Gaiden, but as remakes go this one is a large improvement over the original.

Despite the weird designed maps which are often called bad I think the game is fast enough and charming that most of the time I didn't care, until act 3 where the game becomes really sicko on hard mode. In general the hard mode isn't good in this game the maps and pacing don't hold up for the extra challenge to be engaging. Hard mode is just tedious the dungeons are fun addition to the formula without consuming the game although I would like future games to explore them in way thats more than just a hub area. However the dungeons become annoying in hard because the amount of times you have to run through them sometimes and the box maps with fast as fuck flying enemies which force boxing clerics and the forced deployed bad units with your own units. Meanwhile Normal mode feels really fast and allows the momentum of the early game carry through the late game. You could also use whoever you want and not just Palla, Catria, Alm, Dread fighter and cleric. The characters are well written (which in FE means not annoying and for the most part aren't a single quirky trait/ bit). The instigating force behind the story doesn't make sense and it is a dragon turns evil plot but the story is so character driven it doesn't matter when I play the game the main story that sticks is Alm and Celica, their bonds with their main group, and the deliverance revolt against annoying nobles.

Wow sugoi
Amazing gameplay, story and art.

Banger Game, banger story, banger characters. My favourite FE game

better map design would make this game a 10/10, everything else is phenomenal. best fe game

The perfect game. Perfect voice acting, perfect music, perfect art.

One of my top 5 favorite games. It's a real shame this game's mechanics are exclusive to this entry because it feels so much more fun. You don't worry over weapon breaking, the maps feel like actual battlefields, the magic system makes you weight risk versus rewards... The story focus is your typical yet really well executed RPG tale, the characters feel lovely and you will always want to see more. The music is phenomenal and the gameplay mixes blend really well together.

Love the art direction so much. Good soundtrack and cast too. My cart fails a lot now though, sort it out Nintendo!

BAD MAP DESIGN AWESOME ART lukas cheesecake recipe

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This game is what happens when you remake a game that already sucks and instead of fixing the core issues with the game (i.e. the garbage ass "maps" if you can even call them that) you add superfluous story bullshit that somehow manages to make it even worse.

This game is, if nothing else, a masterclass in how to do a remake. Certainly, I think there's some aspects that could have (maybe should have) been improved, like early Celica maps being repetitive and overall the game being a no-deploy-limit rout-fest. But you know what? So was gaiden, and there's a part of me that appreciates getting to experience it in all its quirkiness with modern quality of life improvements and an excellent soundtrack. Easily the best 3DS fire emblem game and the irony of the fact that its a remake of a Kaga-era game is not lost on me.

one of the more adventurous fe games, and the remake did a pretty good job of capturing that

I think overall the story is one of the best in the series, the great voice acting def helps! Sadly being a very faithful remake of a NES game does make the map pretty lacking, also celica is REALLY dumb from the midpoint forward of the story and does dampen the game abit. That said gameplay is really good, its prob one of the best fire emblem games.

alms route good celica route boring

Great art, good voice acting, weird story, trash gameplay

This game had such beautiful OST with a great story. I love the characters and their design. This was my first Fire Emble game so it hold a special place in my heart.

Not as good as Awakening but still a great game. You can move around freely for the first time, which was quite cool but also kind of pointless because the dungeon design was rather mediocre in places and very linear. The story was more in the background but the division into 2 stories with 2 different protagonists and their own party members was a really cool idea. The characters are the big highlight, great voice acting and really likeable people :D Unfortunately you can't choose jobs freely and you can't really date either, but hey, that's what Awakening is for^^

convinced myself that there wasnt gonna be an area worse than the desert but the swamp decided to bank it in for the worst designed area in video game history.

Surely theres at least 3 decent fire emblem games out there!

better map design would make this game a 10/10, everything else is phenomenal. best fe game


Shadows of Valentia peaked in music, voice acting, characters, and art style. All characters are memorable in their own way and the stellar voice acting gave even more life to them. Map designs can be annoying as this is a remake of a 32-year-old NES game, but I think that itself is a fun challenge.

مثل ما الكل يقول, تصميم خرائط سيء و الباقي ممتاز
خسارة بصراحة لأن اللعبة تنحب بسهولة بسبب رسوماتها و شخصياتها و موسيقاتها
لسوء الحظ أن الشيء اللي ما غيروه من الأصلية هو تصميم الخرائط
ولا كانت بتكون افضل فاير امبلم عندي بالراحة

fuck this game is so good i'm worried it might ruin every other fire emblem game for me

I MUST absolutely return to this game holy shit, I love the idea of dungeon crawling and the transition into strategic battles. Definitely the 3DS one that inspires me for its structure instead of Awakening/Fates with their "social links".