Fire Emblem Echoes is a Bad Game 

this video was terrible. several times you talk over yourself & it sounds awful. most of your arguments were "this game is bad cuz i say so" while giving a basic overview of the game & its mechanics. 11/10 you'll find your groove, looking forward to your future work. :)

Nah it just lacks a good ol lunatic mode

I was not anticipating a loose retelling of the game's conflict in a well executed meta sense disguised as an epic takedown of a modern game but go off.

I’ve played Echoes exactly 3 times A first playthrough. Ended at an optional fight for a Res pot right before fighting Baby Grima A second playthrough more careful building units. Ended the same way and fuckin died A third on hard classic. I beat the shit outa baby Grima thanks to drugs and pitchforks

I mean, all of this comes down to whether these things ruined the experience for you. For some it did, for others like me it didn’t. Neither makes it good or bad.

FE Echoes was my first FE not counting Heroes so I'm biased and can't argue without getting angry at you

Well I knew that I would be coming into this video with a bias. Echoes is my favorite fire emblem game and I have replayed it many times. I admit that some of it's more unique mechanics are not for everybody. For example I think the more basic maps combined with the world map mechanics make it feel as if you are actually fighting a war. In conclusion I disagree with you but this is still a good video.

I like how this game made random encounters. In most games they're just there, but here there's mechanics that made more than just exp grinding. In dungeons, first you have to enter combat, which will have you in different starting positions depending on how the battle started. Moreover, while there's an option to escape battle, it doesn't activate until the third turn. Additionally, extra enemy squads join the battle based on proximity. All of this on top of the rather featureless generic maps make it so running around recklessly can lead to extremely punishing scenarios, scraping by just to survive three measly turns! In the overworld, enemy squads can move towards you and start battles, taking the first turn of combat. In some maps this can even lead to an unavoidable death that can't even be rewinded for! Now, punishing for idling by. This is also why maps are often b8g an featureless, since having to allocate additional squads of enemies could make "regular" maps rather cluttered and unfun... Or at least, a different kind of unfun. All of this is the world going against the player, which makes sense, since we are both fighting a war and entering literally godforsaken dungeons! And while map design could be better, it isn't detrimental to the experience they wanted, which, FE has tried to make again in the past and, honestly, ended up making messy and bland games for not committing like Gaiden and SoV.

yeah, glad they tried new things, but stuff like summoning/spawning ridiculous powered units had my head scratching. Perhaps it was to be true to the original. But, the voice acting was fantastic, credit where credit is due

Great vid man. I would say SoV has probably the best story of the 3ds FEs but i would also argue that its safe asf like its mostly just old school 90s anime type stuff theres nothing overly interesting here and i would argue its not as fleshed out as it should.I personally think i actually like 13 and 14s cast more the voice acting i think helps most of the cast cause without it i cant tell you too much about any of em cause theres not enough supoorts an the gameplay it gets rough fam lol theres cool ideas but man 🤣 be easy bro.

yeah so as a tactical rpg, this game kinda blows, i'll give you that. Complaining about grinding just 'cause the ennemies respawn on the world map is kinda silly, plus you get so little exp in optional encounter in my eyes. Yes some optionnal encounter are unavoidable but like idk i kinda like that feature. The rest of the criticism is valid but damn it i have fun playing that game. Simple mechanics and boring map design aren't a big deal for me. Plus hot take but i prefer having map design being consistently mediocre rather than switching between good maps and the ones that give me cancer. As a jrpg, its pretty damn good. Graphics, characters, worldbuilding, ost, voice acting it's very solid overall. As a remake, it's one of the ver best one in the industry. Not much of a compliment since the standart in that category is kinda low but oh well. Plus having the same map design as the original game is intentionnal. The director Kenta Nakanishi truly wanted to make a remake as faithfull as possible so of course the maps were gonna piss off tactical rpg fans. The legacy of the original is still intact and this is the ultimate reason why it's a 10/10 masterpiece.

I don't necessary agree with you, but it was funny the editing with the counterarguments.

I was loving this game, until the last fourth of the game became a slog. Regarding map design, I liked the one in the castle, using the entrance as a bottleneck and teleporting my units over the barrier.

(heard fire emblem echoes and got so excited i got nauseous) I think im taurning into a witch

Was that ending supposed to be a troll, or were you being genuine?

I absolutely loved this game. Everything about it. I find it incredibly fair that people don't like it, it's not perfect and far from what you'd expect from fire emblem. But it's not a bad game. Its characters are probably the most interesting characters ever in a fire emblem game. I actually cared about them and cared about using them and they weren't one note boring tropes. The combat is much better than most fire emblem games in my opinion. The arts, the weapons, not worrying about durability, working towards cool weapons, blah blah blah. I enjoyed all of this, way more than I would buying tons of iron weapons to use constantly. Ive never gotten why people say promote immediately. Why promote at level 7 for basically 1 good level up instead of promoting at level 11 or 12 and getting WAY more stats than a promotion would give you, and then getting another 20 levels of leveling up to work with? Please someone explain why 1 atk and 1 skill is worth just not promoting.

Echoes sounds like RPG on a grid, not a strategy game

The sound track and art just put it up their for me, without this game we wouldnt have twilight of the gods.

Wait a second... you show a image of the cover of Geneology of the Holy war, while talking about balancing and don´t like the grinding of Echoes? :P Arena Abusing especialy in FE4 is just grinding even without any risks and you can do it on every map beginning in chapter 2 with any character, and you need it! (Well i needed it xD)

Ending was full of surprises

Strawmen sure are fun right? Lol

Still don't hate it even 1/10th as much as Awakening, which is such a catastrophic disaster of game design that I'm surprised it ever made it out of testing.

tbh this made me wanna play Echoes lol Im awful at strategy and my favorite part of FE is building up characters I like My recent FE8 playthrough I had 39 character deaths all of which I reset for and I grinded in the tower of valni whenever I wanted to catch new people up lol I am absolutely not good at FE

Don't use the map design from an old game ? FE1 had great maps. The age of gaiden has nothing to do with its bad map design. Also gaiden is better. Also huh don't grind you will not obtain the

All my gripes would go away if they let us have the standard 5 inventory. I don't know or care if GAYden had only one inventory slot. DON'T TAKE AWAY MY POCKETS!!!!!!!!

I loved this game, maybe im weird, but is my fav FE sorry

i agree

As I, personally, put it; SoV is a good game, but a bad *Fire Emblem* game (imo).

Echoes. the only FE game where a unit gets WORSE by getting a basic sword on promotion

got some good stuff going on here, keep it up!

You were spot on There's something deeply disturbing about the universal praise this game gets despite the obvious gameplay shortcomings. The poor map design, tedious progression, poor enemy placements... there's this sense of dullness and boredom that permeates the entire experience. And yet this game is placed on the highest pedestal. The narrative isn't even good enough to justify all of the praise!

If you had taken more time properly spacing out the strawman arguments and audio balancing, this would have been much better. Also, spend more time explaining the pros and cons of each mechanic you argued for or against, like how you did for the "leveling up/maintaining unit alive" portion.

Make a similiar video about Three Houses, why don't you, you coward.

You are wrong buddy 🤪

Very good video man keep up the good work!

Honestly yeah, FE games really went downhill after they removed Phoenix Mode.

SoV easily has the worst gameplay in the series.

"look at these other fire emblem games that don't have grinding. arena? what arena? there's no such thing as an arena."