The Binding Blade "Remake" Isn't Very Good. 

I can't believe the rom hack that constantly references Fire Emblem Heroes is wildly unbalanced

The ego on display calling yourself the "Binding Blade Guy" then stealing so much is wild

It wouldn't be THAT bad if only the guy wasn't acting like he replaced the original game all by himself

To be fair, "I literally pulled a Thanos on Nintendo" is still to this day one of the funniest first impressions ever.

>Binding Blade Guy >Turns the game into Skill Emblem

The TRUE Binding Blade experience, according to someone who clearly only played ember and a kaizo hack for 12 minutes

Adding capture with no regard for how it impacts the game perfectly summerizes this hack

theres a reason my discord has the "im the guy" picture as a sticker...and its not because we like this hack

"killing machine:total critical rate is doubled" WHY?!?! RUTGER IS LITERALLY FAMOUS FOR BEING ABLE TO REACH 100+% CRITICAL CHANCES WITHOUT SKILLS THERE IS NO REASON FOR THAT

I remember thinking "how are you even supposed to get through all this skill bloat" until I saw you casually ORKO Roland with an unpromoted Wendy on stream

But hes the binding blade guy

When I saw roy with plus 2 damage,a magic stat

Saddest part is that literally all the maker needed to do was just copy & paste FE6 into FE8 with some QOL changes and I actually would've loved this hack (and, if he allowed it, would've been actually helpful to other hackers because FE6 is far more annoying to hack than 7 & especially 8). Literally everything else here did NOT need to exist

First-ever use of the phrase "blatant Wolt favoritism" 😂

I remember putting capture haphazardly in one of my hacks, and then people immediately using it to break the game in half. That hack i made was only 1 chapter, i couldn't imagine a whole game like that

It kind of annoys me a lot that this project got so much fame and attention despite pretty much everyone who played it thinking it was bad, while there are so many genuinely fantastic, creative and well balanced romhacks out there that fly under the radar in comparison.

did you just hbomberguy a rom hack

I can't believe Tommy Tallarico made a Fire Emblem romhack! His mother must be very proud.

kids these days will do anything to not play vanilla FE6 unfortunately.

There is something extremely funny about the amount of Wolt bias in this hack.

We found the James Somerton of the Fire Emblem community

I decided to try out this hack out of curiosity a couple weeks ago and quickly dropped it. The most glaring issue that stood out to me was the multitude of grammar mistakes, like the missing commas that Shark pointed out in the video. The original dialogue that was added felt like poorly written fanfiction too. It really speaks to the quality of this "remake" when the person making it couldn't be arsed to even proofread his own original dialogue...

Is it really possible for a ‘Binding Blade Guy’ and a ‘Blazing Blade Girl’ to be in a relationship?

...What was even the point in deciding to add Capturing to FE6? Yeah, it's a very fun mechanic, but half of that is because of how it ties into the story. Throughout the game, Leif's "army" is undersupplied and broke, and the only way he can keep his army afloat, especially in the early game, is often to take weapons from enemies. Roy doesn't have to do this at all. Is the guy trying to remake FE6 or just make an amalgamation of mechanics from other games taken out of context and disguise it as FE6?

13:09 ok, but that Lyn portrait is absolutely sick. And she gets a mount! I am here for this version of Lyn.

I remember seeing the FEU page and clicking away after seeing the Thanos gif, I had no idea how deep this rabbit hole went. Absolutely horrifying, thank you for this meal. Partially related, you made FE:Blessed Heart, right? It’s a favorite of mine is all, very fun!

Slight correction on Resourceful: It DOES work but it ONLY works on skills that GRANT effective damage. Which in the case of the version of builder skillsys used by this hack is only Skybreaker and Slayer.

holy shit me cameo at 2:24 that aside though, as funny as it is to make fun of the guy for being "The FE6 guy", it's just kinda sad at the end of the day that people don't get the credit they deserve. (so thanks for showing our credits when you did!) People have access to a lot of assets through the public repo, yet for some reason they have the need to scrub our names out just so they can get the ego boost. It helps us when we do get credited since, we actually do work on these things!

This hack is an "fe6 remake" but everything said here makes it seem like it's biggest influence was lunatic+ in awakening

How did someone manage to make H5 of Shadow Dragon unironically look fair in comparison by unleashing this on the world.

Hello, I'm UltraFenix, and I've been helping ZeN (AKA the binding blade guy) with new features for the hack, which is being completely redone to be a little more unique, different, and of course, balanced. The video was shared on the project's discord server, and will help a lot in improving things. I invite everyone to continue giving their suggestions and criticisms on the server's dedicated channels about the hack.

7 gale force users,powerstaff,and rallies on one player phase,nice.

Actual misery trying to get through this hack

Omg. I’m ready to be petty about this. I was looking at this thread and I was just thinking like “man this audacity’s powerful”

Man. Even with Fire Emblem hacking getting so much easier, people still find new ways to fail. Very well made video!

7:30 This reads like Excelblem’s explanation for how you get Shura’s Boots. 14:35 Narrative wise, that doesn’t make sense, as Athos said that Roland and Durban’s spirits would pass on for good if they removed the seals on their weapons.

12:30 No, see, that is the lifestreem, full of mako, from FFVII. Clearly, the creator of the true binding blade remake was 4 paralel universes ahead of all of us.

Honestly, the Blazing Blade guy seems like a more accurate name.

I watched this in VOD, and it's funny to see what kind of dire details you uncovered, presumably while doing digging for this video. I can't believe you even went deeper into Tower of Valni. That's true dedication.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, for going into depth on issues like reinforcement flags not working and the palette inconsistencies on battle sprites. As an FE rom hacker myself, proper analysis that understands the inner workings of the game is a rare treat.

I have a begruding repect for a remake that takes later FE philosophy of "I don't care about balance anymore, just let them do whatever" But bro stole them assets, scrubbed names off it and worst of all, made us FE Boomers look at Heroes some crimes cant be forgiven

Should’ve called themselves the Project Ember guy…

I was there on stream watching you suffer through this hack. I will never forget what they did to Perceval and what a ride it was when we discovered both how broken capture was and the best unit in all FE canon. The destroyer of worlds and chicken, Fae

here's a hot take, FE games in general don't really need huge remakes that completely change the entire game, If a person wants to make some crazy hack that doesn't even resemble the original, they should just make an original romhack! EDIT: OH god its just mostly taking from another romhack, that's even worse lmao.

I remember seeing the post a few months back and thought “oh wow fe6 in 8 that sounds like a fun little thing” and then started reading all of it and my enjoyment started draining more and more ive only watched the intro so far but thus game seems miserable to play and not in the like fe12 lunatic reverse way more like playing awakening normal mode kinda way

Man even if managed to do a full remake of FE6 on Engage's engine that actually worked and looked good I wouldn't be calling myself "THE Binding Blade guy." When I clicked I was expecting you to be talking about Project Ember actually, which I enjoyed but knew other people had complaints about, but the title still seemed a bit harsh. So fairly relieved it was about a different project literally called "Remake" haha

Wh- why is the Tower of Valni in here??? 😂

What a messy situation😮 Always great to see a new video from you. You have such a unique and entertaining way of tearing stuff down. Can't wait for the rest of Radiant Dawn!😁 It's a shame that something like this has happened in the hacking scene😕

The best romhack is Dorcas Emblem the Binding Dorc. This romhack proves that we’ll never have something as great

Ah yes. The negotiator. This will make a fine addition to my meme hack collection

engagement comment

12:07 That happened because if the final hit on a boss that's supposed to spawn a 'true boss' is a crit, the game glitches and doesn't spawn the boss! A fact I abused in my run of the game, with Killer Bow Sue, and Rutger (the character.) It's very consistent. This game is such a mess. I played one of the first versions of this hack 3 weeks after it came out. It's very disheartening to see nothing has gotten better. This hack is a mess and I feel bad for all the creators that were slighted in the creation of it. It was unfair to them to have their assets and ideas stolen in the name of creating something 'better' than the original work. I hope the hack creator sees the reception to his hack and grows as a person. He came in with a rather toxic mindset and I feel if his motivation for making the hack weren't out of spite or pride, he could have created something great. But instead things turned out like this. A rather unfortunate conclusion

I just beat FE7 for the first time a week or so ago so I was looking for a way to play FE6. I came across this rom hack and was definitely thinking of playing it instead of the original - I’m glad I saw this video first!

8:07 yeah in fact it's so bad you can just give all spirit dusts to Roy and have him spam the fire emblem for comedic effect and it's actually quite decent since its a 1 2 range weapon that doesn't break. I would know, because I did exactly that

Me and a few friends were watching another of our friends playing it, after a few hours we were laughing like we were going crazy, it was painful to watch

Several constants will always exist for fe romhacks: -Skill Bloat -1 to 2 range bows -Binding Blade rebalance remake romhacks for whatever reason

These were great streams to watch! Woltinus will haunt me for the rest of my days.

yeah, this is why rebalances are usually not what hackers get super excited about, haha

I've played a lot of great FEUniverse hacks myself, but I always evaded this one as something in the back of my head was telling me 'No', plus I had other stuff to do at the time. Never would I have imagined the absolute mess of a rabbit hole that this one hack had, and how deep it was. Hope that this video at least also indirectly spark some curiosity for people to search about the actually good FE hacks. Thanks for the video Shark!

We went from turning Shura into a pair of leather boots to be eaten to turning Elen into Spirit Dust to snort.

I personally play a Pokemon ROM hack that suffers a weird glitch with the music (Sword & Shield Ultimate GBA). Every once in a while, some of it just stops working correctly until you heal at a Pokemon Center. This is a glitch that the dev couldn't patch at all, but aside from occasional visual oddities, they managed to make a really good demake. This 'remake' is just pure laziness and greed, simple as that

The second I saw aptitude on Shanna I just had to roll my eyes bro. No fucking words.

I do want to say, being able to grind your benched units down into stat booster paste is some truly genius game design. They really took Shura's boots to the next level.

I remember playing this hack a long time ago. Major bugs, unbalanced skills, and a Lilina starting at level 7 with WORSE BASES THAN VANILLA. Holy hell that was a giant dumpster fest

What's shocking is how a more recent version is less stable then the version I beat which was a year older. Which also had shana with a wing spear, a few prepromoted units were terrifying and actually straight unkillable at one point. As for the Riptide, PE technically ripped that off from the Buhji (i may have mispelled that) or as a certain egg refered to it the Pugi. Which has it's stats mirrored in every one of his meme hacks as his personal weapon. The only real thing I can say about the portraits though is, for the most part, the PE portraits already had been in the repo prior so i don't exactly believe those were "stolen" per se. Especially since the FE6 portraits aren't inherently compatible with the FE8 engine, so he'd need new portraits for the entire thing anyway.

This makes me so upset. I thought that Remake and Ember were completely different things that were just similar at the beginning. I haven't gotten far in either so I guess Im glad I saw this now rather than later.

Just an FYI for who's interested. The maker is redoing the remake from scratch pretty much.

I remember watching my friend played this. Bors was literally the strongest being to ever exist somehow lol

The design philosophy for this hack probably used the "sure, bro" method: every time a question of "should we add/change this?" was asked, the answer was, invariably, "sure, bro!"

He took away Shanna's :D face! 0/10 The spirit dust murdering was funny though. 4/10

As someone working on a romhack for the very first time, I am very happy to say that our team, even in the VERY early stages of this project, is showing far more care and consideration to storywriting and game balance than was done here

Oh yeah i've seen this Rom hack a few months ago. I didn't know that it has this many problems but I think I still might wanna check it out.

Thank you for making this video. I get maybe accidentally forgetting to give credit once in a while, but blatantly taking other creators work and claiming them as your own in a community where the Fire Emblem repository exists, like how did this person expect that no one would notice, or even considered it? When I saw their post on FEUniverse, the minute I saw that they “added” Debias I turned away my interests completely. At that point, it only made me uninterested in the project, even with the updates it would get.

I've seen a lot of fan creator with big egos but i think this guy takes the fucking world The fact he called himself "The biding blade guy" is like if the creator of Spider man lotus calls himself "THE spider man" Is so cringey

I was the first person complete the hack and give feedback on the thread about the issue I had and I'm glad someone was able to go into more depth on the critisism of the romhack. The issue I have with the hack that was touched on only a little bit in the video is the complete lack of playtesting in the hack. I ran into 2 softlocks in my playthrough, the first being that you were unable to seize in the illa gaiden, and the hanon not spawning in the sacae gaiden (which apparently is still semi-active, as you seem to encountered some version of it).

Yup he was the guy. The guy who spoilers to spy kids 3. Died Instantly lost 1000 lifes Instantly

I hope the creator sees this video and improves their rom based on your points cause you brought up a lot of good points and this is something I thought about playing after finishing Project Ember

I never got why he'd try remaking PE of all games, being quite literally the worst example of a rebalance we've possibly seen. Edit: considering what the hack is, it's likely a troll to piss off the PE devs.

i'm so glad i watched this video. the game was on my to play list and i expected FE6 with the FE8 engine and a little bit of balancing changes, what i would have gotten was yet another power fantasy romhack that would make project ember blush

You have to appreciate the stones on this guy for calling himself "the Binding Blade Guy" and then proceeding to shamelessly steal almost everything from a rom hack with actual thought and care put into it.

"You had to scroll past the guy's FEH account to download the game" "Every character has an extremely long list of skills that give you far, far too many things to keep track of over the course of unit combat" Checks out

grinding your units into spirit dust sounds like a bit from an excelbum video

Holy shit I’m in this video

As a practiced Awakening rom-hacker at this point, I would really like to give "The Binding Blade Guy" some benefit of the doubt. You absolutely do not do this much work without real passion for the thing you're working on. Even if he didn't make all the assets, didn't do all the writing, didn't uh... well didn't do quite a few things himself, I still really appreciate where the effort came from. That said, I've only ever played FE6 itself, never PE or this. I was actually planning on using this mod for my next crack at FE6, but now I most certainly will not be doing that. This was a very informative video. Thank you.

we're so back

The Thracia elements, like all the unique weapons and skills sound really cool if the hack wasn't so unbalanced (from what you say). The thing with enemies having such powerful skills sounds like such a pain too; having to check them all before doing anything. Really tripped my up in FE5 where enemies often had effective weapons or you'd end up in the range of a ballista you didn't even realize was there.

2:08 Me! That's me! I made that!! MOM GET THE CAMERA IM FAMOUS

22:10 Percival's armor went to the school of Jorato's Hat

When I saw this hack featured in the Emblemcon panel on FE6 reduxes I was exasperated beyond belief Glad to see a video being made on the creator’s scummy behavior and the hack’s highly questionable design decisions, hopefully it’ll get the word out to more people to steer clear of it

Wait, no Merlinus? Yeah it sucks.

My favorite part of Fire Emblem 6 "remake" is when he attack the final boss and said: "I'm the Fire Emblem 6 remake guy" and Fire embling all the Fire emblems.

Don't know how I got this recommended to me right when it came out, but I'm glad it did! I love looking at "disaster breakdowns" and such; Seeing it for a Fire Emblem mod is quite a treat! Great video.

I like these types of deep dive videos from you, keep em up!

As a person who barely plays many rom hacks but plays a lot of the 3ds era of fire emblem (probably how I found this video.) I really enjoy your video and was fun to look at what not to do on making a fire emblem rom hack. Anyway, cheers if you see this.

As a huge FE6 fan and someone who enjoyed (but hadn't finished) both Project Ember and this remake, I had no idea of all the issues plaguing this rom hack. This video surprised me since I don't really follow FE rom hacking so closely lately, I just look back every so often and in those times it's usually progressed leaps and bounds from when I last saw it. Great video, super informative, and kindly have my sub.

bruh. I literally thought this video was going to be on project Ember lol. Really glad on what I got Bootleg project ember. It was a very entertaining video.

I thought you meant project ember not this fe8 hack

This was a very enjoyable critique. Subscribed!

I have something to ask of you is it wrong to use the Repository Assets such as Battle Animations on FEUniverse to put assets into your own work, or splice vanilla portraits? Or is it fine as long as you credit the original artists?

"What if all my units had Galeforce" has the same energy as "I have an everything proof shield" in playground make-believe fights.