I've really never understood the complaint that Idunn is an easy final boss. Firstly, because I never considered her the final boss, that's Zephiel. The last chapters are your reward/victory lap for getting all the Legendary weapons. Most if not all of the main story arcs are resolved by defeating Zephiel, meeting Jahn and Idunn is just tying up loose ends and giving you more lore and context for the world as a whole. Also, compared to BS final bosses like Shadow Dragon and New Mystery Medeus that more or less require serious cheese strats, or Tellius' final bosses that can only be fought with the main lord, I'll take an underwhelming boss any day of the week.
So normally, I wouldn’t defend FEH, but I’d say the damaged art is at least tasteful in this case. Maybe I’m desensitized because I’ve seen worse in that game (and other gachas).
I think what makes Idunn so special to me is the fact that while she’s the final boss, she isn’t the main villain, not by a long shot. The only other game that does that is FE7 but that’s just a random war dragon so lol. Zephiel was Roy’s main enemy in terms of opposing them both physically and ideologically, and with the true ending chapters with Roy learning about Idunn’s plight mirrors Hartmut in sparing her life, but instead of just sealing her, Roy gives her a second chance at life in Arcadia so she can fully become “Herself” again. I love this shit lol
Minor correction, only Fae's Dragon Stone and Roy's Binding Blade deal any bonus damage to her. The rest of the dragon slaying weapons won’t be effective since she's classified as a demon dragon and not as a regular dragon.
I watched this and skimmed through the comments but didn't see this mentioned. Idunn's being so weak in the game wasn't done intentionally and was actually a last minute change. If you datamine the game you can see leftover code, originally she was supposed to have a very powerful weapon which would also buff up stats A LOT, to the point where the dragon effective weapons would do maybe single digit damage and only the binding blade could do reasonable damage. Nobody's 100% sure why she made her so weak before release, it's thought that the developers were scared that players would run out of Binding Blade uses and just made her weak to be safe. It's odd because Binding Blade is pretty rough around the edges in all other aspects, it's likely harder than FE7 HHM and 8 yet has such an easy final boss. EDIT for grammar.
Yall wanna know the actual reason i got from a random youtube comment section that im too lazy to verify? If you notice, in the fight, even legendary weapons barely scratch idunn. At the very least, not at the same rate as the binding blade. This is because devs reeeaaaally wanted you to get the true TRUE ending by having roy kill her. Thing is, in the games code,you can find an unused dragon stone, the same as idunns, but one that grants her a shit ton of stats. An actually tough boss fight. With those stats, it is nigh-impossible to beat her without the binding blade, ensuring the true ending. However, devs got scared abt what would happen if the binding blade broke somewhere in the chapter or slightly before. Since that would basically be a softlock, they opted against the extra shit ton of stats and left the underwhelming one we have now. Cool vid though and probably the actual reason instead of something i read once.
I understand why she's like this, I just feel like the presentation isn't satisfying and I don't feel that it was delivered well + I thought the dragon sprite was kinda meh. Her theme is beautiful tho
Also kinda Idunn is a neat contrast to Roy's entire journey; Roy basically got drafted while he was in the middle of a high school year to lead a whole army, which def puts Roy some pressure. After many hardships of the loss of people like Hector and seeing many of the neighboring territories suffer due to Zephiel's deadset ideal while also understanding the reasons of former enemies to ally under Bern; Roy hardened and was chosen by Harmut's Binding Blade prob cause it knew that Roy would have to make a hard decision when the moment with Idunn came.
i love to imagine that Idunn was also an especially weak Divine Dragon before becoming the Demon Dragon. Fae, a baby, absolutely destroys her, and she was the one who ended up getting captured by the other dragons. the thing that makes her strong is the ability to create war dragons, nothing else.
Fun Fact: The game files have a Dragon Stone for Idunn that would have given her, like, a gajillion stats. And Roy Still dumpsters her it just takes two rounds instead of one. it probably got scrapped because it would make her fucking unkillable if you don't have Binding Blade or Fae (Idunn doesn't take Eff Damage from the S-rank weps).
