What if Fire Emblem 4 ACTUALLY Gets a Remake? 

Its been WEEKS. hello Jugdral gamers!! What are you thoughts on an FE4 remake? What do you want to see most gameplay or story or character wise? Let me know!

I think you’re ignoring the fact that they’ll almost certainly implement some version of the modern support system like they did in Echoes. So disambiguating between platonic and romantic bonds in Gen 2 will be much easier

The Oosawa manga has a lot of flaws but man I still love it. There's that infamous scene where Lachesis, being depressed after what happened to Eldigan, cuts herself with the Earth Sword because that hurts her but immediately heals herself but Finn stops her and comforts her. It's kinda an edgy scene but I still really like it because it managed to use the gameplay mechanic of the hp draining earth sword into a dramatic moment. It's probably never going to happen but I honestly still really want to see the hypothetical remake use or even just reference this scene. It's an easy fit into a Finn Lachesis Support convo.

Something I would love from a remake is more divergence with the substitute characters, there is some but not enough with characterisation to make them feel like anything but a much weaker option with a secret event or two.

A few notes and thoughts: The Jealousy System is in fact a bug and not a feature. I think someone on the Serene's Forest forums figured that out not long ago, but yeah it was not an intended design. Also, as others have pointed out, Seliph and Julia aren't pairable in any regard and their negative love growth is meant to reinforce that. As for maps, yes they're all 64x64 tiles, but you really have to remember a ton of those maps don't make use of the full space. Ch1 has the massive lake in the center of the map as well as the entire upper left corner inaccessible. Ch2 has a massive mountain range along the the right side of the map and a dense forest in the upper center. Ch3 has the ocean dividing the top and bottom parts of the map. Ch4 has the mountain range dividing the two halves of the map as well as the large swath of ocean to the northwest, you get the idea. The maps are huge, but are only ever using 50% to 75% of their usable real estate at any given time. Lastly, the use of FE5 material and Kaga's notes. For FE5 material, it'd have to be very carefully used as to not distract from the overarching narrative of FE4. Saias and Eyval I think are the strongest contenders for showing up in some capacity as new characters or just side NPCs, but they'd have to adjust other things you happen upon along the way (such as Patty and Febail reuniting with Eyval/Brigid). As for the Kaga notes, that ones iffy for me. Kaga never published those notes officially, so they are in effect, his "headcanons". I personally take them as canon myself, because they do really feel like they'd have been in the game had the game been able to get a Director's Cut treatment. But therein is the bugbear. None of the Kaga Game Remakes credit Kaga in any capacity, not even as "original scenario by". His name has been scrubbed, and to use his content, that is not officially under Nintendo's ownership, and not credit him, would be really..... ethically yucky, to me. I want that stuff in a game. But I don't want Kaga' s ideas stolen without his due credit either. I suppose the most unlikely dream scenario is Nintendo and Kaga kiss and make up and bring him back for the Perfect Vision, but that's really unlikely.

On the note of aging up characters, while they definitely could do it, they’d have to be REALLY careful about years to make sure their aren’t any continuity errors, genealogy has a lot of important dates of when things happen, and especially because Thracia literally has the year it takes place in the title, they would have to shuffle around a lot of dates to age up the gen 2 characters while not creating any weird instances of characters aging more or less then they should in the given amount of time

Adding supports from C to S would be a good way to implement the pairing system in my opinion, you get full control on who you want to marry instead of getting accidental pairs, specially for newer players.

Seliph and Julia are 100% not a thing lol, they have a negative love growth, and Seliph is shocked when he finds out they’re siblings but Julia seemingly knew all along.

At 10:50 talking about Arvis' age in relation to Deidre I misheard "six to seven" as "sixty-seven" and for half a second I thought I had somehow missed a story point explaining that Arvis was 80+ years old for the entirety of the first gen

I think an option to "regroup" after seizing a castle would help a lot so slower and faraway units could catch up. I would envision that feature as similar to starting a new chapter in other games, with the ability of selecting where to place your units and options to buy weapons and items. Of course this would need to be optional so if veterans want to keep the experience as it was originally, they could, while not making more casual/modern players feel alienated.

> This game especially would benefit from the Memory Crystals used in Echoes. All the extra scenes and story content you mentioned could then be viewed whenever the player wished without inflating the play time of the story. > Beating the game once should unlock Substitute Mode, where regardless of if you paired first gen units, the narration says that everyone died childless and you get all the substitute characters without having to resort to extreme chastity in the first half. > Controversial take: The remake should have reclassing. This is more directed at the second generation, since you are almost punished for pairing certain units together because their children end up stat-screwed or having weapons they can't use. It doesn't have to be broken like Three Houses or Engage, maybe something like Fates, where a child unit only inherits their parents classes and that's it.

It's funny cause I actually love watching the Arena fights in FE4, it's like watching a real arena fight where you are cheering on the fighters and getting worried because one may have missed like an 80 or opponent might've hit a 30 on my unit and it's so much fun to just watch them fight it out.

If I can't kill Manfroy with Sara, what's even the point of a Genealogy remake?

One concept I've seen people bring a lot is in terms of whether to have an avatar or not in a remake, in my personal opinion i think that (FE4 spoilers)- Having an avatar where they re just a knight under Sigurd (something like Kris or Robin but less plot relevant) except they get killed off at the barbecue like the rest of gen 1 could be really cool and add to the twist.

I think for me, gameplay-wise I would like to see more balancing. With the child system and inheritance, it annoys me how some pairings can produce at best only one child out of a pair who are good (looking at you Aidean pairings). The ability to reclass/promotion options could help with this too. And then there's, of course, the movement issues with calvary vs. non-calvary. For story, a support option in the castle town like the base in PoR so more character interactions can be seen along with the in-map talk interactions.

Lachesis' attraction is *very* one sided as in game Eldigan's wife Grahnye is still very much alive and looking after Ares. When reading the Oosawa manga, it's important to remember that the whole thing is fanfiction so as to not get too confused by the many changes.

I just started play FE4, and I have to say I'm enjoying it so far. However, if I were to make any gameplay changes, I would like units to have the Rescue commands, and the included penalties, from the GBA games as it would make it easier to transport non-mounted units across the maps and make them a bit more usable.

8:15 Fun Fact the jealousy system is actually a glitch.

Honestly I feel like just replacing the love system with the Support system of later games would be better. It's easier to understand, especially for returning players, you can choose who to pair up with without having to weirdly move around the map to avoid certain units/purposefully stand next to others, and support conversations could help flesh out the characters. I'm also torn as to whether I would want the ginormous maps preserved or if I think they should chop them up to allow for a proper hub world-like exploration in the castles between maps. I think I'd be happy either way.

One thing I have been thinking about is how the previous remakes have had added prologues. Genealogy, of course, has a prologue already, but I think it would be neat if the game started with a tutorial taking place when Sigurd, Quan and Eldigan studied together, kinda like what SoV did with Alm and Celica.

tbh I'm all for having some gameplay changes in an FE4 remake. As a game, Echoes was faithful to a fault with the main criticism from people being its unengaging map design, exactly as it was in Gaiden. If they were to remake FE4, making changes such as having trading be more practical than selling and rebuying items or reworking the way the pursuit and critical skills work would only improve the game that it is building off of.

I really hope they don’t kid-down/censor the more mature stuff in the story. I WANT Arvis and Deirdre to be siblings. I WANT everyone in Gen 1 to die. I WANT the child hunts to be a thing. I also want Thracia to maybe be a $40 expansion like how Rev was for the physical Fates games (though obviously better than Rev).

Great video. A couple of things to note though: 8:10 - There is the augury, which tells you the other unit with whom the character has the most love points with, with thresholds of 200, 300, 400, and 500 (married) points. Also, the "jealousy" mechanic is actually the result of a bug - something about a variable being uninitialized, resulting in the game using the wrong position to fetch unit info from. I forget, but there's a thread about it on Serenes Forest in the SNES section. 10:42 - Larcei is technically at least 17 years old as of the start of gen 2, because both of Ayra's children are sent off to Issach as per Ayra's lover convo with Lex in ch 5, and the gap between the end of ch 5 and the start of ch 6 is explicitly stated to be 17 years. re: features to make gameplay smoother, Kaga was once asked in an interview about why he didn't include the auto movement thing from Gaiden, and he said that (paraphrasing) it didn't end up working very well? Or was it that it made bad moves? I forget, but either way, it wasn't useful for players. I imagine such a feature would actually be useful in a hypothetical remake though. Off-topic but sort of related, we do get a bit of info regarding the progression of time in FE4. The prologue starts in 757, there's a 6 month gap between ch 2 and 3, a year gap between ch 3 and 4, and ch 5 starts in spring of 760. We do not know how long ch 5 takes though, before we get the 17 year gap between 5 and 6, and then all of gen 2 takes place in one year. In any case, we can generally presume the younger sibling of a gen 1 mother to be ~16 as of the start of gen 2, with some... temporal oddities (ie. Coirpre).

Honestly I have high hopes for if an FE4 remake happens. Nintendo is pretty good with its remakes. All the Pokémon remakes besides BDSP have added lots to the originals, and the FE remakes even more so. I know some people are upset with modern fe, but I personally have yet to play an FE that I didn’t like so I fully trust IS to handle this well.

One thing is sure they need to gave a personnality to Deirdre because loving the main character and being a victim of fate is not a personality

After Engage, I'm so ready for a FE story like FE4, I really hope this remake is real

Id love all of these things to happen Though another hope i have is for Suzuki Rika (the artist behind FEH's Legendary Sigurd and Resplendent Eldigan) to be the main artist.

Biggest potential issue to an FE4 Remake is how the heck they plan on reconstructing the narrative. Being in the middle of a playthrough myself right now, FE4 as told in-game is pretty messy, and is mostly told to the player either in massive walls of text between chapters or in monologues by the villains off-camera. It's not unsalvageable, but it definitely suffers from a lot of weak delivery, even if it has some standout moments that are really solid. Also, how much extra material and expanded world that's only hinted at in-game but never outright stated will they include? Because several in-game points don't make a ton of sense if you don't absorb the background, like I've recently seen an argument about "Why are they trying to make us feel sorry for the Loptyrians in generation 2 when they're the ones who started this mess?" Which really just comes down to them not fully understanding what the game is attempting to explain, how the decendants of Loptyr were persecuted for hundreds of years because of what their ancestor did, and many are only doing this in retaliation for the persecution they themselves had directly experienced. It's supposed to be a sympathetic, tragic arc of widespread abuse and villainy, but instead gets misunderstood by the game's fragmented and often entirely missable way of explaining things, such that major points of the plot get poorly received. At the same time, I don't necessarily WANT them to go out of their way to explain all of this in more detail, because as said before the game already suffers from pacing with its reliance on massive text walls and villain monologues. So it's gonna be a tough road to navigate, which is probably one reason why we haven't seen a remake yet.

Sigurd got so mad that his remake is taking that long that he decided to spoil the entire game in engage

I think for traversing the large maps you should be able to select multiple characters at once, move this character here and over there and then it plays the moving animation so instead of selecting character, spot to move, then see them move so instead you can see multiple characters move simultaneously like an army.

I would actually like to see them release 4 and 5 at the same time and have a Jugdral bundle kind of like Fates where you can have both games on a single cart if you want. Also I would like them to continue in the style of Shadows of Valentia where they remain mostly faithful to the original with some minor QoL and story updates to fill plot holes and add minor new content like the labyrinth. One thing I absolutely do not want them to change is relationships between characters even if they make some people feel a bit icky. Don't change Kaga's original vision just expand on it.

If I had a choice, I'd like to see an FE6 and 7 combo remake where your FE7 choices effect your FE6 run, or you can keep them separate like the OGs.

the movement issue could be easily solved by an auto command similiar how Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn handled it, click on a spot on the map and every unit moves there I think the big maps are too much a part of FE4 to get rid of them.

Travant's story in the manga is great, he even has a thing for Ethylyn.

I think FE4's map design is gonna be one of those things that will change the least no matter what. 'Cause from a gameplay perspective, THAT is a big part of the game's identity which sticks like a sore thumb. Story wise, I do want them to revamp Part 2 a bit so it has a bit more going on too, while also fixing a few narrative oddities like Ishtar getting briefly written OOC to justify an early boss fight in Chapter 9 iirc.

Two gameplay changes I’d like to see are a return to Gambits and changes to the Return and Warp staves. The Gambits could help soften up large groups of enemies for some of the weaker units, and Stride would be such a boon. And there should be two Warp and Rescue staves: one each for the classic castle transfers, and one each for the general area the character uses them in

I have a simple solution for all the tedious trudging between castles: Auto-Battle. Simply give the option to order units to advance towards a castle, and they'll automatically move there in the fastest way possible.

They need to do my main man Areone some justice. Bro’s so slept on, but he kinda fills the same function as Naesala narratively in the Tellius games, which is probably why I’m such a fan

I always took the Lachesis Beowulf convo to be about Lachesis' being about Finn not Eldigan since he talks about Finn right before saying that plus there is the debate of him being Nana's father in fe5.

I really want a remake. But I'm scared of the changes they will make.

Aged up characters has happened before. Look at Silque from gaiden/sov. It's not a stretch though this time around the exsisting characters are quite a lot more fleshed out so it'd be harder to pull off well.

One thing I feel could work in terms of the maps is instead of reducing the map size which would make the emersion of a giant continent look worse. Instead just increase the amount of movement for the units. It would help get around the map without having to shrink the maps. It wouldn’t make foot units be left in the dust due to lower movement and be on a similar playing field

I would add some epilogues for the other countries like Verdane, Silesse and Agustria, that would unlock if Ares and Jamke and Lewyn's children survived the end of the game, you would get to see the wars happening there to reclaim the territories, just because Julius and Manfroy died doesn't mean the empire and the Loptous church dissapeared, this alongside a Miracle of Dahna level would take inspiration from the expanded material like the short stories (The Last of the Earth Dragons is really good) As well as using Kaga's notes just like you said, epilogues about characters from gen 1 that let's you recruit them in gen 2, this would only unlock if those characters survived till the end of chapter 5 (Azelle, Lachesis and Tailtiu are my pick, the others i don't know but at least having Sigurd, Alec, Naoise, Arden, Midir, Jamke, Beowolf, Chulainn and Claud absolutely die in Belhalla is something i want to keep, Lex and Ayra are on a gray zone were i don't know what could be done with them but maybe turn them into stone as well, while Dew will get inspiration from another short story A Thief's Vow were he survives and after a convo with Edain decides to steal all the weapons from the gen 1 army to give to the kids but then dies in Aed Shrine going after Balmung) Another thing i would add tho this may be more disputed, is add characters from Thracia, not a lot tho, only Saias, Mareeta, Sara and possibly Fergus, the rest either stayed to help in Thracia or went to other places like Misha and Karin going to Silesse to fight their war Another thing is having extra lines of dialogue in plot important conversations that show up if certain characters are still alive, for example in the manga when Sigurd goes to save Lachesis, the Agustrian soldiers are afraid because the army of Grannvale AND Verdane appeared, if Jamke is alive this could be mentioned in the game, similarly other convos could reference certain characters or something if they are still alive, also give the subs more importance and have them by recrutable alongside the main units, like some secret events in certain villages and castles, as well as making them more unique personality and game wise, also do a cross between Echoes villague exploration and monastery open hub There are way more ideas and things that could be done but this is already long enough

If IS adds literally only one thing to an FE4 remake to improve it, I would hope it is the Orders mechanic from Tellius. Honestly, it seems like that mechanic would fit more in Jugdral than it does in Tellius.

As others have said, they would absolutely change the Lovers system to the support conversations.

I think we're just going to have to accept that if an FE4 remake is faithful to the original, it's going to have a level of micro-management that some players will just not like no matter what improvements are made to the resource management system

A Genealogy remake would be pretty ambitious, even if they already have a template for it. Genealogy of the Holy War is one of, if not the largest, games in Fire Emblem history. Trying to shrink everything down or just make the game more modern would take a lot of time and effort that they may not have to get it done in time for release. Three Houses and Engage ran rather smoothly because of delays that allowed them to fine tune the game play in comparison to Nintendo's biggest money maker, Pokémon, which had two different main line games that had major bugs upon release that only got fixed with updates and DLC. What I think would be done would be to cut down the size of the maps from 64x64 tile maps to a more manageable size to streamline the battles and cut down on the time to fine tune the game but still make the story very immersive.

One of the things Three Houses did well was the whole "instruction" system. Which is a form of training in an arena, but just made into an "input-output" screen

9:22 some group select function might help make moving your army less tedious.

It would be cool if the game would be a just open world and you would control your party like you control Link from the Zelda series. But when encountering enemies, the screen would zoom out and you play your usual Fire Emblem Game play. A concept like this was planned for a third radiant game, but was scapped in early progress.

I’ve been a believer in this for years. When Engage was announced I thought it was FE4 remake.

Id hope they would buff ardin with castle warps

Just beat it a few months back. Would love a remake for all the FE games that never made it outside of Japan.

Gonna be that guy, maybe it's a remake of the Binding Blade

On the topic of story, I'd want to be kept the same. Slap an "M for Mature" rating if that's what it takes

My personal hope is that Kamome Shirahama as designer and artist. I love her art and I think it looks exactly like I imagine Genealogy's cast. if we go to a wild pick though, I would pick Bani-chan for the art and Itoki Hana as a singer for any songs that the game might have. For music composer, either Yoko Shimomura or Yuki Kajiura. Both their styles fit FE4 in different ways.

I would love to see an anime FMV of Arvis cremating Sigurd's army in the Battle of Belhalla after the events of the fifth chapter of Holy War, only showing the aftermath of the battle with Arvis standing over a massive heap of ash that was once Sigurd and his army.

I’m honestly torn between keeping and remaking the inventory/gold/arena economy. On one hand, I loved it while playing fe4. At the same time, I’d be really interested to see how they would change it, there’s a lot of potential for a cool new version of fe4, the original will always exist for us to go back to anyways

The way that you make the lover system more coherent is that you just change it to a modern support system. Gen 1 can have an S support system, and gen 2 can have a three houses style system where the supports cap at A and the characters pair up based off of some internal priority system. That way you can sneakily cut out the cousin pairings and the adult/teenager pairings.

As you know from the previous comment QnAs that I’ve appeared in, I’m really hoping we’ll get one on the switch before the end, and it is one of few fire emblem games that I know nothing about.

I think they could just remove the arena. What does it actually bring to the gameplay? If the best, most convenient option is to have a single button you press that does it all of it for you why have it in the first place? I also think that the problem with too much downtime could be fixed with an option to make a unit target a certain space and automatically spend their turn moving towards it once all your other units have moves.

I was excited when you had the option to defend a castle or the chance of enemy capturing your castle and you losing the chapter. Turned out that hardly played a part in the game.

Re: the arena thing - I am playing tactics ogre for the first time and it has a similar issue, where your party's level cap increases every chapter or so and you will be outclassed quickly if you don't train your units to the level cap between missions. it is so tedious. the best way is to just put your units on autobattle and wait. however, even if you do this, your units will sometimes have in-battle dialogue boxes that require an input to continue and so you can't just walk away for a few minutes. I haven't played FE4 but if it has a similar issue I really hope they come up with a way around it in the remake

Saias from 776 should appear in the remake as wielder of Valflame. Rinoan is also a pretty significant character in the series. Perhaps include an interlude part where Lewyn is the protagonist, in between the 2 generations.

Can't wait for every castle hub to be needlessly explorable.

Ha. I get it. “Iron” for “(F)ire (E)mblem”.

mabey its just because i've been playing BG3 but many add a dash command to double a units movement speed at the cost of not allowing them to do anything else?

I believe turning the arena into a 7 wave, small map (ala arena ferox), mini battle with limited deployment would be a QoL upgrade. That way you don’t have to grind every single unit and it opens up new strategies for each arena. Like Sigurd doesn’t even need arena to hit lvl 30, lol. Let some of the more unsung heroes have some more exciting moments…

At least I hope they will release a Switch version too because I dont want to buy a new console just to play the new FE game, but if they do, I still wont buy the Switch 2 tbh.

Here's one thing I've suggested for years when discussion of an FE4 remake comes up: split the ginormous chapters and maps into several smaller chapters, or make all the capturable castles interactive home bases like they do with dungeons in Echoes, where you can handle support/Love points, see support convos, and get some plot and worldbuilding via something akin to the base conversations/info conversations in the Tellius. Also, I disagree that the convoluted trading system has to he kept at all. It's just pure nostalgia.

I am honestly surprised no one has make a gba demake of 4 yet.

What if they made Auto-turn able to carry all your units to an allied castle? They tried making units do stuff on their own in the Tellius games (you'd often just keep it at wait anyway), but maybe that would help with the process of moving everyone to certain castles. Or be able to put it per unit.

Serious reply tho, the Jealousy mechanic is actually a glitch believe it or not. Not sure if a remake will even include it

Feh has also given remasters of lots of FE4 and FE5 scores-remasters that the GBA games haven’t received

I doubt that anything that Kaga put in his notes would be used in the remake. Pretty sure his name is banned in IS building lol

Dang though. Imagine if echoes was ACTUALLY on the switch, that would of been so cool and looked so nice #JustPlayEchoesBro

If there is one FE that i would love to have a remake it’s sacred stones. It was my first FE and my favorite to this day

Does anybody know the song that starts playing at 12:43

My duderino, the fe3 remake existed before the fe2 one, fe4 being the oldest game that hasn't been remade doesn't mean it's next.

The arena grind!!!! Also dont forget about Claude and Sylvia

what would u do if they were to annonce fe4 + fe 5 remake (with separate gameplay ofc)

This might be the only thing in gaming that would get me screaming crying hyped

I hope for a few more party members for funsies (Like maybe another Lopt Blooded one for fun.). and the capture system to be back (Yes I know it's from 5, but I'm referring more to the Fates one, I wish to Big Boss enemies.). Also some divergence in appearance for the 2nd generations based on the parents.

what's your outro music? it's beautiful

I think the substitutes have a lot more characterization and flesh out g2 more. I prefer Dimna and Mana to their counterparts in gameplay and story, Linda still has Tinni’s character arc, and Asaello being known as “the hit man of Connaught” has a bunch of potential to be elaborated on. Even random things like Sharlow having blue hair and Paragon gets me wondering if he is a lost son of Lex. My biggest fear with an fe4 remake is that it would feel worse because you are no longer headcanoning 60% of the characterization

God, I hope Fe4 remake's artstyle doesn't look hideous.

Great video ghast Now why did you exclude gamer from your disturbing Jugdral moments video

I've said this on Reddit before and I get downvoted every time... but it stands to reason that the unique mechanics of FE4 will be removed in order to modernize it. Everyone will get pursuit and critical, and skills will be customizable or changeable. Regular trading will be added. Gold will be shared among the army. The maps will be broken up into parts instead of being as big as they are. The castles will be like the hubs of Three Houses and Engage. It will be much more like the rest of the series and like the newer games. There's little reason to believe otherwise. Plus, there will be new characters, as with all the other remakes, and new features that haven't been seen before. People will say, "But Echoes is such a faithful remake! Why can't the FE4 one be too?" The answer is that Echoes isn't as faithful as you think. The maps and characters are the same, but that's about it. The story was changed, characters were added, every unit's growths were buffed, certain classes were nerfed, turnwheel was added, forging was added, promotion levels were lowered, spell lists were changed, rings were heavily nerfed, dungeons were completely overhauled. It's just a completely different game. So even the remake that everyone thinks is the most faithful changed so many things. It's only logical to believe the FE4 remake will do the same

I just want them to make the substitute units either better or more accessible in gen 2.

Off topic but a fire emblem fighting game would be dope haha

Considering how badly Treehouse butchered Engage, I’m kinda scared for any Genealogy remake. Characters couldn’t even give someone a kiss on the forehead in that game. Hell, simply the act of being straight was changed to “people watching”

I imagine some thracia characters turning into dlcs lol

Lets do like Pokemon Gen3 remakes did and start coining "Jugdral Confirmed", especially with how FEH has been torturing us with FE4 alts

The issue I see with integrating certain characters in FE4 is the delivery of FE5's story. Part of the impact of FE5 to me is going into it with the conception it is a midquel canonical to FE4. However, the subversion of that expectation is what makes it special to me in certain ways, with reveals that only hit as hard as they do because of how Fate works narratively in FE4, whereas FE5 adds more flexibility to that and subverts expectations tactfully. That being said, the instruction manual and prep videos from the special box don't ever lie to you. It is explicit in saying that FE5 is a new holy war. But people don't internalize it the way that it is alluding to, which makes it very unique. With how IS has been treating Jugdral in Heroes as of late, I worry that they may try to overcorrect certain narratives to make a cohesive timeline. But the part of FE4 and FE5 that stand out to me is that they are different games with different stories that do should not overwrite the other. Either way though, I'm biased towards my own interpretation of FE4 and FE5's relationship, and I am not sure if Kaga ever said anything to clarify his stance on continuity before he left IS and was subsequently in lawsuits with Nintendo. Still, in the concept of "death of the author" there is no definitive answer in regards to their relation and I question how fans would react to Nintendo or IS making changes to canon. Shadows of Valentia was able to change as much as it did because they were working with a story that didn't expand much on characters in the game itself and many liberties could be used with the remake, but FE4 and FE5 are a different case.

I would love it if they kept everything intact, taking into consideration just how much they changed in Engage. But I can't help it, I do feel weird about the age differences between the characters that are meant to be lovers. Weirdly enough, I don't think I care about the incest because it's meant to be medieval fantasy. But for it to be the truest medieval fantasy, it would need for the ages to be even more important, since marrying off your children to rich families was a thing you did to survive and have a (hopefully) better life. This game isn't the first one to touch on sensitive topics but wathever happens when/if we get a remake, I hope they DO NOT change the aspects that make this specific game memorable. The story, characters, maps and inventory systems all have to remain as intact as possible. Because I'd hate it if, instead of removing a tickling minigame, they changed the characterization of every single playable unit in an "effort" of keeping the game kid friendly. Wathever they did to Engage scares me about the future of Fire Emblem, a game that would feel at home with a more mature art style and a motherfucking M18+ ESRB rating.

Talking incest is just a royalty thing even in real life. People ought to get used to that.

I'm not getting my hopes up... But I'd still love to see an FE4 remake.

I think the inventory and trading systems are relics that worked in the SNES's era. I don't think their complexity would go over well with modern audiences. You kind of have to be a hardcore FE fan to appreciate stringent limitations and they want these games to appeal broadly now. Anyway, great video! I hope they are able to fix the irrelevance of foot units, too.

As someone who hates but one GBA FE Chapter - “Port of Badon” - for how obnoxious it can be to grind without endangering my units on a no-death run (and yes I always play Classic), I can immediately empathise with anyone who hates the arena even in a game I’ve yet to play. On the FE4 storyline, if we cannot pair Sigurd and Deirdre with anyone else for pretty understandable reasons (Seliph needs to be born on track), can we at least give their relationship some proper development beyond the “love at first sight” triteness? Because I’ve gotten over wanting to change Seliph’s parentage so that I can ship him with Julia without feeling gross (such is life after all), but I would like to actually give a damn about his parents’ relationship for its own sake at least…) On the matter of cut stuff, I don’t think you ever mentioned how Hilda was meant originally to be one of Arvis and Azelle’s half-siblings. Because not getting any of the exiled bastard children was definitely a waste, and if that’s not just a rumour… it would definitely be just a small little fun addition to the tangled web. Not because I want Hilda to be treated with an iota of a modicum of sympathy, but it would be intriguing; also in turn maybe we could get more of Ishtar and Ishtore (as they’re among the most sympathetic enemies in the second generation). Among other things…

as long as they dont pussy down and censor the story at all