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Is Fire Emblem's Popularity Declining?

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Is Fire Emblem's Popularity Declining?
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  • If you look at the three most popular games, Fates and 3 Houses had early route splits and a lot of things to play and to discuss story-wise and lore-wise. And then FEH exists. I think it suggests that most people who are into Fire Emblem prefer not to watch others play it, but rather play it themselves. Thus, story and unit viability/builds become more searched than gameplay unless the game has an insane amount of replayability.

    @NarrowSpark96@NarrowSpark967 ай бұрын

    • Fate makes you pay for other routes and TH has the worst route split in the series Both games decentivise you to play another route in some way which leads to KZhead views

      @thomasquesada7248@thomasquesada72487 ай бұрын

    • Thanks for saying that, Thomas. I changed my post a bit, because that's what I was trying to get at, but I just never said it.

      @NarrowSpark96@NarrowSpark967 ай бұрын

    • @@NarrowSpark96 honestly in terms of story I think fire emblem fates the worst one but thats just me. but I am also a bit worried about fe heroes how long will it last but hmmm I mean fire emblem heroes has good drop rates, any unit can be good if done right, and etc. but even still I dont know if it can last 1-2 years or ... hmmm

      @ladyriethegoldendelmo5441@ladyriethegoldendelmo54417 ай бұрын

    • @@ZX-Gear that also reminds me what I am also worry about no home either... so u cant really trade pokemon... so I dont know whats the future of pokemon...

      @ladyriethegoldendelmo5441@ladyriethegoldendelmo54417 ай бұрын

    • @@ZX-Gear but yea mate lots of things are changing...

      @ladyriethegoldendelmo5441@ladyriethegoldendelmo54417 ай бұрын

  • I think it was less Cindered Shadows that caused the post 3H spike and more Byleths release in Smash Bros that created the spike. I remember the controversy was everywhere.

    @SamIam9095@SamIam90957 ай бұрын

    • Hoes truly were mad

      @Artemas_16@Artemas_167 ай бұрын

    • Diamond Hoes Mad

      @chillstoneblakeblast3172@chillstoneblakeblast31727 ай бұрын

    • Lol I remember that

      @Sawcybui@Sawcybui7 ай бұрын

    • it’s what got me to buy three houses and now i’ve played damn near every game bar the tellius games

      @chickenstrips5138@chickenstrips51387 ай бұрын

    • Yup, without a new a smash to piggyback off of, Fire Emblem falls.

      @brandonwilliams6119@brandonwilliams61197 ай бұрын

  • I get that you as a youtuber have to care about it, because views are the lifeblood of your channel, but as a fan (of any given series really) I couldn't care less. Beyond selling enough to greenlight future titles, massive mainstream popularity has never been a good thing for any series I like.

    @Abundy@Abundy7 ай бұрын

    • Based

      @oof776@oof7767 ай бұрын

    • Thank you!

      @hylianfelldragon1308@hylianfelldragon13087 ай бұрын

    • Ngl thats a bitch mentality

      @projectmessiah@projectmessiah7 ай бұрын

    • ​​@@ZX-GearIndeed! Never forget the snakes that are ever so present within the older members.

      @PeruvianPotato@PeruvianPotato7 ай бұрын

    • @ZX-Gear I always wonder how many came for him BECAUSE he did nothing wrong. Master-Knight for example.

      @KopperNeoman@KopperNeoman7 ай бұрын

  • Interesting video, granted I've only been making fire emblem "content" since march 2021 but I can definitely see a correlation with the graph you showed here. Particularly videos about engage are just not that appealing and have a lower click through rate than others. Now of course that could just be due to the interests of people that like my "content" however as I don't have the largest sample size. I think you got it right, fe4 remake won't spark a large audience of interest and instead it'll require a banger of a mainline title that has a broad range of appeal. Engages biggest flaw is putting all its eggs into appealing to gameplay focused players which simply isn't the majority of the fire emblem audience anymore.

    @Speedwinghere@Speedwinghere7 ай бұрын

  • I think one of the main reasons for 3H’s popularity is that they actually marketed it well, not to mention it was also on one of the most successful consoles. A similar situation can be seen with Pikmin 4, as it sold more than all previous games combined upon release and they marketed it really well and it was on a successful console. I prefer the more classic style, like the GBA and Tellius games, with the Tellius games being my personal favorites. While I don’t think a remake of PoR would cause a great popularity spike, it would be great to have and with Ike’s popularity, at least partly due to Smash Bros., I think it would probably at least sell well. Also, I think part of the popularity spike in 2008 was due to Smash Bros. Brawl and it’s Subspace Emissary.

    @Themacattack1209@Themacattack12097 ай бұрын

    • It’s also crazy how Roy has been in Smash for over 2 decades yet they still refuse to localize his game, maybe they were banking on him being in Engage along with the other 7 who are in Smash? But not even those 8 reps from Smash could save Engage.

      @brandonwilliams6119@brandonwilliams61197 ай бұрын

    • Engage isnt as popular

      @chargemankenia@chargemankenia7 ай бұрын

    • ​@@chargemankenia Maybe, but there a lot of fans of it. Many of them prefer game play over story.

      @johnathanedwards9054@johnathanedwards90547 ай бұрын

    • @@johnathanedwards9054 As long as those of us who prefer both story and gameplay are respected as well then that's fine.

      @dinar8749@dinar87497 ай бұрын

    • Marketing can only do so much. Pikmin 4 succeeded not just because of marketing, it was a truly great game that appealed to a lot of people. Besides, Three Houses had a marketing drought for most of its release, only getting consistent information very close to its release. I think Three Houses succeeded because lots of people like the game and think it's amazing.

      @dinar8749@dinar87497 ай бұрын

  • Mangs, you didn't mention the Smash games, where most of the units are sword locked and there's some cameos of characters of the mainline FE games

    @silbernerritter5834@silbernerritter58347 ай бұрын

    • Maybe Fire Emblem (or really, any RPG series) should've had less swordlocked MCs if they wanted less swordies in Smash.

      @charlesruteal9062@charlesruteal90627 ай бұрын

  • It's a bit sad that they did Engage dirty. It was easily the most fun Fire Emblem gameplay in a long time, but the story and the way DLC was implemented were just sooooooo bad.

    @battlecarrier@battlecarrier7 ай бұрын

    • I played it and having played most fe games. Engage I couldn't get into. The characters all looked the same, not much variety. I had little to no interest in the characters and story wasn't very good. First FE game I couldn't finish. 😅

      @delfinition976@delfinition9762 ай бұрын

  • Videos about story are easier to produce in mass and have a wider appeal than gameplay videos. This is especially the case when branching paths are involved where people need to understand a bigger picture.

    @jonahkluger6136@jonahkluger61367 ай бұрын

    • Problem is, that also leads to a lot of confusion when people get things wrong. Taking Fe8 for example, you need to see both routes to get the whole picture. However, for Fe3H each route was had its own separate history that wasn't true in each route. In CF, passed down from emperor to emperor is the story of Nemesis. A hero who was never corrupted, but rather it was the church who turned the people against the King of Liberation. As it was a battle between what kind of person (draconic or human) should rule. Thus the title, as he desired to liberate humanity just like El did in CF. This is further confirmed by the route itself as the story of El is the exact same as Nemesis. Though she worked in the shadows where Nemesis rallied entire kingdoms to his cause by force of will or diplomacy since they followed him willingly. In the SS route, the church defines nemesis as nothing more than a bandit turned warlord. Where instead of Nemesis crafting the weapons, and offering them to the leaders of the nations he allied with. Instead in SS, Nemesis already was allied with the elites before the massacre of the dragon people, and to gain their powers they had consumed the blood of the fallen dragons. So in both routes you have two entirely different histories and events. Though many people accept one as true instead of realizing both are true, but only in their respective route.

      @techpriest6962@techpriest69626 ай бұрын

  • DUDE! you forgot to tell the people about the ANDARON SAGA SPIKE! the 4rd golden peak we will see when we have a proper mia armpit fire emblem :S

    @TheValinov@TheValinov7 ай бұрын

  • I think we need a Fire Emblem with an actually engaging story and well written characters like we had back in the Sacred Stones and Lyn/Hector/Eliwood era. If we had an engaging story that wasn't pure cringe, I think popularity would spike again.

    @Dracula3177@Dracula31775 ай бұрын

    • There's video I found asking is Fire Emblem too main stream kzhead.info/sun/dLOgnKl8hHtmq4E/bejne.html Since Fire Emblem wasn't very popular in the past and Awakening saved the series. It made me worried that Intelligent Systems will make the gameplay and story too beginner friendly, in order to appeal to a wider audience??? Engage was my fears come to life😦😦😦😦.

      @orangeslash1667@orangeslash16675 ай бұрын

    • That era almost literally killed the franchise, while sure as heck wouldn't call a journey to see grandpa and boy asking around if anyone has seen his dad engaging story wise...

      @V-Jes@V-Jes4 ай бұрын

    • @@V-Jes Fire Emblem was doing decent numbers in the GBA era, but when it made the jump to 3d things went downhill fast. 3d usually cost more than 2d.

      @orangeslash1667@orangeslash16674 ай бұрын

    • Based

      @AzumarillConGafasBv@AzumarillConGafasBv4 ай бұрын

    • That era was the beginning of the franchise in the West. We didn't even know about the series en mass back then. Awakening was when the vast majority learned of the series. Had they heard of the older games earlier I think it would have made a massive difference.@@V-Jes

      @Dracula3177@Dracula31774 ай бұрын

  • After playing engaged….I appreciate 3 houses more

    @ThaoNguyen-jv4up@ThaoNguyen-jv4up5 ай бұрын

  • I wish we had raw numbers instead of a percentage. But anyways, while I think views and sales are both imperfect measures of popularity, I think sales is much closer to the truth than views most of the time. The sales of Engage do have me questioning that logic, but looking at FPS franchises, it seems sales is a much better indicator of longevity than views and I see no reason FE would be different.

    @alex_zetsu@alex_zetsu7 ай бұрын

    • There isnt much content to make on fire emblem anyway as it is a singleplayer game, views arent really relevant for a game like this

      @bazankreed7094@bazankreed70947 ай бұрын

    • Just as you said, Engage sales do not represent the game popularity on the fandom because mostly everyone is either playing the old games/3H bc Engage wasn't for them and nobody really cared after seeing how inexistent of a plot there is

      @AzumarillConGafasBv@AzumarillConGafasBv4 ай бұрын

  • In my opinion, fire emblem needs to break out of the existing scenarios it’s always been in. It’s similar to what has been and is happening to Pokémon, where rehashing the same premise but “with a twist!” Is causing new games like sword and shield or scarlet and violet to not be as legendary as the era of gen 3, 4, 5 and stuff for long standing fans. There needs to be something wild to shake up the premise of fire emblem. Not to lose its identity for the sake of popularity but to take a risk and try something bold. Every game’s plot boils down to man vs gods/dragons if we think about it. Not that that’s a bad thing but when you do it upwards of 15+ times it gets predictable. I remember during awakening’s development they even flirted with the idea of fire emblem on Mars. But that might actually be a cool idea. Perhaps fire emblem but in the modern day, or a futuristic sci fi fire emblem. The identity of fire emblem to me at least is the gameplay. It doesn’t matter where the setting takes place as long as we have stuff like weapon triangle, weapon durability, supports, growth rates, etc. so if they were to release like a cyberpunk fire emblem who knows? It might actually do fantastic if done correctly. Maybe it’s because of how successful awakening and fates were that they felt like they had to just keep doing the same thing. But I’m low key getting bored of every story being “destroy the evil dragon/god/emperor”. Even if every game does it differently it’s still just rehashing the same premise.

    @VarsVerum@VarsVerum7 ай бұрын

  • The Drums of War are beating at 1:34

    @bigtasty6136@bigtasty61367 ай бұрын

    • No man can be trusted!

      @chillstoneblakeblast3172@chillstoneblakeblast31727 ай бұрын

    • What happened to Dorcas?

      @ninjafar@ninjafar7 ай бұрын

  • I will forever be grateful to Smash 4 for introducing Corrin, which led me to buying Fates and introducing me to the core series. Played Fates, bought every game on the 3DS, and haven't missed a release since.

    @Smuggy97@Smuggy977 ай бұрын

    • I mean, since Fates came out, there have only been two games... three if you count Echoes I guess. I'm glad you got to play Awakening and all, but the 3DS era was pretty brutal as far as quality goes outside of Awakening. The GBA games were really a league above until 3H dropped, and then Engage came out and it was... alright.

      @TwinBladeFury@TwinBladeFury7 ай бұрын

    • @@TwinBladeFuryNah the gba games are also a league about 3h

      @voltron77@voltron777 ай бұрын

    • The lack of smash being mentioned in the video is astonishing

      @oof776@oof7767 ай бұрын

    • Well I hope you enjoyed that double edged sword because thanks to Corrin every Smash Fan is bitter over Fire Emblem in Smash and Corrin’s inclusion is the reason Byleth wasn’t well received, doesn’t help both were DLC that you had to pay for.

      @brandonwilliams6119@brandonwilliams61197 ай бұрын

    • @@TwinBladeFurywhy does that matter? They clearly had fun

      @gektoast4968@gektoast49687 ай бұрын

  • It seems people just can't get engaged with the latest title.

    @ASMRDoodlez@ASMRDoodlez7 ай бұрын

  • Engage had a pretty bad timing and marketing. A lot of anticipated games came out this year like TOTK and Pikmin 4, the game released 4 months after it was announced and the DLC released 3 months later, it really felt pretty rushed.

    @Scar-to8by@Scar-to8by7 ай бұрын

  • Minor thing: Tokyo Mirage Sessions Encore is a re-release not a sequel

    @wick2010@wick20107 ай бұрын

  • As what could be considered a normie, i didnt find Engage to be that engaging. I simply didnt like it, i think the majority thinks about it the same way as i do.

    @Spacefrisian@Spacefrisian7 ай бұрын

  • I can tell you straight up that the fumbled execution of Engage kept me from buying or playing it... I still really love the older titles though.

    @avalonperez3806@avalonperez38067 ай бұрын

  • Maybe it's because I'm getting older and always stressed out, so I can't get myself to play video games anymore 😔

    @haunterghostpoison4651@haunterghostpoison46517 ай бұрын

    • Yet, there will be a game in the future that will draw you in.

      @lspuria8440@lspuria84407 ай бұрын

    • Get a better job

      @nykita427@nykita4277 ай бұрын

    • @nykita427 trying actually

      @haunterghostpoison4651@haunterghostpoison46517 ай бұрын

    • @lspuria8440 Maybe I'm in the minority but a fire emblem game that is rated M could be a nice change, less story restrictions

      @haunterghostpoison4651@haunterghostpoison46517 ай бұрын

    • I play vydia because I'm stressed out. It's the only thing that calms me in a bad day that always works

      @chillstoneblakeblast3172@chillstoneblakeblast31727 ай бұрын

  • The two oldest Fire Emblem videos in KZhead is a Path of Radiance intro from 2005 and a Binding Blade japanese ad a little months before it.

    @Aether776@Aether7767 ай бұрын

  • I can only speak for myself and say what killed Engage for me. First of all it was the dumb af character design choices that toned down my first impression of the game. Then when it came out it just seemed like it had very uninteresting and generic story and character writing as well. Then another issue I have with Fire Emblem is how the fanbase developed and how much Nintendo is trying to appeal to that change. I'm not sorry for saying that the current fanbase has a big coomer problem and you can observe it very well by looking at the newer FEH banner releases and the newer OCs they released lately. It's easy money for Nintendo, since a mobile game isn't in need of much complex writing, but poison for the actual series and I will die on that hill.

    @TheIronbound@TheIronbound6 ай бұрын

  • While I don't think Engage killed the hype it did dampen it. A good chunk of mainline FE games tend to immerse you into the world and characters rather quickly, setting the tone for the games at an acceptable pace. Engage unquestionably has excellent gameplay with a lot of dynamism going for it. But it struggles with tone due to how it's roster of characters clash with what the conflict is trying to do. And while anecdotal, failed to invest me in anyone in the game, which is a serious problem for a tactical RPG that relies on it's story and characters. And it would appear I am far from the only one who felt that way. Entries such as the Radiant duology and Awakening were able to get me invested early on because of either their world building or characters. Perhaps FE can get another golden age if they go for a more serious and dark mainline entry, characterized in a similar way to the Judgral games. But I fear going further mainstream is a monkey's paw scenario.

    @fromeggman@fromeggman7 ай бұрын

    • This is your opinion but understand that even if it hurts, fates was the most popular along side 3H. Fates didn't have interesting stories. I would say both games have probably the best physical appealing design. They probably went too much Shojo design for Engage and not kawaii enough like Fates.

      @birdbig6852@birdbig68527 ай бұрын

    • Three Houses was their attempt to go for a more serious and dark mainline entry, and we see how that worked out lol. Insanely popular yes, but at what cost to the actual fanbase? If it meant the fanbase would become populated by tourists and normies who call me a bigot because I don't think Dorothea is a lesbian then was it worth it?

      @Aleph3575@Aleph35757 ай бұрын

    • Yes! Please bring back Judgral! It's my favorite storyline of the Franchise

      @rodolfocampanatres3862@rodolfocampanatres38627 ай бұрын

    • @@Aleph3575 Sorry that happened to you. I hope you can discuss the games toxicity free.

      @dinar8749@dinar87497 ай бұрын

    • @@Aleph3575 Don't forget all the normies calling people who like Edlegard a Trump supporter or a German WW2 soldier. May the over political era of the internet never ever come back I dread the 2024 election

      @ImmaLittlePip@ImmaLittlePip6 ай бұрын

  • I would like to share my Fire Emblem journey with you. I actually would never have given it a chance if I didn't get to like Robin as a Smash Bros 3DS character. That's what pushed me to order the game a little while after it was removed from the shelves. And what I got was a great experience, as I kept hooked on that game for as long as it took for Fates to come out. It really was fun to build my units from the ground up, down to the children, and even if the Valm part was not that interesting, unlocking supports was what kept me going. Even back then, it had a bit of replayability, as there are gender-exclusive skills you can get your Robin (which is the best avatar in the series, imo, for reasons I will state down the line). Then came Fates, and... I was not disappointed either, mechanics-wise. It was roughly the same as Awakening, while getting a better gameplay, the story was...good. Good in the sense that I wasn't poking the holes at the story back then, and the senseless sacrifices quickly were cast aside, for I was enjoying the gameplay. The route split added replay value (yes, even Rev.), but I never got all child units even today. Maybe I was still sick of the kids in Awakening, but the notion of the Deeprealms was quite jarring to me (making 20 years pass in days? Awakening's child units at least had a VALID LORE REASON to exist), and... yeah, the game was still enjoyable and kept me hooked for the next year and a half. A bit like you Mangs, I played Heroes and...stopped when the power-creep became too serious. The story wasn't good enough to make me care about it. I got Shadows of Valentia and... It is still one of the best games I've played. The voice acting does a lot, but the story was amazing, especially on Alm's side of things. Celica's... much less (the Jedah shenanigans). Sadly, it's not a game with a lot of replayability, but the ride was worth it. Three Houses. Ugh. I see the appeal, I really do, but... The Monastery. I have grown to hate it. The game is fine otherwise, but the gameplay is easy to cheese through. And the fact that the Empire route is the secret route had me suspend my disbelief a bit too hard for my own good. Fortunately, my next playthrough was Azure Moon, and Dimitri delivered. I haven't bought Engage. Not only did I feel they relied a bit too much on nostalgia and beanking on attracting Heroes players in the main game, the next appaling thing was the avatar. So, I've been mentionning the avatars. While I don't think they are a blight in the series, my gripe comes to the fact they try really hard to shoehorn the player into the story. Robin may have been important in the story, he is not its cornerstone - most everything happens due to Chrom's choices. The only time yours matter is at the very end. The rest of the time, it really did feel like you're just a member of the army. Why is this important? Well, we come to Corrin. Corrin is an amnesic Mary Sue. And they are also the avatar of this game. The plot revolves around them. The amnesical bit can have very easily be done without if they didn't try to shoehorn the player into this story - Corrin would have been more interesting with more flaws and... actually, s/he just needed a credible character. It doesn't help that they are also a dragon, increasing their importance, since the Dragons in Fire Emblem are quite a big deal. Byleth... Well, this time, they tried too hard not to give them character, but them being a taciturn person really doesn't sell the teacher bit well, nor did it make them more relatable. And then it turns out they're basically the second coming of Sothis... And again, the fact they don't remember their past does them the same disservice it did Corrin. And in Engage, the Avatar is a divine dragon. A.K.A the closest thing FE has to gods. We sure are elevating the players to new heights at IntelligentSystems...

    @Sephiroth08150@Sephiroth081507 ай бұрын

    • I wasn't going to get Engage because I was frustrated that a $30 DCL was announced before the game even came out, and some of the emblem choices I didn't like. But then I decided to get it and I'm really glad I did. The main game has an impressive amount of content, more than most other FE games, and definitely felt worth $60 to me. The emblem choices make more sense after playing the game, and the gameplay is so good, the best in the series as far as I'm concerned. I didn't like the Monastery either and am happy with the version of it in Engage (still not perfect, but an improvement for sure). Graphics are way better as well, I was so relieved to see the gorgeous, smoothly animated movies from Awakening and Fates make a return compared to the flat-looking, choppy movies of Shadows of Valentia and 3H. A lot of people may not like Engage's story, but the visuals alone really got me into it at times. The voice acting too, is quite impressive. Just like in Shadows of Valentia, casting is great, delivery is great, and it's wonderful to have hundreds of fully voiced cutscenes/support conversations. I know financially speaking Engage can be considered a success, though there seems to be quite a bit of negativity online about it, especially compared to Three Houses. I think that kind of sucks, as I'm not a big fan of 3H and Engage is possibly my favorite overall game in the series (Fates & Shadows of Valentia too...I may be biased since I hate weapon breaking). I'm curious to see what Intelligent Systems does for the next mainline game. It seems like they have had a gameplay-first mentality lately, and that's part of the reason the story ends up lacking in some areas. I personally don't mind this if the gameplay is much better for it, but I understand it is a balancing act. I have a friend who decided he hated and never wanted to play FE Fates upon learning what happens with the children in that game. I wouldn't mind if they go back to having no self-insert character and no marriage, though they likely see that as risky.

      @Phoebe3315@Phoebe33157 ай бұрын

  • It's very noble of you not to show the peak of when Andarron Saga was released, it would make those other peaks look like a flatline. In seriousness though I feel like FE is in an identity vortex passing back and forth between classic, gameplay and story driven focused, to modern, focusing more on enamouring people with designs, social and relational investments. On one hand they want to support permadeath and on the other they give you a redo button. I feel like the divide you speak of between fans of Heroes and classic FE fans is actually pulling the franchise in 2 different directions, very similar to how it happened with Monster Hunter. Monster Hunter had a solution which is to keep the main titles focused on the core of what Monster Hunter is, while handheld and spinoff titles went more extreme with their setting, world building and gameplay, to satisfy both distinct tastes and widen the player and fanbase.

    @Yous0147@Yous01477 ай бұрын

    • Andaron Saga peaking? Um xD

      @auraguard0212@auraguard02125 ай бұрын

  • They just have to release a live action series of FE. It worked for One Piece tho.

    @raho500@raho5007 ай бұрын

  • Haven’t watched the full video yet because I’m busy, so I’ll leave my initial comment and edit it when I’m back: Imo, it’s a mix between the discussion that a game can provide and also how appealing is to masses which make something popular, not just FE specifically and that’s why Three Houses got it’s popularity. People already knew or at least had a concept of what Fire Emblem was when it was launched, however, it’s because of it’s story and characters that people got into the game, even if it is flawed in things like the monastery or the class balance, most of the people would ignore it if they can play what they see a good story and likable or well written characters. Something that would make people say “yeah, it’s anime but the story isn’t cringe and its deep” instead of just silly anime plot. If IS wants to appeal to the general public they need to focus on having a good/great story and that it can generate discussion. I would honestly prefer a game with good gameplay even if the story is thrash, but that isn’t the case with most people I think…

    @karasu__tenshi@karasu__tenshi7 ай бұрын

  • Interesting video allowing folks like me, which came late into the scene, to grab the history of KZhead’s Fire Emblem’s story. Short version of my opinion: the long time between releases, coupled with a single route game without a lot of mysteries, revealed the true size and habits of most of FE audience. The audience (like me) play the game but only stick around for mysteries and intricated analyses. Afterward we move to other games until a new release. Regarding the video, I didn’t really pick up the metric used for popularity. I suppose it is a period number of KZhead research / views compared to the maximum number of KZhead research / views. From the outside, it might make some period worst than they are, especially with FE:Heroes taping in a different market audience. I would believe that FE KZhead’s activity is similar to others solo playing games, as most of videos, and discussions, are made around the release of the game and stop afterward (even if they were very popular). And as such, I think the main reason why the popularity of FE is declining is the fact that few games are made. At the exception of FE:Awakening, after each release the audience dwindled to 25%, sometimes lower, until the next announcement. Furthermore, the golden era has seen 7 games in the span of 3 years, against 2 in the last 2 years. This might have led to a better retention of the attention of the “casual” audience, during the golden era, allowing the franchise to grow and grow without resetting each and every time. Regarding the FE audience, I feel like you have: • a “core” audience (10-15%), which are active members interested in gameplay, franchise and ROM-Hacks • a “regular” audience (30-40%), which comes in for new releases but do not really stick around • a “casual” audience (30-40%) which manifest when a FE game manage to break the mold and have interesting characters / world building / mysteries • a “phone” audience (last 15-20%) coming from a different market and which is difficult to tap into. Thus, if a new game wanted to reach the 80ish% popularity, it would need to appeal to casual audience. And in my opinion, it needs to sparkle discussions through characters (design, stories, interactions), like for Fates and 3H, an interesting world (different sides, mysteries, politics), like Fates and 3H, volition / frustration (choosing a route, not accessing all the units in one route, choosing who will have children), like in Awakening, Fates and 3H. I really think that locking content behind routes is a good idea, as long as we don’t have to play the same map again and again (like 3H did). Why ? Because we will miss part of the story and will look around for the missing pieces, through another playthrough or videos. In this instance it is important to have different characters in each route and maps (for replay and discovery values). For instance, I played all 3 Fates routes because I wanted to learn more about the world and characters, especially seeing both sides interact in Revelation after the 2 other routes. On the other hand, I only played one of 3H’s routes, because of the first act and the fact I had all units in my first playthrough. This instead led me to go watch a lot of KZhead videos to discover the other stories, and uncover mysteries, as I didn’t want to play again. And this might be why FE:Engage is “bleeding” that much audience. The gameplay is excellent (which may explain why it was still popular), but the lack of story, mystery and deep characters lead to fewer things to explore and look for. Again good video and a lot of interesting comments which helped me putting words on my thoughts.

    @elricolemanchot3405@elricolemanchot34057 ай бұрын

  • I think the reason why is because fire emblem three houses gave us basically 4 ish stories in 1 game. Which in turn made people watch allot to see all the routes and choices you could make as well as the broken combos of classes You can create. While the others are either bad remakes or just stories that aren't good enough to watch. Idk just what I think.

    @shadowemblem.@shadowemblem.7 ай бұрын

    • I think I just miss the way the older games were. The newer stuff doesn't really interest me like it used to..three houses was fun I have a lot of hours in it, but I have played anything fire emblem since that release

      @JordanRA@JordanRA7 ай бұрын

    • Same. Mostly because I just watch the stuff on KZhead to see if it's worth it or not. And so far it's not.

      @shadowemblem.@shadowemblem.7 ай бұрын

    • Exactly TH wouldn’t have made so many views if the route split wasn’t the worse in the series

      @thomasquesada7248@thomasquesada72487 ай бұрын

    • @@thomasquesada7248 honestly I actually liked the split. But how they did it wasn't that great.

      @shadowemblem.@shadowemblem.7 ай бұрын

    • ​@@ZX-Gearcomparing 3H maddening to Engage maddening, I actually prefer 3H Engage often times throws big groups of enemies your way, including the boss, and only counterbalances it by giving you OP rings, at which point it almost doesn't matter anymore who you give the ring to 3H on the other hand feels like every map is a puzzle, especially with later chapters that are built very defensively and hard to crack The need to train every unit makes them feel unique, but even side characters you didn't focus on can fulfill a role if you have to field them

      @zaekulia@zaekulia7 ай бұрын

  • Also looks like Fire Emblem’s “relevance” has always been linked to Smash Bros. We haven’t had anything for years from their side and it shows in the lack of interest we see today.

    @Welhor@Welhor7 ай бұрын

  • Engage didn't tickle enough people's fancy to keep the popularity going. If anything it disappointed too many and hopefully it didn't cause a lasting effect. Word of mouth is very important, and if you look at the temperature of the room with Engage, word of mouth was bad, regardless of the few outliers trying to say "story / writing dont matter".

    @takarahayashi4124@takarahayashi41244 ай бұрын

  • My first reaction was thinking that of sales, saying "bro it's been 1 game since three houses." Glad you clarified it quickly and I enjoyed the video.

    @LeviAuren@LeviAuren7 ай бұрын

  • My guess would be that since Nintendo now knows the potential of Fire Emblem to fly off the shelves, they'll keep making games for a good while. I feel that it's unlikely for it to ever really go away, but they definitely have some reinventing to do during these drought periods.

    @Kiwimite@Kiwimite5 ай бұрын

  • I'm still hoping for awakening re-release on a modern console or a remake. I'm interested in that metal slug tactics game that was announced a while back but haven't heard anything in a while.

    @fonzy1259@fonzy12597 ай бұрын

  • i loved Fates Games and Three House game because they were so cool to play it but sadly i wanted to play mystery of the emblem and i hope they’ll make a remastered of it 👍. About the Data of Popularity i would say Awakening was the big splash the Fire emblem série needed for both intelligent system and the fan to increase the moral and popularity of a dark age of Fire Emblem because Awakening was really cool to play it despite a few problems ❤. i hope you will recovered soon Mangs and thank for making videos despite being sick 🤒 😢

    @shigurenoame9591@shigurenoame95917 ай бұрын

  • I am someone that started at 3H, aka a noob lol. I have also played Engage and I enjoy both, just in different ways like different flavors almost. I am starting to explore older games, like Conquest, Awakening on the 3DS and Blazing Blade via NSO. I believe Sacred Stones is also slated to be on NSO in the future and I plan to experience it if it does come. I wonder if certain other things paired along with game releases also helped with generating some numbers or lowering some numbers. Like Corrin in Smash, it probably drew some people to the series that way. And lets not forget how pissed off people got with Byleth being introduced to Smash. It was almost like people who are not in FE were like okay, thats enough, i aint paying attention no more. Also world events, I wonder if some things happening around these times helped/hindered numbers. So many factors to consider when looking at data like you presented.

    @catherinedefreitas5715@catherinedefreitas57157 ай бұрын

    • One factor that does come to mind is real-world events. First off, we had the COVID-19 pandemic which shut everything down and people needed something to occupy themselves while waiting for the lockdowns to end and Three Houses was made with repayablity in mind to get a whole picture of the lore and people. So people began dissecting Three Houses like crazy trying to see the whole picture that Byleth can't see due to only being one person stuck in one side of the story throughout a run. Secondly, the war in Ukraine didn't do much to relieve people's stress. Intelligence Systems had to delay the release of Advance Wars:Re-Boot Camp due to the war as a game about a war with modern weapons and gear while one was going one seemed in poor taste to people. With the war nearing its end and seeming close to Ukraine remaining independent while Russia destroys itself, a game set in a Medieval fantasy world doesn't seem like a bad idea. Now with the new war in Israel, Intelligence Systems may hold off on releasing any new games about any kind of war until it isn't being talked about by the news outlets as frequently. I saw many of those dips in the chart often coincide with events that led to people dying or getting sick/injured which makes people want any and all information on that to make sure it won't interfere with or put their lives in danger.

      @johnathanedwards9054@johnathanedwards90547 ай бұрын

  • Shadows of Valentia is such a fantastic game. It's a shame it wasn't appreciated as much.

    @travisstirling2157@travisstirling21577 ай бұрын

    • IS made the sore mistake of wanting to delay it´s release to add more languages into it and unfortunately a thracia moment happened

      @thomasquesada7248@thomasquesada72487 ай бұрын

    • Without a doubt, imo, the absolute best looking game for the entire franchise. Wish they would have updated maps a bit as well just because of their general small and boring maps. But oh my goodness everything about this game was top tier for me.

      @ma.2099@ma.20997 ай бұрын

    • It came out after the Switch was released, sold almost all printed copies and is of high praised. It's biggest weakness was awful sales in Japan but japan already had Gaiden and Has had a downward trend in gaming for a long time.

      @chillstoneblakeblast3172@chillstoneblakeblast31727 ай бұрын

    • A shame they released it on a dying console.

      @bramt2000@bramt20007 ай бұрын

    • ​@@bramt2000pretty much this. The 3DS was in its last days, which impacted greatly the sales.

      @TheAdorelis@TheAdorelis7 ай бұрын

  • "Uh-oh, where will I get my revenue now?" : The Video

    @Omperor@Omperor7 ай бұрын

  • For me, Engage was a massive letdown. I can’t imagine being a new fan who had played three houses and expecting something akin to that experience and getting Engage. It was kind of jarring how awful the writing was and the lack of depth in the characters in a way that I have never seen in a Fire Emblem game. It really felt like it was catering to a different audience (ones who play gacha games incessantly and don’t wear deodorant), despite being a fan service anniversary title. Gameplay was good, yes, but I expect more from Intelligent Systems. They have shown how truly remarkable they can make a game, especially ones with lasting impressions that have real things to say and truly deep and profound stories to tell. Even when the story is divisive and a little rushed (Fates), it still tried and honestly kept me engaged. Engage, quite literally felt like a genuine chore for me to complete. I unlocked every single support, hoping that there would be some gem hidden or that it would add layers of depth to the characters. I did not find such things. After I completed about 200 hrs in the game, I set it down and will probably never pick it up again. Reallllllyyyyy praying for an FE4 remake for switch 2 or an original title. I think it could do a lot for the series. Something is assuredly in the works and close to releasing…

    @dkong1@dkong113 күн бұрын

  • Is there any data on how smash bros influenced the search data? Like during the Corrin or Byleth release trailer

    @yucca5458@yucca54587 ай бұрын

    • From what I've seen, kind of. The biggest spikes on Smash coincided with the addition of characters like Sepheroth from FF7, Steve from Minecraft, Byleth, and Sora from Kingdom Hearts. Their announcement trailers broke the internet as all but Byleth were characters that people wanted in Super Smash Bros for a long time, Sora's announcement actually producing the biggest spike in data for Smash.

      @johnathanedwards9054@johnathanedwards90547 ай бұрын

  • I been a fan of the fire emblem for 15 years and enjoyed the content of games and music and never stopped playing the new games and the old games

    @HartRoxy@HartRoxy7 ай бұрын

  • If I may, I think Three Houses's newbie boom and Engage being 3H's anthesis from a story perspective is to blame. 3H's story was very well regarded, but it was an outlier, not the norm. So when the newbies who started with 3H got Engage, they weren't that engaged with the game, causing the drop off. You can even see this with Heroes. When 3H came out, so many banners that year were 3H banners, but Engage has only gotten two whole banners, and two more partial ones.

    @olympusgolemoflight7198@olympusgolemoflight71987 ай бұрын

    • Not to mention how three houses is arguably the least fire emblem game at its core, for better or worse depending on who you ask. Which can attract more newcommers much easier to the game, while some fire emblem veterans might end up displeased with the lack of gameplay divided between hours upon hours of repetitive monastery sections. Guess which one draws more sells though. Engage even with its new feature ( which almost every fire emblem games presents) feels much closer to a classic fire emblem experience than three houses, which may not attract as many newcommers as three houses did.

      @mihaimercenarul7467@mihaimercenarul74677 ай бұрын

    • @@mihaimercenarul7467yes exactly FE as a franchise is in a tricky spot where as a TRPG it needs to carefully balance between staying true at its core to not betray its fan and to be less of a TRPG to be more popular

      @thomasquesada7248@thomasquesada72487 ай бұрын

    • @@mihaimercenarul7467 i actually wanted to play some Fire Emblem, and to pick one i asked Chat AI, which advised to play Three Houses. Man, the more i played, the more i realized it's not quite what i've seen about Fire Emblem.

      @junkolover9518@junkolover95187 ай бұрын

    • They weren’t… engaged? :3

      @BoltTheEmolga@BoltTheEmolga7 ай бұрын

    • @@junkolover9518 Yes, I don't think it's a bad thing if the game plays differently from the other entries, especially for those that played three houses as their first fire emblem game. But it can be a problem for the veterans, or for those that wanted to try another fire emblem game after three houses.

      @mihaimercenarul7467@mihaimercenarul74677 ай бұрын

  • There are too many factors to really be able to pinpoint a specific reason but my FE experience was that I discovered FE with Smash Brawl and I started with the GBA titles. Awakening was my first "new" FE game that I played and I played it a lot. I also remember Fates having a lot of expectations, speculations and controversies (love potion, story, mechanics etc) before the game even came out (back when it was called Fire Emblem IF). Heroes defo brought FE into the spotlight as most of the early characters were from Awakening, Fates or the GBA era which drew in a lot of ppl and the popularity was also likely tied to guides on how to play the game and how to beat the maps with free characters (and characters spotlight videos like Mangs'). For SoV I do remember many FE tubers being hyped but most of the newer fans never played Gaiden so they didn't know what to expect but the game was well made and enjoyable. 3 houses was another big moment where ppl were hyped when the game came out and when videos about different secrets of the game were posted. I had more or less dropped the franchise when engage came out. Now I'm playing FE6 Project Ember bc I love FE6 but I don't really feel the need to replay any other FE or even to finish all routes on 3H. I'd say the gameplay being the same more or less with each entry, means that the story and the rest of the game must be top notch to even catch my attention. Ik it sounds petty but that's how I feel.

    @arcturus64@arcturus647 ай бұрын

  • Wasnt 3 houses like the most sold FE game ? And engage wasnt as popular but still sold a lot ? Like I feel that if the sales are good I belive the series is doing good overall no?

    @diegocoello3042@diegocoello30427 ай бұрын

    • The thing is it that it only sold well from returnees of Three Houses and once the lack of story became word of mouth, Engage's sales fell off a cliff beginning in March 2023

      @PeruvianPotato@PeruvianPotato7 ай бұрын

    • ​@@PeruvianPotatoYou are not wrong because first impressions and world of mouth can have a heavy affect on the longevity of a game. Engage had a lots of struggles in story and character writing which caused people to be afraid of recommending the game to others

      @eternaldarklight8204@eternaldarklight82047 ай бұрын

  • I believe one of the biggest things that hurt Engage was the poor first impressions it garnered during its reveal. Many people often struggle with changing a first impression because it is the first thing our minds latch onto when we hear about something. While some people slowly began to love Engage for its gameplay, some people like me could not stand some of the writing choices in Engage from the way the characters were portrayed to how the plot developed in the main story. Fire emblem has always had both mature and silly scenes that meld together to create a great experience along with it gameplay. Engage however, completely tried to make the story serious without having proper buildup to many of their important scene and the characters often disregarded the story to make a quick joke in many of their supports. These symptoms reminded people of Fates, which made Engage rather divisive in the community

    @eternaldarklight8204@eternaldarklight82047 ай бұрын

    • *I would strongly disagree:* Fire emblem in the GBA days may not have had the strongest writing, but it was a setting that took itself seriously with maybe 1 or two fun / silly characters thrown in. Though you only saw that side if you did the supports, otherwise the silly aspects were easy to miss. So it was a 98% serious game with its 2% light hearted supports. Bring the DS days into the mix and the stories were mixed, but the "silly" aspects of characters were no longer just in their supports. It became the entire defining characteristics of the one or two goofy characters. We had gotten to more or less an 90 to 80% serious setting with the 10 to 20% being silly characters or archetypes. Now, we just get generic anime tropes for characters with only. Fe3H for what it tried to do to stay serious in its world building still had over 70% of the characters have silly supports or light hearted supports that had nothing to do with the plot. Engage (in my opinion) took this much further where 90% of the game was just silly nonsense barely dragged along by a generic anime story. I fear for the next FE game, and hope it's give to someone other than IS to make. Nintendo nor IS respects the franchise.

      @techpriest6962@techpriest69626 ай бұрын

  • I'm new to Fire Emblem and I find the fanbase to be welcoming, helpful, and generally polite. I got Three Houses and Engage this year after my friend recommended them to me, and I plan on playing through the older games soon. But as a newbie, I'm honestly surprised that this franchise isn't more popular than it currently is. It definitely deserves to be.

    @redpineapple1527@redpineapple15275 ай бұрын

    • Path of Radiance is my favourite, it can be played on emulator (dolphin) easily, or you can try to find a copy like I did to play on GameCube/Wii. I've yet to play its sequel but heard good things about it. So I would obviously recommend that one to you.

      @arfanik9827@arfanik98275 ай бұрын

    • @@arfanik9827 I'll have to give it a go. Thanks for the recommendation.

      @redpineapple1527@redpineapple15275 ай бұрын

  • I think Smash Bros also has a HUGE part to play with this, as it did back in the early 2000’s with Melee being one of the main reasons FE7 (GBA) was released in the West. Seems the two series are in tied together in the west

    @clappytriofan2098@clappytriofan20987 ай бұрын

  • Honestly people really enjoy npc interactions so it really does come down to world building and a good script. Other than that fire eblem gameplay is great formula they just don't need to go too crazy but can introduce new weapons and units just be careful that they balanced or just op in one aspect instead of overall

    @WonderingSkilly@WonderingSkilly7 ай бұрын

  • The thing with a lot of games is that more gameplay focused ones like Engage that don't have a great story need something else to keep it a float. Take pokemon for example, ignoring the massive amount of different things going into it such as the anime, tcg, etc. the pokemon games have pretty dogshit stories with no depth that have been recycled for years but they have good gameplay that is kept constantly relevant because of the competitive scene and the massive romhacking scene. While Fe does have some good romhacks (Shout out to Andaron Saga for being amazing) if the base francise itself isn't very popular then this isn't going to keep it above water. Another example would be the Dark Souls games, they are gameplay focused games that basically tell you very little of the story and leave it to you to go piece together the breadcrumbs which causes a lot of engagement for lore videos. There's also the multiplayer aspect that can be made exciting through trolling videos or goofy builds and stuff. However for FE there's no real interest in FE multiplayer because there's nothing really interesting to do with it. For engage, I imagine people watched a lot of cool videos of people making wacky builds with the rings and once they had their fill there was nothing to keep them around. Let's look at 3h and fates now, both of those games have route splits and in fates case those route splits were paid. I bet a lot of casual fans played 1 route to completion and then decided to look up videos of their favorite FEtuber in order to see the rest of the content, thereby generating a big spike in activity. I think an FE4 remake would do similarly to Engage, a decent spike of interest with a quick drop off. Realistically Fire emblem just doesn't have massive appeal because there's so little to hold your interest long term, even if you love playing the game over and over you probably aren't watching playthroughs of it over and over because they're mostly gonna look the same. I imagine you're one of the only actually popular FE creators because A. Your entertaining where most of the others are not and B. You do wacky(and dumb) shit in your playthroughs that can break up the samey feel of watching multiple playthroughs of the same game.

    @archeremiya3533@archeremiya35337 ай бұрын

  • 12:09: A crossover fighting game. With Samurai Shodwon. That would be the best thing ever. Sakura and Nakoruru and finally meet! 😍😍😍

    @ridleyformk1244@ridleyformk12447 ай бұрын

  • I literally spent 2016-2019 playing all the fire emblem games I couldn't play that were not on 3ds through emulator. I literally finished thracia a day before three houses came out. So yah I was addicted to fire emblem during those 4 years and that was when I found your channel Mangs, so for me I was practically glued to fire emblem content. Now I kind of play other games and less of fire emblem, I don't even replay some of the games as I did back in 2016-2019. College is sort of the blame and getting addicted to anime during COVID is also 100% why I didn't play much fire emblem. Now I just wait for the new games to release and enjoy them, rather than trying to beat every game on the hardest difficulty like I did before. And I do agree that a new original fire emblem game will spark another golden age, especially if it releases on a new console because 2023 switch popularity is nothing compared to 2019 switch popularity.

    @arnavmekala4578@arnavmekala45787 ай бұрын

  • 12:15 I think the line is primarily very low right now because it's been a bit by now since the last big spike of 3H. You can make that chart for pretty much any game series. Spikes for every release, with slowly declinging flat-lining at the floor relatively shortly after. I think comparing how high the spike for each game is and if it has a bit of an echo phase after that is alot more telling. Also since 3H I hear alot of normies using FE as the measuring stick when talking about turn-based strategy game gameplay "It's like fire emblem". I'm not sure, but I don't think that has been the case before.

    @sunkeyavad6528@sunkeyavad65287 ай бұрын

    • Even back in the days Fire Emblem was well known for his brutal and unforgiven difficulty (which is not), a bit like Dark Souls nowadays (pretty much the same). A lot of people wouldn't touch the game because of that but the title was already famous. But contrary to FS games, I don't think a turn based strategy game can become mainstream.

      @birdbig6852@birdbig68527 ай бұрын

    • @@birdbig6852 turn-based strategy games are fated to be niche

      @AzumarillConGafasBv@AzumarillConGafasBv4 ай бұрын

  • I hope the next FE ignites a spark yet again.

    @Syngrafer@Syngrafer7 ай бұрын

  • Will you make this same video but with advance wars games?

    @kamilocastillo5816@kamilocastillo58166 ай бұрын

  • Possibly a hot take here before I even watch the video but as long as a series I like has gotten a handful of official titles and fan games I couldn't care less if said series dies. There's already far more games available than I'll ever play in my lifetime so a series ending due to low sales is not really a worry of mine. I started playing a Pokemon fan game a few years back but the save file got corrupted. Because there's so many good games out I've never gotten around to trying it again. I even just started Sonic Frontiers today and those first few hours felt very addicting. Edit for post video watch: Ultimately I think we'll be okay. Look at Metroid. It was in the pits for years and then Dread released. An actual release for a game that, for a few years at least I believe, fans weren't even sure was real. It went on to become the best selling game in the series, at least over 3 million sales. If Metroid can make a comeback after the disaster that was Other M, so can Fire Emblem.

    @animeking1357@animeking13577 ай бұрын

  • I think heroes is as popular as ever. But Engage itself was just not popular. People not liked the desings and less people were interested to watch it. Also people thought it is a heroes spin off. I think if FE4 remake comes or something big and new with better designs it will climb again

    @mrcaos999@mrcaos9997 ай бұрын

    • Heroes went on a decline for a while and engage didn’t help either

      @therealjaystone2344@therealjaystone23447 ай бұрын

  • I can say that while my love for Fire Emblem has not decreased, I've got some severe franchise fatigue right now. I didn't even finish Engage because I've just had enough for a while.

    @WalkerSunriseChannel@WalkerSunriseChannel6 ай бұрын

    • There's video I found asking is Fire Emblem too main stream kzhead.info/sun/dLOgnKl8hHtmq4E/bejne.html Since Fire Emblem wasn't very popular in the past and Awakening saved the series. It made me worried that Intelligent Systems will make the gameplay and story too beginner friendly, in order to appeal to a wider audience??? Engage was my fears come to life😦😦😦😦.

      @orangeslash1667@orangeslash16675 ай бұрын

  • I started typing out a long post then deleted it. My posts have been getting ignored lately in the community so there is no point.

    @lanceknightmare@lanceknightmare7 ай бұрын

  • I think the answer is……kinda? I think it has to do with the fact that Engage was a very overall forgettable story with most of the cast being very 1 dimensional, it had great gameplay but gameplay is not something that drives conversation as much as story and characters. It should be noted that I do not think fire emblems OVERALL popularity is diminishing I just think the world of engage did little to retain player attention past the credits, if there was FE announcement that was I do think interest would return

    @sootythunder3111@sootythunder31117 ай бұрын

  • I believe it´s less about overall popularity rather than just so much new stuff coming out that unless you´re a live service game it is impossible to focus the attention on your IP longterm. Combine this with the general desire of people to constantly try different things and unless you constantly try to work the crowd with future announcements and secret projects there is simply no way to retain the broader audiences attention. The fact that Engage even got this much attention despite having such obvious flaws should at least give us hope that the future of Fire Emblem is at least secured for now. Regarding future games, I think a linear story with some variable chapters depending on player choices would be the best way to bring out the full potential of Fire Emblem storytelling without bloating the playthroughs unnecessarily would come a long way.

    @schwarzflammenkaiser2347@schwarzflammenkaiser23477 ай бұрын

  • As @Smuggy97 pointed out, SSB4 is worthy of being noted on the timeline. I had played the GBA games prior to Corrin's announcement in Smash but hadn't really expressed any interest in the newer titles. I didn't even serach FE content on KZhead until I start getting into Fates and Awakening

    @cursedchest6469@cursedchest64697 ай бұрын

  • I'd say it's too early to jump the gun on this one. Based on the trends with this graph, it only takes one good game with enough staying power to generate long-term intrigue around the series. There's always dips in between games. Engage just happened to lose its mass appeal much earlier than its predecessors. I'd be more concerned for the series if we get another mainline game or two that performed similarly to Engage and they fizzle out too fast as well. As it stands now, I think we're fine. It can still bounce back with the next one if they play their cards right. Despite Engage's fate, many franchises would LOVE to be in Fire Emblem's place right now. Try being a Mega Man fan/content creator right now... My Mega Man channel's larger than this FE one I have, but I still see faster growth on this one compared to Mega content. People are still interested in FE content today. New games simply make it a lot easier to get views. But at the end, if a video's reeeeally good, it'll do decently regardless, I think. We'll be okay, Mangs!

    @CainMagnus@CainMagnus7 ай бұрын

    • Megaman is dead now. Capcom should make him public domain if they aren't going to bother giving him new games anymore.

      @dinar8749@dinar87497 ай бұрын

    • Capcom killed Megaman

      @AzumarillConGafasBv@AzumarillConGafasBv4 ай бұрын

    • @@AzumarillConGafasBv And now they've added DRM Enigma to their old games too, and have called modding "cheating" so they're trying to ban it.

      @dinar8749@dinar87494 ай бұрын

  • (I mean, when Engage leaks came out people thought it was a chinese fake knock-off, don't help much.) PS : (It ended up being an official chinese fake knock-off...)

    @redlinkAS@redlinkAS7 ай бұрын

  • I wonder how a FE6 + FE7 + FE8 HD remastered bundle would do. I'd buy it.

    @Sneaky240V@Sneaky240V7 ай бұрын

  • Still waiting for a story as good as the Tellius games.

    @yamiookami@yamiookami7 ай бұрын

  • So yeah, two quarters in and Engage has only sold 1.68M. It’s only sold 70k copies since it’s first quarter. I think it’s safe to call it a flop.

    @paladinslash4721@paladinslash47216 ай бұрын

    • If this is considered a flop then you should never go into business

      @-lord1754@-lord17545 ай бұрын

    • Source for the 70k copies sold in second quarter? If that's the case then it's dropped off pretty badly. Three Houses sold 3 million soon after its first year, but engage's 1.68million+(70k*2 for the next two financial quarters) is only 1.82million...and the sales probably won't even be that good. If IS keep neglecting the story, and darker style of three houses for future games, then they will kill fire emblem.

      @dinar8749@dinar87495 ай бұрын

  • Wish I had gotten into this series sooner. I only just tried it in May this year through the Switch's GBA virtual console and got addicted for nearly 3 months. Then I bought Engage and had a good time with it. I've played through the FE on the virtual console more than 5 times already and played through Engage twice. Definitely feel like I deprived myself of some good games lol

    @lJwSl@lJwSl7 ай бұрын

  • I'm just here for the weapon triangle, man.

    @WestPictures@WestPictures7 ай бұрын

  • I think FE3H, like Awakening and Fates, really brought FE to the forefront, and of course, there's FEH, which has been running since I was in middle school. I don't think Engage really appealed to the new crowd FE3H + FEH drew in, which may be a factor. But what I will say, is that something that has potential is a remake of FE6, or even FE4.

    @stryfe7467@stryfe74677 ай бұрын

  • You are allowed to laugh at my opinion: Give me a golden route 3H game, where I can recruit and max out literally everyone if I choose to, and I think it would at least usher in a lot of interest despite the lack of replayable value.

    @mammar9924@mammar99246 ай бұрын

  • There are a few things that bother me about this “analysis”. First of, from a statistical and scientific point of view, there are not enough evidence in order to support the claim that FE’s popularity is declining. The video only take factors about KZhead searches but it doesn’t mention sales, number of videos made, online and offline discussion etc, so the number of evidences is bit too low. The other thing is that you cannot really speak of a downfall trend with only one game after 3H, it should remain like this for at least 2/3 games in order to actually observe a trend. Especially when there are so many cases of a game selling badly, but the next selling much better. A very easy example is Pokémon Black and White, the games were a flop compared to others in the series, but after that it’s a continuous up going trend and Pokémon is still the biggest franchise in the world. Another thing to consider is the fact that for the most part, strategy RPGs are a niche, and 3H is more the exception than the norm and it sold that well because most people were interested in other aspects aside the chapter gameplay (I mean the actual maps where you fight). Plus the marketing team did a much better job marketing 3H both before and after the game launched, unlike for Engage whose marketing sucked. Also I think attributing the cause of the “downfall” to Engage seems kind of unfair, because it’s more 3H’s huge success that led to it. I mean 3H sold so much more compared to any other title even Fates and people talk about 3H so much more and is generally the most popular FE game even outside the FE community. And most of the time, when something blow up this much, expectations get way too high and are almost never met by the next instalment leading to a massive lost in popularity. An example that comes to mind is with a K-pop group, ITZY. They released Wannabe, their most successful track which led the girls becoming mainstream and of the most popular group of the 4th generation in K-pop at the time, but the tracks afterwards did not perform even remotely that high. In conclusion I think that with Engage we simply went back to Awakening/Fates era, where the serie is famous and known and people are interested to whatever will come out, but is not mainstream or as popular as it was with 3H. Plus I agree that a FE4 remake won’t bring a huge spike in popularity, because at the of the day it still is just a FE game with a good story, so a niche game. In order to regain the popularity of 3H the serie needs a title like 3H so innovating the gameplay with mechanics like the monastery with its teaching sessions, some kind of emphasis on the story Visual Novel/Persona style et similia

    @MattiaMolin@MattiaMolin7 ай бұрын

  • 2:50 Durandangs? So Dangs played it too!

    @IDESTROYER236@IDESTROYER2367 ай бұрын

  • I wouldn't necessarily say that Engage specifically killed the hype. I think it's more that there just isn't much to it that can maintain the hype. The story is barebones and there aren't really any standout characters, so there isn't really long-lasting content there. And while the gameplay is good, that doesn't really make for interesting KZhead content for more than a few months at most. Meanwhile all of the older games have already been talked about to death. I definitely think that if we get a game with some halfway decent writing it will bounce back to at least normal levels. I don't think this is another dark age at least.

    @evanb4307@evanb43077 ай бұрын

  • I know this sounds like a basic response, but its quite clear that the story of Engage is to blame, nowadays people want a reason to play the game besides "Its really good", so much so that most games of recent have been quite lore heavy, if you look back a bit, you see that was something that were exclusive to RPG titles Of course, there is a game here and there that jumps over that rule, but lets all face it, FE will never be that kind of game without a lore, at least not officially Also, I know this is a hard-to-swallow pillow, but the fact that Nintendo actively dosent sues fan content shows to me how much in a hole FE is, even depiste the spikes and all

    @thebrazillianguytm2186@thebrazillianguytm21867 ай бұрын

    • Story > gameplay has been a thing since persona 5

      @therealjaystone2344@therealjaystone23447 ай бұрын

    • "Nintendo actively dosent sues fan content shows to me how much in a hole FE is, even depiste the spikes and all" what

      @-lord1754@-lord17545 ай бұрын

    • @@-lord1754 I meant that, despite FE's spike, Nintendo didn't activated "protecc mode" against fan content

      @thebrazillianguytm2186@thebrazillianguytm21865 ай бұрын

    • @@thebrazillianguytm2186 Most fan content for most things gets left up so what a silly comment. Theres literally a brawl fan game that backports characters from Ultimate into it and its really popular. Actually illegal and would be justified if they took it down but they dont lol. Are you gonna start claiming smash is dead?

      @-lord1754@-lord17545 ай бұрын

  • I’m still salty New Mystery never got localized as a big appreciator of Shadow Dragon, it also ruins the consecutive localization streak that Nintendo and Intelligent Systems had going and I think it did the whole Avatar thing decent, I don’t mind Kris fans, they’re not as annoying and obnoxious as Robin, Corrin, Byleth and Alear fans. Heck even Mark in FE7 is great because aside from Lyn, every character doesn’t always drool over him and worships him and he doesn’t hog all the attention of the Plot.

    @brandonwilliams6119@brandonwilliams61197 ай бұрын

    • Kris is an avatar properly done, he isn't as important as Robin, Corrin and the others are and that makes him interesting and not a Mary Sue

      @AzumarillConGafasBv@AzumarillConGafasBv4 ай бұрын

  • Maybe if they IS can get back to formula the works even if they branch out some that might be good. I don’t even know what to expect from new titles anymore. With Zelda, each game is different and the series morphs overtime. But I still know what I’m getting. Fire emblem just has such a vast difference between titles. I’d like IS to dial in on the core features to keep continuity between the games and not alienate the older fans. New game ideas are great. Just don’t leave me too far behind please. For me, Mangs was so bold with Andaron Saga but I felt like the core gameplay I’ve known for years was still there. Looking forward to a well rounded new title from IS as well as some ports/remakes.

    @tommycrawford1183@tommycrawford11837 ай бұрын

  • There's a lot that goes into a franchise declining in popularity I feel. Beside the more obvious stuff like the latest game not being all that well received, there's just more games people can play than in previous years. Meaning gamers aren't going to focus on one title very long before they move on to the next thing, thus less people searching KZhead for it. Many other things could factor into this too but really the only thing that's bringing back FE's popularity is another well received entry in the series.

    @Draylin41@Draylin417 ай бұрын

  • andaron saga 2 is what we need

    @madmanhans3860@madmanhans38607 ай бұрын

  • I wonder how's the situation like in the japanese youtube scene

    @slowbowz6383@slowbowz63837 ай бұрын

  • Honestly, while divisive. I had a ton of fun with fates. But it's kind of been downhill for me since then. I only played 1 route in 3 houses and I couldn't even get past the tutorial with Colgate-chan

    @JayDayX116@JayDayX1167 ай бұрын

    • Meanwhile, I've played every route in Three Houses at least ten times and on my sixth time around in Engage. The thing with me is that I'm not judging a game in the franchise as a part of the franchise, but as a whole new and different experience compared to others in the franchise. For me, focusing on the bad and what was done differently ends up making me not have fun which is what a video game should do, I focus more on what I liked and then I get more out of it.

      @johnathanedwards9054@johnathanedwards90547 ай бұрын

  • I feel like at this point all the content creators have already done their big stuff for all the previous FE games in the series, so all the fans that got into the series during the big peak have pretty much already seen all the games they care to see. Short of another brand new FE coming to introduce even more normies to FE, I doubt anthing will really change that much, Like, for the years around fates/3houses/FEH you can partially attribute all the interest to the fact that so many new fans were takin time to experience all the content related to older FE games as well from the creators they were introduced to, but by now all those fans that cared have already played/watched through all the games in the series that they care to (myself included, I technically got in through FEH, and by now have played every game from 4 onwards already). It's just kind of the nature of things I think.

    @xith1349@xith13497 ай бұрын

  • You sound tired rest up magnus! Very interesting video love your content ❤️

    @fairygoku3734@fairygoku37347 ай бұрын

  • I think one of the things that could help this game is the sudden trend of transforming them into randomizers. So far I've seen Pokémon, Metroid, Zelda and Mario games have somekind of Randomizers applied to it. I have to admit that the reason I have found your channel is because youtube recommended me one part of an old playthrough you've made of a FE8 randomizer. Maybe that's the key to keep the franchise popularity on social media afloat until a new game?

    @alexandreraymond7560@alexandreraymond75607 ай бұрын

  • in my heart, Andaron Saga is a giant spike! 150% crit.

    @locustkllr@locustkllr7 ай бұрын

  • i'd say people hating it and yelling about it like low tier game reviewers disincentives newer players and people yet to get it from buying, yes the game's story has flaws, but gameplay is always fire emblem, then ya got the ones that will demonize me for NOT saying it is terrible, I like it, its wholesome, the west is pretty nihilistic and apathetic and hate that sort of stuff these days, people are pretending to be some goth or emo or whatever like in the past, when life's not too bad, enjoy the endearing things, point out the flaws calmly and intellectually but not form a rage cult purely around hating something or someone because of some flaws, Personally I like the Kaga stuff on GBA era best, hence why I like Andaron Saga, _ Path of Radiance was good but I think paying for many voice actors takes from the budget that could be used to better the game, its like how people hated the part of Fallout 4 because a talking protag had less options to choose from for role play stuff and took out the reputation system that 3 and New Vegas had making most decisions meaningless like choices in Fire Emblem, similar to how some say Resident Evil 4 is one of the best but began the spiral of all the Action packed Michael Bay Indiana Jones stuff that replaced puzzles and actually needing to think and the horror aspect, just like how Final Fantasy 10 started the spiral away from what made 1-9 great, I'm not saying they should imitate the past entirely but since they are clearly different devs then the past ones, they should look at their roots, a Good king researches what made his founding ancestor and nation great, while a bad ones pride makes them destroy their legacy same logic goes for all things, my wording may sound weird to some and sorry for that but that's my opinion from playing most of the games

    @TheCrossKnight@TheCrossKnight7 ай бұрын

  • I had an Wii and no idea there was an Fire Emblem game made for it until years later

    @CatsLilaSalem@CatsLilaSalem7 ай бұрын

    • There was no marketing for the game and its terrible timing to release when Mario Galaxy 1 came out at the same time

      @therealjaystone2344@therealjaystone23447 ай бұрын

  • Not really much to add to the topic. I personally think is just there is not much to discuss history or gameplay wise with the engage. Like the plot is not as bad as fates and there is no extra routes. And well take care and recover mr Mangs.

    @BaneGaiety4848@BaneGaiety48487 ай бұрын

  • I started with Awakening on my friends 3DS whom I was borrowing for a week and after finishing Mario 3D Land I tried awakening, the character selection was crude but what won my 10 year old heart was the adorable pixel art for the classes moving about, even depicting the color and style changes in hair for the avatar. Basically I think a new fire emblem game to sell well will have to capture the players hearts with a unique style and not just 3D anime game n.2841

    @HanakkoLove@HanakkoLove7 ай бұрын

    • Really good point, the pixel sprites in awakening/fates were so utterly charming, as well as everything in GBA too.

      @Bethany38326@Bethany383267 ай бұрын

  • I genuinely believe that fire emblem is in the infancy of its popularity. Right now, the FE community isn't the most welcoming space for beginners. When I first started playing FE a few off-putting things about the community included: 1. Referring to FE games by number rather than name or main character (very confusing) 2. Discussion surrounding most games are made assuming highest difficulty (discouraging to those who are still learning the game) 3. Grinding and “slow play” heavily looked down upon 4. Separation between fans of older FE games and newer FE games (this one is less apparent, but it is something I noticed) 5. Repetitive content (Unit rankings, playthroughs using the same “best characters”, etc) I wholeheartedly believe that FE can be on the same level as Pokemon one day. We just need the overall community to be more welcoming to newcomers. Innovation in the scene is also a thing that will foster growth. I know the numbers for FE content is discouraging to look at, but Mangs please keep doing what you are doing. You are really pushing this game forward.

    @KinggChompa@KinggChompa7 ай бұрын

    • That and the whole half the games not being in the west thing

      @cheesecheese6459@cheesecheese64597 ай бұрын

    • While I don't expect anything to reach Pokemon popularity, I very strongly agree with points 1 and 2. I got into the series around 2015, and the numbered entry thing still confuses me. What is FE11? Possibly Shadow Dragon, but I'm not really sure. Also, every time I watch a video about character viability or game difficulty, it's always assuming the highest difficulty, which I don't play and often isn't available out of the box. I'd be interested in watching a video about which game is the hardest on Normal without grinding because I think that's the default way to play, or how most new players would play.

      @ASMRDoodlez@ASMRDoodlez7 ай бұрын

    • NO

      @fbskxnwkdnworkir@fbskxnwkdnworkir7 ай бұрын

    • We don't need to just "accept" every new player that gets into the fanbase, there will be always problematic individuals

      @AzumarillConGafasBv@AzumarillConGafasBv4 ай бұрын

    • I mean, that goes without saying@@AzumarillConGafasBv

      @KinggChompa@KinggChompa3 ай бұрын

  • Did Engage kill the franchise? No, not even close. BUT i think it did the franchise a massive disservice. I mean, Fire Emblem always was the "weeb" game in the eyes of many, but with Engage that stigma got even worse, at least from my experience. Gameplay was amazing, we don't need to talk about that, but most people just couldn't take Engage seriously, myself included

    @Ultimabuster92@Ultimabuster925 ай бұрын

    • Didn't become a "weeb" game until the DS iterations. Everything before was just a traditional fantasy tactics game.

      @thenecromancer8805@thenecromancer8805Ай бұрын

  • I mean fire emblems whole popularity in the West comes from Smash bros and Awakening -Three houses. With out smash representation the series will drop off for some people but that's fine that the series is Niche. It's niche and satisfying like no other game so it's always gonna have a place in Nintendo

    @defianthound407@defianthound4076 ай бұрын

  • i dont think its declining we just haven't had any news after the rush of engage and engage really has nothing much to discuss the only thing that did was the fell xenolouge but it released so fast and was pretty cut and dry

    @asuraofwrath@asuraofwrath29 күн бұрын

  • Can only speak for myself but I stopped playing this series for a while mostly because I never got a 3DS and kind of skipped out on video games generally in that era. I had been an early western supporter of FE, growing up on Nintendo Power and constantly seeing "Japan Watch" previews of the original Famicom and Super Famicom games we never got, so immediately bought the now OG Fire Emblem for GBA on launch and kept with it in those first years when it hit the west, including the Tellius games, and Sacred Stones. Only recently came back because I finally picked up a switch for Metroid Dread, and figured I'd try out 3 Houses, and man is it the best one I've ever played. So to me, with the long view on this series, I really think it comes down to both the quality of the games and the popularity of Nintendo generally. Fire Emblem couldn't really gain a foothold in the west in the early days because its biggest games at the time (the Tellius games) were either on an unpopular console (the Gamecube) or weren't what the majority of users of that console wanted (the Wii). On the 3DS it seems FE found its audience in the west, which is why when that audience was converted to the also popular Switch, they saw massive success with 3 Houses. However, I hear a lot of negative things about Engage, and I for one can't stand the design of the main character, so I'm probably not ever going to pick that one up, and if that's my impression as someone largely removed from this series and just getting into an already 4 year old game in 2023 (largely because I really enjoyed Re-Boot Camp and was looking for something new to play like it on my switch), I have to imagine there are others turned off by Engage as well. Which really means that yeah, they just need to make a good new FE game that has some wide appeal to it, and that should work. However, there's also the issue of the next console cycle at this point, since it rather feels like Nintendo should be looking forward to a Switch 2 or something like it soon. And depending on if the next Nintendo console can hit big or not will likely be the largest determining factor as to whether or not any of their series on it will also do well.

    @MidlifeCrisisJoe@MidlifeCrisisJoe6 ай бұрын

  • For me Engage has been one of the most fun FE games I have played from the modern era, but maybe some games are more fun to play than to watch. It's unfortunate that its a game that flopped in terms of content creation. I do think that a faithful GBA remake would respark interest on youtube, but you are right, a well done new mainline game that can be as good in story telling as gameplay could reignite the franchise: less game breaking mcguffins, more smart enemy placement, more strategic-puzzle gameplay.

    @MarkJBarret@MarkJBarret7 ай бұрын

    • FE4 is getting a remake first

      @therealjaystone2344@therealjaystone23447 ай бұрын

  • To answer the questions...the first one, why is FE losing interest ? I suppose Engage couldn't spark as interest or theories than 3H by being simpler ?Or the designs didn't please new people and the previous ones weren't interested by this new choice, I don't think it's obligatory just engage, but it may have played a role in it. How to spark a new golden age ? Well...as much as it pains me to admit it, they may just do something like the Awa/Fates or three houses games, which means while the gameplay may be solid (cause let's face it, Awakening and Three houses and the funniest games to play nowadays) it also means we'll get some discutable writing... Also pains me that a remake won't make it any better so...we just need to believe that IS will actually make some good writing for once, well at least TH had good world building, just a shame the story didn't really follow (nor dlcs...)

    @gabrielclamens3151@gabrielclamens31517 ай бұрын

  • No Fire Emblem is fine. It's just too many games have been released too close together.

    @NotTheWheel@NotTheWheel7 ай бұрын

  • *What ACTUALLY went wrong with Engage?* *The honest truth is pretty ugly.* The Short Version: Nintendo put a New developer as the lead for the game who had no experience. A basic "Yes Man" who likes action games and not turn based tactics games, and was heavily influenced by Nintendo wanting to aim for a New Younger Audience which meant dumbing down the game, and making it flashier. The Long Version: If you read the "Ask the Developers" interviews that were released. The guy in charge (Tsutomu Tei), had never been a director of a game at IS before, and seemingly never discusses having any previous experience working on a FE game. So while I can't say what his previous role was, if any, it doesn't seem to be significant enough to mention in his bio. I'd link the Nintendo article, but KZhead is pretty finicky with links these days. (Typing Ask the Developer Vol. 8, Fire Emblem Engage Part 1, 2, and 3 should get you too it) If anything, just someone picked by Nintendo to lead the development. Listening to the other two employees of Nintendo that were in the interview. Tei and the two mention wanting to "appeal to a broader audience" and saying that RPG mechanics such as the Awakening / Fates marriage system took too long to play out in the game. According to them it "wan't fun" so they developed the Emblem Ring idea instead. With the goal of intruding the "fun elements" early on. I'll quote the Nintendo stooge "Higuchi: We wanted to introduce this fun element for players as early as possible. I felt that the fun of tactical RPG games wasn't as intuitive or immediate as that of action games." So basically you had Nintendo heavily influencing the game with employees who were more interested and familiar with Action games than tactics RPGs. Then from the games IS developer, "Tei: People often say that turn-based tactical RPGs seem difficult or too complicated... In fact, I’m not very good at them myself." Take of that what you will, I take it as even the new IS dev wasn't interested in making a Tactics game. Just taking orders and advice from his Nintendo handlers. "Tei: We had several candidates. We were looking for an artist whose design style would appeal to a broad audience - including younger players - as well as the ability to portray a variety of characters. Among the candidates, Mika Pikazo-san's drawings were colorful, vivid, and really popped! They were a perfect fit for the flashy direction we wanted for this title." So from that we can see the "broader audience" meant appeal to children. In spite of marketing toward long time fans, which makes no sense since new players and young players would not get any of the references. So basically they tried to do both and focused on the younger new audience by lying to the older one. As it would seem, the games development and design was all over the place. Trying to create a game for a new younger audience, while throwing a bone to the old players to make it seem like they were not being abandoned when they were. As for another section about their Artist choice that influenced the game in a bad way. "Tei: Well, I thought it'd be better to be upfront about the request. That said, there was one concern she had. Since she usually draws young characters, she was concerned about her confidence level in some of the character design." So to answer why all the characters were loli or V-tuber style. It's because that's the only style the artist knew, and he went with it. Also, it also turns put it was her idea to make toothpaste-chans hair color red and blue. As before Tei just went with whatever he was told, advised, or requested. From everything I have read, Tei should never be in charge of any product. Unless he was specifically chosen because he just follows orders and has no skill as a leader or director. "Tei: As I mentioned at the beginning, I'm not very good at strategy games myself, so during development, I hoped to create a game that even those like me would want to try out or find interesting."

    @techpriest6962@techpriest69626 ай бұрын

    • So the dip that is occurring now isn't a surprise. Catering to the Tourists and not the Fans is a terrible idea.

      @techpriest6962@techpriest69626 ай бұрын

    • FE falling off is at the feet of Nintendo and its more modern (EA of the East) Anti-Consumer business practices. Part of which can be understood by reading the above.

      @techpriest6962@techpriest69626 ай бұрын

    • This is literally objectively wrong. Tsutomu Tei has been working at IS since 2006 and his first FE was Radiant Dawn... where he designed the maps which is a really well liked part of the game. He hadn't directed before and maybe hes not fit to be one but claiming hes a yes man who hates strategy rpgs is actual insanity. Saying hes not good at them=/=he doesnt like them what a dumb conclusion. I love tons of games but arent good at them.

      @-lord1754@-lord17545 ай бұрын

  • It's just the standard cycle. New game comes out, people play it, beat it, then move on. Engage just has very little replayability, and it's a slog to do so with the terrible writing and somiel BS. Fates and 3 houses had route splits, and while awakening was mostly linear, it has a metric f*ckton of content. And of course, we love the GBA titles for the adorable little nostalgia generators they are.

    @Dru_Stephan@Dru_Stephan7 ай бұрын

  • I've been watching your content for 8 years now, although it was your Randomised War Room Challenge that caused me to subscribe (and you were the first KZhead channel I ever subscribed to!). It's kinda weird but I've never enjoyed the Lets Play of new Fire Emblem titles (although I was quite enjoying your Fire Emblem Engage: Ringless Maddening run before that was cut short), nor do I particularly care about ROM hacks that create new stories. I really didn't like the Lets Plays with cohosts as I feel it really slows down the video, particularly Three Houses and Fates. I enjoyed your FE Engage one because it had no co-host, but I've not finished the game myself so haven't finished that series yet (been really busy with work, not because I lost interest). The Fire Emblem content I've consumed the most are Ironmans of FE6, 7, 8, 9 and Fates and randomisers of the former four of those games. I've watched both your FE7 randomiser runs and your FE8/FE6 randomiser runs multiple times, they are very entertaining and I'd watch more of them. I love love LOVE your unit tier list videos, some of my favourite content on KZhead. I really enjoyed your Project Emblem run too. I enjoyed the Pick My Edits runs too although they did get a bit too silly at points. I also quite enjoyed the Pick My Units series. The same is said for other content creators like Excelblem and Mekkah although there are a lot of content creators that produce absolutely bollocks FE content who are weirdly popular. I really enjoyed the negative growths video series you did with Mekkah too and would love to see a reverse recruitment run for FE6, FE7 and FE8 (and Conquest if it's possible).

    @DanBottiglieri@DanBottiglieri7 ай бұрын
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