A Look Back on the Controversy Surrounding Fire Emblem and Super Smash Bros.
There are 8 Fire Emblem representatives in Smash right now. Marth of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Roy of Binding Blade, Ike of Path of Radiance, Robin, Lucina and Chrom of Awakening, Corrin of Fates and Finally, Byleth of Three Houses. And OK, some are... well most are built off the same idea BUT they all play different. That said, an unknowing eye may look at FE's representation and only see the notorious Marth clones or scoff at the inclusion of Corrin and Byleth. But in order to reach the current conclusion of FE in Ultimate, we need to wind back the clock all the way to the N64 era, because Marth's and FE's stories in Smash started earlier than one would think. However, from humble beginnings comes notoriety for the franchise, as later down the timeline, controversy would surround the new additions. And heck, there was even some censorship to boot. This video covers Fire Emblem in Super Smash Bros 64, Melee, Brawl, Smash 4 and Ultimate.
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Honestly I don’t care who in the smash community complains about FE characters they’re some of the best characters to watch and play in smash and last I checked the percentage of actual sword fighters with no projectiles or items is only 13% in ultimate which means there’s not many sword fighters focused only on using a sword and honestly in Byleth’s case instead of using the relic weapons Byleth has proficiency in gauntlets and authority so they could have focused on battalions and made Byleth the first brawler FE character in ultimate but whatever also why is forward tilt a sword attack and down tilt a sword attack instead of a Lance and ax attack.
@ByoKora775 because Byleth is the only character who canonically wields the Sword of the Creator, utilizes swords with their inherent skill boon. which is an important plot point.
Idk I was super happy about all these characters in ultimate but I really want Hector in smash. An axe wielder like him would be a breath of fresh air.
He could even have edelgard as an alt since they both have flaming charge attacks and are basically the same class
I don't understand inclusion of Roy but I would love Ephraim to be there
@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 me too! Thats who i voted for in the ballot back then.
I don't know how you can be happy with such a terrible line up of 8 boring lords, only 2 of which had good move sets. (ROBIN and Blandleth)
@@guymanjoni I've actually done some work on a mod for Melee to add Ephraim. One thing really fun with him was the fact that he uses a lance, which gives him interesting options for his moveset. I never did finish animating the moves, but one of these days...
I think having Byleth being the last character revealed for Fighter Pass 1 was the bigger issue moreso. Considering the other characters that were in the pass were all third party or long time requests, the expectations set by speculation were incredibly high. To end it with Byleth and Fighter Pass 2 hadn't been announced until the Sakurai Presents for Byleth sort of let it end with a fizzle rather than a bang. That being said, I really enjoy playing Byleth. I think if the roster gets trimmed in the next game, I hope they stay just because their gameplay is so unique compared to other FE characters in the roster.
Fighter's Pass 2 was announced during the Terry Bogard reveal. So we already knew it was coming when Byleth was announced.
@@ericriley1985 My mistake! I should have done more research
Back during Byleth's presentation, it was revealed that not even the people responsible for releasing the DLC were told anything until the official announcement, resulting in the character releasing 2 weeks later. It's become clear that every character since then has had that same level of secrecy. I guess the SNK copyright leak mishap was the last straw.
@@Crit_Nerd Seems like a lot of people need to do more research. most people are responding with their feelings
@@groudon2006 If you remove my error out of the equation, my point still has some merit. Byleth being the last reveal on Fighter Pass 1 considering all the others that came before it set a certain expectation and the reaction wasn't great. I think if they were revealed earlier on, the reaction might have been lesser. It still would have been an FE rep and those dissatisfied people would always be dissatisfied regardless of placement on the pass. It's not really responding with feelings more than poor memory recall, although I imagine for some this they're very passionate about this.
If Nintendo really knew what the fans wanted they would’ve given us the smash fighter we all wanted: Brigand Boss
Valther bloodaxe
Batta the beast
i really wanted lute bro ugh
no give us gatekeeper
Realistically Fans don't even know what they want. you give em one thing and then they'll want more plus Nintendo doesn't care what the fans want, most games developers don't and the man reason why is because fans don't have the mindset of game developers/business people. its easy to say you want something, but its difficult to consider the pros and cons behind it
My only gripe with the FE character inclusions is that because they seem to only want to include main protagonists we keep getting foot locked sword units. If we got some other fan favorites like Caeda, Tharja, Camilla that gave some uniqueness to the FE characters people would be a lot more welcoming to more.
Putting aside the over representation, I kind of feel bad for FE fans to some point. Whatever the new games are good or not, these new trend of Avatar character essentially mean FE will never get a good new rep in Smash again and will just get the junkfood generic avatar shill pick. And the over representation also means the Good and old favorites like Lyn, Black Knight or Tiki have no chance by now.
@@brandonwilliams6119 Agree. One of the FE series core aspects is the sheer variety of unit types you can field. From footsoldiers wielding many different weapons (swords, lances, axes, bows, daggers, gauntlets, shields), to spellcasters with varied elemental abilities and casting methods (tomes, staves, free-hand, enchanted weapons), to shapeshifters (many forms of giant animal or dragon), to even mounted units (horses, giant wolves, pegasi, griffons, wyverns, puppet machines), etc... With ALL this variety, it's a shame that the protagonist of each game usually ends up being a generic sword lord, and moreso that this imbalance is reflected in the fighters we get in Smash. Robin's spell slinging, Corrin's shapeshifting, and Byleth's arsenal of weapons (plus his sword doubling as a chain-whip) do a lot to alleviate this, but FE has so much more to offer Smash's roster than just swordfighters.
Even if I like Fire Emblem in Smash (a lot actually, all but 2 of the characters I use are from FE), it's extremely dumb that Awakening gets 3 whole representatives, with 2 of them being derivative of other FE characters in some way or form, specially considering that Lucina playing like Marth goes against the lore.
Yeah, I mean Awakening does deserve more than 1 rep as it legit saved the franchise from going under, but Chrom was completely unnecessary.
Well you have to remember that before Ultimate, people were really disappointed that Chrom was left out of Smash 4 despite having a major focus in Robin and Lucina's trailer. Chrom's inclusion in Ultimate was a response to those fans' wishes.
@@kingbash6466Yet Chrom's inclusion was too late, most people moved on and wanted Celica instead.
@@bwareist i would say lucina is unnecessary, chrom is the main character with robin with her starting to be relevant quite late so he would make more sense to keep than her, anyway echo fighters are a none issues tbh they can both stay, be removed or turned into skins
@@Madeen1982 i wanted alm and celica as a duo like ice climbers so bad TwT
The controversy around Byleth's inclusion into smash is one of the dumbest things in smash history.
No I found min mins inclusion worse. People literally Called Nintendo racist because It wasn't twintelle iirc was her name
@@Lightpaladin720 You're right, that was also really stupid.
@@Lightpaladin720 So wait, Nintendo adds an actual literal Asian character, not a white one like Lola Pop, but an Asian like Min Min, and some folks still played the race card?
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 somehow yes
@@Lightpaladin720 People can be slow, I'm black and even I figured Twintelle wasn't gonna be picked honestly from my point of view it was either Ribbon Girl or Min Min
Is it just me or is Smash Bros Roy cooler than FE6 Roy?
Always has been 👤🔫👤
Roy with the blessing of phenomenal voice acting. Don’t forget his first video game appearance is smash making him a smash original by technicality!
@@opbattleaxe8744 Roy was originally the main character of Fire Emblem 64 and was supposed to have a more younger energized personally. However the game was canceled, so Roy was put into Binding Blade instead and they changed his character. Sakurai said that he was only given concept art of Roy.
I kinda wish the Vault Boy Mii costume was revealed alongside Byleth instead of Cuphead because the few moments of silence followed by the whiplash reaction would be legendary.
Honestly I would’ve put Min Min or Pythra in Byleth’s place I think those others would’ve been better received especially Min Min since Arms had no playable rep before her OR another 3rd party just for the sake of ending off on a high note.
@@brandonwilliams6119 Those two wouldn’t get the hate on level with Byleth but they are also FAR from ending on a high note for the Smash community.
@@CollegeBallYouknow Honestly Nintendo and Sakurai are bad at organizing DLC, and I believe they did it on purpose just for the sake or creating negative hype around a final DLC and to mess with us I guess.
@@brandonwilliams6119 No, that would be idiotic or incompetent on their part. Both parties are simply working with what they’ve got. Third-party DLC is an incredibly fickle business that has to go through multiple stakeholders just to be permitted. They were simply planning with what they got as they had to juggle pleasing the fans, investors, and their partners like Square Enix. Keep in mind that they had to deal with Disney.
Nope. Vault Boy costume was announced alongside Min Min.
I don't understand why they don't look to popular FE characters who wield other weapon types. Imagine Caeda, Hector, Camilla, Tharja, Edelgard, Dimitri, Claude or Tiki that would be so much cooler than just another sword user.
This. Tiki could even have rhea as an alt And Hector and edelgard could share a single slot
Because they most likely want THE main character of whichever respective game they're pulling from.
@@jcly96 except Xenoblade 2 and arms ( which I support because Rex was lame)
People say this but from a gameplay perspective a lance is not functionally different from a long sword, they’re all just disjointed hitboxes at the end of the day
@@Aaronrules380a lance being a lot longer make it closer to the belmonts than to a swordie lol
You know what? I think the worst about the Byleth inclusion's drama is it has nothing to do with Byleth themselves but only with the fact it's once again a Fire Emblem character and not as different as Robin gameplay wise. Byleth was just the scapegoat of the Smash fans and paid the price for Corrin's inclusion when things started to go too far. When you look at it objectively, Byleth the character did nothing wrong and their inclusion made perfect sense for a new entry of a Nintendo franchise on Switch. The only problem is it was Fire Emblem though, a series that already received way too much representation compared to its legacy. It's not Byleth people hate, it's always more similar Fire Emblem characters.
In the assumption that the next Smash game cuts characters, Byleth is the one I sincerely hope they keep. Not only is he the sole rep for the switch era of FE (unless they add Alear or heck even Shez) he's just ridiculously crazy fun to play, the most fun out of all the FE characters imo. Maybe this is a hot take but if they cut anyone I hope they cut the echo fighters. I mean Awakening has 3 whole reps, yes 2 are echo fighters but they're still 3 characters from the same game.
I feel like Marth, Ike, Robin, and Byleth would act as great mainstay characters unless someone like Anna got added to fill the weapon+magic or multi-weapon role. Plus they all represent different eras for the franchise too.
@@shanegiorgio4713 yea those are the best choices to Stay imo
@@shanegiorgio4713I’d keep Roy too since he came back in 4
@@ClaudevonRiegan_ honestly if it were up to me, I'd replace Roy with another FE character to fill the 'rushdown' playstyle, with Lyn being the most likely choice. Roy feels more like a 'Melee' rep than a Fire Emblem rep just because of his legacy in Smash, but maybe that's just me.
The thinv about Byketh is that any of the house leader is a far better option unless you really dread the disourse.
As a Fire Emblem fan, I hated Byleth’s inclusion because I loved Three Houses’ characters so much. Dimitri, Edelgard, and Claude are all so cool and we got a character with all the personality of a brick.
Link, Ness, and Dragon Quest Hero doesn't have much character ether.
@orangeslash1667 But I think all of those are better in their own ways? Link is a gaming icon, Hero is a composite rep of several Dragon Quest protagonists, and Ness is one of two reps for a small cult classic series (that's helped by not many Earthbound characters having much personality which makes it feel less like we got robbed of a more interesting roster pick).
@@brycebitetti1402 I don't think the gimmick of having four weapons at once would fit the personalities of the three Lords??? The other reason is that Byleth has alts of the three Lords.
Another problem I don't see too many people point out about Byleth was with the Xenoblade Chronicles community. Sakurai stated the reason why Rex didn't make the cut in the base game or Fighter Pass 1 was because Xenoblade Chronicles 2 didn't release soon enough to be considered. XC2 was 2017 and Smash Ultimate was 2018. That reason alone would've been fine and understandable... if a character from a 2019 game didn't get in instead. (That and the game not being released yet didn't stop Roy or Corrin.) Xenoblade fans were understandably upset and confused at the time, but that pretty much mulled over with the release of Pyra and Mythra. Also, I'm upset that Chrom is an Echo Fighter of Roy. That makes no sense lol
The fact that he's an Echo of Roy when Marth, his literal ancestor is also in the game is so fucking hilarious/sad to me.
@@princeapoopoo5787 lol I didn't even think about that. And since Roy is already a semi-clone of Marth, Chrom is a semi-clone of a semi-clone of his ancestor :P
That begs the question would Min Min or Pythra for that matter have gotten any hate if one of them ended Fighter Pass 1? I personally would choose Min Min to end off FP1 since Arms had zero playable reps before her. I personally wouldn’t have minded Min Min ending off FP1 since it’s a new Nintendo IP and people did want an Arms Rep, except Springman became an Assist Trophy so people gave up on him or the idea of an Arms Rep. Not to mention Min Min and Pythra broke the stupid “spirits deconfim” fan rule. I also find Min Min a blast to play with, Byleth may have killed the Belmonts with having longer ranged attacks but Min Min immediately took that away as the being the *“Cooler Distance Demon”*
@@brandonwilliams6119 I don't think Min Min would've gotten as much hate as Byleth did. She'd probably get some because she's not a third party character and is from a dEaD iP, but since she isn't tied to another franchise like Byleth is, she'd probably blow over quickly. As for Pyra and Mythra, other than "waifu bait" claims, I don't see them getting much hate at all. Rex was an often requested inclusion, so while there may be some disappointment it wasn't him, I'm sure people would be happy XC2 got any playable rep at all, let alone two of them.
@@Alex-95-Gaming And also Pythra being in FP1 would’ve complimented the Rex Mii Costume you got for purchasing it as a whole. Nintendo and Sakurai are just bad at organizing DLC.
I think the biggest mistake was including them after bombshells like Joker and Banjo and being the last character in the first Fighter Pass just kinda ending it on a whimper.
You should do a video on how to fix fire emblem representation in Smash. Change movesets, characters, skins, stages, music, anything you can come up with. I feel the Fire Emblem strategy aspect should be better implemented somehow
I have a purpose: Including Alear, and merging on him/her Roy, Chrom, Lucina and other FE characters since Alear summons them like Jojo Stans. Like, we get like 3 slots left and we still have plenty of FE characters, but now free from Marth clones. It could be like a Shulk with different moveset
Holy crap, I remember the night Byleth was revealed. Saltiness time to ever be on the Smash Boards. I think them being the final for the first wave of DLC is what really set people off. IDK, maybe new FE characters should only be base roster and not dlc.
Their one-two punch of "this is the literal holocaust" and "if you don't like when I whine you're too easily offended" when Byleth came out was wild
As someone who became a major FE fan sometime after Byleth's reveal, I can't wait to watch the Fireworks when Alear/Sigurd/The next protagonist gets added to Smash 6 now that I'm as familiar with the franchise as I am now.
This, they should just relegate FE to base roster inclusions to get them out the way, not unless FE still can’t survive on its own merits and they need a new flavor of the month character to shill the newest game.
@@brandonwilliams6119 hah, nice try elitist. Three Houses was a fucking blockbuster
I don`t know why people seriously thought that the DLC pass would be third-party only. I would be surprised if there wouldn`t be a first-party character in the pass, so me seeing Byleth included made me just shrug and think: "Yeah, makes sense".
Another terrific video as always Faerghast! I love hearing your thoughts on things and the way you put these together.
I've heard of fire emblem ruining fire emblem. Also Fe fans being the biggest haters of fire emblem but excited when smash gets another one. Best to pick a lane guys
Ah the classic Smash-Fire Emblem discussion. Thank god we're past all that now. But yeah honestly the main issue with FE's constant inclusions to Smash was really how the perception of most Smash fans had towards the series' characters. The whole "It's just another swordie, how lame". Even when FE did interesting spins to it with Byleth, Corrin and Robin it still got a decent amount of hate cause the stigma of "anime swordfighter" was already around. Plus people's expectations for other characters only to be dashed by someone they didn't expect. I remember so many people wanting Dante sooo badly when Byleth got revealed instead. So many people were upset.
I always found it hilariously hypocritical when people complain about “anime swordfighters” and then they talk about wanting characters like Dante or Isaac. Then they’re like “Oh but they use more than just a sword!” SO DO MOST OF THE SWORDIES IN THIS GAME! I genuinely don’t understand the hate for sword characters, especially since they don’t even make up a quarter of the roster. The only thing I can really is the lack of visual variety but even then that’s less swordfighter thing and more of an anime thing. I feel like just boils down to people being upset that they didn’t get the character they wanted. Which isn’t inherently bad, it’s fine to be disappointed that one character got in over another. But the fact sword characters end up taking the brunt of the hate for such a trivial reason will never make sense to me.
@@kwagz3314 Its less that people hate swordies (Sephiroth is a good example of this), and more the fact that FE has a frankly ridiculous amount of representatives within the game despite the fact that it isn't the most popular series out there. It has more or an equal amount of representatives to the Zelda franchise, Metroid, Kirby, POKEMON, SONIC AND MARIO ITSELF. When a series that most people wouldn't even be able to name one title for has so many character slots being filled, slots that could be used to introduce new characters from existing series in the game with low representation, or 3rd-Party characters, Its understandable for the outrage, but excessive rioting like death threats is inexcusable.
@venusstar2963 See, I would agree with you here if it weren’t for the fact that Sephiroth was seemingly an exception, and even then there were a decent amount of people who were unfamiliar with the character who did in fact complain about him being another swordfighter. Compare Sephiroth’s reception to Hero’s or Pyra/Mythra’s or even Joker’s to an extent. All of them received complaints because they were swordfighters (Even though Joker uses a knife rather than a sword). I’m still of the firm belief that the whole swordfighter complaint is mostly one big scapegoat, and I agree that the amount of characters from Fire Emblem are a bit much, especially considering that 4 of them play nearly identically. But to downplay the Smash community’s hate towards swordfighters is a bit disingenuous.
@@venusstar2963 eh.. nop Pokemon and Mario still have the most representation Fire Emblem have 8 characters but Mario have 10 (if we count Donkey Kong and Didy Kong 12) and Pokémon has a total of 10 too. But I don't hear anyone said something about that, in fact if Will be another Smash that put characters like a nine generation Pokemon and a Goomba as characters, every One of them Will be happy, but put another Fire Emblem characters and they wil burn every Social media, but I admit that there are many Franchaise that need more representation that FE, Mario or Pokemon like Star Fox, F-Zero, Kirby or Sonic (unfortunatley this one Will have issues for It)
@@venusstar2963 Fire Emblem is similar to Pokemon in that there are multiple playable characters. Therefore FE and Pokemon have alot to work with With Zelda you have different incarnations of Link, Zelda in Spirit Tracks and thats it. The problem with Sonic is that third parties are not easy to get.
I still like the theory (though I don't know of any evidence for or against it) that Byleth was an "emergency solution" because they couldn't finalize the licensing with some third party character. Mostly because it made no sense to have Byleth as the final one of that DLC pack (not earlier) instead of someone with more prestige and the trailer felt really half-assed and weird.
Knowing now that Sora won the players choice ballot, it adds to that theory.
Why would they be an emergency pick when they already had characters from other Nintendo IPs they could add like Xenoblade 2 and Arms? If anything wouldn't pokemon be a better series for an emergency pick, they have way more characters to pick from that are more unique.
Also Source Gaming confirmed that Sakurai said Byleth’s inclusion was decided before three houses even released which does add to it and the fact that Sakurai literally had to play an early build of the game.
@@lioheart55 The idea behind the theory was moreso that Byleth was planned but wasnt suppose to be the finale of pack one. most people proposing Byleth was suppose to kick off dlc pack 2
@@vivil2533 Yeah now that i think about it kinda makes sense, in this scenario Byleth was planned and chosen by Nintendo as the first party rep in fighter's pass 1 over Xenoblade 2 and Arms because they have a chance at promoting a new game. Aegis and Min min were already late so they can afford to wait a bit and we're probably already decided to be added on FP2
and kirby has THREE REPS
What Kirby game isn't covered by those 3 though?
@@elemomnialpha how many playable characters are in return to dream land
@@elemomnialphaThey could've easily added Bandana Dee and Magolor as their own characters, and Galacta Knight as a Meta Knight Echo.
@@DominatorLegend before Ultimate came out, I was kind of hoping Marx would be a playable character. I'm pretty happy with him just being a boss fight though
I always thought knuckle joe would’ve been a cool character to add
Honestly, I feel that the fault of controversy doesn’t lie with Nintendo, but rather IS themselves. For the love of Kaga, please IS, please, make a protagonist that isn’t a swordie. Not a Lyn or Sigurd cop out where they co-use a sword along with a bow or lance, just DEDICATED WEAPON SPECIALIST, PLEASE 😭
Nintendo don't make fire emblem games.
@@INFERNO95 but... that's what I said...
Ephraim "But he's not the main character of- * axed by Hector *
And yet people want Dante. Jesus Christ smash fans don’t know what they want
@@dee_dee4640 Mainly because he would play differently?
I really liked the idea of Lucina being in smash as a clone of Marth at first...but even when Ultimate came out. Marth was my main and Lucina just COMPLETELY overshadowed him because her sword can do damage on all sides while Marth still heavily relied on the tip of Falchion (which sometimes glitched out from what I have seen recently). I still like Lucina in Awakening, but I do have some resentment now towards her since no one plays Marth, especially in tournmeants due to her inclusion...
Yeah Lucina needs to go... or become an actual Marth skin so people will actually play him...
@@PeachTimeX Or keep both and nothing changes.
Imagine the next Smash game be only FE characters featuring the Gatekeeper as a DLC
I guess the mere sight of a sword triggers the entire Smash fanbase.
I was thinking about this topic recently too, i remember people say that "its like smash bros only has fire emblem characters" or something to that effect. The controversy is dumb, but a Traditional 2D fighting game with only Fire Emblem characters would be cool as heck
My take is that Byleth was a great inclusion to Smash and absolutely deserves to be brought back in the next installment. If there was a problem it's is that they were revealed at the wrong time. The first fighter's pass was stacked with 3rd party inclusions with wild options like Joker who nobody would have expected had a real shot getting in. Ending that with a Fire Emblem character was going to be a letdown for just about everybody except people who were a fan of the game. If Byleth had been bumped to the second pass there still would have been people who would have been angry, but it probably wouldn't have been as wild. I also suspect that Byleth caused a negative reaction because it was a reminder that the fans don't actually have a lot of say in the Smash roster nor have they cracked any sort of code over who gets in over who. Fans have SOME say. There's no way you can convince me that Banjo would have been included in Ultimate if fans hadn't been begging for him for years. But ultimately the roster is who Nintendo thinks would be a good character (and if they can get them) and maybe to an extent wether Sakurai can make a fun character out of them. That's likely all there is to it.
The Alear bit for the survey was some comedy gold.
Agreeed
Is it odd that I actually want them in Smash, simply because I enjoy Engage? If they couldn't get in, maybe Shez can.
My wish for a future Smash is to put Marth, Roy, Lucina and Chrom under the same character, similar to what they did with Bowser Jr and the Koopalings. They just have to rework their moveset. They could even add more lords as alts. Keep Ike, Robin, Corrin and Byleth as unique characters.
This would get rid of their unique playstyles and give Marth 3 more blue alts. How is this better?
@@lioheart55 I would barely call them unique, when compared to the other four. Let's face it, if they have to cut FE characters, it will more likely be Roy, Lucina or Chrom over the others.
@@Madeen1982 OK doesn't change that they have play differently, I don't mind removing them but putting them back in as alts and removing their uniqueness and saying that's an improvement is what I can't stand. It's like you're doing it just to please people who hate these characters and the series.
@@lioheart55 Fair enough, though I never said it was an improvement, just a way to keep them all in the game somehow. I love Fire Emblem and I wish for more characters in Smash (love playing as Corrin and Byleth!), but at some point even fans like you and me have to expect change.
@@Madeen1982 yes I love them too and I don't mind them getting cut, the next game isn't gonna be like ultimate and every series is gonna lose something. I don't mind this, every smash game has a chance to add new characters and removing some old ones is definitely the right move, we can always play the old games. For Fire emblem I feel like the priority of keeping characters should be Marth, Byleth, Robin, Ike, Roy, Corrin, Chrom and Lucina. I feel like if only 3 could stay Marth, Byleth and Robin would be the best choices.
I think I always know enough about a topic and then you come with new pieces of info hahah, it was very interesting as usual. Back when I was a kid I mained Roy because I was just like "wooo flaming sword goes boom!", it's funny to think that that was my very first introduction to the franchise that would've meant so much to me.
Yooo it's the creator of Path of the Midnight Sun! And yeah, I also liked playing as Roy back when I was a kid because of him having a sword that made fire attacks. And much like many many people he and Marth were some of the first things we would get to know about FE altogether.
As someone who loves both Smash and Fire Emblem (odd combination, I know), this hits home; I got into Fire Emblem late into the series because of Smash. It's hard to enjoy the series and characters in it when its bashed upon. You want to know what I think the sad part is? We'll be right back to where we started when the next Smash game comes, regardless of what form it takes, or how many FE characters stay or get axed.
I have always wanted to know more about this. Thanks
One thing I always find impeccably dumb about this 'issue' is the matter of Corrin and why it is warranted for their removal. When it comes to Fire Emblem reps, everyone says 'We need variety', we can all agree on that. So then why remove one of the reps that actually has that variety element? Corrin uses stones, something which is only really used by a few units. Even then people either ignore that fact, or state they still use a sword, meaning they are still unwarranted. Even though having someone who uses exclusively stones could end up having difficulties fitting in, and a sword is as reliable enough as a weapon to warrant the Links, Kirby, Ganondorf, Cloud, Pyra/Mythra, Sora, Hero, Sepiroth, Steve, the Pits, Meta Knight, Shulk and every other Fire Emblem rep all using a sword in their moves to varying degrees. Otherwise, people will state, "Corrin is a bad character", which, sure, he has as much character as a refrigerator. Even though all main characters will naturally lose a varying sense of identity, as players are meant to play as and project themselves as these characters. Couldn't this also be stated for someone like Link, who never speaks and is also a member of a franchise that has a vast degree of storytelling? Is character even needed in a fighting game when all I will hear of them is them being hurt and a victory line? Or even needed in a game that features Pokémon, which most just state their name when speaking? Though most important of all. Corrin is fun to play as. Byleth as well, who also has this exact same argument given towards. Why does a character need to be removed when they're fun to play as? Let alone have them be removed as quickly as someone like Dr. Mario.
Because i stip caring about variety the moment the character model wield a sword. Tiki is right there for the dragon character.
Yeah I don't get why people are so quick to remove them when they're such a unique character. I know they're not an interesting character in their own game but if a kid sees them in smash all they're gonna see a chainsaw wielding water dragon, why wouldn't they think there cool?
@@lioheart55 because i see smash as the Hollywood hall of fame of Videogames and make decisions based on that. Would i rather have Tiki, the most recurring character the series have and the closest thing to a mascotte, or Corrin, the protagonist of a very divisive game that is extremely divisive themselves even among the fans of said game, in the Hollywood Hall of Fame?
@@noukan42 yes but smash will never be that, Nintendo owns it so of course it's going to be biased. They will always try to include their own ips first so newer series get a chance to shine. This is both a blessing and a curse as new faces can show to keep things fresh but it also means they might choose characters that don't deserve it. So far I feel like the smash team have made all of these kinds of picks fun additions so none of them feel like a waste. You can't tell me you think Dedede is more fun to play as or against compared to Corrin or Byleth.
Corrin was a pretty shameless plug for Fates and not even a fun character to play anyway the voicelines are cringe inducing. The transformation gimmick goes largely unused, still needed to use a sword to fight anyway, having generic slash attacks too, Corrin getting into Smash 4 when the game wasn't even out at the time in America and JUST after their game launched in Japan said "This character is only here to sell their game to you" Lucina & Robin had two years to build up a legacy, their inclusion felt more “earned” Tiki should’ve been the manakete rep.
I'm probably echoing what others have said before, but I feel a little bad for Fire Emblem fans. Besides maybe Pokemon or Mario, I can't really think of a series in Smash where newcomers are treated as an inevitability rather than a nice surprise by the Smash community and general players who don't particularly care for Fire Emblem. With the way things stand now, when it comes time for Smash 6, ANY Fire Emblem character that's announced is going to draw complaints, since a good chunk of the overall fanbase is going to see it as yet more favoritism and advertisement.
The sole reason we got so many Fire Emblem characters is because people wanted to bring back Roy.
Looking back, ignoring the Smash 4 DLC, the most characters we had in a Smash game was 3 FE reps plus a clone. The only reason we have so many here now is from people asking for them (Chrom and Roy) or because of the fact everyone is here
Smash fans are their own worst enemies
@@TriforceWisdom64 People think that Sakurai is capable of anything, but if Geno was reduced to a mii fighter despite the fact Sakurai wanted him in proves that even he has his limits.
6:57 love the pause to check the time between the smash ballot and FE Engage’s release year
Smash is the reason FE even got on my radar and I immediately fell in love with the characters, story, world, and music (OMG THE MUSIC) so I for one am thankful for byleths inclusion
Any plans to make new Support Science videos? That was the content that first drew me to your channel, and it seems like forever and a day since you've made one.
I still hope for a Claude SS one day, but it’s all up to Ghast!
I will say while I know they all play slightly differently I think I would enjoy the fire emblem characters more if they had a more varied move set like if Lucina was played much quicker as if she were Lyn with a Lyn skin included and had bow moves and a heavy hitting ax wielded for Ike using urvan with a Hector skin and having Robin focus on tomes and magic with no sword with a Micaiah skin…I feel like this could help really separate them and get rid of the sword complaint
I gotta admit I was “lucky” that my first Fire Emblem game was Three Houses (goated game, so recommended) and I was halfway through it JUST as Byleth was announced. So I was actually really excited because I was loving Three Houses and I didn’t care about it being” Fire Emblem AGAIN” because for me, it just meant a great game is being represented in Smash. Later down the line I wished it could’ve been represented in a better way, but I’m still happy Byleth in Smash is a thing to begin with.
Huh I was not expecting the stuff about the cut Tharja trophy for 3DS to be brought up.
The big thing a lot of detractors don't get? Fire Emblem and its constantly changing cast was never meant to have all of its reps in the same game. Once it took off, FE was positioned to be treated just like Pokémon in Smash, having veteran fighters rotate in and out based on variety, practicality, etc. But then Ultimate brought back literally everyone. And as it turns out, Sakurai et al don't consider "this series has a lot of playable fighters already" to be a deal breaker if there's an interesting newcomer on offer. Says something that, despite the initial backlash, Byleth has actually aged pretty well as a DLC pick! The character is still commonly played to this day despite not being a top tier bandwagon magnet, the weapon-master moveset still stands out, and Three Houses has remained popular nearly five years after its release.
I would've liked if they added different FE characters that wasn't the lord, like Tiki or Anna or even Camus who all appear in more than one game. Not sure if it's mendela or not but i feel like I heard about Sakurai's consideration for adding Caeda to the game way back in early smash but didn't work it out.
The moment BYLETH (my FE character in my honest opinion of course) made it inta Smash Ultimate as a DLC boi was the like and dislike ratio was something else
I will admit, I wish they took their approach with Byleth differently, with a more original reveal trailer and not being the last fighter of pack one, before pack 2 was known. However, it was pretty funny, as a huge Fire Emblem fan, to see Byleth as the last pick, when even I had thought Three Houses wasn't getting a representative at the time of the reveal. I remember laughing out loud when I saw the animation start, and knowing it was Fire Emblem right away. The Hoes Mad memes were really the cherry on top, and I will admit I got a little too into it at the time without being outright toxic to those upset. But I got my just desserts when Steve was included against my better wishes, even though he is such an in depth character that I am highly impressed by the amount of effort that was put in to make them work. At the end of the day though, despite its ups and downs, and all the emotions involved with it, the whole era of Smash reveals leading up to and after Ultimate's release was such a fun time all around. I truly do look back fondly at each reveal, and find myself missing getting involved with the hype and speculation. And the Smash Bros team put a lot of love into designing each character and making them all fun and unique to play. I am not sure how they will top Ultimate, and honestly, they probably can't with the next installment, but I would be satisfied with Ultimate being the swan song for the franchise for the experience it gave within and outside the game.
Hoes Mad was one of the worse things to come out of the smash community
Considering how crazy FE3H sales were, I felt the controversy for Byleth's addition was misplaced? Definitely big fan of the Hoes Mad movement though hahahaha That being said, I owe a lot to Smash for introducing me to FE, too!
I don't mind having 7-8 FE characters, but only if series like Zelda gets as many. FE is an old series which is now among the top sellers. So I think series like Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Kirby, FE and Animal Crossing should get a higher number of reps. The issue of course is the variety. FE has many weapons, but the majority in Smash uses swords only. It's like if every Pokemon rep in Smash was a Fire type starter. Personally I would love to see in Smash: -Marth -Ike (with his projectile) -Lyn, using her sword, bow and traps (that fire item you get in her game that you can place next to you) -Robin -Byleth, but make him switch weapons with his down special. So he'd work a bit simmilar to Pyra/Mythra -Veronica from FEH, since she uses magic -Corrin could still be but she needs a different down special, maybe a Dragon-vein effect in the stage.
I like the inclusion of Lyn in this list because she was the first playable lord for most of the world. I would personally pick Micaiah over Veronica as she specifically uses light magic and staves in contrast to Robin who uses anima and dark magic. I'd also just toss out Corrin, simply because I don't like Corrin.
Also, Mario and pokemon have plenty of reps.
Veronica is an interesting choice but I’m not sure people would be happy for a gacha game character to be added. Maybe add Micaiah instead?
@@thekenyonsquad5672I’ve always felt that Lyn should’ve been upgraded to playable from Assist trophy and Roy demoted to take her place. I love Roy but Lyn is more important to the series imo, being the first lord many western fans like myself was introduced to plus there’s way more potential for a moveset with her than Roy. She represents the GBA era better.
@@ethanwebster3764 When FE fans like to lean on Mario and Pokémon having too many characters it doesn’t hold much weight as a counter argument, Mario revolutionized the video game industry not once but SEVERAL times. Pokémon is the highest grossing franchise of all time. Everyone knows who Mario and Pikachu are. They are part of culture in a way unseen before. You show Marth to a random person on the street, and they are most likely not going to know who he is. If people think FE is on the same level culturally as Mario and Pikachu, they are delusional. Imagine if Kid Icarus had 9 characters. Don't you think that would be stupid? I would and I love Uprising.
Oh man, I remember being the only one excited about this! I really felt like the only one who loved Byleth’s inclusion! I felt like the meme of the kid smiling while the house burned down in the background
I was also pretty hyped for Byleth, honestly. Love Three Houses, and the way they went about handling their moveset was genius. Of course, I knew I was in a minority. I could practically feel the community's salt even as I watched that initial trailer.
Id literally just finished my first playthrough when byleth got announced, so i was fairly happy. Had a field day watching comments arise.
i was also in this camp. i started to main byleth once they came out for what little bit of competitive smash i played. That said, ike is always my boy
Byleth was an unexpected by amazing addition
I’m glad to see everyone likes them! Byleth and Roy have been mains of mine for a few years now so seeing hate online for them was a little frustrating.
Byleth is one of my mains and is actually the reason I got into fire emblem. I liked playing Byleth, I asked my dad to get me the game, and I loved it. So yeah, Byleth's great :)
Yo your actually cracked at smash your combos were really good. Also great video!
It made no sense why people were angry with Byleth. We already knew that there was a 2nd Fighter’s pass. Besides there’s more Mario and Pokémon characters yet I don’t see people complain about them.
Because Mario and Pokémon are the two most popular Nintendo franchises, of course they would have the most representation. Is Fire Emblem even in the top 10?
@@bobthegodofmemes2249 It can't directly compete with Mario, Zelda, or Pokémon, but Fire Emblem is still likely in Nintendo's top 10. The only other Nintendo series of similar or greater scale that have been active recently are Kirby, Metroid, Splatoon, Xenoblade, Smash itself, and Animal Crossing. 9 series total, the rest are either WAY less successful or outright dormant. I don't think it validates the sheer number of fighters Fire Emblem has in Smash or how poorly the fighter selection represent this series (Fire Emblem can offer Smash's roster a LOT more than 4 near-identical sword-lord protagonists), but Fire Emblem is undeniably a big deal in its own right that has been going strong for a while now.
@@finaldusk1821 I get what you’re saying but I just looked and FE’s #17 in best selling Nintendo Franchises. And that doesn’t even include all the popular third party franchises that are huge on Nintendo consoles. It might be becoming a bigger deal but like you said it’s not nearly enough to warrant the amount it has, thus the “what about Mario and Pokemon” argument doesn’t work.
People don't complain cuz Mario characters and Pokémon characters are actually fun to play. I like FE,but most of characters have the exact goddamn formula in their movesets.
@@imagineumnomefoda500also because Mario, Pokémon and also Zelda are some of the biggest and most iconic videogame franchises
One thing I just automatically assumed with the ballot, was it wasn't to determine the dlc. But newcomers for the next game entirely Just look at how many characters who were pushed HARD on the ballot, made it into ultimate. While the only one I feel got a realistic push for Wii U dlc, was Cloud, maybe Ryu as well
Amazing vid! Imagine the reaction if we get Veronica or Alfonse in Smash 6 lmao
How did they get the idea to put 3 smash characters from one single game? It's not only too much FE characters but it's especially too much Awakening characters, although 2 are echoes (and we didn't get yet our second echoes games).
Another comment suggested making Robin and Chrom like pyra and Mythra
Low-key I think the problems in perception come from the four Marth clones. Corrin and Byleth are all objectively unique and Robin has a cool concept and move set even if his character is just a blank slate. Having the split gender protags also doesn’t help making them distinct
I got into FE via FEH back in 2018. I had smash 4 and brawl but didnt care much for them. FEH got me really into FE (specifically Fates) and so when ultimate announced everyone returning and I saw Corrin it made me love Smash so much more, and I've mained Corrin for 6 years now, and it has helped FE become my favourite series too, both help eachother so much
@5:20 I was hype during Corrin's inclusion. That was memed to high-heaven.
I have always thought that instead of constantly adding more sword Lords from FE, they could have done well to include characters like Ephraim from Sacred stones as a Lance user and Hector from FE7 as an Axe Fighter. Both are cool characters that could easily have been used to spice up the Fire Emblem corner of Smash.
The KZhead comments for the Byleth reveal shortly after it was uploaded are something I'll never forget. People were trying REALLY hard to be optimistic about it and not say something negative. There was a lot of "Haha this trailer is so funny, Sakurai is a master of trolling!". I don't even know where they got that from. Nothing about the reveal is a troll. He just revealed a character the same way he did many times before 💀
was Byleth's trailer the one where Sakurai was counting weird with his fingers and then spent like 3 min explaining it? cuz THAT was fucking weird lol
Thank you so much for this video
I think it'd be funny if Alear's Smash gimmick was using the Emblem Rings and bringing other FE lords, kinda like Shulk using different Monado symbols. Screw it, if people are gonna be upset at another FE character, let's have one that like 10 in 1
Making Alear a sort of Shang Tsung for FE characters would actually be kinda sick.
I think the stars could align so that Sigurd is added to Smash if FE4 remake comes soon. I'd love a cavalry unit in Smash.
Honestly, how would 3 houses play out if Byleth just choofed off with the main relics?
Forgot to mention that Female Corrin also got the censor treatment as well. It's not really noticeable like Pyra or not as revealing as Mythra. The only thing that is changed are the thighs are fully covered to make the pants armor
My history with Nintendo as a console manufacturer, funny enough, started with SSB64 (while I was aware of the NES and SNES, we couldn't exactly afford them, so the only Nintendo exposure I got was arcade games ported to the Commodore 64/128, since my dad had taken up coding in his spare time back in the day). Obviously, I knew who Mario was - the classic Jumpman was just about everywhere, even back then - and I was even familiar with Pikachu due to a pal having Pokémon Blue and the anime having already started taking off around that time, but it was my first time meeting other legendary heroes like Link and Samus (and believe me, it wasn't long before I'd amassed a sizeable library of N64 titles, thanks mostly to my uncle). However, like you, Melee was my introduction to Fire Emblem, and I immediately attached to Marth as my fighter of choice. Mind you, I never got close to the skill level of pros like Mew2King, but I was still pretty proficient. Anyway, I remember the NA trailer for FE7 (it didn't air often, that I can recall, but I definitely remember seeing it), and both me and my brother (who, understandably, picked up Roy) were extremely excited. We played that game SO MUCH that I'm shocked that it even works to this day (and that was the day my love for spunky, outspoken healers began). We played Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, and even Radiant Dawn often. Of course, as we all know, life can be a real you-know-what, so around the time of RD we both ended up drifting from each other and videogames (now, mind you, it didn't help that RD was rushed garbage that is incoherent in its own storytelling, but I was also battling major depression at the time). When Awakening came out, I was understandably cautious, and at the time I'm pretty sure I nitpicked at the game far too hard to enjoy it, and it didn't help that Fates not only decided to provide what I thought was a false dilemma (you can't tell me that Hoshido isn't hard-coded to be the 'good' side while Nohr isn't the 'evil' side) that was then, for seemingly no reason other than to make more money, sidestepped with Revelations as a "golden route" that felt more of a cop-out. Honestly, I thought at that point my time with Fire Emblem was done (although I still enjoyed playing Marth in Brawl and 3DS). And then Three Houses came out. Honestly, I still wasn't sure whether I was going to enjoy it, but it was intriguing enough for me to try. And while my initial suspicions were correct (of Edelgard being the "traitor" and instigating the ensuing war on behalf of the actual villains), the gameplay was fun and varied enough that I was able to complete a playthrough. Of course, the shortcomings of the game have prevented a second playthrough, I do appreciate the thoroughness of the developers to cover most of their bases. Sadly, it seems they learned the wrong lesson from Revelations - sometimes it's good to have a "golden route," but it does require thoughtful planning and execution - and so opted to not have such a thing for 3H. Hopes did manage to fix some of the issues of Houses, and as a Musou fan I really enjoyed the gameplay of that game, but I do think it was too little, too late. As for Ultimate, I still play Marth, but I use Ganondorf a LOT more nowadays, and I honestly can't get used to Byleth's style of combat, but it's by far my favorite entry in the Smash series nonetheless.
Fire emblem is under represented in smash like we don't even have a villain character
A villain would be great
Imagine not having a Villain. You guys likely won’t get one any time soon since they always choose the avatars. At least have some standards for how your series is represented.
If FE end up getting a Villain in Smash who will it be? Personally I want the Black Knight
well tbh all of them are villains for the war crimes they commit
Wait Byleth is technically a villain if you count three hopes
I remember when Byleth was first revealed, my reaction was "Oh, okay." Nowadays, Three Houses is one of my favourite Switch games, and his Amiibo sits proudly in my collection. Funny how much an impulsive purchase can change your perspective.
Well, haters can breathe easy for a while. Alear will not be added.
Being honest they probably won't, not only they are unpopular by the casual audience but also the time for promotion has passed
Didn't the Cindered Shadows trailer get dislike bombed because people were mad at Byleth being in Smash? I remember those being revealed around the same time. Allegra Clark's "hoes mad" tweet was very funny, though.
i kind of wish they gave us different reps instead of roy, ike, corrin and lucina that arent sword wielders like hector, micaiah, azura and tiki (though im aware at the time of ike’s release micaiah wouldnt have been a lord yet)
This.
I like how smashers say they want original fire emblem characters yet when asked which ones to get rid of for the next smash game, it's always Robin, Corrin or Byleth
Who's saying axe Robin? Corn and Byleth I get. No one actually likes Corn in Fates, and no one asked for them. And Byleth just made the FE representation issue worse. But I haven't seen anyone saying to get rid of Robin, one of the few non-swordy characters of the roster (yes, he uses a sword, but he primarily focuses on magic and the durability system from the franchise, which also extends to his Levin Sword).
@@espurrseyes42 I've seen a decent amount of people wanting Robin to get cut in the next smash game. But yeah, obviously less than Corrin and Byleth. Most of them bitch about him because he's a zoner character.
@@Julv_ Ah. So Skill issue rather than representation issue. Got it.
@@espurrseyes42 Yeah, pretty much
If Mama Byleth trailer was recreated through CGI and Ganondorf Ridley Dark pit and Bowser got added to her trailer, that would've been amazing. Let's just say the trailer were to take place during the fight with Rhea at the monastery with all the demonic beasts
Thats such a heavy spoiler for when the trailer was shown
@@sirspookybones1118 yeah
This does make me think about what parts of the story could have been used for the trailer. There could always have been the start like with the first divine pulse, when they first got the sword of the creator, maybe even the battle of the eagle and lion or Jeralts death (well, maybe not that one as that is super spoilery)
@@thatonearanara Yeah, about that I did have a part of the divine pulse as well like for example edelgard gets knocked down by Ganondorf due to his advantage he has over her with an blade and right as she is on the ground ganon forward smashes her and that's when divine pulse comes in. I have more on this but it's pretty long
Anyway, I hope Alear and even Shez come to Smash 6. They and Corrin are my FE holy trinity
Didn’t corrin also get censored in smash 4 what with the inner thigh window?
4 Marths, but people complained when they stopped being clones
I think overall the amount of representation is fine but they should have chosen better reps since chrom and definitely corrin (and even lucina arguably although i think her as a echo is fine) leaves a lot to be desired. I dont even think having a lot of swords is an issue its just that half the reps is based off marth so it does bother a lot of us including me who is a fire emblem fan. If they chose other lords like lyn, celica, micaiah, and maybe hector id like the representation way more.
I wasn't into FE at the time, but I was super hyped by Corrin's introduction because he (yes, I'm that guy) has dragon powers. Didn't care about the game and I still haven't played Fates to this day - he was a DRAGON with a SWORD and that's AWESOME! My only FE game is Blazing Sword on Wii U and I regrettably still haven't beaten it. I'm trying to get back into Fire Emblem though and I'm considering the 3DS games. For whatever reason, I think that Echoes sounds like fun.
Rather have a real dragon like Tiki than a mary sue half vampire, half angel, half god, half plot armor creature.
Echoes is very good imo. I think it's not the best introduction to the series, but it's still a very good game (minus the outdated map design.) I can't in good conscious recommend Fates as an entry point, mainly because as an intro Birthright is too easy, Conquest is too hard, and Revelations is no longer legally available.
@@firenze6478 That might be difficult because a real FE dragon could be too big or too powerful. The reason Ridley works is because his size matches his NES appearance. I don't think a smaller FE dragon would be as simple???
@@orangeslash1667 tiki’s awakening dragon form, which is also an assist trophy isn’t that big.
If a new Smash Bros game were to get announced with a new Fire Emblem fighter coming in as well, I wouldn't be surprised if they are announced in the same way Min Min from ARMS was teased. There would be a post on Nintendo's social media letting people know that a new character from the Fire Emblem series would be revealed in a later date. Who it would be from the series would be a mystery until that trailer would come out. That way at least some of the hate would be prevented with the new fighter's inclusion as expectations would be better set unlike with Corrin or Byleth, but where the fan's reaction would go from there may still be up in the air depending on the theoretical new game's roster.
Has this horse been beaten to death enough yet? We could have three FE lords or we could have 20. We were never getting Geno or Waluigi regardless. If you don’t like all of the clones, then just don’t play them. I feel like this is not that complicated.
I can also see Alear being added since she’s the recent character and Engage is the newest game that came out recently
The Byleth controversy was the event that welcomed me into the FE series. I was never interested in it before, but found the smash player rage funny. Thank you Sakurai!
I think the surge of FE representation in Smash makes sense because of its success. When Melee and Brawl were new, Fire Emblem was niche, so the Smash roster reflected that. By the time Smash 4 was new, Awakening did well enough to warrant FE getting more reps. And now Fire Emblem is one of Nintendo's most recognizable franchises, so its roster size continues to make sense. With that said, Byleth was still a really disapointing addition for me. Not just because of the reasons everyone else had, but also because I wanted to see one of the other lords instead, and Byleth's inclusion killed that. I don't think I'll ever be excited to see a new FE character in Smash anymore. Instead of a character I was actually attached to, it'll probably be another avatar that I couldn't care less about.
Byleth was chosen because Sakurai wants a characters with 4 weapons???? I can't imagine the other lords using all three at once.
It's not that there were too many FE characters. It's just that there so many better characters than the ones they chose.
They should've picked Gatekeeper in Byleth's stead, nobody could've argued with that...... and Azura could've been a more interesting pick than Corrin.... (And honestly, I'd ditch Chrom any day of the week in favor of Lyn, we already had two Awakening-reps anyways)
@@tolotos95hell, they could’ve picked any of the main four Fe lords as well imo.
No, Byleths are protagonist
@@Suited_Nat My completely biased pick would be Marianne, but that'll never happen😔
Well let's look at it this way: Marth - Basically the Face of the series Roy - The sole rep of the GBA era Ike - The sole rep of the Gamecube/Wii era Byleth - The sole rep of the Switch era and the most sold FE game to date The 3DS characters on the other hand oh yeah I agree. 3 are from the same game, 2 are echo fighters and honestly either Robin or Corrin could have been the sole reps for the 3DS era.
Part of the problem is that they always choose Lord characters (or later the self-insert character) to include in the Smash series. Which makes sense--if you're trying to include a representative of a game, to potentially entice new players into a franchise, you're going to use the most recognizable main character in a given game, the one that reps that particular game. The problem is that Lord/player characters traditionally use swords. That's not a problem in Fire Emblem games when you have an entire army of other weapon types and characters to cover your bases for a well-meshed team, but it is a problem when you only pick and choose one character per game. So the options are either use the most recognizable character (and go all swords) or choose less recognizable characters that players may or may not even encounter or connect with that use other weapons (which will also inevitably start the "well, why didn't you choose MY fave, though?!" discourse). I mean, imagine if they included Claude as the FE3H rep to change it up with a bow--you'd have tons of fans who were pissed that it wasn't Edelgard or Dimitri!
Fire Emblem is by no means my favorite game series. Hell, it isn't even my favorite Nintendo series. But Three Houses was my favorite game of 2019, so I remember wishing that it would get represented in some capacity in smash. Needless to say I was one of the few people that were genuinely happy to see their inclusion. Honestly, aside from Joker from Persona 5, the Byleth trailer had me the most hyped. Byleth remains my favorite DLC addition to smash ultimate, because not only are they from a game I really enjoy, but they're really fun to play as well.
as an fe fan first, smash fan second, the HOES MAD meme was peak comedy lmfao, that was the funniest thing to ever hit the internet
I think what not a lot of people consider with the fire emblem inclusions is not only the amount of characters being too high, it's also the amount of new characters. People compare FE to Pokémon when it comes to oversaturation, but most of the Pokémon were from earlier games and they were interchangeable, with six Pokémon in the franchise in brawl, but only four were in a game at a time. Since then there's only been two Pokémon added, one newcomer a game (it also doesn't help that they were also both characters that were not only super unique, but they also happened to be the most popular Pokémon and the most competitively viable Pokémon, making both inclusions impartially pretty great), meanwhile FE only had half of that in brawl, with three total characters and two at a time, but since then we've had over double the newcomers that Pokémon had with FIVE, three in sm4sh and two in Ultimate. Not to mention the inclusions were pretty mediocre, as either they'd be decent characters with incredibly uninspired movesets like Lucina and Chrom, or they'd have decent movesets but would be incredibly boring characters like Robin and Corrin. Byleth is the one exception, but by that time people were already fed up with new FE characters, which is understandable because like I said, we've had FIVE newcomers within the span of five years (even their biggest franchise mario only had four newcomers), so yeah Byleth really was the straw that broke the camel's back.
FYI mario has 9 characters
FYI when idiots compare a niche strategy RPG to the guy that saved the entire videogame industry.
Two of my fave IP. Loved this
So I really think the size of fe’s lineup is just because of ultimate. They just regularly cycled out for marth + awakening + newest and mostly before. The everyone is hear bringing precious newest entries back is what made their lineup so bloated.
Personally love using the FE characters in smash myself ESPECIALLY Robin and Byleth. If I could have my way for a future character though I would like a villain rep or an axe main.
Marth has been my main since before I even played Fire Emblem lol
Only problem with FE's fighter represenation I have right now is that there are 3 Awakening characters/4 Marth based movesets. One solution I've talked with friends about is making Chrom and Robin a "Pair-up" fighter, with Lucina as an alternate costume for Chrom (From what I understand Chrom literally trained Lucina, so she should fight like him anyway?) It wouldn't be like Ice climbers but maybe more along the lines of Chrom handles the normals while Robin handles the specials. In this scenario, every character stays represented in the roster, but we cut down the FE Character slots by 2. One friend mentioned to me that maybe Roy could be a Marth alt, but I don't really think that's necessary. Other random thoughts: * I hope next game Byleth becomes more, Byleth...? Divine Pulse, Magic, more sword of the creator shenanigans. I'm fine with them wielding the relics but it doesn't feel like I'm playing as Byleth. * Corrin maybe gets Dragon vein's in her moveset? Corrin's actually represented REALLY well in smash outside odd voiceline choices and a lack of music. dragon veins would just be a cool bonus 🤷 * I'm begging the balance team to let Ike be a good character for once 😢. Ragnell having a single projectile would help so much. * I don't have many thoughts on Marth and Roy because I haven't played their games, so I'm not gonna speak on characters I know nothing about outside of what I've learned from FEH, Engage, and Smash.
Yes, Lucina was trained by Chrom. She literally says so in the cutscene where the two duel in Arena Ferox, taking the same stance as him and doing some of the exact same moves as him. In gameplay, Lucina uses different animations, but there's still more than enough justification to have her be a skin of him so they can be one single fighter. Roy copying Marth has no lore. They literally just did that to squeeze him into Melee, and kept that gameplay into when he returned. He's just a lazy clone, and should honestly just be cut altogether.
For me personally I have never had an issue with more Fire Emblem characters in Smash Bros due to also playing the series for years. I mean I get the complaints, but still we all are going to want characters from own favorite series. So of course who won't complain when they don't get a character that they really wanted added to the roster. However, I will say that for the next Smash Bros I do think we will lose quite a few characters from certain series which is okay if that means we get new characters who play differently and can help set them apart. Though this is just my opinion on the topic in question.
Fire emblem does have a lot of characters in smash, but the reactions to it are always so overdramatic. Especially during byleth’s reveal because there they tried something different definitely made them unique compared to the others. I can understand if you don’t like it, but they acted like it ruined the entire game or something
Byleth trailers was just a repeat of Corrin Also the trailer was so bad, it takes more than a minute for the trailer to reveal itself to be for Smash, the issue is that from the beginning we knew it was for Smash Then it drags even more by acting like Female Byleth being there is something "surprising"
@@icecontrol1No it wasn't? Corrin's was a joke on the multiple choices of fates while byleth took their awakening sceene and twist it. If it was a repeat, it would have been choosing which house to teach, than having the smash logo be one. If you want to make the argument that it takes a cutscene from the game and twists it so it becomes related to smash, thats fine, but you better keep that same energy for the banjo and kazooi reveal. Which just used the same cutscene as the king k rool reveal.
@@igotboredokay.2023 Nah it was the same thing The trailer beginning as it was going to be for the source game before being revealed to be for Smash I'm talking about the bait and switch, the issue is that the punchline of the trailer is ruined as everyone knew it was a Smash trailer, so now everyone is bored as there is no suspense as they know from second 1 that is Byleth so now they just want the gameplay to begin
@@icecontrol1 "Exact same thing: both trailers used a similar approach. I win, you lose."
@@icecontrol1 Okay, but they did the same thing for like, every character in the game? They said, oh look a surprise, and then showed the character. It sounds like you just don't like trailers
Byleth buffs would be cool. Big fan of Chrom up b buffs, personally.
If I was a betting man, which I'm not, I'd wager that the next FE character to be in Smash Bros is Alear. The main reason is they are the most recent main character in an FE game and would follow in a pattern with the main lord making an appearance. So what would Alear's moveset be? They'd probably use emblem Marth like how Joker uses his Persona but focus more on close in combat with their final smash being their Engage Blast attack they perform as an Emblem.
personally i don't hate the inclusion of all the fire emblem characters in smash. while i can agree that there is a lot of fire emblem characters without much variety in weapons, i don't care that much. i like swords as weapons and i personally don't have any characters i want in smash so whenever a dlc character dropped, i had no expectations and thus i was never disappointed. i was more focused on if the character was fun to play. also yes, byleth buffs for the next smash bros game if they're in it ple a se