i'm fond of early installment weirdness and cryptic shit in old games so i think this is why i'm so patient with this game. it's a game where you have to learn how it clicks to 'get' it and it tests you constantly but once you can roll with it thracia opens up

one of my favorites by merit of being easy to pick up and play through and also having really strong protagonists + main antagonist. very much a feel good game of mine. i love some good interpersonal drama with some smooth simple gameplay

very similar to thracia 776's design philosophy in that it's less about raw strength and more about how you use your tools, but even then berwick saga is its own unique beast. quite flawed but still try it out if you're curious!

Better than every official FE GBA and I genuinely mean this (don't look at sacred stones above the last promise you don't see that)

this one is good you guys just need to form your own opinions on it

this is the one that got me into the series. i think it rushes the player through itself a little too much because there was so much they wanted to cover but it really does feel like a love letter to the series to me. i love it despite how easy the gameplay is to pick apart

i have been stockholm syndromed into liking this one. people give this one a lot of flack but i think it's cool that you can see shadow dragon's skeleton in all future games unlike a lot of 1980s first installments in various video game series. quite easy though

i'm very conflicted on this game so i'm just gonna leave it in the dead middle.
golden deer < black eagles < blue lions

this game rules until it starts taking itself too seriously. i liked that fire emblem went for something lighthearted but i laughed out loud at chapter 10 and the last few chapters really fail to make you feel for alear's interpersonal turmoil. gameplay is good but the difference between this and 3h for me is i don't really want to play it again meanwhile I stuck out each 3h route every time

i love this game on paper but map design? awful. women? written terribly. it is very much a love letter to echoes with even more passion than awakening, but at the same time it is very much carried by its presentation + berkut. i want to love it but man. i can fix you echoes

i've spent a long time grapping with this game but something has to be at the bottom of the list. it had me in the first half but lost me in the second- like it would be so cool if the 2nd half wasn't lewyn going "there's two sides to this war seliph" and the game cutting to Emperor Warcrime cackling evilly and sacrificing more children. Map design sucks. At least the music fucks

fire emblem gaiden lol

i played like 3 chapters of the blue lions campaign in the demo, put the game down when i decided i was tired, and never felt a calling to pick up the demo or buy the full game ever again. it would be cool if i liked musou games

until they add four pngs of Forde from the hit game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones for the game boy advance to this game I am not listing this game in my backloggd it is just that bad