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The funny thing watching this almost 6 months later, is Lyon has lost power since omni tanks that he just can't take out, like Emblem Ike and B!Alfonse, became staples on pretty much every single team. It is still really hard to build new units, but that ends up forcing people to invest in future-proof units. The irony being that it's so hard to detect which unit will be future-proofed because they keep adding more mechanics.

doots diff ay

Well Vanessa isn't actually that good (or at least Tana is objectively stronger about everywhere) but utility wise she is amazing and can train a lot pretty easily when axes arent out and about Now do I love her design and personality? Absolutely yes and she gets a lot of love (stat boosters) from my part ❤ P.S. I adore Dorothy too ❤❤❤

these character analysis videos are amazing i love it!

What do you think about her boss conversation with Tauroneo? I think it was cool. She was quite bold, as you would expect and it references Tauroneo's own relationship with Largo in Path of Radiance. I don't think she has a chance at defeating the former rider of Daein though.

I really did not use Calill much outside of a few well placed Meteors (I already devoted a lot of time and effort into Soren and Ilyana... and Tormod.) but I definitely feel like she has some great character work, and this analysis makes me happy that I get to have a better look at it. Thanks!

Nice work, great video. I had never seen the Calill Geoffrey support, that was cute.

Great Essay as always.

I don't recall if I really used her all that much, but I may have in one of the games? She was pretty neat though overall.

Damn, I didn't realize that Calill had so much going for her. Shame she comes promoted with knives

calill OHOHOHO coded

My problems are once you got you fav unit max out he will still suck (Speacially if you like units from books 1-4), and that every time they realease a "broken unit who will make your team dissapear". For example, now is Emblem Ike, like what can you do against him if you dont build your team around it?

my biggest problem with feh is once I summon my favorite unit and the hype dies down, I look at where I can use my new unit at and theres......really nothing. AR is time gated to a one maybe two times a day, arena is pay to win and your score won't increase at all if you dont have the necessary scoring bots anyways, and summoner duels is fine but I much prefer AR. I wish I could open the game and not auto battle a random event and have literally nothing else to do

el que tiene mas texto en el arma gana xd

The game honestly feels in a good spot to me lately, but just as like an casual collecting game. Any type of competitive mode on this game is dead to me forever because the power creep is just ridiculous to keep up. But to just play and collect some of characters you like, the game feels better than ever to me. I used to like aether raids and arena but these days its just log in, get orbs, maybe summon, log out. And atleast for me I'm okay with that. I don't see the game eos any time soon I think they still make enough money to stay up for awhile

I started the game mid second book and stopped playing around the time when fallen Edelgard was added. I have alot of gripes with the game and it did not help, that i was palyign a second, alot more catching gacha next to it. (Fate grand order) I'll be comparing the two games alot. First of all, i gotta say the 5* rate of FeH is very generous. With it being between 4(?) to 8% versus something like 1% of FGO and even worse rates in alot other games (Genshin having 0.6%), it's definitely 'throwing' 5* Units at you. Which in return makes it even more annoying if you did not get the 5* you were looking for. Also the system, that you get a random array of colours in a pulling round was often more annoying than nice. Way too many times, i've tried to pull a certain colour and it just would not appear or only one orb per round. It was infuriating. It made me hate pulling for new characters insted of being excited. That is bad. Generall, the music is good. It uses a nice mix of og and already existing game music. Also being able to set music for certain areas is a nice touch. Now my first huge gripe is the story. It's bland, short and predictable. While FGO's first story-parts aren't exactly the cherry on top either, they did significantly improve and wrote absolutely banger stories, full of twists emotion and suspence. One of Feh's books would be on average about a 10-20% of one story-arc of FGO at best. It got to the point where i just started to shamelessly skip the story because it was so utterly obnoxious and i just wanted the orbs. Generally the events don't really have much/any story either besides some fluff dialogue and were very repetitive and needlessly grindy. My biggest issue was how punishing the game is to f2p-players. You had to budget extremely well and only draw for the newest meta-defining unit to be able to do anything at all in PvP-modes like the arena or the floating island. This is also the reason i stopped playing the game, because at some point, namely when fallen Edelgard was launched, i did not have a singular unit that was capable of taking her out. And crafting teams is also a big nono because you either sacrifice a valuable 5* to give another one a good skill only for that little edge to dissappear once the next banner hits anyway. I assime Fallen Edelgard is complete end of the row nowadays as well. They also made the game more predatory in general adding buyable items to give older units a small stat boost (and a new look), items to retain units from one of the events and whatever else i've forgotten. They tried many things to make older unit stay up to speed but they're either way too few stats gained or way too grindy for not much improvement. On the other hand i have a game (fgo) that updates old Servants and sometimes actually makes them top tier again, hands out new outfits to gain in game (none can be bought via money) and gives very strong Servants for completing events. Given, Fgo does not have a PvP mode and does have Powercreep as well. But you can access any content with a wide variety of Teamcompositions. Also.. don't play the game. It's still a gacha after all. :D It's kinda sad to see that my gripes have only worsened over time and i'm glad i stopped playing.

My favorite character is Soleil. I waited 4 something years for her to get a flavorful Prf. Weapon like Selena or Effie, even if she wasn't good. Well, she got a Prf., it sucked by standards set 3 years ago, it has 0 flavor, and now I just have to sit here with a favorite character that the developers actively despised since she appeared in Fates 😭 And immediately after her prf. released, the next book came out, and left her, and every unit that released before her wildly in the dust. Heres a *small* fix: Make it so that every unit has a free inherit, like rearms. You get to pump up your favorite units, and get to keep the strong modern unit to play the game. But I agree with all of the points you've made. The game has been going down hill since Fallen Edelgard, and was made EVEN WORSE after Blazing Lyn. The worst thing is that, while all of these new systems help, THEY ARE ALSO AVAILABLE TO ALL OF THE MODERN UNITS THAT INVALIDATE THE BAD UNITS !!! All of the bandages they are giving to old units just exacerbate the problem !!!

I’m just playing for potential alts of my faves by now 💔

It's always interesting when someone brings a new video about the state of the game. Unironically, things have not changed since 2 or even 5 years ago with lucky crits video addressing this

I waited all these years for them to add base severa, i finally got her and +10d and super built her and she just gets annihilated by pre combat damage and dr piercing. Its so sad and makes me not want to play

I feel like another point worth mentioning is the story is kind of lacking. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like there's a lot of missed opportunities when it comes to developing certain characters. Like Anna for example. I think she's great, but I can't really recall any kind of significant character development since the game launched. Great video, agree with everything.

This is such a great video and such an important conversation and reflection to have about the game. I think the only salvation is to invest in PvE. Make Seer's snare permanent or at least more frequent, they struck gold with that mode and I think they should capitalize on that.

I uninstalled two days ago, deleted my data. Ike countering rearmed blue tome from Reinhardt finally did it. We can't even get that tome with the codes yet and it's already powercreep lol there's just no point

I like this Fire Emblem Heroes CZcams video of yours.

I'll happily await EoS & feel good abt not spending a cent on this mediocre cash grab. Fire Emblem deserves better

Feh is such a wild game, where it gets simpler the more complicated it gets. There's no point in trying to understand all these new gimmicks, i just give them to my +10 raven when i pull them and hope he can kill with them.

Feh has become meh, way too much OP and power creep, from greed typical of mobile gaming. Abysmal chances of getting what you want, low chances plus even when you summon 5 star unlikely to get the hero you want, as well as the right boons. The pricing schemes of most if not all mobile games is gross

Fun fact: you can still get the rewards for summoner duels without having to actually play, on some weekends there’s a guranteed +10 point bonus to matches regardless of whether you win or lose, so just slap together a fodder team, set it on auto, and watch the rewards roll in

I still like it lmao

As a day 1 player, never taking a break and seeing all the meta devolve into whale/kraken paradise, I just reached the point where this is a card collect game, I reached arena 20 once so I'm satisfied, but as you said, I'm waiting for Summer or Winter Echidna, I'll probably quit the game out right, there's nothing more and the devs are going the pokemon path of not giving a shit (especially with the fiasco of the young tikis that the devs are beyond obsessed with)

I still use Fomortiis, uber powerful and can just stop the game

Great video! I think that i definitely think is that 5 orbs per summon is a STEEP price for revival banners from everything pre book 5, yet merges are incredibly important. Givinng more access to duplicates of older units that dont have THAT good of skills would be a great way to keep players with older units feel like theyre progresssing

FEH was in a nice place, and then every single release they added in the past year power crept the shit out of the game. If you aren't using exclusively heroes from the last year you are basically useless

Sharena be like-- FiEr eMblAm hEroeS Dang how old this game now? Well for me feh introduce me to fire emblem franchise, i dont know shit bout heroes back then and its cool i can build any unit i fancy, playing on and off every now and then. So true, it is sad state now with never ending powerteleporting and wall of texts. But this year is absolute bonkers, i thought f edelgard was peak bwahaha its christmast ver. and new lyon is just bullshit Well anyway still cool comfort game with top tier art soo FiEr eMblAm hEroeS Waifu > meta scrubbsss Brave sharena when?

Obviously, the only way to fix Feh is with Feh2

Its funny how Feh has lots of different versions of a same hero and they DONT use them to make an alternative Story Mode or Story Event Mode. Its so sad to see some protagonists in their pinnacle states in the game and we dont get an Story Mode to focus on the protagonists journey to reach that state. Also, Feh could use versions of heroes from various different age's and genders, but they stick only to the "Holiday/comemorative day" kinda versions, like... they could make younger versions of older characters ou older versions of young characters as variants, Feh really feels like wasted potential sometimes.

The only reason I'm playing this game is so I can collect all 12(maybe 13) emblem heroes.

I've been playing since year one... What do you MEAN it's been 7

Regular Summoner Duels *could* be a lot more enjoyable if they gave options for every book restirction. Reality is that your typical match against an opponent will always have the brand new toys. I know that i'd personally kill to have a book 1 resticted mode.

PVP content is what keeps this game alive because it is where unit building and team building is relevant. There is very very little PVE content difficult enough to encourage unit building and team building, which is the entire premise of this kind of game. Even if we did have PVE content challenging enough for that, you'd have just as many people complaining about the state of the game as people complaining about PVP modes like Aether Raids or SD. For PVE content, we recently had the one of the most challenging Abyssal released in Emblem Ike. The playerbase reaction was polarizing: on one on hand you have a variety of strategies and unit types to successfully tackle the challenge. On the other hand, you have people decrying it as being "Too hard" and "unfair" without giving any single attempt at coming up with a strategy to beat it. We have PVE skill studies, but people also think thats too hard (also not enough reward). Grandmaster studies are Summoner Duels equivalent of PVE content and a lot of people are just not into that level of thinking and planning. Almost any challenging PVE content is going to be rejected by the community (remember early difficult PVE maps? People complained and complained and complained about reinforcements). Any non-challenging PVE content is just going to be unengaging and added to the list of "click a few buttons a day and win". So that leaves PVP content, which is easy for IS to manage because the content and meta is community driven. In PVP, there is obviously rampant powercreep, but the thing is keeping your favorites relevant is easier than ever now with all the of the ways you can boost their power, either through powerful support units, powerful effects (engage and new skills). Like mentioned in the video, it's just hard and resource intensive to keep up with the text creep in skills, and difficult to keep up with all the effects every unit has these days. However, regardless of that, the bar for success in FEH still remains relatively low in contrast to the power of units. For example, if units have a power of 10 (an arbitrary metric), then FEH is the type of game where you only need a unit power of 5 to actually be successful. Top players in AR or SD are almost always F2P or very light spenders. The teams that top players use are teams that literally any player can put together if they use resources wisely. I've been using the same core of units in both seasons of Aether Raids for almost several years now, only updating their skills as improved ones come out, and I've very rarely drop below Vault of Heaven. The problem is that the amount of strategy, teambuilding, and thinking has increased significantly over time. FEH is almost now a proper "strategy" game, when for the first few years of its life it absolutely was not. Your average playerbase for FEH is not interested in strategy beyond either (1) use nuke + dancers and keep out of red danger zone, or (2) plonk 1 powerful unit into danger red zone and win the game. PVP modes require significantly more unit/team building along with positioning and thinking a few turns ahead to be successful.

This summed up how I feel about the current state of the game to a T. It's still a fun character collector with charming interactions, but as a game it just feels so tedious. The current power creep feeling like the result of a 7 year high speed arms race came with another problem: keeping track of what everything does is a huge headache. Early on, skills were simple and easy to understand. Maybe you gave some stat buffs to a nearby unit, or staves healed themselves when healing others, or enemies couldn't pass by your character. Distant counter was basically the best skill in the game, so if you had it in your prf you were set. I remember seeing a joke comic that made an 'OP character' who could counter at any range, hit twice in both phases, and had built in vantage. That's literally OG Altina, and she's nowhere near a meta unit anymore. With modern skills, particularly prf skills and weapons, it's a long and exhaustive wall of text that reaches the bottom of the screen, and I really don't want to memorize that. I mean have you read Laguz friend? Mobile games are supposed to be a fun little time waster I do on break, but it feels like I need a PhD just to understand the game now. They can't go back now either, since obviously weaker skills just aren't going to sell.

I still remember that time where f!Edelgard was a top unit and now she gets beaten by other units so quickly. I started feh because of Azura and now, my old azura units aren't strong enough ( I don't play meta so I can only blame that on me ). And I'm sad because my Azura's were my pride back then and now my old azura's are just stocked in a box 😭

Yeah I'm just here to get the participation points usually. But enough effort to stay in Vault or move in and out of Vault. As well as getting tier 21 in arena modes, then get kicked out the week after. The thing that keeps me going is building a unit that is a favorite, but not for the sake of using them in PvP or any extremely tedious mode. I will use them, but its just fun to use in a more casual way.

I kinda wish there was more to do with your units that wasn't just battling. I really like Heroes' Journey because of this - the little stories are cute. I also wish there was a non-combat mode that somehow used your unit's stats, like a mini DnD campaign where certain stats acted like checks for certain obstacles. And you'd gain items to raise/lower stats along the way, making sure you min-max your units in a way that lets you pass as many challenges as possible. Heck, at the end of it, add a boss fight that uses your units' modified stats to make it interesting.

This is a great video and I agree with a lot of the points presented. (Long comment incoming lol) I really like FEH, which is why I keep playing it despite interest going down. I got into this game at the recommendation of a friend years ago before I played a proper FE game (that being FE Fates and Awakening, goated games). It was a magical experience as my first gacha game but it has its problems and really became present over recent years and a lot of the points you mentioned has kept me F2P simply because its just not worth it. Fav Character Interest: A majority of my favorite characters are from FE Fates and Awakening so naturally I gravitate towards those units when they come out. Specifically any Camilla (fav of all time), Charlotte, Nah, Kjelle, Setsuna who HASN'T gotten any alts to my knowledge and a few others. I decided to dedicate all my resourses into building the best Camilla team I could with the units and skills I have. It was fun for a really long time...until I found out that these teams barely stood a chance against the current units (L. Camilla and N. Camilla are the only exceptions to this). I actually ended up getting all the Camilla alts and as soon as I got them, I felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders and all these new units from other FE games seemed unimportant which has a little to do with Powercreep which I'll touch on in a sec. After the release of L.Camilla I found myself saving for a VERY long time simply because no unit interested me. I only pulled on banners with either really meta units or units I've always wanted but couldn't get. Now I just play for consistency and being satisfied with where my Camilla team is at right now. Powercreep/Meta: Now here's the big issue, I touched on it a bit before but a big reason I'm F2P is because the meta changes so quickly!!! Any time I think, "this might be the meta breaking unit of all time" they're irrelevant or have a hard counter in a few months. Its hard to invest in any character nowadays because a better unit will probably come in just a month lol. Its even worse when youre building characters like you said in the video. Its super fun but I found it very dishearting when I finally finished my Setsuna build (before Arcane weapons) and she just got one shot by modern unit of the month #86. It feels useless sometimes. It feels even worse with my Camilla teams which I've invested FAR more into (especially Normal Camilla who is strong in her own right now). Like I get units are supposed to be powerful for player interest but the fact that none of my Camillas can even scratch Emblem Ike is insane to me. Like so many resources, dragon flowers, ascended florettes and not even a scratch. Even L. Camilla who was fairly recent couldn't put a dent in him and its just sad. For normal content, using my Camilla team regularly is the most satisfying thing since I can finally auto battle without worry now. But my point still stands for powercreeping and broken skills. I even stopped reading the paragraphs for new skills cause I just knew they were either broken or needlessly complicated. I always wait to see what PheonixMaster1 has to say and then make my judgement. Gameplay: Not gonna take long here. I just want more effort put into the PvE or Co-op. They literally have their FE games as base for potentially interesting game modes. I was incredibly interested in FEH's story mode for the first 3 books because it was genuinely good for me (I'm a story guy) AND I was able to do it all at once. That was until I caught up and realized I had to wait an ENTIRE MONTH for ONE chapter that usually is not worth the wait. And idk if its just me but I also feel like the story in general went a little lower in quality in my opinion. Not bad but just not as good. So now even the story isn't as interesting to me anymore which was a big reason I was playing before. I just wish we had MORE to do in FEH. Story, more in depth PvE modes, Co-op (not summoner duels 😑), etc. With all of these things I'm just waiting to see what happens to FEH. Now I just pull for either interesting units, favs or attractive units. Still waiting for normal Noire and a few others in FEH looool. But again, great video! Sorry for rambling lol.

Tanks having been useless for two to three months, TMS ignored for multiple years without even getting the other half of the cast, and Chrom not having Falchion since 2018. I'll admit I'm a lot less excited for FEH than I used to be.

It took a really long time for Severa's base self to be put into the game.

Having AHR decided by VG is a mistake, PVP is a mistake, powercrept is everywhere, premium skills/items are obnoxious, scoring in arena is a mistake, these paragraphs in descriptions are a mistake, feh story narrative and characters are cringe and bad, summoning rates in legendary/mythical/engage ring are a mistake, free unit not being every color in a summon is a mistake

Day 1 player here, still waiting on FE8 (Sacred Stones) Garcia, been constantly voting for him. I have sooo many orbs saved up on story maps I haven't completed and such just in case he releases for the instant/ASAP +10. this sucks and is further exacerbated by the lack of interesting banner variety. For example most FE8 seasonal banners have the twins, Myrrh and Lyon, with other decently popular picks (Marisa, Lute, etc). But this past V-Day banner just irritated me because it was once again the main 4 that already get tons of alts EDIT: I forgot to get to the point, sorry my point is, my interest in wanting to keep playing in case my #1 fave fe character of all time comes out is waning as the powercreep gets more unbearable and his viability probably dropping the more time passes where the gap between demotes and premium units widens.

I don't think majority of playerbase care for top end balance of the game. I played the game at launch and I am trying npw again and I have plenty of content for months to come. I'll take a break after. I like just building random old units and doing the story and random challenges they give me while only have 5-6 decently competitive units for events and pvp