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How Fire Emblem Became a Phenomenon

One thing that irritated me about the pro reviews in general. Is that they keep acting like birthright and conquest was legitimate stories to fates.

Think of it this way, imagined if each game with multiple storylines where all sold separately.

Lastly, they need to stop with the more gold and more exp map dlc because it has finally effected the game. I can tell they made getting gold and exp harder, not just to have a "more challenging game,"

It would be stupid to pair a mounted unit with someone on foot since they wouldn't be able to move together as effectively

I bought Byakuya-Oukoku (Birthright) the day it came out and I spent the next 6 months in Japan getting all the supports available in that one playthrough as possible, since you can grind up exp and support levels infinitely. It takes FOREVER.

Conquest and Birthright are standalone stories so it's fine for them to do that. Each game as in those in the Fire Emblem line or those in Nintendo's library? I don't know if you've ever played a Fire Emblem game before prior to Fates

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Conquest and Birthright are standalone stories so it's fine for them to do that. Each game as in those in the Fire Emblem line or those in Nintendo's library? I don't know if you've ever played a Fire Emblem game before prior to Fates

No, that is my whole point. They are not stand alone titles, it is just a marketing scheme. With revelations being the true story.

No neither, the entire video game industry as a whole.

Once again no, I've played awakening. I didn't say I couldn't beat the game, it just made it less enjoyable because I wasn't able to use my staff abilities in fates as much as in awakening. If we see another crunch in the 3rd game as well then that confirms further the dlc is starting to effect the game.

Yeah because the problem with Troubadours sucking on offense and defense and being a pain to level up. Is absolutely because of player skill, not lazy/redundant game design. Also this is with regards to the older Emblem games not the newer ones especially since Fates decides to actually to fix this (somewhat) with the Butler and Maid class.

Since before the series came out in English the player has been able to check where any enemy can reach, so it's the player's own fault for leaving healers where enemies can reach them

It's never difficult to heal someone

and block off any enemies remaining that might have been able to reach the healer. This is basic Fire Emblem 1.0 here.

Clearly the enemy chucking a javelin or a fireball at your healer when they're standing behind another unit while doing their job and killing them in the process. Or killing the unit they're paired up with and killing them afterwards without a fight is the player's fault no one else's.

If dancers/songstresses can defend themselves against enemy units there is literally no reason for base level healers and troubadours to be rendered incapable of doing this still.

Never recalled stating that it was. Though I believe Thracia 776 players may challenge you on that. That aside though is it difficult to level up a healer because they can only gain experience by healing other units because they mind-numbingly can't gain that experience the same way most of your other units do?...........yes.

Yeah it's so basic that it's outdated and legitimately flawed but hey let's not bust Intelligent Systems chops over tired and cheap gameplay design concerning healers in their games that could stand to be tweaked. Let's just blame players even those who know how to play Fire Emblem games simply for not being good enough, prior experience with Rekka no Ken, Sacred Stones, & Awakening be damned.

Where is your argument coming from? Is there some rule that healers in strategy games must be able to fight back?

You're talking nonsense. All you're saying is that because it is not the way you want it to be, it's bad game design. The game gives you all the information you need to keep your healers safe. It's up to you to use it.

You just literally chopped a sentence of mine in two to make a completely out-of-context response.

I shouldn't even be responding to someone as incapable of basic logical reasoning and courtesy as you.

I've been visiting Fire Emblem forums and fan sites for over a decade and never once have I heard these complaints from any other person.

Sometimes people are annoyed by healers' lack of defenses, or their slow rate of leveling, but no one ever calls their inability to fight before promotion bad game design.

Therefore, I am done here. Your arguments are baseless and not worth considering any longer.

EDIT: Incidentally, in Radiant Dawn, healers actually could fight back. Unfortunately, much like I mentioned above about Dancer-types, it was basically useless because they would often die before being able to strike back and whacking enemies with a staff didn't do much in response.

Easily mitigated by lowering the enemy's health with a stronger unit(s) just enough to then let the weaker unit finish them off and gain the experience for themselves, you know kind of like what you already would do with much weaker units with offensive capabilities.......looks like someone needs to brush up on their Fire Emblem Combat 101 instead of needlessly throwing shade around.

Just gonna respond to this bit because you clearly haven't played RD and don't know the situation here.
-Staff attacks usually did nothing. Zero. No damage, no kills. By the time the unit was strong enough to deal damage with a staff, they had magic to use.
-Staffs could only retaliate, not initiate attack. The whole weakening process is only reliable if the weak unit getting the kill doesn't have to eat a hit first.

I'm 1,000 times better at FE than someone who can't protect healers is.

There's an implicit assumption when pointing out 'fake difficulty': That easier is automatically 'correct'.
Why is that? Why is there no argument given for it; that it is assumed to automatically justify itself by being?