Bernadetta was the most annoying part of 3H for me and seeing Edelgard immolate her was gratifying.
Maybe one day the Tellius Games will be de compiled and then the real shit will start getting done.
she's an extremely one-note character. and despite being abused, she has an undeserved ego that makes her insufferable.
I'm really not trying to get political or pick on Tellius
I will - I like Tellius, a lot, but when I replayed PoR last year there was a lot of stuff that jumped out to me that just flew over my head as a kid, and that screenshot is actually not the worst from that chapter. There's a section there (iirc) where Jill (the guy's daughter) talks about how there's schools all over Daein where kids are taught to hate laguz - nevermind the absurdity of a public school system existing in a medieval low fantasy setting specifically to educate country bumpkins about the need to gas furries, this is coming from the country that had no shared border or conflicts with any of the laguz kingdoms.
I wonder what IS meant by having Lucina's birthday be 4/20.
Sacred Stones is probably the best start for coming into the series. It's forgiving to new players, introduces a lot of overworld/campaign concepts that would be reused in later titles that the other GBA titles lack, has the good character writing that people like in the series, and, imo, is just the best 'all-round' FE game.
Yeah, there's also a base conversation the chapter after where Ike and Jill talk to some Daein village chick who's basically just like "Hahaha yesssss murder death kill all Crimeans!!!! A Crimean just gave you some food, my starving child/sister? Throw it the fuck away, now!!! Honor before death!!" I know that's different from furries, but I guess Daein Racism Class is just that all-encompassing.
Unironically just pick one that you think is convenient and looks the coolest, unless it's called Revelation. NES and SNES are jank but still hold up, depending on your jank tolerance. Most of the games have an easy mode, if that's a worry. Fire Emblem's funny because if you like one game, there's a good chance there's 1: another game just like it, and 2: another game that's the total opposite, so don't be afraid to dip your toes into a few of them just to see which one 'feels' the best since you're emulating. Also don't be afraid of being an FE noob, it doesn't get old hearing about how fuckin cool myrmidons and swordmasters are. And on that note also unironically just use the characters that you think look the coolest. Internet unit viability discussion is mostly gay and made up.
I would agree, except Path of Radiance is precisely zero people's introduction to the series these days. Not wanting to be the noble hero but doing it anyways is a staple of fantasy, a staple of the hero's journey even. I don't think that's subversive in the context of the genre as a whole.
Anyone with the interest in playing an the rare to find (piracy only, effectively) entry in an obscure strategy RPG Nintendo series knew about furies a long time before they ever got to Fire Emblem. The Sonic and Pokémon communities did it for them already, if not Tumbler or Youtube.
Nobody in FE does anything wrong except the antagonists and even they are more often than not also possessed by a demon. PoR and RD actually do the closes attempt at this across any entry where at least Dein under Ashnard was a more merit-based society in a "Hiter was great for Germany" context and in RD we can see how Begnion rule was generally worse for the average Dein citizen. Is it nuanced, hell no, but its closer to nuanced than basically anything else in this franchise. That's a low bar, granted, when the competition is Dark Dragon and the Blade of Light or GBAFE.
Yeah that was complete bullshit lmao cant defend that one.
If you already have a switch and Nintendo online, I will strongly recommend the GBA titles, which is just called "Fire Emblem" with no subtitle (colloquially called FE7 or Blazing Blade because no subtitle is confusing), or Sacred Stones. Both are great and very intuitive games to get into, and you likely can play them for ""free"" right now today and see if you like it.
You're good, you're not shitting up the thread, you're just asking what game you should start out with.
3 Hopes is an alternative timeline, but it's kind of shitty with the repetition of certain ideas.
Path of Radiance came out in 2005, Youtube came out that year and Tumblr wouldn't be around for two more years and then didn't achieve prominence until the turn of the decade. Sure, PoR was an obscure (as far as Nintendo goes) game, but furries were also still relatively obscure in the mid-aughts.
That may or may not be true, but that's not the point. Tellius tries to make race relations a major theme and part of its worldbuilding and adopts the most simplistic portrayal of it possible.
Which will never happen, unfortunately.
Since you got a lot of replies already, I'd like to add a few things:
for real. bernie genuinely has no redeeming qualities - she's not kind to anyone, she doesn't save others from avoiding a fate like hers, she never gives - only takes. even the retarded hubert support with the flower was her doing selfish shit for her own gain only.
Didn't Casper had to tard wrangle her just to show her an flower field? Man, that was hilarious.
To be fair, Petra slightly grows out of the ESL routine and I honestly liked Annette's songs. But nearly all of them are more or less one-dimensional for one reason or another. Even with the ones who had some emotional baggage
she needs a tardwrangler for real. and it's not like this is an indech problem, hanneman is a perfectly respectable man who contributes to society significantly more than others.
But the guy is an little bit on the creepy side, though.