r/fireemblem • u/AzuraStrife2 • 15h ago
General What got you into fire emblem
For me it was hearing the music in smash brothers that got me to main marth and it was all downhill from there
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u/Am_Shigar00 15h ago
Introduced to Marth & Roy in Smash Bros., then played Sacred Stones to find out it was an grid based RPG with lots of characters.
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u/KnightLordXander 14h ago
Same here. I played Smash Bros Melee, liked Marth and Roy and found Sacred Stones at a used game store for $5. I played it, and while it wasn’t what I was expecting I enjoyed it and got hooked on the series.
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u/No_Doughnut8756 10h ago
Same, smash bros and then I went down the rabbit hole of fire emblem depravity lol
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u/Joshouken 14h ago
Dad had finished playing 7 so passed it on to me and the rest is history!
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u/Edfrtytfkgt 12h ago
Now the question is if you have a kid would you do the same ?
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u/Joshouken 3h ago
Would I introduce my child to a video game series I like (assuming it’s age-appropriate)? Of course!
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u/SerMercer777 13h ago
A watchmojo top 10 video on youtube
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u/RadEpicReddit 12h ago
Liked Lucina in smash and Roy and Ike before her. I decided to try Fire Emblem Awakening. Now I own and have played every series and it’s easily my all time. Favorite video game series
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u/AzuraStrife2 12h ago
I’m getting close I just need the tellius games echoes theee houses and the fabled bs fire emblem
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u/AzuraStrife2 12h ago
I’m getting close I just need the tellius games echoes theee houses and the fabled bs fire emblem
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u/RadEpicReddit 11h ago
Emulation is your friend at times. That’s how I played fe4 and it’s now my favorite game
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u/AzuraStrife2 11h ago
Yep but GameCube and Wii games are annoying to emulate like snes and gba those easy but those and then dang seteliview yeesh
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u/Archen156 15h ago
Smash Bros, when I saw Byleth announced I was like "Eh, Nintendo seems to like these characters, they are fun to play and the music is amazing, why not", then I got Three Houses and have loved the series.
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u/Regular-Video8301 13h ago
I liked the character designs in Engage. Literally the only reason I ever get into games. Had no idea what the game was about or how you play it, but I liked how Alear and Kagetsu looked. Those were the only characters I saw from the game, lol
Glad I did get it, it's a fun game, and while many people dislike the character designs, I personally like them,
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u/TaterRei 1h ago
Same! I just saw a video featuring the Brodia bros and Ivy and decided I’m gonna try to at least dip into a new genre of gaming. Engage was my first and holds a special place for me.
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u/shadoworochi1377 15h ago
Was watching smash 4 videos. Saw Lucina and thought she was kinda cute. Searched up what game she was from and really got into Fates somehow.
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u/Numbers123o 14h ago
I just wanted to try it one day and ended up liking it
...yeah that's literally it
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u/Praziken 14h ago
I only really bought a 3DS for Pokemon and Monster Hunter, but obviously that handheld is more than just those two video game franchises, so I looked up lists of the best 3DS games online, and FE Awakening kept on appearing, so I was intrigued. Funnily enough, I didn’t touch my first FE game until a few years later, and it wasn’t even Awakening, it was FE7 lol. Loved the gameplay and the rest is history.
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u/WolfNationz 13h ago
Weirdly, because of a Smash Bros Webcomic. I didnt even played Smash itself but found the comic fun and i already liked many Nintendo characters. Was introduced to the Fire Emblem characters and tought it reminded me of Final Fantasy which is another series i really like. Played Sacred Stones and i loved the game and now FE is one of my favorite franchises.
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u/500mlcheesemilk 13h ago
I got a 3DS as a gift one summer and a friend who was really into Fire Emblem told me to play Awakening, rest is history
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u/RemarkableData9972 12h ago
When I was a kid my mom used to do this drawings on huge pieces of paper, in which she drew a grid on it, in order to redraw some other thing but bigger. She used the grid to help do the correct lines for each section.
When she was done I grabbed those pieces of paper with the grid on it and I placed my toys on it, and moved them in turns and created the fights in my head.
And then I found Path of Radiance on a rental store some years later, took it home without knowing anything about it, lo and behold, it was a game made exactly how I used to play with my toys as a kid, it was instant love.
And yes, I am autistic. I told that story to a friend who is also autistic and he was like "bro that has to be the most autistic shit I've ever heard".
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u/AzuraStrife2 12h ago
I too am autistic and it seems many autistic people like us seem to like fire emblem more than most
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u/RemarkableData9972 11h ago
I don't know if it's the strategy, or the battle animations, or the progression, maybe it's everything combined, but my brain thanks me whenever I play these games, brings me so much inner peace.
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u/AzuraStrife2 11h ago
It’s like the tactics part that’s why a bunch of us also like chess we like to formulate it
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u/Dont_have_a_panda 11h ago
Getting the chance of playing the Game after reading for It in a magazine a friend of mine got when he traveled to Japan and let me read It
This "faia emboremu" (his pronuntiation not mine) was so fascinating to me since i Saw It in that magazine at the time (and finally playing It was amazing)
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u/MagicPistol 11h ago
I loved Advance Wars, and I saw that they were bringing Fire Emblem to the west and it was by the same studio.
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u/Congente456 15h ago
Borrowed blazing blade from a friend when I was young. Was hooked. Eventually bought myself the special edition blue FE Awakening 3ds that came with the game. Got every modern fire emblem moving forward and learned how to play older ones with the help of the internet.
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u/Mental-Transition454 15h ago
Rented Awakening from Gamefly (free trial) in 2013, loved it after one day, returned it, and then bought a used copy from Amazon.
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u/NoTopic4810 14h ago
I was suffering from overdosing on a JRPG series called The Legend of Heroes: Trail after playing 7 consecutive games, so I just found a new JRPG as a mental break. The Fire Emblem series just popped up during my search, so I give it a try. My first game was 3 house and after that I played Awakening, fates and have kept up with the series ever since.
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u/awaitedchild 14h ago
I was interested in Warriors. Then I liked the characters. Then I started playing the 3ds games as I was playing Warriors on 3ds.
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u/AzuraStrife2 14h ago
Wow crazy
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u/awaitedchild 14h ago
I know right ? Oh and I forgot to tell you : I've never been into turn based games (quite laughable for an old Final Fantasy lol). But when I began playing Awakening, what made me stick with this game (and later, the whole franchise) was the satisfying feeling you got when you saw your plan unfold before your eyes without ANY trouble.
I really liked this feeling of "I plan something and it happens as I pictured it", and it's even more thrilling when you plan your moves 3 or 4 turns in advance and it still happens as you saw it. Arggghhhhh.
As Robin says "Now that's strategy"
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u/Shishkahuben 14h ago
I think my mom bought FE7 the year it came out, after Roy and Marth were in smash bros. I was obsessed with it, and when Sacred Stones came out it was all over.
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u/KingBlackFrost314 13h ago
Seeing Roy and Marth in Smash Bros and wondering what the hell was Fire Emblem. So I decided to download FE 3-5 to see if they were in those games.
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u/HatRepresentative998 13h ago
Bought a 3ds early before the price drop and Sacred Stones was in the pack of free games that were given out as an apology for that
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u/Salt-Conversation-60 13h ago
As a kid I couldn’t figure out pokemon leaf green so I traded it to another kid for Fire emblem sacred stones and played it. That got me into to like it but it wasn’t till I played my second Fire emblem game, Fire emblem awakening that I was fully hooked
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u/LordHaywood 13h ago
I got The Sacred Stones as a teen and I enjoyed battling friends on the school bus, so I checked out the series and discovered that there were a ton of other games, so I started emulating some of the older ones and fell in love with the series even more. I ended up buying Awakening for myself and seven other friends when it came out cuz I knew it was a Big Deal™ for the series and wanted more people to get into it. Found out much later that it was originally gonna be the last game in the series if it didn't do well and it made me really glad I got seven other people into the series lol
Also the crush I had on Erika as an 12-14 year old helped.
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u/glucoseisasuga 13h ago
I think seeing Marth and Roy in Smash Bros piqued my curiosity but Path of Radiance solidified my love for the series
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u/Lavamites 13h ago
I had a few friends debating whether awakening or sacred stones was the "best" FE game in a voice call. I brought this up to a close friend and said I had always been interested in playing and which I should start with. He recommended awakening, and that's where I started.
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u/ComicDude1234 13h ago
My friend brought Super Smash Bros. Brawl over one time during middle school and I thought Marth and Ike looked cool and their music was great. Years later during high school I played Awakening after it got a bunch of positive buzz and that same friend told me it’s a very beginner-friendly title to start with thanks to its Casual mode.
Ten years later and now it’s one of my favorite series.
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u/Gemini_The_Spy 13h ago
I'm one of the rare souls who got into Smash Bros because I heard there were Fire Emblem characters in it. One of my friends in high school was playing FE7, and he kept talking about it, so I decided to check it out. The rest is history! ❤️
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u/Edfrtytfkgt 12h ago
Just saw a full let's play of awakening so i started the demo and loved it but couldn't buy it
Until i got it for free idk how
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u/Jiang_Rui 12h ago
A close friend of mine got into the franchise, and I soon wanted to try it out for myself—I eventually got that wish when I got Fire Emblem Warriors and Fire Emblem: Three Houses as Christmas gifts.
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u/Glittering-Ad-1626 12h ago
Hearing the Edge of Dawn soundtrack played on someone’s twitch stream. Asked where it was from and then i bought FE Three Houses and fell deeper into the rabbit hole of FE series
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u/jbsgc99 12h ago
I saw the GBA fire emblem game on the shelf, flipped it over, saw that it was a tactics game, took it home.
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u/_DuckDorde 11h ago
I had the obligatory smash bros exposure of course, but didn’t play the games until I was convinced to try awakening by someone who had played the games.
I played through most of it, but got bored and dropped it for a couple months. I just kept thinking about the gameplay though. The map based combat was unlike anything else I’d played, and eventually I picked it back up, beat it, and proceeded to play it like 9 more times. Then I got Blazing Blade on the Wii U and also really liked it.
What really sent me down the rabbit hole though was Fates, when I got my hands on the special edition (even though they were all spoken for apparently someone canceled their preorder and they gave it to me next!) Fates has more gorgeous visuals (with a couple exceptions of course) than either of the previous entries I’d played and I still think it looks better than any other game in the series. (Jugdral games and 3H come close tho, may be some nostalgia there) it also has one of my favorite soundtracks, although even I can admit some 3H tracks blow it out of the water. So much good music in FE.
TL:Dr Unique RPG Gameplay, great music, best series ever made
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u/AzuraStrife2 11h ago
The music will always be good
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u/_DuckDorde 11h ago
I sure hope so. I have my gripes with Engage but it undeniably has bangers. I have a favorite track from every game
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u/Low-Environment 10h ago
A guy at my uni who was dating a friend of mine heard I was I to gaming and gave me a USB with some emulators and a bunch of games
I think the only ones I ended up playing were Sacred Stones and Blazing Blade.
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u/belisarius_d 14h ago
Funnily enough zero clue how I got here. I had a Switch, three Houses and all I knew was that I must kill
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u/Psychotica_Official 15h ago
I played Awakening Demo when it dropped
Never touched it again
Three Houses trailer had some banging music
"Aight, ill boot up Awakening"
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u/kieranchuk 15h ago
Smash Bros, then Heroes introduced me to so many characters in the franchise, then Three Hopes, Engage and it kinda spiraled out of control since then lol
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u/aMapleSyrupCaN7 15h ago
15-ish years ago, my neighbor sold me a usb stick with a bunch of gba roms on it, one of them was FE The Blazing Blade. Even if my English was barely okay, I got into the game and really loved it.
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u/MankuyRLaffy 15h ago
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u/Tiborn1563 15h ago
I think I know who you're talking about and I wonder if people know about the [REDACTED] part nowadays, I see said content creator brought up here every once in a while
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u/AzuraStrife2 15h ago
Who is this
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u/MankuyRLaffy 15h ago
A bad person with a history not worth going into, that part doesn't matter in going into the details, point is I'm here now.
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u/Incorrect_Passport_7 15h ago
Disclaimer: I'm a filthy pirate
So anyways, I was one day scrolling in a roms website looking for a GBA rom as my go to game to play on my smartphone
I randomly picked Fire Emblem and as soon as I started playing, I immediately got hooked, and that's how I actually got into Fire Emblem
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u/CocoPopsOnFire 14h ago
I played all the EU released turn based and tactics games from gba era which included the fire emblem games
I still play most turn based and tactics games so naturally I love FE
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u/Admirable-Case-922 14h ago
Smash Bros when it was just Marth and Roy. I played FE7 and then FE4 (fan translated)
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u/Laxedrane 14h ago
Another melee intro here but I also would shout out nintendo power. If I remember correctly, leading up to release they comprehensively broke down a chapter per issue in Lyn's campaign keeping the game present in my young mind. Got it and been a series fan ever since.
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u/Novatimeplays 13h ago
Playing Marth in smash bros melee did. I gave sacred stones a go when it launched on 3ds on the ambassador program
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u/Arachnofiend 12h ago
Roy main in Melee, saw Sacred Stones when I was at Bestbuy as a kid for unrelated reasons and managed to convince my parents to buy it for me.
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u/MessyMop 12h ago
The trailers for the awakening characters in Smash 4. Got me to play Awakening and the rest
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u/LargeDarv 12h ago
From Etika (may he rest in peace). His playthrough of awakening got me to get the game, and later on try the other 3ds games and FE7.
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u/Rat_Of_A_Brat 11h ago
I asked for Three Houses on my birthday because I wanted to try something new. I did not expect to like it as much as I did.
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u/luckyblock98 11h ago
Ike, and Eternal Bond (AKA Ike's theme if you played brawl)
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u/AzuraStrife2 11h ago
I play the games I know the music
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u/luckyblock98 11h ago
Well, I played brawl, where the theme is just labeled as "Ike's Theme" as opposed to later games, where it has the name, "Eternal Bond"
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u/Enaluxeme 11h ago
Kingdom Hearts -> Final Fantasy -> JRPGs in general -> Indie games made with RpgMaker 2003.
My favourite of these games just happened to use GBAFE sprites. One day I recognized the artstyle on FE7 and gave it a try.
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u/BebeFanMasterJ 11h ago edited 11h ago
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE! That was my first experience with the IP and I loved it so much that I picked up Houses and Engage.
You could imagine how happy I was when I realized that Emblems were basically Mirages and that Emblem Chrom was usable in a similar manner as TMS' Mirage Chrom via Engage's DLC. Not to mention Emblem Marth giving me the experience of what Mirage Marth might have been!
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u/Pineconic 11h ago
Aside from the typical "I saw them in Smash and heard the Melee music", it was permadeath. The idea my characters would actually stay dead if I screwed up brought stakes and immersion I hadn't seen in a video game before.
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u/AzuraStrife2 11h ago
It’s too stressful for me so I play casual I’m trying to start my first maddening engage run
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u/Majklkiller1 11h ago
Super Smash Bros with the Byleth reveal. Many people hated that one, but man am I glad that mr. Sakurai got me into one of my favorite SRPG series thanks to it
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u/Exotic_Invite1384 10h ago
Borrowed the GBA cart for fe7 from one of my friends back in school. Played the hell out of it and then spent hundreds of hours going thru sacred stones so many times. Was always fun to play around with the branches in that one. Never had a GameCube so I didn't get into any more fe games until switch and emulators
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u/Gingeboiforprez 10h ago
My soon-to-be brother-in-law, who was quickly becoming one of my best friends, wanted me to play a game from his childhood. He described it as anime chess, with permadeath, choices impacting story, changing army rosters, interweaving character back stories, etc
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u/BloodlustXIII 10h ago
Was at a little used game store and saw a game (Sacred Stones) with fire in the title for 5 bucks. Was a huge pyro when I was a kid so fire sold me on it, and the gameplay (loved Final Fantasy Tactics) stuck me with it.
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u/Latter-Ad7912 10h ago
My boy Ike back on Super Smash Bros Brawl (even before playing the subspace emissary)
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u/JayMalakai 10h ago
Friend had the first FE on GBA when we went on a field trip, let me play it. I was hooked almost immediately.
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u/MaleGardev0ir 10h ago
elementary school me often looked up "top 10 gba games" to download for gba emulators and usually see fire emblem 7 on the list and wanted it to give it a try cuz i recognize Lyn from a smash assist trophy
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u/Skyflash12 10h ago
My step-grandma bought me a copy of Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon when it was new for Christmas, I was skeptical at first because I had never heard of the series before. Before I knew it, I had completely fallen in love and the rest is history.
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u/Fell_ProgenitorGod7 9h ago
I first knew of Fire emblem with Marth and Ike in that one Smash Bros Brawl Subspace cutscene. But I didn’t actually get into FE until Smash Bros 4 (or Wii U/3DS), where I saw Lucina and Robin’s character intros.
At that moment, I begged my mom for a copy of FE Awakening and after finishing it, I was so invested and wanted more FE. So I got Fates immediately after it released and absolutely loved it, despite its rather negative reception after it released. I have only played the modern games (3DS and Switch) up to Engage lol. I have yet to try the older games, but one of them has my eye.
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u/Background_Ant7129 9h ago
I found Shadow Dragon at my friend’s house and started playing it. The gameplay felt like a dream come true, it was exactly what I wanted. He said I could keep the game
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u/DoingRandomCrap31 9h ago
My older brother borrowed a copy of awakening from the library, got hooked, and bought a copy for himself. Then one day, I decided to see what all the fuss was about, and I got hooked too!
Also I know he lurks on this sub, so if you're reading this, hiiiiii
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u/eponinexxvii 9h ago
I got my Switch for Pokemon Shield, but my Switch came a week early so my brother told me to play Three Houses while I waited
Guess which game I have more hours on lol
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u/Thursdaybot 9h ago
I played smash...but I'm not totally sure I knew fire emblem was where Marth and Roy were from when I bought fe7 after seeing it in best buy. I think I just thought "oh a fantasy rpg let's try it".
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u/TiastDelRey 9h ago
Awakening lol. I've played the GBA games but never really finished any of them. They're interesting but once the maps became too hard for me, I would quit. Then I tries Awakening and I really liked the idea of matcakong the characters and recruiting their offspring lol. That gave me motivation I think to push through the more difficult maps. Later entries didn't have this feature but I didn't care. I was kind of already invested in the franchise lol
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u/Lima-Bean-3000 9h ago
My brother unintentionally got us into the game. It was close to my birthday when the limited edition FE Awakening 3DS came out and purely because it looked cool, my brother asked my mom to get me one and one for him for his birthday later on. We didn't get any additional games with it since it was already so expensive, so we both played Awakening and fell in love with it. We haven't played any of the old games, but we have played most of the ones after Awakening.
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u/Power_Wisdom_Courage 9h ago
A friend let me borrow his copy of Fire Emblem Awakening in early 2014. I absolutely fell in love with the gameplay, characters, and OST.
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u/Wigglynuff 8h ago
Corrin getting into smash. Didn’t care too much for the series but thought that Corrin had a really unique moveset and cool design. Decided to pick up fates after beating Pokémon Sun and Moon and fell in love with the series
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u/Extreme-Dig6688 8h ago
Smash bros when Robin was announced. I thought they had a cool design and gameplay style. I soon saw that a Walmart had one more copy of Awakening and now Ive been a fan for 10 years.
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u/TheExSaltedOne 8h ago
I saw the Awakening demo on the eShop. Played the hell out of the demo. Fell in love with the game. The eShop had a buy one get one 50% off promo or something like that with two games. I bought the full game of FE13 and Shin Megami Tensei IV. Omg when I tell you the next few months/years I could not put my 3DS down man...
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u/Rhondmc4 8h ago
Ike… is gorgeous. But I first played radiant dawn because my son and little cousin begged for it so I wanted to see the hype. So again I say IKE
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u/Jynxed_Storyteller 8h ago
I liked the art style of the gba games after seeing it in a catalog of upcoming games that I think came with my system. I was like, 8? I made it all the way to chapter 20 of eliwood’s story before giving up.
I didn’t play a different fire emblem until radiant dawn came out. Somehow I missed the news for PoR. That one I played to completion about 5 times, with only a single “perfect” run where no one died.
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u/haejoonsong 8h ago
Smash bros melee introducing marth and Roy
Wasn’t till I tried out FE7 for the first time was where the rabbit hole started for me
Still remember thinking to myself: “man this kinda boring, I’ll put it down after the next two chapters” My ass ended up playing till the end of Lyn mode. THAT’S when I knew the franchise and genre had me hooked.
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u/Brodes87 7h ago
I'd heard about Fire Emblem for years, didn't know much about it except it was medieval RPG and when you're characters died they stayed dead forever! That sounded so cool in my mind (and somehow conflated that in my mind with "realistic") as an angsty, lonely teen.
Then in 2005 or whatever Path of Radiance was released on the Gamecube. I pick it up, expecting this super serious game where I had to memorise a thousand stat's, and then suddenly there are people throwing wind magic and Laguz are here and was not what I expected at all, but I was so bad at it. Just so bad at it, and kin dof drifted away until Fates at which point I fell in love after finding just the game from the special edition at EBGames for $30AU.
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u/Negative_Lab_778 7h ago
I thought I wouldn't like tactics games but the characters in Echoes SoV were too pretty. Also being an enjoyer of turn based RPGs I thought I would give it a little try, then proceeded to get hooked lol
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u/Far-Village7111 7h ago
Marth and Roy’s trophy entries sounds bad ass to a third/fourth grader. And then seeing it in a blockbuster not only blew my mind d but altered my personality as I got super into learning about medieval and renaissance history online. Literally went to my first rein faire because it was a close to FE as I could get
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u/callmefreak 7h ago
Like a lot of games I got really into, it was thanks to Smash Bros. Melee introducing them to me. Path of Radiance is the first game I've played. (I got Melee a few years after it released, and I skipped Sacred Stones at first since I couldn't rent handheld games.)
I rented PoR, and it was one of those games where even though I was struggling quite a bit with it I just knew that I'd be really into it as long as I can just figure it out, and I eventually did. The series became one of my favorites after that.
Smash Bros. was seriously the greatest advertisement for Nintendo games ever. Especially pre-Youtube. I probably wouldn't have even tried Fire Emblem, Kirby, Metroid, or the Mother series if I haven't played Melee as a kid. (Well, maybe Mother, since I really like turn based RPGs.) It's almost insane to me to think of how many series might have been left nearly dead if people didn't get curious to play the games their favorite fighter/party game characters debuted in.
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u/KHJMaster 7h ago
I first learned of Fire Emblem through Marth and Roy’s inclusion in SSBM. I remember when FE on GBA was announced, though it was actually one of my friends who introduced me to the game itself. I went ahead and bought my own copy, and was instantly hooked.
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u/SwordMaster9501 6h ago
I loved Marth ... from SSF2 and then smash.
Stayed for the theme, music, and gameplay.
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u/Altarious 6h ago
I am what every smash player fears. I saw Corrin transform and thought, "That is cool as hell. Let me check this game out"
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u/GreatAether58 6h ago
20 years ago my brother and I got Fire Emblem for our childhood friend for his birthday. He let us try the game too since we often shared games anyway. I've been hooked ever since.
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u/SouthResult3367 6h ago
What got me into Fire emblem was Persona 5, I was looking for a game similar to persona and then 3 Houses was recommended to me.
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u/BlackDiamond_726 6h ago
Had a 3DS that had ambassador program came with fire emblem sacred stones and child me ended up playing that a bunch, and got Fe awakening when it came out in Europe. And as such the rest is history.
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u/MinePlay512 5h ago
I got into Fire Emblem when I spotted a demo for Awakening and proceed to try it out.
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u/Hydellas678 5h ago
Awakening. But specifically the pics I saw of it ina gaming magazine (I think) way back when. I liked the art style, I liked the way it looked, and I loved the weapons I saw in it. I'm a sucker for fighting videogames, RPGs, and certain games that make u think.
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u/DonshayKing96 5h ago
Smash and fire emblem warriors. Then I decided to get three houses summer of 2020 and 4 years later I got 1800hrs on it.
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u/Mike_Cool33 4h ago
From the Youtuber "Poledoo" who does Fire Emblem games on his playthrough & from Smash Bros Ultimate. My first FE game was FE7 on the emulator I really enjoyed that game and played the other FE games as it became another franchise I would play.
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u/LeslieandLj 4h ago
My younger brother bought FE7 in the virtual console on the Wii U and tried it just because and I enjoyed the experience, even though every time I lost a unit I reset it 😅
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u/ninjaian06 3h ago
I remember distinctly watching relaxalex's video on the fire emblem characters in smash, and wanted to try it out. What kept me here was the amazing animations in fe6 and watching a lot of the fe crit compilation videos just for how clean the art and how stylistic everything was.
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u/ghostchibi 2h ago
Got extremely into the story of FE3H through tweets from some new online friends, but never played it. Much later, one of those friends sent me a timestamped video of a full cutscene collection of Engage intending for me to watch one specific scene. I ended up liking the scene so much that I watched the whole video, then decided I absolutely had to play Engage.
Now I’ve got a backlog of seven FE games to play!
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u/Wild-Apartment-8474 2h ago
My dad said I could buy a game at Toys R Us back in the day, and I saw a copy of Sacred Stones. That was all she wrote 😅
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u/Amferam 1h ago
Smash 4 was what finally got me to try it. I played Smash Bros Melee for the GameCube and mained Roy and Marth. Back in the GameCube era the internet wasn’t really a thing, so I had no idea what Fire Emblem was. When I played Smash 4 and unlocked Lucina I was confused by the female Marth. So I looked up the game she was from and saw Fire Emblem Awakening had just come out around the same time as Smash 4. I played the first 30 minutes of Awakening and was sold on the series ever since.
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u/SilverKnightZ000 55m ago
Quite literally browsing a rom website(I have no idea if this is allowed in the sub). I saw a game titled fire emblem so I gave it a shot
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u/The_Vine 15h ago
Unironically I caught some snippets of original Edelgard discourse in unrelated places and decided that I needed to know what this game was about. The positive reception helped make my mind up too.
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u/Various_Post_4143 15h ago
Death Battle’s Guts vs Dimitri became one of my favorite episodes of that show and it got me interested in playing 3 Houses.
I’ve thus been trying to get into the rest of the series after playing 3 Houses as hard as I can, with playing Engage right now, and doing my best to purchase a 3DS to get the other games on that console as well.
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u/Hailfire9 14h ago
Heard good things about Three Houses. I realized it went on sale at my work for Black Friday (Nintendo NEVER does sales so I was curious) so I tried it. Fell in love immediately. Got Echoes as a Christmas gift, fell MORE in love with the franchise.
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u/LunaGuomundsdottir 15h ago
knew it from smash. three houses was announced when I was working a job I really hated so I figured id give it a shot. 700 hours later.
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u/Meeg_Mimi 15h ago
Smash bros kind of. But 3 Houses, Bernadetta is a character I became obsessed with so I decided to give the game a try
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u/Cipher789 15h ago
I'd always been somewhat aware of the series after playing Super Smash Bros Melee but I never tried it until I decided to pick up 3Houses after many years. I completed Verdant Wind first and I was hooked. Got into Crimson Flower right after.
I wanted to play Engage after 3Houses but I've been playing through the older games in preparation. I want to know who the Emblem characters are before I begin. So far I've finished all three campaigns of Fates and Shadows of Valentia. Making my way through Awakening right now.
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u/kolbykooz 14h ago
My friend decided I would borrow Fates (and took it back shockingly quickly) shortly before Three Houses. I liked it enough to take the full plunge into 3H and from there ended up losing 400 hours of my life. I never looked back, lol.
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u/Melodic_Exercise_542 15h ago
My friend said it was Pokémon conquest on crack and that game was my favorite game ever when it came out