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So here’s the thing about Fire Emblem:

Hawk got Blazing Sword after it came out, lent it to me, and I talked about it so obsessively that two different people got it for me for Christmas so that should tell you something about how little my obsession has decreased in thirteen fucking years

Before that I had a GBA and like, three games that I played pretty often. But everyone (read: family) was surprised that I didn’t end up as a gamer. And I really did not. There’s some other games I play and enjoy, but it takes a lot for me to try new things and even more to get invested in them.

Fire Emblem is just…it’s the one thing that makes me excited about games. There’s something about the types of characters, the types of stories, the types of challenges that is exactly what I want out of a game and I don’t want anything else. Playing Blazing Sword basically ruined other video games for me forever, and my interest in them never regained the ground it lost.

I’ll complain about how Awakening is barely FE and how Fates is a garbage game, but I’m still going to support IntSys until the day I die, or until they stop making FE games, whichever comes first. Because Awakening is stupidly fun and Conquest does have interesting levels and also Soleil (how I wish it did not so I could hate it without a caveat) and they’re still Fire Emblem.

Warriors is pissing me off, but I still think it looks fun and I still have it on pre-order because it’s still FE.

I’ve got rude and often unpopular opinions like how I think Eliwood is a manipulative asshole and people shouldn’t like him the way they do and I will post those on here but there’s one thing everyone can be sure of and that is the fact that I love Fire Emblem. More than any other game series, and probably more than a lot of other things in my life. I love Fire Emblem, and no matter how badly it does I’m still going to be there buying it. And I don’t care if you’ve been around since the beginning or got into it with Fates, if you play classic or casual, I’m never gonna start shit.

If people start shit with me I’ll fight back, but we’re all in this to enjoy Fire Emblem together and I think that’s pretty neat.