The Wacky World of Difficulty Modes in Fire Emblem

Game difficulty is very hard to get perfectly balanced, but giving your players reliable options to pick a difficulty themselves should be fairly easy. And yet... Fire Emblem continuously struggles with getting it right. From the hidden difficulties of the earlier titles, the limited options on the Gameboy Advance and then the absolute mess that are the Tellius games Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn... it's been a rollercoaster. And one I'm gonna be riding today, as we look at the wacky world that is difficulty modes in Fire Emblem. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The Dawn of Difficulty Modes 02:52 - Difficulty Modes on the GBA 07:34 - Radiant Non-sense 10:50 - Difficulty in the Modern Era Footage may be courtesy of: World of Longplays Longplay Archive #fireemblem #fireemblemthreehouses #fireemblemengage