#fe romhacks

Disappointed with no new Fire Emblem in today's direct? Just looking for a new Fire Emblem game to try? If that's the case, allow this post to serve as an introduction to some amazing romhacks to check out!

Dream of Five

👑🐰 DREAM OF FIVE weaves a tale of intrigue and identity, feat. an ornate and deliberate sense of style, custom story CGs, and downright gorgeous prose to boot! This hack also has a several chapter long route split, with each path having its own distinct gameplay and recruitable characters.

The Morrow's Golden Country

⛅️🌼 THE MORROW'S GOLDEN COUNTRY has an abundance in quality-of-life improvements, including a reworked support system and durability-based combat skills. A split-army story structure allows the player to get to know a large, loveable cast as its three lords fight for a brighter dawn—where none are left behind.

Cerulean Crescent

🏝️🌙 CERULEAN CRESCENT provides incredible turn economy management tools, with each playable unit boasting unique skills and self-repairing personal weapons. The setting lends itself towards a distinct, bold story structure as Ellerie fights to claim victory and vengeance, both.

Shackled Power

👊💥 SHACKLED POWER is perfect for those who want a classic Fire Emblem story that trends its style towards 90s-esque action, with all the explosions to go along with it. This hack also boasts numerous custom-drawn animations and portraits to truly make the player feel like a powerhouse!

Curse of Lagdou

🍈👿 CURSE OF LAGDOU expands the continent of Magvel's tale through its fast-paced maps and unique non-RNG crit system! Follow this poignant tale of two girls finding their purpose in life—featuring characters both new and old, along with custom-drawn animations and story CG art!

Four Kings

4️⃣👑 FOUR KINGS tells the story of family: of two brothers, and their respective journeys to become better people. It boasts tight gameplay and full deployment throughout its route split to let the player experiment with a wide variety of units, all with their own personal weapons!

Myrm Emblem

⚔️🔥 MYRM EMBLEM is a gameplay-focused hack, feat. skills and many quality-of-life improvements with a silly, brief story. Join Shigen, Lyn, and your favorite myrmidons and swordmasters from the FE series—as well as the Kaga Saga games—in an epic adventure to test your skill and fire emblem knowledge.

Drums of War

🥁🛡️ DRUMS OF WAR tasks its players with conquering tight and challenging enemy formations—and after the dust has settled: the choice on whether to recruit or ransom enemy leaders. Augment your ragtag band with your strongest enemies as you struggle and fight for a place deserving of you.

Dark Lord and the Maiden of Light

⚔️🌓 DARK LORD & THE MAIDEN OF LIGHT follows a classic FE plot, twisting familiar tropes in fresh ways. Its narrative rewards attention to detail: one must delve deep to uncover and understand the world's true nature. Fans of 3H's Rhea will enjoy Freesia's crusade against the sinister Ahribaal cult.

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(this post assumes the reader is more than familiar with the Fire Emblem series and its mechanics). This is the first in my barely structured writeups on games/media I enjoy. Part 1 is because I'm still playing it as I'm writing this post. Part 2 will be a final verdict (it's going to be a positive verdict I'm sure). I've been playing a Fire Emblem romhack called The Morrow's Golden Country. This is a romhack of The Sacred Stones that overhauls so much of the original game that you should go into it expecting a unique FE experience with GBA controls. Fire Emblem is a series that I personally find to be 6/10 overall, despite my long history having played most games in the series with love. Every game in the series has at least 1 or 2 major gripes with it that I think could easily be fixed to be amazing, but some design brings down my rating of those games. TMGC feels like someone felt all of my grievances towards every game in the series and addressed them all while also adding new gameplay features that I didn't even realize I wanted. Story and Support conversations: I don't want to delve into the overall plot too much since I highly recommend you just play it for yourself. However I will go into supports quite a bit. Each character can have up to 5 support chains at once, and rather than a sequence of (C>B>A), you go (C > C+ > B > B+ > A) with no need to grind for any conversations. Instead, conversations unlock at specific points in the story. This means each conversation can be written directly to the context of the current events in the story.

Gameplay: This game has the fabled "player phase focus" in that you are incentivized to use as many of your units' actions in a turn to optimize enemies eliminated, as most units will be able to handle about 2-3 enemy phase combats before being taken down. The difficulty is incredibly tight, but you have access to powerful movement skills, combat skills, and weapons to handle the incredibly threatening enemies throughout the game. The RPG mind goblin of "I shouls save this iteem" is gone, as I've constantly felt like I need to use every single tool at my disposal to succeed, and don't feel remotely bad for using up any powerful weapons or the like. Quality of Life: Oh my goodness, GROWTH RATES ARE DISPLAYED (by pressing select on the stat screen). You can infinitely access trade/convoy in a turn, which makes inventory management much easier and without need to do some awkward sequencing. I've been playing on Lunatic, but it's possible to change difficulties up and down during a file by reloading the save.

tl;dr this is an amazing Fire Emblem experience, and so far one of my favorite games ever made.