Fire Emblem Heroes

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IF YOU AIN’T GOT MONEY YOU AIN’T WINNING DUMMY.

Let me start off by saying I love Nintendo & the Fire Emblem series. I have been a Fire Emblem fan since the GBA days and had some great times playing FE. When I seen that there was a mobile game I jumped on it. I wanted to see if I could feel that same nostalgia again that I felt from FE. It was fun until I played online against other players and got literally destroyed by their super characters. That’s when I realized okay I need to step my game up and get some better characters. Opened up my wallet and dropped money on the FEH pass which is a monthly membership with special benefits thinking it would help me get better heroes it doesn’t. You have to buy these characters as well and they are old characters that have new skins with no real chance of fighting the new game characters that are coming out. That being said I bought a 60 orb pack to spin the wheel and get some new better units. I spent over 150+ orbs on the new banner they have with a 10% chance of getting a 5 star hero I like and I didn’t get not one. It really makes me sad that they slutted out one of my favorite games as a kid and turned it into a pay to play slot machine. If you’re going to make people spend money at least increase the chances of receiving 5 star units for people with the pass. I think I’m going to remove this game from my phone because I can already tell it’s going to be way too expensive for me to try and play this competitively.

Most F2P friendly Gacha

I wanted to leave this review to say to anyone considering downloading the game, it really is something you can enjoy without feeling like you will lose out if you are not always spending your in game currency. The orbs you use to gain new allies are so abundantly available in almost every game mode, that I can count on both hands the number of times I’ve genuinely missed out on some body, and even then it wasn’t because I went orb broke, I just decided to not spend anymore. PLAY THE STORY MODE! The amount of orbs there to gain is genuinely insane. Then play the paralogues under the story mode tab. If you only play the full story on normal and hard, you will take home an exorbitant amount of orbs you can use on so many heroes. The same goes for the paralogues which are just short stories for each seasonal event. This is all before you even throw in the other game modes which all offer orbs as well, and same with the log in bonuses. There are also lots of ways to reduce orb spending such as picking every summoning stone in a summoning circle to make the price 5,4,4,4,3 per stone in the circle. They are also always adding new quality of life features to get more 5 Star heroes more often, so you really won’t have a problem building a sizable army quickly. I hope this helps anyone who is interested but thinks they don’t want to get sucked into something when they don’t really have money to dedicate to a game at the moment

Honest Fire Emblem Heroes Review

It’s a great game in general and it’s a great game if you’re just getting into the series and want to learn the basics. What is great about this is that when units “die”, they don’t stay dead. It is great in other games to have that challenge and to find a way to make it through without units dying but in this game for the amount of story there is and the many modes, it’s great to have units that do not permanently disappear. What I personally don’t like is the little amount of Hero Feathers given over time and that they don’t give out too many five star units. I feel like we spend so many orbs and get a majority of the same units over and over again. One other thing I don’t like is that I feel like any computer that is a five star + is over powered and that the computer isn’t balanced sometimes, I do like the special challenges and the different map and character battles. There should be a once a month change up to where you could pick either one four or one five start unit from a small amount of heroes so you can either select one new character or one character to merge to increase stats especially if rare units. I hope they keep adding more chapters to the story soon because I feel like I’m always waiting forever!!! That’s my honest feedback. The game and all of it is designed well but to me, it feels like it needs those slight tweaks. I hope this helps anyone else and or the developers in any way. -Mark

Don’t support the feh pass

The game is fun at least for me. I know people have bad luck (including me) with summoning units and the power creeps but, this 1 Star review is about the recent FEH pass and not anything gameplay related. Now I know you don’t have to buy the FEH pass but, they did add some cool features into it and that’s the big problem. Why are these features behind a $9.50 subscription pay wall? Those features can easily be a free update like they have been in the past. They have made a lot of quality of life changes that has made the game a lot more accessible and enjoyable. I know that they want to make more money but, why not just make the updates free and make the skins/cosmetics something we can pay for separately. I’m sure there are plenty of people that would pay for the lyn and Cordelia skins that are included in the FEH pass if they were added separately. Sure most people spend money (me included) on orbs when a character they like or an alternative skin of the character they like comes out but, not everyone has the luxury to spend money like that. I’m afraid that if the feh pass does well they will continue to add more quality of life changes to it and what will become of the free updates? I’m going to continue to play the game and I hope everyone does too but, all I ask is please consider the free to play players when you make a subscription payment like this.

FEH Pass is a step in the wrong direction

IS’s implementation of the FEH Pass is a very disappointing development for FEH. While I’m not against subscription services, the team has decided to lock QOL features that most other gachas have for free behind a paywall (auto start and re act). Another concerning issue is the introduction of unit buffs that can be used in competitive modes that is behind a paywall. Both the bonus stats on resplendent heroes, as well as the additional summoner support slots, create a gap between Free To Play players and those who choose to spend. There’s already an inherent advantage to spend money to summon units, but the F2P player could still make smart decisions to keep up. That is trending towards no longer being the case. The message that they’re sending is clear: FEH at its highest ranks is not welcome to those who don’t spend on the game. Finally is the predatory and invasive reminders to buy the FEH Pass littered in the game now. From the quests appearing as completed in the quest log, to auto start appearing on every screen it’s available on without being usable without purchase, it’s very upsetting. I love FEH. I periodically spend money to try to get my favorite units, but unless FEH Pass gets reworked, I don’t see myself spending any more money on the game. IS has given us a lot of great improvements over the years, and I hope that this is just a bump in the road and that there are brighter days in FEH’s future, but for now, I am very disappointed

Still waiting for my summoner to join every battle

Played this game when it first came out but due to the tedious of life, had to put the game on hold. Lost my account in the process, had to create a new one. Realized how much was added into the game including being able to customize your own summoner and having the summoner join in certain battles. Now only issue with that is your summoner can only join in certain battles, the summoner isn’t selectable for story missions which was a huge letdown for me. For me personally, feeling like I’m part of the action instead of just staying silent is what makes games come alive for me. So whoever is in charge, please have our summoner be a selectable unit for story missions!! No need to change the story that’s already written or anything, just have the unit selectable like any other unit. He could have regular weapons as well, I don’t care. I’m dying to get into the huge story that has grown exponentially throughout this game years but I won’t even do the very first battle if my summoner isn’t selectable. I’ll wait as long as need too because I believe this will be done so I don’t mind waiting. So please make this a feature very soon because I can wait I also can’t wait to get into the story and what better way to fully enjoy the experience than to have your personal summoner join every fight alongside your favorite heroes. Please do this! Make the summoner selectable for story missions, from the very first mission to the latest! Thank you an advance!!

Mostly good

I really enjoy playing this game as it is a very good mobile adaptation of this series. I like that all different heroes can be summoned from their different games into this one game, and it’s nice to get your favorite. However, the system used to summon heroes needs work. In order to get the characters you want, you are forced to spend money on the game’s currency, summoning orbs. People who don’t spend ungodly amounts of money on these orbs will not get the characters they want due to how low the chances are. Some players like to save up orbs for months in order to “guarantee” getting a character they really want, but time and time again I have watched hundreds of orbs I save up go to getting 3 star or 4 star characters that I already have. This does not make for a fun experience, and many people I know have quit playing this game due to the frustratingly low chances that you will actually get what you want. I think in order to improve the quality of life in this game, orbs should be made easier to come by in the game itself (there should not be a limited number of orbs for people who do not spend money on them), and the rates of getting a 5 star unit should be drastically improved. I’ve also thought that Intelligent Systems could add a kind of special summon currency that guarantees a 5 star, a currency that can be saved for use on any banner. I think this would make the game much more fun for many players, and would make it more fair for players who don’t spend hundreds of dollars a year on the game.

I really like games of chance and FE

One of the most satisfying things in Fire Emblem games is seeing your character do a crit animation and knowing the enemy is either about to die or get severely weakened. While this app doesn’t have that, there is an element of chance in getting heroes you want. While I generally keep low expectations, I constantly am pleasantly surprised when I see those five stars fall into place across my screen. Regarding the gameplay, I certainly enjoy fire emblem more, but the customizability of the characters’ skills and the ability to make any character a solid threat through enough investment make the game fun. While events and new story are the main fun of the game, I still occasionally enjoy training up my units and seeing them completely destroy the enemy arena/hero battle team, but if IS stopped doing events I’d probably lose interest a lot faster than in the main games. I genuinely think this game is more fun the more Fire Emblem games you play, so if you are reading this and you’ve only played one or two fire emblem games, give this a shot and then try some of the other games if you find characters are too unfamiliar Also, I’ve been playing since launch and have several dozen 5* heroes f2p so, while I hardly spent any money on this game, I recommend reserving spending to a last resort and after a lot of careful consideration...after all, gambling only stops being fun when you lose all your money