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TeamRocketElite posted...

FE6 is the 7th game in the series:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/interview/vi2j/vol1/index.html

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The translation I have for this line is:
(9) Sword of Seals: A strategy RPG released for the GameBoy Advance in March 2002. The 7th game in the series.

Translation comes from here:
https://serenesforest.net/2018/04/20/feature-analysing-fire-emblems-numbering-system/

Awakening (FE13) is also considered the 14th game in the series.

The West initially adopted the weird convention of issuing new numbers to remakes because the official Japanese website did that. Then Japan pulled the rug on us and changed up how games are numbered leaving the mess we have today.

I'm guessing this is because of BS Fire Emblem? I understand why internally they might count that, but being functionally unplayable (and frankly a lot of other reasons too, like not really being a full game) explain why the average person doesn't count it. IIRC FE8 and FE9 numbers are swapped internally too because of when they started development.

Regardless my point is more "if you talk to an FE fan about FE7, you're talking about the seventh FE game released, and that is actually a much simpler system than a series like, say, Final Fantasy has". I'm not making any claims about the current official number system, which is apparently decided by throwing darts or something.