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Axl_Rose_85 posted...

What is with this sudden Board 8 Sacred Stones love recently?

It's hardly just Board 8. Ever since around mid-2011, Sacred Stones has become one of the more popular FEs while Blazing Sword is a middling title in popularity, maybe slightly above average. I don't fully get it either, but I think it has to do with some combination the following:

1. The old guard who thought "7, 9, and 6 are the best; 11 and 8 sucked; 10 was kinda bad too" may have disproportionally lost interest in the series during the 6 year gap between Radiant Dawn and Awakening.

2. Sacred Stones being an ambassador game made it a lot of people's first Fire Emblem, or at least second with Awakening being the first.

3. Sacred Stones is a good gateway game for people who started the series with Awakening or Fates, since it shares quite a bit in common with them and is more streamlined and modern than say Blazing Sword.

4. Sacred Stones fans may have always been a silent majority, who were previously afraid to speak up due to Sacred Stones haters being so vocal in the 00s. Whereas now that they're gone and newer fans are liking Sacred Stones, the older SS fans are speaking up more too.

5. While the Blazing Sword bashing essay (serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?/topic/27311-quintessence-dont-understand) was heavily bashed itself at the time, I did notice that within a few months that people's opinion on Blazing Sword had soured while Sacred Stones was getting more respect (Sacred Stones' story got praised off and on in the essay). So I feel that the essay did have a larger impact than it appeared to at the time.
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