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Bad_Mojo posted...

Which Fire Emblem games have been bad? I've played a lot of them, and I've enjoyed them all.

Awakening was utter trash aside from the story (absolute worst gameplay in the series hands down), and the map design in Echoes was trash for a modern game even if the rest was good. Birthright and Revelations are trash and Conquest has amazing gameplay but trash story and characters. FE5 has some really good stuff mixed with a lot of completely, totally unfair BS that outright requires a guide to not force a restart. IDK, there's actually a lot of really questionable stuff and it's hard to find many games that everyone likes aside from maybe FE9 and to a lesser extent FE10.

There are a lot of answers here already mentioned that I agree with (though certainly not all). There are a bunch of freebies from really small series (e.g. Portal or Ori) that I could throw in. For series with 3+ games, I'd say The Witcher (with the first game being significantly weaker but still well-written and enjoyable), Advance Wars, and Dark Souls (don't give me "DS2 is trash" just because it's worse than 1). Other potential candidates are F-Zero (haven't played the GBA titles to vouch for them, though) and Timesplitters (never played the first one).