Fire Emblem Heroes Reviews

by Jootataki

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.

by Some IPhone Dude

The game itself is fine, and it’s a decent way to pass some time if there’s nothing else to do. The battles can take some thinking and strategy to get through, although it eventually feels like the same thing on repeat after a while. The writing for the story mode can get pretty lame, like they write themselves into a plot hole and the only way out is a last second convenience that feels pretty anti-climactic.

The summon system is a complete joke. With each round, you get up to 5 summons from a random selection of colored orbs. If you don’t see the color you want, there’s no backing out, so it becomes a waste. Also, the chances of getting what you want are downright awful at times. For instance, I just wasted over 300 orbs trying to get a certain character, and came out with garbage. It took months to earn those through actual playing, and had I bought them, that would be an over $150 value down the drain. I can buy three AAA games for that! The chances are so bad that it’s completely not worth paying even a penny on this. If I could just buy the special heroes for a few dollars like a DLC add-on, then maybe I’d do it. But this? Absolutely not. The purchase system is 100% predatory and should be avoided. The fact is, you could actually spend $1,000 and still not get what you want.

So overall, this is a decent free game for passing time. Just don’t spend any actual money unless they change the system, because 9 out of 10 times, it’ll be a waste.

by Justanothergirl44

Im not sure if this is just me, but since the new update the game is boarder line frustrating to play.
The first issue isn’t that major, but during battles if I try to tap on a units skill to see the description, it flashes up for a second then disappears. Again, more so just kind as annoying as opposed to anything else.
The second problem is the more important one. Every single time I go off FireEmblemHeroes for any reason, for any amount of time (even in times when I accidentally click the home button) and then try to renter the game, not only do I have to redownload the game again, but it deletes everything I was doing when I exited. Before it would offer to put you back into your bookmark to pick up where you left off, now the only option is to delete it. This is especially bad for arena, since it kills your streaks and then you have to waste resources to get it back.
Last one, it has to deal with Arya. When I’m in arena, she’ll trigger desperation at full health, which shouldn’t happen, and even when I check her other skills there’s nothing that would allow for that. Very annoying especially when that kills your streak too.
Other than that, I love all the new things the update has done! Keep up the good work, but fix the bugs.

by The Guy That Love's This Game

Hi, I’m one of the first people who started playing FEH as soon as it came out and it’s a fun game a real gem in the mobile community but that being said I have to mention this. With some of the newer updates and new hero additions to the game it’s made it impossible to use older hero’s without seriously upgrading them with new abilities and boosting their stats which is hard enough considering how difficult dragon flowers are to get, before you could upgrade low rank hero’s and they would stand their own in arena and Aether Keep, now if you just have a few really good hero’s as the defense you’ve practically increased your chance to win by 70%, it’s not impossible to beat them but it’s certainly not easy even with some of the newer hero’s. Power Creep has started appearing in the game and I really hope it’s can be fixed. Another big problem I’ve noticed is with summoning new hero’s, whenever a banner is put up there’s already a good chance you won’t get what you want from it but that’s not even the problem the problem is that you will almost never get what the banner is advertising and instead get a hero you never even wanted and don’t get what your spending orbs on. At the very least make the chance of getting the advertised hero’s much higher than getting random ones because it’s honestly ridiculous how many hero’s I have that I never wanted without getting a single one the banners actually advertise.

by Aprilfawn413

I love this game. It’s good for beginners like myself to get to know the basic story of the other games. I love a lot of things about this game. Except for the tactic drills. I understand the functionality of them but it’s so difficult. I have failed so many times I don’t see the point of continuing. The description that it gives you to figure out how to beat each level is difficult to understand. I don’t know what’s it’s asking me to do. I could just not play them but this leads to the second problem. The fact that the explanation point doesn’t go away. You have to play every little part of the story or the tactic drills for it to go away. It’s annoyingly frustrating. In my opinion once you see whatever part the explanation point should disappear. That or make the drills easier to understand or easier to beat. I hope that this doesn’t make the developers feel bad. That’s not my intention. I just want to enjoy this game as much as you did making it. But it’s hard when it’s such an inconvenience to play. It feels like I have to do everything that it has to offer. Which is okay, I understand that the player should take advantage of the opportunity. But I don’t think that opportunity is worth it when you die so many times. Thank you.

by The Bup System

Not the best, but it’s very good, it’s one of the better AppStore games. They handled events well, you can still get pretty far without paying, albeit a slow ride (but not that slow)and it goes down to the luck of the man when you want to get your waifu. I wish they would finish story mode (it was quite intriguing), it only took me a month to finish. I still like the older games with hit percentages, but it’s nice not to get screwed over by getting 96% hit but you still miss. You don’t need to pay, but it gets faster if you pay a lot, but it’s still up to the luck of the man, you might get another 3 star Pegasus knight and still no “your waifu”. I feel like at one point orbs will be so meager once you get too far, I wish they would add more to getting enough orbs, which they do, but it’s only good for 3 full summons and then it’s out even though it’s still there. Moral of the story, save orbs, make good decisions, grind for a couple of weeks, and you might get your waifu.
All I have to say is, very decent game, I would rate it a 5 star, but it’s up to luck to get your waifu or husbando. But it’s still very good, gameplay is decent, story is decent, concept is decent, for being a pay to win esthetic, you don’t have to pay to win. It’s somewhat balanced. I still have personal complaints but they all sound like jokes.

by Warethu

This is an amazing game. I have been a fire emblem fan for a long time and have been playing this game since it came out. I can’t get enough of this game! New modes come out quite frequently and they are good at giving plenty of orbs if you work for then. Also they are amazing at listening to their players. This is why I’m posting this because I know they look through and actually consider what players say. Which I love! So My only complaint is during this year they have changed new hero banners where only 1 or 2 are new characters and the rest are alternatives of characters already in game. This means hardly any new characters are being added. Last year there were about 4 new characters every month in a banner. I don’t know why it was changed since there are hundreds of characters who can still be added. Also a lot of banners only give about 3 characters instead of 4. So imagine you usually get 1 or 2(if lucky) new characters in a banner per month and 1 or 2 characters already in game. Plus 4 seasonal characters per month who are also alts. Plus legendary hero who is also probably an alt. Can we please keep getting more new characters? By this pace we will never get to some of the more obscure favorites of fans. But if this was changed I would easy give 5 stars.

by S Hasegawa

I was introduced to this game by my friends a while ago. I’d never played Fire Emblem games before, but FEH seemed interesting to me so I decided to give it a go. This is honestly one of my favourite mobile games; the battle system is fun, the characters are engaging, and it’s extremely fun to build up heroes and watch them become formidable forces.

I do have to take one star off, though, because of how frustrating the pull system for heroes can be. Don’t get me wrong, the general probabilities aren’t BAD. In fact, they’re pretty good for a gatcha system. However, there are usually multiple heroes in the top-tier group that are pullable for each summoning banner. This means that, in a banner with 10 five-star heroes as its focus, the probability of pulling one specific hero isn’t, say, 8%...it’s 0.8%. This can be extremely frustrating if you’re trying to pull a specific hero, especially since it’s much harder to get enough orbs to even start summoning the longer that you’ve been playing.

Overall, amazing game! It’s one of the best games for the phone, and it got me into the Fire Emblem franchise (I bought and played both Awakening and Echoes, haha). I just wish that when you managed to GET a five-star you could choose WHICH five-star to get.

by The Croquet

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 FireEmblemHeroes 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

by 44link

Well, I figured it’s about time to review this game I’ve both loved and raged at over the year it’s existed, and I gotta say, overall, it’s great. Now of course, it has a few kinks, but I’d say it’s still amazing overall. Now, I kinda wish orbs and feathers were a bit more prominent, as orbs are kinda tough for a free to play person such as me, but I understand they don’t want to oversaturate the game, I do think they can give us a little more, but then again, I’m biased as a player, so. The only thing that I see as an issue is the latest Legendary Heroes Banner, it seems as if the rate of pulling 5* was way down, I usually get more 5* off a non Legendary banner than on one, I understand limiting it, due to the raised rates, but I think IS went a bit far, but it’s alright, as I think people need to realize, the developers of this game are human, and do make errors, I won’t be too hard on them for making an error, they are human. Overall, I love this game, and won’t be letting it go anytime soon, and if by pure chance, an IS dev reads this review, keep up the excellent work guys, I can’t wait to see how this game develops in the future - Austin

by Wannabe_Critic_08

The game itself is amazing. The graphics, the gameplay, everything is just so amazing. But if I have one suggestion, that’s to make a Create a character option. Let’s be honest, it’s fun to play as the given characters (since there are hundreds of them with uniques features) but it would be awesome for you guys to let us make our own characters. Honestly, the thought of making my character have whatever moves, weapon type, and other things excites me. Maybe four characters at max, so that you could have a whole team of your own creations. PLEASE HEAR ME OUT ON THIS!!! I know that other people would want this, and that it’s not only me. If you don’t want to do that, then at least give us the ability to design or commander character, cause it would make the game a lot more fun.
Another suggestion is let us make our summoner ’s decisions, like when the other characters ask him or her a question on how to proceed. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not asking for the game to be turned into a choose your adventure game, but I feel that here and there it would be fun to make our own decisions, and have the game change as we do. Like I said earlier, PLEASE HEAR ME OUT ON THIS! Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read this, and I hope that you really do consider this

by Carson Garrett

I have to say after a year of playing this game is good. Not Good like, after a year it will be just as fun as the first time I picked it up fun, or compete with real games. It does however have a lot of quality and love put into it. Updates come often and ftp players like myself rejoice because you can get a ton of top tier units with what IS gives us, which is a lot. Always new quests, always new summons, and a ton of content. P2P players will still flourish but any unit can be made “good” with investment. So with that nothing is out of reach for ftp players. Free summons are nice, and events that give tons of currency are awesome. Now replay value. After about a year of playing I have to say I rarely do more than long in most days of the week. Which is honestly fine by me. IS constantly gives out login bonuses and TT is something I normally look forward to. Even tho I don’t play the game as often it’s not based on the quality of said game. As I said lots of love has been put into Hero’s. This is IS’s baby. Even with the new update I’m excited and will probably play even more. It’s not the best game out there, but it’s a darn good gacha game that tries to take care of its players.

by Sylanaras The Game Dev

For competitive players yearning for battle against others in a nonstop fan service strategy playing-field deathmatch, this is for you. I have been playing this game since launch and have nearly 500 heroes with a seriously large portion of them being 5 star merged heroes, crazy skill combos, and now many appearance customizations. I rate this 4 stars because the game is heavily based on the creation of fresh heroes rather than heroes you already have (though I prefer using the same tag team forever), chance gambling with the urge to spend money every time you have that emotional connection to a really well designed character from a fe story, and because you only fight other players teams bots and not the players themselves in real time. If they made a way to challenge a friend in real time I would give this 5 stars.
As a game developer in training I have a lot of respect for the people who made this. Not only did they find a way to bring the entire franchise together, but they have also made a community that supports experienced and new artists that depict the characters we fire emblem fans know and love! (Let’s not forget experienced and newcomer voice actors as well!)

by YoshiLuma

Most free to play games on FireEmblemHeroes Store are good at first, but later on make players progressively depend on IAPs to get anywhere. And no one likes those kinds of games. Thankfully, Fire Emblem Heroes is NOT one of those games. I’ve been playing free since release and have already amassed quite a few level 40 heroes (the top level) without paying a cent. Most of these heroes are also the highest/2nd highest rarity, which means they come with better weapons as soon as they are summoned. If you want all 5 star heroes, you can easily increase a heros’ Star ranking when they are level 20. This game gives you lots of chances to get better heroes and plenty of in game currency to improve yourself with. I knew nothing of the Fire Emblem series when I started but I still enjoy this game. There is a bit of luck involved with summons because the rarer heroes are harder to summon, but many times seasonal heroes come back in different summons so you have the chance to get them again. For example, I missed out on Summer Lissa when she first came out, but was recently able to get her in a Legendary Heroes summon. I know this was a long review but this game is well worth your time.

by BAKA_13

It’s been an entire since this game released, and I can honestly say that I still faithfully play it everyday. If you had told me I’d be playing a phone game this long before, I’d have called you crazy. If your a Fire Emblem fan, then this is could be FireEmblemHeroes for you too. Being able to mix and match your favorite characters into team match ups that would otherwise never be possible is amazing. Going up against other teams around the world and coming out on top is what really keeps me going. Trying different characters, builds, and set ups can keep you pretty busy. But getting tat 7th win against a really tough team in the arena is the greatest feeling. Now, while it has its good points, it also has some bad points (as everything does). The biggest of which is the summoning system. Yes yes, I get it... It’s meant to make money. That is not lost on me. However, when I put the 200+ orbs I’ve painstakingly saved up into a banner and get absolutely nothing good from it? Well, to put it bluntly, it’s really freakin upsetting... If you can deal with rage inducing RNG of summoning, then jump in. Even through that, though, I would still highly recommend this game to any Fire Emblem fan.

by Lasagna.TTP

Overall, having played this game continually since May 2017, I can tell you two certainties about this game that makes me love it. Compared to most other gatcha games on the market, this one in my opinion gives out the most units to its players. Not only do they give away plenty of free units in itself, but the cost to pull as well as the higher pull rate make getting those new 5 star units even better. However, powercreep heavily exists in this game and the new units are so much better in skills and weaponry that the old units from when I first started playing rarely compete unless you invest into them heavily.

The map's and missions from this game are mostly taken from the main series games and are shrunken down to fit whatever new unit they are trying to push at that moment. The original content that Intelligence Systems produces also fits the par and the story provided alongside can actually be pretty entertaining if you read the text. Play-style is very simple and you catch onto the weapon triangle easily.

For new players, the amount of content can be overwhelming at best, but if you just stick to your guns and stay consistent in playing, you will have a good time!

by Unicrash

Now I’ve loved Fire Emblem Heroes since it’s initial release. Of course it’s a gacha game so it’ll be a bit hard to get the newest and most rare characters BUT it isn’t impossible to do for free. There are log in rewards for the currency, daily or monthly quests, events and now there is a monthly pass that gives you about 35$ (more if you count two five star characters) of items for just the 10$ a week payment. But what I found most fun is that this game has a storyline of its own that exists outside the typical games of fire emblem. I recently got the game fire emblem three houses and it has been really fun to see how accurately the characters from that game or portrayed in the art and even the small sprites used to represent the characters. It’s cute, accurate and fun.

Also the only times merging really matters is if you are trying to become the best of the best in the arena pvp or best the most challenging of all maps in the game. That’s something free to play can work towards easily however since there are many opportunities to work on or receive multiples of 3-4 star characters whine you are able to upgrade into 5 star using a different in game only currency.

by Fatalfunnel12

I love fire emblem and was thrilled when FireEmblemHeroes came out. I’ve played this game for years too. All the changes I’ve seen though have either made my day or disappointed me. By now the game has made an absolute meta where if you want to win in arena you have to use beast characters (who are broken) and legendary and mythic heroes who are basically gods or buffed lead characters. My favorite character in fire emblem is Berkut and I’ve had him lead my arena team since he first came to the game. Although an event released a new version of Berkut who is absolutely better than the normal one in every way. I saved up 200 orbs to get him and I didn’t get a single one. After that I spent $10 for more orbs because the game teases you with the characters and still didn’t get him. The next summoning event allowed me a free summon and I got a 5 Star linde. Summoning is pretty much broken as well. Don’t get me wrong the game is very well cared for and the developers are always fixing and adding great ideas into the game, it’s just that the game turned a different direction like getting free 5 stars for starting the game. To me it used to be a 5 star rated game. This isn’t what I remembered and loved about the old FEH. Thank you for reading my thoughts. It’s still got hope.

by DoorMattFE

Fire Emblem Heroes is a pretty good game if you are new to the series. But if you are someone who has favorites in the game, there is so much creative freedom to units you love and can make fun and actually useful builds. The customization is very nice and the game has been taking its time to actually make diverse banners and fun new themes for them (Like Pirates and Ninjas this year!) and is including more of the older games and allows the inclusion of some units who aren’t in the game already such as Zihark from Path of Radiance this most recent seasonal banner. Even making him a common pull for people to get some nice skills, or easily merge since these banners last an entire month. Of course with there nearing 1000 FE characters not all are in and will take some time for less popular ones. But with 16 games plus spin offs, there are many characters to love. And you can learn to love new favorites from this game (Olwen, Minerva, and Serra as examples for me).

Overall this game is pretty nice to free to play players with 2-3 new free units a month and allows Boons and Banes to be adjusted for a new currency. The art, voice acting, and charm is amazing. And it’s really fun talking about units and discussing possible stats for characters you expect or want in the game.

by Emboar Lover

So I have played this game when it first came out, and took a break from it for about 6 months. I decided to come back to Feh because I was getting bored with other games. Within a three or four month period I now have 28ish 5 star troops. All for free. This game doesn't have low five star summoning rates, it's all about saving those orbs and using them wisely. They give a ton of orbs to begin with, it's just periodically, like any game would. They even added the free summon when you first summon at a banner. Now, don't get me wrong, sometimes I get a tad annoyed when I get none of the tomes that I want from that summon. But, it gets outweighed by all of the good experiences I had, like getting Love Abounds Hector on my first free summon. Or getting Brave Lyn 1 hour before the banner ended. (ik, i didn't choose her when you can get the free brave hero) So give this game a chance, and if you stick with it, it continues to give events that make the game fun, and plenty of chances to summon heroes that you want.
Also, to those who say the hero challenges and such are hard, well I agree. However, if you play your troops right, and have the right combination, soon enough you will get it. The computer is slightly predictable, and if you get that, then the game opens up to you.