A little bit ago I found a very interesting video called "When Nostalgia gets toxic" by J Reviews. The points he provided included how very idiotic, pointless and very hurtful nostalgia can get when it comes to franchises, when I watched I thought that (not all) Fire Embpem fans are very very VERY guilty of this too. One of the things I noticed back lets say the 3DS era was the countless "back in my day" arguements about game difficulty, waifu stuff or stories, etc or will say shit like "if you haven't played Tharica, Tellius or FE7, you're not a real fan" and it seems like that stupid mentality is still very much around
Things like these were very frustrating during that time so of course when Echoes came out, people really felt like the "golden age" of FE came back...only for people to forget about it. Tbh I really didnt like Echoes and I used to get a lot of flack for saying that and get labeled as a "new fan casual waifu lover" even though I played the GBA games, Tellius and even Shadow Dragon before that.
On the topic of old games, it's also weird how FE fans love to switch up a lot. Radiant Dawn back then wad considered the worst FE game ever but it's now deems as the best and other games should take note of it. It's a never ending cycle, that's not to say newer stufd is safe too i think 3H fans get really defensive when people don't like the game and while I never played it (I stopped consuming FE media after Echoes) I just decided to not stick around for anything new because it's not worth it.
It's easy for me to complain about how the old age of FE is so grand and golden when in reality I can just not buy the new stuff, which is what I did. FE fans will talk about how Camilla needs to stop showing up in FE spinoffs but will continue to buy the games anyway.
Nostalgia is great for rediscovering things but it can also be a curse for people to the point where hiveminds are created.
But enough of my thoughts, what do you guys think? Here's the video in question