Topic on Talk:Fire Emblem

The games with grouped pages (Fire Emblem Tellius) are direct sequels. Fire Emblem Akaneia is an odd case here because 1: Mystery of the Emblem is a direct sequel to the original. Trying to split it gets absurd. 2: Mystery of the Emblem has an Embedded Precursor, so the first game's tropes are also Mystery of the Emblem's 3: Both FE11 and FE12's remakes use the exact same script and level layouts as their original in the overwhelming majority of their work, the redundancy would be absurd. The two are closer in plot to their originals than the re-releases of the original Star Wars trilogy are to their original theatrical release. If anything, this demonstrates that the faithful end of video game remakes should be excluded from the policy in general, since the line about remakes clearly comes from films where "remakes" are (generally) completely different films with loose plot resemblance as opposed to "the same game but with slightly tweaked game mechanics and new graphics". Are we going to demand Dragon Quest III (Famicom), Dragon Quest III (Super Famicom), Dragon Quest III (GameBoy Color), Dragon Quest III (Smartphone) and Dragon Quest III (HD2D) be their own pages with almost entirely duplicate content? The mechanics, graphics and various new content changes plenty between each version, more than enough to qualify them as remakes and not ports, but the core game remains essentially the same (well, as far as anyone can tell with the HD2D version). One could even claim Dragon Warrior is a remake of Dragon Quest since that western release moves it to the third game's newer version of the engine and has changes like totally changeing overworld character sprites, and overhauling monster stats.

Splitting Gaiden and its remake to their own page would be doable, the game's mechanics are very different and the shared characters are pretty minor.