BlizzardWolf95

My Tiki'll be here sometime this week, hopefully (I won't be home to pick her up, but she'll be there regardless). I would've got Chrom too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids (he was sold out on the store I use).

1. Do you think playable officers being attached to their horses would be a good idea for mainline Warriors games to do (like if DW10 made Ma Chao a full-time cavalry unit, for example)? 2. How much does the lack of WTA affect units like Takumi, Robin and Elise? 3. Are there any enemies in the game you found you had to absolutely use a unit with an effective weapon to fight, lest you be KO'd?

Some would say it's also deluding oneself to think a game's sales were "absolutely abysmal" just because they think a vocal minority is the entirety of a fanbase. ? FEW didn't make record-breaking sales, who cares. A hundred thousand copies sold is pretty much reserved for the most promoted and esteemed IPs. "Absolutely abysmal" would be like a thousand copies. 60 thousand is a lot, better than some Warriors first week sales (like Berserk). Hell, imagine 60 thousand anythings in a room with you and try to tell me it isn't a lot. We've had enough negativity surrounding this game. It's out now, people are enjoying it, let the hate rest.

I'd like to ask for the assets as well.

Yeah, I saw that, but not the character model by itself, like the other screenshots.

Ah, too bad. Feel free to @ me if it crops up

Wow, that's awesome. I was hoping he'd get Hoshido Noble, was scared for a bit that they'd just cut corners and give him Nohr Noble. Has Elise's promotion been posted like that yet?

The real question is when are we getting the assets dumped. I want to fool around with the character sprites and portraits and stuff.

SD: Talys, The Ageless Palace, Jiol's map, Camus's map, Michalis's map, the Endgame Awakening: The prologue, the boat chapter, Carrion Isle, some sandy Plegia map, Feroxi Arena, Walhart's castle siege Fates: The path split, some assorted Revelations maps, who cares

inb4 Ogma and Navarre

Camilla stole Cordelia's spot as the best looking render yet. The in-game screenshots are looking better and better every update too!

The only other one that's obvious is Kate Higgins as Shade. Cherami Leigh is probably Emma, but I have no clue about Yuzu.

Here are my all-new predictions (bracketed choices are my runner-ups): Shadow Dragon: Marth, Tiki, Caeda, Draug, Minerva, Jeorge, Merric, Linde, Camus, Gharnef (Gordin? Jagen? Hardin? Ogma?) Awakening: Chrom, Robin, Lissa, Frederick, Lucina, Cordelia, Nowi, Virion, Tharja, Gangrel, Walhart, Validar (Panne? Cherche? Gaius? Basilio? Olivia pls?) Fates: Corrin, Xander, Camilla, Leo, Ryoma, Hinoka, Takumi, Azura, Effie, Subaki, Garon (Charlotte? Oboro? Niles? Awakening Trio? Iago? Hanz?) With the OCs, that's around 35 characters, which fits with the proposed roster size.

Also, seems like people who thought this tome looked suspiciously like Brynhildr in the Robin screenshot on the website finally have some closure. Nice eagle eyes, dudes. If Robin can wield Brynhildr, does this mean we can have Falchion Xander, or Raijinto Marth? It's interesting nonetheless.

Scans

It's weird they leave Ike out of a game literally about fighting for your friends, but what can you do. Though, Awakening had the word "Bonds" pasted all over the place, so maybe the power of friendship has been a key FE trope in the new generation this whole time and we just haven't noticed it? :^) I don't think it's too bad, myself, but I'm pretty hard to make cringe anyway, so I'm probably just immune.

If knives (or hidden weapons, I guess?) were in FEW, it'd only be for Jakob/Felicia, or a ninja. The Thief class of enemy in FEW allegedly uses swords, like Gaius or Julian did, so adding knives and not having the generic class use them, that'd be odd, no? I mean, I'd love for Kaze or Flora to be playable, but as it stands right now, I can't see a reasonable excuse for including knives. Though, if they are in, I will be pleasantly surprised, especially if they belong to someone like Gaius (though my personal hope is that Gaius is added as an Archer-Thief, like Niles, and he uses throwing knives in his moveset).

Assists would be fine with me (like SW2 Bodyguards?), heck at this point, I'm really fine with anything, but I feel Azura would be a necessity, as she's one of rare lance infantry. In the case that Donnel, Mozu or Oboro don't show up, she's the only unit with those qualifications, unless they're counting Armor as infantry too, in which case Draug might fill that spot (he might be in anyways, as far as we know). Gah, only another 2 hours until I can actually watch the video. I wanna hear these voices! By the by, anyone else here prefer Sinterniklaas as Takumi over Rose? I'm on the fence with who I like more as Niles, but Sinterniklaas sounds really good as Takumi to me, in Heroes at least (I don't even have him yet).

They would, but so would've most of the characters I mentioned above. By perfect, I meant they're not explicitly battle-ready, even less so than Lissa. Whatever purpose they could fill, they can easily do it through in-battle dialogue, if need be. The only other chance they have to be playable is in a reveal with Azura. Otherwise, I think NPC is what they'll be heading for.

Compare to the likes of Ramba Ral, Kai Shiden, Fa Yuiry or Yazan Gable not being playable, but NPCs with unique mobile suits (except Fa), in DWG1. Or Pippin, Isidro, Skull Knight, or Mozgus being NPCs (even when SK has a unique moveset!) in Berserk. Being a Warriors NPC isn't too bad.

Warriors games are typically 97% NPCs. Samurai Warriors 4 had ~50 playable characters and around 900 named NPCs. Hyrule Warriors didn't have any NPCs, but other collabs, like Gundam and Berserk, were filled to the brim with them, being about a 1:8 ratio of playable characters to NPCs. Not sure if FEW will get this treatment, but if it already confirmed NPCs in a twitter post a few weeks back, I'd say we'll be getting a few, and Elise/Sakura would fit right in.

This is great. I figured we'd get two, or three, but all four? Happy day. Sakura and Elise will likely be NPCs. It would make a lot of sense.

I thought I saw somewhere that it's the 23rd, but I have nothing to back that up. It would cooncide with Famitsu releasing though.

Aw, a demo would be fantastic! It would give me something to do with my Switch between throwing myself off the highest cliffs in Hyrule and getting 12th place in 200cc karting.

I'm blind and a fool. Thank you for pointing this out, as I now have a renewed hope for next week's Famitsu.