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I think the Nintendo' server for all the gatcha just crashed.

Ok good, otherwise I would have been upset for the future Awakening banner if one of those heroes show up on it.

The banner is a skip for me, I'm not sure how I feel about those Ascended Heroes. Are they going to introduce these heroes to every banner from now on? We already have Mythic Heroes "taking" slots while introducing a hero as a freebie. I assume this is the same for her with the axe cav? I'm also afraid it's just going to be more main character favoritism.

I agree, somehow despite having multiple version of Lucina and even an alt wearing a female swimsuit, most heroes can't figure out Masked Marth isn't a guy...

That's a lot of niche set up if you ask me, especially with dmg reduction or guard everywhere in AR. I'm trying to see how I can make this work, but so far I can't figure it out, he would need like 3 B skill

Aside of Tharja who is niche but it works, yes sorta. I don't know how to feel about Owain's refine, it really seems like he is stuck to enemy phase.

The refines are out, and pretty much everyone except Julius got a bad refine.

I agree. Ok look, I won't start a debate with you on what Zelda game is darker or not. It was just an example of a darker game without jumping into horror territory. Just because they time travelled doesn't mean they didn't loss anything. In fact, if you remember the ending of Awakening, the children know they don't belong in this world, no matter how much their parents tell them otherwise. It's not their world, yes they saved the day for this one, but it's not theirs. They just make sure it doesn't happen again for their parents and younger selves. Lucina travelled to the past with the portal Naga opened. The Outrealms are very strange for a concept since it has yet to be actually acknowledge by literally anyone from the Fire Emblem franchise, despite being a potential danger with anyone able to travel at will.

Any games or movies needs to have a good story, prequels included. Like I said, if someone wants to add a side story or conflict in the prequel to keep things interesting, they definitely can. But the main focus and what writes in movies and video games have done for a while is more to explain what happens. If someone doesn't like the doomed world and time travelling because it's cliché, that's okay. To each their opinions, but I think it would be interesting for an Awakening Prequel.

I agree, but I don't really see what this has to do with what I just mentioned. Especially since neither had an apocalyptic world left unexplained. A prequel's job isn't to have a good ending or to finish a character arc (although it can end for those only existing in that prequel or barely mentioned in the original story), it's to show to an audience what was previously only told or not even told or shown. I don't get what else do you want from a prequel to be honest. If you want some bullshit made up story for the sake of entertainment, sure, but it doesn't matter since it won't be mentioned during the main story. What most people want in a prequel is answers, how and why it happened. You can add some made up enemies just to spice things up if you want, it's not the 'meat' of the meal, 'potatoes' at best. The 'meat' is all the answers to what the original story left unanswered. It's still darker than most Link games. My whole point was to have a Fire Emblem with a different atmosphere. In any games, no matter how stacked the cards are against the protagonist's group, they always come out on top. I would like to see what happens if they truly fail, not just a Game Over when the lords dies. The closest thing we got was FE4 gen 1. Which is why Lucina's doomed future would be perfect for this kind of game.

Of course it's not an ending for Lucina, that's the purpose of the Awakening storyline. I really don't understand what is the problem with her going to the past. If you build a whole game showing the events I mentioned in my previous post and showing how they tried to desperately saving people in vain, you will have basically unpacked all the mystery that was left unanswered. Saying 'Lucina time travelling isn't a good ending' would be like saying that Anakin Skywalker becoming Dark Vader at the end of episode 3 was a bad ending because he became Dark Vader. That's the whole point of a prequel: showing how and why it happened. Not changing it.

Yet there's a lot of things that we don't know about. Remember, Future Past and the Drama CD only show what was happening during the end of the apocalypse. For instance, we don't know how the events unfolded after Chrom's death. We saw in the first cutscene that he was killed by Robin, possessed by Grima, at the Dragon's table. Sure... but what next? If you look how old Lucina and her friends are, it tells me that it took at least 15 years for Grima to actually ruin the world. Why did it took him so long? Is Robin responsible or was the resistance that strong from all the nations? We have been told by Lucina in Owain's paralogue that Lissa had became a beacon of hope for Ylisse. What happened? What happened to Ferox, Valm or even Plegia? What happened to the other members of the Shepherd? It sounds to me like they didn't die at the same place for a last man standing in Ylisse, it sounds more like they died at different times for different reasons like to defend their child as they tried to desperately escape the apocalypse or to protect Lissa perhaps. What happened to the children when their parents died? How did they managed to gather together? Did they even knew each other (aside of Lucina and Owain because they are cousins)? I could go on and on. There's even more, the Awakening story is full of holes

I'm a bit confused on how this is an issue. Isn't the whole point of a prequel is to be a link to the previous movie/game while providing extra story elements or to clear any unexplained concepts? Why would the time travel ending with Naga be a problem? It's an ending that is a direct link to the Awakening story.

I disagree. The Future Past ending doesn't make a good ending for me, especially when it comes to showing the children's resolve and being able to even the odds. The children were basically the damsel in distress stereotype until their parents from another world comes to save their sorry ass. The original versions managed to fend off for themselves until Naga told them they couldn't do anything without the final Gemstone. Also what you see in Future Past is basically the end results, you never saw how the whole world fell apart to Grima's army. If anything, the CD drama just show how darker it is compare to Future Past. If that would be a Midquel, it would be after two years gap after Chrom defeated Gangrel. Lucina arrives in Ylisse very early in the game and Laurent was in Ylisse a full three years before the events of the game.

As a fan of Gen 2 units of Awakening, my idea of a prequel would be more focused on the fall of Lucina and her friends' world. It would be a more difficult Fire Emblem, restricting to basically the twelve children with limited resources and weapons. The maps would be unique with different objectives and no pair-up mechanic. The atmosphere would obviously be very gloomy, but every once in a while with a touch of humor thanks to the children's quirks and personnality. It would basically a 'Fire Emblem Majora Mask' where it's obviously darker, seeing them struggle against an apocalyptic world where you know you can't change anything, only delay the inevitable.

Also nice pun from IS for Soleil's weapon.

Please make Owain have a goof refine, pleeeease!

On one hand, I am happy that a Three Houses banner took the burden of having Muspell. On the other hand, 2 Three Houses banner in 2021 is a bit over excessive if you ask me.

You misunderstand what I wrote. If you notice IS's pattern when they choose a banner to put those OCs, it's either on games that has a lot of their cast already in the game or unpopular games like Thracia. And I don't think Archanea is the former, not the latter (even if the remake games sold poorly).

As much as I would like your statement to be true, there's too many characters missing for Archanea games to have a FEH OC placed on one of their banner. Meanwhile for Awakening, over 50% of the cast is already in the game.

Again the couple, better hide

Knows it's probably Chloey having fun with Grima.

Better leave them some space before Grima gets angry.