The DanMan

Having some caution over things is one thing, but comparing everything shown so far to the "worst parts" of another game feels kinda shallow.

Intriguing seeing a mod so down on the game. Especially when there's still so much else to the game other than the school. I'd say there'll be one every week or two-- the game is a bit over two months out and there's still tons to be covered that can't only be done in trailers.

Nintendo hasn't censored anything this gen-- to the point where more niche and explicit 3rd party titles are starting to jump ship after Sony started cracking down.

Still shows for me:

So I did some digging last night on gamefaqs after being tipped off by several users and have got some info (one piece of which @Dragonage2ftw already posted): Thanibomb is also the gamefaqs user MissCarriage. This is in their sig on gamefaqs: FC: 2981-5975-5185, Flaming Emblems, Light Priestesses, and Toxic SeahorsesTeam Thani FE:H ID: 1168253504 Said ID reveals that their FEH account is called Thanibomb. In addition, some of their reactions and prior posts are... suspect. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204445-fire-emblem-three-houses/77705292 A thread asking people who their favorite retainer is. Post 13: "Claude's retainer is not LORENTZ! It's HILDA!" Post 16: "I won't ever give in. EVER. I'm saving this thread just to show proof that I'm right." Post 19: "I just know. In my heart of hearts I know." This was 6 days ago. In addition, they have a very clear Claude boner/Golden Deer bias: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204445-fire-emblem-three-houses/77518284 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204445-fire-emblem-three-houses/77543475 With the "leaks" being quite partial to the Golden Deer. As for the real thanibombshell, it's already been posted but I'll link it again so as to have everything in one place: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204445-fire-emblem-three-houses/77670369 "Lycithea is the best character already" Made a few weeks ago. Now what have they been saying on reddit? ...Oh right. How much they love Lycithea, how she's a tragic character who's a key part of Edelgard's motivation (because a random character from a different house makes sense), and that she dies mid-plot. How convenient. In addition, when asked if they were the same person on gamefaqs they lied: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204445-fire-emblem-three-houses/77716670/921964988 ...Even though they still have their FEH account linked and bared to the world. This "leak" is mostly BS at absolute best, pure fanfiction at the absolute worst. I sent my findings to the subreddit mods-- not to suggest an immediate course of action, but simply to inform them of how things are looking. EDIT: Seems like it's a "mostly BS" deal but they may have something: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204445-fire-emblem-three-houses/77674602 In post 5, you can see in the quote that they had Rhea's name already (over a week in advance) but edited it out of post 4. So here's what I'm calling: little details right, big details wrong.

They have such oddly specific info in some areas yet vague to non-existent info in others. Claims that the Houses don't join later, a lack of any mention of the Church being evil (when IS themselves keep making it obvious), saying that the school only matters for the first act when it's getting a massive amount of mechanical focus... it's just wish fulfillment for the online community mixed in with some fanfiction. It says something that gamefaqs is making fun of SF over this.

It's fishy at best yet people are just eating it up because it's what they want to hear.

From observations and google translate, I bring: >All 3 House heads have the same personal skill effect-- 20% EXP bonus. Byleth also has this, but it applies to adjacent allies as well. >Hubert's personal skill is garbled/doesn't make much sense. >Dorothea's restores the HP of adjacent allies by 10% at the start of each turn. >Dedue's grants him +4 defense on the enemy phase if he's ordered to wait. >Felix's grants him +5 damage if he is deployed without soldiers. >Lorenz gains +2 damage for being deployed with soldiers. >Hilda increases the damage adjacent male allies deal by 3. >Mercenaries now use Swords and Axes >Cavaliers have Canto back >There's a new Fistfighter class-- though it also uses axes >Fists have a Brave effect but can't be used while mounted >Magic seems to be learned like it is in SoV but has limited uses per map instead of running off of HP EDIT: And unique palettes do seem to be a thing-- Hilda is shown as a Brigand and she has a pinkish-brown palette (compared to Edelgard's burgundy), while Cavalier Lorenz has purple highlights

They seem to be at the end of their attack animation in the screen in the upper left corner, with a green "4" and their crest above them.

I see Byleth's crest gives them what seems to be a health draining effect on attacks.

IIRC Hidari had done some art for the Atelier series.

People have already demonstrated you can post advertisements just like it for $5 apiece

"Oh no, a JRPG looks remotely anime!" A far better and more specific complaint would be about the beady-looking irises, at least.

You'll probably get most of the characters from them at a later date, as well as maybe fight them in mock battles.

That's what I'd figured the moment Astral Chain was announced. The game was announced at the 2017 VGAs with nothing to show since-- either development had barely begun or snags had been hit. I'll be honest, I'm a bit curious in seeing how Astral Chain and Bayonetta 3 do; Bayonetta 2 has only sold about 500k, with 2/3 of those sales being from the Switch re-release (which means a fair few of them may have been from people re-buying it). I'm just wondering how things will go long-term if Astral Chain comes out and puts up a million in sales and then Bayonetta 3 comes along a year+ later and doesn't match it.

Has a username derived after a psychic type Pokemon.

The aircraft carrier plan was because of Britain's lack of them during the start of WWII, and specifically was a mixture of ice and sawdust (and got greenlit when Churchill put a chunk of it in his bathtub overnight and it didn't show signs of melting). The issue was that it was incredibly expensive and would've required many thousands of man hours in arctic conditions to gather the ice, so it got punted to the backburner where it melted alongside Germany's offensive war efforts. I suppose to make an actual reply: Everything that's canon or at least has basis in canon. With FE, that means the likes of Chrom/Sumia, Eliwood/Ninian, and Corrin/Azura. To stray slightly from that, Robin/Cordelia-- which is based mostly on how I find their personalities to be similar as well as how they have kinda parallel relationships with Chrom/Sumia.

I really like the Bismark for the history around it, as well as the aircraft carrier made of ice plan by the British that went nowhere during WWII because of just how crazy it was.

I'm kinda hankering for Nintendo VS Capcom at this point.

I may as well link this creation of mine to give my thoughts/roster prediction: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/262892-persona-5-scramble-the-phantom-strikers/77676049 Unrelated, but interestingly the Switch board has more topics than the PS4 one (and only one of them is bitching). Albeit it's only a ratio of 3 to 12, I think it's something worth noting for the future.

You're right-- Erdrick is a title, not a proper name. Nintendo hardly gives a damn about fan demands. Many of those same people bitched about Joker's inclusion. Hell, Chrom got included in one of the few instances where fan demand actually influenced character choices. And as Byleth is a Teacher who can use every weapon in the game, I don't see why they couldn't make them a weapon master. Maybe have a move or two similar to Duck Hunt's down special and summon a generic unit to attack as well. There's plenty of ways that the Smash dev team could make them unique.

Ah, my mistake. Only just now saw it myself.

We've seen her model, but not her portrait.

You're the one who's complaining about "generic designs" and yet half the Lords in the series are blue-haired sword Lords. We know nothing about most of these characters at this point in time-- you're the one who passed judgement and said they're so generic you'll probably kill them.

Australian version of the LE went up, and with it we've got the portrait of the blonde Blue Lions girl: