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Favorite: Absol Scyther Scizor Sandslash Sneasel Flareon Sceptile Greninja Mewtwo Lucario Empoleo Electabuzz Tyrranitar Aggron Nidoking Decidueye Articuno Lugia Suicune Ceruledge Corviknight Honchkrow Least Favorite: Jinx Mr. Mime Electivire Rhyperior Magmortar

Because it was literally still on the first page so it doesn't even really constitute a bump?

I don't think Nina and Kitra are actual children, and I could see them being in the same age range as Chloe and Alain.

Umm, what little girl can Alain marry? Kitra? Does the game even tell you how old Kitra is? Anyway, I finished the game with the platinum. My best team was Gloucester (as lead), Berengeria, Selvie (the one SSS tier character), Jeromy, and Miriam. Just wrecked damn near everything with massive damage, and had great survivability between the debuffs, self-healing, and Miriam. What were your best teams?

Absol, followed by Scizor, Ceruledge, Empoleon, and Sceptile, Decidueye.

Overwhelmingly, I'd end up being a Dark type trainer based on my favorites. Largely by coincidence since I like Pokemon like Absol, Umbreon, Shiftry, Greninja, etc. Least favorite type is easily Fairy. Again, not that I hate the type itself but just don't tend to be overly fond of the mons in it.

I don't feel that "don't harass indie devs" is actually an unpopular opinion unless you're speaking to 4-chan.

Modern games without difficulty settings, fast travel, etc. should be lambasted as incomplete, not praised as hardcore and artistic.

Fair. But on the positive side, a survey went out with a question on whether you would buy a sequel. I for one would. I'm almost done. Just gotta do the last couple liberations and the final Cornea missions. Game's amazing. Not just a 10/10, but if you asked me whether this or PoR was my number 2 game, my answer would change depending on how I feel that day. They're basically tied.

Unicorn Overlord just hit its 500k unit reported sales milestone. Pretty good for a niche game like this, but less than what this genre landmark masterpiece deserves.

As someone who's 100% completed FEW, congrats on HW. That sounds like a daunting achievement even for me. Anyway, two last minute clears for March. 29. Terror of Hemasaurus 30. Fire Emblem Fates Conquest

Exactly like Marth, you mean.

Difficulty is subjective. And while I certainly think the game could benefit from an additional setting or two, personally, I'm playing on Tactical and it feels right. I'm not frustrated, but I am engaged, which is exactly what I want from all of my games. I certainly don't personally need more than that, and probably an Expert replay later.

March was a month where I had immense time taken from me due to work. It was also a month in which I picked up and dropped 3 dogshit games due to difficulty and poor game design. It was also a month in which I put most of my hours into one of the best games I've ever played (and haven't beaten it yet). 26. Mass Effect 27. Persona 3 Reload 28. Shining Force Super Mario Bros U Deluxe - Quit No More Heroes 3 - Quit Dante's Inferno - Quit Right now, I'm playing Unicorn Overlord, Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, and Pokken Tournament DX.

I'd pick Ceruledge

Uh, Ochette? It's not Octopath 2.

Lex climbs towers, Chloe scouts ruins. Anyway, who's everyone's favorites? Mine are Aramis, Travis, Rosalinde, Melisandre, Jeromy, and Ithilion.

I want Alain in the next Smash, because the reaction to a blue-haired sword lord who isn't from Fire Emblem would be aggressively hilarious to me. And also, Unicorn Overlord is genuinely the best game in its genre in damn near 20 years, so it's earned it.

The game would benefit from an optional mode to remove story gates & scale levels to you. Or to randomly reassign stage levels. I reckon it'll be super replayable even without it, but it would help. There are other benefits to the game's structure though. It's really immersive that stages take place in the same map you explore. It's such a huge step up from the genre standard of bespoke disconnected maps, often with low detailed borders or the immersion breaking void of space.

Rean really is just Diet Joshua. Oh look, another dark haired swordsman with a tragic backstory, a white-haired rival, and a hidden power who attracts every woman he sees, including his adoptive sister.

I don't much care for 2D Mario games either. Nah. You're flat wrong. The protagonist is almost never the most interesting character.

Early Famitsu sales are looking promising. 74k first week (Japanese, physical only). This is over twice what 13 Sentinels did. And it probably would have been higher if physical editions of the game didn't sell out in Japan. Amazon US also ran out of physical Switch version stock.

It's not as bad as Rhea. Byleth x Rhea's family tree would be a goddamn slinky.

The game takes RNG into account to predict results because there's so much going on in any given round of combat that no player could be reasonably expected to calculate it. Like, you know how Fire Emblem Heroes is basically totally unplayable without a matchup calculator now because every weapon has a full kit's worth of effects, on top of all the other effects in every character's kit? It's basically the same thing, except with all the pay to win, obtuse nonsense replaced with actual teambuilding depth. Personally, I think it's a good thing. Random unfavorable aberrant chance results (high hit misses, low miss hits, low chance crits) are the most hated thing in this genre, and a system that essentially eliminates these as an issue is really good game design. Fire Emblem should take notes. Fire Emblem wishes it was this good.

It's for those who want a relationship that's both Alabamian and Freudian at the same time.