Jotari

Funny thing is that the lower boss you randomly picked there is one without any dialogue at all. Not even a death quote. Though that same portrait is used several times for generic NPCs.

Marty does have the niche of 15 base con and a 75% con growth (that's literally twice as much as the second highest con growth). Which quickly gives him the ability to capture anyone that functionally can be captured. You see, the reason he has that 0 skill and speed base is also to help him capture enemies. Because you can't halve nothing!

Which of the games have you played so far?

Well it is a traditional Japanese folk tale. We can't dismiss the possibility that Kaga had outright forgotten he'd already used this idea. Though considering that it's the exact same item, it doesn't seem that likely.

When in doubt, Pegasus Knight.com パトリシア] あ、おにいちゃん！ いいものあげるよ これ、役に立つんじゃないかな？▼ [ハルヴァン] ？ ・・・このオノは？▼⇒ [パトリシア] よさそーなオノでしょう？▼↓ この前、裏山を歩いてたとき いずみの中から出てきた ヘンなおばさんにもらったんだ▼↓ でも わたしにはあんまり必要なさそうだし おにいちゃん、使ってよ▼ Which according to my pheromonal powers of having an automated translator can tell, yes, this instance the translation is authentic. Kaga was the one to make the joke about axe lady throwing axes at people all over Jugdral. Not sure I like that myself, as I like thinking of axe lady as a Verdane centric local spirit rather than a transcontinental being. If she's just casually existing all over the continent then why isn't she helping out more to fight the Lopt Sect. We could do with a lot more Brave Axes lady >.>

I'm staring and staring at those two portraits and I'm really questioning if they're different at all. If I were on my laptop now then I would have overlayed them on paint.net by now. Are we sure the wiki hasn't just accidentally uploaded two Leif's? She has the best personal skill, which Lil Manster shows on the skill screen. Literal immortality! Oh look, it's Sigurd! I think a lot of these villager dialogues are not accurate to the original Japanese text by the way. The translator wanted to liven up generic villager dialogue with jokes and stuff, to... varying results. First Gaiden map is just outside Ram Village. You can even go back inside the village boundary in the gameplay if you really need to use a healing tile. I did not know that. So if one of them is dead you can't get the Gaiden, but the survivor just shows up along with everyone else? Yeah it kind of felt off for me too. I'm guessing her Little Leif and Little Nan stuff is an attempt for the translator to localize her saying Leif Chan (or possibly Kun) and Nanna Chan. But it doesn't quite sound natural, at least to me, in English given the context. Like, it's a pretty serious moment.

Engage was meant to be the 30th anniversary title and they were three years late on that, so I'm not expecting much. But, if I'm allowed to dream. The traditional gift for 35th anniversaries is...Coral...huh...well, give me Pirate Emblem then!

The only available weapons are Devil Weapons.

Yeah but Leif's Chalphy genes had to pass through an icky woman. While Oifey potentially has grade A Chalphy Y Chromosome if his dad was Byron's younger brother or something.

Still, wouldn't Lester have a solo unmarried scene written? I know freaking Jeanne of all people does because it's the only way to actually discover in game that she's specifically Eve's (or Eva's or Alva's, which ever of them) daughter. But a scenario in which Jeanne both exists, lives and unmarried is extremely niche. All that being said, that there's a fuck up somewhere in the ending is hardly surprising. Like, genuinely, how many possible endings does Genealogy have? There are so many different variables between who is the child of whom and who is or isn't married to whom to inherit what, there must be at least thousands of different possible combinations of endings that are possible, some of which have probably never even been seen.

Obviously it was Mustachio-Vendor-Sigurd guarding Castle Thracia. The most competent of all of Seliph's allies. Or, idk, Xavier and Galzus being best bros. How exactly did we get Mustachio-Vendor-Sigurd by the way? It's hilarious and I love it as a glitch, how can I replicate it. Lester needs to be unmarried did someone say? Also, re:Deirdre being revered in Verdane. If we're being charitable, she was pretty instrumental in taking down Sandima with the silence staff. So if Sandima did have a reputation in Verdane that the public actually knew about, then that's something they can more or less attribute directly to Deirdre as doing a thing.

That's what happens when I post after my bed time.

Honestly I feel like Riev doesn't even do anything at all. He basically stands around looking menacing and then you fight him twice near the end where it's a moment of "Oh yeah, that guy's still alive." Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but he actually has zero connection to Lyon's experiments or corruption and stuff. That's all Knoll's territory. Lyon just got corrupt all on his own and Riev basically just showed up afterwards to do the Demon King's bidding, being lucky enough to be the one crazy satanist worshipper who happens to be alive at the same time his god is actually returning by sheer happenstance. Not saying it be necessarily better if Riev was the man behind it all, it's good that Lyon is corrupted via his own ambition and naivety rather than some obviously untrustworthy guy telling him to do something obviously shady. But it does leave Riev largely without a role or purpose in the plot other than to be basically Xemcel (I do wish Xemcel got to stand around looking menacing earlier in Shadow Dragon though). Riev is by far the best bonus unit though. A staffs+slayer+defense better than Moulder = a monster's worst nightmare.

I wonder where Areone was hanging out before he appears on the map. He specifically says he doesn't live in Thracia anymore, but Thracia and the more recently liberate Miletos are the only things in that direction. He must have flown out east of Belhalla at turn 0 and just spent ages travelling south to flank Seliph from a position where no one is likely to be. Lopt Sect = Bad. This is true. But, what's really shocking and kind of sad...they are, at least in my opinion, by far the best evil cult the series has done. Gharnef is great by himself, but his larger support system is non existent beyond exp bags. We get no other named characters of his heretics, and the closest we do get, Ereimya, is just mind controlled. The Duma Faithful are...alright. They don't really do anything though. And what Jedah does do with Celica is, controversial, to put it mildly. They're also literally summoning monsters and sacrificing their souls to Cthullu. And, like, the lopt sect may be ridiculously evil, but at least they're evil as humans. The Duma Faithful are almost literally becoming unhuman in their evil. Though I guess they get some style points. Alright, I'll call it a tie for them. Elibe doesn't have any evil cult, unless you want to count Nergal and his morphs. Neither does Sacred Stones. Ping praises Novala, and I agree, he's a bit of fun (Sacred Stones bossmen=Good, as Ruben's next game shall demonstrate). But I think he's just a dark mage working with Riev who is mostly by himself in his inexplicable worship of satan. Again no evil cults in Tellius (unless you want to count the senators, but they're more polticans than cultists despite their classes). We took a big break from them after Kaga left, huh? But then Awakening comes crashing back into bad evil cult territory with the Grimleal. Whose main goal is literally to get themselves all eaten by a dragon. And then the worst of them all is the Agarthans in Three Houses. Because they are actually an interesting idea! They're not just crazy evil cultists for the sake of crazy evil cultists. Their a millennia old Illuminati style conspiracy cult with super science! That's fun, that's cool. But they're the worst because they just fuck it up entirely by doing absolutely nothing with them and making the bulk of their evil mostly pointless and just for the sake of having a completely morally black faction. Uh...sorry, that might have been a bit off topic. Thank you for coming to my seminar on Fire Embelm's worst recurring trope and how the Lopt Sect are only bad in the absolute sense, and not the relative sense...

We already had bow using armoured knights on the DS. And the answer is, they work rather well. It helps increase their effective attack range and gives them anti flier capability. Really bows are the best sub weapon for basically any class for that reason. Generals in Genealogy itself also had bows but they never really get into combat so that was more useful for arena cheesing.