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I'd like Alfonse to win. Get him off the bench, and force IS to give him a new Japanese voice actor.

Yeah, somehow I set my expectations too high. It's still good, not as great as other books, but previous books are a tough act to follow, especially Book VII (in my opinion). Of course, we're yet to hear the boss theme and cutscene music. The first two chapters have already been uploaded to the wiki, and I still don’t know what to think of it:

I agree that that's the problem; most of the time, the only challenge Alfonse and Co. face is getting the McGuffin, rather than conquering the opposing army or simply the journey across the lands. I think Book 2 was the last time the geography actually mattered in terms of travel time, and the opposing army has never mattered in the grand scheme of the individual books. Books 2 and 3 played with the idea that the order of heroes works away from the frontlines to defeat the enemy, which I like as an idea, but that was four years ago now, and we were only told about Askr's army, we never actually saw it (would've been the best opportunity to incorporate green units). To be fair, it makes sense that Hel and Freyr couldn't be defeated by conventional means, and in Hel's case, the McGuffin served more purpose in the story that just being the McGuffin that beats the bad guy, but the constant repetition of the McGuffin quest is the problem, which is why the first half of Book 6 was a breath of fresh air. I hope in Book VIII, they focus on the journey up Yggdrasil; maybe Alfonse, Veronica and Heriette is kidnapped and the others need to hurry to where they all are before they're killed, (with them inevitably being too late to save Heriette), but that could only stretch on for around 8 chapters. But I think I need to see how the book begins before forming my thoughts proper.

I expect 13 chapters that start out promising enough but rushes the ending, three animations that range from good enough to actually pretty good, six new OC's that are predominantly female and range from forgettable to actually great, and some great music. Any quality beyond that is a nice bonus.

Outside of Askr and Embla, we've never gone back back to a realm (not counting Tempest Trials). I wouldn't mind being proven wrong, but I also want to get to Alfador already.

So, what was the point of the weird chapter numbering? The Story certainly isn't coherent if you play it in numerical order. Also remember how it Njordr said it was super important for Seidr to have a child with Kiran? And how he didn't recognise Kvasir? Or how Kvasir had a Breidablik? Yes, Gullveig used Kiran to create Heidr (I think) but how did Njordr know the importance of that? This book didn't feel well planned.

What about Rigel and Zofia? Those could be interesting Mythic chatacters. Also, Rinea is technically alt exclusive, so they could put Rinea and Nuibaba on a banner, plus the inevitable female ascended character (the monkey's paw says ascended Catria) to pull Echoes through one more banner.

So why did Kvasir have to die while Seidr gets to live? Why couldn't they just expel the golden serpents from her just like they did with Seidr? I get that Gullveig is probably too far gone for that to work, but still, that's some double standards.

This might be considered cheating, but I think Inti Creates should get Mega man; they proved time and time again they could make good mega man games, and thanks to Gunvolt, it's not like they'll be rusty. On mobile devices. But yeah, there's a lot of untapped potential for MHA video games, maybe we'll see something once the anime has finished.

Frankly, I'm glad Catria got another alt, Catria is one of my favourites and I'm always happy to see more of her. Why yes, I am part of the problem. Regarding those actually in the wind tribe, isn’t that just their normal attire? Of course, there are still better choices than Kangero and yes, Catria yet again, but wind tribe characters are, bluntly spraking, boring choices. Also, how did it take this long to see Claude in another culture's attire? Embracing other cultures is his whole motivation!

Camus: I'm out. See you next game. *jumps off the cliff*

Why is Leakin in the Oliver tier? I believe it's a well established fact that the Oliver tier is only for Oliver. Joking aside, I don't want to call your tier list 'wrong' but what makes Sothe better than everyone in F tier? I'm curious.

I agree with this, but I would also like to mention how it makes no sense that the great Bridge of Myrrdin is a Chapter in CF, when the Empire already occupys Garreg Mach. On the topic of maps, something I noticed in terms of maps is that each country has three major location: a field, a fortress, and the capital (Adrestia also gets the castle), though that's also me assuming that VW Chapter 22 is supposed to be Leister's field map, and one could argue Firihad has two maps. I can appreciate all the analysis done in this post, but I would say that while of course the gameplay is very important, Three Houses' story was considered more important, based on all the reused maps, the simplistic cutscene backgrounds etc. While it does make sense for a secret route to be shorter, as others have mentioned, CF just doesn't have enough room to breath. Now, yes, the empire had the upper hand from the get go, going from the border of Liester straight to the Capital doesn't make much sense. That said, you're right that fixing it isn't an easy task when it comes to balancing difficulty; just look how much fighting games have to adjust whenever they add one new fighter. Yes, we want a more... filled out? Story, but it's not an easy task.

Based of enemy data on easy difficulty; in part 3-11, the game expects the Greil Mercenaries to be Tier 2 level 15 or higher, and in the next chapter, the game expects the Dawn Brigade to be Tier 2 level 5 or higher, so there's a ten level discrepancy, generally speaking. Honestly, that doesn't sound too bad. Something I'm surprised hasn't come up is growth rates. I'm not very knowledgeable on the topic, but it seems all of part 1's characters have good to great growth rates, and a couple characters have niches, like Meg having great resistance for an armour knight. I've seen a decent number of people take Nolan and/or Edward into the tower and they're generally considered good units (so I guess that means most of the actual 'Dawn Brigade' doesn't have any major issues). But then Meg and Fiona suffer from different issues. Meg starts at Tier 1 level 3 when your unit are about level 10, plus she's already an armour unit with low movement. And then Fiona joins at Tier 1 level 9 and is only available for two maps in part 1.

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I agree with this, though Jill starts out as a Dawn Brigade member, and I'm sure many people took her into the tower. Admittedly though, most growth units are pushed to the side considering all the great units your giving in part 4. The Crimean army is arguably in the same position as the Dawn Brigade, but they already had Path of Radiance to shine, plus, part 2 made better use of various characters. This might be a bit of a tangent, but I also think Fiona should've been WAY better unit than she is, seeing as she gets considerable build up, and is the Daughter of one of the Great Riders. I wish Ilyana could've stayed with the Dawn Brigade, but she's tied to the merchants. Sure, they also could have stayed, but then we'd lose a great base conversation with Soren and Aimee. As for Vika, I like the idea of her staying to get more comfortable around Micaiah, but it's pushing believability if you have her fight for the Bengion Senators, she's not even tied down by the blood- wait, she's from Kilvas, right? Does their blood affect her? That's definitely a tangent. And no, Sothe doesn't have a Laguz effective Knife, I did forget about beast foe skull though.

Strange, isn't it? Of course, any new characters would have the trouble of being... well characters, when many of the new characters are already underdevelopment, I mean for crying out loud, the only time Brom and Meg talk is on the battlefield! On opposing sides! I don't think Tormod and Co. Could realistically be in the Dawn Brigade in part 3 though, especially considering their first chapter is killing a bunch of retreating Laguz. Another possible solution could be to make the special Dawn Brigade weapons (the ones that were added internationally) Laguz effective, which would significantly help in two of the three Part 3 Dawn Brigade chapters. Maybe also just adding Laguz effective weapons in general; it’s an odd exclusion anyway.

Well Goran, the boss of Part 3 Chapter 11 (the bridge chapter), is a level 17 Warrior, which is most likely higher than anyone in Micahah's party (except Tauroneo), and he’s just a minor boss. So I'd say story wise, the Dawn Brigade are supposed to be on the same level as the Greil Mercenaries. Plus, there's already story/gameplay integration with how much the Dawn Brigade is outnumbered. What doesn't help that the Dawn Brigade has some of the worst units in the game, which wouldn't be a problem if they had more units, but the deployment number is equal to the Max units they can have at that point in the game, including Jill and Zihark, who you might’ve given to the Greil Mercenaries.

This has Xane written all over it, but at the same time, he's too good for it. What about masked Characters such as Sirius, Conrad, etc? Also, is it a festival, or just characters in disguises? If the latter, I'd imagine it's the only chance we'd get at getting normal Bruno.

Let's face it, the only reason we want to keep wyrs is because of modern memes, but since the question is " who do we want to keep in FE1, I see no reason to keeps Wyrs. I'd want to keep every character who is recruited by someone other than Marth, because that’s more dialogue for them. Roger may also a meme, but he's always been a meme. I think Boah, Astram, and Midia should also stay, since they're all somewhat important characters. Also Jack, because Ballisti and Anna. Everyone else who should stay really speak for themselves; I don't need to explain why Miverva should stay

Does anyone know if the extended script says anything on the senators? I know there’s a bit extra on the Blood pact. Also, is the title of senator hereditary, or just the title of Duke? Similar to the difference between the titles of 'apostle' and 'empress' (if you don't know what I'm referring to, check Sigrun and Tanith's boss conversations with Leakin). After all, all the Senators (barring Sephrain) look pretty old, it wouldn't be surprising if Sephrain was the first new Senator after Sanaki's grandmother died.

One thing of note, no matter who Bengion sent to govern Daein, there's was next to no chance that the people would support them (unless it wad someone exceptional like Zelgius), but a mysterious heir that liberates them from their oppressors, they'd have the peoples full support. That might have been the senators thinking, or at least Leakin's Numida could've been another pawns. Daein would be easier to manipulate with a leader the people love. Something else I've been thinking about, every senator was chosen by the Goddess through the apostle, right? That's something I would've liked to learn more about, especially given the 'recent' choices.

Izuka summons them; his class is summoner, it still has a couple questions, but makes more sense than stumbling across them or resurrecting them. I reckon there should've been a Chapter in part 2 where Bastian captures Izuka. He could have Renning and Volke as party members, and it would've given a bit more importance to part 2. Back to Micaiah, you're right, except it's not completely nullified. Unless I'm forgetting something, in part 4 the Blood pact could still be invoked, the difference is there's a whole lot less people it could kill, but then again, at that point, they needed everyone they could get, it's just not brought up, unless I'm mistaken. Actually, it's a shame Micaiah never talked with Elincia, considering she was put in a similar situation at the end of part 2, just it was one life opposed to an entire country.

It occurred to me that if final chapter is Chapter 1 (which I reckon is a safe assumption), it might be us going back in time again, to stop Njordr from starting the curse. Wait... that's assuming Njordr was feigning ignorance when Kvasir showed up. Maybe Njoldr goes back in time to ensure the curse continues, and we follow? But I'm fairly certain Njordr will be our green final boss.

I think one thing that people get hung up on is Micaiah is fighting for the wrong side while Ike is indisputably fighting for the right side. While that doesn't help the argument that Ike overshadows Micaiah in her own game, I don't think the game was ever supposed to be 'two sides fighting for what they consider just', which has become a bit overused, and not just in Fire Emblem. If I understand correctly, Micaiah's struggle is figuring our what's the right thing to do; she knows what's right, but can't figure out how to achieve peace. Until Ashura awakens and makes the choice easy.