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  1. I've ranted many times about FE7, the title being among one of many things that baffles me. Blazing Blade, or at least I think it's Blazing Blade? Maybe it's Sword. That's the description for FE7 here in Serenes, aka Fire Emblem. Great. Don't even try to create a title! This won't confuse new players down the line! First of all, why is it even called Blazing? Well the only possible answer is that the chapter where you get the Durandel in Binding Blade is referred to as that, and I don't get that either! Sure, the chapter has fire in it, but you don't see the blade go up in flames like you do with, I dunno, the Binding Blade. There's no thunder gimmick with the Lightning Axe, so what gives? Whatever, it's probably some spirit of the previous user lore that I'm unaware of, but I can't find anything about it on the wiki. Unlucky. That's not the primary concern. No, the real fiddle me riddle is "why is this game named after the main weapon at all?", which also leads into a secondary question: "Can you even call the Durandel the main weapon?". With Shadow Dragon and the Title that is Way Too Long, the blade of light that I omitted for the sake of a crappy joke, which as we all know is the falchion, plays a pretty important role in Marth's journey. It's quite important to his kingdom, and he searches for it much earlier than in endgame. Granted, he fails to find it and only receives it during the penultimate chapter, but when you do get it, you feel like a Seth. All non dragons straight up cannot damage Marth, leaving the stupid AI that always targets him into being target practice for the next Excelblem steam, and actual manaketes will just get obliterated by the dragon slaying tooth. The hype built up around the sword really pulls off as now you feel the culmination of your efforts rewarding you with what you can use to decimate your way into reaching and defeating the seemingly undefeatable Earth Dragon Medeus. You can certainly kill him without it, but it's really difficult and requires the best of the best. The Binding Blade is similar to where as long as you don't get the bad ending, you get a few chapters to use it, and it's incredibly powerful. It's one of the only times you'll ever see Roy actually being your boy, which really shows how legendary this weapon really is. A ton of manaketes are present in the penultimate chapter of the good ending, and the Binding Blade sweeps. It's really stupid that the thing only has 20 uses though. Come on. Even story wise, it plays a major role in being combined with the other weapons to reveal the truth about yada yada good ending stuff and is of course encouraged to be used to not kill off dragon girl that is now way too popular in Heroes and I fear will impact how she is used in an FE6 remake. Of course, I kill her anyways. Bartre gaming and all that, but the point still stands. Those games deserve to have the legendary weapon be what the title tells the player about. Then FE7 happens. How long do you use the weapon for? One chapter. Just endgame. How strong is it? Arguably worse than a brave sword. Who's it effective against? One enemy. How much hope does it give you for slaying what lies at the end? Eliwood doesn't know. The final boss just showed up unexpectedly. Really, the only thing it accomplished was: There have been multiple runs where me or people I know straight up never use the darn thing! Why even bother!? And if I've learned anything about FE7 players, it's that nobody plays Eliwood mode after their first run. In other words, the Durandel doesn't even matter in your eyes! You still get the thing, but based off the lord you've been following, you're more excited about Armads, but the game isn't called Fire Emblem: Fire Dragon and Axe of Lightning, is it!? Why would you name the game after one protag legendary weapon in the game where there's more than one!? I don't get it! That seems so obvious! It's like if FE16 was named after only one route instead of "3 Houses" to signify....4 routes. Man IS sucks with titles. Given how the game's main thing that has it stand out both on a gameplay perspective and narratively speaking is the fact that there are essentially 3 protagonists, why not name the game after something that tells you of that, and while we're on this subject, why not make Eliwood use lances like he does in FE6 to fully utilize the weapon triangle!?!? Making him a carbon copy of Roy isn't clever. It's lazy! He could've been the first Ephraim lance lord. Were they THAT set on making the weapon the title of the game that they didn't do it because FE Maltet sounds dumb? Heck, most people who haven't played 6 will see the title and assume that the Durandel shoots out fire, and then gets disappointed when it doesn't. I sure was disappointed when I first played this game a decade ago! I don't even remember what the fire chapter looks like anymore, because we all just do Hector now, and even that's the one in Engage. Hector and Lyn are chosen over Eliwood, the guy who's supposedly the only one whose weapon is worthy of the title. The significance of the Durandel falls flat even from a pure story perspective. It's not like you're tearing manaketes left and right to get to Nergal, and Nergal doesn't take dragon effective damage, so you going out of your way to obtain the Durandel would've been the same as taking a gaiden map detour to get a brave axe for Hector. There's no family generation thing like with the falchion, nor is it one of the most powerful weapons of the regalia of Elibe with its own story of sealing to stand out from the rest. It's just a demotion, and you're only getting that and the Armads because "there is no time!". Squadala! We are off! It could've been any weapon really. You just want something strong. Too bad Eliwood was just another swordie. I suppose there was the fear of "what if he opens the gate before we make it!?", but I thought in basically every scenario that wasn't coincidentally where it barely opens right when they arrive and can be closed with the help of terrible plot device removing most of the few dragons that slip out because apparently the weapons made to kill dragons can't kill dragons would've ended in certain doom. Admittedly, it's been too long since I've played FE7 so I'm not 100% certain how the game convinces you that you NEED the Durandel in particular, if at all. Perhaps I'm missing critical information about the Durandel actually being the keyblade from Kingdom Hearts and it was used to seal away the Door to Dragons, but from what info I'm willing to gather online, Athos really just got faceless boy to destroy the seal because 22 might lmao. And now we talk about fighting the "final boss". Let's be real. We all just Athos luna it nowadays. The "Blazing Blade" is not the weapon you use. It's just one of them. The Armads can be used. The Sol Katti can arguably be used. Athos can be used. With my history of bad Eliwoods, it's actually rare for me to use the Durandel on the final boss. It feels unnecessary, but nope, it's still the title of the game. When I think of games where I don't even bother to use the legendary weapon, I think of FE11, which is funny, because that's the remake that omitted the "blade of light" part! It's like they knew no one would trade off the starsphere for it, so they just didn't bother! I don't even know if that was the intentional reason, but that just makes this post all the funnier. Freaking Path of Radiance would be a more fitting title to use the weapon as the name of the game! It'd probably be called The Twin Blades or something. Just copy the boxart of MGS Twin Snakes while you're at it. Maybe you could be simple and just call it "FE Dragon's Gate" or "FE Quintessence" (as much as I hate the premise of it) or "FE Druid of Alzheimer's" or even "FE Trust Nobody" because I sure can't trust the people who made this game to make competent choices making their game! Most of these titles kinda suck, I know, but honestly I mostly just say this just so I'm not told "well if you can't think of anything, then it's clearly the right name" because I hate that argument. But it's also because I really think just about anything is better than "Blazing Weapon". That and in order for there to be any kind of possible ongoing thread discussion here, I need to follow this up with "What do you guys think the game should've been called?". The only thing more sad than "Blazing Blade" is well, nothing. OH WAIT... At least try to give the game a name in English! It's not like FE1 was just called "Fire Emblem" and nothing else! It's not an obligation to just call something by the base title to signify that it's the first of the series to a specific part of the world. You're just creating confusion to future mentions of the game! Now we just have this game here on Serenes called "Fire Emblem" as the 7th Fire Emblem. Yeah, by the time you're stuck in this hell, you probably know now and just accept it, but I sure as heck was super confused getting into FE when it came to Elibe. I was sometimes even getting FE6 and FE7 confused together (Is 7 blazing or binding? 6 does have the fire sword after all. Why even make the games sound similar when this doesn't apply to any other FE game sequel/midquel/prequel nonsense?), but I still preferred calling FE7 that over just FE. That would've made more sense as a title for FE11, just so people knew their basic shipping-less game was based off the first game (not saying I want that to be the title). It's not like the fire emblem is THAT integral to the plot. Yes, I know the whole Bern plot, and you can argue that without getting the fire emblem, you would've been boned, but it sure isn't big enough a role that it should be all the title is. You're not carrying it all game like Marth or held onto by Guinevere in FE6. It's just....dude I am just yapping at this point, but I can't help but feel the need to become Dr Ranty Bones when I think about how this game made a crappy title for itself TWICE! Tl;dr: They named their game "Blazing Blade" just to have the duology be Blade games, and it's f**king stupid. And the worst part is that this game is unironically a better choice for the title of "3 Hopes" than 3 Hopes.
  2. So basically, thanks to the pandemic, the job opportunities for a university student were really scarce, but my friend managed to get his father to hire me for administration at his firm. I got placed into one of the places where they put together the devices the company sells. Now, I don't get a lot of money for this job, but it's still more than nothing, and almost the same as what the people earn who I work with - who are not only working here in the summer. The difference is, they are like 20 years older than me, and, well, aren't the brightest ones out there. This is only my second week, but I start to wish I was deaf (we are allowed to use only one "ear" of headphones, to hear if they are calling for us) because of the constant stupidity I hear here. They talk about everything, including politics, law, economics - all the while they pretend they actually know what they are talking about, and while I'm not someone who has much knowledge in law, I'm studying economics, and I actively take part in political stuff, so I know that they are factually wrong in like 90% of what they talk about, which I wouldn't mind if they could stop being such racists and "know-alls". I don't know, I just wanted to get my thoughts out here, because I won't go against all my coworkers, as I still have 5 weeks of working left here, but I start to already have enough. What's your go-to tactic to ignore stuff around you if you can't just listen to music to not even hear them?
  3. So I don't know if this is even possible, but I'm fairly certain it's not, thus why the title is the way it is. I have a player in my Plaza on Revelations, his name is Brandon, a lv. 45 Lodestar, with Evenhanded, Odd Shaped, Even Better, Better Odds, and Grisly Wound. At first , I fell for it, and spent good time being friends with Kaden(cause I personally like the Kitsune and Nine-Tails better than the Wolfskin and the Wolfskin with unicorn horns) to see if I could have a Nine-Tails Avatar even though I know those classes, like Nohr Prince/ess, is unplayable to other characters. Low and behold, when Kaden and my avatar are at the A-bond, I used a Friendship Seal on my avatar, and saw Kaden's secondary class option,s but not Nine-Tails!!! This guy is a hacker, and probably has done this with all his other units(most of which are other players' recruited avatars and/or bond units), and I recommend you do not do this!! Sure, it's fun to have exotic skills, but it's not okay to have those skills through hacking. Now, since I found a hacker, even though I'm pissed off at him for doing what he did, I'm also excited, because he made HIS avatar have those skills. Therefore, you just have to beat him in a Castle Battle to gain those skills by first buying one of those skills off him. The problem is, as mentioned before, his other units are also Avatar characters from other players, each with overwhelming skill sets, and if you battle in his castle, he has his avatar holding the throne down with a Swordmaster recruited avatar supporting him(all the recruits are also at least over lv. 40, to give you a picture of the difficulty level). As my characters are right now, I cannot beat this asshole outright, but I do have an idea to still win. As most of you know, if you battle in another player's castle, it's far easier to win due to the Seize win condition coupled with the Rout win condition. Therefore, all you need to do is get the asshole's personal avatar off the throne and have another unit(preferably a flyer for mobility reasons) get to the throne and end the battle. Now, as you've already guessed, this guy has already tried thinking of that, and has a Swordmaster recruit avatar supporting him, giving his already high speed an even better boost, as well as weilding Omega Yato, in total giving him a +10 to his Spd, making almost anything impossible to hit him. This has one problem: staves. Staves(and rods) give you the best chances of non-direct win conditions thanks to their versatility in the field. Hexing Rod, Enfeeble, Entrap, and Freeze to mention a few(unless I just mentioned all of the offensive staves/rods...oops) are the best weapons to combat hackers. These weapons might have a hard time affecting their targets, but once they do, everything goes more in your favor(as long as you have the suitable wielders to use them). Now, the best staves/rods for this particular situation need to be filtered out. Hexing Rod: halves the total Life of the target. Decent, but unless your units have the best accuracy possible, they will have a very difficult time dealing with this asshole. Afterall, the Life total doesn't matter if your opponent can't be hit. Enfeeble: lowers all the target's stats by 4 Out of all of the staves, this is the most important, probably only seconded by Freeze. It lowers the asshole's stats, making it easier to target him with other staves/rods. Freeze: Reduces target's Mov to 0 and lowers their Avo by 20. Another good option, but only for the Avo -20. The asshole is immobile already by holding the point, so the main affect of Freeze is not that effective. However, it does also make him more susceptible to other staff/rod effects. Entrap: Warps a target in range to a square adjacent to the wielder. THIS is what you want to use as the last staff to end the fight. Get the asshole off his Throne and then swoop in and steal the win. After all of this, all these are good options, except maybe Hexing Rod, since you don't really want to win through combat. Start out with either Enfeeble or Freeze, or both if you're feeling it!! Then, Entrap him off the Throne, and take the win!! After that, you get to take one of his hacked skills. I know you might all wonder how or why a rant turned into a battle plan to beat this hacker, and the answer is simple: hackers don;t know crap when it comes to strategy. They only know "Hey, if I have the best skills on my characters, I can never lose!!!" They think that skills alone are what make them better than everyone else, but they only do this because they can't deal with the hand they were given by the developers of the game, which already give us almost complete free reign over our character development. All these hackers are are just sissy brats that can't take the fact that the game makers made the game the way they did for a reason, to give the players the most fun possible. If they want to try and make themselves feel better by breaking the game balance out of spite and anger, they don't need to be a part of this community and try living in the real world. Those of us that enjoy the game the way it is, and play within the well-written rules, we are the better players because we need to find solutions to these "unbeatable" My Castle teams, and that is the best that can come of hackers. They make us better and they never get out of the hole of depression and hate for us for beating them even when they broke the rules. Anyone that feels horrible because they can't beat hackers, PLEASE READ THIS, AND REALIZE YOU'RE NOT ALONE! We support all of you and will not take the bullshit these low-lifes throw at us, because we are better, we are smarter, we are true gamers and humans!! Hackers can't get it out of their heads that this is just a game, not life, and if they use this game only to make themselves feel like unbeatable gods by having characters near-impossible to directly beat, then they are the weakest people alive and deserve to leave this existence, because they are just wasting space that can be filled and replaced with better people. Sorry for my long rant/strategy/rally whatever this ended up being, but I feel it needed to be said. Keep playing the game, those of you who enjoy the game. And hackers, THANKS FOR THE SKILLS!!!!!
  4. Fuck that punk ass bitch with the lame ass pony tail. I have been trying to get through this motherfucking chapter 5 mother fucking times now and that son of whore can eat a DICK! Choke on the bitch for all I care. Hating ass bitch mad I keep trying to kidnap rally man not once, not twice, but 4 motherfucking times now due to his cheating lunging ass units. He don't even know what the fuck to do with rally man except be a bitch. And for what? I'm trying to save the world and shit and this motherfucker wants to sit on his wall and be a hater. "oh look at me, I'm fucking takumi and I'm mad because you killed my mom." fuck you takumi, that wasn't even your mother, that was corrin's mom motherfucker. Didn't even like her and he sure as hell didn't like corrin but now he want to be humpty dumpty with a mother fucking attitude. Once I get past his cheating ass army, Imma make him like the real humpty and knock his ass off so he can splatter his hating ass all over the wall. Fuck that piece of shit. and you know what? fuck his bitch oboro too, that bitch needs to get off my nuts with all that nohrian hate bullshit. making me solo with corrin wasting precious already limited experience. Also, this slow ass hinata. Don't think I forgot your stupid ass. sitting there trying to turtle me using rallies and shit. you lucky I want to steal your rally boyz otherwise I would just leave your ass there. Fuck Intelligent Systems too, misleading with false advertising and not letting me start a real conquest because I want to burn hoshido to the motherfucking ground just to send takumi a message! Sorry for the rant and swear words but I am so fucking mad right now. phew. Ok I feel better. time to get back and DO THIS!
  5. I just wanted to share this with you guys. But I am gonna rant in here so leave now if you don't like that. I was waiting in chapter 15 of revelation for Nyx to appear, I stood in place and didn't move. Then I wanted to moved again after I recruited Nyx, but I could only move 2 spaces instead of 6, I tapped on the movement button which indeed said I have 2 movement. I Clicked on it and it said -4 Move More Now this is a bullcrap thing they pulled! Was this in earlier fire emblem games? And exactly WHY did they implement this?
  6. Note: This thread was originally called "Characters I Like That Most Other People Don't (please tell me why)." but its current name is "Your Favorite Unpopular Units", because I want to make this thread a place where other people can tell the world which unpopular characters they like and why, as well as receive the opinions of their fellow users. My original post can be found below. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RANT TIME! (Please don't hate me for this. It's just my opinion, and I want to know your thoughts.) So I was looking at some of the current results for a Fire Emblem Fates popularity poll here on Serenes Forest (Check it out here: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=64072)and I felt as though there were many characters who were being horribly misrepresented. Why is it that almost every single one of the characters that had a higher "dislike" score than "like" score are characters that I actually like? Here are some examples. If at all possible, if there is a character on here that you don't like, please tell me why. I would really appreciate the input. - Hayato I find Hayoto's over-confidence endearing. His characterization does well to remind me of one of my personal favorite units, since I really liked Ricken back in Awakening. - Yukimura My favorite of the CorrinSexuals, aside from Izana. He works really hard to protect Hoshido and I think people need to give him a little more credit. - Nyx I gave her the Excaliber tome at the end of my Conquest play-through and she destroyed EVERYTHING. I also really like her character design and I S-supported her on a whim. No regrets. - Asugi I didn't like Gaius back in Awakening, because he was worthless in a fight if you didn't put in the time to train him up or reclass him. Asugi is different. The superiority of the Ninja class and his ability to inherit skills allows him to be a powerful force on the battlefield. - Hisame The big one. The one that I just cannot comprehend. There are so many reasons to like him. He's great in battle with his high defense inheritance, he has good supports with many of the other units, he has good voice-acting, he is the ONLY character Shigure can gain a class from in an A+ support, and his quotes are HILARIOUS. In case you didn't know, his pickle obsession wasn't something that was added onto his characterization in the localization. The Japanese version had plenty of it: http://pastebin.com/a9FZt8aD I just don't get it. Show Hisame some love, people. And while I'm not overly fond of Rhajat, I definitely like her WAY more than I liked Tharja. I DESPISED Tharja, but Rhajat isn't as bad, imo. The lesbian S-support really helps her case, too. Most people don't agree at all, and I have no idea why. If Niles is so loved, then why can't Rhajat just be given a little bit of that credit? I'm just saying. And also, why is Male Corrin always ranked lower than Female Corrin? They are literally THE EXACT SAME CHARACTER. They have NO DIFFERENCES WHATSOEVER. Please explain. Seriously. (And thank you for taking the time to read this.)
  7. So, my birthday was during the past week. Some of my family came to visit me, as I live in Canada while they live in the United States. They know how much I love Nintendo so they decided to buy me an EShop gift card to buy whatever I wanted. I was so excited, as since Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation came out, I was going to use the card to buy that path. Now my family visited, gave me the EShop card. It was worth $35, so just enough to buy the game. I enter the code. I get the message "The card you are using cannot be used with the current region settings". Well, this is a setback. I go to the system settings and change my region. Ok. Problem solved. I go to buy the path. "Your system region settings do not match up with your NNID's settings". Ok. No problem. I'll just go change the region for my NNID. Oh wait. I CAN'T. Now the money is probably going to waste. I guess I'll give it to some friends I know in the states. *Sigh*, this sucks. Sorry, I just needed to vent. Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
  8. My brother got Skylanders Trap Team for Christmas and is excited about it. He needed the light and dark traps though so I took a look at how much they're going for. Looking around and the lowest price I can seem to find them for is $40. The regular retail price of the trap figures is $6. I made jokes about "scalplanders" before but... ;>__>
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