Leif Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) I am loving what I am seeing so far. This looks really, REALLY good. I hope this lives up to my expectations. EDIT: Why the heck hasn't the Japanese Website updated anything? EDIT 2: On Alm's dungeon screenshot thingy, it appears that he can have a maximum up ten units on his team? That's indicative of a small cast. Ten units for Alm and Ten for Celica? I am excited! I hope they FINALLY have unit portrait changes upon promotion. I want the characters' costumes to match with their in-game portraits, for once. PLEASE. Edited February 10, 2017 by Leif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderstar Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, King Marth 64 said: That was a Bonewalker that Celica fought in the screenshot, not a Revenant, Revenants doesn't use Swords. Those Bonewalkers' portraits does have nice details and made it more scary than Awakening's and Fates's monsters. Yeah I haven't seen the sword icon. My bad. The portrait look quite nice indeed. I'm hyped to see how the ones for the Draco Zombies and Gargoyles would be. 1 hour ago, Thane said: That's very likely, given how it's called bandits'/thieves' shrine. It's in the very beginning of the game, and follows Gaiden's structure of how enemies are encountered. It looks very straightforward though, but I suppose that's only natural given it's the first dungeon in the game. Yeah I suppose some of the later dungeons would have more paths especially for Spoiler the Tower of Duma's in Alm's route. That place was like a big puzzle! I really wonder how it would look like in the remake. Edited February 10, 2017 by Thunderstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowofchaos Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) 3 hours ago, Reinfleche said: TEC is almost definitely Skill renamed. I wonder if this will stay in the future so Skill and Skills have more differentiated names. Reminder: This is a Japanese screenshot. To this day, the stat screens have always had kanji. Only exceptions being hit, dmg, and crt. 技 being for skill. Tec for Technique is appropriate "Engrish". It can still be skill in English. Edited February 10, 2017 by shadowofchaos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderstar Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 12 minutes ago, Leif said: EDIT 2: On Alm's dungeon screenshot thingy, it appears that he can have a maximum up ten units on his team? That's indicative of a small cast. Ten units for Alm and Ten for Celica? I am excited! I hope they FINALLY have unit portrait changes upon promotion. I want the characters' costumes to match with their in-game portraits, for once. PLEASE. You could only take 10 characters in the dungeons as well in Gaiden. Spoiler There were 32 characters and each army had 16 characters so yeah it was quite small but it seems that it will be bigger since it would probably have OCs like Efi. I would love this to happen as well and Spoiler it could happen since both Alm and Celica changed their portraits after they promote. I hope that it is the case for the other characters as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryhard Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) That's angel, with a 4 next to it? Angel cost 4HP to cast in Gaiden. HP costing spells confirmed? The other guess was a limited use tome, but that's definitely angel... I'm honestly surprised since I thought they would scrap that. Edited February 10, 2017 by Tryhard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altean Tactician Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 In the picture where Celica is fighting the bone walker, the angel icon seems to be a tome. I'm wondering if this means that spells function like in a traditional fire emblem style where you equip a tome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SullyMcGully Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Could TEC be SKL and MAG combined? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N30 Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 1 hour ago, SullyMcGully said: Could TEC be SKL and MAG combined? Or TECH could just be a renamed skill stat. POW was used by both Magic users and physical weapon users in Gaiden 1 hour ago, Altean Tactician said: In the picture where Celica is fighting the bone walker, the angel icon seems to be a tome. I'm wondering if this means that spells function like in a traditional fire emblem style where you equip a tome? In Gaiden, each spellcaster (and villager by extension) had a set list of skills they could learn. Maybe now you can equip tomes to temporarily have access to a certain spell (e,g, Equipping an Excalibur tome to say Mae and then she has access to that spell so long as she keeps the tome equipped) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikethepokemaster Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 To be honest I am a little salty that the Avatar unit isn't coming back unless the new unit an MU but unlikely. I understand why though it a remake. Look great though it has that retro feel to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Druid Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 The screenshots are nice! Let's hope they'll be generous and give us a few more character portraits. I'm actually weirded out by the marketing strategy. I know we still have a couple months to April, but it seems weird they haven't revealed a whole lot yet. Looks like they're following Nintendo's latest trend of revealing something just a couple months before you release it. But I mean, there's only about 10 weeks left to promote this game (in Japan at least), so you think they'd start doing a weekly reveal of like 4 characters (32 original cast members + potential new characters + significant antagonists should be around 40 characters). And I doubt they'll reveal character artwork a week before it launches, because usually a trailer comes out at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 1 hour ago, Dandy Druid said: The screenshots are nice! Let's hope they'll be generous and give us a few more character portraits. I'm actually weirded out by the marketing strategy. I know we still have a couple months to April, but it seems weird they haven't revealed a whole lot yet. Looks like they're following Nintendo's latest trend of revealing something just a couple months before you release it. But I mean, there's only about 10 weeks left to promote this game (in Japan at least), so you think they'd start doing a weekly reveal of like 4 characters (32 original cast members + potential new characters + significant antagonists should be around 40 characters). And I doubt they'll reveal character artwork a week before it launches, because usually a trailer comes out at that time. I'm pretty sure they will release some information through Famitsu in March and April. I still remember the leak craze for Fates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thane Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hooooly crap I just realized something: Celica's chance to hit with the Angel spell is 90%, as opposed to the static 80% in Gaiden. I can only hope this means Skill affects spells' chance to hit in Shadows of Valentia, because I'm not sure I can handle constantly missing six Thunders in a row in yet another game because Kliff's ridiculously high Skill stat was completely and utterly useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnaEevee Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) The screenshots are so gorgeous! Really looking forward for this remake. Edited February 10, 2017 by AnnaEevee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azz Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 2 hours ago, Thane said: Hooooly crap I just realized something: Celica's chance to hit with the Angel spell is 90%, as opposed to the static 80% in Gaiden. I can only hope this means Skill affects spells' chance to hit in Shadows of Valentia, because I'm not sure I can handle constantly missing six Thunders in a row in yet another game because Kliff's ridiculously high Skill stat was completely and utterly useless. Oh yes please be the case, cause I swear to god if Silque or Genny miss any more Nosferatus..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radetzky120 Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 If Skill affects spell accuracy then that will make this game for me. Even if they don't add playable axe users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryhard Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) To be fair, I don't think anyone who even loves Gaiden would be opposed to having better hit rates (and they'll probably do either 2RNG or Fates RNG systems too). Skill not affecting spell hit rates in the original was weird, I expected it to be changed. Wonder if magic will still be unaffected by terrain bonuses though. Edited February 10, 2017 by Tryhard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Mir Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 2 hours ago, Azz said: Oh yes please be the case, cause I swear to god if Silque or Genny miss any more Nosferatus..... Speaking of, I'd like Nosferatu's hit rate buffed. 50% is just way too low, especially if healing is still a "cast from hit points" thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolvir Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 6 hours ago, Dandy Druid said: The screenshots are nice! Let's hope they'll be generous and give us a few more character portraits. I'm actually weirded out by the marketing strategy. I know we still have a couple months to April, but it seems weird they haven't revealed a whole lot yet. Looks like they're following Nintendo's latest trend of revealing something just a couple months before you release it. But I mean, there's only about 10 weeks left to promote this game (in Japan at least), so you think they'd start doing a weekly reveal of like 4 characters (32 original cast members + potential new characters + significant antagonists should be around 40 characters). And I doubt they'll reveal character artwork a week before it launches, because usually a trailer comes out at that time. They will definitely release some more info. As someone else said they will likely release some in a Famitsu, and there will also very likely be another Direct in a month or two that will show some more info on it. Fates went through a good month or two from its announcement before info really started coming out on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saifors Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 The UI looks really clean and the screens over all look nice. Hoping mystery character X is indeed a new character just made to expand the games roster. I would not be able to handle Kris 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowofchaos Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 16 hours ago, SullyMcGully said: Could TEC be SKL and MAG combined? 15 hours ago, N30 said: Or TECH could just be a renamed skill stat. Did anyone listen to the Japanese speaker at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentASM Posted February 10, 2017 Author Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) To add to what SoC said, unless my memory sucks, I don't believe any previous Japanese Fire Emblem has written the stats in English. In fact, I am pretty sure Skill is called TEC or something similar in the internal coding for the GBA FEs. So putting that all together, it's extremely likely that TEC is simply what the Japanese know as our SKL. EDIT Yeah, it's "tech" in Binding Blade. Funnily enough, Speed is "quick". Edited February 10, 2017 by VincentASM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmicb0b Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Sees the HP Mechanic is still in place RIP MAGES IN GAIDEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmicb0b Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 it's official IS HATES MAGES WITH THE PASSION A 1,000 VALFLAMES FIRST FATES NOW THIS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDAWS_MP132 Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 I wouldn't assume that mages are screwed in SoV. Sure spells cost hp, but most units in Gaiden have large enough health pools to afford casting. Plus, many spells are simply better than any physical counterpart, apart from the legendary weapons. It's important to remember that in Gaiden, very few units have good res, so even the weak spells like fire hit hard. Thunder has 1-3 range, Excalibur has 100 base hit and 20% base crit, and Ragnarok, while rare and expensive, costing 24 hp(!) has 24 might and 100 base hit. Mages and the like where always valuable in Gaiden, and I imagine the same will occur here, regardless of health costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azz Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 10 minutes ago, Megapikman132 said: I wouldn't assume that mages are screwed in SoV. Sure spells cost hp, but most units in Gaiden have large enough health pools to afford casting. Plus, many spells are simply better than any physical counterpart, apart from the legendary weapons. It's important to remember that in Gaiden, very few units have good res, so even the weak spells like fire hit hard. Thunder has 1-3 range, Excalibur has 100 base hit and 20% base crit, and Ragnarok, while rare and expensive, costing 24 hp(!) has 24 might and 100 base hit. Mages and the like where always valuable in Gaiden, and I imagine the same will occur here, regardless of health costs. Ragnarok only costs 10 HP. If it cost 24 HP, I don't think anyone would be using it, despite how good it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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