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With the release of Three Houses next year, I have several questions of how Heroes will handle it. First being, when will the inevitable banners come to Heroes. For me, I would say about 2 months before release. Second, with the spoiler filled nature of Heroes, I wonder if  heavy spoilers will be in the game?  For example, the main characters' legendary weapons or their fates at the end of their journey. Because Three Houses is the first entirely new Fire Emblem to come out after Heroes, SoV was a remake. Third, if all the playable characters have a formation feature, how will that be translated over to Heroes? TW units will become buffbots or rely on other units for power? What do you think?

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Personally I'm hoping they wait a month after release to put the new characters in. I can see them doing so before though in order to raise hype/awareness for the game. As for the units themselves I think speculation on that will have to wait until we see more from the game itself. We probably don't know all the new features after all and no matter how they integrate formations it could be cool :)

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They might release a banner for the three main characters a week or so before the release date so that they build up hype for all of the Heroes fans. The formations might just transfer over as unique special skills. As for spoilers, I think IS will probably avoid them, as this game has a completely new story. The games they spoiled before had already been out for a while. Black Knight does spoil some story points of PoR in his voice clips, but you’d need context to put it all together, as him saying, “To surpass General Gawain...is my ultimate goal as a swordsman” doesn’t mean anything to someone unfamiliar with PoR, but to someone who has, it would appear a spoiler.

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The four MCs all specialising in a different weapon (axes for Edelgard, lances for Dimitri, bows for Claude, swords for Byleth) just screams designed for Heroes, haha. I can very much see up to four banners featuring every lord and their party mates somewhere around the release date. All four on the same banner would be stupid.

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Given that lords are expected to have their ultimate weapon in Heroes, I think it gets spoilery enough that pre-release banners would be strange.

20 minutes ago, Vaximillian said:

The four MCs all specialising in a different weapon (axes for Edelgard, lances for Dimitri, bows for Claude, swords for Byleth) just screams designed for Heroes, haha. I can very much see up to four banners featuring every lord and their party mates somewhere around the release date. All four on the same banner would be stupid.

Those are also the four main physical weapons for other FE games, so I don't think it has to have anything to do with Heroes.

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9 minutes ago, Othin said:

Those are also the four main physical weapons for other FE games, so I don't think it has to have anything to do with Heroes.

I was saying that in jest, obviously.

The four will have their ultimate weapons, and will headline their own banners. No reason to expect any two to share a banner.

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I figure there will be a banner for each lord and two other units, so there will probably be 3 banners at least and I am sure there will be special maps as well.  We probably won't get a GHB for a while unless it is an early boss since that would be a big spoiler.

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7 minutes ago, EricaofRenais said:

I figure there will be a banner for each lord and two other units, so there will probably be 3 banners at least and I am sure there will be special maps as well.

What about Byleth? I do include him (them if actually customisable) in the quartet of MCs.

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If they release the units before the game's released (which they probably will, for marketing purposes), I'd assume they wouldn't put any major spoilers in, or at least I hope so. I don't think adding ultimate weapons would be too big of a spoiler, when compared to something like Grima.

As for the formation aspect, they could make that some kind of skill, not really sure how that would work but it seems like the most logical solution to me. I can't really see them putting in just random npc's because the map size is so small. Maybe something similar to the tactic skills they have currently. It's a bit hard to tell since we know next to nothing about that aspect in Three Houses.

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I think it's more reasonable to add characters from TH after it was released. Maybe a few weeks or months after it, so people are actually know the new characters, and they would be interested to obtain them. Also what's the rush, there's still plenty of character option that is popular and haven't been added to Heroes.

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1 hour ago, Vaximillian said:

What about Byleth? I do include him (them if actually customisable) in the quartet of MCs.

I figure one version will be on one banner, the other version on the second banner and the 3rd banner will have another plot important character with the 3rd lord.

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Yeah, I agree, it's more likely they'll add the characters to Heroes after Three Houses is released. They did the same with Echoes.

In fact, from memory, Smash is the only situation where a character has been added before appearing in their debut game (with Roy and Corrin for the Western release). Even the Cipher card game generally sticks to releasing cards months after a game is out.

It's not just to avoid spoilers, it's to allow time for fans to get used to the characters, so they will buy into the merchandise. For Heroes, I imagine people are much more likely to try and pull for a Three Houses character after they get to know them--rather than before, out of intrigue.

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My current guess is that we'll get a banner at launch with Byleth and have each of the other three in turn on their own banners. I can't really see them adding all four characters at once instead of spreading out the orb expenditure over multiple banners to give a bit more love to the non-main characters.

 

On the other hand, they've set this up perfectly to make each of the four main characters (assuming those are all main characters and they are the only ones) a Legendary Hero of a different element and stat.

The Japanese subtitle of the game is 風花雪月 (fuukasetsugetsu), "wind, flowers, snow, and moon", namely "four seasons" rather than "three houses", and I'm willing to bet that each of the main characters corresponds to one of the four characters of the subtitle, each one representing one season of the year (wind: summer, flowers: spring, snow: winter, moon: autumn). They don't split quite as nicely into elements, but you can probably make something up that works.

It would be interesting to have the standard banners come without their legendary weapons and have a Legendary Hero banner come later with their legendaries.

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I expect that they'll do something similar to what they did for Echoes. They'll introduce a banner for one of the main characters and a few of their allies at or slightly before the launch of the game, and then introduce banners for each of the other lords respectively for the next couple of banners. Celica's first banner started a few days before Echoes was released internationally, and then Alm's banner followed shortly after. Of course, this is a bigger game for the franchise than Echoes, so I expect that they'll do more, and maybe start having events and such leading up to the release of the game. I don't see them waiting until after the game is released to start introducing banners for it.

As for the legendary weapons, is it really a spoiler to include them? I mean, we already know that they'll have ultimate weapons, pretty much all it would give away is what they're called, which strikes me as a pretty trivial detail.

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2 minutes ago, Astellius said:

As for the legendary weapons, is it really a spoiler to include them?

It could depending on the story, namely if a notable weapon changes hands. (Or if a weapon has an evil twin from a parallel universe.)

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They'll probably do something like they did with Echoes - one banner at the Japanese release, and another at or just before the international release (assuming they're separate, of course). I very much doubt that the first banner will come out before the Japanese launch.

I also expect them to continue with TH much as they did with Echoes - after a month or so, they'll throw a few TT rewards and a GHB at us, plus another full banner or two, then back to regularly scheduled banner programming.

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I'm gonna guess they'll do like Echoes and we get a like 2 banners around release, or maybe one put off a little bit later. Then a TT themed after it and such. 4 banners total to cover all the lords seems excessive, and while no doubt they'll want to promote the new game in Heroes I don't think they'll go that crazy right away.

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On 6/13/2018 at 12:05 PM, VincentASM said:

In fact, from memory, Smash is the only situation where a character has been added before appearing in their debut game (with Roy and Corrin for the Western release). Even the Cipher card game generally sticks to releasing cards months after a game is out.

Well I had to check it to be sure but that's actually not true. It was a short period but Faye actually debuted in Heroes before Shadows of Valentia, since she wasn't in the original Gaiden. The first Alm banner with Faye was released on April 14th and Shadows of Valentia didn't release in Japan until April 20th.

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2 hours ago, Solaris998 said:

Well I had to check it to be sure but that's actually not true. It was a short period but Faye actually debuted in Heroes before Shadows of Valentia, since she wasn't in the original Gaiden. The first Alm banner with Faye was released on April 14th and Shadows of Valentia didn't release in Japan until April 20th.

Very true, Faye was debuted in Heroes... Ironically as a unit she can class change into (maybe to keep people from thinking you can have female archers? Idk)

Also to go off the smash stuff technically Ryoma and Xander were debuted in smash too... as trophies~ but all those characters were initially revealed long ago... Roy is much more different... as I don't know how many people were in the know in japan about Binding blade... or if Roy was the lord... that might be something interesting to look up :P

Also Corrin is different from Roy as she debuted in Fates first technically (Fates came out in japan before she was released, but came out in America/everywhere else after she was in Smash) 

I feel like they might wait until they show us the beginning prf weapons (like Rapier stuff etc.) and maybe give those kind of weapons to us... then have Legendary hero units with their "Final" weapons... that or just give the S rank weapon of their kind to the lord (for example would be Basilikos to Raven, Audhulma  to Joshua... etc) that way it only spoils the final weapons.... but yeah its obvious we will probally get them a few days or so before (or after) Japanese release as a way to hype up the game (And remind people the game came/is coming out) 

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