Sentinel07

Bravely Second- Fun game, but the final fight with Kaiser Oblivion proved to be an unbeatable wall and I stopped there. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse- Also a fun game. Couldn't beat the final boss. Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D- Got through the Zora Dungeon and then just forgot about the game.

Sheesh....such unjustified anger...

In any case, I'll wait until we know all the classes to see how I feel on the gender locked classes. I don't mind them really so long as things are somewhat balanced in the end. As far as crests go, it's curious to see what we know so far. Marianne/Edelgard's crest is one of the slightly damaged ones, and it's mostly the damaged ones remaining outside of the one we can assume is another Saint crest and one other unidentified one.

By the way, is Marianne's crest specified as minor or is it just "Crest of ???" like Byleth's was?

Hero being male-exclusive is....certainly bizarre. At least Dark Mage and Pegasus Knight had precedent so they didn't surprise me. Hero on the other hand has never been exclusive, and Mercenary is still neutral. I mean, this ain't a deal breaker and I probably won't even really care about it in the long run, but that's certainly bizarre.

Tonal dissonance is perhaps my No.1 worry.

I heard someone theorize she may be wearing ill-fitting gloves or something. Not sure if they were actually being serious but it would be funny. 😄

Assuming it doesn't get delayed like what they did with the trailer for the new special heroes in Fire Emblem Heroes.

I'm liking the entire English cast so far. Pretty much every character sounds like I imagined.

No matter how many times I watch all these videos, I never get tired of that music. I really have high hopes for this game's soundtrack.

Sounds just as good as Echoes to me.

For which characters have you heard Robbie and Erica?

Hero Relics and Advanced Classes are pretty much the 2 things I want to know the most about right now.

Byleth's crest has been confirmed as the Crest of Flames. The European special edition also revealed that this crest is hidden behind the mural.

I kind of wonder what "Raitei" will be called in the localization. I imagine it won't be literally since there is no Japanese setting to justify the term (like Raijinto and Fujin Yumi), but just calling it Thunder or Lightning seems a little simplistic.

Yeah, I would hope not, especially since magic is still restricted to certain classes so you'd really have to go out of your way to even use such spells.

Whatever number of saints there are, I just hope they have something as well. If not relics then at least something special. Edit: Also, I thought the term 10 Saints had already been established, unless that was a fan-coined term.

So I'm guessing there's at least 11 relics. Byleth has his sword that's likely locked to his Crest, and then there's those descended from the 10 Elites. I wonder if there will be any spells there. There usually are when there's a collection of divine weapons in Fire Emblem. And then of course there's the 10 Saints half....

Assuming the title screen even does the main theme this time. Both Fates and Echoes had their own music.

So I'm guessing there are legendary weapons from each of the 10 Elites. Wonder if those with Crests from the 10 Saints get anything.

I'm going to take a guess and say that the recruitable students will be ones with less of a story role in a non-chosen house. In a way, sort of like how Faye and Kliff could be recruited to Celica's side in Echoes, though I imagine it'll be better handled here. One potential example is that I can see Bernadetta not having a big story role in a route that doesn't focus on the Black Eagles so she could be recruitable. I imagine at the least, the house leaders will be un-recruitable. Their direct retainers like Hubert and Dedue probably as well. I'm guessing Hilda will fill that role for Claude.

I will say this though. If they do bring in the grinding DLC, this will probably be the first time I pass on it. More so than ever, it feels like grinding would devalue this game than previous games. The fact that you have a limited time in the school phase really puts emphasis on how you decide to spend that time, which helps with replayability. Plus, children being gone means I can actually take it easy with supports.

I'm going to think it's regen for now. With combat arts, you would barely get a few uses out of it before having to repair it.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the usual grinding DLC. One thing I do wonder though is if they'll take inspiration from other games like Breath of the Wild and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 which have done full story expansions.

Ah, right. Totally forgot about that.