Aegis Gray

So how unnecessarily overkill would it be if Linde was +Speed, had Darting Blow, and could have Dire Thunder? Sadly she can't, but watching the carnage that would follow would be amazing to watch.

I'll just quickly get my two cents out of the way and may or may not disappear for a while. Haven't been on this forum in years haha. Anyways, this may or may not have been said before, but as there's a lot of pages and reading...I'll apologize in advance if it's redundant. So there's already a crossover game that features the Shadow Dragon and Awakening casts, minus Fates. I can understand the frustration that they're limiting the characters in this one to the same two games plus Fates this time. Thinking it over, yeah I'm a bit disappointed about that too, as I was looking forward to destroying swarms of enemies with light magic as Lucius which I'll still find ironic no matter how long light magic has been a thing xD or seeing what shenanigans we could pull off as the Laguz. And Lloyd, if that wasn't obvious. Is it disappointing? A bit, yeah. Did it kill hype? Some of it, but not a whole lot when I think about how there were still awesome characters in Archanea's and Fates' casts. Plus with DLC being possible it makes it a bit better, so here's hoping! Anyway, that aside...kind of interested to see how many original characters they put in, since I think there are around three or four now right?

Come to think of it, some of them remind me a lot of the style Sacred Stones and Rekka no Ken had for the character art...and I like it a lot. Thanks so much for translating this by the way. :D

I'm guessing amiibo units don't count? That Ike though. Male: Kaze, Ryoma, Shinonome, Hinata, Nishiki, Zero(I think I remember why I almost joined Hoshido now XD) Female: Velour, Azura, Yuugiri, Flora

Yeah, that would make a lot of sense. It definitely would be a struggle to write a story with...however many characters there are(I can't name it off the top of my head XD). But definitely, that does make more sense. I don't really mind that they added stuff from Awakening, since I loved that game to death, so the children don't bother me at all. But yeah, I agree about the over hyping too, but I guess it's what happens when they have a come back from Awakening. I'm looking forward to the game regardless. Damn time chamber confusion XD That's a good point, I assumed he wrote more than just the draft, but then again, it does make more sense when you put it that way.

So I haven't played Fates myself yet, but I've seen it everywhere that the story is very...lacking, especially on the Nohr side. I'm probably not going to notice how it's bad when the English version comes out(except for a few things I've seen about it), but it seems strange to me that IS wanted Fates's story to turn out better than Awakening's, but the opposite happened. Now I don't really know too much about how a story is made for a game, but I recall Kibayashi(forgive me if I spelled it wrong) making 300+ page drafts for Fates, but then it got heavily edited or something along those lines? Again, I don't really know what goes into story making, but...they were really excited to have Kibayashi write the story, they wanted to have a good story for Fates, but then it turns out very differently. So...does anyone understand(or at least guess) why they might've changed what Kibayashi wrote for them?

Anybody else hear Heather Hogan for Elise? She popped in my head the moment she said her line in the trailer. She's voiced Colette from Tales of Symphonia and Yonah from Nier if anyone's curious.

This is awful...I really can't believe this at all. He's just...gone. But...what he did and who he was isn't, and he'll always be remembered. Rest in peace, Mr. Iwata.

There SHOULD be two more for the males. I think there's one from the My Castle video, with a red haired avatar near the end of the video when they're talking about the My Castle fights. As for the second one...well, no idea, but I think it was said there was 12 hair options for both.

....Holy sh*t on a shingle, the amount of hype is amazing. I jumped from page 16 to all the way over here...2016 really can't come soon enough. On another note, thanks to all the people finding all these images...it's helping me hold on to sanity. XD

So...Anna's been in almost every game except Gaiden, being mostly in the tutorials, appearing as a resident in Rekka no Ken and then playable in Awakening. You think she'll go back to her job doing tutorials, be playable again, or maybe appear in some other form?

Somehow I get the feeling Takumi might kill one or two of the Nohr siblings...I can just see it happening. Right after a battle with one of the siblings, Kamui's trying to get them to reconsider or maybe even letting them escape from the fight or something around those lines, and then BAM, Takumi fires an arrow at them. It's just a feeling that's been there since finding out his personality.

Thank you for all the work and translations you do for the site! It's really appreciated.

Thank you so much for your translations ShadowofChaos!

Oh dang, forgot about that, thanks for pointing that out.

I might be a bit off on this, but does it seem like each sibling can only control a certain element with the Dragon's Vein? We haven't seen much, but the few times I've seen Kamui use it, it controls rocks or some solid form of earth, and with Camilla there's a fire ball that dries the river, so fire(?) Then there's Leon with the trees if that is the Vein, so possibly plant life...does that count? And I'm speculating Hinoka could be wind because of her flying spear twirling...thing. Hinokopter? Then again I might've missed something about how each sibling controls it or how it works in general besides the terraforming.

We really appreciate the work you do, thank you and take your time with the translation! :D On another note, in that commercial with the Aqua and Kamui scene, I feel like she either royally f**ked up and pissed them off somehow, or that Kamui somehow lost control of their dragon transformation. Dunno if that last bit is possible though.

Well... If they put in homosexual relationships in If, of course I'd be fine with it. Just as long as they don't make it stereotypical or how they usually portray it in other media. Because believe it or not, we're not all like that. It feels more...personal I guess for lack of a better word, to not have to play as a girl to romantically support a guy, and vice versa. But I do understand the other side's feelings about it, whether it makes them uncomfortable, their beliefs, etc. That's their opinion, and it's just as important as anyone else's. But it's important to have diversity as well, and most likely the supports will be optional, so it's something that can be avoided if it's not someone's cup of tea.

It was said that Kamui and Aqua were kidnapped at around the same time right? And since it seems likely that Aqua is not part of the current royal family of Nohr(a theory, but kinda makes sense...right? There's another thread about it.) So I wonder...if Mikoto is more suspicious than she seems, and if Aqua might've actually been the next heir of Nohr, (if she isn't part of the current royal family) and if Garon was after the throne...could it be possible Mikoto and Garon worked out some sort of plan for the both of them to get the throne of their country? Then again the whole 'at war' shtick might throw a wrench in there, and I don't even know how they would meet or discuss this type of plan, but who knows.

I was VERY surprised when I found out about this. I never imagined Fire Emblem doing this...ever. But I like it. I feel like this is a good chance for the units that usually don't get much screen time other than recruitment aka every unit who legitimately dies when they're killed to get some nice character development. Sure, we see that in supports, and I love those to death, but this seems to expand even more on that, or at least seems like it does. Plus the customization looks fun too. Sure the face rubbing is a bit...different and almost made me die from laughing, but I just see this as a way for every unit to get a 3d model like the cutscenes in Awakening, which for some reason makes me happy to see. Overall, I think it's a nice addition, and adds even more to the game.

I never really thought about that outcome...but it seems pretty likely. From what we can tell Garon's very ambitious, as are a lot of FE villains having Kamui's father killed and kidnapping them for some sort of plan he's had for quite some time. So I can see him eliminating any obstacles to his claiming of the throne.

It actually took a lot of thinking to choose. XD But either way it's the 'kill your family route', which just sucks either way. yay third route! I just kinda figured that since they raised Kamui, and are very close to him/her, dunno about Leon, but I'll just assume deep down he's all fluff and stuff about them too it's just a huge set up for me feeling terrible about betraying them.

Hmm...I'm going to play all three stories regardless, but Nohr for me. I couldn't turn on the people who raised me, plus the family(minus Garon for obvious reasons) genuinely cares about Kamui, at least from what we've seen so far. It would be kinda hard to just turn on them just like that.

All is well sir. I can't blame you for your instincts because of a certain...someone that may or may not destroy the world. In any case, glad to meet you!

Gyaaah! Keep that pointy sword away good sir!