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I'd feel really awkward talking to myself, personally. I mean, I'd be okay with it existing if it were what was always there, but I'd be a bit annoyed to have something perfectly reasonable taken out and replaced with that.

Are you volunteering? Because I'll rub your face if you want. :P Like I said before, I have largely stopped caring. It will be what it will be. I just like running my mouth on internet forums about inconsequential crap, apparently.

Doesn't really matter, no, since as you say it's too late to do anything about it either way. It'd just be nice to know for sure one way or the other.

"It feels so good Patrick. Pet me again." Anywhos, I think I'm in the acceptance phase. I find myself not terribly caring whether it's in or not anymore. Either it's in and I get to enjoy Fates as intended, or it's not in and I get to enjoy some other game as it was intended.

They probably shouldn't audition for a comedy if they know they can't act in one though, nor would they get hired for it, hopefully.

I always kind of assumed that Mercer's issue with Chrom's confession line was more to do with how God-damned cheesy it was than anything else anyway.

Honestly, if it makes someone uncomfortable to record lines that are slightly suggestive (it's not like we're talking about hardcore porn here), then I can't help but feel that they might be in the wrong line of work.

Honestly, not really. If it weren't for the potential removal of it, the vast, vast majority of people over here wouldn't give two shits about it either.

Nobody said that "Japan hates the skinshipping". What was said, was that a small minority are arguing over it while most people didn't care and just played the game, many of them happy to use it. AKA, what would happen here if it was left in, despite what the people who hate the skinshipping want to think.

You couldn't touch anything below the shoulders anyway, what body parts would they even make off-limits to make it any different from the original version?

Which is precisely why I won't be getting it if skinship is indeed removed. I have plenty of things to spend my money on, why would I choose to spend it on a product that has had features removed for reasons I don't agree with?

"What possible purpose would it serve?" lol That actually makes me believe it even less, not that I thought it was likely in the first place.

If anyone was wondering why people are only now coming out of the woodwork to defend the skinshipping, this, this is why. Nobody wanted to be accused of all these utterly baseless things just to defend a harmless game feature that, at the time, didn't seem to be going anywhere.

Let's say there are two games I want, both cost £30, but that's all I have. At first, it seems like game A might be slightly better than game B so I'm thinking I'll pick up that one. Later on, it transpires that one or more features have been cut from game A, and while individually they aren't major, game B still has all it's features intact and now looks like the more appealing option. I'm going to buy game B now, yes? Also, as I said before, I don't really want to support business decisions I don't agree with, which in this case is removing perfectly reasonable content because some people have decided that because they don't like something, nobody can have it, even though it was always 100% optional.

Most people who liked the skin shipping simply kept quiet about it, since people were so quick to accuse them of being "waifu groping weaboo perverts/pedophiles" the moment they expressed the slightest interest in the mechanic. Until there was a chance that Nintendo had caved and was taking it out, there was no particular reason to try and defend it since it was assumed that it would stay.

Ok, well if that's true then I'm definitely not buying the game.

If it has been removed then I will be very disappointed. Not because I had some bizarre urge to spend £30 just to poke a cartoon character in the face, but because it's very sad that Nintendo would be so happy to remove a perfectly harmless gameplay feature in a futile attempt to appease a vocal minority that probably wouldn't ever be pleased no matter what anyway. I might not buy the game at all since I really don't want to support that kind of thing, and it's not like there aren't a million other things I can spend my £30 on anyway. Naturally I'll be waiting for an actual confirmation either way though.

It comes from a pre-release Famitsu, one of her pictures was captioned 'staff~ staff~'. People thought it was funny so it stuck.

She gets outlaw apparently. Flannel gets nothing.

I'll lose Syalla in Hoshido and IK, because I can't stand Tsukuyomi and missing out on stalker 2.0 is hardly a loss. I'll lose Deere in Nohr even though I have no problems with him, but I don't hate any of the women in the game enough to pair them with Jakob without a good reason. That only applies in runs where I want to marry one of the non-kamuisexual first gen girls though, I'll marry different characters in each play through.

I don't think that's a safe assumption at all. It's human nature to complain, people are much less likely to go out of their way to praise something they like than they are to complain about something they don't. When you factor in the fact that there are people in this thread trying to paint anyone who does like this feature as a creepy fetishizing otaku, it's not surprising that people who like it are going to keep their mouths shut.

Thor already answered that so I won't go through it again. This is true, I'd forgotten about that. Whether it's worth it or not will depend on your particular build, of course. Hmm, it's certainly something she can do, but I'm not sure it's worth using a skill slot or two for rallies. She's one of the best actual fighters in the game, so it seems like a bit of a waste to skip combat, even once, to buff other units. Lazward would make a much better rally unit since it (apparently) works with his personal skill. Use the two of them together and we have good things happening. Lazward is actually one of my favourite potential husbands for her from a characterization viewpoint since their support is hilarious, and Soleil would definitely benefit from having Charlotte as her mother. However, Charlotte can get sol on her own so she'd really only be getting stubbornness, she'd get bow knight as well, but frankly bow knight isn't great and doesn't give her any particularly useful skills. Sol is a good skill that I forgot to mention in my last post though, and it could synergize well with counter. No arguments here. :P

Berserker, always and forever. While she can do well in other classes, her mods and growths just scream berserker, and she makes the best one out of the first gen characters. 43 str, 32 skl and 35 spd, with a natural +20 crit (another +20 and +4 damage if her enemy is female), she's probably the hardest hitting first gen character in the game. Others can match her strength, and more can outspeed her, but nobody can beat her in both. In the third route she can pick up the oni class tree from Rinkah, giving her ogre strike for even more crit and counter to pile on the damage, and while risky, she's probably one of the better suicide counter units thanks to berserker's high HP and her low defensive stats maximising the amount of damage she'll take in that one hit while still leaving her likely to survive to activate counter. Probably not worth it in game but potentially nasty in pvp. For non-IK playthroughs, Pieri would be good to get her cavalier, although Berka's wyvern rider could be interesting. Deadly breath is always fairly nice, and overbearing might be useful, depends on how many mounted units you find yourself fighting. Thanks to her mods she's very much in demand as a mother character for optimizing the kids, so really she's likely to only have a few options for her spouse class. Probably either outlaw from Flannel for that +7 str Velour, or cavalier from Xander to make Siegbert pretty good. She'd make a decent mother for Deere as well, but since she already has rod knight I don't think she'd gain a class from Jakob, so it doesn't matter for this thread. Cavalier would give her luna as a decent proc, and aegis for defence. The only decent skill from outlaw would be lucky seven I guess. If you're not as worried about how good the kids are and just want to make Charlotte herself really good, then marrying her to Nishiki could be good idea to get breaking sky and flamboyant. Benoit would give her luna as a proc, in addition to pavise for defence. Speaking of, while she's definitely best as a berserker, she could do pretty well as a general or a great knight as well. She won't be as tough as other generals and her speed mod will go to waste, but 41 str combined with 38/28 defences is nothing to complain about. Great knight has lower stats than general for the most part, but they're still good and she'd have high movement and the ability to manipulate the weapon triangle to her advantage. Other characters could do those classes better, and I definitely think she'd be best as a berserker, but if for some reason you don't want her to be one then those two classes are perfectly viable. She could also make a very well balanced hero as well, although again other characters might be better. 35 str/skl and 34 spd is pretty good though. Unfortunately her natural reclass option, rod knight, doesn't do much for her. It might be worth going through strategist for battle command though, since she'll likely be in the thick of the action. Edit- Wow that's a lot of words to say 'make her a berserker'.

Wouldn't be the first time amazon messed up so, while the notice is odd if it's a mistake, I'm going to wait for confirmation. I do hope it's true though, even if we don't get a discount as the article implies I just much prefer physical copies over digital ones.

Between this and everything about Pieri it's honestly starting to feel like the support writers really don't get that a desire to go around killing random people is actually a really bad thing and not some harmless personality quirk.