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  1. Yeah, Marx was demonized a lot in the 50s, mostly because communists used his ideas.

    But just like Charles Darwin never actually supported the Theory of Evolution (the idea that men evolved from monkeys), just the theory that animals develop new traits through natural selection, people often incorrectly associate Marx with the Soveit Union.

  2. So it was hostage exchange.

    Well, it was normal for Eastern countries to send children as hostages for... confirmation (We won't attack you, if we'll do something bad, you can kill my son)

    Or to show good will (we trust you, so there is my son for some educational purpose)

    ...Kinda doubt that was 2nd option

    Not just eastern countries, it was pretty common in the west and middle east too. Royalty were special and holding one hostage was a good way to ensure a treaty would be upheld.

    Yeah, the trailer makes the 2nd option seem unlikely, I mean, Garon pretty much stormed in and took Kamui.

    It would be absolutely hilarious if it actually was the second option. Garon just has that evil look about him.

  3. That's an interesting theory, but she doesn't really resemble anyone in the royal family, but then again neither does Kamui.

    Yeah. I'm really hoping this is true for two reasons:

    1. It would make Hoshido and Nohr nations of more equal strength instead of the usual, cliched "empire of overwhelming might vs. small rebel alliance"

    2. It would make the political situation more ethically complicated, as there wouldn't be a clear good and evil. Both sides would have wronged each other.

  4. Hmm, I read some info on another site about the Famitsu leak, which isn't from the available scans.

    Apparently Aqua is in the reverse situation as the Avatar; she's the princess of Nohr taken prisoner by Hoshido.

    To clarify, this hasn't been confirmed yet.

    Does it make any sense though? It sounds like an interesting prospect anyway, for multiple reasons. One, Hoshido isn't always doing nice stuff and two, Aqua probably has dragon blood if the Famitsu blurb is accurate.

    Whoa, wait, Aqua is the princess of Nohr? Taken prisoner by Hoshido? That's an awesome complication of the story!!!!

    So much for the "peace-loving" Hoshido. They're not above taking hostages either, eh?

  5. There definitely will be some. There always is the one token name change.

    In awakening there were some that I liked better and some that I didn't like as much, but that's how it always is with translations.

    Seriously, though, who in NOA looked at Panne and said "You know what, I think her name, which means 'soft fur' makes too much sense. Let's change it to a word that means 'bread.'"

  6. From what I understand of the general FE story, the earth dragons aren't inherently evil, nor are the other dragons inherently good. The earth dragons refused to accept the fact that they were fated to die, and fought against the humans. All of the earth dragons except Medeus refused to use the dragon stones to seal their powers away (which is why they're so much more powerful than other dragons) and so they were driven insane. Medeus wanted revenge against the humans for his people's suffering, so he became the "bad guy" of the games.

    This is true in all game series except for the Tellius series. In the Elibe series, the same back story is retold.

    Loptyr, on the other hand, was evil from the beginning, and found an alternative to using the dragon stones by forming a blood pact, and gaining semi-immortality.

    It is heavily implied in awakening that Grima, therefore, performed a similar ritual to Loptyr, but much to everyone's disappointment, the story doesn't explain why Grima was willing to form a pact with humans, who the original pactmakers were, how he became a dark dragon, what dragon he was before he became a dark dragon (I think divine, just because of his wings). I mean, did he try to take over the continent before he made the pact? After he made the pact? This is the interesting stuff, Intelligence!

    Edit: Btw, there are evil divine dragons. Idounn being the most obvious example, and I think grima was originally divine too.

    I would love to see Kamui be an earth dragon, I feel like Robin got cheated in awakening. We never got to see his dragonly might.

  7. Agreeing with what was said above, I think it'd be way more interesting if Garon actually cared about his children, including the avatar, and was a complex character instead of just one-dimensional evil. I was really disappointed when I saw his design. His beard is ridiculous. Why does he have a black goatee ON TOP OF A BEARD??? WHY????

  8. The battle dialogue makes up so little of the game it doesn't count, in my opinion.

    They certainly translated the entire new campaign for the first time, and they did retranslate much of the original (a lot of lines and references are more concise now), but yeah,that's a good point, they would have already had the battles and menus translated. I wonder what takes more effort to translate?

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