Dark Holy Elf
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I'd love to see them back. They added an interesting dynamic in positioning your Restore Staff users (not to mention justifying staff use late in the game when healing is less and less necessary), and also provided a much-needed importance for the Res stat since its effect on status hit rate was so pronounced. (You could always make Res important by having mages make up more than like 15-20% of enemies but FE is bad at this.)
And while the PC side use of them was limited, there were definitely some times they paid off. I've definitely put annoying enemy thieves to sleep, and done terrible things like
(FE7)
make Lloyd and Linus kill each other.
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This is terrible. I really hope they don't overshadow the parents like Awakening's kids did. l feel like I'm the only one who like the first gen better. I can't believe they pulled this mess again.
You're definitely not! In fact I felt it was the opposite; the parents definitely overshadowed all the non-Lucina kids to me.
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Like others, very disappointed at time-travelling kids seemingly becoming a series staple. Oh well, if it must return at least there is room for improvement. Have fewer pairing options + better resulting parent-child support convos. Don't make literally every single S support heterosexual. etc.
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It's (gasp) almost as if some women dress in ways that show off their body despite not being obsessed with landing a sex partner or "slutty" or whatever we're calling it.
I can think of plenty of ways in which what we've learned of Camilla's personality might fit with the way she dresses (e.g. she enjoys the feeling of power she gains by having others desire her while being able to turn down anyone and everyone she wishes) but the simplest explanation is that's just how she feels like dressing, and that's the only explanation anyone else is owed.
Obviously Camilla is a fictional character and thus she "feels" whatever the writers want her to feel, so of course her "feelings" need to be taken with a grain of salt with respect to her character design. Notably, I would have a problem with a game where everyone dressed as she did, because that would have some implications about the game designers' views on the role of women which would be very problematic. But when it's only seen on a small number of characters, that's completely fair and very true to real life. And frankly I prefer revealing clothes to not be the exclusive province of villains and seductresses like Sonia, Aversa, and Charlotte, because that also has some very unfortuntate implications.
Also to be clear, I have zero problem with people disliking Camilla's design. That's completely valid! I do have a problem with people thinking that she needs to act in a certain way to justify said design.
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It's a pretty generic subtitle, much like Awakening was (although at least this one is slightly more topical? Maybe?). I'm not terribly bothered by its shortness, since there's going to be another subtitle after it (Birthright or Conquest). I'm not sure if those are the names I'd have gone for myself but they're pretty evocative so eh I'm happy enough with it.
Honestly I'm just happy it's not actually going to be called "if".
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I haven't played FE1-5 enough to comment on them. From those I have played, Ephraim or RD Ike is the best, followed by Eirika most likely.
Roy is bad. He'd be pretty okay if he could promote normally, but as is, no. His bases are unimpressive and promotion lock stops him right about the time he might start being good via growths. Also his Rapier is pretty blah.
Eliwood on his own mode isn't that different from Roy, although his support with Hector is pretty handy. On Hector's route he can promote either 2 or 5 maps earlier and take advantage of horse + javelins. Stats aren't anything amazing but they're okay, and supports prop up his avoid to reliable.
Hector I find a touch overrated because 5+35% speed isn't good and his hit tends to be a bit unreliable. Still, he's an oustanding boss-killer and unusually durable for a lord out of the gate. Given how many lords get amazing durability once they get rolling, though, there's only so much that's worth. No move on promotion is :(
Lyn, assuming you do Lyn Mode, is decent enough because it's pretty easy to get her coming in to Eliwood/Hector mode with a high level and great speed (Lyn mode enemies are so bad that you don't even notice her durability there), and her fast supports especially with Florina ensure her power is fine. Concrete durability is bad, though, so she's generally an offensive troubleshooter until after promotion when her avoid can become reliable.
Eirika is pretty much Lyn and Eliwood in a blender getting the best traits of both, along with a better Prf weapon (thanks to 3x might). Fast, and gets an excellent support with freaking Seth which gives full atk/def and half avoid so she generally smashes things while being pretty durable outside the very start (which is axe city anyway). Sieglinde is pretty ridiculous too. It'd be nice if she weren't sword-locked, though.
Ephraim is broken as hell. Almost as much speed as Lyn/Eirika (actually, it's higher at low levels!), massive power, massive evade because for some reason he even gets luck and a bunch of avoid-boosting supports, possibly the most ridiculous Rapier-type weapon in the series (30 might against weakness, WTF), gets a horse on promotion and a ludicrously strong second Prf to go with it. It's hard to find anything wrong with him aside from perhaps promoting a bit late and being absent for a while on his sister's route.
PoR Ike is... kinda like Eirika honestly, but on balance a bit worse. He has worse base speed and worse Prf weapons (except Ragnell, but that's two maps), and shares her sword lock and durability which starts blah but gets ridiculous by midgame thanks to supports. The PoR competition is a bit stiffer because cavaliers are so stupid, Canto and those stats.
Micaiah is... weird. I have trouble comparing her to other lords. She's better than Roy, I'll say that much. And worse than anyone you would consider calling broken, because that word does not describe her. She's... an offensive troubleshooter with Thani and then a healer. But the durability really needs work, as either you throw resources into her or you pray to the RNG for her to get the stats she needs to not be one-rounded. I favour the former but it's a playstyle thing.
RD Ike meanwhile is ridiculous. Those bases, man. His speed seems calculated to double everything but swordmasters and some bosses at every point in the game, his power/durability are huge, and he still has the "great durability through supports" thing although about the only time you might feel he actually needs it is against mages because his base Def/HP are so good. Also he has Ragnell for like, half his existence, so the sword lock complaint.
I've played the DS games much less (twice each) so I'm less confident on Marth; my impression of him though is that while he's pretty good on paper, in practice he has some trouble keeping up level-wise because he has to keep wasting time hiking to villages. So I tend to think of both he and his SSBM buddy as the weakest lords from the games I've played. If your playstyle causes him to level more normally he's better but the lack of move or new weapon from promotion really hurts and his Prf weapons aren't too special.
Finally there's Chrom who has pretty generically good stats and not much else to say. He gets two earlygame Prf weapons which is nice, and his stats certainly make for someone who feels somewhat better than, say, Eliwood, even before we talk about the fact that he promotes when he wants.
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You can get F-Zero and F-Zero X for the Virtual Console at least, which is a bit of a contrast to FE6 which you can't get outside Japan.
Still, I wouldn't hold my breath. Given that the FE1 and FE3 remakes did not do particularly well, I can't imagine Nintendo is dying to greenlight a remake for a game which is relatively less popular in Japan (IIRC?) and comparably little reason to do well overseas. (Yes, I know FE6 is connected to FE7, but the window to milk that connection has long, long since passed. FE7 is 12 years old!)
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Lymsleia was a princess first, and a little sister second (and I will be extremely surprised if any of the little sister's bodyguards are anywhere near as amazing as Miakis). Likewise, Arshtat (or however you spell her name) was a queen first, and a mother second, and this bothered the shit out of her. I hope Mikoto/Sakura/Elise can live up to these two!
Indeed! :)
I'm a pretty big fan of Suikoden V's writing and I'd love it if FE14 can even come anywhere close.
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I love Leon's design. I'm a sucker for armour on a mage, he really fits my image of what a military magic-user would look like and it's something I don't think games represent nearly often enough, and I love his smirking expression. Personality, obviously it's hard to make any comments early but it's promising enough I think?
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As someone else who really doesn't care for most of the "little sister" characters, Lymsleia from Suikoden 5 is another rare excellent one.
On-topic... I can't think of any Fire Emblem character I've disliked because of their looks? I suppose it's probably a factor in my disliking Makalov, but he also has an unpleasant personality. In fact, most ugly characters I actually dislike tend to have unpleasant personalities too, I want to say. Of course, having said that, I suppose it's always possible that the look disposed me to like the personality less. Hard to be sure.
I certainly don't dislike any design from Awakening enough to write a character off immediately, though. Elise is probably the most worrying (just because I dislike the design AND I think little sister characters don't have a good track record, as per the above with specific note for both Mist and Lissa being weak characters IMO) but I'm certainly prepared to be pleasantly surprised there.
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Anger goes too far, but I do find blatant expies to be a bit... I dunno, off-putting? Cheap? Just not something I really expect out of respectable media.
I don't think archetypes are a good comparison. Guinevere may be similar to Nyna, sure, but she looks different and there are many specific differences in their characterisation. Same with various red/green cavaliers... Oscar/Kieran aren't much like Forde/Kyle aren't much like Kent/Sain etc. The Awakening expies both seem to have very similar appearance (even moreso than Miredy and Minerva, who at least have very distinct hairstyles) and similar characterisation as well? Meh.
And I say this as someone who doesn't even dislike Awakening and isn't trying to "escape it" or whatever.
(It could be worse though. I love Luna's scowl and I never did get Owain in Awakening because using Lissa long enough to get kids = no thanks, but he sounds pretty fun and I wouldn't mind seeing him in a format where I may actually use him.)
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But it still sounds pretty weird though, do ninjas usually steal things in real life or fictions? I've never heard of that before, but then again I'm not too knowledgeable about this subject either :X
Well, if it's like Awakening (and/or like Assassins in FE7-8), then they won't be able to steal, just open doors/chests.
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I'm a bit apprehensive for the reasons Thane stated; Kamui has a chance of being a bland an overly perfect self-insert. Robin wasn't too terrible, though, and the implications of Kamui attacking Aqua means there's some hope that this won't be the case.
It would be interesting if s/he acts differently on different routes, but you can clearly see the same core character underneath. I do like that idea.
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Damnit, now all my jokes about how only a superior Roy made it into Smash 4 are ruined, thanks a lot Nintendo.
(Seriously, disappointed that Roy was chosen since I had high hopes that the slot could go to someone more interesting than Yet Another Fire Emblem Swordsman, and one who happens to be a character I quite dislike, but it's obviously not that big a deal. Also, Ryu! That's cool. So it's okay.)
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I find it somewhat unlikely, but a plot twist of that sort would be very welcome. So far the game is clearly wanting us to believe that Garon is super-evil and Mikoto is super-good, but it may not be that simple. (Radiant Dawn did have a kinda similar twist, so it wouldn't be too crazy for Fire Emblem.)
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I like her design a lot (lower half of armour aside) and the character sounds like it has potential, though I do wish she didn't cause some people to act like they've never seen a woman with large breasts before.
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Been on Team Nohr since day 1 (classic FE feel + story sounds more interesting + I like its character designs better), nothing has really changed. Hoshido gained RInka, and also some promise of nuance by the fact that they apparently kidnapped(?) Aqua, so that's something, but still not tilting the balance.
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Ten bucks says that Orochi's dialog is played for double meanings such that the player isn't sure if it's torture or sexual.
Not sure what I think about that. Could be some good black comedy if done well, or could just be awkward.
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Honestly I've never given much thought to this before If, but I've loved how If seems to be modelling its two countries off of different real-life cultures (romanticised to be sure, but that's fine by me) and would love to see them run with this in future games with other real-world cultures.
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I dunno about having a lesbian-only character, especially with the waifu-driven direction FE is going. Inevitably someone will want to waifu her as a male character, find out he can't because this chick exclusively munches carpet, will be upset and probably tank sales because that kind of talk gets out of hand easily. The only solution would be to make her unattractive to males, but that means you made an unattractive character and that also harms sales and credibility. Same applies for an exclusively gay man.
So the presence of a character whom the main character can not romance would hurt sales/credibility? I would certainly hope not. One, because complaining that there is a video game character who won't have a relationship with you is just about the most entitled thing I've ever heard and the thought of anyone seriously docking a game for that makes me facepalm. And two, because plenty of prominent games with dating/"waifu" aspects (e.g. Bioware games) happily keeps some characters off limits.
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I guess I don't agree with calling Heather a stereotype. She's a lesbian (probably. You can read her lines otherwise but it's a bit of a reach IMO) but I don't find her be especially stereotypical? There aren't as many lesbian stereotypes as there are gay man stereotypes, but I don't really find Heather to fall into what ones exist (she is neither stereotypically butch nor femme, she doesn't have an exaggerated hatred of men*), and she's motivated at least as much by her desire to raise money for her mother as she is by her desire to protect and fight for attractive women (Nephenee and Elincia), which is one more personality quirk than I can remember about Gatrie despite his being in two games.
For me, Heather's inclusion certainly added to Radiant Dawn. I can see disliking her, of course, but to dislike her so much that you would be opposed to future LGBT characters for fear of someone else like her is something I don't really get.*After reading posts, seems you may disagree on this one? She's kind of a jerk to Brom at first but that's partly because she misreads his overtures (also at that point she is trying to stealth around the battlefield stealing things without a big guy in plate mail drawing attention to her) but this never manifests itself again in her (admittedly limited) screentime. If she was supposed to be man-hating it would have been easy to work this into her support dialog, but there's no hint of it to be seen there.
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Camilla/Belka
Please let this be an option! Camilla is the one character that as soon as I saw her, I wante to pair her with a girl so that no males would touch her. I love Camilla and I like the idea of these two strong females getting together
Okay, I can totally get behind this. After reading all the people saying they want to go the Nohr route so that they can romance Camilla, I would seriously crack up if she were locked into a relationship with Belka (which Belka's character description is at least teasing, maybe?).
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I think the generic enemy Dark Mage is one of my favorite desgins.
Sorry if I'm behind the times here, and sorry for the slight tangent, but... is that a generic female enemy in a non-female-locked class? Wow.
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I'm not a fan of skirt-chaser characters either on average but eh, I don't mind their existence. Some people pretty much do act like that. And occasionally they get some pretty fun scenes (tree in a skirt, etc.).
I can't agree with people saying that we would be better served to have no LGBT characters at all because they might be written badly. That attitude just gives the writers a (cowardly) excuse not to write them. I'd much rather see an attempt. If it's bad, okay, I'll be on board with the rest of you complaining that is bad. But I'd rather see the attempt anyway. The more examples of such characters we get, good or bad, the more future writers can learn from the previous examples. I don't think homosexuality should be regarded as so "special" that it is treated as something which only proven "good" writers should be allowed to write about.
Do you 'support' LGBT supports in "Fire Emblem: if"?
in Fire Emblem Fates
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First of all, I have to say that I love Mad_Scientist's post.
Anyway I don't think children returning necessarily precludes any sort of same-sex supports, though I do think it makes them less likely for reasons said. I'm still hopeful that the pairing possibilities are more limited this time, and with Corrin's siblings likely off limits that doesn't seem an unreasonable guess, and of course that in turn can make same-sex pairings more possible. We'll see in a few days I guess.