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[Sudden realization..]

Im pretty sure the people would just overthrow them or something. I can't imagine marrying the enemy is well recieved as a feudal japanese themed royal

[Not getting IF?]

I'll be buying both or a special edition if we get one. If it's coupled with a fire emblem themed new 3ds, I'll buy that aswell. (Although, I don't think it will be.)

[Possible mission objectives?]

Defend missions; We had 1 in Awakening with Tiki I believe, but it lacked the intensity that previous games had. Sitting in a row of flowers acting as a literal meat shield with little other strategy wasn't very cool. Would like to see more terrain that would add different areas to block off.

Not really a part of missions, but a side objectives like how when you recruit Owain you can get bonus items by saving the villagers; similarly in RD when you have the choice of, A) Kill the senators. B) Loot from the senators(If you have a thief that wont die instantly) or C) Let them all live because you lack the requirements for B, but still want the bexp.
Similarly, more difficult to recruit people would be cool too(Looking at you Katarina). I don't think Rout missions are that bad, I just think they need some extra depth to them, which adding better side objectives can do(To an extent, obviously I don't want full Rout missions).

Some Escape missions would be really cool as well, but I'm not craving them or anything.

[Pricing in America?]

I really doubt they'd sell it as a $50 combined version as the only option. Picture a customer being out of the loop about the game, they see a TV advert or just see the game instore with $50 label on. All they'd see is a rather pricey 3DS game without being able to understand why it would cost that.

If the physical game in the US is $30 and the 2nd route(~$20 DLC) you can get one for $30 or both for $50 which would allow allow for a lot more flexibiliy and serves a lot more customers price points. Selling the two versions separately this way would be preferable to requiring every player to pay $50 just to play it(even if they only ever intended in doing one campaign). Any gripes with it would simply be pettiness on a principle that the games have to be sold together, something that could lead to an inflexible pricing scheme for everyone.

I agree with basically all of this. The only thing I would say is $40 base game, $10-15 dlc, still being the ~$50 total(To the $30 game/$20 dlc.) I feel like day 1 $20(66% the base price of the $30 game) dlc may be daunting for some.

[Pricing in America?]

If we got the special edition without the third path DLC, I would imagine it to be 60 USD. 40 for the base game and 20 for the second path.
I expect each individual game to be $40, and if they retain the discounted price for the opposite version as DLC, then ~$20 for the other path. They may lower it to $10 though, as that would probably be more pleasing to people. However if it's a special edition version, I can definitely see both of them wrapped up for $60. If we get the extra goodies like they did in JP, I want to say 60-80.

I really think we're going to get both Hoshido and Norh versions. Since only selling one, which would be the limited edition version in JP, for $40, the price of Awakening, would be a little silly given the content presented. Despite the lack of clarity on Nintendo's part, I feel like that would be too drastic of 'compensation.'

If they lowered the price to $20 for each game, I don't think they would even bother bringing them to U.S lol.