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Normally I'd say the same(many french names in there too), but I've endured almost two decades of Guy, so I'm pretty numb to it at this point:)

Not that much new in this one either, but might as well post it. Also Lysithea mentions crests around the middle. And I guess that's the first time we properly hear her english voice, too?

Why do some of the E3 King of the beasts chapter videos have Dedue with a shield equipped and others not, when it's been made pretty clear by now it's Nintendo people playing the game and they have no reason to modify the preps? Why does Mercedes call Annette "Ann" when "Annie" is the commonly accepted nickname? Why does Garrec Mach change forms in every single depiction we've gotten of it? Is it secretly Dracula's castle?

Well no, since her class is called swordmaster after all. The point was that the reason it looked different from what we thought was swordmaster could have been because her class is from the unrevealed fourth tier, while the one we thought was swordmaster was called something else. Also the first FEs didn't have that class and it wasn't in SoV but that's beside the point Regardless, I think User_name is right, we're focusing too much on the hat when we shouldn't. And without the hat, it now looks really similar, so yeah.

Well fortunately, someone on the interwebs compiled those, if anyone's curious:

To be fair, do we actually know for a fact that the sprite we saw in the advanced tier will be from a class called swordmaster? It's a very natural assumption to make considering the outfit, but now I'm questioning if we didn't assume a bit too fast. Edit: ... which is what you were already saying. ... Well then I agree! Ha.

Depends, since healing has limited uses the reasoning for giving you many healers might not be the same as usual. Also 15 master classes? Did I miss something?

Better view of Cyril and Flayn, Catherine is a swordmaster with a blue hat for some reason, and Hanneman is a plain mage: ... also they all level 9, implying this is based on game progression. Although it's surprising for Cyril and Flayn, to me at least.

I agree that it would make more sense, although I'm concerned they'd be putting themselves through writing overload even harder than they did for Fates and Awakening. If there's only one continuous support, my assumption was that for example, C through B would be pre timeskip, while A and S would be during the war phase. That poses its own slew of problems, though, such as potentially locking you out of building up supports with anyone you haven't reached the right rank with, since school phase supports probably wouldn't make sense post-timeskip, as you said.

Speaking of which, haven't we heard that there would be two sets of supports, one for each time period? Seeing S-ranks on display here kind of contradicts that idea. Edit: Just to precise, this wasn't a part of the leak.

Actually I feel like I might have misunderstood you. If your point was that at level 4 Byleth has gained some support points with at least a majority of the students and other teachers available, and they're the only one this list is made off, then... eh? It's possible, seems like a lot of people though, even when support points can be gained relatively easily from what we've seen. True, I guess there's that too.

That's my conclusion too. The question then being, can Byleth, just like every avatar before him(to my knowledge), support every character in the game?

He has the blue lions alongside him, and this seems to be the Lonato rebellion map, so I kinda doubt it. Plus, it would be weird for Dimitri, not Edelgard to be at the very top if it was just listing the students.

I think this image we got a while ago is pretty interesting because of the size of the scrolling bar. We can see that this is very early in the game, since Byleth is only Lv4, so it's extremely unlikely this only shows the recruited characters. Instead, chances are just like Awakening and Fates, this is Byleth's full list of supports here. Now why this is interesting is because we can measure things. The whole scrolling bar is roughly 140 pixels tall, and the smaller, moving part about 37 pixels. 140 pixels/37 pixels = ~3.78 ... or in other words, if the scrolling bar is the size of a page in this list relative to the whole list, there are ~3.78 pages of 8 characters here. 8 characters per page x 3.78 pages = ~30.24 characters. Now this doesn't definitely prove anything for multiple reasons. Just food for thought.

Well, that answers that question.

Bow, it was at B+ in the treehouse footage, while her Lance rank was C. It'd be better if we had another source to confirm it, though.

At this point, I do think we're in for bad surprises when it comes to the final roster. Although I don't mind all that much myself, I was completely okay with Echoes' ~16 characters per path. Wonder how important characters outside of the House leaders will be to the story, at least that of their own house, because now that we know most of them can be recruited, there's not much of a chance that they'll be chapter bosses or whatnots during the war phase. So yeah, I do hope they at least play a substantial role within their canon path. That'd also make the choice more significant than "Let me pick the House leader and then recruit every student I like that I wouldn't get normally". As recruits, they'd only be side characters, you'd need to play their house's path to know their own story.

Okay, so he did say he would release three 5 minutes videos on what he played, and the first one's out. To be blunt, he's playing the E3 build, and despite saying that he used the Black Eagles, the gameplay is the same Blue Lions team composition we've seen many times by now. Extremely little new can be extracted from this one, it's more of an introduction for the other two, I guess. I believe he said in his stream that he uploads once a day at 7 AM, and sometimes a second time at 12. I assume his second video is going to focus on the academy, while the third one is going to be the Blue Lions map, or vice-versa, but we'll see. Edit:... guess I should have put a link. There you go:

I guess... though it didn't look like a picture. Edit: Not that it makes it impossible I suppose.

... that's weird, we had seen one before already, with the monastery in the background

I adore this kind of characters, I find them so relatable for some reason. Hope he's recruitable, but if the reasoning for Rhea being recruitable because she can gain support points is correct, it should work for him too:

On the other hand FE Warriors was 13.1 GB too, and it's a considerably less expansive game. Considering Koei Tecmo seem to be building most of the assets for Three Houses, and they're apparently not incredibly good at compression(or at least, less good than others), it makes a bit more sense. DLC was expected, hopefully they're reasonable this time around... can only play so close to the flame without getting burned, if anything, there's a chance Echoes' sales suffered from both its dlc policies and leftover annoyance at Fates'.

Scout is localized as "Recruit"

By video game I meant a piece of software where ideally, everything has a place and a purpose. And I said that because, again, the role of an interface is to provide directions rather than world-building. Your examples have considerably more going on than a simple choice(And Fargus is locked at one range, he can very much be defeated in a turn) but I'd say they also don't work because attacking either of those two is fundamentally the same as attacking any other enemy in the game, while in our case it's the same option for a different result. Things can be self-explanatory. Nobody but Robin can romance Say'ri but there was no need to give everyone the option so that the player could try and be told that it doesn't work. Sure, some people will ask why, just like some people would be bothered that the option appeared, only for it to lead to nothing. Either way, we've both made our case I think, let's just see how it goes.

Ooh, missed that. Good eye. I wish you had put images of each crest, though I get that it's a pain.