Pikappa93

Wow, we're finally able to see Archanea in game!

Just wanted to say that a user on reddit just finished Chapter 5 and confirmed everything is still in.

He was streaming, but his videos were taken down on Twitch too :/ I'll let you know if he's going to publish playthroughs somewhere else.

Yes, and it's actually a big part of Jugdral plot (which takes place before the Archanea saga).

Oh! Very interesting to see the first pictures of Chapter 6. Also...

Base convos are more like monologues rather than dialogues, if they are the village/street convos I saw in the streaming. Can someone confirm this? What I found to be more interesting about character development are memory fragments. Those are nice stuff.

Thanks for the information! I always chose Sonia over Dean in Gaiden. Also looking forward to seeing what DLC stuff is about. Anyway, can't wait till someone reaches Chapter 6, I'm really curious.

Do we still have to choose between Dean and Sonia to recruit them?

I know that she has

Even if Echoes has a much smaller cast than, I can assure you it does exceed Fates amount of voice acting. By far. As for advertising, I don't think it was that different with other FE titles? I don't remember Fates being much more advertised than Echoes. Also, reviews will come out a few days before release date, like always. The major difference is that Fates was announced in January for a June release in Japan and next year for NA and Europe, it took so much longer. On the other hand, Echoes was announced just a few months before release.

Don't know about the budget though. Full voice acting is not a small detail, I believe if the budget was really that small they couldn't have possibly done it. I watched a streaming of the game and there are a lot of dialogues (some supports are short and others are not, but there are also base convos, memory fragment events and obviously story dialogues - and they're not short at all IMO). Regarding everything else, I mostly agree with you. Like the original Gaiden, this is going to be contentious, it is a very unconventional FE title due to so many aspects. But I don't think the odds are necessarily stacked against it, from what I've seen it's a very solid entry despite its weird nature.

I really hope you're right, but I wouldn't be so sure when it comes to localization. Especially since, from what I get, ages are there mainly for the alcohol mechanic (lol). But modifying ages is a gameplay changer, so hopefully they'll stay as they are.

I'm ok with Echoes endings. Honestly I would've been upset if they didn't retain the original Gaiden ones. I know they're kind of weird, but I like that.

Thanks! So we have to figure out how to unlock them. I couldn't even see them in the menu options. Unless they have something to do with Mila's Turnwheel. I saw there was a Support option (probably to rewatch conversations?), so they might appear there too.

Are we sure base conversation are in there though? I saw a streaming of the game (mostly Chapter 1) and I couldn't see them anywhere.

It's played when Roy amiibo attacks. It's awesome actually.

I have some questions about Chapter 6... what triggers the events? I mean, why do they travel to Archanea plotwise? Also, do we still control Alm and Celica's parties separately?

If I were to put Awakening fanservice into a new title, I definitely would've not picked Grima of all things. Just saying. It's not like they're giving us something completely unrelated, Gaiden and Awakening did have some connections (I mean, Valentia/Valm was there). And it makes sense to give some backstory, which might not be dumb in my opinion (at least for what we know now). It's ok to dislike Awakening, lots of people do and everyone has their opinion, even I agree it has its flaws. But to say that Echoes Chapter 6 exists just for the sake of Awakening fans... well, I personally don't think so (and even if that was the case, they're just paying homage to the title that saved the whole series, and I can't see it as a bad thing).

This is why I'm looking forward to seeing new maps in Chapter 6.

I agree that map design in Gaiden is not... the best, but I also think that this kind of open maps can be quite challenging due to the lack of choke points etc.

I couldn't be happier about this, I love continuity between games in general.

I'm afraid they didn't :/ in one of the last trailers Zeke's recruitment map looked exactly like this... like in the original Gaiden.

Just me for now, I'm afraid 'XD but I'm pretty sure it's a matter of time before someone uploads every cutscene.

This map... XD well, we already saw that in the trailers. Is someone streaming the game btw?

I saw the other cutscenes and