Saint Rubenio

There's certainly a possibility I have just spread misinformation lol. I myself received this information second-hand - or more like third-hand, considering the image isn't even the leaker either. If anyone finds out I'm wrong and ugly, please do yell at me.

So, Unicorn Overlord has purportedly been leaked. Watch out for them spoilers folks. I did want to bring up this one thing, though, because I believe it may be of interest to some. By some I mean @Interdimensional Observer This concerns the game's romance options. The only spoiler here is a broad description of who you can date in the game, nothing more. About what most expected. I just hope they don't try going after anyone else now. And that, if they do, they actually take them to court, win and Ninty eats shit. Too optimistic, I know.

If it wasn't for the constant insistence from all sorts of sources for the pairing, that'd be a nice and charitable way to interpret this bit of dialogue. Bit late there, champ. Considering current real life events, this concept is... disturbingly relevant. This is very funny when it's on a jobber like Chagall. If only it was always that way. As critical as I often am about this game, I did enjoy my first FE4 run enough that I got from start to finish without really having to force myself. It was very far from a FE I'd call super enjoyable, but it wasn't so bad that I couldn't get to the end either. What I'm trying to say is, I get what you mean here. That said, I also feel this is probably one of the least replayable, if not the least replayable FE in the series. Because on replay you're going to feel all the walking, all the arenaing and where's the variety? There's one small team for gen 1 you're basically always going to use, and second gen is a choice between breaking the game with obscene child units (children are basically always good, you have to look hard for parents that yield a genuinely bad child - except for Sylvia's kids, who are the opposite lmao) or getting subs and still breaking it with the few broken fixed units you still get. There's an argument to be made about how important replayability is, but for this series in particular it's one of its main draws for me personally, which made my opinion of this game tank severely. The game likes to drive home the point that she looks childlike a bit too much. Which is not good, to say the least. Sadly, a constant character trait of Kaga throughout his plotline. I'd say it's more like the king could just come along and say "hey Sigurd, do this thing that happens to be the opposite of what you promised to Eldigan" and then Sigurd has to commit treason or break his promises. I don't recall exactly how the transition from chapter 2 to 3 goes, but... Well, two guesses as to what he ends up doing. Anyway, agreed on this being pretty well done. Aside from The One Moment and a few bits with Arvis, the shenanigans with Eldigan are probably the story's best points, so enjoy them while they last. Pretty sure that's actually what I did, myself. Either that or I just powered on through. I can't remember. Actually, I might've just powered on through lol. I do remember I had Lewyn take care of the village cluster, it seemed like the most obvious course of action.

Well, he's my favorite character in the game, and also the one I'd say is best written. As funny as calling him Uncle War crimes is, there's very few places where you can really disagree with his arguments. Even when he's proposing something thoroughly heinous it's less "haha I'm the pragmatic asshole who wants to do the bad things" and more "if we don't do this we're going to die and accomplish nothing for it, it's better to do this bad thing now and live to correct it later." Later in the game his full motivations are revealed and it actually shines a really different light his actions throughout the game - which is the best kind of writing.

He actually is lol Yeah, but Brock didn't have this guy's furrowed brow and crooked neck. Nah, Zane's just holding a wicked shit. He's been holding that same wicked shit for 7 years, but he's too dutiful to take 10 minutes to go to the restroom. What if his lord needs him then!? Padolf's the best, though. He's the funniest bossman in the game. Meme stat through the roof.

Clement tends to be one of the more memorable bossmen in the game for people because of this. In a sea of virtually identical evil morons with the exact same personality - and despite having the face of one - he stands out as just some guy who doesn't even seem like he's necessarily the bad guy in the situation. Sigurd is the aggressor here, after all. Kaga likes to do that sometimes. Having bosses be oddly weak when story-appropriate. And viceversa, a few times. Yeah he did that. Meme is achieved. Now it's Ardenin' time. Lewyn being a shitty person is, sadly, another constant throughout the game. I forgot Project Naga rewrote his death quote. In older patches his death quote was an utterly incomprehensible "urgh... don't forget me..." which, ironically, did ensure people wouldn't forget him, as they wondered what the heck he could have possibly meant by asking his murderers to keep his memory in mind. I suspect this line is probably the intended one. You can almost interpret a similar message conveyed by the original if you squint hard enough, but the wording's beyond bizarre. Sylvia looking so young in general is iffy. But Kaga will Kaga, I suppose. Sigurd's addicted to war crimes now. It won't be long before he transforms into Benedict Triangle Strategy. Oh hey, they actually acknowledge it. Neat. Eggads, Sandima is back to life! I don't know, judging by his facial expression, I'd say the only thing he's going to hit is the crapper.

Holy fuck the world map in FE8 is difficult to hack. Limitation breeds creativity, though, as they say. I've had to adapt my plans but I've been able to ìt together a decent solution. Hopefully. Sometimes disconnecting does wonders. Good that you're feeling better.

I don't like peggy sues. They're coarse, and rough, and irritating, and they get everywhere. More to the point, they're made in a factory and they're all boring, which is worse than being bad or evil. Fury is a pretty awesome name, I'll give her that much, but beyond that she's exactly the same as every other peggy sue ever. Archetype 1 of 2: The serious one. That is rather amazing, I suppose.

Lame. I retract my previous statement. To be honest, Chagall's design doesn't look that generic to me. It's the last portrait I would've reused in the way they did. And yeah, I'd expect Clement would get a more serious look, given his more subdued personality.

Gaming has historically been a culture that's not friendly to women. Y'know, because Big G Gamers are a bunch of misogynists. This leads to less women wanting to get into the culture, which means the folks producing it market their stuff to women less often, which leads to Big G Gamers feeling satisfied in the fact that gaming is biologically not for women. Self-fulfilling prophecies galore. I really don't, but not to worry. I shall give him the worthiest of deaths in the new hack. I did say it "simulates" the original GBA's lighting. It's an aproximation. An accurate one, from what I've gathered, but an aproximation. This is indeed an early screenshot. Perhaps from before they realized this color palette would make the grass look like swamp goop on the GBA's dimly lit screen, and the villages would be an indecipherable dark shape? ...Hey, I just noticed, the female mercenary world sprite is there. It survived all the way to FE8, where it's still an unused artifact in the files. Huh.

IntSys halfassed... What? Again, the whole reason of the textures looking like that was an unavoidable hardware limitation. Of course applying a filter that simulates the lighting conditions of the GBA is going to fix the looks. The filter is how they looked on the GBA, it's emulators lacking the hardware issue that are the problem here. What, you wanted IntSys to fix the GBA's lack of backlight themselves? Everything is yellow because the yellows become brown-ish when the lighting is less saturated. Just look once more at the screenshot I posted. The yellow tiles outside Etruria Castle become an ocre tone much closer to the floors of Thracia you just posted there. The greens are brighter but much more clearly green, and the blues aren't nearly as loud. Again, this filter is not me fixing the game. It's how the game looked originally. At least, as I understand it.

Yeah, should've clarified. And yes, it's Ovo, Lamia and Macbeth. I just find it rather amazing that decidedly-major'ish-villain Chagall wasn't good enough.

Yeah, true. The less anyone resembles Seth, the better. I find it curious how this almost seems to hint at Waltz himself also being recruitable. But nah, his awesome hat is just not as cool as Beowulf's... uh, whatever it is he has that makes him cool? Yes, Sylvia's substitutes are unironically better than the kids. Especially her son's sub, who comes with a good staff only he gets. The main kid, meanwhile, is super annoying to make into anything good. I'm not that militant a fan of Finn. I will, however, champion the cause of fucking peggy sues over any day. So yeah, fuck Erinys, she can have a bench. And surely you jest. I would never do that to your cards. instead, I'd steal your packs and replace them with Spanish packs. You should thank me, they're way cooler. I thought this was difficult to make happen lmao, so much for FE4's OP Miracle We can't all be as blessed with creativity as that guy. Have I mentioned yet the fun fact that Macbeth is one of three bosses in the entire game to have a fully unique portrait? 'Cause he totally is. The list does not include Chagall, something that never fails to amuse me. Well, it's used by a bossman much, much later in the game, so... Sigurd being a dumbass is, if nothing else, a consistent plot point.

Sacred Stones further darkened the sprites, with darker, more contrasting dark tones and an almost black (if still purple) outline. Yeah, I feel they were probably figuring things out in FE6 and gradually dialed it back over the following GBA entries. Fairly certain the intention was to make him look very sickly. It's just a bit less noticeable when everyone is yellow.

See, the problem there is the same as with changing the lance family of weapons to spear. Everyone is used to the weird unfiltered colors, so changing them would inevitably result in a solid 10-20% of the thread's posts being "WHY IS THE COLOR WEIRD" and having to explain that over and over, and then another solid 10-20% being people asking you to make a version of the patch that has the normal colors, and in the end the thing just causes more hassle than anything else. So, I say, the mGBA filter is there. People can use it if they feel like it.

Thanks for the spoiler, Acacia. I can't believe Sepiroth takes off his face and it is revealed he's Donald Duck underneath.

Indeed! Since the GBA was so dark, GBA games were made with vibrant, bright, washed out color palettes to compensate. They weren't intended to be super bright, but they needed to be so you could actually see something on the console. Emulators, of course, don't have this problem, so they display the games in their original, not-exactly-intended glory. However, mGBA, the current best GBA emulator, comes packed with a shader you can turn on that simulates the GBA's darker lighting. Trying it on explains a few things. Check this out: FE6 as most of us know it on emulator on the right, vs aproximately what it looked like in original hardware on the left. It's a world of difference. That looks much better. It's also quite noticeable in the portraits. Using the earlier example... The purples on his hair become gray, the dark purple outline becomes black and the yellows on his face become a more natural skin color. Note that, with this filter on,Vigarde still looks yellow. It's actually even more noticeable when everyone else actually has more realistic white skin. Haha, quite true. Sure, go ahead, why not. Spoiler tabs, DMs, whatever everyone feels is best.

@Interdimensional Observer Yeah, observe what happens if I turn on the filter to simulate the original GBA coloring. I mean, there's still the red armor and the 17 defense, but the gemstone pattern was not kept for their statlines in general.

Well, there is also something there, if I reach for it. In many ways, some more obvious than others, he is the odd one out among the Grado generals. ...though the real explanation is probably that his hair is meant to be greying black, but they made it purplish to account for the GBA's lighting. Keep in mind, even the outline color these games use is not black, it's purple. Most characters with black hair also have purple tones, though it's less pronounced than with Duessel because Duessel's hair is greying. When you use the filter that simulates GBA's original coloring, these purple tones turn much blacker. When I get to my computer I'll check how he looks with the filter on, see if I'm on to something. Also, in his OA (original, not Heroes) his hair is also much more monocrome. Yeah, agreed. I know Riev isn't the most original villain but between him being a light-wielding bishop and having a baller title like Blood Beryl, I find myself placing him high among the Gharnefs. Also the laugh tic is fun, sue me. Wait, people actually expected that plot point to be preserved? I'm not even a FF fan and I could've told you they were going to change that.

Wahahahaha.

You're the reading guy, Wraith. Work on your reading comprehension.

Well, you do play as the bad guys. Hey, you probably would like the hack! You get to kill children! "With this sword, Suvidarg, I am all but invincible. A pity you had to waste your life." - Sumac Unicorn Overlord Runan is a really funny case because he was less copyright infringing before the lawsuit forced Kaga to change his design. I mean, sure, signature blue hair, but at that point he was in a similar position to Alain here where he made you go "yeah Marth at home lol" but he didn't exactly resemble anyone in particular. Then Kaga gave him brown hair and instead turn him into literally just Leif. Brilliant.

I mean, "we" is kind of the incorrect pronoun to use when you are not excited for it and I've my mind fully set on making a fangame where I give a playable cast I like horrible deaths one after the other. Already Garcia has found his son's mangled corpse. And the answer to your question is, good gameplays and good precedent set by the development company.

Lmaooooooooo it really is just fucking Camus. I love it, they're not even trying. Even Kaga tried harder when he was making Emblem Saga! At least make him a redhead or something, set him apart a bit!

It's even consistent with his sunken, baggy insomnia eyes. He would totally do that. It's always money. It's always the money.