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25 minutes ago, Jotari said:
I'm fine with Alear's hair. It's the two pieces that cross like an x right over their forehead that drives me nuts. Like, it looks like those two strands are glued together. And they should be annoying as all hell to Alear themself for always brushing against the edge of their vision. Genuinely ruins the whole design for me.
Engage does the cross-hair thing a few times. Pandreo, for instance, has a really nice design but the hair is just... Why is it like that? It's even worse than Alear's, because the strands crossing his face are even longer.
...I do feel at least female Alear pulls it off better. Her bangs are generally longer so it's not as pronounced as male Alear, who just has two strands crossing his entire face from the top.
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1 minute ago, Revier said:
I got a good laugh out of this. Anime hair really is the most beautifully bizarre thing ever.
And the best part is that the portrait is an edit of a vanilla FE7 portrait - Heath, to be specific. His colors were different but he has the same ridiculous two-colored hair. People bashed Alear like this had never been a thing before in the series lol
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One of my favorite characters in the series, if not my favorite period, is Arran, from Archanea - specifically, his New Mystery of the Emblem inception. The concept of a Jeigan whose bad potential is justified not by age, but by a terminal illness, is quite interesting, and it makes him the one FE unit for whom death during the campaign can be argued as a fine ending to his character.
This is already pretty neat, but in New Mystery he gets a support chain where he discusses what it means to be a knight with Kris. He once served an unnamed lord somewhere in Archanea, and he believed absolute, blind loyalty to one's liege was the duty of a knight. Basically, he used to be a Camus. But one day, said lord ordered him to put down a rebellion. They were only peasants, starving after a bad harvest and making themselves heard to survive. Arran followed the order. Wracked with guilt, he wandered the world until he met Marth. Serving him, he discovered the true meaning of being a knight.
"A knight isn't a puppet that blindly follows orders. That is not loyalty. To fight for a cause I believe in, under a liege I believe in. That is what it means to be a knight."
Still one of my favorite lines in the series to this day. By the time you get his A support with Kris, he's likely already close to falling off. Him dying a hero's death shortly after this conversation is a truly compelling end to his character arc. Or, you can keep him until the end so he can get a glimpse of the peaceful world he helped created before he succumbs to his sickness. There is no cure and no way to save him, but however he dies, he dies happy and without regrets.
Beautifully tragic concept for a character that was greatly expanded upon in the remake. New Mystery supports are a bit hit or miss and there needed to be more Krisless supports, I won't deny it, but there are still some gems to be found there. As cool as the concept is, without the FE12 support he'd just be a guy that doesn't speak a word in the entire game.
On 4/20/2024 at 10:53 AM, Eltosian Kadath said:I may have to play this hack, although I have never really gotten into any FE hacks.
Haha, well, it's just a little FE6 redux. I just added a few bossmen from other games to bolster the playable cast. Ended up adding one for each game.
42 minutes ago, Imuabicus der Fertige said:... shoutout to my girl Orochi for being a neat lil mage. Omnyouji, I guess.
Just the Hoshidans in general for being a largely inferior squad of units, who are so much fun fixing.
I have a huge fondness for Setsuna. Her voice lines melt my heart and she's a fun project. I know everyone's always raving about archer Mozu, but I prefer Setsuna. She's not even that bad. She has boatloads of speed, so all she needs is a stronger bow to alleviate her lower strength.
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12 hours ago, BrightBow said:
Now his lance shall rest.
G G H . . .
12 hours ago, BrightBow said:Well, at least now his lance can rest.
G G H . . .
8 hours ago, Revier said:For real. It's kind of bizarre how far people will go to defend their favorite character, even when they aren't particularly well written and support ideas that would actually be quite harmful in real life.
People need to accept that you can love a fictional character who is evil without trying to justify their actions. It's okay, villains are cool.
7 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:Holy shit... blue and red, together in one character design? Toothpaste-chan? Kaga, you magnificent dastard, you've done it first again!
(For context, this is a boss in an old hack called Order of the Crimson Arm. Came out a good decade before Engage. The hair would be funny enough but the fact that his shirt is white too is just too perfect)
3 hours ago, ping said:In a way, the odd phrasing ("I crave your pardon") makes it worse - if it was more generic, I would've been more likely to pass over that they're the same word for word.
Pretty sure in the old translation it was just a generic "Lord Julius... Please forgive me...", and Project Naga tried to combat this utterly awful piece of dialogue by wording it in a more exotic way. Which does not help the fact that it's shared by all three garbage bagmen in the thrilling conclusion.
3 hours ago, ping said:Petition to rename Genealogy LTC runs into FAS (Forever Alone Seliph) runs. Seems like it's at least a bit of a challenge to achieve.
Simply murder anyone who gets too close to Seliph. Curse of Artemis all over again, baby!
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Just now, Armagon said:
I think that was because Mario World always defaulted towards Mario.
Yeah, of course, but still. In the All Stars + World with the Newgrounds Luigi sprite (you know the one), they went the extra mile of making sprites for Luigi doing the castle destruction gags, but they still had the text say "Mario"! What gives, Miyamoto? You got two sons!
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I appreciate this. It doesn't call it "Mario's party" like Mario World did. That was always so funny. Mario selflessly gives Luigi all his lives and proceeds to trip over a Koopa and die, and the narration after each castle still claims Mario did anything when it was all Loogi. Truly, the future is now.
2 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:So Warriors?No, I'm talking mainline series here. SRPGs.
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45 minutes ago, ping said:
...before Fee stabs him with yet another crit weapon.
I have this weird sense of déjà-vu here...
Oh boy. I hope this, the thrilling conclusion, does not have yet another fucking Loptyr recolor with the exact same fucking combat dialogue
...Honestly, I'm amping up the angery for dramatic effect here. This isn't my least favorite map in the game (that'd have to be Silesse, probably) but I find it so funny (derogatory) that the final chapter of the game pulled this. I guess you can make a point of it showing just how deep Manfroy's influence runs when every other castle has a recolor sitting on it but... C'mon, at least give them different quotes than just three consecutive "Lord Julius... Please forgive me..."
46 minutes ago, ping said:Seliph did not randomly hook up with Lana, which I think the First Mate (?) said earlier is the most likely outcome if you don't pay attention to his love life.
It happened to me.
47 minutes ago, ping said:I am not disappointed.
50 minutes ago, ping said:
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(lookit Sharlow being useful!)
Ayra/Beowulf/Dermott's Brave Sword has 74 kills after running through every Grauenritter, which puts him at a 59% crit rate.
: "Even with Helswath, I... I fell so easily? Could it be... Could I have been wrong... all along...?"
I'll say, rather cathartic to watch after my run where he couldn't even be defeated. Alas, such a tragedy, the life of... no wait, I already made this joke... Uhh... Uh... Monty Python! 'Tis but a scratch!
47 minutes ago, ping said:
dun-DUN-dunn...?
This is played as a big revelation, but I have to wonder: Does this matter?! Comparing this to the similarly awful plot dump at the end of Binding Blade - and I can't believe I'm using that one as a more positive example: Jahn's story time at least changes the historic narrative that Roy had been taught, describing humans and dragons as two sides in a fight for survival instead of the humans being bullied by those dreadful lizards. Here, I suppose that the "gods" are made more mundane, but... the basic narrative is still "Loptyr (super-powerful being) empowered an asshole to conquer the world. Twelve other super-powerful beings decide to help the oppressed to fight back".
I just like how this literally is just proto-Jahn.
...Except Jahn was a comparatively smaller part of the game. This is the equivalent of the entire Bern arc being Jahn delivering nuggets of exposition to Roy for every castle he seizes.
48 minutes ago, ping said:'nother question, Lewyn: How did you figure out that Julia's parentage? I sincerely hope it was after your "so you wanna tap that, eh?" towards Seliph, so it must have been very recently.
Lewyn is an asshole. Did you not get enough proof of that?
50 minutes ago, ping said:
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The Beigenritter won't be particularly relevant.
One interesting detail is that Scorpius doesn't have any holy blood. His dad still had minor Ullur blood, but I suppose, contrary to the game mechanics, it's too watered down to have any effect for Scorpius.
He inherited his looks, exactly, but he didn't inherit any of his holy blood. Dude drew the short biological straw, huh...
51 minutes ago, ping said:
...all three Loptyr dudes on the castles have had the same lines. Hm.
This one isn't even a fucking good recolor. Why is his robe's brightest color blue, but the shadow colors are red?
51 minutes ago, ping said:
: "My name is Felipe, sire. I was once an aide to the late Emperor Arvis. On secret orders from His Majesty, the abducted children were moved here to Freege for safe-keeping."
Ah yeah, there he is. Palmark 2. Instead of being a confidante of Sigurd we never saw that saved some children, he's a confidante of Arvis we never saw that saved some children. He is also Spanish!
52 minutes ago, ping said:Very nice of Ishtar to be so nice. Off-screen only, of course. I'm sure nobody in this thread has any particular opinion on this scene.
I wouldn't if the onscreen Ishtar didn't gleefully get into murder competitions with her boyfriend, Satan!
53 minutes ago, ping said:
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Julia joins the field, slowly moving west towards Belhalla and Freege.
Once again, brain moment.
54 minutes ago, ping said:
Seriously why are there so many recolors in the final chapter?
54 minutes ago, ping said:I don't suppose we'll comment on the detail that Quan's grand vision is surprisingly close to Travant's.
If the game had come out 20 years later we would've gotten Travant discourse. -
On a completely unrelated note that has nothign to do with what I was talking about before, I have finally got around to trying out Mario Wonder.
Yeah, it's as fun as it seemed to be. Honestly, good. I needed a bit of bright lackadaisy after all these months of writing evil people doing evil things.
Just now, Armagon said:What's the other game?
Ah, well. You know. Fire Emblem 18.
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Wow there's even a certain game that runs like a dream. No stutters, no issues, nothing at all, it just chugs along.
Fucking Yuzu deserves to rot where it is.
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Dang, the other Switch emulator has improved so much in the past year. Where Engage stuttered like mad last year in that emu, the stuttering is now minimal. Heck, from the five-minute test I ran, it seems to run better than Fates did on Citra now! Not bad. Yuzu who, again?
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1 minute ago, Venger_06 said:
Tell me you at least got a glimpse of one the best villains of the medium
I mean, it takes all of five minutes to get a glimpse of Luca.
I will say, the intro is really good and definitely makes an impression. If the translation wasn't what it is and the game required a braincell to be played I probably would have gotten more into it, because there's a very good story in there.
1 minute ago, Venger_06 said:True! That's the thing with 95% of the old games, even the great ones. I hope FE4 remake do justice to the original
At least FE4 benefitted from having a fanslation made in the 2010s instead of a godawful official translation made in 199X like Suikoden. Project Naga actually feels like the person who wrote it knows how to write.
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3 minutes ago, Venger_06 said:
Wait, when did this happen??? You got to play one of my favorite games and I wasn't here??????
Better that way, I won't lie.
3 minutes ago, Venger_06 said:Anyway, yes, you're right. Suikoden 2 was one of the first games I played when I was a kid and I was still learning English
I played it like, 8 months ago? Something like that?
...my conclusion was that these games indeed do need remakes.
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Just now, rdrouyn said:
That's fair. Do you even use Izerna at all? I can't imagine using both Owen and Izerna in most maps. And that means missing out on the un-crippling spell which is huge.
Ehh, I'm not sure if I'd call it huge, to be honest. Most runs I tend to get it and then I proceed to use it like, once?
...In fact, I often have Owen use it instead lmao
Anyway, even if you want the orb that badly, she promotes very easily. She has a couple chapters of head-start, plus 5-main, then you can just deploy her in a few sidequests and she gets there without much trouble at all. I've done it a few times.
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38 minutes ago, ping said:
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Meanwhile, Verdane... exists or something, idc.
This is going to be really funny when we get to the ending.
Anyway, I do like how they just sort of go "oh by the way these countries you knew from before are also free now." I can't really fault them for this, though - having return chapters to these places would just feel excessive. Best to just handwave away.
38 minutes ago, ping said:
Dere it is. Brain moment.
39 minutes ago, ping said:I also have to point out that Julius is going along with Manfroy's idiotic plan very quickly, considering that he recognises Julia as the greatest threat to his power and his life.
And yeah, people usually pin it on Manfroy but Julius just goes with it because we need the villains to become dumb so we can actually win. You know how else we could've won? By not having the random-ass kidnapping happen, so this problem doesn't exist.
40 minutes ago, ping said:
: "Sorry, Seliph, but this'll have to wait. The enemy's just about on our doorstep."
I smell a sequence of plot dumps incoming. Every time our boy Seliph seizes a thr-- castle.
Oh boy. I sure hope this, the thrilling conclusion, won't be one of the dullest chapters in the game.
41 minutes ago, ping said:
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The castle's defenders are actually two groups: One under Boyce the Swordmaster (with Pursuit, Adept, Critical, and Sol!); the other under Rodan, who isn't particularly noteworthy apart from his Sleep staff. And even with that he isn't too special, since six (!!!) of his underlings carry Sleep, as well - plus four Meteor Bishops and four Bolting Bishops.
I won't lie - when I saw the sleep army, I just gave up on the game and threw Ares at the problem until it stopped existing. By this point I was running on fumes.
41 minutes ago, ping said:
On top of the castle is a guy.
Oh boy. I sure hope this, the thrilling conclusion, won't consist of a guy on top of castles, over and over.
42 minutes ago, ping said:
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Bye, Felicia.
We got trouble?
42 minutes ago, ping said:
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I do like how this guy is just confused.
43 minutes ago, ping said:
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...with the force sent against Chalphy being significantly stronger. Although the generic Great Knights don't have the greatest accuracy, so I think I should be able to set up some reliable interception. But Brian himself is of yet another caliber, with Helswath raising his defenses to pretty ridiculous levels.
This is probably the most interesting part of the chapter. Brian is a legitimate menace. This man is scarier than fucking Julius and Manfroy are - in fact, in my run, with Ares and the other good units in the frontlines, I had nobody that could defend Chalphy from him. So I had to use my benchies to buy time until I could seize the earth under him and make him disappear.
It cost Roddelbahn or whatever's life. No big deal.
44 minutes ago, ping said:You are a crazy man, Ruben. Godspeed. Hannibalspeed, even.
Hannibalspeed indeed. And this isn't even my craziest thing! I've got just the video for Thracia.
...By the way, since we're coming closer to Thracia... Er, I have a feeling I might've already said it, but I'll say it again just in case: I extend to you Hicks. Please do try to use my guy, Hicks. That is all for this game.
45 minutes ago, ping said:
: "Evil child-murdering cults are like seeds. You must plant and nurture them until they grow into full genocidal bloom."
He's just a silly little guy. Doing silly little guy things.
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43 minutes ago, rdrouyn said:
The 20 turn thing is still a real downside IMO. For example, the desert map where you fight all of the wyverns is a perfect map for him. High magic resistance, can attack with any element. But due to the annoyingly random attack pattern of the wyverns it can often take more than twenty turns to kill them all. So he leaves you hanging high and dry when you need him the most.
Personally, the only maps where I've ever wished Owen could stay for longer are 9-main and the one you mention - and even those can be done fast enough, I'm just not the best player haha. Anyway, point is, that's 2 maps out of 41. Every other map, either the action is basically over by turn 20 unless you're going extremely slow, or it's an escape map and his gimmick is a legitimate upside. Even if you don't have him escape on turn 20, he can't be captured or killed by enemies after he turns, and he just comes back after the map is over. I've used this more than a few times to my advantage.
And then there's all his other strengths, like being able to use all magic types in a pinch if you need him to, high-power healing with no investment, low recruitment cost, easy recruitment conditions (the thing you mentioned about him turning on you in chapter 12-1 if he's not recruited is not true), being invulnerable to crippling, his giant assortment of great utility orbs only he can use for almost the entire game...
B- still sounds a mite low, I won't lie. That places him right next to the likes of Marcel, Daoud and Adel in your list. Dude is a really versatile unit that can offer tons of support and even some utility combat for a very low price.
Just now, rdrouyn said:I'm confused. Why would Owen turn on you if you raise his happiness stat? I'll have to try him out in my next playthrough and see.
It's, uh... just a bit of weirdness to expedite his recruitment cutscene. That's basically it lol, just Kaga being Kaga.
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2 hours ago, Revier said:
TBH I find the generic battle themes quite weak, either for player or enemy side. I'd much prefer to keep the chapter and enemy phase themes on during them.
This isn't an unpopular take. It probably is better how they do it in modern FE. Instead of jarring battle themes interrupting the map songs, there are "intense" versions of the map themes that the game seamlessly switches to when a battle starts. In the last two FEs boss themes even continue playing after a boss is first fought until they die, which is better than hearing the first two notes of the boss theme over and over.
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19 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
I've put some thought into it before. And I've a liking for Gotohs (the archetype, not "Lewyn's" true identity).
Thinking of what Saias would look like, hypothetically, gameplay-wise.:
- Saias would have Nihil as in 776 of course, it is what his father gave him. And maybe Charm given it was his schtick.
- Probably wouldn't make him level 30, more like 24-26, to give him a few level-ups for the flavor of it.
- Ironically, neither High Priest nor Bishop can use Light magic in Genealogy though that's the only magic they can in Thracia, so he'd have to grab a different utilitarian starting tome, not like you'd more than five uses out of it when Valflame would be the entire reason for having him.
- Statwise, well super-high Mag would be guaranteed. And really they'd all be not bad in terms of bases, with growths an afterthought.
- However, High Priest having a maximum of 18 Def (I'd think Saias would join with something like 13) means he wouldn't actually be physically particularly bulky even with Valflame's +10. He could probably reach his 23 Res maximum and be near-immune to enemy spells thanks to the 'Flame though.
- I'm not sure if Saias would stand to benefit all that much from Pursuit. 67 Res-hitting Atk in the final chapter probably wouldn't OHKO all that much, but Valflame is on the heavy side and doesn't have a Spd bonus like the other holy tomes.
Now, narratively weaving him into the fold, let me say this upfront- I don't see him and Arvis hugging. They're both grown men, probably neither is the openly-emotional type either (Arvis at least is possibly privately quite tender). Has Arvis heard the rumors about Saias before, does he believe them, does Saias mention his mother and subtly allude to Arvis being the one who sired him? What even was the relationship between Arvis and Aida? -How these questions would get answered would be necessary to determine how Arvis and Saias interact in their lone instance (or two with an earlier one in Chapter 10 as well) of doing so.
What I can imagine, is that Saias never once refers to Arvis as "father", always at the remove of "Emperor/Your Majesty", as he has been his entire life. Although, Arvis would promise him Valflame with his passing, and ask him to help oversee the transition of Grannvale to its post-Empire state (which is his 776 ending). Saias would likewise part from the living Arvis probably with more a sense of deep respect for the Emperor than for his lifelong absent dad, but not necessarily any hate about (or sympathy regarding the circumstances that led to) that absence either.
As for the retrieval of Valflame, yeah, it probably should happen in front of Seliph, leading him to know who Saias really is. Although Saias would not outright say to Seliph "Arvis was my father". I was thinking more Seliph tries vocalizing his realization of this revelation, and Saias cuts him off mid-sentence, saying "Let us prepare for what lay ahead, my Lord, the Empire shall mount a great counteroffensive soon enough. Leave me to find some reverential servants and Bragi priests here at Chalphy to tend to the Emperor's body for now. I for my part must return the sacred tome to Velthomer. I shall provide you with my full support from now through the restoration of the old Kingdom that is follow, Lord Seliph, such was the Emperor's last will.". Seliph implicitly realizing that Saias wishes not to have his holy blood spoken of, nor be placed in the line of Velthomerian succession.
IntSys?
Take notes.
18 hours ago, Jotari said:But then you'd need to design a Gen 1 portrait for him. Or not. He could buy some of Manfroy's aging cream. "Lopt Brand anti-aging cream, it won't make you look young, but it will make you look the same level of old no matter how many decades pass! And now onto our next product. Even you can conceive when you're in your late 90s with our Duma Strength Viagra".
Well, that. That took a turn.
18 hours ago, Jotari said:It's Biran in English too. Never even heard of Bern.
...huh.
Lundgren has such a funny face.
15 hours ago, ping said:
And it's even fully repaired! Pretty sure Sigurd didn't scrape enough money together for that.
Palmark's been working three jobs for 20 years to earn the money.
15 hours ago, ping said:Now, Arvis. I know that Seliph has to be the one to defeat him in order to get him to see ghosts, so nobody even tried chipping him before Seliph returns.
I'll actually be interested in seeing this, because in my run... Uh, well...
15 hours ago, ping said:
Sharlow promotes and does some arenaing. Massigli is a massive roadblock for him, since Sharlow has no +dmg skills whatsoever to swing the unfavourable numbers, but some start-of-turn save abuse during Oifey's arena run allows him to eventually overcome him.
...I don't even bother with the second Jormungand user, though. Five out of seven ain't bad.
I like these Lopt cultists just hanging out in the arena. Damn, Manfroy really did get his paws on every corner of the continent. Even the arena is within his grasp!
15 hours ago, ping said:Not a huge fan of this scene, to be honest. Very heavy-handed. Seliph's story has a bit of a theme going that he's standing on his parents' shoulders - game-mechanically in the form of inheritance, but he also benefits from Sigurd's reputation and the personal friendships he had forged. Most directly Shanan and Oifey, but there's also Fee who is moved to help Seliph by Erin's stories about Sigurd. I liked that better when there was more subtlety about it.
Kaga was really proud of his theme and was afraid you'd miss it. So here he put... this scene that is impossible to get unless you read a guide.
15 hours ago, ping said:
: "Julia, right? You must be worried something fierce. Heh... Got a little thing for her, do you?"
Lewyn, she has been kidnapped by evil cultists and, following all logic and reason, is currently lying in a shallow grave.
15 hours ago, ping said:And endgame time it is. I don't think I have much to add to what I've already said about the chapter. Arvis mostly good, but with too little stage presence. Julius... mixed, although I think I'll keep my thoughts on that for the summary after finishing the game, since it intertwines with some other thoughts. Ishtar still hasn't had a chance to actually do something to make herself appear more sympathetic.
And now for the grand finale.
I have thoughts about it. I will wait to share them until the time is right.
10 hours ago, Jotari said:Like, what the hell? The suffering of the common man? Seliph only lived hunted by the Lopt Sect and the Empire all his life. I don't think we're meant to believe growing up in Tir Na NOg was a resort for him. He has felt the suffering of the common man because he's been down in the trenches with them.
It's really funny because then Kaga does it again in Thracia 776. It's like he thinks being a nobleman is some sort of inherent trait that naturally sets a person apart from everyone around them, even if they grow up in identical circumstances.
6 hours ago, Revier said:besides dropping a special mention for Arvis' sick beats.
Can I just drop a take hot as vallflame?
I don't particularly like this theme. I don't know, it feels a mite too... chipper? For the occasion? I feel like this kinda would've fit Travant better. Arvis should've had a more somber theme.
6 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:of. Also, apparently Hannibal never married, and raised Sharlow all on his own.
...Or, alternatively, he had a husband, giving Sharlow two adoptive fathers. Double the dad jokes to deal with!
Plot twist: Hannibal's husband lives in his beard. That's why he's never seen.
2 hours ago, ping said:: "Evil child-murdering cults are like seeds."
Yeah, not like Garon, who's just an evil child-murdering king with exactly two cronies that he has do everything.
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10 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Certainly sounds like were being safe. Again, hopefully this already-announced sequel feels freer to become something of its own, and refine what people now see as aged kinks in the formula.
Spiritual successors and Kickstarters sure have had a mixed record, Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood are next in the firing line.Guess we'll see. Sometimes they come out right. Bloodstained was pretty good.
10 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:Curious how Konami's 1&2 rerelease will do then. If they skimp on the QoL updates, and quite possibly a new translation, then I can see some reviewers not so nostalgic giving the old games tepid scores.
It'll see some success just on the basis of being Suikoden 1&2's remake. People love buying the thing they played in their childhood again, regardless of the merits of the remake itself.
...Not that I'm against remakes on principle. Sometimes they're a nice upgrade, and in this case I'd argue it's almost necessary, because... Well, you may recall from when I tried them out, but Suikoden 1&2 do not have a translation that meets modern standards at all. It's complete garbage and totally distracting unless you're playing it as a child who doesn't know better.
Considering these are JRPGs, and JRPGs with particularly awful combat while at that, the story is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and having a translation that is not shit will significantly benefit them for anyone who isn't already nostalgic for them. That's really all they need to do - improving the combat and difficulty would be cool but I'm not holding my breath on that one. I'm not the target audience of JRPGs.
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1 hour ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Well they devs have already announced plans for a sequel. Maybe they'll get to...
- Either adding a random encounter slider, or ditching them altogether.
- Adding a list that keeps track of potential recruits once you meet them the first time and what they're asking for in order to join.
- And, adding a way to change somebody's equipment without putting them on the active team first.
-Three little flaws the reviews mention that, if given some simple modern QoL updates, would help alleviate the jank from yesteryear.
If I got the game -which I wouldn't at least for a very long while since I was lukewarm about Suikoden myself- then I'd likely be willing to forgive it in my abundance of understanding, because Suikoden has been dead and there isn't anything exactly like it. But, I would be more critical of a sequel that didn't address issues consumers had with the prior title, the resurrection excuse wouldn't hold up so well.
I mean, this is basically Suikoden 6. Or 7? Whichever one would've come next. The only thing Eiyuden lacked was the name, because I'm pretty sure all the major folks behind Suikoden were in this project. Conversely, Konami basically only has the brand name left, which is why they're only doing a remake of the thing they legally own.
Anyway, yeah, it does seem like they might've been playing things a tad safe, just do "Suikoden again" for the new generation. I should look into how the famous hard mode functions. What I liked about that old fangame, Exit Fate, is that it was challenging enough that I had to think, even in random encounters. They weren't like, hard, but I at least had to think a little bit, and the animations were very fast while being nice to look at, so the result was battles that went by in a breeze but were a smidge less boring than your average JRPG random encounter. Not to mention you could just bribe them without going into battle, it was all just very fast, very smooth to play.
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9 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
@Saint Rubenio Eiyuden Chronicle reviews have been rolling in today. Generally positive scores, 7-8 on average, through Eiyuden is not without criticisms, namely the game is being described as dated in ways.
Kind of worrisome, hearing that and thinking back to my less than ideal experience with Suikoden.
9 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:...And the Switch version is a loadfest wreck that's torpedoing the score on that particular system (please don't schadenfreude-laugh too loudly🙄).
Classic Switch. I wonder how it runs on the Steam Deck!
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11 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
For you it was one cutscene. For Kaga, given his flowery praise for Arvis, it wouldn't surprise me if his imagination ran wild with thoughts of Arvis every day up to when his death got programmed.Hah, true enough.
11 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:Palmark exists because IS could see the future, and now was not the time to replace the throwaway with the yet-to-be-invented Saias (who will pick up Valflame in a post-battle cutscene and join for the final chapter).
...Actually? Yeah, this'd be the perfect place to implement Saias.
9 hours ago, Jotari said:Killing a unit is indeed the lamest way to deal with them. The most based way to deal with them is to have them deal with each other.
This is why Sharlow is amazing.
9 hours ago, Jotari said:Hmm. Are you really? I don't recall seeing you in the first generation. In fact, I don't think Sigurd ever even mentioned you.
4 hours ago, ping said:I first thought that he's the guy who officially made Sigurd a Paladin after the prologue and later shared juicy court gossip with him, but...
4 hours ago, Jotari said:That's right, fluffy mustache man appears in two consecutive chapters playing almost the identical role and he is a different guy, neither of which was the character established in Gen 1.
There was also a perfect opportunity to introduce Palmark so he doesn't feel quite so out-of-left-field. He's a servant of Chalphy. It's implied he's been serving Chalphy for decades. So... why not have him show up in the very first cutscene? Just a quick appearance, where Sigurd tells him to stay and take care of things at home while he's gone because he trusts him the most to do it. 9 chapters later, he resurfaces and the observant player goes "hey I remember him, I know him!" instead of "lmao they just made a guy up for this."
9 hours ago, Jotari said:I recall one instance of a kingdom naming a girl successor over a boy. It was really unpopular with the nobility who loved the prince and ended with the father trying to assassinate his own son only for the son to fake his own death and stab his father at his own would be funeral. I think the name of the kingdom was something like Biran or something.
It is indeed Biran... In the Spanish version.
8 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:Oh yeah, I remember that Prince! Cute kid, loved to hang out on pillars. Not one for reaver weapons, though.
He grew up to be an upstanding, kind-hearted leader that ruled fairly and justly over his people. He even adopted a young orphan and made her his heir!
4 hours ago, ping said:Tis what happens if you skip 17 years of a story, but I agree. I think it works better with Arvis because his transformation from smug badassery to humbled and broken is something of a "oh, damn" moment, but he shares with Travant the problem that their most intriguing stories happened off-screen. And that aspect is arguably worse for Arvis, since it basically happens twice for him, with his scheming in Belhalla while Sigurd is out a-conquerin'.
The effect is definitely good, but it could've been great if it had more time to sink in. Instead the game meanders with boring-ass bossmen for a bit too long.
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Always a pleasure to see more people play and enjoy Berwick Saga.
As for the list, it's fine. I'm of the opinion that everyone is usable in Berwick Saga, and only two units can really be described as "bad", at least by the usual standards of other FE and FE-adjacent games (there's certainly no Wendies or Bantus here).
I think my biggest disagreement so far is that Owen is just... not here? Presumably he'll be in one of the lower tiers when the list is continued, placing him below Izerna. However, Owen has far higher base magic and light rank, far higher level combined with expert (he only needs a handful of levels to use fortify), starts with an array of great orbs that only he can use for most of the game, is one of the cheapest mercenaries and he can even shoot a fireball or two in an emergency. Not only that, his gimmick is a non-issue in most maps, and outright helpful in escape maps, which are decently common in this game.
I'd argue he's the best healer in the game, and Izerna takes a long time to get to where he starts.
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1 hour ago, ping said:
Clearly, Julius is the true self-insert character of Genealogy, to give the teenage boys the fantasy of ordering around their parents after cruelly being told to clean up their rooms.
(It's a nice little disturbing detail that Julius calls Ishtar "his", in particular in response to Arvis trying to give her orders)
Once again, what makes Arvis less effective than he could've been is that this is his third ever scene in the game. He's not forgettable, not after the barbeque, but he kinda would've liked to have a bit more time so they didn't have to cram literally all of his gen 2 character traits (regretful, humbled, unconcerned with personal risk if it means atoning for his actions, latching on to his titles in a desperate attempt to retain what little power he's got left, afraid of Julius, afraid of even Manfroy) into the one cutscene.
1 hour ago, ping said:Sounding rather excited there, Ishtar.
In a way, I appreciate how Julius and Manfroy mirror each other in how they underestimate the threats to their power: Manfroy is worried about Seliph while Julius dismisses him - Julius is worried about Julia, but Manfroy dismisses her. But I feel like it's getting really late for that story beat to continue. Seliph has liberated Isaach (let's ignore Shanan) and Leonster (let's ignore Leif) already - surely, that's enough to draw some attention?
Villain thinks hero is going to do nothing. What else is new?
1 hour ago, ping said:
I do really like the visual effect of Lopto blood. Interface horror is seriously underrated. It gets you where you're not expecting it.
1 hour ago, ping said:
The guy on top of Miletos Castle is very forgettable.
Fortunately, next chapter is the final chapter in the game, and there's no way they'd drop a whole brigade of generics in succession.
1 hour ago, ping said:
: "Once, long ago, you were a confidante to Sigurd, were you not?
That must've been SUPER long ago, considering we never even saw him when Sigurd was the protagonist of the game lol
1 hour ago, ping said:Seeing Arvis this pathetic is a bit hard to believe. I appreciate the shock effect - the mighty and prideful Arvis is now cowering in fear before Julius and Manfroy, not daring to defy their orders openly - but considering that gameplay is about to present him as a still incredibly powerful fighter, I have to question why he doesn't even make an attempt to stand up to Manfroy.
I almost would've better if he was kinda weak as a boss.
1 hour ago, ping said:What I do appreciate without reservations is Arvis's regretfulness. He sacrificed a lot of other people to become Emperor, and now the ends that justified the means are not just in shambles, his ambition to overhaul Jugdral has been entirely perverted.
That is the thing that makes him good. Could've been great if he had more than three scenes in the game, but he's definitely good.
1 hour ago, ping said:As is my nature, I'm already contemplating interesting ways to replay Genealogy. "No Forseti Inheritance", even though I'm not really looking to do a full substitute run, is looking like a strong option, honestly. Well, not a strong option. You know what I mean.
Get Hawke while you're at it.
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3 minutes ago, Capt. Fargus said:
@Saint Rubenio What was that term you used a while back for a gal that plays VGs? 🤔
Er... I can't say I remember lol
Minor Character Appreciation Thread
in General Fire Emblem
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I often forget royals exist.
Shura exists for like five minutes in Birthright.
...Fair. Fair.