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That's strange Advance War must have just sold more than FE in the US because it always seemed far more popular over here at least. Far more people seem to have played and heard of Advanced Wars. In fact I remember in the marketing push when the first XCOM (which launched pre-awakening) was coming out, it was constantly being compared to Advanced Wars despite being more similar to Fire Emblem, and Fire Emblem was never brought up. Of course I only meant the turn-based ones my bad for not specifying that because things like StarCraft makes piles and piles and piles of money... I'd rather the Paper Mario team concentrate on making something new and after FE Switch let the Fire Emblem team take a break and make an Advanced Wars game. Either that or they could assign their 3rd team that did Codename Steam and is likely doing Echoes to make an Advanced Wars game. I do want a new Advanced Wars game but I don't think that's the job for the Paper Mario team, but you never know they might do it.

Unchanged lol

I never insinuated that Pushmo didn't sell well... as for Advance Wars it actually sold pretty well, it sold better than GBA Fire Emblem games and mind you to target for GBA games was much lower for when they were considered successful, but strategy has always been a niche genre, it is only in recent years that we've started to get more games that aren't Civilization selling large numbers. But Advanced Wars did well enough that IS may consider reviving it one day. Also Paper Mario has been IS's largest moneymaker until Fire Emblem took off, even at its lowest sales numbers (Color Splash) it still did decently for platform it was on. Also I told agree there's no reason that Fire Emblem will fail at this point I am just totally committing to the hypothetical situation lol. We should be seening something new from IS though in the coming year's because Paper Mario team is not working on Paper Mario so I'm guessing they'll have a new IP coming up likely not in the strategy genre.

I'm free to play and never rerolled so my list is relatively small, though I certainly been pretty lucky. Pulled: Marth (my first five star), 2 Lyn's (I merged them), M Corrin, Kagero, Effie, Jaffar, Bunny Lucina, Cordelia (my most recent 5 pull) Promoted: Nino, Sharena, Anna (promoted just today) So 12 in total 11 after merging, this from using for every orb I've ever received I never hoard orbs.

IS has only created a couple major franchises Namely Advanced Wars, Fire Emblem, Paper Mario, Pushmo, and Code Name Steam ( which didn't do all that well). Of those Advanced Wars and Paper Mario were there so most successful series until Fire Emblem kicked off. Paper Mario still makes a lot of money (Color Splash sold decently for a Wii U game) for them, IS probably will not continue the series for a little bit due to them being not knowing where they want to go with anymore. At least according to the director of Paper Mario they plan on taking a break for a while so we already are likely expect a new IP from this team. So if Fire Emblem where to bomb it would most likely directly affect IS strategy series namely any possibility of a sequel to Codename Steam or Advanced Wars. Nintendo might give them one more chance in the strategy genre but if Fire Emblem fails badly enough for it to be discontinued I think that's the end of IS involvement in the strategy genre more than anything. So Paper Mario would be unaffected by that, only IS lack of interest would affect whether it continues. It's not the same as Pokémon company, but IS does own some part of the IP they created, they just don't have primary ownership of it like Pokémon company has of Pokémon. Pokémon company are a second party studio and not a first party studio. Pokémon's ownership is actually nightmarishly complicated lol.

Best: 3pts: Path of Radiance 2pts: Genealogy of the Holy War 1pts: Fates: Conquest Worst: 3pts: Shadow Dragon 2pts: Awakening 1pts: Fates: Birthright

I'd be sad but I would continue to play old games and look forward to whatever IS makes instead. Not everything can last forever but if FE died it would not leave a small legacy, 16 (assuming in this hypothetical situation FE Switch bombs, 17 if you count BS) or even 13 games is not small amount so even if it died I can say the series had a good run.

Have not played 1-3, & 5 Best: 3pts: Path of Radiance 2pts: Genealogy of the Holy War 1pts: Fates: Conquest Worst: 3pts: Shadow Dragon 2pts: Awakening 1pts: Fates: Birthright Edit: Took out Rev and Blazing Blade I didn't read the whole thread last night.

Of my top fav Nino, Jaffar, Marth, and Tiki(which would've preferred young but old works). Of my other faves Lyn, Lilina, Cecilia, Eliwood, Serra, and Oboro (in fact she won't leave me alone and since she's horrible in this game I'm usually not happy to see her lol). I'm also pulled many characters I like such Cain, Abel, Fir, Shanna, Robin, Cherche, Jeorge, Sheena, and Hana. Only have five's of Lyn, Marth, Nino (who I trained from a three star) and Jaffar though... Really though I am actually pulling for units that help me in game more than units that I like at the moment...

Beat it with 5* team of Lyn, Sharena, Nino, and Karago my Lyn was there because she has Reciprocal Aid for Karago after the first Dagger Kill, then she could kill the second dagger without dying. It was kind of straightforward after that. Funny enough though I almost lost my winning attempt on accident but a healer decided to stay put and not let Navarre though it saved my life lol. I would've used my 5* Effie but the defense buffs and greater movement or more helpful for this map plus I was running Nino.

Actually hitting anywhere that is not the Horns (which will give you Horns), Claws/or near the claws (which will give you Claws) or Teeth/near the mouth (which will give you Teeth) will give a Scale, I recommend not aiming for the head if you want a scale you might accidentally get a horn or teeth.

So far there is no upgrade I have seen using scales both the Barbarian set and Champion's tunic use Horns. That being said they be a piece of armor that I have yet to see the full upgrades that uses them. I mostly sell them...

No there's more upgrades talk to her (or her partner mabye) again their is, Bombs +, Sensor +, and Statis +, it is a side quest she will give you.

Hayato Tech Lab, Talk to Purah and do her side quest to upgrade your slate. All the upgrades are useful so get them all, you just need a few ancient parts.

They just need to tell me whatever the heck Retro is working on Tropical Freeze came out in 2014 and whatever they're working on it can't be another Donkey Kong game because it would be out already if it was. I'm excited for whatever it is it turns out they're making. I hope it's Metroid but I'll take whatever they make. Official trailer for the new Fire Emblem game? Just a little CG one... mabye... i'm curious about Warriors and while I have no interest in the game I am very curious to see what it's roster ends up being. More Xenoblade 2 footage would be good as well, Also it be great if they confirm whether or not they're really going to release it in the US in 2017 which seems very unlikely to me but would be cool. Mario Odyssey footage would be great as well of course. A sneak peek at the DLC's for Breath of the Wild would be good as well, it'd be to know little bit more about what I paid for (lol i'm a hopeless Zelda fanboy I bought it without a second thought...). Other than that hoping for some surprises mabye Dark Souls Trilogy this would be a great excuse for me to finally get into the Souls series which I just been kind of iffy about but now I feel like I could maybe handle now. More third-party announcements in general.

Use Statis + and climb up it's back, or you can sprint around to it's back if you have enough stamina or if you know how to if time it right (by running around the time he strikes) you can do it without any stamina upgrades, or use bombs/bomb arrows. Statis + is the answer to most things combat related just get it, it's beautiful. That being said I have defeated plenty of these things without it it's entirely possible.

Finished infantry, I'm going to try Horses I have to run teams of completely 4* Stars (Abel, Cain, Celica, Ursula). This one's a little hard because it's a zero tank set up but it's all the horses I have. Cause I don't want to waste feathers on Jagen and there is no way even if I did I'll have time to raise to him. This is my highest total level set up (besides infantry of course) just a bad team comp. I can luck out on the armor one and hopefully find maps that 5* Effie can solo, because other than that all I have are two 4* Sheena, and a 3* Draug that's basically they're just look pretty. I'm going to attempt to train the Sheena's so I can get fortify armor. For flying I just need to train my fliers more but that team is all 4* (Narcian, Cordelia, Cherche, Camilla). But I have overall decent set up would be better if I was able to train Palla but I don't want to waste feathers and I don't have the time. No idea if I'll be able to finish any of these but I'm going to try.

Long List incoming so I will keep the descriptions short. If you like in-depth game analysis you should check out the guys in the Great section. The Great Raycevick: long and short form in-depth game analysis channel. This guy is so good he really need a lot love more then he gets. He has done Halo, Call of Duty, currently doing Mass Effect among other things. Joseph Anderson: long form in-depth game analysis channel. Has done things like Fallout, Uncharted, and Dark Souls among others. Emcee ProphIt: long and short form in-depth game analysis channel more on the symbolism side. Has done Zelda, Mother 3, Undertale in long form and does some short form on various games as well, is doing Mass Effect next. Hamish Black of Writing on Games: short form in-depth game analysis channel, mostly talks about design concepts in many games that they did well or badly, most recently he did one Zelda BOTW's open spaces. Mark Brown: short form in-depth game analysis channel, mostly talks about design concepts in many games that they did well or badly. Extra Credits: Game Design channel by actual professionals, if you like Game Design check it out. Matthewmatosis: long form in-depth game analysis channel, has lots of Zelda, Mario, and Dark Souls stuff among other things. Liam Robertson: Know as the Unseen64 guy he digs up stories about cancelled games helping to persevere game history among other thing. George Weidman of Super Bunnyhop: George does everything, analysis, reviews, industry commentary, ect. he is awesome. John Linneman of Digital Foundry: Digital Foundry does some great work in general but John does DF Retro where his gives a historical tech analysis of the game or series and goes really deep it is some really cool stuff. Chris Franklin (Campster) of Errant Signal: short form in-depth game analysis channel and sometimes reviews, mostly talks about design concepts in many games that they did well or badly. Jeremy Parish: Bless his soul but this guy is documenting (playing reviewing and them) and doing a historical overview of every single Gameboy ever released along with all US NES games, among other thing. It very interesting if you are into game history and like to see some very odd games that would be otherwise forgotten. Danny O'Dwyer for his work on Noclip: Former Gamespot employee now does Documentaries on Game Development, has done Doom, Frog Fraction, and Rocket League among other things. Noah Caldwell-Gervais: long form in-depth game analysis channel. His mic isn't the best but he is really smart has done good on Mass Effect, Dishonored, and Mafia among others. The Good Eazy Allies, Ben (Yahtzee) Crosshaw of Zero Punctuation, TotalBiscuit, Jim Sterling, SomecallmeJonny, JohnTron, videogamedunkey. About Jim: I would've put him on higher but he's being really petty recently, I never cared much for his reviews because I think he has a crap opinion a lot of the time. I just like his industry commentary or punditry if you will. I still listen to him because he has interesting insights even if I don't agree even half the time. I just wish he would stop being so petty especially when it comes to Nintendo... The Bad Egoraptor mostly... Matpat as well... Also I don't understand Let's Plays or Let's Players but I have nothing against them. This does not include Speedruns though I quite like those and I watch some of GDQ every time, not usually on stream but I do love watching the archives.

She is S according to almost every site (all the reputable ones anyways), that is because utility is greater than unit power and she has permanent utility along with perfectly decent stats. With certain builds Erika becomes absolutely despicable if you have, any blade tomes, Kagero, and quite a number of other people all benefit from her buffs, she is a buffing machine. But hey only run 5* Nino and Kargero and did several no death with them, what would I know about what turns them from good into absolute monsters of destruction.

You will, oh you will I can't wait for you to get decimated by a Erika team in the arena trust me you're going to run into them and you're going to figure out why she's S Tier. For the record I would've loved to have your Erika and I have 3 5* star swordies (Marth, Lyn, M Corrin), oh the crap I could've done with her and Nino it would be beautiful....

If you're so concerned about her speed which is fine 32 isn't really a bad speed it's not that slow, my M Corrin has the same base speed and he hardly gets doubled ever even on enemy phase. Then why don't you give her the plus Speed skill, Darting Blow or Fury (I personally recommend Fury). She's mostly a support character is a but their is a reason she's S tier why don't you try her before you send her away, +3 attack and + 4 speed every turn really good. Erika skills are absolutely NOT worth losing her unique weapon over do not use her this way it is a bad idea, but you are free to do what you like I guess.

I got Jaffar!!!!!!! I am going crazy right now he is litterally the character I wanted the most! It took being orb picky (no red orbs) but I got him and he is not half bad. Now I just need Ninian and Hector...I will post a picture of Jaffar later.

Nope no Tellius or Judgral, very random assortment of characters (like why Effie, Kagero, and Olivia of all people they are not even that popular), and has no villains so yeah it's pretty weak (though there's a bunch of characters I do like I just feel this list is poorly conceived). Also missing series icons like Anna.

Welp that's sucks suppose it's time to power level those two units. Sometimes in this game the only solution is grinding sadly. Setsuna and M Robin could also be useful but I don't think you have enough time to train them to a high enough level unless you have ton of crystals.

Umm without training.... how about Seliph/Eirika, Nowi, Julia/F* Robin/Merric, Olivia. Theoretically with Rally Speed you should be able to have Julia double Ursula, then Nowi kill the Horse, Not sure if Nowi can tank the Ninja but with rally speed mabye she can. Julia may be be more useful here because of healing ulitily. Eirika buffs could also serve the same purpose as Seliph mabye use her instead. Merric can also tank a hit from Kagero so he may be useful. With Training, Cherche or Shanna are your best bets.