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    Favorite Units in Binding Blade?

    in Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

    Posted · Edited by henrymidfields

    Alan and Lance, for being very versatile and mobile on most maps, and being two ax-users that do not suck with accuracy.
    Also include Dieck for another ax-wielder without the accuracy issue, and also for his hilarious conversation with Clarine.
    Shanna and Milady for being flying units. Latter was generally better at being a melee unit overall, but the former was more reliable with dodging in general, and dodging enemy criticals hits in particular.
    Roy and Lilina for being such cute couples. (I even named my Lucario in Pokémon Black 2 after her!)

    Sue for being so mysterious sometimes.

    Pokemon nicknames?

    in Pokémon

    Posted · Edited by henrymidfields

    For those of you who nicknamed your Pokémon, what are they?

    Mine has been human names, and they started to become Fire Emblem characters, quite fittingly. Here are the list:

    Black 1:
    Tirtouga - female: Thany (FE Binding Blade)
    Cinccino - female: Caeda (FE Shadow Dragon)
    Snivy - male: Zephyr (FE Binding Blade)

    Litwick - male: Knoll (FE Sacred Stones)

    Black 2:
    Swablu - female: Cecilia (FE Binding Blade)
    Drilbur - male: Darius (FE Tracia 777)
    Oshawott - male: Octavius
    Sygiliph - female: Sophia (FE Binding Blade)
    Happiny - female; Maribelle (FE Awakening)
    Lucario - female; Lilina (FE Binding Blade)

    Y
    Pikachu - female: Jeanne (Jean-luc-Pikachu from Electric Tales manga)
    Froakie - female: Fernanda
    Belossom - female: Bethany (similar to botany, and also Thany from FE Binding Blade)
    Hawlucha - female: Hilda (from Pokémon BW and FE Jugdral)
    Gyarados - female: Genevieve (corruption of Guinevere from FE Binding Blade)
    Seadra - male: Sigurd (FE Genealogy of the Holy War)

    Tyranitar - female: Tharja (FE Awakening)

    Lucario - male: Laurent (FE Awakening)

    Multiple games:
    Mareep - female/B2+Y: Martina
    Venipede - both male in B1+2: Vittorio in B1, and Viktor in B2

    A wild henrymidfields appeared!

    in Introductions

    Posted · Edited by henrymidfields

    Thanks everyone! :D

    PS Hahahaha! You folks all guessed it! Yeah, Pokémon is my other favourite Nintendo franchise. I even named my current FE Awakening Spotpass Team (Hard Mode) as Team Rocket. Complete with one-liners "Blasting off!" (parley), "Prepare for trouble!" (battle encounter), and "Snatch Pikachu" (recruit) as my Avatar's lines. My previous SP team on Normal Mode was even more bizzare - it was Team Missile Bomb.

    How many of you have played FE6?

    in GameBoy Advance Era

    Posted

    This was actually the very first FE game I played. Thinking about it now, I think it was also the hardest too. I was surprised when I could double attack against enemies with almost all of my units in the later chapters in Sacred Stones, and with ax-using units in particular. Speaking of axes, they also seem to have much higher hit rates too. This thing certainly didn't happen to the same extent in Binding Blade; only Shanna, Sue, Shin, and Fir guaranteed a double attack against any unit.

    What are your favorite aspects of Pokémon?

    in Pokémon

    Posted · Edited by henrymidfields

    For a long time, Pokémon was probably the one that I enjoyed consistently throughout all of the Nintendo franchises. Even during the times I didn't play, I did follow official announcements, and I also occasionally watch the anime. So what was great:

    With some exceptions, the reality of the world it is based on.

    The very fact that Pokémon's geography didn't start out willy-nilly like other Nintendo games is something special. Sure, Earthbound may be another game that is based on our modern, realistic world, but Pokémon pushed this further by actually basing their regions from real-life Japan, USA, and France. This is why I love XY and GSC for actually creating a region that is as fantastic as necessary, but as realistic as possible. (It is also the reason why RSE/ORAS is the game (and the only game) that I dislike.)

    The balance of the story

    As a child, I found it simple enough to be approachable, unlike Fire Emblem. I guess, with some exceptions, I generally like lighter games, and I only started to appreciate deeper stories like Fire Emblem later in my life. (I was in middle school when I first started to play my first FE game, which was Binding Blade.) On the other hand, it is also potentially deep - I have been running a series of headcanons over at Bulbapedia, because the simplicity of the story allows this.

    (For example see one of my headcanons at Bulbapedia here: http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/72744/category2042/ )

    Not having the stupidity of Mario also helps - everyone is competent in one way or another. (This can also be potentially said for the majority of FE Characters too.)

    Misty and Kris (Sorry Lilina and Caeda)

    Witnessing the first female main characters that is anything other than a damsel in distress, AND that is not Samus, was really refreshing. Caeda (FE) and Paula (Earthbound), I only got to know later on. Lilina was obviously not around until FE Elibe came out, which I think was right before Pokémon RSE. At the time of Pokémon GSC's release, I didn't even know about Fire Emblem, and I only heard the name for Earthbound, and only started playing after the GBA remake came out. Zelda only caught my appreciation since Twilight Princess (and her Flaming!Light Arrows were awesome). Peach I actually have a hate towards - for still being an largely incompetent damsel even after Smash Melee came out, and despite this continue appearing in later Smash games when there are better female characters.

    Ash Misty and Brock

    While I won't deny that the anime has ended up with problems with its story and characters later on, you gotta admit, who didn't enjoy watching Ash, Misty, and Brock going around Kanto (and maybe Johto too)? I'd be kidding myself if I said that the anime didn't introduce me Pokémon. At least it is in a separate continuity to the game, and there's the Special manga for more mature audiences so you can switch over easily once the anime loses your charm, and let TV Tokyo do their job of introducing the franchise to the children around the world.

    Tate or Miledy

    in Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

    Posted · Edited by henrymidfields

    It's been a long time ago since I last played Binding Blade, so some might be a bit patchy. Nevertheless, I actually used Milady in addition to Shanna, which was actually better than just Milady. The problem was that the hit/critical RNG seemed to hate my Milady a number of times, which was a problem if Berserkers were around. Particularly in the Critical Valley post-game map, she got critical-killed a number of times with 20-30%-hit with 30%-critical and, this is when Milady was post-promote and armed with a sword. Sometimes it was actually safer to send in Shanna as she guaranteed a (near-)100% dodge.

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