Selena4Lyfe

Who is this mystical sister of uber popularity of which you speak, little one? *stares intently* SHHHHHHH! He/she/pomegranate hasn't been exposed to the forum's uncensored profanity yet! At least let that bit of innocence be shattered before you kick him/her/fruit out!

This is part of the reason I almost never bother paying attention to original content vs localization changes. Instead of enjoying a game for what it is, changes and all, I end up thinking about what changes were made, and whether the studio is good or not. It messes with my immersion, if that makes sense. The only changes I've had any issue with is the changing of Effie's character from a more soft-spoken, still-feminine tank that keeps herself back-breakingly strong in the interest of protecting her friends and particularly her charge, to a tank that still wants to protect Elise, but only otherwise wants to be strong for the sake of being strong. Most of her supports that I've seen so far (I admit its only with about six characters) conveys the exact same information, and she got stale very quickly. It's a pity; I valued her early-game, but now that I'm approaching Conquest's mid-campaign, with Benny under my wings and Keaton soon-to-join, even if I were to waste use a Master Seal on her, I'd feel no true incentive to keep her. She's just too annoying and dull...And on that note, why did i have to be willing to let go of Beruka just to proceed past Mission 12?! *smashes head on desk* The only other issue I had with localization changes is that the team seemed to cave to misconceptions spreading on Tumblr and sites like Kotaku regarding the Soliel supports with Corrin/Kamui. I will, however, wait until I get Inigo Laslow married to someone before I can make a judgement...

I'm going to be straightforward and say that I positively love this chapter for a number of reasons. Two primary (and superficial...ish) reasons why this is the case for me is firstly, that song that plays out before the mission begins. Azura's beautiful singing, glorious dancing, and waterbending aside, there's another reason why I love that song, but I'll get into that in a couple minutes. Second, Keaton. Not only is his warewolf/wolfkin form oddly hilarious as well as awesome, but he makes for a wonderful tank unit that can also hit hard (and will clearly be my key to finally beating Lucina and recruiting her into my army). What's more, he's the second consecutive new tank in a row that TROUNCES Effie in utility - and gives me just technical cause to drop that one-note, stupid-sounding, blindly strength and gym obsessed .... I can't think of an insulting noun that doesn't rhyme with pitch, and I really don't feel like using that right now ... from my party. (I never should have come to realize how heavily changed and stripped her character was in the NA localization from her JP original) But the other thing that makes me rather love this chapter (for the time being) is the underlying implications I'm left with after this chapter concludes. By the end of both Chapters 13 and 14, it's made abundantly clear that basically none of Garon's kids like the guy. However, I'm thoroughly suspicious at how none of them recognized Azura when she was on-stage doing her performance. I mean honestly, how many slender, long-blue-haired dancer/singers that can control water actually exist in Nohr? What's more, how would Azura be set up to give the performance? Being someone who would have only been to Neste for the first time in her life, the likelihood of her actually being billed to perform would be stupidly slim...let alone her being billed to perform a solo act, yet nobody would be at all aware of the fact that a missing princess of Nohr would be performing in a famous Opera House with Venice-styled canoes in a circular moat! As such, I think the events of Chapter 14 was an orchestrated assassination attempt between Azura, and at least Leo and Camilla. I suspect that at some point prior to Corrin's proceeding with the mission to crush the rebellion of Cheve, Azura met up with them, discussed how her singing had the ability to impact dragons/dragonkin in various ways, and with that knowledge in-hand, the three siblings devised this assassination. I'd be willing to bet that Leo gave Garron the idea to head to attend a show at Neste to celebrate his daughter's latest string of victories, especially after the slaughter of Cheve, and it was prearranged that Camilla would direct Corrin there after the Cheve mission was completed, regardless of the outcome. I'm betting if only they'd factored in Iago and found a way to remove him from Garron's side during the show, the singing hit would've been a complete success. But that's just a theory that a child could probably have thought of. Also, I can't begin to figure out how Corrin never thought that it could have been Azura by the simple fact that she looked exactly like her, just with black on rather than white... I call negligible storytelling on that note. Had she not still thought it wasn't Azura in the text leading into the following mission (I only know about it because I'd proceeded afterwards - w/o saving - despite losing three units just to see how the story would pan out from there), I'd have figured she was thinking on her feet and played dumb to protect her; she easily could have been written to be wondering why Azura would try to curse her dad, even if the reasoning would probably seem obvious. As is, however, if my silly theory is actually right, then it just makes Corrin look really stupid...Something that's a bit of a pattern with her characterization. Maybe the writers think stupidity and naivety are the same thing? I dunno... Anyway, what are y'alls thoughts on the matter?

I have to agree fully with this. As a Cavalier on the Nohr path, Silas is SOOO hard to use reliably without constantly having him in a support paring. At least that's the case until you make the guy a Lodestar. Now, as a Lodestar, his stats are great! Good speed, nice attack, adequate defense. Lodestar!Silas can actually be on point reliably, being one of the units that I heavily relied upon to help me finally conquer the infamous Mission 10. Seriously. Lodestar!Silas. He's an absolute epic must-have. At mission 14 now, and the guy is still a blast to use. ...Am I doing something wrong? Maybe it's something w/ my boon/bane selections, but from the eighth mission onward, I've not been able to use the Avatar without being almost agonizingly conservative; otherwise, she'll die within a few hits of any one unit, especially come Post-Nohr!Mission-12. ...Maybe I'm using Selena too much? I mean, I just got her promoted to the Hero class and...simply put, I am having fun. lol

Hello world, and all that inhabit it! *slips on a roller skate and tumbles down a flight of spiral stairs* DAMMIT JOHNNY, I'VE TOLD YOU ABOUT- Oh, sorry...my mind is weird. Anywho, I am Selena4Lyfe, I am a newcomer to the Fire Emblem franchise, fresh off of my first taste via Fire Emblem Awakening. I'm a spritely 26 years old, I'm an Afro-American male (sans the afro hair), and I must admit that I have quite fallen in love with the latter and current entries of the series. Oh, and I'm a shameless Serena/Severa/Selena fan. Not waifu shameless, but I'd fight someone in the street if anyone were to say that the girl who forever battles self-worth issues in multiple lifetimes isn't awesome when she slashes fools with her sword. xD As far as my love for the gameplay of the series goes, while I'm still one hell of a rookie, after Awakening, the second I got Fates: Birthright, I also purchased the Conquest path DLC, started off playing both versions side-by-side, and got to all of the seventh mission on both paths before I got hooked on the Conquest line. To add to my obvious masochistic glee, I started both runs on Hard Mode. Anyone who has played Fates probably knows that Fates' Hard Mode is NOTHING like Awakening's! These missions are balls-to-the-wall HARD, especially with me trying to keep everyone alive! (Seriously, I don't get this. I have come so close to chucking my 3DS against the wall so many times during the Conquest line, yet I have this unquenchable drive to manage to finish each and every mission - it's like this pain is addicting or something! lol) So far, I've only lost two people: Arthur on Mission 9, I think, and Mozu on Mission 10 - And I Swear I would have tried to clear the mission with her alive her if I hadn't tried to clear that mission for a whole 10 hours over the span of two days! ... and if i hadn't accidentally had her toss away her bow during the fourth turn...CURSE ME! I wanted to keep lady!Donnel, I swear it! It's just....that mission, man.... So many nightmares... So many ..... scarrrrrs....... *sobs* So yeah, I am having a right-ol'e BLAST with this game! As long as I don't think anything of the voice acting. Seriously, while Awakening had virtually all of their aces in play for its voice work, Fates is veeeery hit-and-miss. I think two prime examples of this is Effie and Nyx. With Nyx, I actually like nearly all of her voice acting. I love the angle of a person of great(er than perceived) age being essentially trapped in a young body, and virtually all of her spoken lines which have words communicate this very well... But then she does her offensive grunts, and I'm stuck wondering who in their right and sober minds thought having her trying to imitate the call of some kind of finch would make for a good battle grunt?! I don't care that she's supposed to be imitating a child, it should not be that high pitched! And then there's Effie. I have to admit, I like Effie. I freaking love her as a unit. She makes for a great tank, was essential for me to survive the early waves in Nohr!Mission 10, and I kinda adore that victory stance that she takes. But dear God, whyyyyyyyyyyy? I'm not one for mincing words, so I am just gonna say that she sounds like woman with Down's Syndrome. That, or she sounds like what a girl/woman sounds like when they're trying to imitate a guy's voice in a way that clearly conveys annoyance towards the guy. There is no reason her voice should be that constantly forced below normal. I've heard a couple theories that perhaps she does that with her voice because she tries to emulate the men with whom she probably would share her physical strength, but I don't see that as a reasonable ... reason, when there are both men and women on both sides of this conflict that demonstrate physical strength or exceptional battle skills. The only other reason I can fathom is that perhaps they wanted to have a girl with a vocal defect of some sort, that her voice just sits at this very abnormal deep tone. Yet I still feel like it should sound like it sits at that deep tone, not like it's being constantly tugged that far down by its legs. Okay, so that was my introduction/rant. I hope to grow acquainted with the community members here. Glad to be a member of this fine community, and looking forward to the fun!