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Ohh, I see!! So they are really unisex. Well, in regards to Byleth, the name comes from a demon king who commands legions and holds great knowledge, and I felt it was more of a male-only name because it comes from a male demon, but I guess that's not necessarily the case, and we could still have an avatar named that way, male or female. Fun fact: This demon is also known to be able to give its conjurer all the love of both men and women that the conjurer desires. And there's a movie where Byleth is referred to as "the demon of incest". It's like everything about the name references the avatars of FE, such a perfect name, haha

Strange, but this is exactly me. ----- It does depend on the mood and surroundings for me, if the second one is not right, I'm uncomfortable. My current surroundings make it uncomfortable for me to play Fates and SoV, for example, but okay to play Pokemon or Shin Megami Tensei. Like, I've been wanting to play SoV but I can't feel it here. Also, Ace Attorney is better at night for me, I can concentrate better. As for the mood. When I'm stressed or tired, I have to play something simple and lighthearted, like any Mario games or rythm games, or a fighting game like Street Fighter. When I'm sad, something inmersive, like Etrian Odyssey or an rpg with puzzles, like Zelda. When I'm good, I play anything and everything that hypes me at the moment.

Hahahhahahaha, best post yet. I was talking with a friend precisely about this, starting with the meaning of his name, which is very cool; he does have a lot of potential. Also, isn't Byleth a boy's name? I tought they had to had names that could be used for both genders. Although I don't know if Corrin or Robin are only boy's names, to be honest, nobody's called that where I come from. I know Kris is.

True, although in my case he just didn't get a good growth . -------- I had Kaze play in every map in my conquest run, it takes time and love and faith. Virion was also my primary archer unit, although he was hard to use at first without lvl grinding. This. -------------- I tried to make him into a respectable unit, because I agree on that about Rickard, but my Julian couldn't care less about helping me rescue his lover in my run. Also, that about Wendy, I know she's got a bad reputation but i do think that if you give her a chance and some effort, she can be great. Or maybe it's because I like her Fire tomes are ridiculous in this game, I swear. But yes, there are ways to go around that, and Azel is a good unit overall. ----------- I never gave a chance to him in FE12 because my avatar was a Myrmidon, and I already had two battling. But now I feel bad for him, hahaha.

That's why statistics are a thing. They don't need to play as her to make her a waifu, only to see her and like her design, although I know of people who played as F Corrin because she was their waifu.

Here! This is an example I showed a few posts back of how (weirdly) the supports go for a silent avatar: Might be improved in 3H if they do go for it again, though.

I'll use this as an example (the poll varies only slightly from time to time, it seems): Half and half. I'm glad you have never seen the hate, but it also baffles me that you haven't. It's one of the most common complains since the existence of Kris. Some even like to quote Shouzo Kaga, who once said Fire Emblem should never have a self-insert character. I didn't say the avatars weren't popular, there's a reason we still have them. But they're infamous also.

Oh, is he regarded as a poor unit? I mean, that about fire tomes being very heavy was annoying but aside from that I guess he was generally good in my game. He was hard to move though, or at least in comparison to the ponies. Ah, yes, I loved Cherche! And I relate to your experience with Charlotte, as seen in my first post . ------ Wait, really?! I did my best with him in my conquest run but he just refused to improve . I'm glad to know he's salvageable. I love dancer units in general, and that includes Feena, so I made her into a great unit too. But I tried with Julian for a long while (since I needed a Thief who wouldn't die as soon as someone attacked him), and his growth was just so bad, I couldn't keep on using him.

You have to take into account that half of the fandom don't like having an avatar in FE in the first place, regardless of how it's handled, and that can cause some seriously biased opinions on the matter. For example, some people didn't like Awakening because of the different and new mechanics it brought, and instead of saying "it's not my thing", they will say "it's bad".

Since PoR and RD are the only games I haven't been able to play, I will be sure to remember this for the day I can, and give poor Brom a chance Hahahaha, that about Madoka is really great! Such a crazy turn of events. And that about Noire is certainly interesting! I mean what the others have been aswering, I guess I should have written "unexpected beast" instead, my bad. As in, a unit you didn't expect to become one of your best units, or a unit everyone thinks is bad but was really great for you. In any case, and following what you said, I don't remember ever marrying Tailtiu to Lewyn, I think it was to Azelle or something, but that's certainly a great idea. Hahaha, awesome!! I like her a lot, too.

And I don't mean just the obvious ones that are globally amazing from the beginning nor am I talking about manaketes and such. I was speaking with a friend the other day about our past conquest run, and I discovered he thinks Charlotte is a very bad unit. That kind of shocked me, because in my conquest run Charlotte was such a beast, she was so great I would sometimes throw her in the middle of a group of enemies and she would not only survive with good hp still, but would kill more than half of them, thanks to some crazy good hp, str, spd and crit rate she had. We both played conquest in classic hard, which has less enemies than lunatic mode but definitely more than normal mode. And I didn't have any dlc for lvl grinding. I was very surprised he thought she was so bad. So I was wondering which units from any FE game have you guys ever had that unexpectedly became some of your best and also some of your favorites?

Definitely, I admit I do, but that would cost money. And money is for videogames and food.

Oh, you mean that depending on your choice you could accumulate more "relationship points" with them? Or something like that. And then you get different dialogues depending on your choice. That could work, yes! As for the supports feeling very one-sided, well, yes, as you can see in the video I posted as an example just a few posts up, of an S support between Silent Robin (which was an option in the japanese version) and Emmeryn. Even if you don't understand what she says, you can tell it's very weird.

I'm not expecting it to look exactly the same, just not that different either. Also, just in case, I'm not saying you're wrong or anything of the sort, I can't be sure as of now if Byleth is silent or not, it's just a theory born out of my obssession with the game and my wish to talk about it, haha Thank you ! It could be that they'll give us the option for him to be silent or not, instead of it being only one way or another. What I would find very interesting is if they let the avatar have at least slightly different personalities to choose from, something I read in a false FE leak.

But then, this is a game people have been waiting so much to hear about, and it was presented at the E3, so for them to show such an unprepared footage and from the early stages rather than from what they have now would be too irresponsible. They're supposed to have the time to prepare for the trailer, and things like that never happened with Fates, not even in the teaser.

Understood! Just tell me when you can again, and sorry for the trouble EDIT: Just in case, this has now been solved, haha

I'm having some internet issues, sorry. Had to reconnect. Can you send the request again?

It's okay!! I'll give him all the love, anyway and improve him the best I can! Thank you!! I'm on right now, just entered the plaza and activated the internet connection! Don't I need your friendcode, though? Or you can trade with just mine? My avatar's name is Azure!

All the time. Not even joking.

@Karimlan I still listen to it all the time . ------ 6/10.

When they did the super smash bros 4 ballot I voted for Isaac every oportunity I had, but he's just not that popular in comparison ... That's a fair point. FE has very particular avatars in that sense, I guess. In my case, I don't mind them experimenting and changing the relevance and participation of the avatar every game, according to what would adjust well to that particular game. Like for example, I know a lot of people hated Corrin's importance to the plot but the fact they were the central character of the game was what added so much of the tension of having to choose one family over the other. So I'd like to see how they'll adjust avatar to the story this time around. ------ I would be very disappointed if by now they don't even have that much done, but it's a possibility . And I do think he'll be like Link, that's how Robin was in the Japanese version if you chose to have them be silent. By the way, I found an example of mute Japanese Robin uploaded by Shadowofcaos725: That's funny. I guess @NekoKnight is right, hahaha ------ Oh, I'm sorry!! And you're right. Honestly I just thought it was hard for IntSys to change FE from the 3DS to the Switch for the first time, I'm not expecting that much in terms of graphics, although the game looks a lot better than I thought it would . If it's something that can be improved, though, I hope they do. Oh, Shining Force! Yeah, I guess that's how Camelot goes, not that they do anything of the sort now, just making Mario do sports. And I get what you mean with Synbios, hahaha, I actually disliked Felix a lot in GS, yet I was fine with him in TLA. It was still weird, though... and I can't get used to it because they hadn't provided us with another Golden Sun game -cries in a corner-. And Shining has changed so much at the hands of other people. ------- I don't think we'll be getting any more info of the game by IntSys until at least September or October if we're lucky. Meanwhile, I'm here dying. Obviously. I just have a hard time believing they are in the early stages of development still after a year and a half of working on it, while having less than a year for the game to be released. The reason we got basically a teaser, I think, is because the game hasn't been localized, and that's also why it seems we'll be getting a 2019 release, so we all over the globe get the game at the same time. Also, in my case, I'm not waiting for that big of an improvement over it all, since as I said on this post, it's the first time FE will be on the Switch... but well, who knows!

Haha, no, don't worry! he was obtainable, but back at that time I didn't have the game yet. Now there's no way to obtain it except for trading... Oh my gosh!! Really?! Thank you so much !!! I'm sorry for the late reply, I am genuinely desperate but my internet died last Friday and I hadn't been able to properly enter the site. They still haven't fixed my internet connection so I can't activate the function in my festival plaza until they do, but this is my friendcode anyway: 1736-0934-7634. Is it okay if I send you a message when I get my internet back? Also, that's funny, I do actually use my legendaries and mythical pokemon as members of my party, specially the mythical ones! EDIT: I finally have internet now! Are you still willing to trade?

Oh! That's a very good point! Actually, when I first played Awakening I thought the localized version had the silent avatar option as with the japanese one, and if it had I would have chosen that. I'm not accostumed to avatars talking, hahaha I'll do my best to talk about Golden Sun without crying, but that series is far too important for me and my heart will forever be broken at how Nintendo abandoned it and then completely forgot about it. This is... actually very accurate. But even I have to admit that they didn't play the silent protagonist mechanic well in that series. Not just because of how Isaac was handled but more so because of how Felix was handled. Like, in the first game we have Felix talking and having a personality, and then suddenly in The Lost Age he becomes mute. And it's even weirder because the story in The Lost Age starts inmediately after the first game, so it feels like one second he can talk and argue and stuff and then the next he's just mute. What they did wrong there in the first place is making anyone silent, since no one there is an avatar. This is actually something I quite dislike about some games like Persona and even SMT, when they take the protagonist, who is obviously not an avatar but a character with a set appearance, gender and background, and strip them of any sort of personality by making them silent. I find it lazy and annoying. That aside, and as I said in this same post, I prefer avatars, real avatars, to be silent, like in Pokemon. Albeit I agree that it would be ideal for us to be able to make relevant choices that affect more than just the gameplay.

Great ! By the way, with my rush to change the images I forgot to comment on what you said (sorry ). You are right, I guess it won't be that much similar to Mark, but maybe just in regards to his relevance and contribution to the story? I think it could be something in between Mark and Kris. I agree in that it is better! About Byleth, I find it precissely weird that he would be so serious and emotionless being an avatar, since all of them (well, Kris, Robin and Corrin) have had more or less the same personality, which is supposed to be sort of generic in order to make the player identify themselves with them ... Well, you see, in the japanese version of Awakening, Robin had the option to be a silent protagonist. I don't actually know how that worked for the supports, but they have done it recently before, and in Awakening no less. The localization team couldn't be bothered with it, mostly because Fire Emblem wasn't as popular at the time, and I guess they wanted to deliver a game with the highest of chances of attracting people. But IntSys does listen a lot to feedback, and as I just said, they have done it already with Robin, so the possibility is very high. And Byleth being that expressionless and not talking is plain weird, haha. That's just her portrait, though. I did think it could be that about development for facial animations not being yet done, but they announced this game a year and a half ago, so them being that far back in development that they couldn't even make a properly animated trailer... well, it wouldn't make sense to me. I don't think they would even prepare a trailer that badly if it were the case.

My whole observation was made on the fact that the trailer did show his face, otherwise I wouldn't point it out. The gif wasn't working, so I apologize for that. I fixed it, more or less, but here is the gif thst shows his face: https://ibb.co/i2SHKy