Axie

fire emblem as a franchise has progressed past the need for avatars; i truly believe an avatarless fire emblem would be accepted just fine by now, even if it was a big help in making awakening what it was (we all agree casual mode is the cornerstone of fire emblem's current success, right? if that's there, IS can probably try whatever)

i don't think they avoided kamui just because of fe2 and the leon/leo situation seems very stupid (fe15 leo became leon because fe14 leon became leo? at least they learned their lesson after repeating a name for no reason) and yes i understood the kana isn't for ceasar but it doesn't sound like there is a better localization short of just naming him shizazu or maybe he should be named vergil

i like numbers over names for the games? it's easy to type and understand. sure it's confusing to new fans when three of those games are just remakes but it still saves time lol. also, did people really believe fe16 would bring the series back to... anything? i don't have a switch but if anything it seems like a further push away from classic fire emblem than fe13/14 were. not a criticism, IS does well in trying new things, but it sure looks very unlike any other game in the franchise.

oh, i know it sold well, but like, i was under the impression it didn't have the lasting impact in the community the previous two games did. fe13 in particular dominated the conversation even outside the fandom for a good few years

yes. i haven't been deep into the fandom for a while but it definitely didn't feel like it was as successful as fe13/14 in terms of engagement (i actually came back because i got into awakening again lol). is that impression wrong? fire emblem is already a highly replayable franchise in my opinion, it doesn't need to prioritise customisation to the point it starts feeling like a different franchise - but of course they have to do what most people enjoy. i don't begrudge IS for trying out new things.

i meant elincia as a physical weapon/staff flying unit, it would be a nice parallel (since the role in the story is similar) plus it wouldn't make guinevere too powerful if you were to add a personal weapon also war dragons of different kinds other than fire wouldn't hurt the story, i agree. it would make for good enemy specialisation. one of them could be magic based at least.

yes, that's a romance trope, a jane austen kind of deal. it peobably would never work in a game about war and then fe4's deficient writing just made it look silly and kind of disturbing. alm/celica as a concept is more salvageable and the writing is also not as bad. anyway, i am sure it's not unpopular here, but maybe with the wider fanbase: i am fine with some customisation but fe16 (three houses is 16, right? is it how we count it?) seems to way overdo it and going back to at least fe14 levels needs to happen, if not more than that. it's not like it was a hugely successful game anyway, apparently. go back to what worked in fe13/14.

are we still worried about repeating names now that the gates of hell are open and we have two playable arthurs (and one artur) sounds like it would just be ceasar

i didn't say it was executed particularly well, but at least it's a starting point lol. sometimes in real life that "my childhood love" thing really sticks with you when you see them again. it did need more dialogue but the premise of it does not bother me. the sigurd/deirdre situation was way further from being functional. i really just took the excuse to drag it because it's baaaad AND their lack of dialogue makes it worse.

alm/celica is fine if only because it's explained - they could show it more, but at least it's still said they have lived together if nothing else. sigurd/deirdre, though? deirdre went to the woods and fell in the love with the first men she saw because of how repressed she was. what is she, a gay man? sigurd falling in love at first sight right back makes even less sense. it's there just for added chapter 5 drama.

OBVIOUSLY florina. star crossed lesbian lovers. i know guinevere has used light magic in every limited depiction of her in combat, but i still think it wouldn't be much of a departure if they pulled an elincia. if they wanted to be faithful though, light/staff on a wyvern would still be cool. i agree that mounted roy takes away from his characterization as an inexperienced lord who wins people through charisma, but staves would add to that. people cling too much to that cecilia support where she says roy was no good with magic, but a) that's so minor, b) staves seem to be considered slightly different anyhow this has made me realize ilia, much like a former socialist country in europe, is willingly allowing its workforce to leave the country - give ilia some sort of uprising subplot to save the country from a government that exists to serve biran and it really could work better than "biran came and beat us up"

read it in a book as a nickname to alexandra when i was using "alexander" as a nickname in a final fantasy board because of the recurring summon, so i decided to use that instead so i could use it everywhere and not have people think it is my real life name later on i found out "axie" is short for axolotl for people who take care of them and axolotls are cute as hell lol i wish that was the actual origin story

mage knight is my favourite sprite/animation in the whole GBA games (specially the male one) so i will see myself out lol in general i love the new fe8 animations too, summoner is the only clunky one for me

didn't read the whole thread and also i won't mention things that are merely products of its time and likely would not be retained nowadays (weapon ranks, hit rates, throne bonuses etc) also some of the changes i mention are not necessarily fe6 specific GAMEPLAY: - abolish weapon weight and use a avoid/attack speed penalty for certain weapons like fates - dismember the cavalier class into separate sword/lance/axe knight classes like tellius, with paladins using only two of the three; no bow knights because elibe has nomads - (my humble suggestion here: lance is a lance knight, allen is a sword knight, so is noah, treck is an axe knight, marcus uses swords/lances, zealot uses lances/axes, perceval uses swords/axes) - change armor knight's move to 5 and general's to 6 - change wyvern rider's weapon to axes and wyvern lord's to axes/lances for franchise consistency (does this count as a product of the time? you never know) - add the unpromoted light magic user class (but actually i am not sure if saul should be its user as it's always been said? i like the idea of just adding a new character? a woman even? norne it up tbh. on the other hand three staff users by chapter 6 has always been way overkill) - give lilina her own unpromoted and promoted class as well as a personal weapon (the unpromoted class would just be flavour since she'd use anima, but i feel her promoted class should use anima/light with no staves - as long as having different magic types mattered this time, but i am assuming it would because it would be so easy to do so) - (no i am serious fates opened up so many possibilities. not only they'd be integrated into the weapon triangle, magic could also play more heavily with avoid/aspeed modifiers than weapons. i thought of anima being +aspeed (or reducing incoming enemy aspeed)/-crit, light being +crit/-avoid, dark being +avoid/-aspeed. FUN) - speaking of promotion, master seals (or actually earth seals - CHARACTERIZATION AND FLAVOUR MATTERS) only please. we as a society have progresssed past the need of specific promotion items - make roy promote after chapter 16 - i wouldn't give him a horse because not everything is about efficiency lol but i'd give him a second weapon - or staves if this remake did mixed classes - add playable guinevere in a fe9 elincia style after chapter 20. give her a wyvern! have her use a weapon (or magic if we don't do mixed) and staves! give her big growths to make up for weaker bases! a personal weapon too maybe! - give thieves a promotion to assassins, who could use bows in elibe as well - add a playable soldier (barth should become a soldier, he's got the personality down) and a promoted halberdier class. soldiers are the backbone of the enemy phase in elibe and they don't get to promote or be represented as a playable character? so rude - don't entirely remove enemy ambushes but make them like an announced feature of some chapters instead of, like... just looking like bad programming - remove merlinus from gameplay - i like the replayability of divided routes but a) the game needs to tell you that's going to happen, b) i think since storywise elphin is around regardless, he should either be removed from gameplay or added in another capacity, and larum stays as the only move-again-er. i think the two routes could also be more differentiated, as in "route B is harder but you get better charatcers/items" etc - as for sacae/ilia, this whole "if so and so gets more exp" unexplained crap is frankly horrible, but i also don't want this one to be just a "pick one" thing. my solution is that after chapter 16, the game suggests you to go to sacae/ilia because you are more prepared for that journey (mentioning sue/shin and shanna/thea, if this is classic mode and they are alive), but gives you the choice to switch to ilia/sacae anyway. - obviously idoun is weak garbage and should be seven billion times stronger. jahn could stand to be stronger too. actually how about some manakete variety? i know it's a bit story based to be just fire dragons but also NO - add the blind staff that inflicts blind. it stops the target from using weapons. specially if this remake were to add mixed classes this would be fun. STORY - if they added an avatar, i would fly to japan, grow to 50 feet and destroy tokyo with my eye lasers. i actually like kris in fe12 and i know they didn't in echoes and earned our trust but NO not for my dear roy - ......... remove merlinus from the story too? distribute his role to marcus, wolt, lilina, an old shoe? he is a character only because of an outdated gameplay decision, and he is a bad character who takes up too much air. marcus deserves it way more. - improve chapter 3 and hector's death scene immediately do not pass go do not collect 200 coughs - improve the portrayal of etruscan (etrurian?) corruption, as etruria still comes off as a bit too much like the good guys wronged by the bad guys... who happened to be inside the house the entire time. MORE PEOPLE ANGRY AT THEM RIGHT NOW EVEN IF PERCEVAL IS HOT AF. - we need to have a serious talk about how hilariously dumb the concept of ilia has always been. they are poor... because it's always cold... so they can't have crops...? i am sorry, have these writers even heard of [insert any culture far from the equator here]? make them poor because of good old capitalism or something. what is the government of ilia even doing here? how did the cold country even fall so quickly? is russia not a role model? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE - sacae isn't far behind. they are tribes with no centralised government but they just made biran (ps: this remake is Not gonna do real life place names) beat all of their asses until the biggest tribe surrendered and worked for them? also we get to know two and a half tribes (djute, kutolah, and in fe7 lorca but they die to brigands...?). give us more tribes? also some drama? some willing betrayal? i don't ask for much. - now that fe7 exists we can add stuff they created there to improve the characters of the biran villains here. it's not that much since fe7's writing is our favourite disaster, but it's there, and zephiel needs to be less flat. - making the fe7 connections explicit is i suppose inevitable - rebecca being wolt's mom, nino being lugh and raigh's mom, lucius being the father in lugh and chad's orphanage (? did i imagine this?), but i wouldn't be opposed to keeping it to the essentials. having to acknowledge the black fang exists because of nino is bad enough. though i assume a remake would absolutely without a doubt shoehorn an alive lyn in the story in some capacity due to her popularity. i'd be fine with it. put her in the sacae route or something.

i've been in this fandom since fe7 was released (i remember when path of radiance was going to be fe8!!!) and i have literally never heard of this meme before ever i went to check and of course it is only very tangentially related to dorcas himself rofl god bless

roy is the best lord we've ever had i won't take questions at this moment in time 🙂 i went to check the CYL results though to see roy thrive and... why the hell is DORCAS of all people so popular? top 25? for a fe7 random dude? what happened there

fe9 is also a 2005 game made in japan so it's understandable that some of its allegories fall short nowadays; it's actually incredible that some points of it still hold up sure it would be more productive if the game didn't tackle the issue with a fantasy race of literal half-animals but a) i can see how the intentions of that were good and b) it's 2020 and some people still get sand in their undies if sometimes a woman or a minority is treated like an actual human in a game, so it's not like they could be upfront about it in 2005

hey is liking the fe12 avatar still unpopular i like the fe12 avatar! like even in the storyline and all! loved the side story with katarina and just less stealing lines from jagen and things would have made them entirely good for me

oh it's expected. fandom in general has mostly moved to twitter. haven't really looked for this fandom on twitter yet though lol i like lurking here

i voted... skasahahahahaher/ulster/scathach/whatever his name is this year anyway ayra's hot son

neither contribute much at all tbh i guess ronan has movement stars if nothing else

oh, they are very passionate about... one main character in particular... oh also i registered exactly 10 years ago yesterday apparently!! it's kind of funny that i have never been much more than a glorified lurker this entire time, but still end up lurking and sometimes posting some more it's a good place here

i have nowhere else to post this, but one of the first things i did once i logged back in after like 4 years was to check if that one poster who likes, um, specific characters and is always in the same kind of trouble (both involving the characters and otherwise) is still the same way even though they've been like that for 10 years now i am kind of glad to find out that, even though this year alone has fucked up this world beyond recognition, this poster is still active and exactly nothing has changed about them whatsoever god bless them i guess, rock on

i wouldn't mind the avatar being able to marry anyone in the game if some characters were just otherwise gay or even actually bi outside the avatar "straight except the avatar" is still straight to me the avatar doesn't count it's kind of a cop out lol we aren't getting that any time soon though so no use worrying about it

this news dropping literally when i first logged in since like 4 years ago must be some sort of sign how random and delightful now remake FE6 you cowards