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I generally think very low expectations, some very good moments, and overall great voice acting saved this game for me. I acknowledge all its faults, worse of which imo are tons of pay off without any set up, badly executed scenes and cringe dialogue, but I did have fun with it.

It could be fitting. But wether or not it is depend on the character. In Ike's case I felt it was just lazy if not insulting writing.

I really don't know how this things works but ended up downloading Event assembler which I think is what required to patch the game and after some playing with it I successfully patched my us version of FE8 but in the game itself I can't have supports at all, no matter how long I put two characters near each other. So I checked the same savestats with the clean version of the game and there the supports works normal. so am I doing something wrong? can someone give me a link with proper guide to the patching process?

move on in story without the sidetracking (like the greith fortress and nuibaba stuff). I wonder whether it will make the game easier or harder, but since it's an option, It seems like the obvious choice if you are after speedrun

I think Genealogy is great game, with great story but pretty bare bone script and characterization. after seeing what they have done with SOV, I think they could make Genealogy's story and characters so much better and flashed out. besides, genealogy has the child mechanic built in as good as it was in awakening.

another one I'm ready to roll

it's enable you to play all dlc

I vaguely remember three years as well, but I don't seem to find confirmation to that. but that's beside the point. even if it is a short while, I don't know, the way they talk about each other, the way other characters refers to their relationship, all those little stuff make it more believable in my eyes

Yeah and I think it's a shame, because it would have make the reveal moment way more intense. I think they tried to clue it but went too far with it.

I can't Remember specifics, but there were few that made me realise some plot point, like the fact alm is rudolf's son and that the masked man is conrad, but maybe I confuse base conversations with the character's conversations between battles...

I think Jeddah is a Very good villain, and function well as a Celica mirror image. Both are very devoted to their respective god, but due to the different nature of each god, their method of doing things is completely different. Pay extra attention to the last dialogue with him in the final battle, you can understand from this dialogue he is not evil for the sake of evil, he is just an extremely devoted follower of Duma.

Some folks here mentioned that Fernand's story is revealed only trough base conversations and its bad, but I disagree. I think that most of the time the game use the base conversetions to spoon-feed you information about the story, and while sometimes it helps foreshadowing future events, most of the time it's straight up spoils them. I think the Fernand bits were actually a good example of a base conversation done right.

the serenesforest site has guide to all the dungeons in the game if you have any more trouble, that's how I solved it

Other then the terrible design and lack of special animations, these classes are pretty much useless. Just to clarify, I've beat the game in normal (where it's really useless), and I don't really see a good reason to use them in hard either.

"I'm ready to roll!" when Genny speaks like a Sargent from the us army

I think Celica's Character arc is that of a religious fundamentalist turning secular. when she studied to become priestess her world views and identity were shaping and it is not something that is so easy to sober up from, even when the counter evidence is banging your head.

I think the best compression the faye is actually Cordelia from awakening. And I thing faye is way better and way deeper character even with way less script, and I really like her as well. I don't have time to say more, but I'll just point out that faye doesn't lust for alm only in shallow sexual crush way, but actually loves him in a very deep and unconditional one IMO

yes the map is a good point. and another small ui thing that is really stupid is the fact the game is not calculating the damage a certain unit will do. I can't understand why not to include this feature, especially since it doesn't change anything in the game-play and is merely helping making things more convenient

I also Think the Dungeon aspect of the game is not great (but it seems the experience is different depending what kind of 3ds you've got, and I have the oldest one). I actually think the VN aspect is the best addition of the game. I'm not talking about the design, i'm talking about how your units function within it, the kind of mesh up of the barracks and info camp talks from previews games done here to a level of perfection imo. hope I was clear enough

I think This mechanism is quite helpful for most FE players. I played most of the games on pc and when I started to play on the 3ds it was quite painful to reset every time someone is dead (although it was pretty rare in Awakening and Fates). the fact of the matter is - most players reset when someone dyes to them. so it's helpful in that sense. there are too many uses in my opinion.