vikingsfan92

I don't think new game + routes should be a thing either. I was mainly just pushing back against the idea of CF being the new game+ route idea more than anything in a forced new game+ scenario and giving my personal stance on it. Also tbh isn't it kind of already the route that most people dislike the most. Golden Deer fans in particular probably have the most reason to dislike it as their route is an akward clone of it that could have been more Alliance focused. I might be in the minority here but I personally don't value the choice having much value. Is it worth something yes but not sure I would value it over having a vastly improved narrative for all routes. Plus this game already has a ton of other paths that oppose the one choice so I feel like it's a choice of unique route versus slight variation of other routes which is only a pseudo choice to begin with when the whole game is taken into account.

If any route should be new game + it should be silver snow. I get that you are going for some more unique changes for CF but the idea you have to play an entire playthrough you don't really want to do just one you do doesn't sit well with me considering other routes have the same fight against the same faction and only one of the three has to jump through this hoop. A better way to do it probably would be to have more choices that actually matter and give you additional scenes. Either way the holy tomb chapter kind of needs a rework regardless for black Eagles at it is akward and clumsily done for a route split spot. It does make CF a bit more annoying to get into but doesn't force people to do something they don't want to. Given how the only non recruitable chacrters are the lords, Hubert and Dedue (and some weirdness of Black Eagles and Hilda) I think this very much is a point in favor of the face lords stories mattering the most when it comes to house choice. You can see pretty much any other charcters story no matter what house you choose and we were told this from the start.

I have always been of the opnion that the Golden Deer should have been the class that got the route split and that being which faction Claude and Byleth side with in the war the empire or the church. I think even Azure Moon would be improved with this change as it would make it feel more unique than all routes vs the same side. My main reason simply comes down to 3 main points. 1) when you choose a house you are picking a charcter you want to see their story. You don't pick Golden Deer because you want to see huge amounts of Dimtri lore becoming the main plot. No you pick it to see the story of the face lord Claude and his perspective throughout the story. While this is probably more of an extreme version that didnt happen of what happened with the Church and Edelgard during silver snow it is both deviating from what people who picked the route want to see the charcter they made their original choice. I feel like these kind of choices can work but not when their already was choices to see which charcters route we wanted to see in the first place and there are no other major major major differences with the rest of the story. 2) it actually gives the alliance a purpose and not feel like a third wheel who is always choosing the same thing two other routes do. 3) it would actually allow us to explore the whole main conflict as a whole in more depth as both try to win the Golden deers support. We see both sides engage in propaganda and explain their perspective in ways they don't have to if we immediately join their sides. Going back to original game and what we actually got I do feel like the Black Eagles did get the worst end of the stick due to the multiple paths and their unable to commit to either path to hard. Sure recruits to any house do have this happen but it's much worse when it happens on the route is showcase your story. The noble black eagle kids for instance relationships with their parents are kind of forced to be held back a bit by the split.

Felix getting Levin sword over Robin is top tier trolling that I am not a fan of. As is the fact that they are giving this years three houses winners slightly unique outfits. Why did the lords not get something more unique I will not understand.

I would have been extremly happy if they swapped Bernie and Petra tbh. But I guess that would be another solo Bernie alt.

Finally Goldmary but why did she have to be paired with the one black eagle I am not a fan of.

Gullveig Seior duo unit was Inevitable at some point. it being the summer banner is not really a suprise. Tbf they usually do heroes on one summer banner and another game on the other. This year they put heroes on the first banner but still hope for [insert game here] to get something on the other banner I love spam turn units and it turns out that they keep doing them on charcters I am fans of (Gullvieg, Edelgard, Ninja Lyn and ninja Micaiah)

I still hate with a burning passion that can not fully be described the fact that vg is part of ahr but this does make it better to know the others get a banner too.

Was kind of hoping for fallen Alear bit I guess that's probably next year's units. Happy we got Veyle though.

For starters I am talking about IS more than you and me. It's a bad thing imo if they don't look to see if things work as they should. Everything that has existed will have flaws as time passes so leaving VG as is doesn't make sense. Also I think you are misrepsenting my point abit If you think conspiracy is the only way this happens or even what I think is most likely. Which is the system doesn't handle scale well to the point it screws over certain chacters more than it should which isn't intended. Sure it can be general trend that popular people are more likely to win but that doesn't mean the system in place scales properly at all levels. Just because it works in close with two charcters proximity doesn't mean it scales correctly when there are gigantic gaps between the two. It happens with other extremly popular chacters as well but it happens more so with Edelgard than others. Plenty of systems have been designed to do something but don't actually live up to what is expected when actually put into action. Live testing exists because systems can look brilliant only to be found it is missing important bits. Some point repeated events need to lose all excuses around them and treated just as face value. I have felt that time has long passed personally especially with its elevated importantance in ahr. Vg is no diffrent than this and it's time for it to be let go at the very least AHR deciding if not out right scraping. Edit: Also there is a diffrence between winning round 1 and winning the whole thing. I am not saying that anyone has to win. Its not healthy if a slot become essentially a first round bye slot.

I feel like that is an easy cop out answer that I hope IS doesnt go with. If they absolutely must use VG again (which regardless of this result I feel like needs a shake up because it's kind of stale regardless of my bias against VG imo) then there absolutely needs for IS to refine the vg to make sure everyone has a chance to win. Its not very interesting if there are chacters guaranteed to lose or win. And with how often certain charcters lose (its not just Edelgard) you can only call it bad luck for so long before it becomes clear other things are going on that need adjustments. I personally feel like it was needed ages ago but I think more and more people are going to want reworks as history continues to repeat itself.

Voting Gauntlet is flawed for many many many reasons. I hate the fact AHR still uses it. Unashamed Voting Gauntlet hater for years now. Not just because of Edelgard but the mechanics are dumb that time periods can screw over people if they aren't awake at the optimum multiplier hours and so on and so forth.

I still despise the fact that they use voting Gauntlet for AHR and would prefer 99.9% of other meathods. I am rooting for pretty much all of the non-green units personally other than Camilla.

I think most will be straight forward but the big question for me will be how the handle the corrupted versions of the emblems. Not sure how spoiler we are getting with this but just going to spoiler tag because I am talking about some final chapter stuff.

I do hope with the main feh story going forward they don't push Alphonse even harder over the other members of the askr trio because of his win. The others need more relevance as is.