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If I recall, the average playthrough for Radiant Dawn is about 40-50 hours (correct me if I am wrong). This, plus a smaller cast than RD and Fates (I am of the mind of quality over quantity) will be interesting to see.

Based on this tweet from Nintendo France, it appears the live presentation for Three Houses will occur on July 5th at 11:00 AM (Most likely CEST). Given that they had a livestream for today's events at Japan Expo, Nintendo of France will probably broadcast it live on their YouTube channel. I could be wrong though.

What I meant was the same leader perishing regardless of what path was chosen (Dimitri dies on all three paths; even though Byleth joined Blue Lions and is on the same team as Dimitri, Dimitri still perishes).

Something tells me one of the three are always going to die in all the routes whether we chose his or her side or not.

By your logic, Persona 5 has poor marketing overseas because overseas casual fans didn't get much mileage and info from Atlus USA's overseas marketing and website compared to Atlus Japan's. Is that what I am getting at? I mean sometimes the Japanese side of marketing, whether wittingly or not, does the job already for overseas.

New Tweet from Nintendo.

And so it begins...

Part of me wonders how much impact the timeskip and story had in the decision to go a different direction for the character. I also wonder if Edelgard was not the only character affected. We might never know.

🤔. Interesting. Will add to the OP. Thanks!

Courtesy of lancelam on Reddit. Update (courtesy of @Coolmanio) :

The thing I loved about Fates' amiibo implementation other than getting playable units was also the artwork for the portraits. We got to see Yusuke Kozaki do his take on Marth and Ike and I think it would be interesting to see how Kurahana does her take on the portraits for the amiibo units.

It always is the blue haired character isn't it? First Sigurd, then Flora, then Rinea, now Marianne. Turns out there ended up being more to the jokes of Marianne being Berkut and Rinea's daughter!

Not too surprising there isn't multiplayer, if the kinds of teams I've encountered in both Heroes and Fates are anything to go by.

I feel the post made by @Slumber over in the Sekiro thread very much applies here.

Sign me up.

FromSoftware and Hidetaka Miyazaki, the developer and director behind games like the Dark Souls series, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment, brings Elden Ring, a brand-new action RPG with a special collaboration from George R.R. Martin, the writer of A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series. The trailer is CGI-only, but it shows what we can expect from From's newest game. Any Soulsborne fans and/or Sekiro fans looking forward towards this game? Any GOT or ASOIF fans jumping in?

The SAG-AFTRA strike was more due to payment (residuals) and workplace health safety (vocal stress) reasons and less the reasons you listed above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_video_game_voice_actor_strike

Kira Buckland, the voice actress for Eirika and Katarina, and other characters like NieR's 2B, Tales of Zestiria's Edna, etc., has a pretty good write-up on this kind of scenario (Voice acting announcements, NDAs, etc.), for those out of curiosity. I bolded the text that is most important. http://voiceacting.boards.net/thread/1004/ndas-why-important

I did find it weird she was the only voice artist to talk about it back around E3 2018 which makes me thinks her lines were placeholders just for the trailer.

Unlikely. Replacement VA probably already finished recording the lines (and redubbed lines that Vee already did, if the initial voicework was not a placeholder) long before it would even have an effect on the release date.

Either it was a placeholder or a NDA was broken. Robbie Daymond, who revealed he was involved in Three Houses on Twitter a week ago, deleted the tweet in question, likely because he wasn't supposed to talk about it yet. I do know breaking NDAs are serious business in the voice acting world. Edelgard kinda sounded like either Carrie Keranen or Tara Platt in the February direct trailer.

I am namely curious at the fact that thani stated that there would be more than three countries involved in the story.

I strongly doubt story and character details will have significant changes. Depending on what Thani said when she meant “early”, there might not even be changes at all! Those early builds could just be gameplay changes, design changes, and QOL stuff. Again, unless IntSys did a major development overhaul, which would be highly unlikely and easier said than done in this period of development, I don’t think the general gist of what Thani put out will change.

Gonna offer my two cents in light of recent stuff and details. Thani is unlikely to have BS sources if her sources got the names correct and magazine reveals lend more and more credibility to the info she put out. Yes, some story details and character stuff might change and be different from what she wrote about, but I strongly doubt they would be significant to the point that they would directly impact the general gist of what she put out. Though she admitted to have only early details, unless a significant development overhaul has occurred on Japan's side of things recently, it is more than likely that much of those details will remain in the game. At this point, I am going to go off air on examining details of what thani put out because I have a feeling that the details that she leaked, especially regarding characters and story, are stuff that are best experienced when blind. While I understand her intentions (I know she wanted to drum out hype and speculation for the game and all), something tells me the people who scrutinize the leak from now until release are going to wish they didn't, if not regret it. I would be more concerned about the Nintendo ninjas going after her sources than whether the details are correct at this point.

Something tells me we might be seeing a lot of "What I expected, what I got" memes if what thani said ends up being true. Come for Persona/Trails Emblem, stay for Genealogy/GoT Emblem 2.0.