Alastor15243

Fates: future-proof the online elements. Make it so that instead of getting a pittance of resources offline and a bounty online, you get more of your own, but also you get traders showing up at your castle every day that will offer to take some of your resources (usually but not always your castle staples) in exchange for different ones. The only thing online play does is let you make these trades with other actual people. I trust the reasons for this change are fairly obvious now.

Three Houses: Make divine pulse purely a gameplay mechanic without even the slightest effort to make it canon. I chose this because I know full well that my issues with Three Houses are so manifold and comprehensive that no one single change will ever make me actually like it. But at least I can use this mysterious reality-warping power to set a precedent that future games don't have to do that, thereby hopefully setting a trend that they don't, and in the process saving the stories of future better games and entirely eliminating the risk that the writers of the eventual Genealogy remake would be foolish enough to attempt it.

Awesome to hear. My first run of Conquest was a blind ironman on hard and it was one of the best experiences playing Fire Emblem I ever had. Just be on your guard because while the game is fair, it is not forgiving.

If you're only going to do the one run, Conquest is definitely the best route, to be clear. Lunatic is actually a lot more manageable in Fates than in Awakening, but still probably not advisable for a blind first attempt of any route.

If you're getting Fates for the first time, unfortunately that means at this point you won't be able to access the DLC at all. But I wish you the best of luck with Fates! It (well, Conquest) is my favorite game in the series. And it's probably the most ironman-friendly game in the franchise, so a blind ironman is definitely the way to go. I'd recommend hard for your first playthrough, and doing Birthright, then Conquest, then (if you must) Revelation.

Once per file, but once wifi goes down in a week or two access to them is gone forever without hacks.

I'm not giving up on this. I've created a discord server for the project and I'm hoping three weeks are still enough time to get something done, so if you wanna keep up with the project, here's where to go now: https://discord.gg/tgXd8cPK

A day passing every turn would canonize some rather wacky nonsense in several chapters where people get left for dead and survive long enough for you to reach the castle with no evident medical attention.

Hard decision between the affinity system of 6-10 and the Fates system with reclass rewards. I love them both.

I hate how believable this is. Especially since I absolutely hated the game for the worst reasons imaginable in my youth.

This is the correct answer I believe. It's Japan-only so it has that going against it, and I don't think there are that many people who like Gaiden and don't like SoV more. It definitely had the most "complete" remake with the fewest controversial gimmicks or changes.

They don't refuse it so much as say it's politically and biologically impossible. He has to be told it literally is not an option before he adapts his plans.

So I'm in a curious predicament here. Playing through the entire series for the posterity of this forum made me realize something about my opinions on the games: When it comes to Fire Emblem, I have absolutely no overlap between games I love for their story and games I love for their gameplay. No game in the series ever exceeds "okay" in both categories for me. The only exceptions are Birthright and Conquest, and only if you include "so bad it's good" as "loving a game for its story". And if I have to choose (which I do, see above), I'll pick gameplay over story every time. Of the three games in the series that have my favorite stories, 7 is the only one I have any desire to play again any time soon, because the gameplay, while deeply flawed in many ways, has a lot of appeal to me, especially when I'm in a more casual but not quite mood. 4 is just too much of a slog and 9 just gets too simple and is too long. It'll be ages before the story will be enough of a draw to bring me back to either on their own. Meanwhile games like Engage and Fates bring me back despite their terrible stories, because when I'm not in the mood for them, I don't have to deal with them. Is it weird that I can have that attitude about a franchise I claim to be my favorite of all time? Yes. Can I justify it in any intellectual or emotional way? No, not at this moment. It's been eating away at me ever since I finished marathoning the series. But Fire Emblem is the sort of series I love in spite of its flaws, and in one case because of them.

The latter. He's notoriously stubbornly opinionated about things he admits he has little to no personal experience about. He has a long history of this on the forum.

That line is definitely worth going into in order to pick up Rally Speed, but it's really not worth it before she can use staves in it on promotion. I tend to make Sakura into a rally bot given her innate access to luck, magic and speed rallies. If you have her marry Jakob, you can add in res, as well as inspiration to double her defensive aura and add on +2 attack.