Jotari

Let's face it, Oliver could marry anyone he wants. The guy's just too damn beautiful to be denied. Shiharam Fizzart...Shiharam And yet they never once interact in Radiant Dawn due to joining different armies. Another bit of lost potential by not involving Tormod and friends in Act 3.

Man, now I kind of wish they made Altona part of this banner. Bride empress dual wielding Alondite and Ragnell! But I suppose that's not what these banners are really about.

Sanaki getting the bride class is kind of surprising to me. I mean, she's a bit young by our modern sensibilities and does she even have any popular ships? The bulk of her interactions come from soft in, her personal guard, Sepherian, her ancient father figure, and Ike, who she absolutely would not marry due to class distinctions, even after she gave him a lordship. Plus, her complete lack of chemistry with him. And yes, Heroes dodges the question by saying she's just dressing up for fun. Half a dozen people have pointed it out already. Yet this thread has traction and so it shall remain! Also

Yeah, despite being our protagonist's home land, Chalphy is actually hugely underdeveloped as a place. Edda is the only place that lacks more known characters. Not sure how you'd fit more into the plot though as Chalphy serves as Alvis big climactic boss battle. They'd need to be deployed in Chapter 10 as a field boss or something. Also not sure how you'd fit it into the family tree, a cousin of Sigurd's, or a cousin's child. Or maybe a younger child of Byron's (and hopefully some info on who Byron's wife was, since she's completely unmentioned in all the games, interviews and development notes to my knowledge).

Indeed, one of the most interesting things about Ishtar as a Camus is that, while not quite showing abject hatred,, she displays a very real desire to destroy the player, even though she's nominally a good person. Not only is she on to play Julius' first to murder game, but she specifically requests to be fielded in the final map while Julius wants to bench her for her own safety. It's another theme with Brian and Scipio in the final chapter, who fight just to defend their home and avenge their fallen family members. Somehow Jugdral manages to portray the most morally grey conflict despite having the most over the top evil villains in charge.

How do you interpret Julius' relationship with Ishtar? Is it his redeeming quality that shows he has some compassion left in him and hasn't been entirely taken over by Loptyr? Or is it Loptyr being a possessive and abusive boyfriend who just wanted to continue his blood line? Or perhaps somewhere in between. I've seen people express opinions both ways in the past.

America wouldn't have a civil war unless the military was split. The armed forces are just so ridiculously OP, basically nothing on the planet can stand against them unless they're packing nukes (any force Americans do end up fighting for protracted periods of time work more on utilizing the terrain to not lose, more so than win). And all but the craziest gun nuts would probably acknowledge that fact, or quickly learn to acknowledge it.

Absolutely this. It's a shit solution, but at least it's some form of a solution, or at least, an attempt at a solution. If the rational solutions of gun control laws and increasing mental health awareness are so completely impossible, then it's the next best thing. Because the record shows that leaving things as they are and changing nothing is completely unfeasible. The problem is not going to go away by doing nothing.I wish America was as gun focused as basically every first world country in history, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon.

"I know of no epidemic that would be so quick and widespread that they wouldn't be able to identify as the problem," Constance said. "And the captain appears to have stopped writing mid sentence, such a malady would need to take hold instantaneously. No, this is magical based, and most definitely related to Malaphar in some way."

Well I suspected as much, but when it comes to text, sometimes this stuff can be a Russian roulette.

Is this sarcasm?

He must have some kind of temporal ammo storing capacity. Because he fired far too many times to only reload once!

Great job on Fernad's hair.

Oh I most certainly will report. I'm not sure this radio silence of content is the best way to build hype overall, but it's certainly piqued my interest in what kind of beast this game will be.

The Awakening kids might have gone through more than any one else in the story (and lived), but I don't think it's accurate to say the Genealogy kids have no experience. They were also hunted and hungry for large portions of their life. Awakening still comes out on top, but I think they are comparable when it comes to experience. Julia doesn't have a weakness to dragon slaying weapons. That's only a Julius thing, per Heroes (he's weak to Dragon Slaying weapon in that game even though he doesn't have a breath weapon, Julia is not). Even if you discount Heroes, there's basically nothing to imply any of the Holy Blood characters are weak to dragon slaying weapons. Hell Lucina herself has Holy Blood and she's not weak to her own Falchion. It's not just gameplay that suggest Holy Blood characters are OP. The game's story directly supports the idea with Seliph (or was it Leif?) saying that everyone who doesn't have Holy Blood should probably be benched for the final chapter. And in addition to what everyone else has said, I'd like to point out that Genealogy and Fates have the ability to revive a party member (or even multiple in Genealogy's case, it the battle takes place on a Genealogy map). That's a pretty big advantage as it essentially gives them two Ceds or Kanas.

Wait a second! I'm in Japan! I can go to those events! Finally news like that isn't some remote thing applicable to only people on the other side of the planet!

Constance took the lantern without saying a word. Her face was furrowed with worry and concern, hidden from the others beneath the helmet.

That's probably a coding error. Well, error might not be the right term, but if I'm to guess, the Overclasses weren't coded to literally be fourth tier classes, because characters were coded to have their internal level cap at 60. So the Overclasses simply reduced the character level by 20 whenever you promote, which resulted in the loss of any spells gained in those levels. Not an elegant solution, but probably easier than breaking the level cap. Not sure why they didn't just edit the lost spells into the spell list of the new class though, so you can pick them all up again at level 2. Maybe they just didn't realize it was a byproduct, which is actually pretty pisspoor testing as it should be immediately obvious to any one seriously playing the game.

And that's why it would matter if they didn't waste Mikoto as a character and kept her alive. But without her, it's people you spend two or three years with as a toddler, vs people you've spent fourteen or fifteen years with.

Yeah, but for the most part it's entirely accidental. He also is receiving orders from Grandbell at several points, most critically when he's ordered to first hold Evans and then later the half of Agustria he's conquered. A lot of the time he's just defending himself (really, really effectively). The only times he really attacks any one by his own volition is when he finishes of Verdane in Chapter 1 (that is to say after Adean is rescued) and then moves against Grandbell in Chapter 5, even the Silesea civil war probably has more to do with helping the woman that took him in more so than stamping out the corruption of Levin's uncles.

Those chapters completely pale in comparison to the hypocrisy he retroactively shows by lying to Corrin about their birthright to try and get them to join Hoshido. I know "Don't join them, they're not your real family. We're you're real family, because you spent a weak with us when you were six," wouldn't be the best argument to get someone on your side, but the fact remains that Ryoma actively lied about the connection Corrin has to Hoshido and only ever thinks to bring it up if things start getting too incestuous. I don't think Sigurd was even that overzealous. Pretty much any protagonist would have made the same decisions as him. He just happened to have shit luck.

Oh yeah, they should have kept some of the Japanese script intact for Lehran. Specifically the bit where he's barraged by all the voices from the past and then murders a bunch of people during the Serenes massacre.

But it's really not any more tedious to do away with classes. In fact, from the developers perspective, it would be less tedious when it comes to fielding generic enemies. As it would come down to assigning weapons in sets rather than going through every individual enemy in the game and coding their weapons. Even if you have only ten enemies in the game, spread out from each other, that are sword-spear infantry, it's ten times as tedious to individually make them all sword-spear infantry rather than quickly making a sword-spear infantry class and assigning it to them. Even if they did away with class names on a surface level for players, they'd still undoubtedly code them into the game just for neatness and ease of use.

He has a pretty good conversation with Walhart in Hot Spring Scramble. Can't quite remember what it was about specifically, just that Basilio's uncouth personality clashed well with Walhart's formality.

Serra's dress seems to be tied at the side. Perhaps during battle it can be untied to make it distinctly less skirt like and thus suitable (if still not entirely practical) for running in. On the subject of Binding Blade, you know who's character design works as practical and visual appeal? Sonia. She's pure fan service done right, as in game she's meant to be this sexy temptress character that Nergal built specifically to seduce Brandon. There's no reason a design can't cater to visual and practicality.