Jotari

I feel the NES and SNES versions knew how important that minor character was for world building, but the DS version just treated it as Linde recruiting and nothing else. The fact that they use that particular portrait so much when they went to the effort to change every boss with a duplicate portrait means he is an entirely throw away character.

Well I'm more not okay with it because it's just not a fun way to play. But it is perfectly possible for him to do it. It might take two or three tries since it's heavily rng based, but in terms of expedience it does save more time than legitimately playing the map.

Vantage in Fates is actually pretty useful on Ryoma. It makes his chances of actually being killed much lower. You can literally throw him at most maps and expect him to solo.

So fate decides Kurth's death is declared by date but Arya receiving an unlucky critical in battle isnt (I don't think enemies can crit you in Genealogy, but that's beside the point). In other words, the plot dictates what should and shouldn't happen. So yeah, just best not to think of it.

Yeah, but given how long they live, there should still be countless of them around. Bantu is implied to still be alive from a line of throw away text and he was probably the oldest looking Manakete of them all. Even a woman would have been more interesting than the generic looking mug they gave us in what is now the definitive version of the game (at least in the west).

Well that's the big stickler. How do we solve the problem without bombing them back to the stone age? And will bombing them back to the stone age even help matters at all, or will it just give rise to more anti western enmity in the Middle East?

You think she wouldn't have done the exact same thing?

I agree that the actual animation might be a bit stiff, but I really like their use of colour in the Echoes cutscenes. The scenes themselves look absolutely beautiful when taken as still images.

They're probably just best not to think about. They raise quite a lot of plot holes (why did they simply revive the assassinated Kurth? Couldn't Marth use Aim to bring back one of his parents? He can revive any other characters that die in the prologue). Funny enough the Aum staff actually worked like Bifrost in the original game and could only be used on one map.

Oh wow. That slave was a Manakete in the original! That's a change they definitely shouldn't have made. Never would have made this thread if that was the case. Your summary of the nations is accurate, and that just reinforces the suggestion I'm making. Medeus certainly isn't nice, but it seems to be a far cry from the likes of Loptyr or Ashnard's intentions and most of the hatred he receives comes from past actions rather than current ones. Or to put it another way, we can assume he wants to make the entire world like Dolhr, and from what we see, Dolhr isn't that bad. And then consider how there's basically no Manaketes two thousand years later, maybe he was right not to trust humans to not genocide his kind. Of course the whole reason humans hate dragons would be down to the Earth Dragon war and Medeus's own actions. Giving an endless cycle of hatred as Manaketes strive to be respected and humans strive to retaliate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/world/middleeast/trump-strikes-syria-attack.html Britain, Fance and the USA are launching attacks on Syria. Not sure what there is to say, but it seems worth discussing.

I'd like if characters could share carnage based on weapon type and equip multiple different weapon types ala Fire Emblem. Would make the promotions feel more unique too.

I can't think of anything more useless than Sure Hit in The Sacred Stones. I don't think there's a single enemy in the game that an average growth Sniper can't hit with a 100% chance and even if there was, it's entirely luck based meaning the 1 in a million times your Sniper might happen to miss, it probably won't proc. The only saving grace is that unlike potential worse skills in other games, it doesn't take up a skill slot or capacity.

We don't actually see any actual enslavement, which is the only thing that would really make Dolhr different from a typical conquest. Actually we do see some slavery in Archanea, when Marth recruits Linde, but once again it's humans doing the enslaving. And considering some backstories like Ogma's would imply slavery has always been a bit of a thing in Archanea. I like this theory.

I actually expect it had a rather large budget as far as 3DS games go.

That's actually kind of funny, considering that's the one place in Archanea shown to have feral Manaketes outside of Dohlr and the wilderness areas. Namely that one wild one really near the Fane of Raman. You'd think having a few giant lizards threatening to eat their citizens would give a dim few of manaketes. Unless they like manaketes specifically because they're not mindless beasts (or maybe they just genuinely respect that big awesome creature that lives in the land, meaning the literal use of awesome).

Well it was the first game to do that. And they were super generic.

Only reason I'd particularly want a remake of those games is so I can actually play Path of Radiance with a modicum of challenge (ie, give us Maniac Mode).

I remember his name because I once mixed it up with Ludveck from Radiant Dawn. And to his credit, he's dead in the second game, so that's a pretty good reason not to show up. I think it's a mix a both. But on that note, interestingly there's a dragon outside Archanea's palace, and a dragon inside, but it's a human sage that actually sits on the throne and seems to be in control of the palace. He even talks about defying Dolhr, which indicates humans have some form of standing in the empire, or at the very least that they can gain some standing and are not completely a slave race (there's also a Dohlr labelled boss that comes as reinforcements but unfortunately has no dialogue). Of course all these human enemies from Dolhr are obviously because they didn't want to throw tonnes of dragons at you throughout the game. But we get what's presented with the plot modified to be a game (and they do throw some dragons at you by the time you reclaim Archanea, yet none of them are the chapter bosses for some reason).

But it was Grust that did the sacking of Arkanea. Grust King is called Ludwik http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Ludwik

I think we get a fairly good indication of what things are like in The Future Past. Everyone's dead and the last bastion is just about to fall. The characters I'm actually most curious about are Validar and Aversa. Absolutely no mention is made of them in the future. Validar likely wasn't killed as Robin betrayed Chrom for realises in that time line, and even if he wasn't Aversa would still be around as loyal to the Grimleal.

Yeah, but, where's the evidence of this? Humans aren't being subjugated throughout Shadow Dragon, in fact, they're flourishing, even in the supposedly dragon ruled country. Humans did most of his dirty work for him. The most we get out of Medeus himself is that he'll make those that awakened his slumber suffer. Of course I'm talking almost exclusively about Shadow Dragon Medeus, Mystery of the Emblem Medeus (confusingly the actual Shadow Dragon version) is quite clearly antagonistic towards humans, but he's also seems insane with his vicious all caps. And artwork would suggest this was the state he was actually in during the war with Anri when he got such a bad rep.

So clearly Medeus isn't a nice guy. He did invade Altea and Archanea and get a bunch of people killed. And I do feel for Marth wanting to get his homeland back...But what would actually have happened if he just stayed in Tayls and spent the rest of his life fighting pirates? Orleans eventually would have been subjected (by Macedonia and not Dolhr incidentally), Hardin and Nyna would have died and...that's about it. Medeus didn't seem to have any grand plan beyond conquest. Shiida claims when she's recruiting Lorenz that Manaketes are going to take over the world but we don't really see any evidence of that. Two manaketes watch over Archanea and one is stationed in Altea (and maybe some others I've forgotten, but the point is, the number of manaketes outside of Dolhr is in the single digits). It's not really a hostile take over, and they've had years to do one. The humans of Macedonia, Grust and Gra certainly think it's unlikely enough to happen that they're willing to ally with the dragons. Hell, there's even humans peacefully living in Dolhr itself with the dragons. At least I assume they're peaceful. There's no mention of slaves or work camps or anything of the like. It doesn't even have an arena. Medeus' backstory is that he was pissed that the humans were the ones treating manaketes as second class citizen so he went to war with the entire world. All he really wants is humans to respect dragons, which is understandable, they're freaking dragons, they shouldn't be second class citizens when they gave humanity all their knowledge (and booze) in the first place. So with that considered, his waging war isn't really justified, but he's not really any worse than the likes of Michalis. In fact, I think I'd say he's the most benign final villain in the entire franchise. If Marth never left his island, chances are people would just have to bow whenever they saw a manakete passing in the street.

Might just be me looking at what I want to see, but I actually find the DLC writing is a grade above the main game. The DLC content is all the stuff they would have made after the game was released and itself was released in intervals. So it likely got a much more direct, focused and less stressful development cycle.

Half of their work load also involving figuring out how to write a believable romance between Libra and Panne and other such stuff probably didn't help matters. Chagall would not give up the throne without a fight. There other people listening to his orders and fighting for him after all. It would have severely weakened Agustria and wouldn't have actually solved the problem of the fact that more than half their lands have already been seized by an foreign power. Not to mention, as I said already, it would have been very out of character for Eldigan to outright murder the man he swore to serve just because he felt like it. Declaring himself king would have done nothing to actually help the people who were fucked regardless (just like Sileese and Leinster eventually got fucked by Grannvale). The problem with Chapter 3 is definitely in the presentation, but it's the fact that the Sigurd is actually working for the wrong side being underplayed that's the problem, not Eldigan's actions (who actually does everything in his power to try and avoid fighting Sigurd, including outright refusing to and getting executed for it).