Jotari

There's plenty unique about Revelations. It's just mostly gimmicky maps that nobody likes.

There's no point in speak of it again because you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah, looking at the refine options for her Falchion. +4 to all stats for merely standing adjacent to a unit sounds really good. Leaving her beside my Eirika, who's giving +4 to all stats at the stat of every turn (except RES, which she accomplishes with a Rally) could probably tank and counter anything that's not long range.

Assuming all units started at level 1, who has the most ridiculous bases with their growths factored in? Like Wolf and Sedgar for example, assuming they started their career before being recruited as Level 1 Hunters, why are there bases so low when their growths are so high? Or, alternatively, what units can you think of that have way higher bases than they should given their growth rates.

That's what ambitious is. What's conceptually impressive. That's why being over ambitious is a bad thing. It means your actual competence can't match what you want to achieve.

Or just put it in a spoiler tag, because I'm kind of curious too and don't care about SMT spoilers.

Finally drew a 5* units after spending (I think) 80 orbs over the past few days and it was...Lucina. She's probably decent, but I highly doubt I'll use her since all in all, she's just another sword unit and I have like a dozen of them. I guess maybe I'll train her for dragon killing utility (still haven't beaten the Tiki Nowi bound hero battle), but man, I really thought I got Leif for a second there. At least I can count her towards "All the lords goal." I wasn't counting her before...but now I have her, so I'm counting her.

You mirror my exact evolution with the game when I first played it. The story is just a bunch of stuff for the first few chapters, but then, when we realize what's happening to Eldigan, one of the characters whose face we've seen plenty of and isn't in our army, everything just shifts. He's not one of those endless names, he's a guy, and things are going to shit for him too. It just dragged me in and suddenly I was paying attention. Gen 1 is generally considered better than Gen 2, but you'll probably find yourself enjoying Gen 2 even more than Gen 1 on a first playthrough, because by that point you're just so much more invested in the story then the start, where it's just Sigurd and his bros rescuing some girl.

The two things aren't mutually exclusive.

Well you only have Falchion for about two chapters and it doesn't protect him from Manaketes, which make up most of the forces of those last two chapters, so it's pretty understandable that someone might miss that ability (and the fact that it's only ever around for two chapters is all the more reason it should have some impressive stats/abilities).

Ah. I thought because he was a legendary hero they might have done something like Vanguard Ike. But then, if you notice, I started doubting myself because I thought that would still be available and thus edited my comment to remove that reference.

Interesting challenge. Let's see where I stand...Just missing Alm, Leif and Ephraim, Now I really want to get Leif while I have a shot at him.

We just need to see Shanty Pete to begin with.

You're really not listening to what I'm saying. Spending 12 hours on 12 maps isn't a bigger time investment then spending 12 hours on 24 maps, because you're still spending 12 hours. Unlike most other games Genealogy of the Holy War only has 12 maps. Most games have twice that many at minimum.

It's no less a time investment, because it takes no more time than any other game.

Totally going to be Glass. He's as legendary as they come.

Why did you read Thracia's plot before reading Genealogy of Holy War? That's just...bizzare. Anyway, Julius was just casually talking to Ishatar (they are sort of a couple), if he really cared he could have gone to Bloom directly. Reinhardt is also Ishtar's personal body guard, so it's natural that he'd report to her. Not sure what Fred is talking about, can't remember the context of that. The long and the short of it though, is that, as daughter of Bloom and future wife of Julius, Ishtar has a lot of unofficial power.

Ugh, I know. I preferred it back when she was implied to be a genderbender. So much more interesting than the stereotypical benign to all goddess that we have now.

Ah yeah, that's pretty direct (I was actually just in the process of reading Xane's expo dump). Still, it's weird, because he also says; After that, Narga left behind a will to his own people, which was to protect mankind. To his own people seems like an odd turn of phrase considering his own people was just two guys and his infant daughter. Still, regardless what Xane said and what was reiterated in New Mystery, we can take it as retcon that there were no more Diving Dragons other than the three we see, given Nowi exists and Mila and Duma were retconned to be Divine Dragons.

Where does it say they're the only survivors? Also clearly Nowi's parents are Gotoh and Xane

Ishtar is queen by virtue of the fact that she betrothed to Julius I imagine. I can't recall anyone ever calling her Queen or reporting to her in any official capacity though. What two members of your party have Lopt blood? There's Deirdre and...Alvis? But he's not a member of your party. Maybe you thought Julia has lopt blood, she doesn't, neither does Seliph despite their mother having it. There's also nobody in Thracia with confirmed lopt blood (except for Julius). None of the crusaders fought for the good of the people, the person Alvis was talking about was Maria (he has a less feminine sounding official name now, but I like calling a dude Maria) who is his decedent via his mother. He rebelled and failed to defeat the lopt empire a few decades before the crusaders. None of his descendants have any connection to the crusaders (that we know of!). A pretty nice cameo that could make the Lopt church be a bit more nuanced (and actually give us a dark magic user) could be if Salem was added to the game as just another ally of Leif's when you first encounter him in Chapter 7.

Recall that Gotoh and Xane are Divine Dragon survivors. So it's never like the games were pretending the Divine Dragons were wiped out completely. It's just that none of the ones that did survive were considered important enough to mention (hey, I wonder if any of them agreed with Medeus. Would be kind of cool if you fought a random divine dragon in one of the last maps).

You seriously don't have any ground to stand on until you've actually played the game. You can look at all these things and complain, but until you've actually played the game, you have no genuine knowledge as to how they work. Yes, Ced is better than Saias, that doesn't break the game's balance. Ced is meant to be over powered. That's his role. Saias is basically a guest character for one chapter. It's not like Samson and Arran, you actively have to prevent yourself from recruiting him. And even then, he can hold is own. If you were allowed to permanently keep him, he'd be just as worth fielding as Ced. Ced might be better, but Saias isn't useless, that's the point. He can do things. Olwen can do things. Leif can do things, Dalsin can do things even Marty of all people can do things. Every character in Thracia is worth fielding, there's honestly no other game in the series I can say that for. Some characters are better than others (anyone with a stave is instantly A tier), but the level in which they're better than others is not as extreme as every other game in the series. Thracia was intentionally designed to have a balanced cast, that's why there's actively a mechanic that forces you to train up more characters than you can deploy. Because they're all worth using. Just play the game. You really don't know what you're talking about until you played it. Thracia is a completely different beast than the rest of the series.

To be fair to Medeus, he couldn't actually leave his castle and keep his full strength. So he didn't have many options in stopping Marth from waltzing up to his front door, other than sending armies at him, which he did, and they didn't work.

I reckon they didn't have Yune protect everyone is because they hadn't fitted Bastian and Renning into the plot before that point, and they also wanted Caineghis to show up in the finale.