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Ah, thank you Han! Now then...a user called "theshim" asked for a reminder on my pairings; so for those who also wanted it, here you go! PAIRINGS: AIDEEN X JAMKA: This is, admittedly, a slightly weaker pairing than Aideen X Midir as far as Lester goes. Continue will be nice to have, but he'll suffer greatly if he doesn't have the Pursuit Ring (which I may or may not give to him). However, Jamka and Aideen get WAY more benefit out of pairing with each other than Midir and Aideen do. Jamka, Midir, and Aideen all use large amounts of money in repairing their stuff, and none of them have access to the Uber Slim Sword, meaning that getting the Gold needed for the Elite Ring is a constant struggle for them. Jamka, however, is almost guaranteed to clear every Arena, and get 17,500G, while Midir is so weak, that even Ranks 3 and 4 are a challenge for him! So Midir's only getting like, 4,000G at most without RNG abuse. Plus, Lester is extraordinarily easy to train due to Chapter 9, which is almost exclusively a flyer map. We haven't been introduced to those kinds of units yet, but suffice it to say, bow weapons will automatically activate Critical on flying units. And considering that we'll already have 3 Holy Weapons by then...yeah, babying Lester won't be any problem at all. Oh yeah, and Jamka X Aideen can abuse the Jealousy system to become partners by the end of Chapter 2, while Midir X Aideen does not have that luxury. So they can get much more done in Chapter 2 than Midir X Aideen can. There's a fair bit of debate over whether Jamka or Midir is a better father for Lana and Lester. Lana is practically impossible to screw up because she inherits all the staffs she'll ever need and her stats don't matter, and the father only matters if you want her to fulfill some niche role. Claude x Aideen is the best pairing for pure LTC runs, Azel x Aideen is probably the best if you want Lana to fight, but why would you ever want to go to that trouble? If you plan on using both the children, as you must in an AAAA run, Jamka or Midir are your only real choices. In my eyes, it comes down to whether or not you need the pursuit ring on a different child, since Jamka doesn't pass pursuit down to Lester. AIRA X LEX: Aira's children will be showing up in the very first Chapter of Gen 2, where money will be very scarce for a while. Plus, we don't have a Thief to make donations either, so it's very important that we get either Bargain or Elite on Skahasa and Lakche. Originally I was going to give Dew to Aira, but because of that aforementioned reason, and a new strategy I discovered for how to abuse Ambush + Elite + Meteor Sword + Uber Hero Sword in Chapter 7 (against Jabarro and co.) and the Epilogue (against Burian and co.), I decided to give Lex to Aira instead. So now, not only will the sword twins never have to worry about money, but leveling them will also now be a cinch! So that's pretty grand I think, more than worth giving up Bargain. I've never been a huge fan of this pairing because I feel that the sword twins have plenty of time to level up anyways and trounce arenas. I prefer Lex on Briggid or Sylvia (to help Patty/Leen respectively), but there are lots of ways to A rank this game, and Lex x Aira is still a great pairing. Yeah. Personally, I still think Ambush + Elite is a great and convenient way to level up, and Skahasa and Lakche are the only ones who are really able to easily take advantage of that. But we'll see. LACHESIS X BEOWULF: Unlike Aira, Lachesis's children do not get that much of a benefit out of having Lex or Dew as partners. Delmud and Nanna do NOT start out with Pursuit,and Beo's JUST the guy to fix that! Fin is a close second due to having Pursuit & Prayer, but he can't pass anything down to Delmud. Combine that with Beowulf X Lachesis's ability to exploit the Jealousy system, and a Talk conversation that gives them 100 love points, and there you go. Beowulf X Lachesis is just the way to go ;) ! Fin x Lachesis is pretty good, and if you want to get fancy Azel x Lachesis can be useful for magic sword use, but this pairing is so much easier. Lachesis' children will never be amazing combatants, but with Beowful they can chip in occasionally while charisma botting. SYLVIA X DEW: Good news Dew! Turns out there IS someone young enough for you to marry! Her name is Sylvia, the 14 year old dancer! Hehehe...he...he...... Well anyways, it's good that things worked out that way; Bargain is just too good NOT give to someone. And who better than Leen, one of the weakest Gen 2 characters? Dancers tend to have that problem, but Bargain will help her by giving her essentially unlimited money; she can buy Elite whenever she wants, she can buy and sell the Defense Ring + Defense Sword (+7 to Defense) to easily manipulate Prayer (because yeah, she gets that), she can more easily repair the Sleep Sword (more on that later)...Bargain's quite nice on her. But, Lex X Sylvia does give Leen Ambush, which is amazing when combined with the Sleep Sword in the Arena. On the other hand, Leen can also eventually get the Pursuit Ring, and any other stat rings she wants, so...it remains to be seen whether Dew!Leen is better than Lex!Leen or not. Either way, Leen needs one of those two fathers if you want her to level up efficiently. Otherwise, she just takes forever to get anywhere quickly. As for her brother, he's a staff bot, so he's good regardless. Unfortunately, this pairing is one of the few that cannot abuse the Jealousy system...but oh well, they don't really need each other that urgently anyway. A good pairing for the aforementioned reasons. I don't have anything more to say. FURY X CLAUDE: Three words. "Fricken Valkyrie Staff"! It can revive dead units! Of course, it breaks after one use, and costs 30,000G to repair; but still! Plus, Claude has Blaggi blood, which increases the potency of the staves that can be used by Sety and Fee. Both of them will be Staff Botting, and with Blaggi blood, Fee will be able to spam the Warp Staff rather than the Return Staff. And who knows what fun death warping tactics we can pull off with this? I already know of at least one... This pairing can also abuse the Jealousy system. So that's fun, though not really necessary. Fury's second best pairing, but Levin is already taken for good reasons so...good choice. Aw, thank you Marty :3. BRIGGID X HOLYN: This seems like a weird pairing due to how slow it is to make; but this is THE best pairing for Patty, especially with the way I'll be playing. Holyn has minor Odo blood, which gives Patty B Swords. Supplement that with a Bargain Ring, and whatever other gifts Holyn feels like giving her (perhaps I might even throw in a Pursuit Ring), and Patty will come right out of the gates as someone who can clear the Arena's via the Uber Hero Sword! She can even dispense large sums of cash to all the other paupers who can't afford the Elite Ring! And Faval's got Ichival, so he's set no matter what. Unfortunately, no Jealousy system exploits are possible with these two, but whatever. Faval gets ridiculous amounts of HP in this pairing. B swords is useful to use magic weapons to safely nab gold from enemies. In unreliable runs b swords isn't really a necessity because the sleep sword can be abused so easily, but for the purposes of this run I can see why it would be useful. TILTYU X LEVIN: Arthur immediately gets Holsety, on CHAPTER 6 no less; so there's that! Plus, Levin's Holsety blood makes both children better with the best magic type in the game, and increases their AS to ludicrous levels. Oh, and since Tiltyu gives Wrath, nothing should ever live past two attacks anyway. So if anything, Continue is actually BETTER for them than Pursuit, since that gives them the chance to just kill an opponent outright with Wrath. But again, no Jealousy system :( … Why not pass down Holsety, and Arthur has more trouble in the arena than Sety. This is the right pairing. Indeed; now one more thing. Some may be wondering "what happens if your female characters die before falling in love?" Well, if they don't manage to have some kids before Gen 1 ends, their children will instead be replaced by "Substitute Characters", who are basically just inferior versions of their counterparts. So instead of having the amazing Lakche and Skahasa, you will instead have the lackluster Radney and Roddlevan. They don't get Meteor Sword or Awareness, their growth rates are lower, and they don't inherit any weapons or items from anyone. So in other words, pair ALL of your females up! There are technically a few substitute characters that can be worth something...but none of them can ever make up for the lack of Inheritance.

I, actually, would really like to set up a battle between two FE4 characters (preferably best out of 12, but I understand if that's a lot of work)... Sigurd (w/Tyrfing equipped. Skill is Pursuit): 62 HP, 25 Str, 1 Mag, 23 + 10 Skill, 19 + 10 Spd, 17 Lck, 19 Def, 4 + 20 Res vs. Alvis (w/Falaflame equipped. Skills are Nihil and Continue): 65 HP, 15 Str, 30 + 10 Mag, 27 Skl, 30 Spd, 0 Lck, 9 + 10 Def, 25 + 10 Res Would you be able to make it happen Espinosa? If not, thanks for your time, and God bless you!

Alrighty then, more feedback for you; sorry that this came out as such a mess when I first posted it. Serenes is EXTREMELY weird about how it auto-formats, so I'll try to be careful of that. Anyway, I'm liking a lot of the lines I'm seeing, but there's STILL that ever present problem of too many words being used. Seriously, I'm gonna hound you on this the entire way through :P. Oh yes, and some of the lines here are a little too expositiony, so I took the liberty of rewriting some of them to sound more natural. Hope this helps!

Mmm...but would the pun be as obvious? That's my question to you ;) .

A Sigurd solo, eh? IF that's the case, I believe you'll find these videos helpful:

Alright Holsety, more feedback is coming soon. I was GOING to write a tangent about how you needed to drop the cockney accents from Gandolf and co. (they had really heavy cockney accents in his original script on dreamwidth)... But it looks like you already did that. Cool! So, guess all I can do is ask: what would you think of Gandalf saying this? Instead of what he says now, which is this: IMO, "Grannvale worms" sounds a little too eloquent for a thug like Gandolf. The guy has a more crass feel to him in the original script, so I'm thinking lines like that should be replaced by something a little more irreverant. And besides, I thought it was funny :P .

Nah. If Cuan or Ethlin "die", their spouse'll go "OH SHOOT! I hate to run out on Sigurd like thise, but we gotta get you home! So it's impossible to have one here but not the other.

Really? Awesome; THAT I'd love to see someday! But, you don't have to do it on my account; it's just one of those things that'd be neat to see when you're feeling up to it :) .

And now for....Silesia! Chapter 4 Part 1: http://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=145031

Ah. Would you ever be interested in doing an RTA of Lunatic+ one of these days?

So are these RTA's? Real Time Attack speedruns?

On the other hand, if we have to suspend our disbelief TOO much, the game's characters become impossible to relate to ;) .

But here's the thing; you have demonstrated very clearly, just by posting that, that you are indeed capable of thinking and acting like an adult. So we KNOW that you aren't a child; you just choose to act in ways that some might perceive as childish because you're you. And that's actually a very healthy way to be, if I do say so myself (in fact, I would even argue that I'm kind of that way myself). But with Nowi, we just don't know. I can't remember any conversations that actually depict her as someone who can think and act like an adult with all their faculties intact. And considering Japan's track recording for sexualizing things they really ought not to sexualize...

Awesome; so in ADDITION to being a stalker, Tharja is also an ephobophile? Cuz that's how Tharja's gonna seem if we go THAT route :P .

I don't believe you did anything wrong, but I also think this is a question that only you can decide for sure. I mean, psychologically speaking, I could see one's disgust about child exploitation being withered away by choosing to do a seemingly "insignificant" action (by pairing up a child character with someone who's gonna knock her up)...but even if that were true, you didn't intentionally DO anything. And even if you did, one can go a lot of ways with it. "Oh, it's ok, she's over 1000 years old, so it's not quite the same". Or, "So what if she's 1000 years old, she ACTS like a 4th grader, and her mental capabilities clearly aren't up to those of an adult's!". Hey, how about: "sure, she's a kid...but if she doesn't get married, then Nah will never exist, so it's justified in this case (ignoring the fact that one could always just wait until they've gotten more psychological maturity before having said kids)". Heck, one could even say "what's everyone getting upset about? It's a game, and I need to pair her up in order to recruit all the characters!". So, like I said, this is probably something you'll want to decide for yourself; there are too many variables to come down with one general answer.

Hmmm...well, in Jamka's case, it makes sense for him to talk that way. His dad doesn't talk like Kinbois and Gandalf either, nor does Deirdre. So it's safe to assume that gangsta speak isn't an inherent part of being Verdanian. Brigid...well, that's a bit trickier, but it still kind of works if you think about it. She was already 5 years old by the time she ended up with the pirates, so I could see her sticking with more sophisticated diction, just because that's what she's used to. But you're right, that's a bit more borderline.

I'm sorry; I don't understand what you're trying to say. What do you mean by people "going speechless" in this context?

Negliegable due to Warp Staff spam, fortunately. Altering her Gold was more for the sake of the reader than it was for my sake. More Arena finagling with Lachesis means more screenshots, and even more words to bog down a game that's already fairly slow.

Okey doke, here's the pre-Chapter 4 update, with a war room and video montage! War Room & Chapter 4 Arena: http://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=144961

a small warning to anyone playing along with me. Make SURE that Lachesis beats the first two Arena guys in Chapter 3. So basically, these two losers (who are utterly trivialized by the Prayer Sword)... I thought all of her expensive items would be enough to Elite Ring + Return Staff spam her to Level 20, but apparently it wasn't. I need the Prayer Sword to get extra money from the Arena...except, the fully repaired Return Staff required selling said Prayer Sword in order to get the Elite Ring + Return Staff in the first place. This...doesn't ruin anything, but it makes it messier than I would have liked it. Hence, I'm gamesharking an extra 2500G for Lachesis, for the sake of showing what a Chapter 4 run is supposed to look like. This IS, after all, a guide on how to AAAA rank as easily as possible ;) .

It's just "30% max HP", right? If that's the case, there won't be any set "minimum HP", since Hard Mode stats can vary. Or at least, that's my impression.

Yeah, that's probably how it was all meant to be taken, if I'm being totally honest with you. But...the game doesn't really give any visual indicator of that. The guy's mouth is moving like it always does; and there's generally supposed to be... (Some kind of visual indicator, like these parenthesis that I'm putting around this line. And I looked at FF7's Japanese script, and it looks like the Japanese use that parenthesis technique too, just like we do) Either one of those two things would have saved it, but as things stand...the writer's didn't do a very good job of showing that it was an inner monologue. My very first reaction to this scene was still "W-wait, what? Dude, who the heck are you talking to? Is the game really going to be THAT hamfisted about it?". Cue the 2-5 minutes of me just cracking up in front of the monitor .

And now, the last Chapter 3 update! Chapter 3: Part 5 - http://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=144935 Look forward to Chapter 4, NEXT TIME!

...Ok, I know that localization issues are touchy ones for a lot of people, and they're valuable ones to talk about. I definitely don't want to discourage any conversation about them either, since they fascinate me too... But, could you guys please take them to another place, like the PMs? Or the translation beta thread that's open right now? Or make a new thread? I just want an answer to my question, darn it !