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To avoid confusion with FE8's Seth, who is also in this game? (if it makes you feel any better, Sety -> Set is kind of exactly what they did in FE7)

Giving a place a person's name in exchange for a person a place's name? :P if Leonster is anything to go by maybe it'll be Aolster

It kind of is already close to 100%? The only thing of importance that's really missing is the ending; the entire main body of the story is complete. Of course, having the ending and other absent content in and polishing the patch would be great, but people have lives.

No, because Levin Swords are just called Thunder Swords in Japanese. Their choice of the Levin name was completely unrelated to the character; if anything, that's exactly why they renamed him. Also... well, those sure are name changes. I guess I'll give them some time to sink in; it's still like 6AM.

It's technically the other way around - Marth's Lodestar model actually reuses Lucina's Lord model. Honestly though, that there's such a ridiculous difference in the first place kind of says volumes about the female design direction this game took.

That's the first player-phase map theme from FE6, used as the map theme in Champions of Yore 2 (though it's normally called "Beyond the Sky" in English)

Everyone except Eltshan, Ishtar and Trabant. Eltshan can't be too far away if they do one Golden Pack episode a week, but we may have a while to wait yet for Ishtar and Trabant. Who knows, maybe we'll also see some mentions of locations in their battle dialogue.

That's the thing: the US and Japanese limited edition 3DS is also just a normal blue 3DS with a sticker on it. If you were to strip away the FE branding you'd get a normal Cobalt Blue 3DS console, just like stripping away the FE decals on the European XL bundle results in just a normal whatever-blue XL. The 3DS XL is simply not manufactured to be glossy like the basic model in the first place.

In the last few patch versions they've had some placeholder text in there (in the form of "Aideen greets spouse", "Jamka responds to spouse" or something similar), so at least it's not a garbled mess anymore. Incidentally, this is the current patch, Reparation 0.87g.

At this point I plan to mostly occupy the slots with as many StreetPassed friends as possible (in other words about five, assuming I successfully foist FE13 onto every 3DS owner I know). Beyond that, I'm not sure; maybe FE4/5 characters, plus DLC!Katarina, either version of Catria, and DLC!Marth. Odds are I won't stick with anything constant with my legacy character roster, and I'll just rotate them out whenever I feel like it.

When I placed my pre-order at EB Games a few weeks ago, the clerk mentioned their database said it's scheduled for April 1. That said, considering that their website doesn't give a date and that other Australians have had completely different dates mentioned by other EB outlets elsewhere in the country, it's almost certainly a placeholder pending Nintendo Australia FINALLY saying something about the game.

I have no idea why, but I keep thinking we'll end up with "Silas". Can't even begin to imagine where that notion came from. (a slightly more reasonable guess on my part is Levin -> Levine, simply because we already have the unrelated Levin Sword)

"rya" =/= "ri-ya" I mean come on it was never "Sariya"; it was "Sarya" I know it's a silly thing to whine about now that the English version's out and nobody calls her Sariya anymore but still ugh

a) if you seriously thought my post was anything other than a joke, then pffffffffahahahahahahahahaha b) I've seen Forseti and it looks fairly decent. I mean, it's pretty clear they weren't trying to take FE10's over-the-top approach with spell animations, and there aren't exactly many ways one can illustrate a gale-force wind. Also, keep in mind that it's been a few thousand years in-universe since FE4 and the power of all the Crusader weapons isn't what it once was, so it kind of makes sense for the spell animations to not be as over-the-top as in the past. (the FE4 Mjolnir animation was kind of shit anyway so that's no great loss)

Two quick and unimportant questions. 1: I don't suppose anyone has a screenshot of the completed StreetPass Mii Plaza FE13 puzzle (either version, since I assume they're no different)? 2:

aw man you had one job, IS this is slightly more depressing than Valflame's newfound lack of its TRIANGLE OF DOOM

Does the Excalibur spell animation still consist of a blade or multiple blades of wind, like it historically has? If so, that could've been a feasible fallback for emulating the Ragnell's traditional shockwave. I'm not particularly bothered either way; hell, I think I might prefer the whole sword-throwing thing out of the sheer hilarity of throwing (what used to be) a 20-weight sword.

These days it's not so bad, with maybe a difference of a few days from the European launches, but yeah historically we've been kinda screwed gameways. I still have no idea how we got Pokémon Gold/Silver before the US back in the day (if by a tiny margin).

It's kind of hilarious how Emmeryn, of all characters, is the example they use for "in this game death is forever".

Part of me would really like to see this be the case, but on the other hand NoE has a track record of trying to maintain consistency with earlier games with its name changes (see: practically every change in the EU FE10 and some of EU FE11's changes). Keeping things simple and consistent with the US version is pretty much all I want out of the EU version, but I don't have much hope for it being the case. idk maybe I'm waffling again

The way I see it, the cleavage is the least of her problems. It's shitty, yeah, but it's hilariously dwarfed by just how unspeakably awful her face and expression is. :P

Two quick questions on that note: a) re this week's SpotPass Double Duel teams: are they Vaike's Victory and Stahl's Horsemen (or whatever they're actually called)? It doesn't matter that much because seriously who even cares about Double Duel, but oh well. b) concerning last week's SpotPass releases: is the batch of FE8 teams referred to in-game as "The Sacred Stones" or "The Sacred Stone"? Again, it's not that important; I'm just wondering whether the typo/absence of pluralisation was just a website error (seriously just look at the CoY2 description, this thing is practically drunk on typos) or if it's an in-game choice too.

you'll get angry if the EU version isn't stuck with the inferior names? I mean sure it's pretty much inevitable that they'll be slapping EU names everywhere, but seriously the FE11 names are mostly cases where I really hope they don't

Just a pre-installed digital copy, like the US bundle.

They appear to call the DLC chapters "Outrealm Tales" instead of the US version's "Xenologues".