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Hey, the gameplay of Pokemon is not just about trading. I would love to play them all again in all their GameBoy glory Though, I do believe that Nintendo won't rerelease them due to them being impossible to complete and being incompatible with newer versions.

Well, Serenes Forest says he is 27. http://www.serenesforest.net/general/age.html#fe5 I don't know what it's source is, though.

I don't think so. Personally I interpreted the quote in the designer notes that said "From then on, there was no sight of a woman around Alvis." as more of him having a messed up relationship with women in general, due to the influence of his rapist father. I think that having a secret affair with an subordinate fits right in with that picture.

Well, as far as my last few posts go. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=46136&page=4#entry2925430 Making an argument that Tharja's figurine is not expressing her character. So it is an complaint about the merchandise misrepresenting the game itself. The DoA comment counts, though. It's definitely expressing my concern about the direction of the series, with the figurine being only one of many symptoms. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=46012#entry2911905 My personal guess on why IS is illustrating Morgan the way they do in his artwork. No criticism whatsoever. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=45975&view=findpost&p=2911310 Discussing the merged Earth Dragons theory. I argue that there is reason to assume that they merged beyond them simply not appearing. In other words, I actually argued that the writers might actually have written things that are well thought out. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=45877 I made lots of comments in this thread. My very first one included a sarcastic comment about the supposed non-god Narga being more of a god then the actual gods in the series. Sorry for that but that was only one of the many posts I made there. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=45821&view=findpost&p=2896830 I made a post about the class designs I liked. I noted that while I like the male Grandmaster, the female design is except from that and while I like the Sage designs, the Emmeryn recolor versions are except from it. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=45764 Several posts on the subject of hostile Lord Lucina wearing her mask. None of them include complaints http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=33640&view=findpost&p=2882585 I asked if the spheres in Awakening are supposed to be named differently then the ones in Shadow Dragon or if the localization is responsible for that. There are a few complaints before but they were in a topic called "People seem to dislike Avatar". So that was the entire point. I listed all my posts on this board back to January 15 so I don't think this description is accurate. I like to discuss a variety of topics due to being a Fire Emblem fan. But this the Awakening board. It's not the Awakening fanboys board or even the Awakening appreciation board but the board for all topics related to the game. And I'm not gonna pretend that it is one of the first two. Well, that's precisely my reason for when I make negative comments about Awakening. I have a lot of things on my chest about it and I would like to talk about it just like everyone else who consumed a piece of media which left a strong impression on them. Whether that impression was good or bad is irrelevant. Edit: Anyway, to say something that can actually keep this on topic, I guess it could be possible to interpret it as a nod to her having overcome does times. It does require a bit of goodwill, though. Considering that Nah and Nowi can even exist with the Binding Shield broken, they don't even seem to know why she was sleeping in the first place, let alone understanding how much she suffered during that time. So I don't have the impression that the statement was made in good fun. My impression is that they knew she slept for a long time, so they kept associating her with sleep, whether for gaining visions (despite Nah being able to do it on the spot), for that obligatory quirk in the profile and by having her being asleep every time she appears.

The alignment of an sentient creature is irrelevant. The only thing that might make them valid targets are their actual actions. And it was the party who attacked and murdered them. They murdered over 100 people not because they were causing trouble but just because the group needed a few convenient bodies. Murdering people out of mere convenience is Evil with an capital E. Also, you said you were playing 2d edition and not first. I don't know anything about 1st edition alignment rules but I doubt they say that it is okay to cast Detect Evil onto a market place and kill everyone who glows. There needs to be an actual evil act involved. Killing people who didn't do anything is murder. Also, shouldn't the Paladin stop associating with the group if only because they were stealing horses and breaking contracts?

That Paladin should really put that "Detect Evil" to work every now and then. Why does a Paladin work with a bunch of thieves and murderers? Anyway, it is not Chaotic due to the calculated nature of the act and not Lawful because the group clearly doesn't care about agreements beyond the "not getting caught" part and doesn't even bother with "technical" truths but just flat out lies. Giving the damage that the gypsies did, resorting to lethal violence might still be neutral but attacking and murdering hundreds of orcs with no other excuse but to raise an army is about as evil as it gets. So yeah, Neutral Evil. Btw, why did anyone vote Lawful? They steal horses and lie to shift blame and to cover their bloody tracts. What of this spells lawful? And how did you raise any dead when the wizard and the cleric were imprisoned? Are there even level 1-2 spells that can create undead without a time limit?

Oh, that's what it was. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the clarification.

Okay, lack of depth has nothing to within disgusting degree of dark comedy and mockery of people who have a certain degree of empathy for the characters of the old games. Can't say I'm particularly disgusted myself, though. Anytime I thought this game couldn't get any lower, it proved me wrong. Again and again. Nothing about it surprises me anymore.

I would bet that this is an oversight. By default he even has a regular death quote, unlike all the other characters who are supposed to survive because of their role in the main plot or in the sequel. So even if he was recruited, you could kill him off before that chapter anyway. And I don't remember him rejoining. But then again, it's been a decade.

Actually his dialog in chapter E23 is always going to play whether he is dead or not. I know that because I simply killed him on my first playthrough since there were no hints on how to recruit him. So I ended up being confused who that guy in C23 was. Of course, logic dictates that this memory should be unreliable after 10 years.

My apologies but are we even talking about the same thing? Because I merely wanted to point out that the game panders directly to the player and that this would naturally affect the popularity of Lyn if she is the one doing the gushing. Sure, Eliwood and Hector do that too but by that point they don't even acknowledge Mark's presence all that often. Even ignoring that, the tone is quite a bit different in Lyn's story. As early as the first chapter, Lyn is taking care of the player, going as far as showing herself concerned about Mark being drained by the battle despite Mark doing no fighting. She shares her most intimate feelings with Mark, has to suppress her tears and begs Mark to train her and let her accomany him. So she shows herself a lot more devoted to the player, as well as more vulnerable, dependent and even subservant. In Eliwood and Hector's story, he gets a lot of praise when he is even mentioned but it's not as intimate in any way. Their relationship is a lot more professional. Edit: Of course, none of that might even matter because the list that AL posted seems to correlate with the sales statistics of the games. From what I remember, Telius and Thracia sold really bad, Monshu did the best and Seisen and Blazing Sword sold really good too. So it might simply be a matter of exposure.

Additionally to the usual swordfighter, her story features a player self insert that Lyn keeps gushing about despite him never doing anything. There are even several CG images with her looking at the player with her huge eyes and a big smile. Superficial moe as heck. But as I said, I would love to hear an arguments in her favor.

Ah, that brings back memories. Those were indeed quite a few hours. Good job.

Those methods are not unavailable. There is no logical reason that they couldn't have tracked them without Lyn. It is a good idea that the story has her track them when she is already around anyway but it is no good justification to introduce her as a main character just to have her get rid of this plot irrelevant and artificial obstacle. And it's missing the point: The group tracking down the Black Fang is only a problem because the story wants it to be a problem. What does this problem contribute to the story other then excuse Lyn' presence. Legault didn't actually say that, though. Legault: "Yes. Black Fang's headquarters are here in Bern. The location was never disclosed to me, though. The Black Fang is so much different than it once was. Any information we could gain would be beneficial." He flat out says that nobody ever told him where the headquarters are. But that's besides the point. The point is that the story bends desperately backwards for no other reason then to find justifications for Lyn's presence in the story. Yes, that is a sign of having no story significance. That is a sign that a characters is tagged on to the plot rather then being an actual, integral part of it. That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. Which is just as well, though since I made that mistake too since you weren't talking about Caelin's role in main plot. My apologies for that. However my last line still answers the actual issue about Lundgren: "If it wasn't for Lyn, Caelin wouldn't have been involved in the story at all." Because he has no purpose in the story but serving as a villain in the prologue. Stuff doesn't just happen automatically in a story. It happens because it's written that way. So if Lyn wasn't there, the twins wouldn't have been captured at all. They would only have been captured when the story needed them to be captured. Which is always going to be just in time for them to escape and meeting up with Eliwood. Plus, you can't use her actions during the prologue to show that Lyn has story significance after the prologue. And what are those reasons? This thread doesn't give much to work with in that regard,

Fred: Sword/Lance Conomore: Sword/Lance But Kain and Alva are actually regular Lance Knights and not Cavaliers.

The tracking part shows nicely why Lyn feels so tagged on. They didn't need to track the Black Fang back to their base because the story doesn't care how they get there. It only cares that they do get there. Case in point: Finding Athos just a few chapters before. The group was searching for him in the the massive dessert that makes up a fifth of the entire continent for him with no direction whatsoever. An effectively impossible task and yet they still managed to trip over Pent. Of course it makes for a better story if stuff like this does get explained but there are tons of alternate explanations available. For one thing, they could have tracked them themselves. Tracking isn't some sort of mystic art only possessed by selected tribes of Sacae. It's downright absurd that Eliwood wouldn't have scouts for just this purpose. Alternatively, they could have followed directions by the locals. Or questioned a prisoner. Or the same Ositian spies who tracked the Black Fang down on the island. In fact, the entire situation is so embarrassingly forced, that Legault, one of the founding members of the Black Fang and best buds with Brendan and his sons, somehow doesn't know where their own base is. The chapters in Caelin were forced between Darin escaping Laus and Darin seeking shelter by his allies from the Black Fang. I mean, look at it: Darin was outmatched by Eliwood, so he escapes ...into another country which he then invades.. That... doesn't make a lot of sense. It is another contrived situation that had nothing to do with the plot beyond serving as an excuse to bring Lyn back into the story because there was simply no reason (or even a way) for Darin to casually take over Calin with Eliwood on is tail. Remove it and Darin simply goes directly to the Black Isles. As for Lundgren... he is just there for Lyn to have a villain in the prologue. If it wasn't for Lyn, Caelin wouldn't have been involved in the story at all. If the twins didn't appear in the prologue, the consequence wouldn't be that they would have been captured. It simply means that Eliwood would have had his first meeting Ninian and later Nils on the Black Isles. The scenario on the Black Isle does in no way require Eliwood and Ninian to have meet each other previously or add anything to their relationship because Eliwood saves and protects her either way. More like Chewbacka important. But that's not quite true. While Chewbacka is never required for the plot, he adds a lot of color and humor to the story. Lyn has no unique perspective on events she provides barely any color because she is almost always on line with Eliwood anyway. All she gets are lines that are so generic that they could have been spoken by anyone in the group. Her unique contributions are effectively limited to butting heads with Hector, bringing up her murdered tribe or her dead parents and reminding us that bandits are evil.

My favorite is SF Debris. http://www.sfdebris.com/ SF Debris is a reviewer of Science Fiction shows. He used to review one Star Trek episode a week but eventually took requests and is now reviewing other SF and Fantasy movies and shows in addition to the weekly Star Trek ones. I enjoy his show a lot because his opinions are well thought out and he willing to look at the good and the bad sides of a work and usually does a lot of research on it unless it is part of the request that he goes in blindly. His relatively recent "Gojira" review is probably a good example of that.

Tharja is an selfish person who wants to be left alone with her hexes, which she doesn't mind to use on other members of the shepherds.And as we see in her supports with Avatar, even when trying to get someone's attention. she doesn't use her body for it. So I fail to see how that figure is in any way expressing her character and is doing anything but reducing the character to her boring body. And it's not done with "Don't like it, don't buy it." At least for my part, I really don't want Fire Emblem to become the "Dead or Alive" of Nintendo by underselling it's characters like that.

Well, it could be handled like TearRing Saga. After all, Characters start with supports but they were still able to gain new ones or raise existing supports through events. One might as well use support conversations for that purpose.

I would also prefer the SNES/Telius/TRS approach of having events and/or base conversations. With supports, you can't really write dialog that is actually relevant because it can be triggered anywhere in the story. With a war going on, the storyline should be the most important time in the life of anyone who participates. But while during the story armies and kingdoms fall and countless people die, the characters seem visibly unaffected by all of that. That's a huge waste. Anyway, I would appreciate anything that sheds some light on Levin's relationship with Forseti, Julius' with Lopotuso and gives some depth to Manfroy. I would also like to hear more about Cyas' life. The relationship of Aida and Alvis must have been very interesting. And how the Loptu church extended their influence in the empire over time and how this affected the lives of everyone. Come to think of it, I want an Alvis spin-off now.

Almost 40 episodes. The group came a long way. And most importantly, we are getting closer and closer to Cell. I'm quite exited at this point. Just how will TFS characterize the villain who has to carry this arc? I'm also wondering how the following episodes will handle things. 17 and 18 seem to lack the exaggerated personalities of the likes of the Ginyu Force and won't be put against the Z-Fighters for a while. So I wonder where the comedy will come from.

Honestly, I can't stand her in Awakening. There is nothing to her but trading related puns. It's literally every single line. Seriously: Her level up quotes as an example: I think someone forgot to give me my change. I wonder just how much I can branch out. This sure beats gold! ... Wait, no it doesn't. If only my profits grew this fast! Minds are like wallets. They only hold so much. I didn't leave a single one out there. She never did that in the other games. All she ever did, was heading the secret shop and would occasionally go on about wanting to be a pirate. (She has so many classes and not a single one of them is Pirate or Bandit.) It's bad enough that she is a massive pain but this agony can't even be justified with the history of the character that she is supposed to be. It's completely unrelated.

What does this have to do with anything? Are still talking about how Leaf has supposedly never developed in FE5 because of a scene that was seen in FE4 but happened chronologically during the events in FE5, that involved Leaf stating something rush and foolishly but admits as such after being called out on it by Fin? Btw, the scene about Fin is the very one you quoted on the previous page, which like I said was still in chapter 8. Long before Trabant was dead. They still talk in chapter 9 but not only is it still before Trabant's dead but the conversation is exclusively about Altenna.

I used to play Sim City 3000 a lot. I played 4 too but not for very long. All those years and I still didn't know how to handle the traffic of a decent sized city. Then there would be Anno 1602. I played Anno 1503 too but I never figured out how to make a profit there. If I remember, rather then getting taxes from them, you had to sell the products to the villagers. Anyway, Anoo 1602 is probably my favorite game in the genre. Since nobody on this board has ever heard of it, an introduction: the game is about building up colonies in the new world. There are always tons of islands on one map and you will have to colonize more then one of them if you want to build a huge colony because of the resources needed for that. I really like the setting of it. Having all those islands on a map, seeing your own colony grow along with those of competitors. It's quite a sight. And the game still looks as beautiful and colorful as back then. Plus, it's interesting to have this competition without actual warfare. Trying to get the good islands before they do and stuff. There can still be war, though. Initially the map is extremely big and there seems to be enough islands for everyone. But if you want to move up, you might have to declare war on a competitor if they sit on an island with vital resources so you are not dependent on trade. However, despite the option for warfare, it's still firmly a simulation game. Outside of scenario's, competitors will never declare war anyway unless you start to colonize their islands or something. An army is way too expensive to build and maintain anyway. They also need tons of different resources. It's not easy to get ore and then turn that ore into something suitable for the military.

The two scenes you are comparing aren't too far away chronologically. Both happened during Leaf's time in Lenster before moving against Manster. Plus, character development doesn't turn you into an entirely different person. Especially if it's about emotions. You can't just decide not to get angry. When Leaf became easily angry and irresponsible before Doria's death, he would still act like this afterwards. Especially now that he feels the guilt about all the people that died because of him and the stress of being under siege for many months. What could change is that Leaf would easily recognize this behavior and catch himself. Back in the day, he insisted that his knights would aid Alster against the opinion of his advisors. The result was Dorias' death. When this scene in FE4 happens, Leaf is quick to realize that Finn is right. So he seems to have developed. At least there is no contradiction. And that is all that is needed. Because FE4 and FE5 are two entirely different stories and Leaf is only the hero of the latter. Leaf, being just one of many characters in FE4, doesn't have the opportunity to receive this degree of development he got in FE5. Should Leaf suddenly completely change between chapter 7 and 8 because of events the player didn't see and the writers didn't knew about yet? I don't get the accusations against Eliwood either, though. His accusations the queen of Bern were completely unreasonable and silly. Not just because he wasted their opportunity to find the shrine but more importantly doesn't know her. He doesn't know a damn thing about the queen's motivations or her feelings for her son. So his accusations came completely out of nowhere. But that was more awfully written scene then anything. Usually he is fairly mature.