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Maybe by selling a few stat-up items? They do sell for quite a bit. Edit: Come to think of it, my money situation really scares me when I think about actually investing in Repairs, Herbs and shields.

If I may ask, did you get the game today? Because I do find it a bit difficult to imagine that there are enough hours in the day in order to get that far. Especially up to now.

I say that If it's high by Fire Emblem standards, it should be good enough. As long as the direction is right, I don't care much about the speed.

The other rapists were Narshen and Valter. Both were villains. They were treated like they deserved and didn't get to marry their victims. I didn't like it much either but it's hardly comparable in any way. Plus, Tharja makes the whole group look ridiculous because she makes absolutely no effort to hide that she is evil. She openly attacks people. She is merely creepy because the party somehow ignores a chronic backstabber. But okay, maybe there is more to the characters. I'm just not confident about that. Because Tharja is the character that everyone at IS and the fanbase loves. So I figured that I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover and read the scripts related to her. Afterwards I was in dire need of a glass water. If someone who is supposedly the best character is so god awful, (No reason for joining, No reason to be tolerated by the party, Flat as a line, Complete monster) then how can the rest of the cast be any better?

In this interview: http://fireemblem.nintendo.com/developer-interview/ It's on page 3. Edit: Personally I feel that I read enough supports. And I don't see a reason why the writing should suddenly shift to good after Marth's introduction. Heck, one of the developers in that interview called it his favourite scene. And if it was considered bad, it wouldn't be in the demo, since the very purpose is to give a good first impression.

Gee, I don't know... Will you quit worshipping a game that has implied rape lead right into marriage? Seriously, Tharja is pretty much a female version of freaking Valter. Come to think of it, I guess I should change it. I probably just kinda liked it because of all the time I invested in getting the font just right without resorting to copy and paste.

It's supposed to reference a certain piece of promotional artwork for Dead or Alive 5. This one here to be exact: http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/643186-dead-or-alive-5/images/gs_screen-128 And now that IS called Tharja the "perfect fighter", I feel even less like changing it.

Character depth? The characters are onedimensional, that someone like Virion won't even stop to hump Sulliy's leg even when faced with a rain of fire and an undead invasion. He won't act like a human being, for even for a split second. And the supports read themselves as if someone is trying to tell the same joke over and over in the hope that it gets funny eventually. And then someone just slips someone a ring over the finger randomly. Yes. There is no substance to these guys. They are all unrelatable caricatures.

Well, I am in my first playthrough now and the armies just meet each other for the second time and looking back, I pretty much never had any money to spare. Heck, I even did some arena grinding on Holmes route. I am that broke most of the time, that I find it difficult to imagine that I could have ever bought the first Dragon Flute. Considering that Fire Emblem games usually made me feel that there was money growing on trees, I found that to be rather surprising. Did anyone else have such trouble?

Yay, Fire Emblem is finally on the rise. And all it needed to do,is to sacrifice any sense of decency. With stuff like RobinxTharja's A-support, the shameless lolicon pandering with Nowi and the lingerie brigade in general it's like IS successfully digged for a complete new level for the lowest common determinatior. Fiction may not define us but it does reflect who we are. And I don't like what this reflection shows. If this is what passes as mainstream nowadays, I find that nothing short of depressing. So please forgive me that I don't care much about the series success anymore. If the series crashes and burns now, then nothing of value will be lost.

I can do without a Majoras Mask remake. As great as it was, a remake would just be like OoT 3D: The same game as the one that you can get for 10 bucks on the E-Shop. Just with better textures and less fog.

I am sorry about my outbreak just now. Anyway, I got a Reeking Box. I wonder if those things would actually work if you could access your inventory.

Shihiram's death. Well, anything about Talrega, really. Shihiram must have been really tormented by the fact that he raised Jill to effectively the opposite values that he believed in for so many years. It gives me shivers just thinking about it. And to rub salt into the wound, the Jill we know from the beginning was extremely dedicated to earn his affection by trying extra hard to do the very things that he didn't want her to do. But on the other hand, when facing his end he must have been really proud of Jill, knowing that she managed to turn into such a virtues person despite all his effort to the contrary with the strength to see it through. Made even sweeter by the realization that by turning into a person that can and will reject any morally bankrupt authorities, Jill has truly inherited her fathers spirit. The reaction of the citizens of Talrega to Shihiram's death is also heartbreaking. The people of Talrega show their affection to Shihiram by rejecting the help of the army who killed him, suffering pointlessly in the process. But this really goes to show, that they really embraced him. That they don't see him as some dirty foreigner like Petrine did. Heck, the very fact that Shihiram has a daughter of such a young age, heavily implies that he even found his love there.

I think I will keep sticking to My Unit. Because that's all the is. A customizable unit. Avatar obviously implies that he is an Avatar for the player. But since you can't express yourself in any way, I find this term to be immensely unfitting. Edit: Come to think of it, the silent voice would have been helpful for this. That really should have been added.

Lissa's voice was pure agony. I find it difficult to believe that her Japanese voice could be even worse. Granted, it might simply be the case that her actual lines are what caused my headaches.

Fatigue, definitely. They need to add a mechanic to punish a player for overly relying on a low number of powerhouses. Because once your stats get high enough, strategy becomes pointless. And with the 2RNG avoid calculation and Def growths rising sky high, reaching that point becomes easier and easier. Or maybe just automatically adjust the level of the enemies.

Best: Ashnard Worst: Walhart I find Ashnard's combination of armor with a fur cape wonderfully express what he is. If he wasn't as expressive as he is, it probably would look incredibly goofy but I think he makes it work. Walhart on the other hand. He looks just like he is dressed as a devil. He is only missing a tail and a pitchfork. I can't look at him without grinning. Especially with his serious face.

He better not, considering the whole thing about Ike's world being created by Ashunera and every continent but Telius being drowned thing. It would underscore the weight of the events in those games. And Ike's ending was forced enough as it is. He took his responsibilities as Greil's son so serious that he took the leadership of the mercs over the way more experienced Titania. So he wouldn't just be abandoning them like that. I always feared that they tagged that on for some future crossover nonsense.

Just to clarify a few things: The opening of FE6 says that the humans started the war. The opening of FE7 started that the humans started the war. That's hardly nothing. And after the war, there were no longer dragons in the known world. What else is needed to call it a genocide? And Generations of humans did fight, yes. But we have no idea what they thought about the war because it's never addressed in either game. We also don't know what the Divine Generals thought about the whole thing. What we do know, is that they lead a war that was ended by killing the entire opposition. And yes, that's including non-combatants. And there are actually a lot of things suggest that humans wanted to see every last human dead. The biggest point is this on: There are no dragons in the known world anymore. No dragon managed to survive outside of Arcadia. Except for Jahn and Idoun, who were lying under the rubble of the temple. If they didn't want them all death, then why didn't any dragons manage to live open among humans? Why was there no one left to live in their own nation? And remember Nergal's wife? Aenir? The dragon? She was killed even though she was merely going with her family through the Dragon Gate. She was a non-combatant. But that didn't save her. Look, it is possible that she was an exception. A tragic victim of a war that lost it's meaning long ago. It's possible that the Divine Generals were kind people that were forced to take sides into a war whose stakes grew to high to end with both sides surviving. But when you are saying that they definitely were Heroes, then you aren't doing anything different then I do when I say that they are all genocidal bastards: You are simply filling the blanks. I can't prove that the Divine Generals were evil bastards and stuff. Because I don't know what's in those blanks. But neither can you. The answer is not the point. The point is that the answer does not exist. Because it's a question that needs an answer. Because of the things that we do know. Both games open by telling us that humans started a war that drove dragons from the known world. Starting a war is a very bad thing. Wiping an entire race from the map is so as well. Sure, there can be reasons for why those things happened. Good reasons. But if reasons exist, they need to be brought up. How can we look up to these people like the story excepts us to, when all we know is that they contributed to Genocide? But we aren't told any reasons. It's just repeated over and over that they were good, brave, noble and stuff. But these are just adjectives. Adjectives applied from a generation that knows them for only one thing: Defeating the dragons. Adjectives applied from a generation that is a millennium away from the truth. We are forced to judge the Generals with no information whatsoever because the game never talks about it. -Even when the villain is a man who lost his wife through that war. -Even when two main characters are two dragon kids who lost their parents. -Even when we are supposed to shed tears for one of them. So in the end we have two stories, that idealizes people either despite their contribution to the extermination of an intelligent humanoid species... ...or specifically because they exterminated an intelligent humanoid species. And the only reason we have to assume the latter, is blind faith that the writers couldn't have possibly meant it the other way.

So there is no way to avoid any chance of the game crashing when using it? Yeah, I can see how that wasn't noticed during playtesting. Man, NoE always used to catch stuff like that.

Since I think that I only got a few of the newer puzzles by Spotpass, I figured that only a part of the users get one part of the puzzle and the rest has to use StreetPass. Wait, how you can you steal a Bullion in the demo in order to test the glitch?

That part is hardly satisfying, considering that the script takes it for granted that the Arcadians accepted them with open arms. It's just another case of the game refusing to address Athos role during the Scouring. Also, the Arcadians are not Ninian and Nils. Two major characters who we know suffered a heavy loose through the war.

That got a bit messy with the edits now. That's pretty much the same like the text in your last post that you added later and which I responded in my edited post. So could you please refer to the part that I added above as a response to that new part. Edit: Ah, whatever. I just transfer it down here. True, it makes sense from an in-universe perspective. Which means that we have two games who continuously worship a group of people who are known for driving a sentient and intelligent species from the known world. Whose heroes of both games are treated as their successor in spirit. And one of them was still alive during the second game. And he is never asked any unpleasant question. Not from the two kids whose mother got killed during the war and which separated them forever from their parents. And not from the guy who lost his wife in the war. And who was forever separated from his children as the result of an desperate attempt to save her. And who spent centuries desperately futile trying to revive her and lost his mind, memories and his whole being in the process. Which also turns him conveniently into a cartoonish bond villain, who antagonizes Athos for entirely unrelated reasons. Instead that surviving "hero" gets a touching ending, in which he declares: "I have no regrets". That's either some really shitty writing or morally abhorrent.

"...Ninian, Nils, the blame for this was never yours alone. While we can claim ignorance, we still bear some responsibility." He said the dragons were not alone at fault. Meaning he says that humans only have partial responsibility for it. And taking "some" responsibility is very little. So he blames the majority of the mess on the dragons. Edit: Yeah. The dragons were fighting back. Those bastards.

How in the world were the dragons to blame for a war that humans started? The people who "disrupted a peace forged in wisdom" to start a war share only some responsibility? There is nothing to suggest that besides the irritating refusal of those games to call the Divine Generals out on it.