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@Folt I'm talking from a design perspective. I can like Sapphire more than Emerald, but that doesn't stop Emerald being designed to be the best version. You want to fight both teams instead of one inexplicably helping you even though they're both in the wrong? Emerald allows that. You want to get all the legendaries? Emerald allows that. A fleshed out single player competitive experience? Emerald has that. I can go on and on about how Emerald is designed to be the best but you surely get that by now. While our subjective opinions can differ it will not change how Emerald was made to be the superior experience.

It invalidates it in my eyes because it is designed to be the best of the versions. Your FE11/12 analogy doesn't fit properly, this is more similar to the third versions of the Pokémon games than say Black/White to Black2/White2. They're designed to be the best of the games. If you had to choose between Sapphire or Emerald versions. You would have little to no reasons to ever pick Sapphire over Emerald. Better story, better features, etc. Just because Sapphire is it's own experience doesn't stop Emerald from being superior in virtually every way. It's the same with the third route it's designed to be the superior experience because of what I listed. The fact that this was released so quickly doesn't help the problem since they weren't able to stand on their own for a while before the superior version came out unlike Sapphire, Ruby, etc.

Well, let's count off what the 3rd route has over the other two (this is just off the top of my head): most closure of the stories, able to fully take advantage of the multiplayer features (access to both weapon types, both class types, grinding, etc), most characters (barring 3 characters with "spotpass" level relevancy among your team), most customization of My Castle (two of the harvesting places, both shops, able to choose which my castle aesthetic you want), the most characters, support conversations, and pairing options. Frankly the only thing it doesn't really have is the difficulty of Nohr so it doesn't completely invalidate Nohr, but I'm struggling to think up reasons to play Hoshido unless you really want to see [spoiler=story stuff]Marx kill Elise in 3D.

Including the 6 chapter prologue Hoshido: 14 shared to 14 unique Nohr: 15 shared to 13 unique Invisible: 11 shared to 19 unique Yeah, not a huge fan of this. I'm surprised Nohr has the most.

Not to mention how the characters you miss out on are Kamui only support characters. So you're not even truly missing out on full character compared to the rest of the cast. Just a "spotpass" character.

3rd path reuses quite a bit of maps from the Hoshido and Nohr route which I'm not really a fan of. And the new maps are just extremely gimmicky, actually most of the route is extremely gimmicky. Gimmick Kingdom... wooooooo...

"But these steamers MIGHT run better than Arkham Knight." Rekt

Arthur sounds like the Kellam of this game. -_-

I think the solution to this is to just not have child characters anymore.

Pelleas is also pretty easy considering you can slap paragon on him easily (geoffrey comes with it if you didn't remove it from him as a back up) and the second chapter has so many 1 range reinforcements that he can pick off easily. And BEXP.

This isn't censorship. It's quality control.

I think people are REALLY overreacting when they say to give it an M rating. Nothing in this game actually warrants an M rating (no gore, no nudity, etc). The closest thing to warranting the M rating is the suggestive dialogue, but that is NOWHERE near the level of actually getting an M rating. Is is maybe to risque for Nintendo though? Maybe, I can easily see them changing stuff because it's either too much or maybe that Soleil x M!Kamui support. We'll have to wait and see for that.

Pretty sure you can only do the chests for males.

Oh god, this is literally the most stupid design decision they could've made.

spread it on social media, tell your friends to tell their friends, have the titles contain common words searched and tagged (one of my highest viewed videos was just an LP video titled FUUUUCK and it got around 200-350 views)

That's why 7 was better than 8.

Face rubbing and the stripping bothers the fuck out of me. These features would be a deal breaker for me if this was any franchise other than Fire Emblem. With the other fanservicey stuff, I just give an exasperated sigh and move on.

Mid-battle supports are a thing again so I wouldn't actually be too surprised if they brought the support limit back too.

This is Fire Emblem so I don't have high hopes for any of the endings to not be happy (maybe bittersweet if they capitalize on the fighting your family aspect). Every single Fire Emblem has had a happy ending, even the darkest one of the series ends on a happy note (though Thracia is sort of an exception, but it's a midquel). So while these darker scenarios sound great, I don't see there being a chance in hell of FE pulling something like this off.

His neutral air is good. Abuse the crap out of it. I probably would've also gone to this tourney if it didn't cost bloody $50 to get into both melee's and PM's tournaments.

If FE wasn't extremely imbalanced this could be pretty good.

My absolute favorite song is easily Beauty is a Mad Mistress (RD). It's just so good, especially at about 30 seconds into the song. Some other great ones are Wisdom of Ages (RD), March of the Lion King (RD), Wheeling Corby (RD), and Stalking Menace (RD). If you could not tell, I really like the personal battle themes.

Still won't stop me from hating the walking in on the opposite sex and getting chased out trope.

My dick

I'm fine with the same sex scenes in the hot spring, but walking in on the other sex and getting chased out is just so stereotypical anime that it's cringe worthy.