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    Origins of Mila and Duma (unmarked Endgame spoilers)

    in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

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    2 hours ago, VincentASM said:

     

    Personally I think this was all planned somewhat. Even Tellius has some subtle hints with the Branded. I mean, if you think about it, the Branded are really just pumped up versions of the humans with transfused dragon blood. Which makes sense if Tellius is near the start of the timeline.

    Wait, is that a theory? After Ashera fell, a new god had to take her place? So a dragon from Goldoa gained enough power to become one?

    Do You Think They Changed Some Characters Too Much?

    in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

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    2 minutes ago, SlipperySlippy said:

    Why is having mixed race diversity a necessity? It shouldn't be. At all. This is coming from someone who thoroughly enjoys playing games with a mixed cast. I also don't care about the 'overall whiteness' of the cast. In the case of Fantastic Four, the Death Note Netflix series and the like, changing characters ethnicity has and always should result in backlash as it is changing the initial intentions of the original artist/author.  You also didn't address the fact that if they felt a necessity to introduce different races across Valentia, they could've simply introduced new characters instead of the two that they did.

    Also there's no proof towards the choices being purely aesthetic and fitting the characters better. I'd personally venture to bet they just wanted a more diverse cast for the sake of diversity, not addressing any particular racial outcry. Similarly, Faye was likely only created for gender diversity at the start of the game and not having an all-male cast until Silque (although that's still relatively early in, so that could be debated). Similar to your claim however, it's only conjecture. 

    The live action death note just looks terrible. I don't care about whitewashing, but turning a psychological thriller into an action thriller with police chases and dangling ferris wheels and changing misa from an idol to a cheerleader instead of a model or something is dumb

    Am I alone on this...?

    in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

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    8 hours ago, ghast said:

    Looks like I'm going to need to post this exact message for the 3rd time. 

    1. The portion of the 3DS hacking community is extremely small, so an extremely small portion of the entire community will be playing the leaked copy.

    2. The hacking community and the FE community are not exclusive, so most definitely will likely buy the game on release anyway.

    3. There's no Japanese 3DS hacking community, so its literally not going to happen that this leak will hurt JP sales of SoV.

    4. 3DS hackers who are playing JP SoV still can't enjoy the story, which was a huge draw to this remaster. And all those I've spoken to are in fact more intrigued by the game now.

    5. On Emulation: Citra barely runs Fates, let alone runs it efficiently without a god-tier PC. The most FPS you can get from SoV is reportedly like 10-20 frames ALONGSIDE a ton of graphical bugs. It's also in Japanese. You can't emulate 3ds games like VBA. You can't. Citra is not there yet and won't be for years. Unless you're a masochist who wants to play a foreign language game with absolute garbage FPS, emulation is highly likely not to be enjoyable at all.

    6. Fire Emblem Fates literally had a fanslation that had a menu patch, supports and all 3 main campaigns translated before the English release. It received negative PR, lukewarm reviews and was given a lot of flack. yet the game still sold amazingly in North America. Nobody is going to bother making a fanslation of a game like this scheduled to release in a month.

    This leak won't affect sales at all and will keep building hype.

    Guessing one of those times was for a response to Mangs's video?

    My initial thoughts on all the character portraits...

    in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

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    25 minutes ago, Ertrick36 said:

    How about Rinea?

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    She's absolute fire, just like Flora or Sigurd lol

    I also dig OVA Polnaref (who really should've been Dean).

    Yeah, Vrai looks much more like a recruitable character who uses the brave sword (more like killing edge but whatev. I was so happy when I got it when I first played gaiden, but then I realized that it didn't have the brave effect)  and Dean looks much more like a generic boss who uses the devil sword. Mark my words, Vrai will be the most remembered boss from this game.

    Data-mined Information (SPOILERS; please read first post)

    in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

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    Just now, RedEyedDrake said:

    So...I'm assuming that the Falchions that Marth and Alm use are the exact same in this game's data and that Alm's Falchion is still effective against both all monsters and Duma himself. Does that mean that Marth's Falchion was supposed to have always been effective against both dragons and monsters all along? Because if it is then that would seemingly be another function that got changed by Awakening's era given that undead count as monsters and yet neither non-basic from of the Falchion is effective against the Risen.

    Risen are different than monsters. Risen are corpses controlled by bugs in the masks

    Data-mined Information (SPOILERS; please read first post)

    in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

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    19 minutes ago, Iridium said:

    Base conversations are essentially conversations where characters react to what is currently going on in the story, typically the next or previous chapter. They allow for characters to develop somewhat more organically because they are tied to plot events rather than arbitrary friendship levels, and consequently only happen at set points instead of needing to account for the possibility of them happening at any time. As a side-effect of this, they are also generally easier to obtain; instead of forcing players to have Tethys lap-dance Gerik in the corner for 250 turns and locking it out forever if you chose to have him get with Marisa instead, you can usually get most if not all of them in a normal playthrough.

    Unlike support conversations, they don't necessarily provide consistent bonuses to gameplay. Whereas support conversations reward players with some trivial proximity-based stat boost, base conversations are a bit more diverse: sometimes they provide no reward at all, sometimes they provide the player with new items, and sometimes they can even provide the player with new characters. But their primary purpose is largely the same as supports: character development and world-building.

    Base conversations are present in Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn, and New Mystery of the Emblem. The latter case is a little bit different, though, as support conversations are somewhat combined with them in that game -- but that's not really important right now.

    Base convos were the only thing keeping Radiant Dawn characters form being as static as Archanea characters. FE4 had a lot of character conversations that were KINDA like base convos, and FE5 had characterication before and after the recruitment chapter for the most part. 

    Data-mined Information (SPOILERS; please read first post)

    in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

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    1 minute ago, Something Witty said:

    I don't understand what base convos are, as I never played the games that they are from (I'm a newer fan of the series).

    They exist to flesh out characters, like support conversations, but give no stat bonuses. They do, however, sometimes give items for that character. They depend on who's recruited, who's still alive, and actions taken in maps. Here's one of Jill's. 

     

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