Fire Emblem

I'm pretty sure the guy behind that commercial had a prophetic vision about Game of thrones and then got that confused with the game he was making a commercial for.

Pretty sure at least one of the books was out at the time.

The first three were, having been published relatively close together in the late 90s. Then the legendary Schedule Slip set in bad.

Ugh, I seemed to recall that Fiona could leave the starting island in 3-6. She cannot. Still, I racked up a LOT of experience on that map, especially for Meg, who was MVP with Beastfoe. Other than that, most units gained several levels and I think Leonardo is the single biggest stinker due to really bad speed.

I occasionally debate with myself if Micaiah is supposed to be straight-up in the wrong in Part 3 or is it's a Both Sides Have a Point situation to an extent.

x2 Yeah, cavalry can't do anything on that map at all (Titania and Oscar end up getting stuck when Ike does the map, too) because apparently knee-high water is too much for trained war horses.

Before the blood pact reveal it's quite clear she's biased towards helping Pelleas and Daien even though their current actions were not in the right, Sothe even mentions it himself, and is likewise why some of her allies can join the other side on maps where they are the enemy.

Micaiah's supposed to be in the wrong, but only because of circumstance, rather than personal preference. Even prior to the blood pact reveal, she's aware this whole situation is fishy, but she trusts Pelleas and thus goes through with it believing he has a good reason for it, and when the reveal drops she doesn't feel she can back out because if she does Daein's morale will drop, the war effort will collapse, and the blood pact will likely be invoked anyway.

edited 21st Aug '17 12:16:04 PM by Alfric

I don't like Kris but I don't hate them either.

In game-play, Kris is the best as I can pick their class that I want and in game-play they're virtually in-distinguishable from any other unit other then it being game over when they die.

Story-wise, they aren't bad but they do cost Marth some competency points and they get shilled in the opening over the opening in Old Mystery which had world building. Anyone who writes a game where in a character gets shilled (regardless of who they are) in the opening instead of doing world building is a bad writer.

So the ranking of Avatars in my opinion:

Game-play: Kris> Robin> Corrin

Story: Robin> Kris> Corrin

The lip synch looked off and many voices don't sound like themselves...

Alright bunch of Fates characters durely we get Shadow Dragon characters now.... >_>

They recast a bunch of the characters. The only ones that sound off to me are Camilla and Hinoka, mostly due to how different they are, but the others are fine. It does sound like they took the V As that Heroes used for them for the most part though.

Camilla, Hinoka, and Takumi were predictable, but I'm happy the latter two made it. Shame they kept the Heroes V As.

You're up next Shadow Dragon.

edited 22nd Aug '17 6:13:50 AM by erazor0707

The game comes 20/10, at least in Europe. The LE comes with character cards and 3-disc soundtrack.

They likely are having to use the Heroes V As for many characters because of the strike still going on.

Strike?

Long story short, major voice actors are on strike because working conditions for video game voice acting are shit (major throat damage, dangerous stunts, not wondering what role they're going to get, no royalties)

The sad part is that because voice actors also work in television and cartoons, they're the only groups in the gaming career that are actually unionized.

edited 22nd Aug '17 7:14:28 AM by NoName999

So the antagonistic dragon is called the "Chaos Dragon" huh?

You know, I'm surprised it took this long for Fire Emblem to have a "Chaos Dragon."

Stop doing story trailers. They make the game look awful, and mediocre voice acting with no interesting lines isn't selling people on this.

Takumi and Camilla were of course predictable. Leo and Hinoka aren't a surprise either, but I was less certain for them, so it's good to see them.

I'm more surprised that they're apparently leaving out the little sisters. I'd thought that the eight royals, Corrin, Azura, and maybe Odin/Selena/Laslow would be the Fates rep for sure.

I guess they're introducing the main groups first (which makes Elise and Sakura's exclusions surprising since Lissa is in).

Fully expecting Jagen and Caeda for SD then.

Hinoka was just as irrelevant as Sakura was, so I wouldn't expect much from her.

Plus Female Robin has no story role and she was revealed before them.

edited 22nd Aug '17 9:20:01 AM by OmegaRadiance

Most of the reactions I've seen to Warriors are negative. Am I the only one who still wants to play it?

Female Robin wasn't revealed in a story trailer though. The characters most important to the story of FE Warriors are the ones who's going to show up in the story trailers (we have the Awakening and Fates trailers, so the Shadow Dragon story trailer is the one left), and they will be the ones who will appear in the demos we get in a playabl or nonplayable capacity.

No, you're not the only one.

edited 22nd Aug '17 10:23:57 AM by Folt