Tharja was also one one of the winners of a popularity contest in Japan, with the winners getting special art in some of the DLC (yes, the Beach Episode one, don't ask). The winners were Chrom, Gaius, Cordelia and Tharja for the first generation, and Lucina, Severa, Owain, and Inigo for the second.
Near Field Communication.
It's the thing that makes Skylanders work, and there's a reader in the Wii U Gamepad.
As for Tharja, from the eight characters I listed from that poll, she's the only mage (and a dark mage at that), and her personality is pretty fun. She's completely sadistic, but also mostly harmless.
edited 22nd May '14 8:08:39 AM by BadWolf21
Tharja is probably Awakening's most controversial character. She's a creepy stalker obsessed with the Avatar and also specializes in curses. She tends to act as the group's therapist purely by accident. I like her, but she has a sizable hatebase as well. Her chances of getting in are miniscule.
Anyway, part of the reason I support Robin beyond diversity is that he/she would probably be named something like Tactician, and since FE will probably keep them around, there would be less issues regarding relevancy.
This, so much. I mean, having Chrom replacing Ike or in addition to Ike is one thing, but I really don't understand when people suggest adding an Awakening rep and having Chrom replace Ike on top of that.
In regards to the NFC, I'd been thinking that it might be used to allow you to keep your customized movesets for characters across games. Although I kind of wasn't confident about it because of the 3DS version being released first, when the 3DS won't have NFC until next year.
edited 22nd May '14 8:36:15 AM by beorc
Welcome to th:|I'm guessing her Stripperiffic outfit?
edited 22nd May '14 9:31:40 AM by CassidyTheDevil
I'm just curious to see how the NFC technology will work in Smash.
@randomness 4: If you count super-powered Sonic as being "his own character". I know Super Sonic comes from Sonic 2, I just think it's weird that it's the only Final Smash trophy who is listed as not coming from Brawl. And sorry for answering so late.
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Maybe they will have NFC DLC but you could also store save information on those figures so if you go somewhere it will have all your save stats.
We also have to remember the way they are creating the NFP (Nintendo Figurine Platform) each figure will be compatible with multiple games so you don't have to purchase new figures for each title.
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre AdventureUgh... What sort of idiot would follow Skylanders' example?!
I mean, other than Disney.
And, apparently, Nintendo... I really don't know why I was getting my hopes up for this game... *sigh*
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Which I guess isn't that different from any other tournament now that I think about it.

... They didn't lie about being able to disable the outlines did they?
Because the team colours look fine, but if there's no way to turn off the black outlines I'll be upset.
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