Fire Emblem series

[Zeke Von Genbu]

Yeah, Sylvain is a lot easier to recruit (even if you're not Female Byleth) but they're both decent units.

I reckon Ferdinand is marginally more annoying to recruit than say, Leonie (if you want effective horse-units) because Heavy Armour is more annoying to train but at least his B-support isn't story locked.

I believe Ferdinand's B is behind time skip I believe, I really tried to get him in BL and I never could get his B support and in church it showed up after time skip. This makes him much more annoying to get alongside Caspar, though unlike Caspar Ferdinand is actually good. As units I'd say Ferdie is marginally better, because his personal can be really crazy with Wyvern where he has 90-100 avoid and just smacks people the hit bonus is nothing to scoff at either sometimes having 20% hit can change the outcome of killing some bosses on annoying tiles. While Sylvain's much better early as his personal is amazing with early gauntlets, especially if you have Hilda, and early lance of ruin is powerful to kill the death knight for KnightKneeler or just smack something else with Ruined Sky.

Maddening might be a different ball game, the early game is intense without a Marcus, Titania, Frederick, or someone whos bases aren't below every enemy on the map. While I think the idea of no early prepromote was neat, maddening shows how annoying it actually can be to lack one.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

So yeah. One route to go, Crimson Flower. Not really looking forward to it, which is kinda why I saved it for last, but I gotta do it.

It's going to be extra bad considering you know the lore and politics from the other routes.

Edit: It's kinda like when I played Birthright after Conquest. I saw what happened in Cheve and Nestra after Hoshido's actions there. I also have some knowledge of acts that would be considered war crimes, recognizing Hoshido performing them in both routes. In the end, Birthright was the worst route for me on both a story and gameplay level.

 

[HeyYou]

SPOILER

I agree, Claude carries his route. Otherwise I think most people would agree that it's pretty weak. What kills me is when people play Church after Golden Deer and claim it ripped it off. Like you said, it could not be more obvious Church was written first and then adapted to Golden Deer.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I realized something today, why TWSITD have Nemesis. He has the Crest of Flames but left behind no descendants. So, they needed to keep his body not for a backup measure, but because with Sothis dead his blood was the only means to give others the CoF as part of their plan. They need someone with that Crest to wield the Sword of the Creator, I guess to fight Rhea with.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

The reclassing in this game is kind of busted, if you think about it.

When I think about it, it turns into how the game showcases the downsides to what Edelgard is preaching through gameplay. I've seen characters and classes ripped on because they are seen as useless, or people wanting to know how to best optimize their party rather than experiment. Characters get pushed onto the bench so that people can focus on their main units, who end up taking all the EXP and happy ending support for themselves rather than being forever alone. Or how some of them naturally perform better in certain classes due to their "genetics" (for lack of a better term, making them the most likely to exceed in certain fields despite how much effort other characters can put in. Or how that effort can be for naught due to luck/RNG.

And at the end of it all, it's just me. The guy in charge deciding how to best use these guys as tools in order to ensure my victory. They don't get to decide what classes they want to be themselves. Hell, I can veto it when they want to study a particular path.

 

[HeyYou]

I realized something today, why TWSITD have Nemesis. He has the Crest of Flames but left behind no descendants. So, they needed to keep his body not for a backup measure, but because with Sothis dead his blood was the only means to give others the CoF as part of their plan. They need someone with that Crest to wield the Sword of the Creator, I guess to fight Rhea with.

Would that even work? He's been long dead and isn't a demi-god like Seiros. Seiros's blood gives magical powers because of that, she doesn't have a crest. Byleth's Crest of Flames is the exact same one that Nemesis had, there's no blood transfusion or bloodlines involved.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

Remember the experiments they did? Giving Ly two Crests while implanting the CoF in Edelgard? They had to get the CoF from somewhere, since you need the blood of a dragon to create a Crest and Sothis is long dead. Byleth has the Crest stone implanted in him, and his mother was intended to be a body for Sothis, so it could be a matter of bloodlines there for him in a sense, since Rhea would have wanted Sothis to stay around for a long time.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Haven't played any Nintendo exclusives in a decade or so, but been looking at Three Houses with the release of the Switch Lite. Is it a decent, isolated entry, or would I have to actually research beyond just the game itself to have a decent time? A friend of mine complained about an Emblem game some years ago and how he had to grind for tens of hours to pass a point in the story, and he wasn't exactly a baby.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Haven't played any Nintendo exclusives in a decade or so, but been looking at Three Houses with the release of the Switch Lite. Is it a decent, isolated entry, or would I have to actually research beyond just the game itself to have a decent time? A friend of mine complained about an Emblem game some years ago and how he had to grind for tens of hours to pass a point in the story, and he wasn't exactly a baby.

Play the lower difficulty at the start to learn the game and you'll be fine. On the harder difficulty the game doesn't let you grind much anyway.

 

[The Iconoclast]

I take back what I said about Sylvain. He's carrying my current playthrough.

Goddamn it Ferdie...

 

[NerdShamer]

When I think about it, it turns into how the game showcases the downsides to what Edelgard is preaching through gameplay. I've seen characters and classes ripped on because they are seen as useless, or people wanting to know how to best optimize their party rather than experiment. Characters get pushed onto the bench so that people can focus on their main units, who end up taking all the EXP and happy ending support for themselves rather than being forever alone. Or how some of them naturally perform better in certain classes due to their "genetics" (for lack of a better term, making them the most likely to exceed in certain fields despite how much effort other characters can put in. Or how that effort can be for naught due to luck/RNG.

And at the end of it all, it's just me. The guy in charge deciding how to best use these guys as tools in order to ensure my victory. They don't get to decide what classes they want to be themselves. Hell, I can veto it when they want to study a particular path.

To be fair, the min-maxing carries over to most of the 3DS games, but it's not as bad as this (except for Conquest). Hell, in 3H, you're being pushed into making Hubert into a magician and Lindhart into a healer on account of their weapon proficiency.

Haven't played any Nintendo exclusives in a decade or so, but been looking at Three Houses with the release of the Switch Lite. Is it a decent, isolated entry, or would I have to actually research beyond just the game itself to have a decent time? A friend of mine complained about an Emblem game some years ago and how he had to grind for tens of hours to pass a point in the story, and he wasn't exactly a baby.

The only research that you probably need is the requirements for the endgame classes, like learning how to ride a horse or forcing your Paladin to do some gardening work.

 

[HeyYou]

Remember the experiments they did? Giving Ly two Crests while implanting the CoF in Edelgard? They had to get the CoF from somewhere, since you need the blood of a dragon to create a Crest and Sothis is long dead. Byleth has the Crest stone implanted in him, and his mother was intended to be a body for Sothis, so it could be a matter of bloodlines there for him in a sense, since Rhea would have wanted Sothis to stay around for a long time.

I'm pretty sure Seiros took the Crest from Nemesis's body and hundreds of years later that's the same one she implanted in Byleth, after several others were failures and she took it back, but I completely forgot about Edelgard, so you're right on that one.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I'm pretty sure Seiros took the Crest from Nemesis's body and hundreds of years later that's the same one she implanted in Byleth, after several others were failures and she took it back, but I completely forgot about Edelgard, so you're right on that one.

Seiros took the Creststone from Nemesis, as it was in the Sword of the Creator, and implanted it into Byleth. But you need the blood of a dragon in order to get the Crests.

 

[HeyYou]

Seiros took the Creststone from Nemesis, as it was in the Sword of the Creator, and implanted it into Byleth. But you need the blood of a dragon in order to get the Crests.

Dammit, I'm already forgetting the plot. I forgot that since Seiros technically "created" Byleth's mom (and it didn't go into detail on this, frustratingly) I guess Byleth does have dragon blood. That part isn't really brought up much, they never explain how the students who have saint crests got that blood, for instance. I'm guessing the Elites got dragon blood at some point for their descendants to have it, right?

 

[NerdShamer]

Dammit, I'm already forgetting the plot. I forgot that since Seiros technically "created" Byleth's mom (and it didn't go into detail on this, frustratingly) I guess Byleth does have dragon blood. That part isn't really brought up much, they never explain how the students who have saint crests got that blood, for instance. I'm guessing the Elites got dragon blood at some point for their descendants to have it, right?

There's 10 Elites actually eleven and 4 Saints. They were heroes & shit, so they were rewarded with dragon's blood, which is hereditary in the form of magical pacemakers Those with a crest were essentially guaranteed a position amongst the elite because their Crests gave them an edge in combat. At some point it became a dick-measuring contest that ruined the nobility and then the game's plot happened.

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

There's 10 Elites actually eleven and 4 Saints. They were heroes & shit, so they were rewarded with dragon's blood, which is hereditary in the form of magical pacemakers Those with a crest were essentially guaranteed a position amongst the elite because their Crests gave them an edge in combat. At some point it became a dick-measuring contest that ruined the nobility and then the game's plot happened.

Spoiler: Golden Deer ending spoiler

Technically they stole that blood and by extension the relics, that is why Rhea/Sieros is pissed and has a PTSD moment when Edelgard invades the holy tomb in chapter 11, especially if you side with her because Edelgard's actions are in a way retreading that history.

It is implied, if not outright stated I played GD a month ago so I'm a little hazy, that the 11 elites basically murdered and feasted on Rhea's race with only her and the 4 saints surviving that ordeal. The Elites weren't gifted anything, that was a lie to stop the fighting which is also why the whole "crests are the gifts of the goddess" thing is also a lie.

I'm not 100% sure how saint bloodlines work, Sieros bloodline passes down through Edelgard's family as Sieros gifted her blood due to them siding with her against Nemesis. I don't really remember anything being said about the saints gifting blood, but I suppose you can assume that is what happened as no other real possible outcome exists.

 

[Slamerella]

It seems Cristina Vee, who was meant to play Edelgard, denies any claims that she lost her role due to breaking NDA. (archive) (the tweet has since then been deleted)

My hypothesis involves two possible ideas.
1. This wouldn't be the first time Nintendo has released trailers with voices, only to have a different voice actor. This has happened in Fire Emblem in the past if memory serves correctly, and it has happened with Kid Icarus Uprising.
2. A bit of an outlandish one considering we've got no signs pointing towards it but, maybe there was a plan for pre-timeskip voices for the younger versions of the house leaders?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

It seems Cristina Vee, who was meant to play Edelgard, denies any claims that she lost her role due to breaking NDA. (archive) (the tweet has since then been deleted)

My hypothesis involves two possible ideas.
1. This wouldn't be the first time Nintendo has released trailers with voices, only to have a different voice actor. This has happened in Fire Emblem in the past if memory serves correctly, and it has happened with Kid Icarus Uprising.
2. A bit of an outlandish one considering we've got no signs pointing towards it but, maybe there was a plan for pre-timeskip voices for the younger versions of the house leaders?

Still a thirsty thot lol. Tara is much better.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

There's going to be DLC that lets you pet the cats. Wtf I love Nintendo now??

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Just got Sword of the Creator, so fairly early in, but I already try to plan out the advanced classes. It's kinda difficult to force them into one thing that they are somewhat naturally lenient towards, when they then come and suggest returning to their basic bitch 'no class in particular' build.

Do stats grow predetermined or does it depend on class/focus? I went with Black Eagles and the chick's kingdom, so most of them are fairly aimed at what I planned for them, but I'm trying to make Caspar cavalry and Petra pegasus, but it just feels wrong to force it when they still desire something different somewhat.

I played Mount & Blade only using the best units from each kingdom, but in a game as deep as this it seems kinda boring to just look up their best jobs and go for it. I play on default and casual, and since I'm not a complete brainlet surely I shouldn't have any immense issues if I don't plan 20 levels ahead already.