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WHY ARE YOU ENABLING THIS BLOG IMPLOSION I'M GONNA HIT A POST LIMIT BEFORE I EVEN TRANSLATE A PANEL AT THIS RATE

Good catch! Might be doable then, especially given they have +5 str. Ephraim Emblem, honk honk!

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Thank you for the response. It goes without saying that I’m sorry for your loss and I hope that you’ve been doing well. 

(Messy, wordy rant below)

Claude's route, it's stated pretty much outright that without Byleth, Claude's scheming crumbled, somehow. People still call him "Master Tactician" but he can't seem to get an edge over the enemy without Byleth. So yeah, I think all three Lords get that treatment one way or another.

Ehhh, I don’t know...? That sounds much more focused on Byleth as a military factor. If that were the way they did it in Edelgard’s route I could accept since I already know they’re gonna shill Byleth as some critical part of the war for no reason, but in El’s case it’s really more like... she can’t go on without you, her heart breaks every day knowing you’re not with her. it’s not that i expected her to be successful without byleth, i was just hoping she could exist independently as an adult like claude did, without having to be told she yearned for byleth every morning or whatever the fuck

Spring Alfonse isn't much to worry about. There are much better Axe Cavs, and Spring Chrom looks like way more fun. Only go after Spring Alfonse if you're really committed to Alfonse as a character, cuz he's boring and underpowered otherwise.

:( i just like bunnies

i don’t use a lot of units, cause i try to build and merge the ones i use (and i move. very slowly. i’m still working on merging eirika, even though she’s not in my core team anymore, that’s how slo i go) but like

@kixboxer: eITHER WAY, it’s not ???? like other people don’t do this during down-time/lunch break too ??? I’m not special lol. also, I’ve written snippets of fic/dialogue during breaks, but no, I don’t think I’ve ever written *THAT* at work....

might have posted it to the kinkmeme when I reached the lab early though, because no one was around, so there !

So, my perspective (Silas):

Prior to Hyrule Warriors, I had never played a Dynasty Warriors game.  I had no idea what to expect, and it was “out of my genre” -- I don’t go around looking for hack-and-slash games -- but it was a crossover and I bought it on good faith.

And I loved it.

Not in the sense that it made me want to play every other DW game in existence, but in the sense that I had an unexpectedly high amount of fun in playing the game.  It was a pleasure to get new characters, and find new weapons, and learn how to use those weapons for things like crowd control vs. safety vs. single-target bruising.  In particular, I enjoyed Impa, Darunia, and Young Link, just for overall feel and style.  And I was altogether surprised by some of the character choices (like the King of Red Lions, of all people), which was incredible because it showed a lot of the depth you could achieve when you pull out all the stops and just let characters fall into their niches.

When I looked at Fire Emblem Warriors, I never once went “X character needs to get in or I won’t buy it”.  I did think that some characters from FE lore deserved fair consideration because of what they could bring to the table, in particular shifters (laguz, taguel) and Xane (because “I use a highlight reel of all the characters’ moves” would be incredible).  But ultimately I was hoping mainly for disparate experiences between characters, so that there would be a high chance of being able to find somebody I enjoy playing, just like HW.

So much in games is cosmetic.  I personally run Yoshi / Bowser Jr. in MK:DD because I think their specials / size are optimal for how I play, but it didn’t have to be Yoshi that had the homing item bomb or B Jr. who had a giant spinning death wall.  They could have just as easily been no-name characters or indie-style generics.  Or those items could have been reskinned and given to other characters.  It’s a crossover game.  The characters are mostly there as a proxy for the things the crossover wanted to achieve (like how Smash would have been Smash {albeit very different in aesthetic and most likely appeal} had it never used Nintendo characters).  Basically, my point is that the visuals are just kinda grafted in anyways, and the meat and potatoes is what you do and how it feels.

In the meat and potatoes, I see a lot of potential.  Maybe I would have personally preferred, say, Seth over Xander in terms of horse units.  But when I’m watching the character reveal and gameplay videos, I still see characters with broad sweeping attacks, and large disjoints, and mounts, and quick movement, and thrusts, and so on.  I see all the variety there that I came to appreciate in the Hyrule variant, complaints about Agitha’s utility notwithstanding.  And I can see the evidence of improvements in the clean interface and ability to jump between characters mid-map.  FEW is probably going to be a better game than HW, and I think that alone is enough to seriously consider it (he says, having put multiple hundreds of hours into completing HW’s DLC maps).

And knowing that a lot of the differences between characters in FE games are largely cosmetic anyways (i.e., all Archers are mostly the same, functionally), I still have hopes that the other representation that fans so hope for can be achieved by skins and alternate outfits even if the character is still technically whatever DS-family character you think is oh-so-inferior to previous iterations of that class archetype.

Probably a lot of people are going to read this and go “eheh, sure Silas, BUT this is why you still shouldn’t like it...”  Yeah, whatever, they can be salty in their little corner.  I don’t give a rat’s fart what they think.  I’m gonna play as Celica-pseudo-Zelda-AKA-Best-Girl and I’m gonna have a grand time.  If FEW is a good, well-received game, maybe FEW 2, conveniently timed to release right after [insert any FE game from 4 to 10 here] HD Remake, it’ll have all those characters from your favorite that you really care about.

Maybe I’m being willingly blind, maybe I just grew up to the point where I let myself enjoy things regardless of [X trivial factor].  Either way, you can’t kill my hype.

Just wanna point out, Fire Emblem was dead without Awakening. Love it or hate it, Awakening literally fucking SAVED the entire franchise. The franchise was due to be executed due to low sales, but Awakening changed all that.