#trinesrus

Awakening spans like, two whole continents and an island or two, and yet Fates' world still feels bigger to me somehow, and I feel like the opening cinematics are at least part of why

I’ve always felt the same, too. I started with Awakening and therefore my opinion is worth less than dirt to the majority of the fandom--cough--but I found the world of Hoshido and Nohr a hell of a lot more compelling.

And it’s not just the opening that gives you information--a lot of it is in stuff that’s just...presented. FE14 does a lot of gameplay storytelling IMO. Hoshido doesn’t have armored units. Hoshido doesn’t have horses. Nohr has a lot of mixed-expertise units but few units with the freedom to hyperspecialize. The fundamental difference between the two is really emphasized in Japanese--all Hoshido class names are written with kanji, and all Nohr class names are written with katakana. Even series mainstays like Mercenary and Thief (which have historically been written in kanji) are specifically written in katakana in Fates.

All builds up to a picture of two countries with pretty different resources. In Nohr you have metal and mounts, but you’ve got to be an all-rounder because you can’t rely on others to watch your back. Hoshido has fewer resources when it comes to raw weaponry--they don’t have heavy armor or cavalry and they don’t use any beast/proxy units like Faceless or golems--but they have enough bounty to afford to hyperspecialize in magic or shuriken or katana or lance or bows.

You can question the logic of this in a fridge sense--where does Nohr get the food for their mounts, which factually cost way more to feed than people?--but it does all scan in a raw, instinctive gameplay sense. Hoshido gets all the S-class specialists. Nohr gets all the guys that have to juggle multiple responsibilities or make up for their crap growths/bases with skills (cough wary fighter). Even a more direct comparison--when it comes to Locktouch, Hoshido gets it in the form of honorable ninjas who’ve guarded the royal family for generations with an impeccable pedigree. Nohr gets it in the form of greasy lowlives.

Like...this feels different and it’s like supposed to! On top of that, almost all of Hoshido’s retainers are nobles practically born to the position, and Nohr’s are mostly randos or gutter trash. In Hoshido, Shara is anxious about being a woman in love with a woman. In Nohr, Zero is confident in asking another man to marry him. Camilla would have become queen of Nohr before Hinoka became queen of Hoshido (personal preferences of the women in question notwithstanding).

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I mean...while the localization doesn't specifically mention dead kids, it didn't specifically exclude them, either (as far as I remember). I'd naturally assumed dead kids were on the table based on history, so it's always a trip for me encountering other localization fans who DON'T realize there used to be more siblings.

Pardon the late response, but this is such a fascinating topic to me. The localization did specifically remove all reference to dead children. Where the original text specified that the children of the concubines killed one another, the localization walks that back to “the suitors fought their own family members” (which, what does that even mean??). 

So someone coming to Fates with no previous online knowledge, just the game itself, is very unlikely to assume that Marx executed siblings. Nyx/Marx, the support that spells out Marx’s despair most explicitly, loses its ambiguity to say that Xander regrets killing enemies during war where Marx said he regrets killing enemies in fighting (implication: half-sibs are a potential regret under ‘fighting’, but not ‘war’. Savvy readers might note that it doesn’t even make sense for Marx to feel bad about enemies killed in war because the Faceless have been used against Hoshido for his entire adult life but uhh Treehouse doesn’t care about making sense so fuck you).

By “didn’t specifically exclude” I meant in the sense that it could still be gathered (in my case, from vague historical knowledge). It absolutely is a case of moving from text to subtext and adding some weird implications in the refusal to discuss it explicitly. This is really interesting to me, too, just coming from the other side: “I came to this conclusion from the localization first, and the original actually validates my interpretation?”

Yeah, it ended up being the kind of situation where how you interpreted what the game gave you depended on...well, you. 

If I were looking at that text blind, I think my conclusion would be “it would make the most sense if the concubines’ children killed one another, but this dialog specifies it was the concubines’ families that killed one another. When I use ‘x’s family’ for an adult, I almost always mean their parents and siblings. If I meant to refer to x’s children, I’d say x’s children. The support goes out of its way to not say x’s children, so it must be purposefully specifying that the concubines’ siblings and parents killed one another for...some reason?”

Of course, when you look at the context of the conversation, concubines’ children is the only thing that makes sense because Elise is comparing their current situation to the past one, as in “what if we children had to kill one another again”. But the dialog seems to push you away from that conclusion by always avoiding the word siblings and using the generic family instead. 

oh man i made Sims 3 lag so bad from CC it was unplayable. Plus I downloaded a house that literally wouldn't let me designate a front door so I had to punch a hole in the wall to let them in-- after I redesigned it to be just the way I wanted it and everything...

My Sims 3 took like 20 minutes to load and I would get so neurotic about figuring out which CC was rotten and making the game hang/crash that I would spend weeks carefully putting back in small amounts of CC, and then letting it load up, and seeing what happened, then force quit and narrow it down until I found each bad file. djsfhldkjsfks

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Tangential-- do you find it feels more painful if you're trying to do something stressful or something that you don't really want to do?

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