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Crest #17 look like a reversed image of the Moon Rune from the Suikoden series.

The thing about Pikomaro is that they are capable of doing good designs. They did Sephiran for that "Hundred Songs of Heroes" thing for the 25th Anniversary, and he looked great. [link to picture because my computer doesn't want to work properly: https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/0/0a/Sephiran_card_25.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150816200902] Meanwhile, Akihiro Yamada did Arvis for the original TCG, and I'm not as fond of it as the work he's done so far for Heroes. Personally, I'd put Sachiko Wada at the top. Apart from the regular accolades, I like how she showed enough class to not flaunt Cherche's weirdly exposed back. Other than that, I'm also fond of Akira (Lon'qu, Raven), Tomoyo Asatani (Ephraim), Meka (Ike), and Akihiro Yamada. Below them would be Mayo (Sheena), Tobi (Klein), Hako Itagaki (Draug, Gordin)... a lot actually. I always have trouble ranking things. But definitely down towards the bottom would be Sakura Miwabe (Lachesis), Yura (Navarre), and Masafumi Takagi (Clair). Maybe Hako (Elise) and Kimihiko Fujisaki (Jakob) too. Honestly, we should have an ongoing "Rank this Artist" thread.

It's nice to see Melissa Fahn pop up in something again. She always pops up when you least suspect her to. And kudos on getting Xander Mobus. He seems to be quite in demand. I wonder if this is a sign that he might pop up in Warriors, much like how Max Mittelman, Cherami Leigh and Greg Chun voiced characters in Heroes before showing up in Shadows of Valentia.

Orsin looks like he was drawn by Meka. He has a similar face to Cain and Ike from Heroes. Leif looks nice. Though... well, in a bunch of his early art (like the original TCG), he sometimes had short sleeves and I would kind of preferred it if they went with that over the longer sleeves. But that's a minor thing. He's still my favorite Lord. Lookin' forward to seeing the rest!

I really like Anna's outfit. Is Kozaki still the artist for this game? If so, then it looks like he still has a few good designs left in him yet (unless this is one of those situations like Awakening where he only designed the characters and not the outfits). Marth on the other hand still looks like a guy cosplaying as Marth rather than the Hero King himself.

I never really cared for his design, but his art in this game is pretty nice/ Any guesses as to who the artist is? He doesn't quite look like anyone already in the game, so maybe another new one.

Looks like I was wrong on that front. You misunderstand. I meant that because half the bonus units were free (the 20% ones), I assumed half the bonus units would be free for this one. Instead, only a fourth are. I didn't consider the Alm/Celica division, though it's weird that Alm's 5*s are bonus but Celica's aren't. EDIT: Can someone delete the above post? I made a slip-up and can't for the life of me figure out how to get rid of it.

You misunderstand. I meant that because half the bonus units were free (the 20% ones), I assumed half the bonus units would be free for this one. Instead, only a fourth are. I didn't consider the Alm/Celica division, though it's weird that Alm's 5*s are bonus but Celica's aren't.

Not only did this blow the theory that we'll get existing characters as a reward, it also blew my theory that half the bonus units (the 20% ones specifically) will be free ones. I honestly can't decipher how they even determine them. It's not even like they decided to go with 5*-locked for 40%, 4* for 20%. Anyway... any guesses on who did Tobin's art? He looks a bit like he's drawn by the same person that did Ike and Cain. So... Meka?

So far, I have two quibbles with pronunciation and spelling which I assume are 8-4's responsibility. First, Rigel. I've always pronounced it like that star (or the alien planet from The Simpsons). Long "I", soft "G". But then the game pronounced it like it was spelled "Riggelle" Second: Berkut. It looks a bit Engrish-y, in my opinion. The way it's pronounced, it'd be nicer if it was spelled like "Bercoot" or something. I'm also still of the mind that "Valencia" and "Zophia" would be better choices, but that might've be a Nintendo decision.

Ah! So it does. Well then... I'll just show myself out, totally not feeling like and idiot or anything.

The guy at my store couldn't find his but he told me to just go to the other one in the mall (yes, my local mall has two Gamestops, both relatively close to each other) and they had one. You can always check other stores, if you a receipt from your pre-order or something like that. Tangentially related, but what does the "Remove film" sticker mean? Is there a layer of film that should be peeled off? I would check, but I'm paranoid about ruining it.

I saw this on Reddit. I admit, it made me smile: "American Boy"

Apparently, the voice cast has been leaked: https://imgur.com/a/i9kbR#h9cYkbA Chris Patton is indeed part of the cast, so it's conceivable that he's Kliff (I'm not watching any videos until release, so I can't confirm it myself). Same with Robbie Daymond and Tobin. It's cool to see Sean Chiplock on there (he was my ideal pick for Alm). I wonder who he's voicing. And Lucien Dodge and Carrie Keranen are yet more VAs from Trails of Cold Steel There's also a lot of carry-over from Heroes, which suggested earlier. A lot of Texas VAs too.

From what I remember, Amanda Winn Lee flat-out retired so she could take care of her son who had leukemia, but he has since got better. Now, one thing I've been thinking about: could we possibly use Heroes as a guide for possible VAs in this game. After all, Greg Chun and Cherami Leigh had several roles in that game, and later ended up voicing Lukas and Mae. Could there then be others, like Michael Sinterklaas or Wendee Lee, that pop up in this game?