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Good to see that they're adding some more Sacred Stones characters, and this seems to be a great selection of units. Amelia wasn't someone I was expecting to show up so soon, but I really like her voice and artwork, so I'm perfectly fine with her inclusion. Armor March also looks like it could be a useful skill when paired up with a strong armor unit like Effie. Seth seems alright. His skills are not as interesting as the other units in this banner, but ultimately his stats will determine whether he is a good unit or not. Innes looks great, and I'm really glad he's here, since he was one of my favourites from Sacred Stones. He appears to have quite a lot of resistance (Iceberg increased his damage by 16 in the trailer, so assuming he wasn't receiving any bonuses from Nidhogg, he's going to have a minimum of 32 resistance when combined with Fortress Resistance), so it seems like he'll be very good at fighting mages. Tana also looks like an interesting unit. Vidofnir seems to have a useful effect, and Guidance could potentially be good for helping ally units traverse certain maps. Her voice wasn't what I was expecting her to sound like, but I'll probably get used to it. Overall, I'm looking forward to summoning from this banner. I've got 200 orbs saved up, so hopefully I will be able to get Innes or Tana.

Time for an update. Bolded units are ones that I've promoted: Camilla (+Hp/-Spd) Lilina (+Res/-Hp) Lyn (+Spd/-Atk) Seliph (+Spd/-Def) Catria (+Hp/-Spd) Maria (+Atk/-Spd) Jakob (+Def/-Hp) Rebecca (+Res/-Def) Roy (Neutral) Faye (+Spd/-Atk) Ike (+Res/-Hp) Sakura (+Spd/-Def) Hector (+Def/-Hp) Mae (+Def/-Hp) Xander (Neutral) Eirika (+Spd/-Res) Robin (M) (+Atk/-Hp) Hinoka (+Def/-Spd) Marth (+Spd/-Hp) Marth (Masked) (Neutral) Lachesis (+Hp/-Res) Camus (Neutral) Eldigan (+Def/-Hp) Nino (+Atk/-Res) Tobin (Neutral) Gray (+Def/-Spd) Boey (+Spd/-Res) Berkut (Neutral) Corrin (M) (+Def/-Atk) Michalis (Neutral) Alfonse (Neutral) Sharena (Neutral) Julia (+Hp/-Res) Anna (Neutral) Overall, I now have 34 5* units, 11 of which I've promoted.

More Sonic Mania footage has been released, showing the first gameplay of the special stages, along with confirmation of bonus stages (Blue Spheres) and time attack:

My personal favourite characters would have to be: Kliff - Easily my favourite character in Echoes. I love his cold and distant personality, and I also quite like his appearance as well. I think the fact that he was one of my best units during my playthrough may have also contributed towards me liking him so much. Saber - I knew I was going to like this guy as soon as I saw him. It's fascinating to see him go from being a mercenary who would only help out if he got paid to being someone who actually cared for Celica's well-being. Delthea - I'll be honest, I normally hate bratty characters like Delthea, but in this case, I found myself liking her quite a lot, mainly because of her base and support conversations which show more of her character. She's also a great unit right off the bat, and one of my favorite units to use in Alm's party. Catria - I had always liked Catria, and Echoes made me like her even more. I like how she's the most serious out of the three Whitewings, while still showing that she cares for her sisters. Berkut - I actually like Berkut quite a lot in Echoes. I found it quite tragic when Berkut found out that his whole life spent preparing to be the next emperor of Rigel was all for nothing, as a result of Alm being revealed to be Rudolf's son. I also really like listening to his dialogue. As many have said, Ian Sinclair did an amazing job with Berkut's voice. It's just unfortunate that Berkut spends such a large majority of the story whining. There isn't really anyone in this game that I hate, but if I had to pick someone, then I would have to say Nomah. There just doesn't seem to be much to his character to make him interesting enough.

Nice! I was hoping that Berkut would get a Grand Hero Battle soon, seeing as there had been a lot of Echoes themed content recently, so I'm glad to see that it's actually happening. Would it be safe to assume that he will come once the Bound Hero Battle ends? Here's hoping that he's actually a good unit.

There hasn't been anything datamined that suggests a second Hero Fest banner will be arriving. The first Hero Fest banner was released to coincide with Golden Week in Japan, in order to get people to spend money on Fire Emblem Heroes. To my knowledge, there aren't any upcoming holidays in Japan which are important enough to make it worth releasing another Hero Fest styled banner. In other words, I don't think we'll be seeing another Hero Fest banner for a very long time.

Since I didn't really have much interest in the new Summer characters, I decided to summon on the Fury banner in the hopes of getting Eldigan. To my amazement, I got him on my first summon: He's +DEF/-HP. I don't know how often I'll use him, since I already have a 5* Xander, but I'm glad that I was able to get him without spending too many orbs.

I've finally managed to reach 100'000 points and obtain all the rewards! Good grief, that was exhausting. Hopefully next time they do a tempest trial they'll find a way to make it less tedious. My current rank is 2'886. I may keep going and try to get into the top 1'000, but for now, I'm going to take a break and spend time finishing off the remaining quests that I have yet to complete.

Finally cleared Infernal difficulty this morning using a team of Ike, Mae, Hector, and Xander. Would have cleared it sooner if it weren't for that defence tile glitch which prevented Hector from one-shotting the blue mage cavalier that had life and death. I'm really glad to see them add a higher difficulty to Grand Hero Battles. The previous Grand Hero Battles had been too easy, so it's nice to have a challenge for once. Hopefully future Grand Hero Battles will continue to be as difficult as this one.

Masked Lucina doesn't have any skills. You can see for yourself by selecting her icon in the rewards menu, and then viewing her skill list.

Pokken Tournament being ported to the Switch was no surprise. Glad to see that Gen 7 Pokemon are being added to the roster; Decidueye seems like a good choice. Unsure on what to think of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon for the time being. I just hope that there's enough new content in the game to keep me interested. It will probably be available in both sets of games. That's how events have been done in the past if I remember correctly.

I'm not surprised that Shadow Dragon, Awakening, and Fates are the only games being featured, seeing as the main weapons from those games were shown off in the first trailer. As much as I would have liked to have seen characters from Elibe or Magvel get included, I wasn't expecting it to happen, so I'm not too distraught over this announcement. For now, I'm just going to wait and see which characters actually get included before making any judgements.

Alright, Robin supporters, the time has come. Robin currently has the 3X multiplier. Robin: 22,035,837,352 Tharja: 24,619,583,234 Now's the best time to use your flags.

Managed to get this after a couple of summons on the new banner: It's not Celica, which was who I was looking for, but Mae will be useful for me, considering that I'm lacking 5*s in both blue units and magic users (My only 5* blue unit is Catria, and my only 5* magic user is Lilina). I also got a 4* Soren in another summoning session, though I'm not sure what his boon and bane are. His level 1 stats with all skills unequipped are 15/7/9/3/7. If someone knows what his boon and bane is, that would be greatly appreciated.

So we're getting another new story chapter? Nice! Shame that Saber isn't here, but I'll still try and summon for Celica. It's unfortunate that Wrathful Staff is a B skill, since this means you won't be able to run something like Renewal or Wings of Mercy alongside it, but I guess it's worth it if it makes healers more viable now.