JimmyBeans

This is true, and we must all do our part to spread this propaganda truth. My super cold take of trends I dislike is retainer characters dominating the rosters. Blah, blah, blah muh world building and such things.

If you can't handle this rant, don't mention the British to him. I've seen things you haven't...

I will totally give this a try! I tend to like playing through Thracia without warpskipping (for the most part) so I think I'll enjoy some of the changes added. By the way Mute, I've noticed the link for the changelog isn't working, just a heads up.

I think speedyhawk did an iron man with some of his friends where they each drafted units. You could try something like that, a coop draft ironman.

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The Hammer Man for sure must stay, and we cannot get rid of the other axe bro's either. Chapter 2 gives you 4 axe users on the same map, what other FE does that?

The contrast to Camus and Lorenz you pointed out is more of a credit to their character rather than Caeda's charisma, even though she is good at what she does. Lorenz, while not nearly as renowned as Camus, has had a way longer career and service to Grust, yet he is willing to throw it all a way for the best of his kingdom. Camus straight up admits to Nyna that he doesn't want to throw away his life's work as a knight, he is a good guy in a sense, but his pride gets the better of him even though he knows what the right choice is. I am glad you pointed that out though, not many people realize the contrasting perspectives on knighthood these two display in the same chapter, it actually makes Lorenz out to be really cool.

Each one has a niche, whether intended or not, that makes them an interesting pick up under certain circumstances in my opinion. Athena has the speed necessary to double all the chapter 9 pirates on H5, hitting that benchmark exactly. Horace has great bases despite his terrible growths and B rank lances at base, his base defense can make him extremely useful even on H5, but nobody really talks about it as Wolf and Sedgar exist. Etzel is slow, but has really high base magic, allowing him to do some really high damage. And Ymir is like the physical version of Etzel. These levels are easier (except Etzel's can screw you if you are not careful) than main line levels and give you unique items along side your new characters, to which Athena is really the only "growth" unit out of them, while the others all have a special stat that is higher than all their peers. Horace has 18 defense base! and like I said, Ymir and Etzel have bery high base STR/MAG for the contexts of the game.

I wonder if he was introduced in the manual of the original game, I'm guessing a lot of story elements are introduced there in FE1. At least he gets an introduction in the prologue for the remake. While his scenes are few, I think he serves more as the "lore guy" as he explains to Marth the deal with dragons and some of the history that has already transpired, and funnily he looks less useful in FE11 because they made Marth more competent and basically had Malledus tell him things he already knows. His expansion is nice in said remake, but they seemingly put a lot more into Nyna's scenes than him, and so he is still a lot more forgettable sadly. Rather than the player character, he seems to serve as a prototype for Kaga's love for the older tactician assisting the prince, maybe he was a last minute replacement for Jagen's role in book 1? I remember there was that old dev note saying that Jagen was meant to die at a certain point so Marth could "come of age", as he was supposed to be his advisor. If that is true, looks like Kaga went with his original idea in, without the scripted death at least, for book 2.

Funnily enough, I think most complaints I hear about maniac mode have to do with something that isn't tied to the difficulty, which is the speed of the game. I still need to try maniac mode, but maybe ill do it with animations off and at 150% speed to make sure that those biases don't creep in. I think I can find enjoyment in it, but we will see. I'll give it a shot. Fun write up!

I do miss weapon rank bonuses and other things that you mentioned. Because looking back, I think what Vander really needed was for his S rank axes to do literally anything for him to set him apart in a way. Also, it is weird to see paladins be a mono-weapon class in this game.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about that stuff as you will almost never find a character that isn't criticized. Especially from a game so popular as 3H, there is not a single character in that game that is not hated by some people. The only characters that can kind of escape it are ones from incredibly obscure games. In short, I understand if you are curious as to why, but you are not going to get a clear answer as it will vary drastically from person to person.

I absolutely adore Shadows of Valentia, and while I think it does get a lot of flak for story decisions, it scratches an itch that I have wanted for FE for a long time.

Me and a friend talked about how funny it would be there was an evil ring to summon a villain from every game, and we joked about what an outrage people would have if Edelgard was on the villains side as the 3H rep. Could you imagine that? It honestly would be cool imo, but people would be so mad about that haha.

What a Legendary album, I've listened to it extensively! I've been currently listening to Discovery a bunch lately though, I'd recommend that one as well.

Sounds like fun! I've never tried an iron man of this game and only played through it once. let us know how it goes because I might try that in the future.

It's definitely not always the case, but most 30 year-olds I assume would be married, or cohabitating, and possibly have a family and a career. That's why the way he worded it doesn't bother me at all. With the responsibilities opened up at that time, I think the word appropriate fits fine, but it seems that's not the same for you and I don't know what to say about that. Maybe that was his concern, but his response to me didn't seem that what your saying is the case. But, me and you guessing what he meant is a waste of time, we both took something different away from it.

Maybe in some aspects, but I agree with speed if we are tying where your average person of said age would be in life during that time. I don't think it's appropriate for me spend the entire weekend binging a fire emblem game for example because I would ignoring so many of my other responsibilities doing that. Responsibilities to which, I now have because I am no longer a child and am at college. There are exceptions to everything, but I don't think speed means that the boundaries for "age-appropriateness" are incredibly rigid.

For me, it's not about the age but where life takes me. If my plan works out and I graduate college, get my masters, and get the job I want then somewhere along the way I predict my interest in FE and video games as a whole will fade into the background. I've spent my life playing FE and other games, and it's sad to an extent to see that I will give it up. That's a bit cheesy to say, but it's a real thought I'm having because that could be in only a year or 2, or maybe when I'm thirty in 5 years from now. At least I probably will go back to being a lurker like I was in the earlier SF days, and even now I don't post anything but check this site often.

Just wanted to add the the notion that 776's route split is between the more difficult or the more annoying chapter so it's usually pretty on-sided. However, I want to point out that I really like the story elements present in B route despite it's more annoying game play. When I first played B route and watched the villagers do their thing in that second map my jaw was on the ground, but then again, the 17A experience with Saias brought about some stress and a great introduction to what he would represent to us later in the game. This may be a little off topic, but I actually love the 776 route split for the story reasons and for the way they both made me feel on my first runs of them. That ones definitely my favorite.

I'm so glad that my mom had pursuit

I guess Eyvel would be close, but not hit the criteria, even though it's the very end of the game. In Revelation you could probably count Scarlet for that. Can't really think of anyone else, so would that be it?

I guess in a way it does given that fe6, like you said, is generally more combat heavy than FE5. I know awakening can get pretty bloated as well, especially with some of the later maps. For Fates, Birthright can have an immense amount of reinforcements, but the other 2 routes are a lot more tame, with exceptions of course. Look at how many enemies are going to be in warriors 2 this theory confirmed correct

Roses are red Violets are blue I've been baited So have you

All right I'll give you this one. I died laughing.