Enduin

I would be willing to bet there is a fourth in the capital of of Adrestia given it's importance and long history with the Church and everything. There could also be another at the Monastery but I think that's a good deal less likely for there to be two, unless Rhea is in charge of the academy and its goings on while the other oversees the more day to day religious aspects.

Three; Western Church, Eastern Church and Garreg Mach Monastery.

I could seem them having a smaller general FE direct about a week or two out from release just to debut the reveal trailer and more specifically to showcase some FEHx3H crossover promotions what not. But that's about it.

I would expect a trailer of some kind in the direct and a Tree House Gameplay segment at the very least. Maybe even demos on the show floor for attendees.

That's cause Musou games are the definition of budget HD titles. Not a whole lot in the pot for detailed and polished graphics when you're averaging 200-700k sales for an HD game with dozens of playable characters and hundreds of enemies on screen.

Graphics in general are pretty poor if not outright bad. The only thing in that screenshot, and most of the ones from the Famitsu article for that matter, that don't look poor or bad is the UI and character art. Why they didn't go for a more abstract and artistic graphics style and instead went for more detailed/realistic is kind of baffling to me for a variety of reasons. This was never going to be a big budget graphical showcase. Neither IS or KT have the pedigree or experience with high quality HD graphics so why not do what other series have done in similar situations to cover up those graphical shortcomings and shoot for style over fidelity? Like Valkyria Chronicles or Ni No Kuni, even Persona.

Any Support with Byleth/Bylese would simply be a largely one sided affair like Confidants/Social Links in Persona. They do all the talking and we get a few minor dialogue options to choose from to provide out "input" into the conversation. Works pretty well for the most part, even with romances. Which is not uncommon for Silent Characters, while they may not actually talk in conversations they still make noises, mostly in combat and in some case even say a couple words as bark during attacks, which I believe we've already seen be the case in that one JP bus commercial.

I think it could be a good thing. But it really all depends on how things are handled. An important thing to note is that the Main Character doesn't necessarily have to be the Protagonist of the story. With the Three Lords being positioned as quite important I think it could work out very well if they function as the Protagonist of the story. We'll see and experience the game from the POV of Byleth, but whichever Lord we choose to teach could be the main focal point and driver of the plot. Byleth's connection to Sothis pretty much ensures they'll have a key role in the story somehow, but that doesn't mean all the events and actions within the story must come from Byleth. Seeing as the Three Lords are the future leaders of their respective nations it makes sense that they'll have an active and vested interest in any events that will affect them both on personal level as well as a sense of duty. As such they are in a prime position to provide that emotional investment as well as show a proper character arc and growth as the story advances. Where Byleth being Silent could falter is if they are treated as the Protagonist and both the story and how events are driven completely revolves around and is born from them. It can really undermine your story when the most important person in the story that everything is focused around isn't really capable of growth or emotional investment in events as they unfold.

My thinking is that Byleth's mother could have been seen as some threat, Jeralt is sent to eliminate her but she has a child or pregnant when he finds her. Jeralt learns of some truths about the Church and decides to protect them. Either she dies then and there and he covers up the fact there was a child or he covers up the fact that she wasn't eliminated and shortly there after retires to protect them. Then she dies sometime after or he just takes care of Byleth alone from the start. Fast forward ~20 years and the Church doesn't know of Byleth at all aside form the fact that Jeralt apparently had a kid after he left. Byleth gets powers and the Church takes an interest in them as a result. They may have suspicions but if Jeralt is at all capable they're probably not fully clued in. And in the event they do know who Byleth is exactly once they get their powers the fact that they're completely naive to the Church may make them think they can manipulate and use Byleth for their own ends. Their Mother may have been a threat because of what she knew, but since Byleth was raised by Jeralt and is ignorant to the true actions or intentions of the Church could be seen as more pliable for their purposes and not someone they need to eliminate immediately.

Hopefully they have articles with some Western publications coming soon too. Would kind of suck if they're just waiting until E3 to start their marketing outside of Japan. The M/W/F Tweets are nice, but we're not even getting localized versions of the video portions to see how the VO is.

Get's sent on a mission to eliminate some threat to the Church. Finds it's a mysterious woman who has a newborn or is preggo. Learns some truth about the Church that upends his world, covers up for her and leaves the Church in order to take care of her and the kid and ensure the Church doesn't find out they got away. He is sent on a mission and either kills said woman or she dies of sickness leaving behind her child. Jeralt is given the duty of taking care of this special child by the Church and leaves in order to limit suspicion about their involvement or the importance of this child. Simply fell in love with a woman, leaves just to be with her, she dies and he raises their kid. Never questions the Church one way or the other. Nothing special about any of it.

This right here. I want there to be as little variation between the House choices as possible. Just make one really good story with no deviations or variations and we are just picking who we'd like to customize a bit more. I mean realistically I wish there was one fixed story that didn't change at all based on our House choice, but each House had dramatically different roles within that story. Like House A was the heroes, B the bad guys and C the undecided. So our House choice resulted in seeing the whole story from an entirely different point of view, but didn't change the actual events or ultimate outcome. But given how special and important Byleth/Sothis seem to be to the story I don't see that being realistic in the slightest . Their power and presence is the kind of thing that would dramatically tip the scale, much like Corrin's choice in Fates completely changing the entire course of the war and story.

Maybe, but probably best to not expect much. Also have to consider the possibility they do show something there but it may not be uploaded for the rest of us to see immediately. Conventions and live events still often have exclusive or timed exclusive trailers like that to reward attendees and make their experience feel worth the price.

If they're smart they won't even need to really reframe the Class Exams at all. It's supposed to be a Military Academy so you would think they would follow similar processes that the Military does. Once they leave the Academy that wouldn't really need to change anything. To gain a Promotion and increase your military rank you must pass their examination. Stuff like the Teacher mechanics and running Classes, Group Projects and Tutoring are a bit more complicated but could be theoretically left as is or just reframed as Training, Duties, Sparring or some such.

I don't see how Time Skips would be at all problematic. Showing them age and develop should be a positive. If handled correctly you would get all the exposure and interaction out of the initial roster in the pre-time skip period and the time skip would allow you to see how these characters you know and like have grown and matured and then gen new stories and insights into them based on the last two-ish decades. People love to see time skips at the end of shows and movies series where they get glimpses into the future lives of characters, this would be that same thing but expanded upon as we then get a major amount of time to actually interact with them further. I personally still hope there is a time skip for that very fact. Just not a two-ish decade skip to enable kids, but a few years between the academy period ending and the major conflict in the story.

Most anticipated game for a while, but I'm quite anxious about it. Lot of unknowns that could any number of ways good and bad. Seen a lot I like but a bit I'm not really sold or sure on.

I'm hoping we get a serious story trailer or the like at the Expo, something to build the hype ahead of E3 where they can spend more time showing off actual gameplay and mechanics and probably a show floor demo for attendees, but wouldn't be surprised if all we got was a teaser. What would really be awesome is if they had the likely demo for E3 at the Expo for the JP fans to get hands-on time with, but being a single day event and not really knowing what exactly the format is that's probably very unlikely.

Knowing now that he was apparently the greatest Knight ever and also seems to rejoin the Church after we become a teacher he's either: There to protect us as he's aware of something shady about the church and will die to protect us when things go south. He'll stay behind in all his awesomeness holding back the hoards of Church soldiers so we can flee from Garreg Mach. I think even in this scenario he possibly won't be our biological father, but instead came upon us & our Mom when he was a soldier which revealed said shady-ness about the church which made him leave in order to raise/protect us. He's not our dad but just some Church super soldier/zealot that was assigned to raise us until we were an adult and he'll betray us and be a major antagonist/rival of ours that we eventually overcome.

Well best I can tell the battalion troops are in triangle shapes in both formations, just in three groups in one and two groups in the other. Another possibility is it's the same formation but the two yellow carrots denote battalions that have suffered some loses and aren't at full strength. Which makes sense since normally Green=healthy, Yellow=Injured, Red=near death.

Still think those are indicators of battalion troops being present and their current formation. If you look through screen shots of in combat how those Battalion troops are lined up seem to match the carrots.

That's actually a really good theory and makes a sense for pretty much every verse, more so than either Sothis or Edelgard which kind of don't make full sense for one half or the other. That said I would hate for her just to be a pawn to someone else, I would much prefer her being an actual Zealot of her own free will and desire. Not the victim or tool for some other nefarious person or being.

I'm still holding out hope that the story and character roles are fixed and our House choice just changes what POV we see things from. In that scenario Edelgard being the kind of defacto lead and more prominent one in marketing would work if she's always the "protagonist" of the story even if you say pick Claude or Dimitri instead and choose to seen events unfold from their particular perspective. Possibly as antagonists within the story standing in opposition to Edelgard, which would be great. But that's probably too extreme and out there for IS to try and pull off. You'd effectively have three separate campaigns as well as just fan reactions to potentially having to play the role of the bad guy or losing side if things went down that route. Even if it would be super interesting to experience things from that side.

Kris, Robin and Corrin all had plenty of player worship. Corrin just happened to be the worst by a significant margin, particularly due to being the sole lead and Lord of the game and not a tag along like Kris/Robin. I'll take another Robin gladly over that, but I would certainly like for an improvement over that as well. The fact that Byleth is being positioned as the "Hero" and more importantly with powers and connections that will likely be critical to the main story that definitely has me a bit concerned as that feels a good deal more Corrin like than Robin. My personal ideal is a player avatar that functions mechanically like Robin, unique unit w/ supports, but has the plot importance and influence of Mark, aka none. That's not to say a more prominent player avatar can't be a good character and always ends with player worship, but it's such a high chance for very little pay off in my mind. This really makes me wary of the House choice and what that will mean for the story. I really don't want to see another Fates situation where our Choice and who Byleth teaches completely rewrites how events transpire, where in one playthrough Edelgard is the clear hero but in another Dimitri is and Edelgard's role is completely different. The most likely case is that the overall story stays the same regardless and just the Lord/House we choose gets a bit more prominence, but ultimately all doing the same thing together. Personally though I would vastly prefer if they wrote a fixed plot with each character having a set role in the story and our choice simply changes what point of view we see events unfold. So say if Edelgard is always the hero and driving force who wins in the end that's what happens no matter what. Same for if say Dimitri is the antagonist, if we choose him instead our presence won't change history, he'll still lose in the end we'll just be there for the whole thing. This though seems really unlikely given how Byleth is being positioned so it seems very unlikely that their presence and House choice won't turn the tide so speak in that Lord's favor.

I think given the context Joy and Comfort just make a lot more sense. That entire set of lines are describing the academy setting, in what seems to be specifically a dinner, which would corroborate the faint lights line such as when the sun is setting in the evening. Joy and Comfort seem rather reasonable emotions to have in such a setting which also seem like a good primer to help a person to finally feel like themselves. Surrounded by true friends, enjoying the food and company, without any worries letting them be free of their duties and responsibilities as nobles and Royal heirs and just being themselves. Even just for a brief moment in time as they forget about everything else but eventually do come back to that reality.

OK I'm like 98% certain this is the correct lyrics: Reach for my hand, I'll soar away Into the dawn, Oh I wish I could stay Here in cherished halls, in peaceful days I fear the edge of dawn, knowing time betrays Faint lights pass through colored glass, in this beloved place Silver shines, the world dines, a smile on each face As joy surrounds comfort abounds, and I can feel them breaking free For just this moment lost in time, I am finally me Yet still I hide, behind this mask, that I have become My blackened heart scorched by flames, a force I can't run from I look to you, like a red rose Seeking the sun, no matter where it goes I long to stay, where the light dwells To guard against the cold, that I know so well I see a lot of people have Daylights instead of Faint lights, but I just cannot hear it at all no matter how hard I try and Daylights just sounds really awkward to me besides. I can't really think of any time people say Daylights outside of the idiom "The living daylights." Otherwise it's always just Daylight, cause there's just one source.