E. Wendall

I'm worried I won't be able to recruit all the units I want in one route, and about the characters--their designs are kind of boring to me and don't give off much personality just by looking at them.

Maybe Dmitri, maybe Ashe, maybe the purple haired bangs boy, or blue-haired sword wielder. I'm not sure really. Unrelated, can I ask why so many people are referencing Claude when it comes to LGBT representation? We have almost no information about him, and it feels like a whole lotta stereotypes.

Love: Dmitri, that purple-haired boy in Golden Golden Deer, Annette, Ashe, Bernadetta, orange eyeshadow instructor, both the Byleths, and the goth man in Black Eagles, Sothis (I just hope she isn't sexualized) Like: Claude, that glasses kid, the old male instructor(?), Linnhardt, blue-haired sword wielded in Blue Lions, Leonie, Hilda, Mercedes, Petra Dislike: Edelgard, Raphael, Dorothea, Sylvain, the rest of the unnamed Blue Lions, Caspar Hate: FERDINAND (don't like him and want to punch his face)

Honestly, her non-FE work all looks leagues better than the portraits she has done for FE, to me.

So, GameStop is doing in-store preorders? Or are they not? I've been hearing a lot of different things.

I wouldn't worry about it too much yet. Might just be what they're calling the special edition. I think they probably would have said by now if there were multiple games.

On Best Buy. That was pretty fast. The subtitle makes it look like there could potentially be other versions that only contain one path, a la Fates, but I guess that's just speculation really.

I'm not feeling it too much. Reminds me of Harry Potter and I don't like the multiple paths thing too much. I was really hoping to be able to recruit every unit in one go, and this seemed kind of like we might not be able to. But I suppose it's too early to say.

I'm so excited to see everyone analyzing and overanalyzing whatever other information we get. I'm so hyped, I'll never doubt King Zel again.

Agreed, and I don't think FE suffers too much from lack of online multiplayer anyway. It's fine as just a personal experience. (somewhat) On that note and something I forgot on my initial reply, I'd like to see a bit more of the world TH takes place in! Maps and terrains and the like. It would be cool if this game's continent was more developed and had a distinct culture.

I saw something about the German playlist a couple days ago, I wonder if that's really what it is. Either the videos are out of order, or it doesn't have the most recent TH trailer, right?

*I want to see a customized Byleth, if he is truly an avatar, and (if he is) a fem!Byleth too. It's also important to me whether or not he's a silent protag, which seems kinda possible (?), which I have mixed feelings about--mostly in regards to how supports will work. I'm super curious to see more. *I'm looking forward to seeing more of the cast! None of the revealed characters catch my eye too much yet, and I'm a little iffy on the art direction, but I want to see more before I cast my judgements. *I want to hear some more English voices, hopefully in a way that can give insight as to whether the game is fully voices of not. *I'd like to see characters interacting in the castle/base, building supports and whatnot. I want to know how the support systems work and if S-ranks are a thing. *Seeing some cool new classes would be really nice!

Strange. It's a good catch, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I think the lack of information has made us overanalyze.

I expect it to drop in NA probably early spring 2020, it'll likely release in JP somewhere between May and July this year. I'll be pushing that guess further away if we don't receive any news this month though.