@Cyan:
Interquel starring Owain who is suddenly a shitty unit,
Even worse than he was in Fates?
@Cyan:
Interquel starring Owain who is suddenly a shitty unit,
Even worse than he was in Fates?
Sounda too similar to Genealogy Of The Holy War…..which they can still remake for us at some point.
60% of the reasons I am buying Valentia is because GotHW is the next in line and they better believe they should keep investing in remakes. Just the thought of a FEIV remake is enough to get me hyped as hell (and if it has the same artwork as Valentia… feelings...)
I remain skeptical about a FE4 remake.
The pluses are that I would be able to play it officially and experience it full value, and Gaiden's remake has shown IntSys won't just cave to pandering choices immediately. Which is great and keeps the spirit of the origina alive.
On the minus while I think it's a dull game to watch a lot of people hold it in high regard, and people will be very quick to turn if even the smallest of things is changed. (and this fanbase gets too bitter sometimes over the smallest stuff)
Not that I would complain, because having the only way to trade to be selling an item to the broker and someone buying it back is extremely tedious.
While I don't think a Jugdral Remake would work well, I do think the character needs a new design. Nearly everyone looks ugly.
F4 gets the benefit of antique goggles (since nostalgia goggles wouldn't make sense), which basically means no one will really like a remake. There are enough issues with it even beyond the incest plot that it would need a ton of work.
Specifically, Genealogy gets credit for the plot of the first half, the Eltshan and Thracia subplots, and the fact that you play across literally the entire continent. But when you break it down into pieces, the whole thing kind of falls apart. Most of the characters are forgettable, Celice's entire plot is annoyingly clicked, and the actual final bosses are painfully anticlimactic. The actual combat is basically you just beating armies one by one and generally lack variety and strategy. But if you try and improve these things, fans of the original will get mad that it's not a faithful adaptation.
In more positive news, I somehow beat a Conquest Lunatic chapter (14) on my first try even though I completely forgot about the reinforcements and should have been totally boned
I feel like if they do another 'remake' or 'port', it might be Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn for the Switch. They don't have to change much, except hopefully the voice acting in the cutscenes. Unless they want to go the extra mile and voice act the entire game like Echoes, but PoR/RD had WAY more characters than Echoes. Christ, I think Radiant Dawn, with 72 playable characters (not counting the two villains who can join you), had more characters than Awakening or Fates… That's scary now that I think about it.
I have to admit, I barely remember FE4 in terms of gameplay. I have a special place for it since it was the first one I played, but back then the game wasn't even fully translated… I remember trying to figure out what options like aaeeeeeeaa&&& meant in the menu.
I honestly miss the simpler times when I would play games fully in japanese, not being able to translate a single word and still loving every minute of it.
A Genealogy remake would require quite a bit of reworking to be anything more than literally the SNES game on 3DS with all the design choices that implies.
Chopping up the maps would be drastic but would possibly smooth out the pacing and make characters who don't have a horse useful (the absolute nadir of "IntSys has no fucking idea how to make Armor Knights/Generals work" was Arden).
Maybe having more than two available axe users. Hell, here's a radical idea: let us collect all the Holy Weapons. God knows Ced doesn't need to be alone in the "magical nuclear bomb" category.
I feel like if they do another 'remake' or 'port', it might be Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn for the Switch. They don't have to change much, except hopefully the voice acting in the cutscenes. Unless they want to go the extra mile and voice act the entire game like Echoes, but PoR/RD had WAY more characters than Echoes. Christ, I think Radiant Dawn, with 72 playable characters (not counting the two villains who can join you), had more characters than Awakening or Fates… That's scary now that I think about it.
I think RD ties with the Mystery of the Emblem remake for amount of units.
i think if you get every possible unique unit in Fates, you have around 80
Guess who found a copy of PoR online? (my computer is shit and can't emulate.)
@Ruin:
i think if you get every possible unique unit in Fates, you have around 80
Assuming a Rev playthrough-
Corrin + Azura + Ryoma + Xander + Sakura + Camilla + Hinoka + Takumi + Leo + Elise = 10 royals
each of the princes has a son, so 14 + 2 for Shigure and Kana. (16)
8 royals on each side have two retainers each, so that's +16
Silas, Mozu, Shura, Kaze, Jakob, Felicia, Gunter, and Flora are another +8
Odin, Laslow, Hinata, Saizo, Kaze, Arthur, Niles, Azama, Subaki, Jakob, and Silas all have child units, so that's another +11
throw in Fuga and Scarlet can count, so that's +2
other units are Benny, Charlotte, Orochi, Nyx, Reina, Hayato, and Rinkah (+7), and the men's children (+2)
Amiibos are another +4
That's 66, but we include Izana and Yukimura it's 68 all together.
Capture Units are an additional 13 characters + you forgot Anna :(
Capture Units are an additional 13 characters + you forgot Anna :(
I have shamed my waifu, time to commit sudoku
so that's 81. Whoa.
I didn't really consider Capture Units, cause I kind of see them the same way I see the 'free roam' units of Awakening.
Let's also count the zombies you summon in Sacred Stones with a Summoner.
And Path of Radiance has those pegasus knights Tanith (is it tanith?) can call for reinforcements. Though I guess at least those are actual NPCs.
Let's also count the zombies you summon in Sacred Stones with a Summoner.
And Path of Radiance has those pegasus knights Tanith (is it tanith?) can call for reinforcements. Though I guess at least those are actual NPCs.
I'd like to take this to vent on why you couldn't do more with that class that summon shitty little 1-HP units. At least allow it to summon an actual monster or something.
I kinda felt the class as a whole was OP as it is by the fact you could continuously summon them again and again. It meant having constant bait characters to safely approach enemies, or to block a flank or a path or a million other things for a turn. Extremely useful asset for defensive strategies.
Closest I've had to that is weaponless Marcus in FE6/FE7, but at a certain point he just gets benched due to outlasting his usefulness.
@.access:
d'oh! Renault, Legault, practically the same thing, right? :P
Echoes maps are basically this but much prettier
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2-w1tGUEAEajME.jpg
They are some decent ones by Gaiden standards and others that are really really bad like I'm talking about the worst maps in the series because they didn't improve then and decided to be 95% faithfull to the original game maps.
oh… oh dear.
Welp, I've started playing Echoes.
Jesus is this a movie or a game?
! You may now kiss the bride.
Act II, aka "Celica fights a bajillon pirates and a zombie dragon for four hours", is now down. The game finally forced some resets and/or Turnwheel usage on me thanks to me unwittingly sacrificing Saber during the second pirate raid and that room with the two gargoyle statues giving me a lot of trouble until I realized what Invoke actually did. Even though I didn't have Seraphim at the time, the Necrodragon wasn't that tough, just tanky. Valbar came up as the MVP so much during the battles on that island, and I gave him the Blessed Ring so he could just keep on trucking. Mae has just been a ball of destruction as long as she doesn't get hit in return.
It occurs to me that I now have the income to afford new games. Should I get Echoes, or something like Pokemon Sun first?
Up to a certain witch boss…
! On Celica's side, the annoying necrodragon summon map, once again, had to be settled by Genny's Invoke constantly stalling them, along with Leon to pick off the snipers and arcanists across the wall. I will admit I had to use Mila's Turnwheel, because after the fifth reset I was NOT going to redo the same 15 minutes over and over again, it's a gauntlet.
The boss focuses on summoning, but like the Mila Temple map…heal tile + powerful magic makes it very very hard to take him down.
! After that we get Conrad, the masked white knight. Between Celica mentioning a half-brother early in the story, to the similar hair color, I knew he was going to be revealed as her brother, but it was a sweet moment regardless (Marc Diaison for the win)
Sage's Hamlet is a little daunting of a dungeon and you might go in circles if you're not paying attention, but I finished iin spades, right to trigger the event to promote Alm to a Hero. (and Est is still benched)
! Alm's map has annoying witch spawns, so I assume the game is telling you to seek out Nuibaba on Fear Mountain. Along the way, I've noticed Slique's Invoke is 5x better than Genny's, for the simple fact that Dread Fighters are powerful, do not die in one round, and seek out annoying teleporting witches.
! I checked out the (longer, harder, and full of Mire assholes) shrine to promote Gray, Kliff, Clive, and Mathilda. Hopefully with these extra levels I can beat Nuibaba's map. Have I mentioned she has SEVEN RANGE?
It occurs to me that I now have the income to afford new games. Should I get Echoes, or something like Pokemon Sun first?
That depends.
A) Did you like Gaiden? If so, definitely buy this.
B) Were you not the biggest fan of Gaiden because of the maps? It'll test your tolerance between they are largely unchanged and can compete with Awakening. On the plus side, the story is told very well, dungeons are fun, and maybe you'll like the Arts system. Overall the game might not be the best Fire Emblem ever, but it sticks to what (Gaiden) knows and expands on that.
C) Did you really, really not like Gaiden? Then I'd buy Sun first.
That depends.
A) Did you like Gaiden? If so, definitely buy this.
B) Were you not the biggest fan of Gaiden because of the maps? It'll test your tolerance between they are largely unchanged and can compete with Awakening. On the plus side, the story is told very well, dungeons are fun, and maybe you'll like the Arts system. Overall the game might not be the best Fire Emblem ever, but it sticks to what (Gaiden) knows and expands on that.
C) Did you really, really not like Gaiden? Then I'd buy Sun first.
…but what if I haven't played Gaiden?
…but what if I haven't played Gaiden?
Well, everyone has their own preferences for a FE game, so I can't recommend it 100%. On its own, I still think it's a very solid title overall.
I think it just comes down whether you want to play Pokemon or Fire Emblem.
I know for sure Pokemon is worth the money just by virtue of the fact I still do stuff in it, but the story mode in that might not be quite as long as the single player something like Fire Emblem can offer.
If there's other people you know who play pokemon too it can be more fun, or if you intend on doing multiple runs, trying and raising different pokemon, trying competitive battles in-game or online, etc.
Other thing in the benefit of Fire Emblem is that people are playing that now as a whole, so you get to participate and share and all of that way more than with Pokemon, where the brunt of people playing it was a couple months ago and the hype has gone down for most but the core pokemon players.
So, what's the prediction on what the new game on the Switch will be? My guess is a follow-up on what happened in the epilogue of Radiant Dawn with Priam as the hero. Or a new universe with maybe a design of the Japanese style seen in Hoshido. Or a remake? I heard the develoepr of SOV wants to do one of Binding Blade.
The Switch is a fresh platform for IS, so I say brand new universe. But other possible remakes will come after.
New continent, new game. Save the nostalgia and bringing back of old characters for FE Warriors.
I'm pretty sure Yuri meant that a new war is coming in every sense of word.
Fire emblem where everyone is a spear user and you get invaded by a country using dangerous new technology
axes
Dunno about you guys but I'd really like to see the return of recurring enemy generals. Conquest and Birthright kind of did that, but having multiple enemy generals with their own politics always made the story more interesting for me.
I'd also love to see more varied maps, but that's always a request of mine.
Dunno about you guys but I'd really like to see the return of recurring enemy generals. .
Echoes has those ;)
And I agree. Fire Emblem gets the most interesting plot-wise when we have conflicting politics, usually happening in the middle stretch (after brigands but before dragon/goddess/demon final boss)
Fire emblem where everyone is a spear user and you get invaded by a country using dangerous new technology
axes
The most one-sided Fire Emblem as the Axe Kingdom is doubled and dodged to death.
That one country in the start of Genealogy?
Getting killed by a Countered skill-proc will never not be the most depressing thing.
Marth will finally say fuck, guys
new life like we've never seen before
Marth will finally say fuck, guys
new life like we've never seen before
"Dastard" is here to stay however.
@Cyan:
"Dastard" is here to stay however.
one of the villains will be the illegitmate son of another
the dastard bastard
You can pick a character to follow you around and gain experience as you walk. They'll call it the WalkAmie.
There will also be a school simulator where you can dress everyone up in uniforms and have them join clubs. The MC will be able to do Magic Girl-style transformations into her Snowflake Form.
HD Rumble will make it seem like Hector's gigantic bara breasts are really in your tender grasp
I would guess a return of the full voice acting of Echoes combined with the personal interactions with Fates.
Talk about breathing new life into characters
resists throwing up; fails
The saving grace is how deeply uncomfortable Lyn looks.
Mayo did an excellent job with Cordelia, better than her original.
I know Awakening had a Bridal class, but still . . . .
An hour into this new game and I'm still feeling the kinks. Maybe it's just because I've been so crammed with Awakening and Fates gameplay that it's hard to re-adjust to different techniques.
At least Lyn complains about the dress.
Charlotte's is thematically appropriate, at least
Oh phooey you guys, they're just silly fun costumes, like spring variants and the leaked Christmas ones. What's the harm? Although it'd been a little more appropriate to sub out some for canonical wives like Louise or Deidre.
Also IntSys please stop giving characters to pikomaro. He and AKIRA are the weakest in my opinion, while my favorites are Sachiko Wada, Kita Senri, kaya8, and Amagaitaro.
I'd like to see Katsumi Enami do some artwork on the game myself
and he'll, he's not doing anything, let Kazuma Kaneko out of his basement and do a character or two