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Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

Endorph posted:

speaking of, some of the casual wear designs for at base.





I like how most of them are fairly traditional fantasy medieval-victorianish designs and then we got the dude rocking the modern college student hoodie+jacket look for some reason.

the jacket even looks like he's repping some college that has a llama mascot

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SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

It looks better than his usual gear tbh.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
Sad/annoyed we apparently cannot wear these to battle.

lih
May 15, 2013

Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.
idk most of those designs are more modern than the usual medieval fantasy fare

while technology hasn't progressed on elyos in the last 1000 years at least fashion has

Terper
Jun 26, 2012


lih posted:

while technology hasn't progressed on elyos in the last 1000 years at least fashion has
Thanks, Rhea!

lih
May 15, 2013

Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.
lol that merrin's casual outfit still has the weird wolf knight tail

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

RuBisCO posted:

https://twitter.com/FE_Heroes_EN/status/1614819859145138176?t=2YSK12Hr9p_tYNh_fh8mGw&s=19

I know nothing of FEH but posted this just to go 'holy moley' at that Chloé quote

also i will say if you can make it out through the seven other paragraphs, alear having a skill that buffs her for every character from different fe games on your team is cute.

Deltasquid
Apr 10, 2013

awww...
you guys made me ink!


THUNDERDOME

Citrinne looks like the kind of girl you tell "we're just going for brunch, don't go too extra" and then she turns up like that

Torrannor
Apr 27, 2013

---FAGNER---
TEAM-MATE

lih posted:

lol that merrin's casual outfit still has the weird wolf knight tail

The bottom half of Alear's outfits is very casual, while the top half would not be out of place in a formal setting. It's equally weird imho.

lih
May 15, 2013

Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.
alear is from 1000 years ago and is an idiot who doesn't understand modern clothes or hair colours

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




While it's still rare to have characters with more than one color hair I feel like this isn't the series to be ridiculing people over it

Now of we were talking about Nier, Dragon Quest or Yakuza then I'd get it.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
I think we need more characters who change hair colors based on whether they are good or evil

lih
May 15, 2013

Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.
we're getting 13, isn't that enough (alear + all the emblems)

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

The minigames in this look more fun than the regular game. Give me the fire emblem petting zoo and spyro the dragon minigame mode with the wyvern riders.

But I don't really like the art design (not talking about the v-tuber hair) where the clothing/armor looks like it belongs in Dragalia Lost or another gacha game.

I was gonna hard pass this but I'll wait to hear some thoughts on the story because that's usually what I care about the most in FE.

Levantine
Feb 14, 2005

GUNDAM!!!
Probably a little late to the party but this made me actually download FE:Heroes: https://fire-emblem-heroes.com/en/order-of-heroes/ - extra weapons/rings for FE:Engage.

More stuff is good stuff I guess.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
FEH is kinda a bad game, no lie and I'm saying this as the biggest FE simp

Levantine
Feb 14, 2005

GUNDAM!!!

Tired Moritz posted:

FEH is kinda a bad game, no lie and I'm saying this as the biggest FE simp

Yeah, the tutorial is nothing I like about Fire Emblem with a giant gacha so personally I don't really want to play it, but all you have to do for that is link your Nintendo account and you get some new waepons/rings for Engage.

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!
The ROM has leaked and full spoilers will probably be coming very soon.

theshim
May 1, 2012

You think you can defeat ME, Ephraimcopter?!?

You couldn't even beat Assassincopter!!!

Zoran posted:

The ROM has leaked and full spoilers will probably be coming very soon.
Welp, media blackout time :ohdear:

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Someone spoil me on if it's good or not

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!
I have seen an early cutscene that I would describe as extremely corny

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
Apparently it has pretty good maps

FrickenMoron
May 6, 2009

Good game!

Zoran posted:

I have seen an early cutscene that I would describe as extremely corny

I misread this as horny

RuBisCO
May 1, 2009

This is definitely not a lie



Zoran posted:

The ROM has leaked and full spoilers will probably be coming very soon.

Someone spoil me on the max deployment limit

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

FrickenMoron posted:

I misread this as horny

I am interested in knowing this part as well

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


mabels big day posted:

I am interested in knowing this part as well

:hmmyes: getting the paired endings will be nice to see/how any is chosen for Alear.

Deltasquid
Apr 10, 2013

awww...
you guys made me ink!


THUNDERDOME

Tired Moritz posted:

FEH is kinda a bad game, no lie and I'm saying this as the biggest FE simp

It is literally banned in my country for being a casino game

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!

mabels big day posted:

I am interested in knowing this part as well

Support-mechanics spoilers:

S supports are back for Alear.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
kinda wild that apparently the game is made out of unity

Overbite
Jan 24, 2004


I'm a vtuber expert

Tired Moritz posted:

kinda wild that apparently the game is made out of unity

When we work together, we can achieve anything

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Zoran posted:

I have seen an early cutscene that I would describe as extremely corny

So it's a Fire Emblem game, good to know.

RuBisCO
May 1, 2009

This is definitely not a lie



Zoran posted:

Support-mechanics spoilers:

S supports are back for Alear.

I can't believe this was ever in any doubt with an Avatar character

Now let's see how gay we can get this time

RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jan 16, 2023

Terper
Jun 26, 2012


wow RuBisCo I sure do wonder what could possibly be hiding under those spoiler tags

I'm being facetious and it's not a big deal here but like please make sure if you're (you as in everyone) going to keep talking about things from leaks and such to actually keep it under tags and not this half and half thing that anyone could figure out what it means

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

So you get free weapons and stuff from FEH? Dang.

I downloaded FEH the day it came out and played it for a bit. It was pretty solid. But my interest waned. But I logged in once every single day to get the free orbs and summons. I never spent a dime on the game. I had what equated to thousands of real world dollars worth of orbs on my account. But I switched over from Android to iPhone last year and apparently those orbs didn’t carry over so I stopped. I suppose I could reinstall it…

littleorv
Jan 29, 2011

I'm going to buy this game and ENGAGE Rosado

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

Could at least flip one or two, maybe.
well

i think the corny factor is established with the theme alone

Lord Koth
Jan 8, 2012

Detective No. 27 posted:

So you get free weapons and stuff from FEH? Dang.

I downloaded FEH the day it came out and played it for a bit. It was pretty solid. But my interest waned. But I logged in once every single day to get the free orbs and summons. I never spent a dime on the game. I had what equated to thousands of real world dollars worth of orbs on my account. But I switched over from Android to iPhone last year and apparently those orbs didn’t carry over so I stopped. I suppose I could reinstall it…

Similar boat in that I started FEH day 1, but after a few years just dropped it for a few reasons. One is the absolute runaway power creep in the game. While I'm sure there's far worse gachas in terms of that, in terms of the ones I've played none have been anywhere near as bad or as constant about it as FEH. Even aside from base stats, which have ballooned, weapons and skills used to be like a few words to maybe a sentence. Now? Just go look at that video again. Combine this with the maker's refusal to put in a glossary, so theoretically standardized keywords for certain effects tend to get entirely reprinted in every description, and there have been weapons/skills that have literally had multiple pages.

Secondly - and somewhat uniquely - FEH just has an incredibly demoralizing gacha. For those who haven't touched it, the way it works is that every time you do a pull, you get a selection of five colored orbs to pick from. These are made up of the four types of colored units in the game, corresponding to their type advantage (green/axe, blue/lance, red/sword, colorless), and you then spend gacha currency picking 1-5 of those orbs. Except no color is guaranteed per pull, so you can be stuck in a situation where you're looking for, say, a blue unit, but no blue orbs appear on six consecutive pulls. You're still required to pick something on every one of those pulls. Objectively it's likely not better or worse than most gachas, and the rates are decent, but there's a morale hit to knowing what you're looking for is impossible to get on this pull and still being required to pick it as opposed to just speculating until it's revealed.


Easy enough to just reinstall briefly to get the bonuses though.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

The absolute worst part of the color distribution in the gachas is that if you're looking for a specific banner unit and only buying ones of the correct color, you can get a pull with none of that color and blow your pitybreak chance on something you don't want.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

yeah the game's getting dumped like hell. there's an ost dump, lists of supports, etc. no word on paired endings yet, but (mild spoilers about romance mechanics)

alear does have s supports, where they give the person they're s-supporting with a ring called the 'pact ring.' notably the amount of romance implied varies. with words like 'bond' being thrown around, and you can give it to anna whos like 12 and just talks about it as a business partnership. However, some characters, like Kagetsu, outright say 'I love you.' alear's supports do not seem to have any differences for their gender and the support text dump doesn't have any separate files for male/female alear. the characters also never refer to alear's gender in the supports, it seems like.

Some people are talking about a list of same-sex options, but I can't find anything about that in the dump I'm looking at. Regardless, if you're curious and just for completion's sake, what people seem to be sticking to is

Male: Alfred, Diamant, Fogado
Female: Merrin, Framme, Jade, Ivy.

I'd like to repeat that personally I can't find anything supporting this list but since multiple people are saying it I felt the need to include it. I also question this list because, as mentioned, the support list does not delineate between male and female alear in any way, and Kagetsu's S support has an 'I love you' in it. The gender lockout could be a flag thing rather than treating male and female alear as separate characters, but that'd be different from how three houses did it.

We'll know more in 4 days when the game is out. The CGs for giving the pact ring also seem to be in first person, which supports the 's support anyone regardless of gender' thing, though the romance CGs in Awakening and Fates were also first-person, and, well. Regardless, I'd advise taking anything you hear with a grain of salt until the game is in people's hands instead of 4 or 5 4chan posters.

No word on non-alear romance stuff. I skimmed and there's definitely some that lean in a more romantic direction and some that are pure 'we're friends foreeeeeever :3'

Did have a laugh at this line in the Diamant x Alfred support, though.

Alfred: Looking forward to working with you, Prince Diamant!
Diamant: I think this is the start of something beautiful between our kingdoms. And between us.


Incidentally I skimmed some of the supports while doing this and, yeah, they seem solid. Not nearly as indepth or as long as Three Houses' but Three Houses' supports honestly overdid it sometimes. You get a good idea for the characters and there's some amusing back and forthsAnd nobody seems to lean on their gimmick toooooo much. Of course I'd need to go through every single one to confirm and I was just skimming to get an idea for the romance angles. Definitely not as elaborate in terms of character backstories as 3H though, for the most part.

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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

oh wait, there is a list of paired endings in the text dump. further spoilers for romance stuff, but this should answer everyone's worries/questions. I list three paired endings here as examples but they don't really spoil any plot.

V forbidden gay knowledge below

Alear can seemingly have a paired ending with everyone regardless of gender, but the paired endings are all basically just 'alear and ___ hung out a lot.' Some of them explicitly mention love, some are 'devotion' and 'affection' type stuff.

Here's three examples.

quote:

Alear/Chloe
Chloé was a steadfast and\nsupportive partner to the busy new monarch. The love they shared spawned many a fairytale for future generations.

quote:

Alear/Etie
Etie frequently planted flowers to help restore Lythos. She and the Divine Dragon Monarch were often seen happily spending time in the flower fields.


quote:

Alear/Merin
After handing leadership of her village to one of her brothers, Merrin studied animals. and mythical creatures Her book on the Divine Dragon was treasured for generations.

Only Anna, Jean's, Hortensia's and inexplicably Rosado's go out of their way to mention 'friends.' Wonder if something is going on in the TL there with Rosado's.

Some characters have fairly non-specific endings but very explicitly romantic s supports, like Kagetsu. Likewise, some have fairly 'friends forever' s-supports but more ambiguous endings. Again, the only ones I'd say are insanely hard on 'this is NOT romantic' are the kids. Even Rosado's is slightly ambiguous but they don't even mention Alear in the Alear/Jean paired ending, lol.

Only Alear has paired endings, which is disappointing.

And no, you can't S support the emblems. They don't even get ending slides.


If you don't want the spoilers, all I'll say is 'the previews saying the game deemphasized romance a lot' were pretty correct, but Alear can be pretty gay.

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