Terper posted:

CandyCrazy posted:

(The LP in question)

CandyCrazy posted:

Edit:
New teacher:
https://twitter.com/FireEmblemJP/status/1144863318223405056

marshmallow creep posted:

So is that the secret identity of Flame Emperor or Death Knight?

Inverness posted:

I looked again at the mural of the Goddess that has been shown more than once. I'm sure someone has mentioned this stuff before, but I was interested and wanted to pass the time.

It seems there are a lot similarities between Sothis' design and the goddess on the mural.

The headdress and the visible parts of the hair look largely the same between the two. It also seems to me the mural was designed to avoid making too obvious connection to Sothis. By this I mean the hair color could be disguised by the lighting of the scene rather than being an obvious green. The cloak(?) being worn by the goddess conceals the rest of her hair and would hide the distinct, curled look that Sothis has with her hair. The goddess also has much longer hair that conceals the majority of her ears except a pointed tip seen on the left.

And of course we know now that Seiros is the one with the odd sword near the bottom, and not the name of the goddess who has yet to be given a name.

The opening narration of the E3 2018 trailer says that "Long ago the Divine Seiros received a revelation from the Goddess, a gift to help guide the lost." Absent any other information I assume that is the Divine Pulse that Byleth gains.

In a more recent video, I think from one of the people invited to play the game at Treehouse, Seteth says that it was Rhea that pushed to have Byleth become a teacher. And Rhea herself says to Byleth that "you will most certainly fulfill the grand destiny that the goddess has seen fit to grant you."

Of course it's possible that Byleth's power doesn't come from Sothis but rather that Sothis is some sort of agent of the Goddess, but that doesn't seem likely to me.

Endorph posted:

I mean Genealogy is one of the most beloved games in the series and the only thing from it they've really gone back to is the kids thing, so going back to everything else about it makes sense.

Jawdins posted:

There's a spoiler up of the opening cutscene

Here's the link

rannum posted:

Well this wasn't what I expected and also this owns

when seiros is added to FEH as a mythic hero her crit animation needs to be throwing away her sword and punching people, i m h o

wuggles posted:

I was all in on Edelgard but I just saw post-skip Dmitri

What do I do?!

Carlosologist posted:

Good catches, I'll edit those

SgtSteel91 posted:

I wonder if the students poached from the other houses will have supports with the students in your chosen house.

Hellioning posted:

That makes sense, but if only Byleth can S support, that means that we can no longer ship characters in game.

Considering we've been able to do that for quite a while, to the point where three games have had it a as a central mechanic, it seems weird to me that they'd change that to entirely platonic supports. I mean, I guess you could say the same about the class system, but it seems like a drastic change.

Shiny777 posted:

Wouldn't be surprised if it was fairly easy to miss out on out-of-house recruits if you spread yourself too thin or something since it's sounding like one or two tops is about all you can manage to grab. I'd assume ruining your entire house'd probably take either incredibly bad luck with blind experimentation or a deliberate effort to pick every subject wrong, though.

Endorph posted:

I feel like you could deliberately focus on everyones weaknessses and have things turn out okay. The difference just seems to be how quickly they unlock new classes via weapon ranks, not some massive issue of stats. Like the e3 demo had the nintendo rep making Linhardt a cavalier just because and he was doing fine.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

I'm glad personal skills are sticking around. Most aren't especially interesting but I enjoy the tiny bit of extra flavour they bring.

E: Wait this game has pair up?

Araxxor posted:

Well this turned my verdict from "wait and see" to "stay the gently caress away!"

Minus Green posted:

See, one of the numerous problems Fates had was that it totally glossed over worldbuilding for countries not named "Hoshido", "Nohr", or "Valla". They didn't even give a name to the continent it takes place on...

That said, there's those three, plus the island the Rainbow Sage lives on, and I think the place Izana came from was its own country also?

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This feels like a very, very grounded game. I think there was a lot of worry that with it being a school setting, that it would be more superficial, or kind of more fanservicy. That it would focus in like, gossip, relationships, things like that. And that's really not at all what it's like being in this monastery.

It is very much like. these people are at war. They're at school, so they can learn how to fight in this war. And it's a very scary thing that they're going to do. And in order to get through this education, to get through these battles, they have to really really focus. They have to understand who they are, why they're doing this. And there's a lot of world building around it. The game goes to great pains to explain like "this is what this region is. This is what this house is. This is their position in the world." And that's something I really like quite a bit about it.

Carlosologist posted:

I honestly don't see the big deal about FByleth's outfit. it's fine on the whole honestly

Mokinokaro posted:

One lore bit from the spoilers clarifies the situation with Rhea I think. Fairly minor spoiler.

The church itself is split into two factions which means Rhea and the others could be with the church but not be villains if things are going with the evil church twist.

Zoran posted:

Post-timeskip mechanical spoilers:

All four lords do get unique classes. Edelgard has Armored Lord (with armor movement, boo!) and Byleth gets a special infantry class with a name that might be extra spoilery. It seems fairly obvious that Dmitri will have a horse and that Claude will indeed ride a wyvern.

No confirmation on what they specialize in, although the odds-on favorites would be Authority, their respective default weapon types, and their respective movement types. Since Byleth's class is infantry, it might have a third specialization in something else; I would guess Faith, Byleth's hidden talent.

Bongo Bill posted:

I'm not getting that impression at all. What gives you the idea she'll be more prominent?

Lord Koth posted:

I've caught some of the visual leaks, and I'm just amazed that Bernadetta apparently gained 6 inches during the timeskip, despite already being 17 prior. She goes from just about the shortest person in the game at 4'11" to a rather decent 5'5".

Geostomp posted:

Most of these are obvious, but where does Claude getting a wyvern come form? I never saw him as the "giant death lizard" sort. Have we ever had an archer wyvern rider before?

Tipps posted:

I'm kind of annoyed that the MM romance options in new FE games seem to be trending towards the stereotype that only effeminate looking men can be gay.

They should learn a thing or two from Stardew Valley and just make everyone horny for everyone else, regardless of gender.

E: Granted, having now seen the post-time skip art for the men, none of them are particularly catching my eye anyways. Not a single Gerrik or Vaike in the bunch.

Endorph posted:

the thing in da2 where anders' ex was the same gender as whatever your player character was was honestly super gross

Randallteal posted:

Are there gay supports in Fire Emblem? I thought the Fates options were just bi, and only for the MC.

On a sidenote, a trope I've really started hating is when a game will have exactly one bi character and they're portrayed like they're just so horny that they'll gently caress anyone, especially when that character creeps on their straight friends the whole game as a joke.