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Junpei
Oct 4, 2015
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Will you be using Engages to bolster unit's existing strengths, going 'with' the flow as it were (ie Marth goes on Alear because they get that bonus from being a Dragon, giving Sigurd to someone mounted, etc), or will you be using them to expand options on other units (ie by using Celica on, say, Chloe so she can cross-train into magic classes)?

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Junpei
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Definitely going to be looking forward to Hortensia's passive +1 to staff ranges, that's fun.

Like that Zelkov and Yunaka have passives encouraging them to hide in a forest/dodgy tile, Yunaka with the crit and Zelkov with the bigger dodge chance.

Alcryst's seems solid if you always have a meat shield near him.

Junpei
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Panette is a young girl berserker goth. I'm sold.

Plus she's got a party-loving priest older brother. I like them and can't wait to use them.

Junpei
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Eimi, there's the simple fact that Three Houses was a deviation from the norm for an FE plot, and plots like Engage is shaping up to have were the semi-standard before this point. Engage isn't a deviation, it's a return to something more simple. And there's nothing wrong with revisiting the roots.

Junpei
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If nothing else, we know that

At point A in the plot, we're fighting against Elusia, including boss fights with Hortensia and Ivy flanked by Rosado + Goldmary/Kagetsu and Zelkov.
At later point B in the plot, all 6 of them have joined the party.

So clearly, something happens between Point A and Point B in the plot that makes the Elusians, who have been stated to be Evil Dragon Worshippers, to swap sides.

That's a bit more nuance than your evil dragon worshipping cult/country usually gets in your typical FE where they're all evil and unrecruitable (except for the blonde Paladin who's good and unrecruitable).

Junpei
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My favorite design right now is Kagetsu.

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Okay it's bothering me too much that of the Elusian retainer team, Kagetsu and Goldmary are clearly promoted (Swordmaster and Hero), Rosado is probably promoted, but Zelkov-the one of the four that seems the oldest-is an unpromoted Thief. He should be an Assassin!

Junpei
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Fire Emblem Enrage

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Boucheron legit looks like he wants to contact HR about this right now.

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Endorph posted:

then there's fe4 which has good ideas but is told primarily through the means of the seventeenth guy reusing this portrait going YES MY LORD and summoning 50 wyvern riders

This is why I can't wait for an FE4 Echoes: It'll solve this problem by giving all 17 of those guys semi-unique looks and slightly more dialogue.

And also it'll expand on the cast a bit. FE4's cast is a bit of a step up from the first three games because the marriage system gives everyone at least a little dialogue, plus Talks, but it will really be a big boon to the smaller cast members like Azel and the like.

Like, Mae and Boey had 2 lines of dialogue before and Echoes came along and made me love them. Imagine what an FE4 remake could do.

Junpei
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Which Alear are you planning on playing as, and who are you going to focus on in the hopes of romancing them?

I'm going F!Alear to romance Pandreo.

Junpei
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There's just variations on existing classes. Like Goldmarie is a Hero, just one with Lance's as a side weapon instead of Axes.

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People still talked about which characters they liked hooking up before Awakening. Remember Lyn x Eliwood, vs Hector vs Florina? Ike x Ranulf vs. Soren? FE8's bugnuts Eirika/Ephraim/Tana/Innes/L'Arachel/Lyon web?

Junpei
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I'm talking about the broader "S Ranks destroyed discussions of FE characters" point

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I feel like one step behind Alear (MC with a defined appearance and name but you can pick your gender) would be fine, satisfy the ladies who don't want to have to play a dude while also still letting you have a defined character arc.

Junpei
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So apparently in Japanese, Zelkov has this "gimmick" of "emphasizing" random words, which makes him sound "more menacing" or "strange", but everyone I've seen talking about this just says it makes him sound like a Jojo character from Part 7.

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I liked a few of the Hoshidans, or at least elements of them. Oboro was neat, I kinda liked the idea of Saizo and Kagero being amicable exes, Subaki was cool as the first male pegasus rider.

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I know y'all are taking the piss but I actually like it when characters are characters and have personalities and backgrounds and are connected to other people

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I mean I did start that post with "I know y'all are taking the piss" so I wasn't mad or anything

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I want an FE character that acts like a magical girl-wait poo poo that's just L'arachel.

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What's the personal skills of the Solm crew?

Junpei
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Are there any mounted mages (discounting Ivy and Hortensia) in the class list, Mage Knight or Valkyrie or the like?

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Alright, cool. do Thieves get Assassin or Trickster or is Thief back to being a special class with a higher level cap or something

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A friend says that Ian Sinclair and Cristina Vee are in the voice cast, who are they and are there any other big names I'd know of?

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scared of the day that voice actor AIs take over and they pop a little one in every game that can imitate the voice actor of a specific character, read your character name and make it sound natural in the same way that AI art is scary right now

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Endorph posted:

ai art is scary in that it sucks rear end

no ai art is scary in that it puts creatives out of jobs

actually if it gets to that point they might as well just jump straight to "Well, we could hire Patrick Seitz for this character and have to deal with unions and fees... or we could just use PatrickSeitzAlike.exe and save money." which is even worse.

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Tae posted:

The full cast is already listed somewhere, but if you don't know who cristina vee is, then you'd know literally no one from the dub

no I meant who do they voice.

Junpei
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God, I hope so.

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"If you don't have voice acting, letting us rename is fine, but if you do have voice acting, have a canon name" seems like a pretty fine rule of thumb to me.

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so is Kagetsu actually from a deeprealm or just a foreign Japanese-y island

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Does it really count if they're technically monsters, though? I assumed some but not all of them were, given how they looked.

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So does the game confirm if Clanne and Framme are Vander's adoptive kids or niece and nephew or what

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Lapis, if you don't wanna reclass her, really has to go Hero (axe variation) if you don't wanna double up on classes, huh? Cuz Goldmary already has Hero (lance variation) and Kagetsu has Swordmaster.

It's weird that they re-combined Myrmidon and Mercenary for this.

Junpei
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As a person with a compulsive need to diversify my roster in terms of promotions/classes, the Framme/Jean/Pandreo situation is making me break out in hives.

Martial Monk can promote to Martial Master or High Priest. Framme and Jean are both Martial Monks, Pandreo is a prepromote High Priest. Either I'm going to need to second seal someone or there'll be Class Overlap.

Junpei
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...please tell me Fogado's English voice actor is actually black himself. Because if it's a white person saying all this in this way it would be really really weird, bordering on offensive

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oh thank goodness.

I do like Fogado for the record, it's just the whole... the best way I can put it is "G-rated teenage Samuel L Jackson voice"... it threw me off a bit.

Junpei
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Does anyone else find Amber kind of annoying?

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Panette and Pandreo's supports kinda blew me away with how sincere they were.

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why is seadall so low, he's a Dancer, dancers are always A-tier at minimum because action economy fuckery is amazing

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Junpei
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Engage got me like

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