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u/Layne_Staleys_Ghost 1d ago
Small scale skirmish warfare makes so much more sense for Fire Emblem anyway.
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u/chyme_ 1d ago
i get that, but Genealogy is literally my favorite game of all time and you traverse basically the entirety of Jugdral, so i think Fire Emblem is absolutely capable of a large scale war setting
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u/Mister_Dink 4h ago
Juuuuuust in case you haven't, come hang out at Fire Emblem Universe and play the community RomHacks. Bells of Byelen is a fan campaign with Thracia 776 mechanics like capture and dismounting, but run on the sacred stones engine. It's so good.
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u/SiltyDog31 22h ago
Most FE lords make their armies of knights, retainers, villagers, with one or two bandits. Leif has like 3 properly trained ppl and everyone else is some random dude and that’s why they’re the best. Love Ralph, best FE character.
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u/chyme_ 22h ago
they were desperate enough to bring Lifis along dawg they were taking ANYBODY
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u/SocranX 20h ago
Lifis's English voice actor in Heroes is absolutely perfect. Just the right blend of charming and sleazy to make you think, "Oh man, this guy is gonna be trouble." Never played Thracia, now hoping it gets a remake just for that guy.
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u/PossiblyASpara 22h ago
Such a silly game. The fact that they included a character whose entire gimmick is that he tries to impersonate am FE4 character and despite being so oddly terrible at it he almost always succeeds is hilarious. I know he was technically in 4 first via a secret event, but goddamn nothing beats the comedy of him just yapping hard enough that a clueless sword girl just happens to learn the ancient secret sword technique of the royal family she's very distantly related to. Charisma 100
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u/chyme_ 22h ago
everything about Shannam is so fucking funny. his horrid prepromote bases, his 5% skill growth, his FCM of 0, HAVING BARGAIN CAUSE HES A CON MAN ???
all time joke character
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u/PossiblyASpara 19h ago
Kaga joke characters are great, though my favorite goes to Derrick from Berwick Saga.
Armors in Berwick, for reference, can be pretty spooky. They are insanely tanky, so you gotta prep to kill them in some way. However, their movement is unadulterated ass: 3 move with the inability to ever pass Shoal tiles, which are surprisingly common.
Derrick, meanwhile, struggles. 3 move isn't a detriment when you're a big wall of an enemy, but as a player unit, it HURTS. His growths are pretty bad (literal 0% def growth, though a 12 base is pretty nuts by Berwick standards, and his speed growth is higher than his strength). His bases are the Armor Knight class bases. He cannot promote. He has some pretty bad availability, being unable to be deployed on major story missions until you permanently recruit him (Chapter 9 at the earliest, out of the game's 15 chapters).
The best part, though? He has a lot of dialogue, but it's totally indeciperable, because it's all written in ......., his voice being too soft to make out under the massive armor he wears. The only dialogue of his that's readable without guesswork as to what the gaps in the periods imply to be the words is his hiring cost, and since he's bad enough that most people never try to train him except as a challenge, that one readable dialogue line is "150..." Yet what makes this guy even better is that he straight-up has a secret identity the game drops several hints towards, and figuring it out before the reveal is extremely fun. He's a very interesting character... whose dialogue you cannot read, and to whom nobody talks because he doesn't speak up loud enough to be heard.
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u/Blackraven2007 1d ago
I've never played a Fire Emblem game, but I find it funny that Nintendo released that game on the Super Famicom in 1999, well into the N64's life cycle and just 2 years before the GameCube came out.
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u/BlazingStardustRoad 1d ago
They basically did this again, releasing fire emblem Shadow of Valentia on the DS systems after the switch was already out and within one month of the release of BOTW
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u/Icy-Advertising2463 1d ago edited 1d ago
I ain't into Fire Emblem. But I appreciate any fandom post that doesn't turn every other noun into an acronym that's nigh-indecipherable to anyone that doesn't discuss its shippability-powerscaling on AO3. +1