dakkumauji
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a little blurry but now I can play karuta
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Fire Emblem Community Thread | Together We Ride
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a little blurry but now I can play karuta
theprodigy
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Just my shitty cropping+splatoon's lack of AA
I think someone here might appreciate knowing that Nintendo has finally announced FE6 for Wii U Virtual Console release in Japan next week.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/software/vc/pcnj/index.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/software/vc/pcnj/index.html
Almost done with FE8 (Sacred Stones) now, just the last chapter left. This is my second playthrough, cleared Eirika's path first and now did Ephraim's. I'd say this is a pretty good game, not sure why it has a bit of a bad rep. Branching promotions are cool, story is interesting in some aspects and I liked having a map.
**SPOILERS**
Only thing I'd criticize is that the pacing of the story is a bit weird, especially in Eirika's path. I felt it was very anticlimatic when after Scorched Sands Ephraim appears and is like "Oh yeah I wrecked Grado and now the war is over". I felt like I had accomplished nothing haha. On the other side, having the Renais battle with Orson after beating Vigarde, Caellach and Valter felt like a massive step down in relevance and difficulty.
**SPOILERS**
Only thing I'd criticize is that the pacing of the story is a bit weird, especially in Eirika's path. I felt it was very anticlimatic when after Scorched Sands Ephraim appears and is like "Oh yeah I wrecked Grado and now the war is over". I felt like I had accomplished nothing haha. On the other side, having the Renais battle with Orson after beating Vigarde, Caellach and Valter felt like a massive step down in relevance and difficulty.
I think people were too attached to Elibe as it was the first game for alot of people, I liked Sacred Stones myself
NeonZ
Member
The main issue with it is unit balance. Seth can easily solo the game, and he's actually as good or even better than all other cavaliers/paladins. The enemies also have fairly low stats overall. The trainee characters don't end up better than other good characters, in spite of being harder to train.
It also was the third game in the same engine, and, in spite of adding class branching, it just felt like the base game didn't actually change enough back then.
On top of this, the localization actually weakened bosses and enemies. (The Japanese version is still easy though lol)
Though yeah, I don't mind Elibe but I'm pretty sure so many peeps like it due to it being their first FE, I expect to see this sentiment regarding Awakening become even more stated when we move away from it a bit.
theprodigy
Member
on the other hand, the localization slightly nerfed Franz, Vanessa, and Artur, and of course nerfed the shit out of Eirika route Cormag
anyway, FE7 in the west is like FE3 in Japan (though Awakening kind of screws with this comparison, because FE3>Awakening in Japan but Awakening>FE7 in the west saleswise)
At least it gave Creature Campagin Lyon better growths than 10% across the board.
(I know that doesn't matter but that really amuses me)
ranmafan
Member
Very glad to hear this. Will get for sure, brings me closer to having all the fire emblem games finally.
kuroneko0509
Member
you're 10 days late for this news :^)
The import sites didn't get them until today!
theprodigy
Member
No more jokes about the Lucina figma getting delayed again
(lol)
also, because I was bored today (I might even edit in averages for each stat if I'm extra bored):
Code:
Game Average Growths Effective Growths*
FE1 265.38 218.85
FE2 154.22 154.22
FE3 book 1 276.26 228.00
FE3 book 2 281.89 231.22
FE4 gen 1 253.75 245.42
FE5 286.29 279.37
FE6 280.04 280.04
FE7 289.02 289.02
FE8 307.58 307.58
FE9 355.78 339.56
FE10 327.75 363.31
FE11 250.37 249.86
FE12 326.64 325.72
FE13 420.86 397.93
*Effective Growths is determined using HP+(higher of strength and magic, or whichever one the unit actually uses)+skill+speed+luck+defense+resistance
(i.e. weapon level, build, movement don't count); yes, FE5 magic will get counted as resistanceother things:
- While weapon level/build probably should count to some extent, it doesn't really change the trend that much.
- FE2 really is the black sheep of the series.
- In games with reclassing, only the growths in the base class count.
- Units that cannot gain any levels (i.e. Athos, Yodel) as well as Merlinus and avatar units do not count (the first two for not being relevant, the latter for potential variance).
- Similarly, FE4 gen 2 and the Awakening kids aren't included.
- Awakening doesn't include the 6 spotpass units. Why? Because I can.
- Aptitude was included for Donnel (and will be for Mozume if I get there).
- In FE10, laguz growths for non-HP/luck stats are doubled in the effective calculation; after all, when they transform, their stats do get doubled.
- I would include Fates, but I'm too lazy to actually enter all the growths myself instead of copypastas from Serenes.
- lol Ronan
dakkumauji
Member
poor ronan ruining the average for FE5
theprodigy
Member
He didn't actually ruin anything, I just find his 15% strength/55% magic hilarious for an archer (at least it's not completely wasted because magic doubles as resistance in this game).
theprodigy
Member
Yeah, looking around, I can't find growths for the FE6 trial map characters anywhere.
Aveyn Knight
Member
I can grab them, but not sure if they should count since they can't level up...
theprodigy
Member
No, you should put up the full growths for Fates like you did for Awakening cause I'm too lazy to manually put in everything
(seriously though, what's getting updated next on the site?)
The FE6 ones can level, can't they? My FE6 cart wiped itself, but I remember Narshen being level 12 ish? and me leveling him, it just doesn't save when the map ends.
Huh, I've been ordering stuff with sal for about a year and a half now (I'll generally just get one package a month), and nothing's taken over 3 weeks (usually two weeks). I guess I'm just really lucky lol
dakkumauji
Member
SAL's basically a crapshoot lol
it's like rolling the RNG in delivery time X)
it's like rolling the RNG in delivery time X)
I guess this means we won't be getting this overseas anytime soon.
I was really hoping for a remake.
I don't know the figma lucina is really simple, as was the only other figma I have (Samus). Both of them are top notch.
I'm picking up marth and caeda up for sure though, I wonder who else would they go in for shadow dragon for a nendo.
My choices would be Kain, Abel, Ogma, Navarre, and Tiki. Of those I think only Tiki would have a shot though.
Also, I want more fem robin representation (or at least a fem robin amiibo). I played the game as male robin (not the fault one), but I think fem robin deserves just the same amount of screen time.
dakkumauji
Member
man, I still haven't decided on buying the 2nd sets yet
kuroneko0509
Member
hmmm no bonus stuff this time?
Aveyn Knight
Member
I'd be really surprised if there wasn't. They'll probably be announced further down the line, maybe after Series 2 hits.
theprodigy
Member
Oh, is there a Nephenee card with her with a messed spine? Must've missed it.
Aveyn Knight
Member
I don't think it was mentioned here yet, but they did recently announce that they'll broadcast another livestream event shortly before the release of Series 2. I believe next weekend. Any additional details regarding Series 3 could theoretically pop up there too.
Aveyn Knight
Member
Yeah, I have it marked down for 12th September on my calendar.