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Fire Emblem Fates |OT| Nohr does what Hoshidon't
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DecoReturns
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HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Just met Azura and she nonchalantly drops her past, didn't expect that, lol.
Dat "simple" storytelling at its finest
Lumination
'enry 'ollins
If you have the time, I'd play Awakening first. Awakening is a fine game in its own right, but from what I've played of Fates, it blows Awakening out of the water. You won't want to go back if you start with Fates.
It's not just me? I've been begging for a single point of HP after 8 levels...
WildEagle18
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is Ninja str or magic? I'm more of a str kinda guy but if Ninja has some cool skills I'm willing to try it for my first run.
Hidden weapons use strength.
Elaugaufein
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Which is super weird since Maximums haven't changed much and even in Awakening you usually didn't many stats without Second Seals or a looot resetting.
There are actually a few strategies to tackle it on Lunatic. But the most common thing is that you need to centralize where the enemies come from and abuse Azura + Magic/Bow Turret.
There are chapters as hard(er) later on.
Azura is made of freaking paper. Choosing her husband for her child is like one of the most difficult things ever. Which spouse will Azura not make both children ass.
Azura also has 3 different supports per route. so many support to grind.
Neoleo2143
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Not great. I mean the good Magic users are awesome but they're few in number who are legitimately good.
Have you found my character descriptions to be accurate so far.
WildEagle18
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Okay, so, I scanned all my Fire Emblem amiibo and chose the first option for the gifts. But after scanning them all a second time...they didn't give me the other gift, instead they all gave me another of the first gift. What's up with that?? I'm I screwed out of the other items now? =/
For a while I thought chapter 5 Lunatic was crazy.
Eventually I tucked everyone into a corner of the map and watched in amazement as Rinka blocked all of the wyrmslayer attacks while Kaze killed all the mages.
It was at that point that I realized that guard stance is pretty cool. I'll be keeping a close eye on the guard gauge from now on.
Eventually I tucked everyone into a corner of the map and watched in amazement as Rinka blocked all of the wyrmslayer attacks while Kaze killed all the mages.
It was at that point that I realized that guard stance is pretty cool. I'll be keeping a close eye on the guard gauge from now on.
theprodigy
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eh, it's around RD level, which is still relatively high
Load your save and choose the other option. You can get either gift during either Amiibo scan. And no, you can buy a copy of their second accessory later, but only when that Amiibo person is running the accessory shop. So it might take a little bit, but you aren't permanently screwed, at least.
I'll see when I get past the first battle.
Only real reason is if you want to see the differences in dialogue for those chapters based on gender (fairly minimal except for which of Felicia/Jakob joins early), or if you want to go for a higher difficulty (since the branch keeps your chapter 6 difficulty, and you can only shift down.)
Barrylocke
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I agree with this totally. It's especially jarring coming from Trails in the Sky which revels in slow burning your relationships. Not all games need to be at those levels (but a few more wouldn't hurt!) But Fates took the complete opposite end of the scale and it didn't work.
At least the gameplay holds.
names2hard4you
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I got the 30% off E3 deal on Conquest. Because of that I decided to also buy the DLC, and I'm now playing both routes side by side. I'm liking both, Conquest is more straight forward since you just go from one mission to the next, although the complexity of the missions is higher and tougher. In Birthright you are allowed to take pit-stops, "enjoy the view" before returning to the story, all you do is basically route the enemy and the difficulty isn't as high, specially since you can grind and buy w.e you want. Both sides have great characters so far, and I can't really say I prefer one side over the other. The extra challenge in Conquest is cool, but going out to explore outside of the main missions in Birthright is fun also.
Reached the Branch of Fate! Yay!
So... I decide to start Male/Birthright and after that it will be Female/Conquest and then Female/Revelations.
So far the game is incredible good and I still wrapping my head around the new weapon triangle and the changes made up to the Pair Up mechanics... speaking of I LOVE how now Pair Up is more oriented to defend units while putting units near each other is a little more offensive and that first map where there is a blockaed of enemies that are using those same tactics sogood.gif
EDIT: Oh, the little artbook that come with the Special Edition is incredible good! I just love Kozaki Yusuke work so much and the sketches of Azura are amazing =3
So... I decide to start Male/Birthright and after that it will be Female/Conquest and then Female/Revelations.
So far the game is incredible good and I still wrapping my head around the new weapon triangle and the changes made up to the Pair Up mechanics... speaking of I LOVE how now Pair Up is more oriented to defend units while putting units near each other is a little more offensive and that first map where there is a blockaed of enemies that are using those same tactics sogood.gif
EDIT: Oh, the little artbook that come with the Special Edition is incredible good! I just love Kozaki Yusuke work so much and the sketches of Azura are amazing =3
I already saved after the first time I scanned them, and the second time doesn't give you a choice of gift, they just give you one...
So I guess I just have to wait for them to run the shop then? =/
Alright so if I have this right, you can visit My Castle by checking the Crystal Ball, going to Visit Castles and clicking on Castle Address. My Address is 00289-64582-37922-02202 for future reference.
You slowly gain DVP (Dragon Vein Points) for visiting other Castles. So far it seems exchanging cards is enough but maybe other things will give you more DVP.
You slowly gain DVP (Dragon Vein Points) for visiting other Castles. So far it seems exchanging cards is enough but maybe other things will give you more DVP.
No. How it works is that you can A+ character A, but character B can A+ someone else.
For example Camilla, Luna, and Beruka have A+ supports.
Camilla can A+ Luna but Luna doesn't have to A+ Camilla and can A+ Beruka instead. Beruka could A+ Luna but she can choose to A+ Camilla instead.
A+ supports don't give you a conversation. They exist just to share classes.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the info
No, they do give you a dialogue choice. That's what determines your gift, even though they don't spell it out. Just reload your save and choose the other dialogue option.
Ooooh, THAT choice! Okay, that makes sense, lol. Thank you!
No problem, I was messing around with the amiibo earlier. I'll warn you, the fight to actually recruit the amiibo is what comes up next, but its mid or late game stuff. Marth sweeped my team in a turn.
Lord_Byron28
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Not to excuse bad story telling but hasn't Fire Emblem always had questionable writing? Awakening's story was pretty bad, granted I already knew about the Marth/Lucina twist when I played it. Sacred Stones' story was nothing to really write home about. I've only played two FE games(starting on my third FE now) so it may just be the games I've played. I've only gotten to the second chapter of Fates before I had to leave to work but I plan to delve into it more tonight.
Reluctant-Hero
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Duh, I should have read the OP better.
Playing the Birthright path right now (the one similar to Awakening) and even in Normal the game is a little harder than Awakening since enemies now use Pair Up and Dual Strike.
God, I can't even imagine how crazy can Conquest or the Harder modes get if the game also gives the enemies crazy combinations of skills T_T
Conquest is much, much harder than Awakening. Its not even close on Easy.
Only Nigel is gay as far as the men go.
Neoleo2143
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I would say mostly uninteresting, most of what I find great is the characters for all their flavor and what not, the series has many genuinely great characters. It's quite easy to tear apart any story in the series but I'm not a cynical person so I won't do that. A simple solution to the issue could be word choice, a nice dense sentence is always better than a paragraph. Then again pretty much everything the series has been about is drawn basically from the Volsung Saga and going up against the story that was the main inspiration for Lord of the Rings is basically destined to underwhelm.
That being said, take what you enjoy and criticise what you don't and don't allow both to cloud the other, and you'll be fine.
So, FE stories are really not much to write home about, but after getting to chapter six, it's pretty astounding how weird the writing is in this game. I'm not going to outright say it's bad, it's just all super rushed? Events seem to be happening with no build up at all, dialogue is extremely simple and brief... it's weird. It's even different than Awakening.
To have a story where you have to pick between two sides, why go this route? It's so easy to make two empathetic sides... but they chose not to do that.
To have a story where you have to pick between two sides, why go this route? It's so easy to make two empathetic sides... but they chose not to do that.
Ah, well I don't know that guy yet
The scene after
mama dies
you becoming a dragon, destroying a city, your mother dying, you attacking Azura
Edit: Sorry did quotes instead of spoiler tags, fixed now
DecoReturns
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Yeah...same here, 6 six chapters before the choice wasn't enough for them
unless, they try and do dramatic plot twists for whatever reason
Nope. They just "retreat".
I liked the Tellius saga's story (Path of Radiance+Radiant Dawn) but yeah, I mostly play these games for the character interactions. Story's just the thing that brings everyone together for said interactions.