Fire Emblem Fates- Released!- Heavy spoiler warning! Beware!

[Arcy]

Today I learned that RopeMaidenKirie has special glasses that enable her to see Kellam...

Yes, I delurked to say that. And, you know, my husband is way down with Fire Emblem, all of them, but Awakening was my first one. I like them adding different options to bring the game down to an SRPG level that I can play, too. Since they don't really make old Shining Force, Final Fantasy Tactics, or Jeanne d'Arc style games anymore.

But thanks for the thread, because I like to follow the news on this game every so often.

Um... back to Kellam mode for me. Put on 500 lbs of armor, become invisible. That's how it works, right?

[RopeMaidenKirie]

Today I learned that RopeMaidenKirie has special glasses that enable her to see Kellam...

Yes, I delurked to say that. And, you know, my husband is way down with Fire Emblem, all of them, but Awakening was my first one. I like them adding different options to bring the game down to an SRPG level that I can play, too. Since they don't really make old Shining Force, Final Fantasy Tactics, or Jeanne d'Arc style games anymore.

But thanks for the thread, because I like to follow the news on this game every so often.

Um... back to Kellam mode for me. Put on 500 lbs of armor, become invisible. That's how it works, right?

Brilliant!

Yeah, I think adding new options is a great thing. Everyone comes from different gaming backgrounds, so I think it's great personally.

No problem! Feel free to post and not lurk whenever you wish :D

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So Famitsu is releasing new info each week until release! YAY! Something to look forward to. We should be getting the info by tomorrow if it doesn't leak earlier.

This week it's going to be about weapons, and stuff about 6 of the characters. Looks like Felicia is probably one of them (same with Tsubaki!)

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201505/19078839.html

Super pretty picture of Felicia from Famitsu:

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Edit2: Leaked info! Hurrah!

http://gematsu.com/2015/05/fire-emblem- ... n-triangle

The Weapon Triangle, which has been a mainstay in the Fire Emblem series since 1996, will see a reform in the upcoming Fire Emblem If for 3DS, the latest issue of Famitsu reveals. Instead of the standard swords over axes over lances, it’s been changed to swords and magic, over axes and bows, over lances and dark weapons.

In brief, swords and magic are stronger than axes and bows, while axes and bows are stronger than lances and dark weapons, and lances and dark weapons are stronger than swords and magic.

As previously reported, weapon durability is no longer present in Fire Emblem If. But the disadvantages of this are that the stronger the weapon, the larger the unit’s disadvantage in terms of abilities. For example, the Bronze Sword has no chance of landing a Critical hit, but has +10 Critical evasion, while the stronger Steel Sword has -5 evasion and makes it hard to use a Pursuit attack. Only staffs restrict the amount of times they can be used.

Famitsu this week also introduces a new group of characters:

Felicia (voiced by Nozomi Sasaki) – A maid.
Joker (voiced by Junichi Suwabe) – A butler.
Gunther (voiced by Rokuro Naya) – A great knight. (Edit: sounds like they got this wrong and it's supposed to be "great knight" instead of "great butler" lol so I edited it for the time being)
Suzukaze (voiced by Daisuke Ono) - Ninja
Saizou (voiced by Tarusuke Shingaki) - Ninja
Kagerou (voiced by Rie Murakawa) – Ninja
Felicia, Joker, Gunther, and Suzukaze appear as allies in both the White Night Kingdom and Dark Night Kingdom versions of the game. Saizou and Kagerou are allies in the White Night Kingdom version.

Maids, butlers, and shinobi use dark weapons, which have weakening effects on enemy abilities when attacked.

There will be different weapons that can be used in each version of the game.

Made a correction since Suzukaze/Saizou/Kagerou are ninjas.

No scans yet, but I'm assuming that "Joker" is cravat-san. Gunther's VA is old so it wouldn't be him.

The silver-haired guy is Cyrus, and the other character's name (her/his face is hidden lol) is Oboro

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[Ronin19]

I like the new 3 way triangle; magic always seemed to have an advantage in Awakening, but I wonder if this means that magic weakness will be nonexistent.

Weapon advantages/disadvantages seem like a fair exchange for no durability.

I wonder what the butler Joker looks like. Right now I can only imagine that Kamui is Batman and Alfred turned into the Joker.

So the maids and butlers are so loyal to Kamui that they'd always follow them no matter what side they choose? Seems interesting especially since if we choose the White or Black kingdom we'd lose one family for party members. We need more Black Kingdom allies; it seems that the White Kingdom gets a TON of allies, but maybe that's intentional since the Black Kingdom version is different.

[RopeMaidenKirie]

I have a good feeling that Joker is:

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He not only looks like a butler, he's got that "Joker" aesthetic imo (mainly his sleeves). He also looks like one of the characters that switches sides since his attire looks pretty Nohr-ish even though he's on the Hoshido cover with Felicia. I'm assuming that the blue haired maid is in the same boat and can switch sides...

I really hope it's him because Junichi Suwabe is a pretty awesome seiyuu.

Yeah I think the weapon/advantages/disadvantages are really great sounding so far. Way better than durability imo, but I guess that'll remain to be seen until we actually play it. Also excited for the new triangle.

Look at all those ninjas :D lol

Hopefully next week we'll get info on some new Nohr characters.

Edit1: From http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.p ... &p=3769553
Felicia: A maid who tends to the Avatar during his/her residence at Nohr.
Joker: A butler who serves the Avatar in Nohr.
Gunther: A knight who has served Nohr for many years. The Avatar's caretaker.
Suzukaze: Belongs to a family of ninjas who has served Hoshido for generations. However, Suzukaze himself does not follow a particular liege.
Saizou: A ninja who has sworn allegiance to and directly reports to Ryouma. Suzukaze's twin brother.
Kagerou: A kunoichi who serves Ryouma. Acts as the restraint for the reckless Saizou.

Sounds like Joker is the cravat-man and Gunther is the old dude over on the Nohr side. The ninjas sound really fascinating!

[Ronin19]

I wonder who the purple haired maid is. She's on the cover for Black Kingdom, but I don't think we've heard anything about her. Twin sister to Felicia?

[Poppyseed]

Wait, what? Twin ninjas? Yeeeeesssss~

I really hate not being around when news is announced.

[RopeMaidenKirie]

I wonder who the purple haired maid is. She's on the cover for Black Kingdom, but I don't think we've heard anything about her. Twin sister to Felicia?

Yeah, I'm thinking that she's probably a twin or a sister at least. FE:if seems to be all about duality.

So many ninjas. xD At least you can have Suzukaze with you if you go to Nohr. I wonder how the other faction is going to act when you bring along some of these characters with you to their side?

[sadeofraine]

@Kirie: Had a long response written out but lost it like a doofus. :'D Anyway, YES. TOTALLY AGREE. Hopefully characters across the board will be more well-rounded. AND OH MAN, YEAH. I liked Valm's characters, and the Arc DID have some good moments, just in a way it felt out of place, and seemed to drag along the story in some places. More insight on Ylisse-Plegian relations would have been awesome! Thing that confuses me

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is that after the Ylisse-Plegia war is over you'd think that Ylisse would have kept a VERY close eye on Plegia at the very least. Surely they had to have seen the chaos Plegia would fall into after Gangrel's death and that it would (and was) the perfect chance for someone even worse than Gangrel to swoop in like a vulture and seize control.

Interestingly, Awakening and If seem to have a lot in common. Hoshido is the "good" country, with even it's own Emm expy, while Nohr seems to take after Plegia in being "dark". However, it's been hinted at that Hoshido isn't as squeaky clean as it looks, and that if you choose Nohr you can change the kingdom from within. So maybe the creators were well aware of Awakening's overly simple and somewhat hypocritical morality, or paid attention to the feedback, and are making this game a lot more gray and with a heavier focus on politics rather than just "YOU DA GOOD GUY. ROUTE DA BAD GUY. GOOD JOB, GOOD GUY." Or so I hope. :'D Ohhh, If is gonna break my heart good. It helps that so far most of the characters seem sympathetic in some way, though admittedly that'll be hard to really tell until the game's release.

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OOOH, HELL YES MORE INFO.

You know, all this is making me wonder what kind of person Kamui is. They're beloved by their siblings, which may not seem a whole lot, but still, considering how royally screwed up powerful families can be... Also, to inspire such loyalty and devotion from their servants, as well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for at least platonic supports with Kamui and the maid/butler (also Felicia and Joker look adorable).

Also, think the new weapon info is interesting. O8

[Poppyseed]

I'm surprised that despite being ninja twins, they're not voiced by the same person. No double the Daisuke Ono? Sadness~

Also,

I know lots of people like talking about the stats and...stats, but, I enjoy talking about the characters a lot more. Like, before the game's released it's just real confusing for me, and I can't keep up.

And,

Because of Awakening I'm kinda expecting supports with like almost everyone, concerning Kamui at least. Might not be the case, but Awakening got me bad. I gotta replay the older games over and over.

I know I change subject a lot, but there are like a million things to talk about. Like dude. Why is info released like this, all up in my face suddenly.

[RopeMaidenKirie]

@Sade - I haaate when that happens :< Oh man that's a really good point about Plegia after the what happened with Gangrel. Bah. We'll never know I guess :/

Yeah I agree there's a lot of stuff that's being seemingly brought over from Awakening. I'm really hoping that IS took to heart some of the story criticisms and that this new writer does a good job. At least we'll be able to see both sides this time around, so it's already way better than Awakening in that way at the very least. Maybe I'm a masochist, but I really hope there's some hard hitting choices or story moments in this game. If you want to keep your whole army alive (or opposing too I guess) by the end of the game, I want it to actually be difficult to do so with story choices.

I hope with Kamui, they have a tiny bit more of a personality than Robin did. Then again I don't really self-insert, so I guess it doesn't really bother me when characters that I create have their own personalities without my control, though I know there's some that dislike it for headcanon reasons. I dunno. They should just bring over the silent MU choice from Japan in that case (kind of confused why they didn't actually) so instead of responding to stuff, your avatar just goes "...." for you to fill in the blanks lol. But yeah Kamui seems super loved by everyone, so I'm wondering what type of character they are.

CROSSING MY FINGERS WE CAN S-RANK BUTLERS/MAIDS. I don't really see why not, especially since they follow you to whatever side you go to. It's cute and shows they are super loyal no matter what :>

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@Poppy - Pretty excited about Daisuke Ono's seiyuu, not gonna lie haha. Yeah I hear you, I'm not really a stat theorist, so I don't really bother getting into those sorts of discussions usually until the game comes out. Then it's fun to discuss builds since we already know most of the fun stuff about the characters by then.

Tomorrow we should be getting the full scans, so we'll know the rest of the info by then :D be expecting info drops every week around this time, since Famitsu has said we're getting them weekly until the game hits. Pretty excited we don't have to go through any information droughts anymore, and we get to finally learn about the characters.

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Apparently there's a Dark Mage that wasn't mentioned yet, but she's on the scans according to some people on 2ch? Her name is Nyx. I wonder if she's the Tharja lookalike?

[Bluie]

AW YEAH BUTLERS AND MAIDS.

[RopeMaidenKirie]

JOKERRRR PSLDFKJS:DF LOOKS SO AWESOME HNNNG

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Full scans should be out at any time!

[Poppyseed]

*SOBS* WHY CAN'T I SEE ANYTHING~?
I was camping out on Serenes for so long, man. Bleeeeegh. Guess I'll have to wait for scans. *sniffle*

That blond guys face is glorious.

[RopeMaidenKirie]

^Try this one and come flail with me

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[Poppyseed]

sWEET MAMA. GOOD LORD. Now, I don't usually have a thing for butler's but...that art.

...And since the scans are out, those ninjas too man. Dang, Saizou. Best ninja, 2015.