Ushi No Tane Forum

Liliana93 wrote:Yeah there are a lot of leaks, I've skimmed over stuff but there's a lot, I won't posting anything further since the two i posted earlier were less spoiler y but some of the information is...wow.

I like a certain amount of leaks, but the amount I've found is waay too much for me so early in the week. (I like being informed to a certain degree since it takes me the better part of a year to finish an FE game and I have a terrible memory.)

Shortybread wrote: Yeah, I definitely don't mind some - I went out of my way to see all the starter students in the houses, as well as looked at the reddit leaks earlier on - but I don't like when the entire plot and all the twists and turns are leaked. No shade at people who enjoy reading all of them and such, but I always try to avoid spoilers, and leaks just make it twice as hard!
Sorry you've seen more leaks than you wanted to. D:

Anonymous Fish wrote:No spoilers but we got queerbaited real hard. Just a heads-up to go in with low low expectations, that's better than believing in tight-lipped Nintendo who confirmed nothing and didn't even correct reviewers who had the wrong idea. I hope the press was worth it for them.

Blue Rose wrote:

Anonymous Fish wrote:No spoilers but we got queerbaited real hard. Just a heads-up to go in with low low expectations, that's better than believing in tight-lipped Nintendo who confirmed nothing and didn't even correct reviewers who had the wrong idea. I hope the press was worth it for them.

While I generally agree with this assessment (ESPECIALLY that of go in with low-low expectations, holy « Cow Poopoo ») some of the info brought up in the reviews probably went against the embargo act, were taken out context/spun by the reviewers themselves, or the reviewers were simply wrong because of certain aspects that were different from this time around compared to previous games.

Spoiler:

that being in that some "s" supports are NOT romantic in nature and that was across the board for M/f and s/s alike. They are there and s supports, just not romantic in nature.

And so in many ways that's not Nintendo's responsibility for clarification. However, the ^ the spoiler tagged factor in mind, is 100% IS' "responsibility" and feels like a reaaaal big bait and switch for a LOT of players. The whole thing is really nerve wracking and stupid and couldve been done better in a million ways.

Shortybread wrote:

Blue Rose wrote:

Anonymous Fish wrote:No spoilers but we got queerbaited real hard. Just a heads-up to go in with low low expectations, that's better than believing in tight-lipped Nintendo who confirmed nothing and didn't even correct reviewers who had the wrong idea. I hope the press was worth it for them.

While I generally agree with this assessment (ESPECIALLY that of go in with low-low expectations, holy « Cow Poopoo ») some of the info brought up in the reviews probably went against the embargo act, were taken out context/spun by the reviewers themselves, or the reviewers were simply wrong because of certain aspects that were different from this time around compared to previous games.

Spoiler:

that being in that some "s" supports are NOT romantic in nature and that was across the board for M/f and s/s alike. They are there and s supports, just not romantic in nature.

And so in many ways that's not Nintendo's responsibility for clarification. However, the ^ the spoiler tagged factor in mind, is 100% IS' "responsibility" and feels like a reaaaal big bait and switch for a LOT of players. The whole thing is really nerve wracking and stupid and couldve been done better in a million ways.

I'm out of the loop, where is this info coming from?
Not doubting just wondering so I can read up on it and get all the facts myself. Either way this is ... really sucky Things were definitely framed/worded in a way that made it seem like s/s romance was a thing, but it's hard to know how much of that was misconstrued by people reporting on things and how much is intentional on the devs' part.

Blue Rose wrote:Based on some datamines/leaks (aka: take this with a grain of salt until release)

Spoiler:

-Alois, Rhea, Gilbert are NOT romantic S supports like people initially thought. They are all platonic, for both o/s and s/s. In Alois' specifically, he views you like your his kid and in the m!Byleth version the end slide mentions M!Byleth getting a wife or something off hand.

So thus, the only s/s options are:
-Linhardt (the ONLY m/m option)
-Dorothea (f/f)
-Mercedes (f/f)
-Sothis (?????)
-Edelgard (?????)

Sothis is ???? atm and at this point in time I'm not sure what exactly entails for Edelgard (or any of the lords really). Certain details about her supports + supports in general is kind of just confusing at the moment. Not sure if people are just missing stuff in the data/code or if it's just taken out of context or what.

tl;dr - With S supports not necessarily being romantic-explicitly (and not a thing for npc x npcs at all, even though the matchmaking endings are definitely there) and with certain details about certain characters showing up or failing to show up, there is a lot of confusion right now.

I would go in further detail, but to be honest it's just too damn soon and the information is unshaky/unreliable at best. Like I saw some stuff that initially had me super upset and now I'm not as sure if the info was "reliable" on face value (not necessarily wrong, but wasn't looking at the whole picture due to it being looking at specific code).

The best thing I can say is that when it comes to supports/stuff; everybody should go in with the absolute minimum expectations/hopes as much possible. Both s/s AND o/s stuff. Cause as it seems now ????

The good news is that the story continually seems to be given a « Cow Poopoo » ton of praise, but I think a lot of the supports stuff may be...complicated. Or at the very least unnecessarily confusing.

EDIT: Clarification on s/s supports - spoilers ahoy

Spoiler:

Apparently Rhea's support chain IS romantic but her ending slide is not in nature (or more so of a formal/professional nature). Gilbert has the same kind of ending slide, but nobody is sure about his support chain, so he could be in a similar situation.

Alois' end slide specifically has you join him and have a father/child bond and marry someone of the opposite « Chicken Hugging », so I am assuming the support chain is platonic too. If not, that'd be super « Snuggly Bunny » up.

Sothis apparently has a romantic support chain but I'm not 100% on that. Edel's end slide seems to be romantic but perhaps a more subtle level, not sure about the support.

Both Linhardt, Dorothea, and Mercedes have romantic endslides.

Spoiler:

We thought 3/5 ratio for s/s options was bad, now get ready for 1/5!
Jokes aside this is super disappointing to hear. Mostly, I'm upset that it was never clarified that some supports would be platonic. I know it wasn't mentioned anywhere that they would be romantic either, but seeing as how in the last two installments of the game S support resulted in marriage, they should have known that's what everyone would expect. Scratch that, I'm SURE they knew, so them clamming up about it - especially in regards to the s/s stuff - seems intentionally misleading to me.

All in all, I don't need romantic supports to enjoy the game, but being lead to believe they were going to be there for anyone with an S tier until this close to release - not gonna lie - has me pretty bummed. I guess I'll wait until the game comes out and see who is available, but I'm very disappointed with how all of this has been handled.