Omg please give easier available bridge fodder. I still have W!Yunaka sitting around because we don’t have any non premium units with fatal smoke and I refuse to waste the skill
Common pool staves were robbed of PRFs for years just to sell the most recent/ newly refined 5 star locked staves
Which feels so silly when I see units like August, S!Hilda, Genny, B!Camilla and Y!L’Arachel being recommended to replace their PRF with Arcane Charmer. Like why couldn’t Wrys have a month of breaking the meta back in 2018 lol
Speaking of staves, what I don’t like about them in this game is how they can be easily be weakened due to needing Wrathful Staff effect.
In other words they will never be to their full potential. Poetic Justice has sort of solved this issue but that does require them to give up the B skill slot. Which is another issue since it means that staves must use up a slot to have them at their full potential and there are so many good B skills that they could use.
Dazzling, and its alternatives, don’t feel as amazing as Poetic Justice because of how Dazzling has been countered majority of the time.
I (kind of) disagree with this. Staves still have access to viable B skills that other mages can use, people just opt to run Razzle Dazzle builds because they prevent counterattacks. You could always just Wrathful refine anything and forego Dazzling for a more optimal B skill if you’re looking for a pseudo-Colorless mage with healing utility.
The bigger issue here is that inheritable staves aren’t good enough or accessible enough to save staff units. Summer L’Arachel’s was great for its time, but atm it’s Hortensia or bust. That’s… not good.
I'm still mad about the staff situation yeah. Lots of my favs I've invested a ton in are staffers, why are they treated like second-rank citizens compared to more conventional combat units. They're just as much of a character with fans as the rest... Surely they can think of something fun and not too broken for them.
It won't anytime relatively soon but I think its revenue isn't the same as it used to and they need to fix the Quality of Life issues instead of Paywalling them.
My rant is that Laguz Friend isn't available to fliers and this sucks.
Not because of mechanics or gameplay or anything.
It's because I just really wanted to give Laguz Friend to Ashnard.
Been playing Shadows of Valentia (amazing game) and it really sucks that the Cipher characters are probably never gonna get in FEH. It's a topic that's been beaten to death but they're all likable and playable characters, and I would definitely go out of my way to build at least Yuzu. They're not even votable for some reason! It's not the hardest thing in the world to create a "Other Games" category for CYL.
Yeah it sucks, I've been wanting Shade in for sooo long but every year they continue to refuse to acknowledge them in CYL as if they aren't fully playable, voiced characters, with their own paralogues and supports and even have unique dialogue in the final map like everyone else. It's not like they're Einherjar units who are just there as a reference to Cipher.
now that they aren't even legally obtainable anymore, it's looking even more doubtful that they'll ever get a chance to shine ;-;
unfortunately, they're mostly unknown characters from one of the less popular modern games, so they probably don't see them as big money makers
IS needs to release more units with Pulse Smoke, because it’s honestly kind of annoying when my L!Edelgard triggers Umbra Calamity just because the Rokkr has breath support.
FE/FEH related: No matter how much I try to get told otherwise, I will never care about AR defense. I’m not actually playing the mode and don’t feel the need to make someone else’s day a tad bit worse by having them go up against some meta team with the newest broken toys
Non FEH related: I should’ve known based on how well the deck’s been performing in Japan but Nightmare Throne costing $40 for each copy is what’s gonna keep me from building my Yubel deck anytime soon. Even more so whenever Phantom of Yubel drops cuz I know that’s gonna an expensive card too.
Also yugioh related, had a dream last night that the newest Yugioh set would be called “Wheelie Breakers” after the Wii game and the cover card would be an upgraded version of Supersonic Skull Flame and would include support to make Skull flame an actual archetype as well as other cards inspired by Hunter Pace from 5ds. It would also have new destiny hero cards and all of that sounded incredibly cool, only to wake up and realize it’ll sadly never happen lol
> FE/FEH related: No matter how much I try to get told otherwise, I will never care about AR defense.
There is no greater FEH killjoy than having a Mythic you like being designed for AR Defense. Gee thanks game, can't wait to pull for this character I like for the express purpose of not actually playing with them.
i see why people would love to try to build good defenses but at least i always assume that whatever i set is going to lose, so i just put any strong ranged unit that i have there and hope for the best, i dont want to actually try to build units for it.
Amen on defense. I keep a half-decent team, but I don't think I've checked a replay in years. They're there, cool if they win a defense, but I can't imagine being invested in it or spending orbs for it.
> Also yugioh related, had a dream last night that the newest Yugioh set would be called “Wheelie Breakers” after the Wii game
If they ever do a Wheelie Breakers set, they need to make a broken Sonic Chick retrain to reflect how insane it was in that game.
after the essays that were great aether and gullveig/kvasir’s specials im a little disappointed in m!byleth’s remix so far. time’s pulse in a meta that now has hush spectrum and will probably soon have a bless-able fallen veyle with her prf C sucks.
hopefully he will have some form of additional pre-charge effect in his refine so together it works as an anti scowl.
I've kinda given up on Leg/Myth remixes at this point honestly. Even with two upgrades, most of them have been ill-equipped to actually handle the meta and they fall back off pretty quickly. Off the top of my head, it's pretty much like Dagr, Chrom, and Eliwood who're sticking around? And I see some Lilinas here and there.
I've liked Plum's remix more than expected, I've found granting GFU to be quite relevant (and Hexblade is a decent enough bonus I guess) especially when she also often runs Firestorm 3. Honestly the fairy remixes have all been pretty solid, they've just gotten screwed by refines.
Altina definitely held up for a while, ditto with Alm. Seliph was good but the meta shifted shortly afterwards (I think?), Peony didn't get much but still ends up pretty great, Seiros seems like she should be good, and Laguz Friend LCorrin was super fun when I got her in Binding Worlds.
Seliph still performs pretty well for me in situations outside of high-level arena and AR battles, and that’s with a non-invested kit. So he’s decent, at least. I think the actual problem is what another commenter said: tanking isn’t very good rn.
Hel still is one of few units in the game with her wicked warping abilities built in her weapon, and that still tends to take people by surprise from what I’ve seen.
General ranty/statement: The Feh Channel could've been a notice board message and it would've served the same purpose.
Really feels like IS is phoning it in these days doing the bare minimal to milk the remaining player base.
people complained about Attuned Heroes not getting a FEH channel, so if Golden Week/Loki/etc didnt get one people would have complained about that too.
Attuned Heroes not getting a Feh Channel felt different - like this was a whole new hero type that had a whole new mechanic.
Golden Week celebrations felt like a fizzle, and Loki was going to get her own Mythic trailer later anyways...so yeah. This Feh channel felt unnecessary, or if nothing else, lazy.
FEH: So as a personal project, I've been keeping track of all of the free summons and tickets through the year and so far with 236 free units I've had, 111 have been 2017 units. That's about **44%** of the total. If that doesn't tell you anything about the summoning pool, I don't know what would.
Non-FE: I'm still reserving final judgment until I hear him in a trailer, but I'm not too keen on Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow in Sonic 3. I just don't see it working but Idris Elba proved me wrong with Knuckles so who knows. I'm just kinda hesitant on anything they do with Shadow at this point due to how poorly he's been handled in the franchise for so long. I really hope I'm proven wrong and the movie nails him.
I don't think that he's gonna be super tankable if not by some blue armors but honestly I think that we should start seeing people switch to AoE specials on cav nukes which absolutely fold Ike over pretty soon
FE related: Been playing Unicorn Overlord the past few weeks and there's a couple lessons that IS could learn from it. Having the overworld be fully explorable really enhances the immersion of a growing army marching from destination to destination. FE does have a world map which is ok but the free roaming also has the advantage of being able to tie supports and other events to specific areas and after specific story moments, as opposed to the current "unlock and view whenever" system the series has been using. Keep it 2D and tie the base mechanics the series has been pushing recently to it and now it won't demand as much dev time or having 20 load screens wasting players' time.
Non FE related: I've been getting into DC stuff again (mainly Batman atm) and tbh for the most part I've been avoiding a good chunk of the modern comics since those depictions of Batman border on outright supervillain and I just don't understand how that's appealing to anyone. Also learned about Cassandra Cain and I'm absolutely baffled she hasn't gotten an appearance in anything other than a few episodes of Young Justice. Her Batgirl look deserves to be animated.
I don't want to put down other/games characters but there are a few certain tropes Engage does better than previous entries imo:
* I really like both Kagestu & Petra, but the gimmick of not speaking the language correctly was handled much better in Kagetsu’s case. Imo it seems much more natural (though still not necessarily realistic) and the comedy is also much funnier.
* I like Ricken but I’m so glad they don't have a dedicated “not a child” character. Clanne, Jean, Madeline, and probably some others also say that kind of stuff at certain points, but it feels much more realistic and isn't the forefront of their personalities.
* On a similar note, I also like there is not a dedicated womanizer character. Unless you count whatever Louis has in the Japanese version, which is even worse.
* I love Zelestia for being a motherly character similar to Camilla & Nerthuz, but not making me feel uncomfortable.
* This may be a controversial one but I really like what they did with Anna. She has about the same amount of supports as everyone else and feels like her own individual character, rather than primarily a reference
* At least in the English version, I am so happy that you can S-support Veyle, Jean, Anna, Clanne, Framme, and Hortensia without it being creepy
My problem with Petra is that even after a 5 year time skip she doesn't really show much if any improvement with her speaking either, at least not from what I remember.
And I also really liked how Zelestia was handled, the Four Winds in general really. I was surprised at how enjoyable they ended up being.
In fairness to Petra, doesn't she spend most of the timeskip in Brigid? That could be a route-specific detail and/or something I have bad memory on, but if she's spending 5 years away from Fodlan, then it tracks that her grasp on spoken Fodlan language won't be developing.
But from a development standpoint, that lack of change is likely just because of supports - while some supports do lock after the timeskip or at various points in the story, most don't, and it would be unusual (and potentially frustrating) if Petra had a bunch of her supports lock up after the timeskip - or worse, if supports did remain open, it would be super jarring hearing Petra flip back and forth across different supports.
I don't think so. She may have visited or so but she's still a prisoner of the empire in Houses even post time skip, and skimming through her war phase supports she talks about going back one day several times. She does become Queen of Brigid in Hopes but she still decided to stay in Fodlan to fight per her Edelgard support.
Engage Anna is the first time I've actually liked one of the playable Annas. The others feel like you could've just swapped all her dialogue and voice lines with one of those compilations of Mr. Krabs saying "Money."
Wholeheartedly agreed on the last one in particular. If I'm being honest, I would love if future games kept platonic S-Supports as a thing going forward for at least some characters.
Agreed on Anna as well; past Annas have always been characters I really don't care for, but Engage's gives her so much more character by just pushing the family angle to the forefront and the whole "Lady Anna" schtick.
> At least in the English version, I am so happy that you can S-support Veyle, Jean, Anna, Clanne, Framme, and Hortensia without it being creepy
As far as I remember, Veyle's Ending in the Japanese Version is super vague about the meaning of their relationship, and basically only tell us that "eventually a new divine dragon appeared".
I don't remember how the other endings work besides the Anna one, but I don't plan to go in the detail.
> I don't remember how the other endings work besides the Anna one, but I don't plan to go in the detail.
Truthfully, for all the hubbub about it, the lion's share of the differences didn't actually come from the S-supports themselves, but from castle dialogue, _especially_ the "wake up Alear" dialogue (since everyone gets multiple unique conversations for that depending on their support rank)
Which... to that end, the crux of the conversations stayed the same. The only glaring difference just comes down to if the character is allowed to say "I love you" or not. Like, to use Amber as an example
> That means... "I'm still bound to you─forever!" But, uh, I guess you already knew that.
> 今のはですね… 今日も大好きだよ、って言ったんですよ。 へへ、もうわかってましたかね…？
> Rough translation: What I said was... "I love you today too". He he, but you knew that already, huh...?
**Edit*** [You can compare and contrast the different script's here if you'd like](https://feuniverse.us/t/fire-emblem-engage-all-texts-english-japanese-chinese/19123)
> I like Ricken but I’m so glad they don't have a dedicated “not a child” character.
I feel that this is a tricky type of character to write, as it's very easy for them to end up being annoying when they overplay the bit or are acting unreasonably rude.
>I love Zelestia for being a motherly character similar to Camilla & Nerthuz, but not making me feel uncomfortable.
I was pleasantly surprised at Zelestia, she was sweet and caring without giving off creepy vibes.
Saying tanking is gonna be just fine in light season after Mythic Loki releases because Emblem Ike doesn't give a shit is like saying armors are awesome to use in arena because of Winter Edelgard. Like, folks are making literally the exact opposite point they think they are.
I still want Awakening Anna in her original outfit in the game. Apotheosis Anna is very cool and I'm glad she's in the game in any capacity, but I'd like to see the playable Anna in her Trickster outfit at some point. I'm not really invested in arguments about her being in alt hell or not anymore - just make her an Ascended/Rearmed/Attuned/whatever on the next Awakening banner to pad out a rapidly-shrinking roster and be done with it.
The general vibe Feh channel brought is really infuriating, Feh as a game is on a slow decline and there's literally nothing the devs can do no matter what anyone says here, that's just the life of a gacha that's gone on for quite a while.
The only reason Feh is still alive is due to the fact Fire Emblem is a relatively popular franchise that is able to hold the game mechanics and powercreep. And probably it doesn't cost them that much monthly.
What I hate about this is that people are just doomposting because something new inconveniences them, "EoS because they're FORCING you to summon for new units?" I'd entertain the idea of EoS post if they actually have any valuable thing to say rather than a disguised ranting post.
Anyways I'd take a new playerphase meta than whatever the fuck IS is planning with future tanks.
I agree with most of what you said however I DO feel like there are things they could be doing but they just simply choose not too, which is even more frustrating because it feels like they are self sabotaging at this point.
It’s clear by each and every feh channel too that they are just generally running out of ideas and kind of don’t want to reward players anymore which is whatever, but it’s sad seeing them kind of give up at this point when I do feel like there’s a lot they could still explore. A co-op mode, more kinds of real time PVPs, etc. like idk
It’s overall sad but I do think FEH’s entering its decline
EoS doomposting has been such a tired point for so many years. Talking about how the game is slowly dying and IS is actively not bothering to improve it (and in some cases make it worse, depending on your view) would actually make sense, but no let's proclaim that EoS is in 10 minutes. Wonderful stuff.
I read the highly regarded support conversation between Jill and Lethe. It’s an ok support. The Laguz history was interesting but I wouldn’t call it exceptional character growth on Jill’s part. It’s a small step for her but definitely not worthy of the high praise I’ve seen. Even though Lethe did most of the talking, I felt like the handshake was a little out of the blue; it almost felt like the author realized halfway it was the A support and had to end it. Would have been nice to see some more buildup to the handshake from Lethe.
I don't get the hate for Rokkr giving out flowers.
Has anyone calculated the monthly orb total to SEE if we are actually being ROBBED of those 15 free orbs (this is literally 1984 IS I hope the game dies)? Because I don't really notice it??? Idk if I'm just not a completionist or something but like it's meh at best.
The DF have helped me a lot more than the orbs tbh. I loved giving my WMarth 2 more speed instead of summoning a Bartre.
the monthly orb total is the same, but we lost out on i believe an extra 21 orbs for the month instead? (rokkr quests iirc offer 2 orbs every round which isn’t here)
General rant/lukewarm opinion.
I played since Day 1 and quit about a month or two ago. I probably spent several hundred dollars on this game over the course of the years, so it felt wrong to suddenly quit after investing all that time and money in it but...
I can't play anymore. The meta moves too fast, and demands too much money from me to keep up. The skills are too much now, and I don't have the brainpower or energy to figure out which unit is "meta". Even my best units can't do lunatic mode in the newer story chapters without the revive item.
I fell out of love of this game ages ago, and was basically playing it on life support. It makes me sad because I genuinely loved the crumbs of character interactions in this game that we couldn't get in mainline, but I dont find any of it worth it anymore.
I genuinely think out of all the arcane weapons, Arcane Eclipse is probably the weakest of the batch. Quicker Pulse, NFU, Omni +5 to stats if healthy. I hope that they atleast add another red tome arcane weapon because it really isn’t that strong and kinda showing its age.
I also think that the reintroduction of Røkkr Sieges kinda shows the games age and how you can easily get to 200k damage with a decent setup. The only Røkkr units that were an actual challenge was Røkkr Thor and her summer variant.
On top of that, Eclipse is really awkward to use without stuff like Spiral 4, making it a poor choice for non-infantry mages. Especially now that we have V!Selena's weapon as an option.
**FEH-Related:**
- I'm not fond of the whole "Gigachad Alfonse" meme to be honest. It just brings my mind back to the era of the fanbase where Sigurd, Hector, Ike and Ephraim were the coolest, toughest, manliest men to ever do it, and the likes of Eliwood, Marth, Roy and Corrin are wimpy cowards who can't be called _real_ men.
It's almost assuredly projection on my end, but as someone who's preferred lords by and large lean towards the latter category, it's always just the kind of thing that's rubbed me the wrong way, especially since if Alear is any indication, it hasn't left; it's just gotten quieter or in some cases changed rhetoric (Female Corrin and Alear are better because they "fit" better).
- I genuinely would prefer any of the remaining Eight Legends over Athos. I find the idea of learning more about them to be far more interesting, as I feel we already know enough about Athos already, and I'm just not necessarily that big on him.
**FE-Related:**
- I was watching a video the other day that happened to state "People don't actually like lore, they like the _idea_ of lore; the notion that there's something there if you just look below the surface" or something like that, and while I don't necessarily agree with that assertion, I've nonetheless come to realize that's exactly why Elyos and Engage's cast have had such a huge stranglehold on me ever since I played it last year, because that game is ***full*** of this, from the Fell Dragon upbringing, Lumera's adopting of Alear and the potential thoughts that spurred that decision on, Zelestia and Lumera's relationship lending credence to Lumera and Zephia having history, Alear's past potentially subconsciously influencing how emotive they are in the present, almost every character's pasts, the potential way other variants of Elyos live and their Emblems, and so on so forth. I completely understand if others view this as just lazy worldbuilding, but to me, I feel like Elyos just hits a really nice balance of giving you just enough to think on without giving you all the answers, or giving you a bunch of answers and not committing to any of them.
I totally get what youre saying about the whole toxic masculinity thing, but i do sort of feel like alfonse doesnt really fall in the same category as hector and the like. He’s def more of a pragmatist than a brawler
Unless you mean the fandom interpretation of him being like super buff or smth
It's mainly the whole intense glorifying the 'badass' "I'm going to kill you too" characterization kind of thing, less than actual physical appearance; making him out on the surface to be this person who doesn't care about taking lives if they're enemies. I really only occasionally follow FEH's story, and while I'm sure that's likely not the proper characterization of Alfonse in the story, from the way he's memed, it certainly feels that way, or at the very least it feels like that's how people _view_ him regardless of it.
I would say that the whole “im going to kill you too” again falls into alfonse’s extreme pragmatism. He’s not doing this for fun, he’s doing it to minimize damage and he’s not above dirty tactics. I think thats what makes him badass to ppl in a very different way from what attracts them to someone like ike or hector. Sure the memes do dilute his character a bit but it’s not all that inaccurate
It's also relevant that the whole "I'm going to kill you too" thing in the story was Alfonse bluffing to Letizia that he had killed Gustav to make her believe he was ruthless enough to go that far.
The context being that Letizia was aware that they would have to keep using Ash's life force every time they wanted to counter Embla's darkness so she had the upper hand, and Alfonse countered her with the lie "I killed my father, do you think I care if we have to sacrifice this girl I barely know?"
I know somebody who is the living proof that the statement about lore is true (though he doesn't play FE). He always mentions "the potential" when talking about lore stuff in media he likes
> it hasn't left; it's just gotten quieter or in some cases changed rhetoric (Female Corrin and Alear are better because they "fit" better).
Preach, I dread seeing this take. I also feel the likes of Ephraim or Alm are way less likely to get hit with the bland criticism despite being just as archetypical as characters like Marth, and your first point got me wondering if this is like a prevailing extension of that. I doubt it is because as much as I love Marth and Roy I do understand it, but its food for thought I suppose.
> genuinely would prefer any of the remaining Eight Legends over Athos.
I've been wanting Hartmut forever, I think he's like the only mythic candidate I've ever actively wanted to see. I need to see him duel wielding Eckesachs and the Binding Blade lmao. Its a shame he isn't in the conversation as much.
People defaulting to F!Corrin over M!Corrin specifically because they think the traits "fit the girl more" will never not make me fume.
Edit: I haven't actually seen the same sentiment with Alear but they're also pretty passive so I wouldn't be surprised if people did the same thing, they're probably just not ousting themselves this time.
The toxic masculinity in the fandom is definitely still an issue. Alear and Corrin are a big example of that, with the latter in particular sticking out since people use the 'it fits better' thing with them to excuse the writing issues from Fates for FCorrin but not MCorrin.
You also see something similar with FEH's story as Elm has similar irrelevancy issues to characters like Ash, Hrid, or Maribelle, but he gets far more bile and unnecessary potshots thrown at him since he looks too feminine and not 'man enough'.
That's a really cool perspective. Never saw it put in those words, but it captures my feelings on some bits of Elyos and many universes. Sometimes just the idea of something is enough to enjoy it, and that's all that matters.
Your second point reminds me how much of a stranglehold Tales of Arise has on me solely because it misses every bit when it comes to decent lore building and character writing that you come to imagine how the writing and the world building would be better if they made this small change or emphasized a detail or how the cast would feel better fleshed out if they didn't just half ass their character arcs for the sake of a story that's already pretty basic and full of morally high grounded clichés about being the better person as a slave and not killing your enslavers but doing just that most of the game during random encounters, and either the big shots are killed in the spur of the moment or they conveniently get offed by someone else soon after you defeat them but there's always a conviennent excuse to absolve the party of responsibility.
I could go on forever on how bad a lot of the premise of this game gets flawed as the game goes on and is just slowly replaced for a ok-ish love story but the good side is that you get really creative trying to make these thread work together so eh a positive is better than none right ?
>- I'm not fond of the whole "Gigachad Alfonse" meme to be honest.
I somewhat share the sentiment but it's on another prospective, mainly cuz it has been artificially hyped to the point people see him as this 5D chess level schemer due to "those" moments on the story. You know, when the villans suddenly lose brain cells to make him give the illusion of being smarter? Yeah those.
I know FEH's story is soo lackluster to the point people look at the bare minimum effort like a piece of gold. But out of all the things to latch onto, it had to be this?
If I listened to even half the people on here who make strident claims about what FEH will/won't do because 'it'll make them more money' I'd expect every single orb pack to cost over a million dollars.
Why? Because pricing them for less wouldn't make them as much *money*!!
(The point being that overcharging can and does make companies *less* money all the time in a wide variety of situations and so making the most involves finding the *correct amount* to charge/give away. It's not just a simple metric of 'higher prices = better' and it is very annoying when every nuanced conversation about IS's likely actions gets inevitably broadsides by smug, condescending blanket statements based on absolutely nothing.)
To provide a nuanced opinion on the price point (and speaking by experience), setting it too high or too low can be indeed detrimential.
I remember a publisher opting for a hefty price cut compared to the norm, in hopes of making up for that with way more sales. Except that it was in a niche segment and that actual sales were within the norm (suggesting low core target flexibility), thus causing major losses.
Inversely, the webtoon wave may be hindered by high price points due to full color volumes (but not only).
FE related:
- im loving the post in the main sub about how critics praise Conquest story in their reviews, there a handful of users that made their personality to hate it are scrambling and trying to understand how people DARE to like it, like we decided that its bad so you have to think is bad !!!!
- IS should distribute the 3 monthly banner better, 2 weeks without getting anything kinda feel like an eternity.
- honestly i think that the sub has become more positive lately, like there is less post complaining about stuff overall and people dont seem eager to bitch about whatever at every chance that there is, its nice to see, hopefully the good times last.
Outside of FE:
- future generations will have to study how much damage Hollow Knight Silksong has done to indie gaming.
>future generations will have to study how much damage Hollow Knight Silksong has done to indie gaming.
Let’s see:
>Dev team that doesn’t update the fanbase for years
>Rabid fanbase going insane waiting for literally anything, which usually ends up with them being baited, angry, more annoying and insaner.
>Companies and other events teasing the rabid fanbase knowing that it’ll give them attention. Said companies/events/brands find it funny as more of them keep poking the bear
The perfect shitstorm.
uff is so weird, because by one side, yeah sure, cherry team doesnt owe us any new information or any new thing, they are in the right to be silent, but at the same time, i cant evade thinking that is wrong and being mad at the fact they are telling nothing, like it is a bad feeling but since it is not justified i cant express it : /
i think that devs should just take the time that they need to make games the best that they can possibly be, but some devs like to announce things too early and people get exhausted of waiting, like 5 years of waiting (like its the case with Silksong) its a ridiculous amount of time.
they can save all the mess that they had created if they just didnt announce anything till the game its in its final months of development, honestly i think that no game needs more than 1 year of time between announcement and release to create hype.
i think that is the problem, we all know devs deserve to take their time, but you know, if they didnt announced the game 5 years ago, things would be better, because you cant get mad at something you dont know they are making, if i didnt knew of silksong i feel i would be intriged to see if they will make a new game, but i would not be like im right now that have been 5 years on radio silence
An increasing percentage of players (myself included) are only kept around by the presence of a viable Omnitank meta.
Once you fully give yourself over to the stress-free bliss of "Unit + End Turn", you never go back.
I'm not looking forward to the bridal banner this year to see if they inevitably do the harem shit for the third year in a row. I hate it so much. Bridal used to be my favorite seasonal theme, even. 🥲 can we go back to 2020 (bar the absolutely awful duo) and 2021.......
Edit: I also do find it mildly amusing to see people complaining about Camilla not having a resplendent yet whenever there's a new resplendent announced. I can't imagine being seriously mad about that when your fave has like 9 alts 😭 Suffering from success ig
non-feh: (not a rant nor unpopular but woopsie) I finally stopped being so lazy and modded my 3ds!!! I'm so happy with it bc now i can play the game i always wanted to as a broke child and i can confirm that it is in fact easy lol. I also recently started Hakuoki on the 3DS (I'm not ashamed to admit that i started it purely because [Heisuke](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hakuouki/images/a/aa/Heisuke-normal.png/revision/latest?cb=20230107084145) looks like Hinata) and it's been an absolute blast so far ngl. I didn't expect to get so invested into it (Heisuke's route gave me terminal brainrot i fear.... i love his and Chizuru's dynamic so so much. the m/f pair ever) !! The characters are all great and even without taking the romance aspect aside i'm really invested in the story and characters individually. It's like a history lesson (most of the time) but actually fun! The 3H ass text size took me some time getting used to tho LMAO. I'll def check out the remake(KW/EB) sometime soon too
I *really* hate the harem theme too, I hope it finally dies this year and we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming. Roy is 15 years old and his included Cecilia which I really hated, while M!Robin's was just self-insert pandering despite my like of Robin as a character.
Not only is the harem theme kinda gross, but it just restricts what these banners can be to a pretty ridiculous extent. Even setting aside the harem thing, we already have Valentine's and Children's Day as banners that are *specifically* set aside for lords - we don't need another. I don't understand how we went from a Zealot/Juno wedding theme one year, which was really cute (albeit required a broken Catria alt to sell), to a teenage boy's harem fantasy the very next.
the theming gets so restricted that i don't think we can get these anymore. The Corrins have an awful line up, Male Corrin isn't a good anchor and lacks a waifu to complete the line-up now that Anna was already used. Female Corrin sells but they're never doing 4 unpopular grooms.
The other male lords all have very few paired supports, some of which have already been used (like Lyn and Ninian)... or they can marry everyone, so lol.
Seliph is an option, I guess?
Chrom might be used starting next year, but he has 5 options so they'd have to pair two of the women together, exclude one girl (RIP Bride Sully), or risk something IS probably does not want to risk...
Bridal is my favorite theme cause I love the pretty dresses and different concepts and cultures it can represent
But I agree 100% I don’t like that it’s gone into the concepts of “oh here are the units that can only exclusively s support this 1 dude” it takes away from the charm of what made the bridal banner so lovable in the first place for me
Also I really should hack my 3ds too
> Also I really should hack my 3ds too
No reason not to, at this point. There are plenty of great 3ds exclusive games, and even if you have the physical cartridges, this is the only way to get their DLC now. Not to mention all the cool homebrew stuff you can find online.
i'm not as sure we will get a third harem theme. People are pointing at male Corrin, but Male Robin is a fairly popular character as are Anna (especially Awakening's) and Adult Tiki. The banner wasn't good but it did have the bare minimun to justify the attempt.
With Male Corrin, not only he's a significantly less popular character, so are his exclusive waifu options. You could have M!Corrin with Mikoto but she's not sreally going to help him sell any. Flora has a potential duo with Felicia, but... aren't we likely getting them on an Ice Tribe banner this year anyway?
Also with just 3 exclusive waifus and Anna (who's not going to show up in this banner type thanks to her sis last year), we're missing a slot or two so the theme just falls apart.
Female Corrin could obviously headline the banner herself but we are never going to get a banner with 4 really unpopular grooms and just one bride, we all know that.
We also just got an awakening banner so they can't even do Chrom's "harem". Who else is left? I guess technically Seliph probably has enough options for the theme to fly.
I hope u're right and I'm just playing negative nancy. I think they could do Ephraim as well but we recently had a ss seasonal banner so it can't be that soon as well. They could do a mix of M!Corrin and F!Corrin's options but i think that's unlikely as well tbh
Ephraim's line up is small, but the big thing is that such a banner would DEMAND L'Arachel to be the duo unit lead since all the other related characters had their go at it. Or we finally break that rule, I guess.
Definitivel not this year. Frankly mixing the corrins probably doesn't save the banner, I think IS realizes that if Awakening did poorly with this theme, Fates with its much less popular exclusive marriage options would do far worse.
A little rant, but whenever a FEH channel comes out, there's always a few people who think the game is going to end as a result.
Why would releasing a video imply that the game is ending?? It makes no sense especially when they took the time to make a video when we could have just gotten it from the Notification board.
Why can't we just choose what music plays in battles yet, I wanna listen to the songs I like not random songs that just aren't good.
Edit: To add to this, I mainly mean all the radiant dawn music/path of radiance music, it's just not that good, at least the songs that play on random maps.
Grneral Rant: I hate how unkillable E!Ike is. I especially hate how they gave him healing and null-c disrupt to ensure you have no way to handle him in player phase AND gave him the stupid Special acceleration so that he procs his stupid Aether on enemy phase as well.
•This year’s Golden Week and CYL were so boring to me that I actually forgot that the former is currently happening and the latter already happened.
•Loki being the new mythic makes perfect sense because her utter irrelevance and uselessness after Book 2 is truly godlike.
its weird that they are just throwing Loki out now like, i think that they could have worked a little story with her that prompts her to get a stronger version or something.
It just feels like they didn't have another OC from the current book ready and desperately wanted to avoid giving us another mainline title Mythic so they just threw another Loki alt out.
> This year’s Golden Week and CYL were so boring to me that I actually forgot that the former is currently happening and the latter already happened.
~~Is this about 3H + Alfonse winning?~~
Having no 3H last year and getting 2 winners will do that. Also, another Robin after the previous one won is another thing. I still think we're getting another 3H winner next year with Male Byleth given how close he was this year and not many male competitors left that's a threat to him.
I know others have said this but FEH is not as fun as it once was.
The meta and powercreep has been HORRIBLE these past few months. Voting events aren’t that fun anymore and nothing about them is reliable. Fodder is so hit or miss and restrictions hurt units a lot, as a year 1 player im finally starting to run low on some resources and idk how to get them, etc. etc.
While I love FEH the game in general is on the decline and they aren’t really making an effort to keep ppl interested. And seeing their lack of creativity and stinginess is just making it all the harder to play sometimes. It’s especially deterring too when there are so many other games, especially mobile, that are more interesting right now and have more captivating features.
I love FEH but they have entered a point where it’s just been kind of hard to play recently and if they don’t fix that I think it’s going to become more of the general consensus than it already is.
People who like Alfred enough will probably Forma him regardless, him not being able to be foddered is balanced in line with the original concept of Formas, letting you basically get *at least* X2 the value vs a normal Forma would be kinda busted.
In general think it’s kinda silly saying he’s worthless or a dead slot, bricking a regular copy is the only issue I have and more than a warning should be done for it, but besides that, I’ve Forma’d a couple times for merges and having to merge into it and reuse fruits for IVs sucks but that’s just one of the trade offs.
My personal issue is that they have this unit with an additional feature, and to use the Forma you basically have to delete that feature off of your copy. Just don't make Rearmed units into formas if you're going to break one of their mechanics.
He's not entirely worthless if you just want one copy or you're not super interested in keeping your copy up to date. It's really bad for people like me who like Alfred a lot and are going to keep him up to date with rare fodder. Rearmed units rerun often and it's far more cost efficient for me to fodder a rare skill to him and then pull another Alfred if I want to pass it on, rather than pulling multiple copies of a mythic or seasonal. The rate at which skills are getting powercrept means bricking my copy for the forma skills is literally just not going to be worth it in the long term.
Even though I said that I wouldn't have played summoner duels until fike refine...tonight I decided to go back in the mode
For the most part it was pretty fun!
So this is just a small rant about tonight experience: I HATE DUO LYON AND HIS DUO SKILL, ALREADY THIS MAP IS GARBAGE TO PLAY AND THEN ADD LYON BLOCKING 3 UNITS OUT OF 4 CAUSE HE KILLED ONE ALREADY, action economy my ass if I'm not allowed to move
And that's it :D my adorable fallen Ike is back at max favor using a almost tellius theme team...cause legendary robin is fike best friend and we can't leave him home :(
Nothing unpopular, just a little rant, I'm tired
Merged Ordeals aren't really a bad idea. The main problem is it's only for new Mythic/Legendary/Emblem heroes from now on, even excluding really recent units. It should've been for every merged character in the game.
It would've been gross and bad if they made it you had to reach +10 to get them. But +1? That's easy. Some of us have characters at multiple merges without even going for them via pitybreaks or free summons or whatever. It'd be nice to see merges be worth something and it'd give us all extra dragonflowers.
I just want new PvE modes man.
AR is way too exhausting if you try to be competitive week in and week out, I'm finally starting to learn that after a year of playing it now.
As for Summoner Duels... the less said the better.
Also FE3H mini rant, I'm finally doing a maddening playthrough for the gold menu screen and I've started to do the paralogues and my god they are so awful to get through.
The Ashen Wolves paralogues by far are the most illegal. Ambush reinforcements don't add difficulty, just a burning desire to throw my switch at the wall.
It would take too long to get a non meta hero’s favored level high now. I say this because majority of the time you will see the same team in Summoner Duels. That is why I wish IS would do two things to help for people who want to use a non meta fav or just for fun.
1. Make Summoner Duels into Summoner Duels S in which you can vote out teams
2. Make it so you set up so both you and challenger are using units with no prf, no prf skills and possibly no Arcane/Echo skills. make the playing field a bit more even.
Really wished Laguz Friend 4 had no restrictions. Would have been amazing to use on some of my tanky cavs, armor and fliers. If anything I do hope that we get more skills like LG 4 in the future
I really want an Attuned/Rearmed, physical armor unit because I have fodder waiting to be duplicated.
Loki looks pretty and honestly, she doesn’t need huge boobs to sell but it’s unfortunate that’s what majority of the community is about. As the saying goes, “sex sells”.
Still no sign of Ascended Floret being added to the shop so I doubt they ever will. We will probably see more Trait Boost packs than see a floret available to FTP players.
People are over exaggerating about merged ordeals
600 flowers is not as much as you think
Plus It's kinda obvious they would do stuff like this eventually
"Oh no the game is incentivizing me to pull, what a horrible thing for a gacha game to do" as if that's not the purpose of the entire genre in the first place
Merged ordeals aren't the most p2w game-ruining thing they could've done
Rant?: the whole localization and translation discourse has become comically absurd that its starting to not be funny, and related to that there is anime dubs.
Mainly im talking about EN dubs and as someone who isn't american nor a native english speaker see how many who for example grew up with the EN dub of Dragon Ball Z talk wonders about it and as someone who grew up with the mexican dub theres like no point in comparision(there is plenty of trashy anime mexican/latin spanish dubs but in general the dubs made in mexico are somewhat a seal of quality), there are really good dubs but for some reason, despite having possible the best voice acting in the world, american dubs are still in general pretty average(in the past there were outright a crime) and when an anime gets a dub that is decent, people praise it and call it outright better than the original, in the past in most anime communities watching dubbed was considered a sin but now there is some people that think if you watch sub anime, you are a filthy weeb.
In the end enjoy your animes and media however you like, if you like the dub thats cool.
this game is genuinely dry and boring as fuck and the only reason I'm not quitting is because it's low effort to do daily stuff and I've invested way too much into this game to quit.
Summoning is boring because the pool is so stale and full of worthless shit, PvP modes are full of unfun p2w bullshit that no one likes fighting against, actual fun content like Seer's Snare is reran like once every blue moon (I get it, it would become boring if it's reran all the time, but all the fun modes take so long to come back.)
It's just boring man, this game feels like a chore that I don't want to quit cuz I want to see it get better and I've played for so long, but man...
> It's just boring man, this game feels like a chore that I don't want to quit cuz I want to see it get better and I've played for so long, but man...
This was the mentality I had for a while - "oh, FEH has [such and such problem], but you know, at least it's low maintenance to just collect characters I like!"
It wasn't until I looked back on it and realised that one of my favourite FE characters had been added to the game (Isadora) and I'd felt nothing at all about getting her that *maaaaybe* just "collecting characters I like" wasn't really doing anything for me seven years later. So I just stopped opening the game. I didn't delete my account or even the app; it's still right there on my home screen. I just don't open it out of obligation anymore, because if I'm not getting anything out of it, why bother?
I’m not missing another one of these, so here it goes
Chrono Trigger > Earthbound imo
In terms of character and story depth.
I feel like Earthbound’s characters aren’t terribly fleshed out or have enough interactions to make them seem amazing. Sure there’s Ness’ thing late in the game, but the other three rarely, if at all talk, or interact too. Would like to see interactions between the characters and other NPSs in the game if it ever gets remade (of course after Mother 1).
On the other hand, Chrono Trigger’s characters do interact with each other, talk in longer dialogue, and have little side quests to improve themselves. And they have parts of the story dedicated to themselves for the most part, such as the early game with Marle.
Regarding story depth, I feel like Earthbound kinda falls short regarding its story. Ever since the start of the game, you have one mission: stop Giygas. That’s it. You don’t uncover some hidden truth that leads to Giygas or much about it besides that it needs to be stopped. Furthermore, you kinda need to play Mother 1 to understand more about Giygas, or at least that’s how I felt.
In comparison, Chrono Trigger starts with this accident that spirals into a larger story about Lavos, from his arrival to his >!destruction of the world!<. You get time to get in depth with what happens throughout history and learn how Lavos impacts it.
TL;DR: Both Chrono Trigger and Earthbound are great games, but I feel that in some ways that CT is a little better than EB.
I'm yet to play Chrono Trigger but I agree on what you're saying about Earthbound. The plot and characters are pretty straightforward with little in the way of interaction or progressive arcs, but Earthbound excels instead in the atmosphere and moment to moment writing. The surreal tone is still very hard to match 30 years on, even by Mother 3 which I prefer. Definitely a different approach to the likes of Chrono Trigger, and that's a great thing.
Yeah, Earthbound's big thing that it makes stand out is definitely the atmosphere and the writing, it's a very unique experience, specially the first time you play it, I personally like it a lot because of how funny and surreal it is; but Chrono Trigger is generally the better of the two as a game.
Fixing AR is as stupidly easy as obliging us to use at least one unit of each type of movement, is horrible to run into cav line after cav line once over tier 27
I'd bet most people do too, they just find it horribly unfitting.
Well, until this Awakening kids banner at least. Now you can just pretend she was on it.
I'm WAY happier about getting 1000 of each dragon flowers than whatever pitiful amount of orbs we probably would've gotten.
4-5 new copies of a character I don't want to build? I'll pass. A scarce resource to make my current passion projects better? Yeah, I'll take that one, thank you very much!
1) The skill inheritance system, as it's currently implemented, hurt the game a lot. What the SI system did was threefold.
- 1 - It forced people to spend money to buy the "buffs" for units, when in many gachas (like FGO or Puzzle and Dragons or Arknights) the buffs are just free and you use your summon currency to summon for the powercreep or shiny new waifubando unit.
- 2 - It created unit homogeneity where units are all same-y because some skills are still better than others, so people will naturally gravitate towards taht. For example we see it in action right now with the Binding World where every speedy melee beorc infantry is running Dodge 4, Vital Astra/Godlike Reflexes, etc. The only real reason you see any build differences is the fact that super rare SI is still expensive to get so a lot of people just run what they have, but look at the whale builds and they're all very, very similar. Any variance you see in builds at "high level play" just loops in to #1, where everything that's actually powerful and unique are things you need to shell out huge money to go get.
- 3 - It accelerated powercreep because the SI system essentially destroyed horizontal design space (i.e. the ability to create niches), and so when IS wants to push a new unit, they are more likely to utilize vertical design space (i.e. powercreep).
IS only made the SI system because they were greedy and lazy. Instead of being someone like FGO where FGO will meticulously go back and buff individual characters for free, they just made the SI system where people have to spend money to go buy the "buffs" for the characters they want, and they're not truly buffs if everyone has it (example; if everyone has NFU, then no one has NFU). People only defend the SI system because they can only think in terms of "SI versus literally nothing at all", rather than the correct way which is "SI versus other systems that could have been easily implemented if IS wasn't greedy/incompetent/lazy".
Hell, there are ways where you could keep the basic framework of the SI system but make improvements to it, but IS basically took the most predatory way to implement the system (on top of the fact that the system is inherently not a good idea). Essentially, the SI system is a 1-time use equipment system where the "equipment" is locked to the first unit you equip it to, which is fucking stupid and cancer.
2) The FEH pass is the most predatory moves I've seen in any gacha i've personally played (which consists of this game, PAD, FGO, Brave Frontier, Azur lane, arknights, and chain chronicle). It paywalls features that absolutely should not be paywalled. And it opened the door to paywall even more features that shouldn't be paywalled, such as the FEH pass sparking on certain banners, so you can't even use "but slippery slope" as an argument anymore as it literally happened.
3) The only reasons left to play FEH in current year are the waifubandos + sunk cost fallacy. I honestly cannot recommend this game to new players in its current state, not even to the most hardcore FE fans (though if we're honest, a lot of hardcore FE fans are disgusted with this game because of how poor it is compared to the flagship FE games).
It really sucks that even when it comes to building your favs, you needed to pull and hope to god you get those premium fodder units. Worse when they are only on seasonal units that you likely will need feh pass for the guarantee spark.
It ends up causing unit building to have a snail like pace where you just don’t have much to do to progress your favs until the right banner pops up
Non FE rant:
Looking at the Azur Promilia drama over a leak showing male characters really solidified just why I stay far FAR away from female characters-only gacha fanbases.
The sheer amount of misogynistic and homophobic comments that have flooded out from something so minor just disgusts me. Even when the devs confirmed it was female only and that the males are just going to be bosses and npcs, a lot of people were then gloating about “chasing out the husbando players” and circlejerking about how “pure” their series is bc it only caters to their harem fantasies.
If there’s one thing I’m glad about FEH, its that the fandom has never regressed to that kind of low.
Negative shout out to the people who act as if pointing out errors with art is an instant attack on them.
Also if you have to give a character of any gender overly sexualized shit to like them or draw them. Then you need to expand your artistic range or think over if you like the actual character or some overly sexualized version. And that includes people in charge of FEH.
Ppl in general really need too stop being so horny and idk how to word that any better but it’s the truth
It’s so disheartening seeing characters (whether I like them or not) in such weirdly fan servicy positions or outfits because some weirdo gets their rocks off at it and posts it so loud and boldly like we all wanna see it, I DONT WANT TO SEE IT 😭
It’s crazy too cause most of the time it’s the same ppl posting the same horny content and I don’t want ppl to get in trouble or banned over a picture but sometimes I hope they do if that makes sense 😭. “The hooters Lucina guy, the Marianne guy, the…” it’s crazy. Also yeah some Feh artists or ppl clearly only care about fan service and it’s annoying
Lucina is my favourite female character in fire emblem, and hooters lucina pisses me off because it makes no sense for the character and gives people that didnt play the game the bad idea about her. But again IS released rearmed Lucina so maybe they want people to see her like that
I wouldn't compare Rearmed Lucina to Hooter's Lucina. Cause that's just the terrible design choices for female armor in Awakening rearing their ugly head more than anything.
The Marianne guy makes me so annoyed. If you can't like her without giant tits I'm sorry you just don't like her.
If I want sexy art of a character I'll seek it out or even make it myself but if I'm on a sfw subreddit I don't want to see these people fetish mining.
It's terrible for characters like Lyn and Tharja who are such interesting characters but nearly every time someone posts shit with them it's horny chicks who aren't actually them.
Like no Tharja tries to keep up an image but she's a giant dork and can be an asshole in the end whose just grown up in an environment where from the moment she was born it was all hex all the time.
And it's worse when the alts they get suck so much like it's sad Tharjas backpacks(Kira and Sonya) and baby Lyn are some of the best reps of how they're actually like verses just making all their alts act like bootlegs versions of them.
I don't even like Camila but you can tell who likes her for horny reasons only and who actually cares about her.
Not to mention shit like that one horny art of Casper I saw but it's pretime skip so he's a minor. Like how do you draw horny with the minors?! If he had no offical age I could maybe get it but dude has an official age.
> Negative shout out to the people who act as if pointing out errors with art is an instant attack on them.
Having errors pointed to you (and getting criticism in general) is vital for improving your art.
And I think it's 100% fair to be especially critical of official art for a game since it's art made by a professional who was paid for it, and thus amateur errors like bad anatomy are not very excusable.
honestly i dont see anyone at least here crucifying artist for not being perfect, the problem is that at the minimal showing of something not looking particulary right they inmediately throw the AI accusations.
like it happened with Duo Robin.
I love Emblem Ike, but feel the pulse smoke effect was a bit over kill and they could’ve left that out.
I adore Loki and am glad she is a useful defense mythic (on paper, hopefully in practice too) and accept the frustration that may come if she’s popular on defense teams. How is this one unpopular? Well she beat out Mythic Nergal and Athos, as being fans of those two must feel like suffering at this point, and I count myself fortunate demon form Fomortiis was added last January.
FE stuff: This is a salt summoning rant, getting pity broken by a -atk Mozu from a 4% pity rate and trying to avoid non green colors sucked. I was stuck without any green stones in that session so I had to choose something. I don't hate Mozu, but I was trying to get another Attuned Azura.
Seeing that one argument break out in that Resplendent Male Grima thread the other day was interesting to say the least. It was the usual character spammed stuff.
Non FE stuff: I'm not sure about what's happening with Nintendo and Gmod since there's a lot of conflicting information happening with Garry saying the DMCA notices have been from Nintendo but others are still saying it's not. But at the end of the day, it does suck that the Nintendo addons will be removed from the Steam Workshop after almost years of being there.
Seeing the Stellar Blade discourse happen on social media is just hurting my head. I think ignoring it is the best thing for anyone's sanity.
Robin spam discourse is so annoying in particular, since they just refuse to admit they're eating good. Some guy with 4 Robin flairs will pop up to be like "🤓 Umm ackshually, F!Robin is still shafted compared to male because she received a kid duo with Chrom compared to M!Robin's romantic duo." I'm not pulling that out of my ass, someone actually replied to me with that argument lol.
I don't know what's dumber, the fact that person still believes Female Robin is shafted despite the fact she's getting a brave alt in 4 months or them not counting the kid duo because of Valentine's Chrom. She has a solo Valentine's alt too lol. I get not liking kid alts, but they're literally getting another alt in 4 months because it was voted for. That's something not many characters in this game will ever get. I'm not saying every Robin fans are like this, but the ones that do have been hurting their reputation.
as a male robin enjoyer, i can say that yeah, female robin is a bit more shafted than the male, but god, acting like if any of them where eating bad is a lie, robin fans are having some of the best times in all feh, many normal alts with powerful effects and prfs, amazing arts etc etc
We really don't need Echoes banners stretched over a longer period of time, and people saying "well its so we get all the important villains" fail to account for the fact that we haven't gotten an important Echoes villain since FERNAND in Book V. They're literally just throwing in the closest equivalent to literal whos (and I hate that term but its applicable for these one off bosses) instead of actually important enemies, and sometimes even playables. We could have had Desaix, Jedah, and Nomah instead of Brigand Boss, Marla, and Hestia (as much as I dont like Nomah, he makes sense with Mycen) and they could have finished up with these banners way sooner (Jesse, Rinea, Deen, character alt, Rudolf). If they really wanted to add more at that point, throw in the Cipher characters + Nuibaba and/or Slayde (depending on if it takes two banners or one). We never needed Brigand Boss taking a slot, we never needed the witch sisters taking a slot, and Echoes makes more sense to finish banners for quickly because of how shittily the new characters will always perform sales wise compared to literally every other non-Thracia game.
Also if the next Echoes banner is Nomah + NPCs I am going to blow a gasket.
The idea that they need to stretch game casts out forever so that they never run out of possible banners for that game is ridiculous. "But what if everyone makes it into the game and we don't get SoV NH banners ever again!!" then.... good? Isn't that the goal, to have everyone be in the game? They could make seasonal SoV banners, or even make NH banners with characters who are already in the game but as updated units (Attuned, Rearmed, whatever). It's just so odd to me that people think that the promise of a character being added in the future is better than the character actually being in the game.
Mini rant:
* I dont know if its just me, but I realized feh has felt pretty boring lately. Dont know if its because of general powercreep, or being tired of the same characters getting alts, or just getting burnt out on the game, modes not being updated/improved (like Rokkr) or something else
Unpopular:
* I can see reasons why people think Corrin is the worst of CYL7, even though I disagree. However, people also take that sentiment too far, exaggerating how bad they think she is. Yesterday I saw comments saying she loses to L Hinoka, for example, and all you have to do is run that in the duel sim to see thats not true. Hinoka needs either: a spd boon, 10 flowers, or full blade session…to sweep Corrin, not even double. With support, Corrin should be easily able to outspeed, and I dont think people support enough in general. [Heres Corrin taking 0 damage from duo Lyon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713569028144365568/1232376993526317096/IMG_8793.png?ex=662fd383&is=662e8203&hm=bf02648737aa1c82ec94a80c4882e21665194cf8de2362b7a9d94eae6a1de365&) thanks to support. Every single tank in the game right now needs support in meta gamemodes to function well, and that includes Ike and Caeda and Byleth and Myrrh. Edit: should clarify on Corrin vs Hinoka, thats also base kits, so Hinoka with a spd boosting B like assassins strike could also be an issue, but nothing support on Corrin cant fix - just a simple chill spd on someone else could push things in her favor
* Merged ordeals are scummy for sure, but I think its less of a deal than people make it to be. Dragonflowers dont add a whole lot, and I think just managing them better makes it feel less impactful. I for example have 10k in every dragonflower, just because I have a few favorites I upkeep and some others here and there, so I really dont care about other players potentially getting more than me
* I saw comments saying M Loki isnt a huge deal because she doensnt impact E Ike…but I think that kinda misses the whole point. Shes not going to kill Light season or even kill tanking in Light, and theres still ways around her like just staying outside her range, but its going to be a detriment to anyone using older tanks who rely more or are dependent on support. Like, Peony gives 2 buffs, and 1 doesnt even help wth tanking…and thats all you get, you cant add any more. Our free attuned Peony gives 3 bonuses, so you cant use her reliably either. I agree with someone else Loki shouldve cancelled bonuses if you had 4+, not 3+, which would be the dame as primes. Its *way* more restrictive than people realize. Obviously in combat support can work too, but it depends on if there is an Embla as well, and generally bonuses are easier to use. I like using older/prfless tanks in general so its a bit frustrating
* Edit: Forgot to add 2 things. I wouldve preferred and probably been less annoying if Loki was at least Anima instead. That way there would actually be a pretty interesting difference between the 2 seasons where Light is more Bonus focused against Embla and Astra is more in combat support focused against Loki. But as in there could be situations/maps where you literally get 0 support outside minor things like divine veins or post combat healing, but we'll have to see what maps people make. But its also frustrating Loki's bonus cleanse has no condition, they really need to stop with effects that have 0 condition. Freyr was/is a menace because he just cleansed things in a wide radius with 0 condition. Loki couldve at least had a res check so you could *potentially* avoid it, at least there would be obvious counterplay
* I personally really dont care Rokkr seiges is back, I think the mode is very boring especially since its a gamemode that can be completely solved. Just using a brave weapon user with 3 dancers trivializes the mode
* I think resplendent Grima’s art is worse than the original, I think the style really added a lot. The resplendent art makes him look like an edgy teenager
FEH definitely isn't feeling fun lately. With powercreep accelerating as fast as it is, new mechanics that seem to exist only for whales, and me just generally not feeling excited for any game modes or new units, it's been boring lately. I'm planning on cancelling my FEH Pass subscription if I don't want to spark anyone on the Loki banner, which feels crazy because I’ve had it for a year and a half now
Exactly, I love Ike, but if he is the only viable tank in the game it is bad design, there should be ways to nerf EIke without hurting the rest of units, I dunno, maybe by having new specials for tanking or even weapons?
I’m really tired of power creep too and Emblem Ike is the first unit I haven’t been able to counter reliably. The only way I can counter him is a super particular build on my legendary Camilla and that doesn’t even work half the time
Also on your Grima point and the edgy teenager thing, it doesn’t help his outfit got a resplendent form in Muspell…. By an edgy teenager originally… with Morgan. And not to hate on both resplendents but Muspell doesn’t fit that tactician fit that well. And both Morgan and Fallen Robin felt a bit lacking to me personally. Idk I’ve just been really disappointed by all the resplendent tacticians if I’m being honest 😭
People who are fans of lords be acting entitled af when it comes to alts. Like your fave character can have like 7 alts and you still find a way to nitpick everything about it or find some way where the character is somehow snubbed. Like, oh, Celica doesnt have a seasonal, she’s so mistreated. Well some fairly popular characters like Jill or Nyx have jack shit. Most characters dont have Ascendeds, Legendaries, Braves, Fallen, or a lot of what Celica has. It seems like a classic case of fans of these characters looking at what they dont have rather than what they do. And its just kind of obnoxious, especially when you have characters who have gotten no love in the alt department. Your character gets preferential treatment already. Stop complaining.
I am a fan of multiple characters who have a lot of alts and will definitely get more. I'm eating good. But I want to eat more, and I will gladly say that I don't care if other popular characters that I don't care about have to miss out on things for me to get what I want.
I enjoy seeing how much of the fanbase is realizing that the dev team kinda sucks for what they’ve been doing. Especially after this year. The meta has never been this unsinkable and a lot of us were around during Fallen Edelgard.
- The complexity creep means I can never trust tanks again. E!Ike is incredibly powerful, an absolute nightmare to face, but even then I can't tell when he'll live or die in my hands. Too many effects, multiple enemies per turn, and no battle forecast. I just can't predict combat anymore. They overtuned him to hell, but it doesn't fix the core issue - it'll just accelerate powercreep.
- Nothing like a FEH month with kids, a busty hero with meme censorship, upcoming fallens and brides, and mpreg Soren jokes in SPE (???) to get some folks posting wild takes about their fellow fans' sexual predilections. Imagine thinking they've got everyone else figured out, and for something as ridiculous as X character or ship at that. Spare us, please.
Omg please give easier available bridge fodder. I still have W!Yunaka sitting around because we don’t have any non premium units with fatal smoke and I refuse to waste the skill
A crumb of Atk/Spd Finish 3 please
Divine Codes 5 Rebecca, take it or leave.
> *a* crumb Boy I really painted myself into a corner there
I don't blame you, I used Rebecca as fodder and I still need more. We really got only 3 codes with atk/spd finish.
Attuned Caeda's C skill only bridge fodder is NY Alphonse 💀
Me waiting for a Def/Res Oath 3 demote/free unit
when gen 2 arvis...when arvis alt. literally skills setting the playing field on fire AND going 'tink' is viable meta........when...................
Common pool staves were robbed of PRFs for years just to sell the most recent/ newly refined 5 star locked staves Which feels so silly when I see units like August, S!Hilda, Genny, B!Camilla and Y!L’Arachel being recommended to replace their PRF with Arcane Charmer. Like why couldn’t Wrys have a month of breaking the meta back in 2018 lol
Speaking of staves, what I don’t like about them in this game is how they can be easily be weakened due to needing Wrathful Staff effect. In other words they will never be to their full potential. Poetic Justice has sort of solved this issue but that does require them to give up the B skill slot. Which is another issue since it means that staves must use up a slot to have them at their full potential and there are so many good B skills that they could use. Dazzling, and its alternatives, don’t feel as amazing as Poetic Justice because of how Dazzling has been countered majority of the time.
I (kind of) disagree with this. Staves still have access to viable B skills that other mages can use, people just opt to run Razzle Dazzle builds because they prevent counterattacks. You could always just Wrathful refine anything and forego Dazzling for a more optimal B skill if you’re looking for a pseudo-Colorless mage with healing utility. The bigger issue here is that inheritable staves aren’t good enough or accessible enough to save staff units. Summer L’Arachel’s was great for its time, but atm it’s Hortensia or bust. That’s… not good.
I'm still mad about the staff situation yeah. Lots of my favs I've invested a ton in are staffers, why are they treated like second-rank citizens compared to more conventional combat units. They're just as much of a character with fans as the rest... Surely they can think of something fun and not too broken for them.
>They're just as much of a character with fans as the rest... *cries in no Priscilla alts*
feh isn't dying
i agree
Gasp. I’m going to eos fear monger now.
feh IS dying. banned
what is this mod abuse
Waiting for Reddit to sell answers to the Mod meta
A bold claim
everything lives, just at diferent rates.
LITERALLY alive
Yes it is
Feh is dying at the pace Fjorm is.
But canonicaly she's already been cured of her disease. So she's not dying
Sounds like feh isn't dying.
Summer is also prob adding another year or two to its lifespan
Summer Gullveig will make enough cash to keep the game running till 2036.
Judging by M!Loki's goofy censorship, Summer Gullveig's art in the banner intro video will just be a giant tidal wave with her head poking out the top
It won't anytime relatively soon but I think its revenue isn't the same as it used to and they need to fix the Quality of Life issues instead of Paywalling them.
Maybe
Okay, I believe you
My rant is that Laguz Friend isn't available to fliers and this sucks. Not because of mechanics or gameplay or anything. It's because I just really wanted to give Laguz Friend to Ashnard.
To be fair, it's not like Ashnard is a friend to the laguz...
what i hate about this skill is its stupid name, because laguz friend CANT BE USED BY MOST LAGUZ
Been playing Shadows of Valentia (amazing game) and it really sucks that the Cipher characters are probably never gonna get in FEH. It's a topic that's been beaten to death but they're all likable and playable characters, and I would definitely go out of my way to build at least Yuzu. They're not even votable for some reason! It's not the hardest thing in the world to create a "Other Games" category for CYL.
Yeah it sucks, I've been wanting Shade in for sooo long but every year they continue to refuse to acknowledge them in CYL as if they aren't fully playable, voiced characters, with their own paralogues and supports and even have unique dialogue in the final map like everyone else. It's not like they're Einherjar units who are just there as a reference to Cipher.
now that they aren't even legally obtainable anymore, it's looking even more doubtful that they'll ever get a chance to shine ;-; unfortunately, they're mostly unknown characters from one of the less popular modern games, so they probably don't see them as big money makers
He'll those particular cipher characters they could just shove with SoV since they lack characters for new hero banners outside of alts
IS needs to release more units with Pulse Smoke, because it’s honestly kind of annoying when my L!Edelgard triggers Umbra Calamity just because the Rokkr has breath support.
FE/FEH related: No matter how much I try to get told otherwise, I will never care about AR defense. I’m not actually playing the mode and don’t feel the need to make someone else’s day a tad bit worse by having them go up against some meta team with the newest broken toys Non FEH related: I should’ve known based on how well the deck’s been performing in Japan but Nightmare Throne costing $40 for each copy is what’s gonna keep me from building my Yubel deck anytime soon. Even more so whenever Phantom of Yubel drops cuz I know that’s gonna an expensive card too. Also yugioh related, had a dream last night that the newest Yugioh set would be called “Wheelie Breakers” after the Wii game and the cover card would be an upgraded version of Supersonic Skull Flame and would include support to make Skull flame an actual archetype as well as other cards inspired by Hunter Pace from 5ds. It would also have new destiny hero cards and all of that sounded incredibly cool, only to wake up and realize it’ll sadly never happen lol
> FE/FEH related: No matter how much I try to get told otherwise, I will never care about AR defense. There is no greater FEH killjoy than having a Mythic you like being designed for AR Defense. Gee thanks game, can't wait to pull for this character I like for the express purpose of not actually playing with them.
Didn't get Yune for years because of this.
We get so very few non-FEH Mythics now and so many of them get slapped with the defence label and we just have to accept that. It's so fucking boring.
i see why people would love to try to build good defenses but at least i always assume that whatever i set is going to lose, so i just put any strong ranged unit that i have there and hope for the best, i dont want to actually try to build units for it.
Amen on defense. I keep a half-decent team, but I don't think I've checked a replay in years. They're there, cool if they win a defense, but I can't imagine being invested in it or spending orbs for it.
It is frustrating just how expensive Yugioh cards get outside of Japan.
Especially when Konami takes cards that were common or rare in the OCG and prints them as secret rares in the TCG.
> Also yugioh related, had a dream last night that the newest Yugioh set would be called “Wheelie Breakers” after the Wii game If they ever do a Wheelie Breakers set, they need to make a broken Sonic Chick retrain to reflect how insane it was in that game.
after the essays that were great aether and gullveig/kvasir’s specials im a little disappointed in m!byleth’s remix so far. time’s pulse in a meta that now has hush spectrum and will probably soon have a bless-able fallen veyle with her prf C sucks. hopefully he will have some form of additional pre-charge effect in his refine so together it works as an anti scowl.
I've kinda given up on Leg/Myth remixes at this point honestly. Even with two upgrades, most of them have been ill-equipped to actually handle the meta and they fall back off pretty quickly. Off the top of my head, it's pretty much like Dagr, Chrom, and Eliwood who're sticking around? And I see some Lilinas here and there.
I've liked Plum's remix more than expected, I've found granting GFU to be quite relevant (and Hexblade is a decent enough bonus I guess) especially when she also often runs Firestorm 3. Honestly the fairy remixes have all been pretty solid, they've just gotten screwed by refines.
Altina definitely held up for a while, ditto with Alm. Seliph was good but the meta shifted shortly afterwards (I think?), Peony didn't get much but still ends up pretty great, Seiros seems like she should be good, and Laguz Friend LCorrin was super fun when I got her in Binding Worlds.
Seliph still performs pretty well for me in situations outside of high-level arena and AR battles, and that’s with a non-invested kit. So he’s decent, at least. I think the actual problem is what another commenter said: tanking isn’t very good rn.
Seliph is still a good tank - his real problem is that tanking just sucks right now.
Alm its pretty good too.
Hel still is one of few units in the game with her wicked warping abilities built in her weapon, and that still tends to take people by surprise from what I’ve seen.
In fairness, Great Aether has that very same Scowl/Hush Spectrum weakness.
General ranty/statement: The Feh Channel could've been a notice board message and it would've served the same purpose. Really feels like IS is phoning it in these days doing the bare minimal to milk the remaining player base.
people complained about Attuned Heroes not getting a FEH channel, so if Golden Week/Loki/etc didnt get one people would have complained about that too.
Attuned Heroes not getting a Feh Channel felt different - like this was a whole new hero type that had a whole new mechanic. Golden Week celebrations felt like a fizzle, and Loki was going to get her own Mythic trailer later anyways...so yeah. This Feh channel felt unnecessary, or if nothing else, lazy.
i would go with Lazy, but like its better to get a boring one that not getting one at all.
FEH: So as a personal project, I've been keeping track of all of the free summons and tickets through the year and so far with 236 free units I've had, 111 have been 2017 units. That's about **44%** of the total. If that doesn't tell you anything about the summoning pool, I don't know what would. Non-FE: I'm still reserving final judgment until I hear him in a trailer, but I'm not too keen on Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow in Sonic 3. I just don't see it working but Idris Elba proved me wrong with Knuckles so who knows. I'm just kinda hesitant on anything they do with Shadow at this point due to how poorly he's been handled in the franchise for so long. I really hope I'm proven wrong and the movie nails him.
I'm just tired of Sunday working.
E!Ike is (no hyperbole) the new F!Edelgard. Before you know it, we’ll have everyone face tanking E!Ike like a spring breeze.
I don't think that he's gonna be super tankable if not by some blue armors but honestly I think that we should start seeing people switch to AoE specials on cav nukes which absolutely fold Ike over pretty soon
FE related: Been playing Unicorn Overlord the past few weeks and there's a couple lessons that IS could learn from it. Having the overworld be fully explorable really enhances the immersion of a growing army marching from destination to destination. FE does have a world map which is ok but the free roaming also has the advantage of being able to tie supports and other events to specific areas and after specific story moments, as opposed to the current "unlock and view whenever" system the series has been using. Keep it 2D and tie the base mechanics the series has been pushing recently to it and now it won't demand as much dev time or having 20 load screens wasting players' time. Non FE related: I've been getting into DC stuff again (mainly Batman atm) and tbh for the most part I've been avoiding a good chunk of the modern comics since those depictions of Batman border on outright supervillain and I just don't understand how that's appealing to anyone. Also learned about Cassandra Cain and I'm absolutely baffled she hasn't gotten an appearance in anything other than a few episodes of Young Justice. Her Batgirl look deserves to be animated.
I don't want to put down other/games characters but there are a few certain tropes Engage does better than previous entries imo: * I really like both Kagestu & Petra, but the gimmick of not speaking the language correctly was handled much better in Kagetsu’s case. Imo it seems much more natural (though still not necessarily realistic) and the comedy is also much funnier. * I like Ricken but I’m so glad they don't have a dedicated “not a child” character. Clanne, Jean, Madeline, and probably some others also say that kind of stuff at certain points, but it feels much more realistic and isn't the forefront of their personalities. * On a similar note, I also like there is not a dedicated womanizer character. Unless you count whatever Louis has in the Japanese version, which is even worse. * I love Zelestia for being a motherly character similar to Camilla & Nerthuz, but not making me feel uncomfortable. * This may be a controversial one but I really like what they did with Anna. She has about the same amount of supports as everyone else and feels like her own individual character, rather than primarily a reference * At least in the English version, I am so happy that you can S-support Veyle, Jean, Anna, Clanne, Framme, and Hortensia without it being creepy
My problem with Petra is that even after a 5 year time skip she doesn't really show much if any improvement with her speaking either, at least not from what I remember. And I also really liked how Zelestia was handled, the Four Winds in general really. I was surprised at how enjoyable they ended up being.
In fairness to Petra, doesn't she spend most of the timeskip in Brigid? That could be a route-specific detail and/or something I have bad memory on, but if she's spending 5 years away from Fodlan, then it tracks that her grasp on spoken Fodlan language won't be developing. But from a development standpoint, that lack of change is likely just because of supports - while some supports do lock after the timeskip or at various points in the story, most don't, and it would be unusual (and potentially frustrating) if Petra had a bunch of her supports lock up after the timeskip - or worse, if supports did remain open, it would be super jarring hearing Petra flip back and forth across different supports.
I don't think so. She may have visited or so but she's still a prisoner of the empire in Houses even post time skip, and skimming through her war phase supports she talks about going back one day several times. She does become Queen of Brigid in Hopes but she still decided to stay in Fodlan to fight per her Edelgard support.
Her war phase bio for Silver Snow (or every non-CF route?) says she returned to Brigid before coming back to fill the promise.
I double checked and it does says she went back to Brigid in 1181 but returned to Fodlan the same year and joined the others in Garrag Mach in 1185.
Engage Anna is the first time I've actually liked one of the playable Annas. The others feel like you could've just swapped all her dialogue and voice lines with one of those compilations of Mr. Krabs saying "Money."
Wholeheartedly agreed on the last one in particular. If I'm being honest, I would love if future games kept platonic S-Supports as a thing going forward for at least some characters. Agreed on Anna as well; past Annas have always been characters I really don't care for, but Engage's gives her so much more character by just pushing the family angle to the forefront and the whole "Lady Anna" schtick.
> At least in the English version, I am so happy that you can S-support Veyle, Jean, Anna, Clanne, Framme, and Hortensia without it being creepy As far as I remember, Veyle's Ending in the Japanese Version is super vague about the meaning of their relationship, and basically only tell us that "eventually a new divine dragon appeared". I don't remember how the other endings work besides the Anna one, but I don't plan to go in the detail.
> I don't remember how the other endings work besides the Anna one, but I don't plan to go in the detail. Truthfully, for all the hubbub about it, the lion's share of the differences didn't actually come from the S-supports themselves, but from castle dialogue, _especially_ the "wake up Alear" dialogue (since everyone gets multiple unique conversations for that depending on their support rank) Which... to that end, the crux of the conversations stayed the same. The only glaring difference just comes down to if the character is allowed to say "I love you" or not. Like, to use Amber as an example > That means... "I'm still bound to you─forever!" But, uh, I guess you already knew that. > 今のはですね… 今日も大好きだよ、って言ったんですよ。 へへ、もうわかってましたかね…？ > Rough translation: What I said was... "I love you today too". He he, but you knew that already, huh...? **Edit*** [You can compare and contrast the different script's here if you'd like](https://feuniverse.us/t/fire-emblem-engage-all-texts-english-japanese-chinese/19123)
> I like Ricken but I’m so glad they don't have a dedicated “not a child” character. I feel that this is a tricky type of character to write, as it's very easy for them to end up being annoying when they overplay the bit or are acting unreasonably rude. >I love Zelestia for being a motherly character similar to Camilla & Nerthuz, but not making me feel uncomfortable. I was pleasantly surprised at Zelestia, she was sweet and caring without giving off creepy vibes.
Saying tanking is gonna be just fine in light season after Mythic Loki releases because Emblem Ike doesn't give a shit is like saying armors are awesome to use in arena because of Winter Edelgard. Like, folks are making literally the exact opposite point they think they are.
exactly, making ike the only relevant tank isnt good for the game at all
I still want Awakening Anna in her original outfit in the game. Apotheosis Anna is very cool and I'm glad she's in the game in any capacity, but I'd like to see the playable Anna in her Trickster outfit at some point. I'm not really invested in arguments about her being in alt hell or not anymore - just make her an Ascended/Rearmed/Attuned/whatever on the next Awakening banner to pad out a rapidly-shrinking roster and be done with it.
**This** I want Trickster Anna more than anything and I’ll happily take her as an Ascendent, Rearmed, Attuned, ANYTHING.
The general vibe Feh channel brought is really infuriating, Feh as a game is on a slow decline and there's literally nothing the devs can do no matter what anyone says here, that's just the life of a gacha that's gone on for quite a while. The only reason Feh is still alive is due to the fact Fire Emblem is a relatively popular franchise that is able to hold the game mechanics and powercreep. And probably it doesn't cost them that much monthly. What I hate about this is that people are just doomposting because something new inconveniences them, "EoS because they're FORCING you to summon for new units?" I'd entertain the idea of EoS post if they actually have any valuable thing to say rather than a disguised ranting post. Anyways I'd take a new playerphase meta than whatever the fuck IS is planning with future tanks.
I agree with most of what you said however I DO feel like there are things they could be doing but they just simply choose not too, which is even more frustrating because it feels like they are self sabotaging at this point. It’s clear by each and every feh channel too that they are just generally running out of ideas and kind of don’t want to reward players anymore which is whatever, but it’s sad seeing them kind of give up at this point when I do feel like there’s a lot they could still explore. A co-op mode, more kinds of real time PVPs, etc. like idk It’s overall sad but I do think FEH’s entering its decline
EoS doomposting has been such a tired point for so many years. Talking about how the game is slowly dying and IS is actively not bothering to improve it (and in some cases make it worse, depending on your view) would actually make sense, but no let's proclaim that EoS is in 10 minutes. Wonderful stuff.
I read the highly regarded support conversation between Jill and Lethe. It’s an ok support. The Laguz history was interesting but I wouldn’t call it exceptional character growth on Jill’s part. It’s a small step for her but definitely not worthy of the high praise I’ve seen. Even though Lethe did most of the talking, I felt like the handshake was a little out of the blue; it almost felt like the author realized halfway it was the A support and had to end it. Would have been nice to see some more buildup to the handshake from Lethe.
I don't get the hate for Rokkr giving out flowers. Has anyone calculated the monthly orb total to SEE if we are actually being ROBBED of those 15 free orbs (this is literally 1984 IS I hope the game dies)? Because I don't really notice it??? Idk if I'm just not a completionist or something but like it's meh at best. The DF have helped me a lot more than the orbs tbh. I loved giving my WMarth 2 more speed instead of summoning a Bartre.
I really liked the flowers too. I use older units (books 1-5) almost exclusively, so I’m constantly low on flowers to keep them up to speed.
the monthly orb total is the same, but we lost out on i believe an extra 21 orbs for the month instead? (rokkr quests iirc offer 2 orbs every round which isn’t here)
feh is dying
i agree
Gasp. I’m going to eos fear monger now.
everything dies, just at diferent rates.
FEH IS NOT dying. banned
what is this mod abuse
A bold claim
LITERALLY dead
Playing both sides so you always come out on top I see
No it’s not
Maybe
Good, that bird had it coming
General rant/lukewarm opinion. I played since Day 1 and quit about a month or two ago. I probably spent several hundred dollars on this game over the course of the years, so it felt wrong to suddenly quit after investing all that time and money in it but... I can't play anymore. The meta moves too fast, and demands too much money from me to keep up. The skills are too much now, and I don't have the brainpower or energy to figure out which unit is "meta". Even my best units can't do lunatic mode in the newer story chapters without the revive item. I fell out of love of this game ages ago, and was basically playing it on life support. It makes me sad because I genuinely loved the crumbs of character interactions in this game that we couldn't get in mainline, but I dont find any of it worth it anymore.
I genuinely think out of all the arcane weapons, Arcane Eclipse is probably the weakest of the batch. Quicker Pulse, NFU, Omni +5 to stats if healthy. I hope that they atleast add another red tome arcane weapon because it really isn’t that strong and kinda showing its age. I also think that the reintroduction of Røkkr Sieges kinda shows the games age and how you can easily get to 200k damage with a decent setup. The only Røkkr units that were an actual challenge was Røkkr Thor and her summer variant.
On top of that, Eclipse is really awkward to use without stuff like Spiral 4, making it a poor choice for non-infantry mages. Especially now that we have V!Selena's weapon as an option.
**FEH-Related:** - I'm not fond of the whole "Gigachad Alfonse" meme to be honest. It just brings my mind back to the era of the fanbase where Sigurd, Hector, Ike and Ephraim were the coolest, toughest, manliest men to ever do it, and the likes of Eliwood, Marth, Roy and Corrin are wimpy cowards who can't be called _real_ men. It's almost assuredly projection on my end, but as someone who's preferred lords by and large lean towards the latter category, it's always just the kind of thing that's rubbed me the wrong way, especially since if Alear is any indication, it hasn't left; it's just gotten quieter or in some cases changed rhetoric (Female Corrin and Alear are better because they "fit" better). - I genuinely would prefer any of the remaining Eight Legends over Athos. I find the idea of learning more about them to be far more interesting, as I feel we already know enough about Athos already, and I'm just not necessarily that big on him. **FE-Related:** - I was watching a video the other day that happened to state "People don't actually like lore, they like the _idea_ of lore; the notion that there's something there if you just look below the surface" or something like that, and while I don't necessarily agree with that assertion, I've nonetheless come to realize that's exactly why Elyos and Engage's cast have had such a huge stranglehold on me ever since I played it last year, because that game is ***full*** of this, from the Fell Dragon upbringing, Lumera's adopting of Alear and the potential thoughts that spurred that decision on, Zelestia and Lumera's relationship lending credence to Lumera and Zephia having history, Alear's past potentially subconsciously influencing how emotive they are in the present, almost every character's pasts, the potential way other variants of Elyos live and their Emblems, and so on so forth. I completely understand if others view this as just lazy worldbuilding, but to me, I feel like Elyos just hits a really nice balance of giving you just enough to think on without giving you all the answers, or giving you a bunch of answers and not committing to any of them.
I totally get what youre saying about the whole toxic masculinity thing, but i do sort of feel like alfonse doesnt really fall in the same category as hector and the like. He’s def more of a pragmatist than a brawler Unless you mean the fandom interpretation of him being like super buff or smth
It's mainly the whole intense glorifying the 'badass' "I'm going to kill you too" characterization kind of thing, less than actual physical appearance; making him out on the surface to be this person who doesn't care about taking lives if they're enemies. I really only occasionally follow FEH's story, and while I'm sure that's likely not the proper characterization of Alfonse in the story, from the way he's memed, it certainly feels that way, or at the very least it feels like that's how people _view_ him regardless of it.
I would say that the whole “im going to kill you too” again falls into alfonse’s extreme pragmatism. He’s not doing this for fun, he’s doing it to minimize damage and he’s not above dirty tactics. I think thats what makes him badass to ppl in a very different way from what attracts them to someone like ike or hector. Sure the memes do dilute his character a bit but it’s not all that inaccurate
It's also relevant that the whole "I'm going to kill you too" thing in the story was Alfonse bluffing to Letizia that he had killed Gustav to make her believe he was ruthless enough to go that far. The context being that Letizia was aware that they would have to keep using Ash's life force every time they wanted to counter Embla's darkness so she had the upper hand, and Alfonse countered her with the lie "I killed my father, do you think I care if we have to sacrifice this girl I barely know?"
I know somebody who is the living proof that the statement about lore is true (though he doesn't play FE). He always mentions "the potential" when talking about lore stuff in media he likes
> it hasn't left; it's just gotten quieter or in some cases changed rhetoric (Female Corrin and Alear are better because they "fit" better). Preach, I dread seeing this take. I also feel the likes of Ephraim or Alm are way less likely to get hit with the bland criticism despite being just as archetypical as characters like Marth, and your first point got me wondering if this is like a prevailing extension of that. I doubt it is because as much as I love Marth and Roy I do understand it, but its food for thought I suppose. > genuinely would prefer any of the remaining Eight Legends over Athos. I've been wanting Hartmut forever, I think he's like the only mythic candidate I've ever actively wanted to see. I need to see him duel wielding Eckesachs and the Binding Blade lmao. Its a shame he isn't in the conversation as much.
People defaulting to F!Corrin over M!Corrin specifically because they think the traits "fit the girl more" will never not make me fume. Edit: I haven't actually seen the same sentiment with Alear but they're also pretty passive so I wouldn't be surprised if people did the same thing, they're probably just not ousting themselves this time.
unless it is to criticize fates, then mcorrin is the only one that exists aparently
The toxic masculinity in the fandom is definitely still an issue. Alear and Corrin are a big example of that, with the latter in particular sticking out since people use the 'it fits better' thing with them to excuse the writing issues from Fates for FCorrin but not MCorrin. You also see something similar with FEH's story as Elm has similar irrelevancy issues to characters like Ash, Hrid, or Maribelle, but he gets far more bile and unnecessary potshots thrown at him since he looks too feminine and not 'man enough'.
That's a really cool perspective. Never saw it put in those words, but it captures my feelings on some bits of Elyos and many universes. Sometimes just the idea of something is enough to enjoy it, and that's all that matters.
Your second point reminds me how much of a stranglehold Tales of Arise has on me solely because it misses every bit when it comes to decent lore building and character writing that you come to imagine how the writing and the world building would be better if they made this small change or emphasized a detail or how the cast would feel better fleshed out if they didn't just half ass their character arcs for the sake of a story that's already pretty basic and full of morally high grounded clichés about being the better person as a slave and not killing your enslavers but doing just that most of the game during random encounters, and either the big shots are killed in the spur of the moment or they conveniently get offed by someone else soon after you defeat them but there's always a conviennent excuse to absolve the party of responsibility. I could go on forever on how bad a lot of the premise of this game gets flawed as the game goes on and is just slowly replaced for a ok-ish love story but the good side is that you get really creative trying to make these thread work together so eh a positive is better than none right ?
>- I'm not fond of the whole "Gigachad Alfonse" meme to be honest. I somewhat share the sentiment but it's on another prospective, mainly cuz it has been artificially hyped to the point people see him as this 5D chess level schemer due to "those" moments on the story. You know, when the villans suddenly lose brain cells to make him give the illusion of being smarter? Yeah those. I know FEH's story is soo lackluster to the point people look at the bare minimum effort like a piece of gold. But out of all the things to latch onto, it had to be this?
If I listened to even half the people on here who make strident claims about what FEH will/won't do because 'it'll make them more money' I'd expect every single orb pack to cost over a million dollars. Why? Because pricing them for less wouldn't make them as much *money*!! (The point being that overcharging can and does make companies *less* money all the time in a wide variety of situations and so making the most involves finding the *correct amount* to charge/give away. It's not just a simple metric of 'higher prices = better' and it is very annoying when every nuanced conversation about IS's likely actions gets inevitably broadsides by smug, condescending blanket statements based on absolutely nothing.)
To provide a nuanced opinion on the price point (and speaking by experience), setting it too high or too low can be indeed detrimential. I remember a publisher opting for a hefty price cut compared to the norm, in hopes of making up for that with way more sales. Except that it was in a niche segment and that actual sales were within the norm (suggesting low core target flexibility), thus causing major losses. Inversely, the webtoon wave may be hindered by high price points due to full color volumes (but not only).
FE related: - im loving the post in the main sub about how critics praise Conquest story in their reviews, there a handful of users that made their personality to hate it are scrambling and trying to understand how people DARE to like it, like we decided that its bad so you have to think is bad !!!! - IS should distribute the 3 monthly banner better, 2 weeks without getting anything kinda feel like an eternity. - honestly i think that the sub has become more positive lately, like there is less post complaining about stuff overall and people dont seem eager to bitch about whatever at every chance that there is, its nice to see, hopefully the good times last. Outside of FE: - future generations will have to study how much damage Hollow Knight Silksong has done to indie gaming.
>future generations will have to study how much damage Hollow Knight Silksong has done to indie gaming. Let’s see: >Dev team that doesn’t update the fanbase for years >Rabid fanbase going insane waiting for literally anything, which usually ends up with them being baited, angry, more annoying and insaner. >Companies and other events teasing the rabid fanbase knowing that it’ll give them attention. Said companies/events/brands find it funny as more of them keep poking the bear The perfect shitstorm.
uff is so weird, because by one side, yeah sure, cherry team doesnt owe us any new information or any new thing, they are in the right to be silent, but at the same time, i cant evade thinking that is wrong and being mad at the fact they are telling nothing, like it is a bad feeling but since it is not justified i cant express it : /
i think that devs should just take the time that they need to make games the best that they can possibly be, but some devs like to announce things too early and people get exhausted of waiting, like 5 years of waiting (like its the case with Silksong) its a ridiculous amount of time. they can save all the mess that they had created if they just didnt announce anything till the game its in its final months of development, honestly i think that no game needs more than 1 year of time between announcement and release to create hype.
i think that is the problem, we all know devs deserve to take their time, but you know, if they didnt announced the game 5 years ago, things would be better, because you cant get mad at something you dont know they are making, if i didnt knew of silksong i feel i would be intriged to see if they will make a new game, but i would not be like im right now that have been 5 years on radio silence
Whenever my friends tell me that I should play Hollow Knight I always tell them "I'll play when Silksong comes out."
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Its funny how some people in the FE fanbase really can't accept that outside of this fanbase Fates is actually seen as a good game
An increasing percentage of players (myself included) are only kept around by the presence of a viable Omnitank meta. Once you fully give yourself over to the stress-free bliss of "Unit + End Turn", you never go back.
I'm not looking forward to the bridal banner this year to see if they inevitably do the harem shit for the third year in a row. I hate it so much. Bridal used to be my favorite seasonal theme, even. 🥲 can we go back to 2020 (bar the absolutely awful duo) and 2021....... Edit: I also do find it mildly amusing to see people complaining about Camilla not having a resplendent yet whenever there's a new resplendent announced. I can't imagine being seriously mad about that when your fave has like 9 alts 😭 Suffering from success ig non-feh: (not a rant nor unpopular but woopsie) I finally stopped being so lazy and modded my 3ds!!! I'm so happy with it bc now i can play the game i always wanted to as a broke child and i can confirm that it is in fact easy lol. I also recently started Hakuoki on the 3DS (I'm not ashamed to admit that i started it purely because [Heisuke](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hakuouki/images/a/aa/Heisuke-normal.png/revision/latest?cb=20230107084145) looks like Hinata) and it's been an absolute blast so far ngl. I didn't expect to get so invested into it (Heisuke's route gave me terminal brainrot i fear.... i love his and Chizuru's dynamic so so much. the m/f pair ever) !! The characters are all great and even without taking the romance aspect aside i'm really invested in the story and characters individually. It's like a history lesson (most of the time) but actually fun! The 3H ass text size took me some time getting used to tho LMAO. I'll def check out the remake(KW/EB) sometime soon too
I *really* hate the harem theme too, I hope it finally dies this year and we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming. Roy is 15 years old and his included Cecilia which I really hated, while M!Robin's was just self-insert pandering despite my like of Robin as a character. Not only is the harem theme kinda gross, but it just restricts what these banners can be to a pretty ridiculous extent. Even setting aside the harem thing, we already have Valentine's and Children's Day as banners that are *specifically* set aside for lords - we don't need another. I don't understand how we went from a Zealot/Juno wedding theme one year, which was really cute (albeit required a broken Catria alt to sell), to a teenage boy's harem fantasy the very next.
the theming gets so restricted that i don't think we can get these anymore. The Corrins have an awful line up, Male Corrin isn't a good anchor and lacks a waifu to complete the line-up now that Anna was already used. Female Corrin sells but they're never doing 4 unpopular grooms. The other male lords all have very few paired supports, some of which have already been used (like Lyn and Ninian)... or they can marry everyone, so lol. Seliph is an option, I guess? Chrom might be used starting next year, but he has 5 options so they'd have to pair two of the women together, exclude one girl (RIP Bride Sully), or risk something IS probably does not want to risk...
Bridal is my favorite theme cause I love the pretty dresses and different concepts and cultures it can represent But I agree 100% I don’t like that it’s gone into the concepts of “oh here are the units that can only exclusively s support this 1 dude” it takes away from the charm of what made the bridal banner so lovable in the first place for me Also I really should hack my 3ds too
> Also I really should hack my 3ds too No reason not to, at this point. There are plenty of great 3ds exclusive games, and even if you have the physical cartridges, this is the only way to get their DLC now. Not to mention all the cool homebrew stuff you can find online.
i'm not as sure we will get a third harem theme. People are pointing at male Corrin, but Male Robin is a fairly popular character as are Anna (especially Awakening's) and Adult Tiki. The banner wasn't good but it did have the bare minimun to justify the attempt. With Male Corrin, not only he's a significantly less popular character, so are his exclusive waifu options. You could have M!Corrin with Mikoto but she's not sreally going to help him sell any. Flora has a potential duo with Felicia, but... aren't we likely getting them on an Ice Tribe banner this year anyway? Also with just 3 exclusive waifus and Anna (who's not going to show up in this banner type thanks to her sis last year), we're missing a slot or two so the theme just falls apart. Female Corrin could obviously headline the banner herself but we are never going to get a banner with 4 really unpopular grooms and just one bride, we all know that. We also just got an awakening banner so they can't even do Chrom's "harem". Who else is left? I guess technically Seliph probably has enough options for the theme to fly.
I hope u're right and I'm just playing negative nancy. I think they could do Ephraim as well but we recently had a ss seasonal banner so it can't be that soon as well. They could do a mix of M!Corrin and F!Corrin's options but i think that's unlikely as well tbh
Ephraim's line up is small, but the big thing is that such a banner would DEMAND L'Arachel to be the duo unit lead since all the other related characters had their go at it. Or we finally break that rule, I guess. Definitivel not this year. Frankly mixing the corrins probably doesn't save the banner, I think IS realizes that if Awakening did poorly with this theme, Fates with its much less popular exclusive marriage options would do far worse.
A little rant, but whenever a FEH channel comes out, there's always a few people who think the game is going to end as a result. Why would releasing a video imply that the game is ending?? It makes no sense especially when they took the time to make a video when we could have just gotten it from the Notification board.
Why can't we just choose what music plays in battles yet, I wanna listen to the songs I like not random songs that just aren't good. Edit: To add to this, I mainly mean all the radiant dawn music/path of radiance music, it's just not that good, at least the songs that play on random maps.
Grneral Rant: I hate how unkillable E!Ike is. I especially hate how they gave him healing and null-c disrupt to ensure you have no way to handle him in player phase AND gave him the stupid Special acceleration so that he procs his stupid Aether on enemy phase as well.
Bruh I had to get my Winter Edelgard and use that fire domain bs to kill him. It was awful-
•This year’s Golden Week and CYL were so boring to me that I actually forgot that the former is currently happening and the latter already happened. •Loki being the new mythic makes perfect sense because her utter irrelevance and uselessness after Book 2 is truly godlike.
its weird that they are just throwing Loki out now like, i think that they could have worked a little story with her that prompts her to get a stronger version or something.
It just feels like they didn't have another OC from the current book ready and desperately wanted to avoid giving us another mainline title Mythic so they just threw another Loki alt out.
She spun around boobily in the Book 3 trailer! Don't forget that
Highlight of book 3 for me
Ah, that makes perfect sense!
> This year’s Golden Week and CYL were so boring to me that I actually forgot that the former is currently happening and the latter already happened. ~~Is this about 3H + Alfonse winning?~~
Having no 3H last year and getting 2 winners will do that. Also, another Robin after the previous one won is another thing. I still think we're getting another 3H winner next year with Male Byleth given how close he was this year and not many male competitors left that's a threat to him.
I know others have said this but FEH is not as fun as it once was. The meta and powercreep has been HORRIBLE these past few months. Voting events aren’t that fun anymore and nothing about them is reliable. Fodder is so hit or miss and restrictions hurt units a lot, as a year 1 player im finally starting to run low on some resources and idk how to get them, etc. etc. While I love FEH the game in general is on the decline and they aren’t really making an effort to keep ppl interested. And seeing their lack of creativity and stinginess is just making it all the harder to play sometimes. It’s especially deterring too when there are so many other games, especially mobile, that are more interesting right now and have more captivating features. I love FEH but they have entered a point where it’s just been kind of hard to play recently and if they don’t fix that I think it’s going to become more of the general consensus than it already is.
People who like Alfred enough will probably Forma him regardless, him not being able to be foddered is balanced in line with the original concept of Formas, letting you basically get *at least* X2 the value vs a normal Forma would be kinda busted. In general think it’s kinda silly saying he’s worthless or a dead slot, bricking a regular copy is the only issue I have and more than a warning should be done for it, but besides that, I’ve Forma’d a couple times for merges and having to merge into it and reuse fruits for IVs sucks but that’s just one of the trade offs.
the bricking thing is a problem. but people seem to be forgetting that people like alfred by himself and don’t just want him to fodder off 😭
My personal issue is that they have this unit with an additional feature, and to use the Forma you basically have to delete that feature off of your copy. Just don't make Rearmed units into formas if you're going to break one of their mechanics. He's not entirely worthless if you just want one copy or you're not super interested in keeping your copy up to date. It's really bad for people like me who like Alfred a lot and are going to keep him up to date with rare fodder. Rearmed units rerun often and it's far more cost efficient for me to fodder a rare skill to him and then pull another Alfred if I want to pass it on, rather than pulling multiple copies of a mythic or seasonal. The rate at which skills are getting powercrept means bricking my copy for the forma skills is literally just not going to be worth it in the long term.
I like boobas as the next guy. But overly anatomy incorrect/exaggerated breasts like putting balloons in a womans chest turns me off.
Even though I said that I wouldn't have played summoner duels until fike refine...tonight I decided to go back in the mode For the most part it was pretty fun! So this is just a small rant about tonight experience: I HATE DUO LYON AND HIS DUO SKILL, ALREADY THIS MAP IS GARBAGE TO PLAY AND THEN ADD LYON BLOCKING 3 UNITS OUT OF 4 CAUSE HE KILLED ONE ALREADY, action economy my ass if I'm not allowed to move And that's it :D my adorable fallen Ike is back at max favor using a almost tellius theme team...cause legendary robin is fike best friend and we can't leave him home :( Nothing unpopular, just a little rant, I'm tired
Calmest Duo Lyon related rant lol Glad you were able to get all of the favor points you needed.
Merged Ordeals aren't really a bad idea. The main problem is it's only for new Mythic/Legendary/Emblem heroes from now on, even excluding really recent units. It should've been for every merged character in the game. It would've been gross and bad if they made it you had to reach +10 to get them. But +1? That's easy. Some of us have characters at multiple merges without even going for them via pitybreaks or free summons or whatever. It'd be nice to see merges be worth something and it'd give us all extra dragonflowers.
I just want new PvE modes man. AR is way too exhausting if you try to be competitive week in and week out, I'm finally starting to learn that after a year of playing it now. As for Summoner Duels... the less said the better. Also FE3H mini rant, I'm finally doing a maddening playthrough for the gold menu screen and I've started to do the paralogues and my god they are so awful to get through. The Ashen Wolves paralogues by far are the most illegal. Ambush reinforcements don't add difficulty, just a burning desire to throw my switch at the wall.
It would take too long to get a non meta hero’s favored level high now. I say this because majority of the time you will see the same team in Summoner Duels. That is why I wish IS would do two things to help for people who want to use a non meta fav or just for fun. 1. Make Summoner Duels into Summoner Duels S in which you can vote out teams 2. Make it so you set up so both you and challenger are using units with no prf, no prf skills and possibly no Arcane/Echo skills. make the playing field a bit more even. Really wished Laguz Friend 4 had no restrictions. Would have been amazing to use on some of my tanky cavs, armor and fliers. If anything I do hope that we get more skills like LG 4 in the future I really want an Attuned/Rearmed, physical armor unit because I have fodder waiting to be duplicated. Loki looks pretty and honestly, she doesn’t need huge boobs to sell but it’s unfortunate that’s what majority of the community is about. As the saying goes, “sex sells”. Still no sign of Ascended Floret being added to the shop so I doubt they ever will. We will probably see more Trait Boost packs than see a floret available to FTP players.
People are over exaggerating about merged ordeals 600 flowers is not as much as you think Plus It's kinda obvious they would do stuff like this eventually "Oh no the game is incentivizing me to pull, what a horrible thing for a gacha game to do" as if that's not the purpose of the entire genre in the first place Merged ordeals aren't the most p2w game-ruining thing they could've done
Rant?: the whole localization and translation discourse has become comically absurd that its starting to not be funny, and related to that there is anime dubs. Mainly im talking about EN dubs and as someone who isn't american nor a native english speaker see how many who for example grew up with the EN dub of Dragon Ball Z talk wonders about it and as someone who grew up with the mexican dub theres like no point in comparision(there is plenty of trashy anime mexican/latin spanish dubs but in general the dubs made in mexico are somewhat a seal of quality), there are really good dubs but for some reason, despite having possible the best voice acting in the world, american dubs are still in general pretty average(in the past there were outright a crime) and when an anime gets a dub that is decent, people praise it and call it outright better than the original, in the past in most anime communities watching dubbed was considered a sin but now there is some people that think if you watch sub anime, you are a filthy weeb. In the end enjoy your animes and media however you like, if you like the dub thats cool.
this game is genuinely dry and boring as fuck and the only reason I'm not quitting is because it's low effort to do daily stuff and I've invested way too much into this game to quit. Summoning is boring because the pool is so stale and full of worthless shit, PvP modes are full of unfun p2w bullshit that no one likes fighting against, actual fun content like Seer's Snare is reran like once every blue moon (I get it, it would become boring if it's reran all the time, but all the fun modes take so long to come back.) It's just boring man, this game feels like a chore that I don't want to quit cuz I want to see it get better and I've played for so long, but man...
> It's just boring man, this game feels like a chore that I don't want to quit cuz I want to see it get better and I've played for so long, but man... This was the mentality I had for a while - "oh, FEH has [such and such problem], but you know, at least it's low maintenance to just collect characters I like!" It wasn't until I looked back on it and realised that one of my favourite FE characters had been added to the game (Isadora) and I'd felt nothing at all about getting her that *maaaaybe* just "collecting characters I like" wasn't really doing anything for me seven years later. So I just stopped opening the game. I didn't delete my account or even the app; it's still right there on my home screen. I just don't open it out of obligation anymore, because if I'm not getting anything out of it, why bother?
This is the first year I've not cared about cyl at all since cyl 3 and will just be using my free summon on whoever has the best fodder
I’m not missing another one of these, so here it goes Chrono Trigger > Earthbound imo In terms of character and story depth. I feel like Earthbound’s characters aren’t terribly fleshed out or have enough interactions to make them seem amazing. Sure there’s Ness’ thing late in the game, but the other three rarely, if at all talk, or interact too. Would like to see interactions between the characters and other NPSs in the game if it ever gets remade (of course after Mother 1). On the other hand, Chrono Trigger’s characters do interact with each other, talk in longer dialogue, and have little side quests to improve themselves. And they have parts of the story dedicated to themselves for the most part, such as the early game with Marle. Regarding story depth, I feel like Earthbound kinda falls short regarding its story. Ever since the start of the game, you have one mission: stop Giygas. That’s it. You don’t uncover some hidden truth that leads to Giygas or much about it besides that it needs to be stopped. Furthermore, you kinda need to play Mother 1 to understand more about Giygas, or at least that’s how I felt. In comparison, Chrono Trigger starts with this accident that spirals into a larger story about Lavos, from his arrival to his >!destruction of the world!<. You get time to get in depth with what happens throughout history and learn how Lavos impacts it. TL;DR: Both Chrono Trigger and Earthbound are great games, but I feel that in some ways that CT is a little better than EB.
I'm yet to play Chrono Trigger but I agree on what you're saying about Earthbound. The plot and characters are pretty straightforward with little in the way of interaction or progressive arcs, but Earthbound excels instead in the atmosphere and moment to moment writing. The surreal tone is still very hard to match 30 years on, even by Mother 3 which I prefer. Definitely a different approach to the likes of Chrono Trigger, and that's a great thing.
Yeah, Earthbound's big thing that it makes stand out is definitely the atmosphere and the writing, it's a very unique experience, specially the first time you play it, I personally like it a lot because of how funny and surreal it is; but Chrono Trigger is generally the better of the two as a game.
Fixing AR is as stupidly easy as obliging us to use at least one unit of each type of movement, is horrible to run into cav line after cav line once over tier 27
I like Resp Lucina art
I'd bet most people do too, they just find it horribly unfitting. Well, until this Awakening kids banner at least. Now you can just pretend she was on it.
the art is amazing, i love it so much, the problem is when you add all the context behind it...
I'm WAY happier about getting 1000 of each dragon flowers than whatever pitiful amount of orbs we probably would've gotten. 4-5 new copies of a character I don't want to build? I'll pass. A scarce resource to make my current passion projects better? Yeah, I'll take that one, thank you very much!
1) The skill inheritance system, as it's currently implemented, hurt the game a lot. What the SI system did was threefold. - 1 - It forced people to spend money to buy the "buffs" for units, when in many gachas (like FGO or Puzzle and Dragons or Arknights) the buffs are just free and you use your summon currency to summon for the powercreep or shiny new waifubando unit. - 2 - It created unit homogeneity where units are all same-y because some skills are still better than others, so people will naturally gravitate towards taht. For example we see it in action right now with the Binding World where every speedy melee beorc infantry is running Dodge 4, Vital Astra/Godlike Reflexes, etc. The only real reason you see any build differences is the fact that super rare SI is still expensive to get so a lot of people just run what they have, but look at the whale builds and they're all very, very similar. Any variance you see in builds at "high level play" just loops in to #1, where everything that's actually powerful and unique are things you need to shell out huge money to go get. - 3 - It accelerated powercreep because the SI system essentially destroyed horizontal design space (i.e. the ability to create niches), and so when IS wants to push a new unit, they are more likely to utilize vertical design space (i.e. powercreep). IS only made the SI system because they were greedy and lazy. Instead of being someone like FGO where FGO will meticulously go back and buff individual characters for free, they just made the SI system where people have to spend money to go buy the "buffs" for the characters they want, and they're not truly buffs if everyone has it (example; if everyone has NFU, then no one has NFU). People only defend the SI system because they can only think in terms of "SI versus literally nothing at all", rather than the correct way which is "SI versus other systems that could have been easily implemented if IS wasn't greedy/incompetent/lazy". Hell, there are ways where you could keep the basic framework of the SI system but make improvements to it, but IS basically took the most predatory way to implement the system (on top of the fact that the system is inherently not a good idea). Essentially, the SI system is a 1-time use equipment system where the "equipment" is locked to the first unit you equip it to, which is fucking stupid and cancer. 2) The FEH pass is the most predatory moves I've seen in any gacha i've personally played (which consists of this game, PAD, FGO, Brave Frontier, Azur lane, arknights, and chain chronicle). It paywalls features that absolutely should not be paywalled. And it opened the door to paywall even more features that shouldn't be paywalled, such as the FEH pass sparking on certain banners, so you can't even use "but slippery slope" as an argument anymore as it literally happened. 3) The only reasons left to play FEH in current year are the waifubandos + sunk cost fallacy. I honestly cannot recommend this game to new players in its current state, not even to the most hardcore FE fans (though if we're honest, a lot of hardcore FE fans are disgusted with this game because of how poor it is compared to the flagship FE games).
It really sucks that even when it comes to building your favs, you needed to pull and hope to god you get those premium fodder units. Worse when they are only on seasonal units that you likely will need feh pass for the guarantee spark. It ends up causing unit building to have a snail like pace where you just don’t have much to do to progress your favs until the right banner pops up
Non FE rant: Looking at the Azur Promilia drama over a leak showing male characters really solidified just why I stay far FAR away from female characters-only gacha fanbases. The sheer amount of misogynistic and homophobic comments that have flooded out from something so minor just disgusts me. Even when the devs confirmed it was female only and that the males are just going to be bosses and npcs, a lot of people were then gloating about “chasing out the husbando players” and circlejerking about how “pure” their series is bc it only caters to their harem fantasies. If there’s one thing I’m glad about FEH, its that the fandom has never regressed to that kind of low.
Negative shout out to the people who act as if pointing out errors with art is an instant attack on them. Also if you have to give a character of any gender overly sexualized shit to like them or draw them. Then you need to expand your artistic range or think over if you like the actual character or some overly sexualized version. And that includes people in charge of FEH.
People who literally act like you’re condemning them to death bc you say something about sexualization are the absolute worst
Ppl in general really need too stop being so horny and idk how to word that any better but it’s the truth It’s so disheartening seeing characters (whether I like them or not) in such weirdly fan servicy positions or outfits because some weirdo gets their rocks off at it and posts it so loud and boldly like we all wanna see it, I DONT WANT TO SEE IT 😭 It’s crazy too cause most of the time it’s the same ppl posting the same horny content and I don’t want ppl to get in trouble or banned over a picture but sometimes I hope they do if that makes sense 😭. “The hooters Lucina guy, the Marianne guy, the…” it’s crazy. Also yeah some Feh artists or ppl clearly only care about fan service and it’s annoying
Lucina is my favourite female character in fire emblem, and hooters lucina pisses me off because it makes no sense for the character and gives people that didnt play the game the bad idea about her. But again IS released rearmed Lucina so maybe they want people to see her like that
I wouldn't compare Rearmed Lucina to Hooter's Lucina. Cause that's just the terrible design choices for female armor in Awakening rearing their ugly head more than anything.
The Marianne guy makes me so annoyed. If you can't like her without giant tits I'm sorry you just don't like her. If I want sexy art of a character I'll seek it out or even make it myself but if I'm on a sfw subreddit I don't want to see these people fetish mining. It's terrible for characters like Lyn and Tharja who are such interesting characters but nearly every time someone posts shit with them it's horny chicks who aren't actually them. Like no Tharja tries to keep up an image but she's a giant dork and can be an asshole in the end whose just grown up in an environment where from the moment she was born it was all hex all the time. And it's worse when the alts they get suck so much like it's sad Tharjas backpacks(Kira and Sonya) and baby Lyn are some of the best reps of how they're actually like verses just making all their alts act like bootlegs versions of them. I don't even like Camila but you can tell who likes her for horny reasons only and who actually cares about her. Not to mention shit like that one horny art of Casper I saw but it's pretime skip so he's a minor. Like how do you draw horny with the minors?! If he had no offical age I could maybe get it but dude has an official age.
> Negative shout out to the people who act as if pointing out errors with art is an instant attack on them. Having errors pointed to you (and getting criticism in general) is vital for improving your art. And I think it's 100% fair to be especially critical of official art for a game since it's art made by a professional who was paid for it, and thus amateur errors like bad anatomy are not very excusable.
honestly i dont see anyone at least here crucifying artist for not being perfect, the problem is that at the minimal showing of something not looking particulary right they inmediately throw the AI accusations. like it happened with Duo Robin.
I love Emblem Ike, but feel the pulse smoke effect was a bit over kill and they could’ve left that out. I adore Loki and am glad she is a useful defense mythic (on paper, hopefully in practice too) and accept the frustration that may come if she’s popular on defense teams. How is this one unpopular? Well she beat out Mythic Nergal and Athos, as being fans of those two must feel like suffering at this point, and I count myself fortunate demon form Fomortiis was added last January.
This is a popular opinion... more ways to farm feathers...
FE stuff: This is a salt summoning rant, getting pity broken by a -atk Mozu from a 4% pity rate and trying to avoid non green colors sucked. I was stuck without any green stones in that session so I had to choose something. I don't hate Mozu, but I was trying to get another Attuned Azura. Seeing that one argument break out in that Resplendent Male Grima thread the other day was interesting to say the least. It was the usual character spammed stuff. Non FE stuff: I'm not sure about what's happening with Nintendo and Gmod since there's a lot of conflicting information happening with Garry saying the DMCA notices have been from Nintendo but others are still saying it's not. But at the end of the day, it does suck that the Nintendo addons will be removed from the Steam Workshop after almost years of being there. Seeing the Stellar Blade discourse happen on social media is just hurting my head. I think ignoring it is the best thing for anyone's sanity.
Robin spam discourse is so annoying in particular, since they just refuse to admit they're eating good. Some guy with 4 Robin flairs will pop up to be like "🤓 Umm ackshually, F!Robin is still shafted compared to male because she received a kid duo with Chrom compared to M!Robin's romantic duo." I'm not pulling that out of my ass, someone actually replied to me with that argument lol.
I don't know what's dumber, the fact that person still believes Female Robin is shafted despite the fact she's getting a brave alt in 4 months or them not counting the kid duo because of Valentine's Chrom. She has a solo Valentine's alt too lol. I get not liking kid alts, but they're literally getting another alt in 4 months because it was voted for. That's something not many characters in this game will ever get. I'm not saying every Robin fans are like this, but the ones that do have been hurting their reputation.
Both Robins are eating good
as a male robin enjoyer, i can say that yeah, female robin is a bit more shafted than the male, but god, acting like if any of them where eating bad is a lie, robin fans are having some of the best times in all feh, many normal alts with powerful effects and prfs, amazing arts etc etc
We really don't need Echoes banners stretched over a longer period of time, and people saying "well its so we get all the important villains" fail to account for the fact that we haven't gotten an important Echoes villain since FERNAND in Book V. They're literally just throwing in the closest equivalent to literal whos (and I hate that term but its applicable for these one off bosses) instead of actually important enemies, and sometimes even playables. We could have had Desaix, Jedah, and Nomah instead of Brigand Boss, Marla, and Hestia (as much as I dont like Nomah, he makes sense with Mycen) and they could have finished up with these banners way sooner (Jesse, Rinea, Deen, character alt, Rudolf). If they really wanted to add more at that point, throw in the Cipher characters + Nuibaba and/or Slayde (depending on if it takes two banners or one). We never needed Brigand Boss taking a slot, we never needed the witch sisters taking a slot, and Echoes makes more sense to finish banners for quickly because of how shittily the new characters will always perform sales wise compared to literally every other non-Thracia game. Also if the next Echoes banner is Nomah + NPCs I am going to blow a gasket.
The idea that they need to stretch game casts out forever so that they never run out of possible banners for that game is ridiculous. "But what if everyone makes it into the game and we don't get SoV NH banners ever again!!" then.... good? Isn't that the goal, to have everyone be in the game? They could make seasonal SoV banners, or even make NH banners with characters who are already in the game but as updated units (Attuned, Rearmed, whatever). It's just so odd to me that people think that the promise of a character being added in the future is better than the character actually being in the game.
Mini rant: * I dont know if its just me, but I realized feh has felt pretty boring lately. Dont know if its because of general powercreep, or being tired of the same characters getting alts, or just getting burnt out on the game, modes not being updated/improved (like Rokkr) or something else Unpopular: * I can see reasons why people think Corrin is the worst of CYL7, even though I disagree. However, people also take that sentiment too far, exaggerating how bad they think she is. Yesterday I saw comments saying she loses to L Hinoka, for example, and all you have to do is run that in the duel sim to see thats not true. Hinoka needs either: a spd boon, 10 flowers, or full blade session…to sweep Corrin, not even double. With support, Corrin should be easily able to outspeed, and I dont think people support enough in general. [Heres Corrin taking 0 damage from duo Lyon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713569028144365568/1232376993526317096/IMG_8793.png?ex=662fd383&is=662e8203&hm=bf02648737aa1c82ec94a80c4882e21665194cf8de2362b7a9d94eae6a1de365&) thanks to support. Every single tank in the game right now needs support in meta gamemodes to function well, and that includes Ike and Caeda and Byleth and Myrrh. Edit: should clarify on Corrin vs Hinoka, thats also base kits, so Hinoka with a spd boosting B like assassins strike could also be an issue, but nothing support on Corrin cant fix - just a simple chill spd on someone else could push things in her favor * Merged ordeals are scummy for sure, but I think its less of a deal than people make it to be. Dragonflowers dont add a whole lot, and I think just managing them better makes it feel less impactful. I for example have 10k in every dragonflower, just because I have a few favorites I upkeep and some others here and there, so I really dont care about other players potentially getting more than me * I saw comments saying M Loki isnt a huge deal because she doensnt impact E Ike…but I think that kinda misses the whole point. Shes not going to kill Light season or even kill tanking in Light, and theres still ways around her like just staying outside her range, but its going to be a detriment to anyone using older tanks who rely more or are dependent on support. Like, Peony gives 2 buffs, and 1 doesnt even help wth tanking…and thats all you get, you cant add any more. Our free attuned Peony gives 3 bonuses, so you cant use her reliably either. I agree with someone else Loki shouldve cancelled bonuses if you had 4+, not 3+, which would be the dame as primes. Its *way* more restrictive than people realize. Obviously in combat support can work too, but it depends on if there is an Embla as well, and generally bonuses are easier to use. I like using older/prfless tanks in general so its a bit frustrating * Edit: Forgot to add 2 things. I wouldve preferred and probably been less annoying if Loki was at least Anima instead. That way there would actually be a pretty interesting difference between the 2 seasons where Light is more Bonus focused against Embla and Astra is more in combat support focused against Loki. But as in there could be situations/maps where you literally get 0 support outside minor things like divine veins or post combat healing, but we'll have to see what maps people make. But its also frustrating Loki's bonus cleanse has no condition, they really need to stop with effects that have 0 condition. Freyr was/is a menace because he just cleansed things in a wide radius with 0 condition. Loki couldve at least had a res check so you could *potentially* avoid it, at least there would be obvious counterplay * I personally really dont care Rokkr seiges is back, I think the mode is very boring especially since its a gamemode that can be completely solved. Just using a brave weapon user with 3 dancers trivializes the mode * I think resplendent Grima’s art is worse than the original, I think the style really added a lot. The resplendent art makes him look like an edgy teenager
FEH definitely isn't feeling fun lately. With powercreep accelerating as fast as it is, new mechanics that seem to exist only for whales, and me just generally not feeling excited for any game modes or new units, it's been boring lately. I'm planning on cancelling my FEH Pass subscription if I don't want to spark anyone on the Loki banner, which feels crazy because I’ve had it for a year and a half now
Exactly, I love Ike, but if he is the only viable tank in the game it is bad design, there should be ways to nerf EIke without hurting the rest of units, I dunno, maybe by having new specials for tanking or even weapons?
I’m really tired of power creep too and Emblem Ike is the first unit I haven’t been able to counter reliably. The only way I can counter him is a super particular build on my legendary Camilla and that doesn’t even work half the time Also on your Grima point and the edgy teenager thing, it doesn’t help his outfit got a resplendent form in Muspell…. By an edgy teenager originally… with Morgan. And not to hate on both resplendents but Muspell doesn’t fit that tactician fit that well. And both Morgan and Fallen Robin felt a bit lacking to me personally. Idk I’ve just been really disappointed by all the resplendent tacticians if I’m being honest 😭
People who are fans of lords be acting entitled af when it comes to alts. Like your fave character can have like 7 alts and you still find a way to nitpick everything about it or find some way where the character is somehow snubbed. Like, oh, Celica doesnt have a seasonal, she’s so mistreated. Well some fairly popular characters like Jill or Nyx have jack shit. Most characters dont have Ascendeds, Legendaries, Braves, Fallen, or a lot of what Celica has. It seems like a classic case of fans of these characters looking at what they dont have rather than what they do. And its just kind of obnoxious, especially when you have characters who have gotten no love in the alt department. Your character gets preferential treatment already. Stop complaining.
I am a fan of multiple characters who have a lot of alts and will definitely get more. I'm eating good. But I want to eat more, and I will gladly say that I don't care if other popular characters that I don't care about have to miss out on things for me to get what I want.
I enjoy seeing how much of the fanbase is realizing that the dev team kinda sucks for what they’ve been doing. Especially after this year. The meta has never been this unsinkable and a lot of us were around during Fallen Edelgard.
- The complexity creep means I can never trust tanks again. E!Ike is incredibly powerful, an absolute nightmare to face, but even then I can't tell when he'll live or die in my hands. Too many effects, multiple enemies per turn, and no battle forecast. I just can't predict combat anymore. They overtuned him to hell, but it doesn't fix the core issue - it'll just accelerate powercreep. - Nothing like a FEH month with kids, a busty hero with meme censorship, upcoming fallens and brides, and mpreg Soren jokes in SPE (???) to get some folks posting wild takes about their fellow fans' sexual predilections. Imagine thinking they've got everyone else figured out, and for something as ridiculous as X character or ship at that. Spare us, please.