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Every chapter in FE11 and FE12 has an illustrated cut in.

You like Peri's multicolored hair, but not Heath's? Hm.

I always felt Heath's multicolored hair feels off-brand and kinda modern for FE. Though, I don't like multicolored hair in general.

I really enjoy the concept of fear as a design principle and how people explore that concept. I think its fun to read about horror. But I rarely enjoy playing a horror game or reading a creepypasta or watching a horror movie. A lot of the tropes bother me.

Mega Banette
Misdreavus

Lots of real good ones here.

KamikazePotato posted...

He's strong.

Not sure how hot of a take this is, but the first ten chapters of FE7 are the best part. I wish Lyn and her squad had been the main focus the whole way through.

I...think I agree with this, if we're talking about story only. Sometimes I dislike Lyn because she tends to get Strength-screwed and she's such a whatever character in Eliwood/Hector story. But then I go through Lyn story again and remember how enjoyable that story and squad is.

I'm a major Eliwood fan. I think it's hilarious how his growths are so middling. He's great. Looking back, I guess I do enjoy most of the FE lords minus Eirika/Corrin/Byleth. I don't love them, but I rarely hate them. Robin's a gold standard for avatar characters and I wish they went back to that model.

Man....Uhai was no fucking joke!

I kinda remember my first ever FE run and it was certainly...special. I remember Uhai completely destroyed me. I definitely did not get the gaiden chapter afterwards, which was weird because I got the 2nd Kishuna gaiden chapter and was completely confused about what was going on. I also got the Lords under 50 version of the map and that was awful. I think I just barely survived the final chapter.

Accelgor
Pinsir

Conquest has a shot at being my favorite FE. When I played it, I thought it really made Awakening's changes shine, such as Pair Up, weapons, skills, and class changes. Now, I think it's just alright. The calculations are a bit too much for me these days. I tried doing Conquest again with characters I didn't use my first time and it's really rough. Makes me wonder if I'm kinda "slotted" to use certain characters, especially on Hard.

Story was always a wash for me. I really only like the Jugdral games, the Tellius games, and the Fodlan games in terms of storytelling. If anything, I'll take Fates Conquest story over bland stuff like FE1 or FE2. At least it's funny and memorable.

Pancham
Mienshao
Falinks

This was really tough. I love fighting.

TIL Falinks and Zamazenta is mono-fighting. What on earth.

Umbreon
Absol

Arcanine
Quilava
Ninetales
Tepig

Poor Oinkologne. I was very close to voting for her.

Alakazam
Galarian Ponyta
Espeon
Espurr

I agree that the fog of war cave chapter is really bad. It's really telling that this is the first real Revelations chapter and it's just completely awful. I'm surprised you stuck with Felicia instead of Jacob because I think Jacob is just much better for that map alone.

And now you're at the snow map, which might be my least favorite Revelations map.

Final boss Takumi is great. I just wish that you didnt have to fight Garon again after dying.

In the Takumi chapter, you missed another very memorable generic enemy unit. Rallyman, a Master of Arms with all 4 main rally skills. Hes actually very useful because you can capture him and put him on your team.

Ditto
Porygon-Z
Cinccino
Stoutland
Snorlax
Dunsparce
Regigigas
Mega Kangaskhan

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/7/AAMDNAAAD-dR.jpg

top 3 chapter in the series imo

In character writing, Elise and Takumi are great, everyone else sucks. Leo is the only meh one.

I played GBA for a long time and then I think I eventually played it on Switch through Virtual Console.

The Mario Advance games were pretty important for me, especially since I never owned a SNES.

There's some interesting story beats in Birthright. I thought it was interesting that they held one of the Fates bosses hostage for like 3 chapters. I think Zola was his name? I just find it interesting that they kept a one-off boss around for that long.

Some of my favorite classes are Swordmaster, Trickster, Thief Fighter, Hero, and Sniper. Their general aesthetic are just always good. I think the Lord classes in 3 Houses are all excellent too. Thinking on it, GBA animations are still just top-class. Swordmaster is the obvious choice, but Assassin, Sage, Hero, Nomad Trooper...there's so many A+ crit animations. The only game that comes close in style for animations is Fates.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

If I can't get the same sex patch to work, I plan to exclusively use Royals and Royal children in conquest (cannon father side royal children, that is) in Revelations.

This is the way to go. I remember going on an anti-royal binge in Revelations and it screwed me over hard in one map that forced me to use 8 Dragon Veins. I had to carry Corrin everywhere.

Mario until the Koopalings were in. Then I switched to Ludwig.

I think it's weapon triangle. Main color is the color associated with it. Bottom color is the color it beats.

Is there an explanation on which characters have black background and which have white in your army roster?

I'm so glad that other people hate the big eyes in the pitch meeting thumbnails. I never click on those videos because of those eyes.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I think my biggest problems at this point are....well, the obvious one is that the story is boring, I don't think that controversial. I can get over that though, Shadow Dragon wasn't exactly rivetting, but all the lame supports and tropey character stuff actually kind of brings it down more than if that stuff wasn't even there at all.

Far and away though I do NOT like how easy it is to just do anything you want. In Three Houses, yeah you can get wild with the units, but unless you're going out of your way to devote a ton go time to wierd monetary stuff they've got a pretty narrow field for that first playthrough. Here though....fucking...whatever, it's like I'm playing FF7, anyone can do anything and I don't really like it. There's no unit personality in this game whatsoever, and when I say that I specifically mean gameplay personality.

Levelups aren't interesting because everyone does it like 60 times and can reset back whenever. Like, wow I got a full spread level up, whoopdi fucking doo who cares? It's a mess of near meaningless numbers to me.

Compared to Radiant Dawn, where I'm going bloodshot staring at the screen trying to psychically will Sanaki into another point of strength for her tome weight.

I've put hours into Olivia and have her set to become a full Swordmaster skill spread dancing super Saiyan, and I care less about her than I do Callil who I did not even use outside of forced deployment. Hell, I care about her less than Tormad, a unit I actively disliked, because at least he has unique quirks to make him memorable as a unit.

This is actually my #1 complaint about Awakening and I think it's really important. I also think it's why I ultimately feel better about Fates and 3 Houses too, because they go back to differentiating units through personal skills and limited classchanging.

I don't really use any of the simplified stuff. The more stats, the better. I do think Fates's UI is so much better than Awakening's. It just looks a lot nicer and it's really good especially for the stat penalties from daggers.

Birthright -> Revelations -> Conquest might be the way to go? Finishing with Revelations feels disgusting.

I think the Mustafa chapter is a little ridiculous with how much they're delivering the empathy. The guards wanting to run away, Mustafa being all like "yeah, it's cool, you can go, but I will stay", all of it is just a little overdone. The music is very nice, though.

I know that Jeigans are generally very good, but I am surprised to hear that Frederick is a lower tier one. He seems great to me. Is that more because the cast of Awakening is just so good as opposed to other games where the cast isn't as strong?

Awakening and Fates definitely have some very forgettable characters. Fates has kind of an easy way to remember 1st gen since basically everyone is a royal or a retainer, but 2nd gen is really whatever. I think I'm a little higher on Fates characters than most, but they're not good!

Stahl's great! I'm not a big fan of the Awakening 1st gen cast because of their over-reliance on their character gimmick. But Stahl basically doesn't really have a gimmick other than just being a normal, average dude.

I actually like the GBA era songs a lot! Though, as with most FE games, the early game songs are better than the late game songs. I don't know what it is about lategame FE music. I don't even like Id Purpose.

I played Awakening recently. It's honestly not too bad, but of course, the map design leaves a lot to be desired. I also just think the way the game is designed is a little flawed, with getting the child units through paralogues about halfway through the game where all your units are getting promoted. I get it, but it's a little annoying, especially since the child units are usually better characters, both personality and stat wise.

I only played POR and didn't get around to RD. I liked POR and especially liked the characters. It's probably the strongest cast after Three Houses. Base conversations do a whole lot and the support system is one of the better ones, if not the best one. I still remember drunk Shinon after you re-recruit him and it really flipped my opinion on him.

I should get around to RD.

Makalov is so bad that he's good. Definitely put him above the whatever characters in the series.

Marcia's great too. Too bad she never turns out well for me.

Outer Wilds

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Well shit....guess I'm stuck having used one on Oscar.

at least Ike/Oscar makes Ike even more broken in battle

Mystic Messenger

I thought Conquest was one of the best FE games. But I also try definitely put gameplay over story most of the time for FE.

I'm really glad you liked 5! I have a friend that has Thracia as his favorite FE game...hell, it's his favorite game period. He makes a really great argument for it in that Thracia feels the most like a wargame, with the guerilla tactics of capturing and the uneven odds. I also love August and Leif as main characters and they add to the feeling of it being a wargame. I think Thracia gets a lot of flack, but there's a lot of neat stuff in the game that's never revisited.

I should probably get around to playing Thracia at some point.

You had nothing to say about the penta-axe general?

I'm not too surprised about being top outlier with the top 4 being all B movies for me and having a pretty odd top 10. I'll take it with pride! I really liked the crime movies, despite their length. Most of them, I greatly enjoyed. This is my first time doing a movies project and I really liked it a lot. I'd be interested in certain other genres, but stuff like Horror or Westerns would be topics I would pass on.

I've been working on compatibility ratings and here's what I got!

Tangy:
Most Compatible: seginus (Divergent score of 204)
Least Compatible: rockus (Divergent score of 264)

Vis:
Most Compatible: Poke (Divergent score of 212)
Least Compatible: ssbm (Divergent score of 274)

John:
Most Compatible: Snake (Divergent score of 172)
Least Compatible: plasma (Divergent score of 298)

Mythiot:
Most Compatible: rockus (Divergent score of 174)
Least Compatible: ssbm (Divergent score of 294)

Poke:
Most Compatible: Vis (Divergent score of 212)
Least Compatible: rockus (Divergent score of 312)

Karo:
Most Compatible: John (Divergent score of 206)
Least Compatible: rockus (Divergent score of 282)

ssbm:
Most Compatible: John (Divergent score of 240)
Least Compatible: rockus (Divergent score of 320)

seginus:
Most Compatible: rockus (Divergent score of 172)
Least Compatible: Poke & plasma (Divergent score of 266)

Snake:
Most Compatible: John (Divergent score of 172)
Least Compatible: plasma (Divergent score of 308)

plasma:
Most Compatible: Tangy (Divergent score of 216)
Least Compatible: Snake (Divergent score of 308)

rockus:
Most Compatible: seginus (Divergent score of 172)
Least Compatible: ssbm (Divergent score of 320)

I was hoping for City of God to pierce this top 4 but alas. Really great movie, glad I took this project on just to watch it.

Godfather Part 2.

Part of me wonders if Lock and Snatch got so high because they're a breath of fresh air compared to all the other movies.

Guessing The Departed.

Oh boy. I hope you're aware of fatigue.

I think the ending changes depending on who the kids parents are, since its all about who is the heir to which kingdom. Maybe thats why its been so difficult to translate.

Heres a YouTube video of the ending. Curious on your final thoughts!

https://youtu.be/nXDg35mriQY

Lewyn x Tiltyu gets you Forseti on a horse, which is nice. But Ced's caps are just way higher and Sage is just a better class even without the horse.

I used to remember Ced's name was Sety so, Forseti is literally for Sety.

I always thought FE4 had a memorable finale with a large chunk of your units running with holy weapons and the enemies having their own holy weapons.

Heroes Arden is a delight.

Well...I was right that it would be an outside pick, but I got the movie wrong.

Might as well go over my total list.

1. ???
2. Donnie Brasco
3. Training Day
4. Scarface 1983
5. White Heat
6. ???
7. Lucky Number Slevin
8. ???
9. ???
10. ???
11. ???
12. ???
13. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
14. Miller's Crossing
15. ???
16. Sicario
17. Little Caesar
18. LA Confidential
19. Gangs of New York
20. Scarface 1932
21. The Untouchables
22. Battles Without Honor and Humanity
23. The Public Enemy
24. Gangster No. 1
25. ???
26. The Irishman
27. ???
28. American Gangster
29. The Italian Job
30. Once Upon A Time in America

Not great! At least I got my #1 in and a lot of my "B" movies are in. But we also got some stinkers from the bottom 6 still in too.

Yeah, LA Confidential is basically a good and unmemorable movie. I do like that plasma pointed out the interrogation scene. Its nice to have a fully non-physical interrogation scene. Until Bud comes in and fucks it up. Fuck Bud.

Im going to go for a gamble and pick Godfather Part 2.

FE5 is a midquel of FE4. It happens, for the most part, between Chapter 5 and Chapter 6/7. By the time you recruit Leif in FE4, FE5 is basically over.

In canon, a few of Gen 1 survived Arvis's attack, but they're functionally dead. Tiltyu is a particularly famous example. It doesn't end well for her.

I'm glad you didn't get spoiled on the fate of Gen 1. The FE fanbase has a bit of a habit making jokes and references about this pretty big spoiler. I think it's also the best way of handling the two generations in all the FE games with kids.

I don't have too much to say about Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. I'm glad there are some that prefer it to Snatch. I definitely thought it had the better ending, at least.

Pretty surprised that Scarface 1983 fell, but we're at a point where the next 3 movies are within 4 points of each other. It's getting close. I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt the last act was a little weak. I didn't mind the car bombing scene as much as others, but on retrospect, it is pretty odd to give Tony this shred of humanity. I do think there's quite a bit of humanity to Tony, but a lot of it has so much selfishness to it. The car bombing scene is oddly selfless of Tony.

Guessing Carlito's Way next.