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fire emblem: waifu roulette

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fire emblem: fates except with even more weird gimmicks

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fire emblem: who even knows

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Total Members Voted: 12

[Sirus]

Birthright first, since it's easier so that you can get used to the changed weapon triangle, and the conquest.

what did they do to my precious weapon triangle

Or are you referring to the removal of weapon uses?

For one thing, I've noticed that bows seem to be at a disadvantage against tomes. I wonder if there's a triangle entirely based around ranged weapons now.

[Twinwolf]

Birthright first, since it's easier so that you can get used to the changed weapon triangle, and the conquest.

what did they do to my precious weapon triangle

Or are you referring to the removal of weapon uses?

Apart from the removal of uses- although Staves, the new Festals (staves that have two range), and items still have uses- the new triangle is:
Swords and Magic beat Axes and Bows, which beat Spears and Hidden Weapons, which beat Swords and Magic.

[Sirus]

Oh, so that's the new triangle? Bizarre.

Speaking of bizarre, one of my units in My Castle found a strange bow. It has a MT of 1 (super weak, in other words) and after being used, it restores your enemy's HP by 20%. I'm not sure what the point of that is, to be honest. I guess you could use it to grind a few more hits out of a foe but that would be tedious as hell.

[Aklyon]

Sounds like a bow you use to defend against recruitable characters.

[Sirus]

I thought the best way to defend against recruitable characters was to stick an ally with enough defenses to survive in the recruits attack range, unequip weapons, and draw them in. Archers tend to be a bit squishy for that particular job.

[Aklyon]

Well yes. They do. But there has to be some use for that bow, unless suddenly mind control.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I'd guess... Leveling.

[lordcooper]

It's not Pokémon. Each version is a different story, with different characters and different maps. They're different games, pretty much, that share some characters and underlying mechanics.

Fair enough.  Releasing them at the same time might be a bit of a blunder then, an 'expansion' a few months later would likely raise fewer sceptical eyebrows.

[SOLDIER First]

Slightly different story (with the main plot intact), different version-exclusive characters, trading...

[JoshuaFH]

Slightly different story (with the main plot intact), different version-exclusive characters, trading...

Elemental RPS, Cell-shaded anime style, huge number of extraneous streetpass features, you start with a powerful character to help speed you along, battling other players...

[JoshuaFH]

I'm trying to figure out how the clock works in the game, I'm not sure if it correlates exactly with real time or if it's accelerated time or what.

[Twinwolf]

I think it works by action. Every combat moves it forward a segment, in my experience.

[Tawa]

Aw yes, downloading off the eShop as we type.

The only things I know going in are the basic premise of the game, that I'm picking the Cam Clarke voice option and that there's something about a dragon. This is going to be good, it's been ages since I've been able to go into a game totally unspoiled like this.

[Sirus]

I'm trying to figure out how the clock works in the game, I'm not sure if it correlates exactly with real time or if it's accelerated time or what.

It's definetely not perfect real-time. It moves forward a segment of time each battle you complete. It also seems to move forward a bit after a certain amount of real-time - I left my 3DS in sleep mode last night, and when I woke up the castle had gone from evening or night (can't remember which) to morning. Not sure how much time needs to pass exactly.

[Tawa]

Spoiler: Semi-Spoilery Opinion (click to show/hide)

It's... OK so far. I've just made it to Chapter 7 and I'm waiting for Conquest to finish downloading. The "Choose a side!" scene was done well, but everything leading up to it... not so much. I barely have a feel for any of the characters; the Nohr characters seem one-dimensional so far, and I don't even remember the names of the Hoshido characters I just shanked, who were possibly even thinner.

I am gonna miss the tactician guy who looked kinda like Socrates Jones though, he seemed fun.

Jeigan dying within thirty minutes of starting the game was a good twist, though.

The gameplay is solid, though. The refinement of Pair Up pleases me greatly.

...Did anybody else name themselves Corrin and go with the default appearance? After playing the older games it feels wrong to have an avatar as the main character. :v