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bluescreenl · 1 year
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so i know i’ve been Alearposting a shit ton but i think Lumera should get some appreciation as well
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felikatze · 18 hours
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What are some Marth facts
I DONT ACTUALLY HAVE MARTH FACTS... i'm at like. chapter 8 of shadow dragon. outside of my realization of "holy shit, this guy is the autism creature" i dont have many more character thoughts
okay yeah yesterday i discovered that after mystery of the emblem the fucker apparently untied SEVEN countries into a super state somehow. because all the rulers were either a) dead or b) decided that they want out of this shit so marth can have it
very funny to finally have context on why an awakening lore event was called "the schism" because the people of that super country got into a religious spat and split in three.
uhhh. marth has a sister who looks identical to him and it's SUPER hard to tell apart elice (marth's sister) and caeda (marth's wife) in official art. wild. i think this speaks more about FE character design than about marth though.
UM. in all of his mainline games, marth can't actually promote. his unique promoted class, lodestar, was actually created specifically for fire emblem warriors, which requires all units to be promotable. despite lodestar being his associated title and class ever since (most notable in fire emblem engage's "lodestar rush", which is emblem marth's engage attack) there is no main game where marth actually has that class!
warriors is really fun marth has a neat moveset in it.
maybe it's interesting that in shadow dragon, a vast majority of characters aren't actually recruited by marth? they're recruited by caeda, which is really funny. caeda rolls up to someone like "hey. join me or stab me. i know you fucking won't, pussy," and the person goes "dang. guess i'll join you" and then they go talk to marth like "hey so i uh-" "you're joining us. cool." "kay! thanks!"
it's fantastic
really he is in fact the blandest sword boy ever but something about the resting bitch face of his SD portrait combined with the sheer unflappable bluntness of his dialogue has captivated me. like yeah. yeah.
salem ana and I have concluded that motivational speeches are just his default social script. he figured out that this makes people happy and always works so whenever he doesn't know how to deal with a situation he starts talking about the power of friendship, and that's why all his extra canon appearances are Like That.
like. okay that's absolutely not the intent, but it's way funnier to read him this way.
alear: "marth, i'm sad." marth: (oh shit. fuck.) "alear have you considered your bonds." alear: "marth, you're right! there's no need to be sad if you're here with me :)" marth: (SUCCESS.)
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theeeveetamer · 1 year
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I beat the whole Fell Xenologue in one sitting (moderation? Never met her)
For anyone curious it takes about eight hours on normal
Some thoughts under the cut (spoilers for all chapters of the Fell Xenologue to follow)
So Alear seems to be much more passive in general throughout. That’s kind of fine actually, I don’t hate it, but I think they might have been a little too passive at points. There’s like three ✨plot twists✨ throughout and Alear’s role seems to be just seeing absolutely none of them coming and being surprised audience surrogate
I get it. You can play the Xenologue at any time after a certain point in the main story, so you have to assume Alear could be at any stage in their main plot character development and could have any amount of knowledge of the alternate universe characters. It makes sense to keep them mostly quiet
On the flip side, Nel is almost absurdly aware of everything that’s going on. Nil isn’t really Nil? NBD she’s known for years. Everyone in the world has been dead the whole time? She’s known the whole time. Her dragonstone had an evil spell cast on it to make Nil go crazy and try to kill everyone??? She also knows about that.
Like holy fuck the only thing she doesn’t see coming is that Nil is going evil, and I can only assume she doesn’t know that because the writers needed the plot to actually happen.
I was kind of done at the end when she just seems to know that some spell was cast on her dragon stone and breaking it will release it.
Now I’m not saying Alear needed to be the star of the show, but I think some of those out of nowhere twists could have been aided just a smidge if Alear was at least somewhat aware that funky shit was going on, which would at least make it so Nel doesn’t seem just supernaturally able to detect weird shit happening when no one else has a clue
I’ll have to play it again to comment on the foreshadowing of the twists, but honestly for most of them I didn’t pick up on that much. I think the only one that was done really well (on first playthrough at least) is the “everyone is actually a corrupted” twist because of the way it’s hinted at through the gameplay/story integration. I definitely noted that everyone had a weakness against corrupted effective weapons but just didn’t think that much of it in the moment. And it’s chilling when it’s revealed and you realize that you’ve just been marching through a graveyard populated by zombies the entire time. And it works. We know from the main game that Veyle can create walking, talking corrupted that are incredibly lifelike, and the first thing Alfred says when you meet him is “this is a trick, you must be one of the corrupted” so we know this universe also probably has lifelike corrupted as well. Plus the gameplay integration. 10/10 implementation
The “Nil was mind controlled” twist is a bit more out of nowhere. I suppose theoretically in the main game we see that Sombron is able to mind control Veyle in some capacity, but I guess I was never clear on how much of that was Sombron and how much was Zephia. I thought it was mostly Zephia. Also, in the main game Sombron is either awakening or active, whereas in the side story he’s dead, but I guess the mind control persists even after death? And we were just supposed to know that I guess? I think the only other hint is that Nil mentioned Sombron putting his hand on his chest before he left (could have been when he cast it?) and Nil fighting himself a little before the final battle, which honestly just came off as super confusing in the moment. On a first playthrough, eh, 6/10
The “Nil isn’t really Nil” twist… honestly why? Seriously, why. Nothing about the story really changes, and there’s nothing I can think about where I can look back and say “ah, so *thats* what that meant!” It just felt kind of shoehorned in, 0/10
Random rapid fire thoughts before I pass out
I’m surprised the Firene royals were more similar to their original selves than I thought they were going to be. Alfred is still kind of an eager dork, it’s just more subdued. Celine is mostly just taking her over-protective nature up a notch, which kind of makes sense considering the situation in this Elyos is more dire for Firene
Some of the alternate self vs dialogues are genuinely hilarious. I adore Alfred being like “aw man I’m scrawny here too???? Maybe I just can’t build muscle no matter what universe I come from!” And Fogado on Fogado was pretty amusing. I’m definitely gonna replay these chapters just to see the different combos
Someone in my chat predicted that Mauvier was gonna die the second he showed up without a palette swap or new name and by god if they weren’t right
Evil Diamant is depressing
I think the alternate world where everything is all different is a neat idea, but it’s honestly just OK here. Other than Firene and Brodia switching demeanors there’s really not that much? Elusia still worships the fell dragon primarily, and who even knows what Solm is doing.
I’ll see if I have more to say later
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raxistaicho · 1 year
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Are we not Engaged? Part 14.
Red vs Blue!
Spoilers under the cut.
Red Alear has a lot of ballista.
The avalanch mechanic was REALLY poorly explained, I thought I had to hide BEHIND the rock outcroppings, not IN FRONT OF THEM.
Red Alear still needs a hug.
Lol the animals you can adpt are no different from normal ones even though this is 1000 years ago.
Oh god Sombron is horrific.
Zephia hears Sombron treats his children like tools and decides she wants one of those. She’s like Eunie but a monster.
Lumera just wandering around enemy territory lol
Lumera was so nice TnT
Veyle worried
The guardian worries Veyle
Sombron’s castle is kinda cool
Veyle’s really uncomfortable
Oh lord it’s Lumera, Sombron is a bastard.
They’re repeating Mikoto, lol...
Lol stupid Veyle snuck in alone.
is Lumera threatening Veyle or challenging her to a dance competition?
This is supposed to be terrible but we barely know Lumera
The fuck Lumera knows was the ring would do?
Nice of Lumera’s body fading away to just pause at her waist for about a minute so she can have a second too-long death scene lol.
Oh no the party’s throwing death flags for the Emblems XD
The Emblems are gonna go away, lol. They’re tools, not characters, this’d be like being sad about the Wing Spear dying at the end of Shadow Dragon.
“The Last Engage” jesus christ.
Oh yeah you might notice I’ve stopped reporting on supports. I’ll get back to those :p
I have to enter the final battle from the Somniel directly, lol, what.
Marth’s being ominous again.
We’re actually riding the Somniel through the portal Sombron opened.
Something’s bugging Marth.
The portal’s ripping the Emblems apart. Oof. And once the portals closes it’ll send out a shockwave that’ll destroy the portals.
If you wanted me to care about the Emblems disappearing you should have actually had them be characters.
There’s like no cinema for entering the portal, you’re just THERE.
Oh, Sombron’s actually willing to let bygones be, lol, that’s kinda remarkable.
Sombron’s after Lelouch!!!
Ah, so Sombron’s from another world. Right, Lumera said nobody knows where he came from.
Why are they bothering to try reasoning with Sombron, he’s clearly deranged.
Lol, Marth confirms that Emblems are different from the people they’re based on.
He’s babbling about revenge but on who? The Zero Emblem?
Also shut up, Marth.
Oh he’s fucking with the Emblems. Oh shoot, Emblems are dead, that sucks :p
Power of friendship moment lol.
Oh no, this scene is just the characters condensing their character gimmicks into one scene XD
“Let us engage!” Roll credits!
This scene of all the Emblems coming back is really gratuitous.
I just noticed Sombron’s... things that those purple crystals are dangling from attaches to his hair. What.
This final boss theme sure don’t hold one drop of a candle’s wax to Id Purpose, End of All, Twilight of the Gods, or Apex of the World.
Sombron, both now and in the flashback, scolds Alear for turning on her father despite rejecting the concept of bonds, so what on earth is he griping at her for? Severing a bond that was never there?
Yeah I was expecting the dragon form, that first phase was way too easy.
ROFLMAO, DARK EMBLEMS.
So wait he rejects the idea of bonds, but he makes his own Emblems? God this guy’s a hypocrite.
Gah that final boss took forever! T_T
Oh please, cut it out with the pity party for the cretin who traumatized his kids.
Jesus why's this game so eager to make abuse victims try to be sympathetic to their abusers.
And bam, back to the Somniel. This game really rushes transitions.
This game’s still trying to make me think Marth was the biggest best partner, lol.
Oh lord, each of the Emblems is going to give some canned dialogue that references their character from their respective games, lol.
Lol, of course fucking Marth gets a special longer scene.
It’s trying to ape Azura’s death scene from Birthright but as usual it misses the landing because it drags it out too long.
Clanne and Framme never developed as people lol.
Holy shit, Alfred fucking died after the war! Long live Queen Celine, rofmao.
The hell, the Emblems are back?
You've gotta be kidding me THIS GAME DOESN'T HAVE A SUPPORT VIEWER ON THE MAIN MENU?
Whooo...
Anyways, game’s done. I’ll be back later with final thoughts.
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zorua-gaming · 1 year
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Chapters Twenty Four through Twenty Six
We’ve made it to the end! (Also I cry a lot.)
Wait what? How is red Alear here as well?
Was NOT expecting time travel to be part of this.
Hold on, need to write down these details for my Engage dragon fam headcanons (and I guess ocs). So, one older brother drowned; one older sister burned alive; little sister and little brother torn apart by the Corrupted.
Also HOLY FUCK THAT ONE. That must be why the Corrupted unnerve Alear.
More siblings that died in the war? GIVE ME A NUMBER PLEASE, I MUST KNOW FOR THE SAKE OF MAKING OCS OF THEM!!
I love the way red Alear is talking. Idk how exactly to describe it, but you can tell they’re traumatized from what happened to their siblings and trying to prove themselves to Sombron and that they’re trying to hide their emotions.
Ooooh, red Alear red Marth duo!
Alear, why are you shocked to see Zephia? You just deduced that we were in the past.
Oh XD are we about to have Marth on Marth?
Red Alear can just cause avalanches without meaning to? Does this mean ice powers? ADD THIS TO THE LORE/POTENTIAL HC&OC PILE!!
Also forgot to mention that this is the first time this game that we’ve had a lose condition based on how many turns have passed.
God, those battle dialogues between past Alear & Alear, as well as past Alear & Veyle, ARE SO *gestures wildly*!!!
PAST LUMERA!!! 💖💖💖
NOT THE FUCKING PINKY PROMISE AGAIN!! 😭😭😭
Okay, but since those feels kinda paradoxy right now, how would it be that the shard is intact again when past Alear eventually becomes present Alear? Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this…
Veyle, what are you hiding?
Wait what? LUMERA?!
THESE ARE HER SAME LINES FROM THEIR REUNION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME!!
Okay, but I thought only Veyle could make Corrupted as perfect as this, so wtf is going on here?
Love it when I have a question and then the game immediately answers it.
OH SHIT THIS LUMERA VEYLE CUTSCENE IS RAW AS HELL!! LOVE IT
Damn, Lumera kinda theatric here; neat that she has hobbies even in death /j
I’m literally in tears rn, they make me so emotional
YO WHAT IS THIS HYPE-ASS MUSIC RN?!
Don’t mind me; gotta go cry over that cutscene. The parallels, THE PARALLELS!!
Damn, did Alear and Marth just get married? They promised to protect Elyos together forever.
Wait, what do you mean you can’t stay and help us build a peaceful world? Marth, you just promised forever!
Final battle time!
AY YO WTF
What about if all the Emblems are engaged with someone when the portal closes?
Wtf is Zero Emblem? (He’s probably gonna tell me in a second.)
Cool story, bro. You’re still an asshole who kills your own children if you see them as defective.
Also just gonna make a note that he called it the Emblem of Foundations.
How did the Emblem just leave the ring? Did this bitch really in all this time never try to resummon Emblem Zero?
Love this hype-ass Emblem role call.
OOOOH NEW ONE FOR THE LIST!! “Connect us, Fire Emblem!”
AND THIS HYPE-ASS OPENING INSTUMENTAL IN THE BACKGROUND!!
Love that Sombron was like “patricide, really?” and Alear shot back with “filicide, really?”
Why does the model for Sombron’s dragon form get so up in your face when you attack him? It’s kinda funny.
COBRAI KAIJU IS DOWN!!
YES EXACTLY!! DID YOU NEVER ONCE TRY TO CALL THEM BY THEIR INVOCATION AGAIN AFTER THEY LEFT?? YOU DUMBASS!!
Okay, so he DID try to resummon this Emblem.
Gonna add “Burn us, Emblem of Foundations.” to the list too.
Well, if Marth is about to disappear, then we gotta make out before he does.
“I hope you make an Arcadia of this land.” ROY 🥺🥺🥺
Alear and Chloé got so many MVPs. Truly a power couple.
Also shout-out to that one time Clanne got MVP.
Why does the beginning of this music sound like Lost in Thoughts All Alone? Is it gonna be a remix of past FE songs?
EXCUSE ME WHAT
Angsty Queen Céline fics when?
BOUCHERON’S PASSAGE, THAT’S SO CUTE
ALPACA MASTER
POTATO GODDESS LAPIS
Dang, Ivy is still remembered even after Alear has passed on? That’s gotta be a LONG fucking time.
Teacher Goldmary fics when?
😂😂😂 HOWLING BECOMES A PRAYER TO THE DIVINE DRAGON MONARCH!!
Ooooh, Gradlon Queen Veyle!!
ALEAR IN LUMERA’S OUTFIT!! 😭😭😭
Love this ending song. It’s the same tune as the opening, but different words. Gonna have to listen to it again later to catch all the lyrics.
MARNI REINCARNATED?!
Okay, so we still have the rings. Good.
What did the end of that cutscene mean? ARE THE EMBLEMS BACK?!
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raxistaicho · 1 year
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Are we not Engaged? Part 4
Spoilers under the cut!
-Why won’t these people let me sleep T_T
-Alear’s room is quite pretty but ye gods that draft
-How does poor Framme keep ending up as the opponent in the arena, lol.
-Still on chapter 6
-Okay I need to try to continue the main story lol
-Alear Louis C: More of his spying on people. That said his odd philosophy surrounding his weird habit is interesting at least.
-Framme Chloe B: Oh this is literally just a continuation of the previous support scene. Chloe’s excitement over the bizarre eel sandwich was pretty cute.
-Alear Celine C: T E A. Also a weird legend about a spirit that drives off interlopers from Firene Castle with tricks. That said, Celine’s dedication and love for the peaceful nature of her kingdom is pretty endearing.
-Alear Chloe C: Chloe’s watching Alear sleep @,@ She apparently does this a lot. She wants to sleep in Alear’s room lol.
-Sommie is apparently “tall as a loaf of bread,” and weighs “2 peaches”. Okay.
-Finally continuing the story!
-Sparkle hair thief. She’s very bad at hiding. Oh, fake tears lol. Alfred falls for it, Alear seems unsure.
-Oh no it’s another boobie character.
-”Hiya Papiya” Yunaka is very annoying.
-Yunaka had the Emblem Ring it seems.
-”Holy Brocc-oly” jesus christ she’s just annoying.
-Oh okay she’s less bad when she’s not faking being cheerful.
-Micaiah has arrived :D Two of the best Lords were among the earliest Emblems.
-Micaiah can grant the ability to use staves. Those things she was famous for using in Radiant Dawn :p
-Hmm, it seems the attack has to do damage to poison. Louis stonks continue to climb.
-Etie’s grown str on 4 consecutive levels roflmao.
-Okay Yunaka’s actually quite good gameplay-wise.
-Chloe got MVP again. She had Sigurd this time so she spent a lot of time flying around and sniping people.
-Pretty good fog of war map, and those are often bad. The map was better-built around it than Chapter 3 of Three Houses was.
-Micaiah got Yunaka to turn her whole life around. She always was pretty incredible :p
-Alfred actually improving a bit seeing through Yunaka.
-Oh, Yunaka’s voice actress is Laura Post, knew she sounded familiar.
-Oh hey it’s Veyle again. She’s looking for her sibling. 100% it’s Alear.
-She’s carrying a red stone bearing Sombron’s sign roflmao.
-Alear bandaged Veyle’s leg, that’ll 100% identify her later. Also I notice Veyle has red and blue markings on her dress.
-Nosferatu, famously wielded by Micaiah XD
-I don’t know if I just got lucky, but it seems like cooking is BUSTED in this game. There’s way more to it than in Houses, too.
-Oh, so farm animals give you extra resource drops per map, very nice.
-Alfred Alear C: Alfred trained hard. Shame it doesn’t reflect in his use as a unit. He’s a bit eerily chummy.
-Celine Chloe C: Celine wants to go to a tea farm. They’re both sad about the war.
-Celine Jean C: She thanks him for the tea his town producers.
-Louis Chloe B: More bonding over spying on people, lol. Louis says he likes watching her because she makes a scene better.
-Alfred Yunaka C: Yunaka’s bugged that everyone’s accepted her so easily. She actually just seems bothered at the poor information control in Alear’s outfit.
-Anna paralogue time!
-She hid in a treasure chest wtf lol
-Oh jeez Anna looks terrible. Sad capitalist just can’t catch a break.
-Anna’s paralogue was super easy
-Vander Clanne C: Vander’s devoted and stuffy, Clanne’s bitter about running errands. Another SUPER short support.
-Alear Boucheron C: Alear’s stressed, Boucheron suggests stress-relief techniques.
-Etie Alfred C: These two are talking very awkwardly to each other but they’re not in-frame together, there’s a kinda split-screen dividing them lol. Where are they in relation to each other, I wonder. Oh, they were holding cups? The fuck, weighted tea cups??? That’s bizarre DBZ level shit.
-Skirmish time!
-That Sommie dislike T_T
-Alear Etie C: She’s super confident. That’s it.
-Chapter 7 time!
-Alear almost got sniped.
-Wait, how are Alear and co. “sneaking over the border” if Eve sent word ahead of them. Does Brodia not have soldiers watching over their border?
-Alcryst is a sensitive boi. I expect the people who disliked Bernie won’t treat him the same.
-Wait wait wait what the fuck they KNEW we were coming and just took a shot at people approaching without identifying them first?
-Lapis: This is the kingdom of warriors. If you can’t dodge one arrow, you’re not worthy to enter.
-Uhh, hey? Dumb bitch? YOU ALMOST KILLED THE DIVINE DRAGON. THIS GOES WELL BEYOND “HURDUR WE STRONK KINGDOM,” YOU COULD’VE IGNORANTLY GOTTEN YOURSELF INTO A WAR WITH SOLM AND FIRENE WHEN YOU’RE ALREADY MIXING IT UP WITH ELUSIA!
-Christ this fucking game went and got really stupid again.
-Oh my god, Lapis is still trying to pick a fight, this bitch is an idiot.
-Also “the weak feed the strong,” watch Edelgard detractors go “Hahah, Adrestia in shambles!”
-I take it back, Alcryst is the only sane man of this group and his retainers both suck.
-Alcryst needs a hug :(
-Ah, guess Roy’s up.
-Elusia took the bridge :U
-Oh hey it’s Hortensia.
-Oh my god, stop talking, Hortensia. Stop talking right now.
-Alcryst found his spine again \o/
-Hmm, Brodia’s been pushing around Elusia. Did Brodia push them into their current aggression?
-Jesus christ Rosado and Goldmary are both strong
-Hortsenia corrupted Lucina :(
-I do like the way defeated by retreating enemies go through the start of their death animation but recover into a normal low hp animation. That’s nifty.
-A gross old man keeps Lyn’s ring in his room? X_X
-One big problem I have is that the characters’ bond fragment post-battle quotes take precedent over normal ones, so characters I use in every battle are just always giving me canned dialogue.
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