FE/H rambles

[kradeelav]

buncha random FE thots as I close out my first, uh, eight months? of Heroes.

I am shocked at how like ... bitterly salty some folks are with this game and still ... keep playing it?  like i get being salty in a fun trolly way or bitching at a disappointment. but my good god, there's some people that do nothing but moan about it when i'm all ... my dude... this isn't even a mainline FE title where imo there's more merit to swear it off (like what i did to Awakening for the longest time), but it's a game, brah.  uninstall it. get over it.  you keep swearing that it only has 'one more year!!11!' when folks have been saying that for like, two and a half years lol. 

(it's at the point where i low key purchased FEPass as a nod to supporting the developers with the recent direction of characters and also rubbing it in that some folks actually like it lol)

on a totally different tangent, copypasting my 'top 20 new heroes for 2021' from a forum because it'd be neat to see who actually does make it in.

1. Zihark (RD, red infantry, no seasonal)
2. Timeskip!Hubert (3H, a finally decent prf red infantry tome)
3. Volke (PoR/RD, colorless or red dagger infantry)
4. Vaida (FE7, red flying wyvern to shake things up a bit)
5. Tauroneo (PoR, red sword armor?)
6. Sephiran (PoR, colorless infantry staff)
7. Lehran (RD, flying colorless tome & mythic dancer. I know this doesn't exist yet but he's a weird one.)
8. Manuela (3H, colorless infantry staff) ( <tho i also love @Mercakete's idea of a harmonized Manuela/Shinon winter unit.)
9. Nasir (PoR, green breath armor)
10. Rhea (3H, green breath)
11. Legendary!Sanaki (red armored tome, astra or fire)
12. Stefan (PoR, red infantry)
13. Niime (FE6, utterly broken red infantry, possibly a fun halloween seasonal?)
14. Ashera (RD, light mythic, armored blue tome)
15. Valter (FE8, seasonal, would be happy with anything just to be a wildcard like a duo with erika because i'm evil. :D )
16. Tormod & Muarim Duo (PoR, red cav tome)
17. Dedue (3H, blue infantry ... can we make gauntlets a thing?)
18. Hegemon!Edelgard (or any true crest beasts, honestly) (3H, red flying mythic beast)
19. Volug (green cav beast)
20. vanilla Felix and Mirel feel like a given at some point so tossing them in as goodwill.

Special mention that i completely forgot until now for a fully customization Summoner/Avatar - like hairstyles, colors, playability, all that jazz. They're already so close to 'waifu/fujo emblem' you just... might as well let the folks who want a self insert bling out their shit. imo gacha games are made for this where it's stupid derpy non-canon fucking around fun. there's fucking hot springs there, lol.

2020 wise, feel pretty accomplished with hitting T25 (AR) reliably and T19 (Arena), getting a much larger selection of derps that matter  (+10 nin!hark, almost-there valter, petrine, and a bunch of other low merges of favorites.) 

generic FEH plans is slowly build up actual decent themed AR team comps for Light/Astra and Offense/Defense rather than using the same one for them all... got enough solid invested units where it can happen, and I really want to get a bronze throne (top .. uhhh, 10k AR players, i think?) soon. I don't see myself ever getting a gold throne, but a silver would be nice. Likewise just saving up for the wishlist up above and just having fun with whoever comes along.

oh man, Fates.  Fates is one of those games that completely flew under my radar after my 'disown the FE series after Awakening for legit a decade' and i haven't seen any cutscenes or lets plays ever, so actually watching half of Conquest the other night was really kind of cool to see what they pulled off with.  I actually Got A Feeling(tm) with possessed!takumi and some wild cutscenes at the end... not to mention Niles High Key feels like the one i'd glom on harrrrrd for that particular game, my derpy sadist ..... still on the fence whether i actually want it enough to buy it... probably not, but still mega impressed with the character acting in it. blows past 3H in that area.

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[queenlua]

re: Fates: fwiw, while that game suffered the "i happened to put it down for a week or two because life got busy, and then i never felt compelled to pick it up again because wah figuring out my units again and stuff" problem for me... like, prior to my getting distracted, the gameplay really was fantastic. hard mode was hard and each of the maps were satisfyingly innovative/crunchy, like, i love 3H but the map design in Conquest was head-over-tails superior to 3H. the story didn't have much of an affect on me but the gameplay definitely did, lol

[kradeelav]

yeah!!! the two pieces of praise i do unironically keep hearing about fates is a) the character acting as previously mentioned, and b) absolutely what you said about the innovative maps/gameplay - hard but not too obnoxiously gotta-grind-it hard, threw in some new tricks with like... i vaguely remember seeing a map where there was like a clone of your army, the defend-the-port map, stuff like that.

but ya 3H's maps aside from Ashen Wolves were so pathetic lmao - constant defeat the boss maps, and them costantly re-using the paralogue ones plus the main story ones for the .... monthly grinds? cut out all of the actual story meaning in there. i think the only one i personally truly liked was the circular tower one where you killed Sylvain's brother because there was just a little of story 'uumph' in terms of > spiraling closer with manageable waves of enemies but with a vague sense of dread that you're missing something > the o shit surprise at the top > frantically backing *up* while trying to figure out how to kill a crest beast for the first time. felt similar to Ena's map in spirit, weirdly enough.