#fe fates rambles

[elegyofthemoon]

might be overthinking a throwaway line but watching Silas and Selena's B support and like yeah, sure Silas just really wants to get the competition over and done with but I do like the hinting that there's a cultural differences in how competitions are dealt with in Nohr, Nohr being more one-and-done ordeal. Very forward in handling it.

#(i kinda lost what else i wanted to say) #(i feel like its also a reflection too on just nohrs way of thinking with just cut to the chase kinda thing) #I NEED TO GO FIND THAT RAMBLE AGAIN ITS DRIVING ME NUTS LMAO #fe fates rambles #snow speaks #also this is more note to self than anything lol

[silvanister]

Fire Emblem Game Survey

Hey there! I'm running a survey to collect some information regarding what Fire Emblem titles the playerbase has played, favourite titles, first & preferred Fates and Three Houses route, spin-off titles played, favourite characters, and some extra fun information.

The survey is short and easy and should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete.

This survey will be open until October 3rd, 2023 at 00:00 CEST. Results will be published on October 10th, 2023.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/gWmWABqzzqrRzuJY9

Reblogs are hugely appreciated!

#fire emblem #fe #fe awakening #fe fates #fe engage #fe3h #elibe #jugdral #tellius #archanea #survey #fe game survey #<- i'll be using that tag for poll updates & results so feel free to mute it is you aren't interested in this thing #friege rambles

[honeydots]

did a redraw that was going around on twitter a while back~ ♥♥

og by _K0TTERl_ from their manga veil!!

#xanlow #fe laslow #fe xander #fe fates #feif #fire emblem fates #fe14 #literally have an au where this is remarkably close to their meet cute LOL #i kinda adjusted the redraw to make it match that au eheh. the strawberry moon is where laslow works #its kinda like.......... a showgirl thing....... a showboy..................... #fdjfkdshfsdf. be nice to me okay i like to indulge #might not even be a showboy its more like an entertainer. sorta. im still deciding on the finer details #its my 40s au...!! the main premise of this au is NOT this tho lmao #this is more like. 'ah here's how the established relationship xanlow happened' #okay ive rambled far too much and im embarrassed goodbye #dots draws

[onyxedskies]

something something the awakening trio’s intense struggles with identity and feelings of belonging because they never got the chance to figure out who they actually were since they were fighting for their lives as kids and teens and were brought to an alternate world where they had to hide their identities so overall they have no clue who they are beyond being weapons

#i’ll make a full post about this eventually when i have my computer #onyxed rambles #inigo fire emblem #laslow fire emblem #selena fire emblem #severa fire emblem #odin fire emblem #owain fire emblem #fateswakening #fe fates #fe awakening #fire emblem awakening #fire emblem fates

[sacred-pebbles]

Most normal fates MyCastle

#i havent seen aptitude hacking on the jp server like how it is on the eng server. but i have seen this #way less useful but a lot funnier #the weapons all being +63 forged... all of the units having the visit and stat seals... literally unbeatable lol #and no i have no idea what their forget weapon names are i cant read japanese lmao #fe14 #fates #fire emblem fates #fire emblem #fe fates #ramblings #ASS WE CAN!!!

[didsomeonesayventus]

Okay, I trust you as a source for all things Fire Emblem - can you please tell me if Fire Emblem Engage is worth getting? It's a lot of money, and I've seen a real mixed reception for it. I've read reviews that call it uninspired and shallow, storywise, and that some characters are difficult to enjoy. Is it actually worth it, or am I better off just replaying Fates? I am TORN over here.

SO! Good news in brief: if you liked Fates I'm fairly certain that you've got a good chance of liking Engage. I honestly see Engage as Fates 2 with a much better focus on what it wants to be and do! In fact if I HAD to pick a previous entry for fair comparison/vibe similarities, I'd pick Fates, maybe Sacred Stones (though I've yet to finish that one).

Engage is right now my favorite entry of the series.

MORE DETAILED ANSWER UNDER THE CUT (I have only played thru once on normal + casual as of writing)

I still maintain it's a good game and worth it, but you HAVE to be open-hearted about it. It's going to be silly. It's going to be hammy and subtle as a sledgehammer. It will even say the most cringe ass shit with it's whole heart. It's just about the farthest from 3H you can get on the fire emblem scale to the point you could have it sitting next to Kingdom Hearts and I, personally, love that for it, but feel like comparing it to 3H's darker tones is the thing most negative reviewers fall prey to.

Is it simple? Yeah. Absolutely. Terribly predictable, even. Is it heartfelt? YES! ABSOLUTELY! Engage has no time for "wow that was cheesy" because it LOVES cheese and it wants you to know that LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING EVER. It knows it's running a trite and cliched story and it doesn't care about that so much as trying to hit its notes with just the right vibe- and I argue it does a majority of the time, but can concede some things are rather silly. It's full steam ahead with the power of love and friendship and it does that with about as much reverence as a Sat. A.M. cartoon. A good Sat. A.M. cartoon that you're still thinking of years down the line that was a formative childhood joy.

And it's not about romantic love, actually! Hardly at all! There's a lot more focus on familial and platonic love than romance!! There are explicit "I love you"s regarding family bonds and multiple sibling relationships that make it clear they would do everything for their family. The only romantic aspect is whoever you choose to have Alear S-Rank (the game calls it a ring rank for Reasons but its essentially an S-Rank), and everyone else's supports end at A. Even then there's room in a fair number of Alear's S-Ranks to get interpreted as Really Good Friends, as the focus is not on "I Love You" but moreso the fact Alear and the blorbo in question have a deep, deep bond (though there are S-Ranks that are romantic-tinted and some who will explicitly say they love Alear, and regardless of gender picked! wow! diversity win!). If you were looking for pairing up your sexy chess pieces and getting paired endings, though, there'll be a bit left to be desired.

Again if you like Fates, or Kingdom Hearts, or stories that are cheesy, simple, cliched, but heartfelt, you're going to like this one. The cast is wonderful, and the story has some surprisingly good emotional beats. Oh, and also some of the FUNNIEST supports I have seen. Ever.

Alear in particular has become my favorite lord of the series, just barely scooting ahead of Corrin by virtue of having a more solid characterization and arc that Fates didn't quite let Corrin have. Which, yes, you can rename Alear and give them their own birthday, but there is NO question that Alear is their own character; hats off to Laura Stahl and Brandon McInnis for bringing stellar performances that are essential to the character. Frankly hats off in general to the voice cast as a whole they really bring a charm to the game that cannot be ignored.

I will say that supports are pretty hard to grind out, though, requiring units to be adjacent, and the leveling curve leaves a lot of... wonkiness? It's VERY easy with the rate of receiving new units + leveling funk to have units fall behind, or your army to feel underleveled, if you're like me and mostly skip the side skirmishes (bad gamer, I know). I hear the skirmishes are also kind of wonky and scaled to Alear's level which. Can Be A Problem if you're trying to level or support grind weaker units. Though I will say that playing Normal + Casual playing straight through the main story, while it occasionally made me sweat, it did not make me have to completely redo a map (or, if it did, it was probably only once or twice and I've simply forgotten about the inconvenience). Just made unlocking supports irksome as units fell off and/or made it hard to keep some characters off the bench.

There's also an OBSCENE amount of freedom in what you can do with your units. Go crazy go stupid try not to die. Resource management can get tricky, there's not quite enough gold or bond points to do everything, but you can do a lot of stuff, especially if you find a favorite to focus in on. As for the Engage mechanic: very powerful, but not to the point of sapping all the challenge out of things, and fairly balanced. The Break mechanic introduced I think is a great addition to the weapon triangle mechanics and adds a nicer layer of consideration to unit placement + weapon diversity in your army than before.

Also, if you're worried Engage overly relies on it's intent as an anniversary celebration, don't! Engage still is doing its own thing, and moreso uses references to past entries as spice or flourishes of color. They add some fun easter eggs and flavoring to the story, but it doesn't rely on the emblems or any throwbacks to tell the story it's trying to tell. Are Firene and Brodia a 1:1 for Zofia and Rigel? Yeah! Probably on purpose! They literally got the guy who voices Duma in FEH to do King Morion! Do you need to know anything about Shadows of Valentia to appreciate that? Nope! Just nice to know. Corrin's ring is found in a Northern Fortress, to further help illuminate the cute nods involved.

If you're on the fence, totally get that, especially since dropping 60$ on a game in this economy- ~90$ if you wanna add DLC -is a lot of money to ask for. But I've thoroughly enjoyed what Engage has to offer, and currently am hopping along through playthrough #2 and trying to tell myself to S-Rank someone who isn't Alcryst (I will probably S-Rank Alcryst again). I'd suggest looking into the first few eps of a playthrough if you're still not quite sure, and, frankly, imo there's no shame in just purely enjoying it from a "watched a playthrough" perspective, if you have to.

and, if none of this has persuaded you, please direct your attention to Zelkov and this Honest-To-Alear real support exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_lsOLB68g

#katie rambles #fe engage #fe17 #in short: I like this game and I think if you liked fates you'll probably like it too!!! #I didn't get into spoilers because idk how spoiler free u wish to be #but there is a link to part of a support (missing context + no plot mentions) #but I think engage does a very good job of being what it is #a simple romp to go kill the problems dragon and collect the emblems and save the day #but with a lot of heart and solid gameplay as usual for a fired emblem #alear reminds me a lot of the way i've strived to write corrin #and i think the plot absolutely benefits from the focus of a single campaign that allows it to hit good vibes #does it cover everything in super detail? not entirely. #does it completely avoid being silly? NOPE #are there missed opportunities? sure always are #but this game has reignited a lot of my joy and interest and creative energy #and it's going on month 3 of loving this world and what it offers #no doubt to still last as I have a fic or two still in the works and the Fell Xenologue DLC has me like MASSIVE EYE EMOJIS #but i do totally get that 60$ USD for the base game is. a lot of money #I think its worth saving up for tho! and if it's hard I won't fault you for just checking out a playthrough #but I really. really like this entry and i think if you come in with an open heart you will too

[chromgioh]

I think fire emblem engage is the first fire emblem game since awakening to actually feel like a fire emblem game. It feels like it’s truly going back to its roots of an uncompelling story with vaguely interesting characters with silly names and silly outfits and it’s refreshing I think

#not counting echoes in this bc that’s also a fire emblem game but u know it’s a good remake of an old game #but like fates and three houses and three hopes got really far away from the fe standard I think #and 3h was really good but like it doesn’t feel much like a fe game it’s more just a good game that happens to be fe #and playing that then three hopes truly lead me astray because I forgot how nice a stupid story about a stupid kingdom is #fe engage #rambles

[good-beans]

Why does the silver-haired dude have two names?

Ah! That's because fire emblem was either very generous or very odd and they took three fan favorites from one game, and just straight up put them into another that takes place in a whole new dimension/time. So in Awakening he's Inigo, but when the gods pluck him up to help out in Fates, he disguises as Laslow, the prince's retainer :) They're all the same, just with a new name and kinddom-appropriate makeover (shoutout to Odin fir getting like 10x sluttier).

There are three characters like this -- but the thing that really gets me is they also made several child characters in Fates inexplicably look like exactly like Awakening characters (with anagramed names) and just never address it 😅

#i try to tag them the same since theyre canonically the same the person #but theres a few that look Exactly the same with basically the same name and theyre just supposed to be different and we accept that 😅 #i wont ramble on boringly rn but theres a lot of cool potential for them seeing as they disguise and serve the royals of one kingdom #because the gods kinda just drop them there without another word #but if you choose a certain route in fates they become your enemy #and i love the idea of 'heroes chosen by the gods to help save another realm except instructions unclear they try to kill the chosen one #that they were sent to help instead' #thanks pal :D #theyre fun #ask #fe inigo/laslow #fe owain/odin #fe severa/selena

[herbofthyme]

i think i should start spreading shigure/forrest propaganda

#rambles #fe fates #fire emblem #shigure #forrest #forrest fire emblem #shigure fire emblem #notart

[elegyofthemoon]

HUH i was thinking maybe like sakura, takumi would have special dialogue with azura but i guess they weren't really that close 😞 I actually don't remember if I even got their support while doing birthright...

and then i tried to check too with hinoka but also nothing :( i gotta go rewatch the birthright supports with azura and the hoshidan family again i know zero.

#fe fates rambles #i didnt get it hte first time i completed the maps so i had to load up the battle save in case to check it out lmao #some sacrifices were made while doing so but yknow it was just a quick check dw bout it 🤭 #tbh id still have to rewatch all of the birthright supports ANYHOW because its been like. a year. since ive completed birthright so 🤷🏻‍♀️ #the hinoka dialogue with corrin HURT ME SEVERELY #hinoka is still my fave sibling tbh.... shes just so good and i love her #oh yeah also the first half of this post was in my draft bc i was too anxious LOL but i decided to be a blabbermouth so here i am o/ ✨ #ig my thing is azura was the closest to sakura it seems #and all i remember is azura telling sakura scary stories laksdjfah

[silvanister]

he will never wyvern

#fire emblem #fe fates #fire emblem fates #frying pan wyvern shigure meta #friege rambles

[minimutty]

Ok I just bought fates!!11! Any ideas which route Corn should do? I'm going in more or less blind, aside from the things FEH just casually spoiled. I'm only doing this game once so it's one or done from here

#minis ramblings #fire emblem #fe #fire emblem fates #i did literally name him corn #bc its funny seeing ppl call him prince corn

[onyxedskies]

i don’t think the trauma hits owain/odin until after anankos is killed.

he never knew peace. he was so unbelievably young when the war started, as there was war before there were risen, that chances are, the only little bit of peace he’d ever seen was in the few months before anankos showed up and begged him, severa, and inigo for help, so he donned a persona and fit himself into the role of a retainer—another soldier, another fighter, just with a more refined name.

and then he fought for leo. he fought for garon. he fought the war, and perhaps he killed anankos along the way, or perhaps he and selena hoisted laslow’s body in a casket and used their crystals as odin bid farewell to his lord turned king. and then he returns home—wherever home is, whether it be ylisse or nohr—and is met with… peace.

if he stays in nohr, it takes longer to set in. there are still skirmishes, still reparations, still things that must settle down and things that he must manage by leo’s side. but as peace settles a blanket over nohr, as odin no longer has things to worry about every moment of every day, is no longer worrying about battle after battle or training or building up public trust—well, first come the nightmares, then the flashbacks, then the triggers.

if he goes to ylisse, it’s faster. ylisse has settled, by now, almost irregardless of how much time passed in ylisse versus nohr. there are no battles to fight, no wars to win. owain barely counts as a prince in the ylisse he returns to, with his counterpart already born or maybe, if the time is far different, simply on the way. there is little for him to do, and so the images of risen haunt him—whispers of their magic in dark corners, their eyes in the reflections of stained-glass windows, their rotten stench in the stables.

he is fine. he is fine, he is happy, he is healthy, he is stable. but then when everything he has built himself up around crumbles—when there is no longer a cause to fight for, no longer people who need protecting—he collapses, completely and utterly.

#onyxed rambles #meta #character analysis #i missed these #odin fire emblem #odin fe #owain fire emblem #owain fe #fe odin #fe owain #fire emblem #fire emblem awakening #fire emblem fates #fea #fe13 #fe14 #fe fates #fe awakening

[sacred-pebbles]

With the news of the eventual 3ds online service being continued, here's a quick guide to MyCastle battle/visit points grinding in fire emblem fates!

The quickest route is to:

visit - 1 visit point

rate the castle at the castle attendant (usually felicia or jakob) - 1 visit point

give an accessory (this does not remove an accessory you own, simply gives a copy out) - 1 visit point

battle - 1 battle point

rate after battle - 1 battle point

You are given a choice when you battle - surrender immediately and rate (1 battle point) or win the battle and rate (gives 2 battle points - winning gives you 1 more battle point).

Surrendering immediately is faster depending on the castle. However, if they have a weak unit near the castle entrance, and no other units on the field, all you have to do is take that unit out and you'll win immediately.

If you want to set up a MyCastle with an easy win yourself, all you have to do is remove golems/puppets and Lilith (remove the building where you feed her), put a building near the castle entrance, and then put a unit with low stats at that building with no weapons in their inventory. Putting a message like 'EZ win' or 'good skills' as your castle name is also recommended so you get more visitors that way.

With that said, my fates MyCastle codes are:

JP server: 14288-5083 35240-77527

ENG server: 04460-51405 22700-48338

#if i wasn't clear with anything pls tell me!!! i can try to explain it to you and/or edit the post to make things clearer #fe14 #fates #fire emblem fates #fe if #fe fates #ramblings #also if there's save editing you can do that too #oh extra note!!! you have to beat the game with the file with the highest points in order for them to be applied to all other saves

[neotula]

I do really like engage and some of the characters, but I haven’t had the sort of electric “oh, that’s who I want to support” moment that I did with awakening/birthright/blue lions, which is a shame, but there’s still a good bit of game left to decide.

#tula plays fe #tula rambles #zelkov Louis ivy diamant are strong contenders tho #I’ve got my eye on a few other characters too #didn’t have that moment in any of the other fates or 3h routes rip #I did love Hubert and Linhardt tho

[didsomeonesayventus]

Thinking about Corrin after the war. Leads Valla for several years in a very successful campaign- too successful, even, because no one seems to want her out of leadership any time soon, and she's in excellent health in her age. Why she's pushing 60 and looks 30. She's outlasted her husband, the kids have, too. They outlive advisors, some wonder if they're even needed. The crown passes as she just wants to retire, her dragon blood makes her death look a long way off and there's still so much world to see.

Corrin who wanders the galleries and speaks softly with conservationists when they're having trouble repairing her nephew forrest's now long faded and fraying gown, or weaponry forged during the war, talks about the materials used in shigure's paintings. Who stands in front of portraits of the kings and queens of Nohr and Hoshido who finally set aside their differences and found peace with a wistful look, feeling like it was just yesterday. Who talks with her children about ages past over tea, dotes on the descendants of Nohr and Hoshido (particularly when they remind her of her siblings).

There is no more monarchy of Valla, the people suggested a new idea where they voted for their leaders and representatives, and it was too lovely an idea to refuse. Corrin looks barely older than the faded, sepia-toned photograph in the history books, laughing and smiling as the camera's earliest subject alongside the first king of her new kingdom. She kindly writes to historians as a primary source on the war and her reign.

She wonders how old she's going to get. How old her children will be.

Lilith says dragons live a long time.

She's not sure how long.

#katie rambles #corrin #corrin fe #i need people to be sad with ruminate with me over this pointless detail fates cant confirm or deny #im always a little smad remembering that corrin is half dragon and theres nothing to say how that will effect her overall lifespan #like even if it's just a thousand tops that's still. mind bogglingly long for a human to bear #to add like additional scope and context on how she doesnt even need to have an egregiously long life from dragon blood #if we put corrin's birthday at say like. 1800 irl #she would be 222 today. not even 300. #i just want you to try and even IMAGINE all the god damn cultural shifts and historical events during that span happening in your lifetime #like it's just BOGGLING and that's not even her living to 300. 500. #awakening suggests a half manakete like nah could live to even a millennia or two #and it just makes me so smad