Thirty(?) Days of Fire Emblem, Days "10, 16, 27"

[mark_asphodel]

 #10: Something you want to change in any of the games:

I'll narrow it down to a couple of things.  In FE8, I would've liked to see more differentiation between the routes-- have Glen and Selena each recruitable on one route, perhaps.  Have different "destinies" for the twins, with Eirika actually becoming a ruling queen after her route and Ephraim accepting his own responsibilities after his route.  Go for broke and make them two truly separate timelines instead of a sort of muddle. Also, some, ah, conversations or explanations or something with the bonus dead characters would've been interesting.  

As for FE11-- I like that game, really I do.  But if they were going to do FE12 as a "reboot" instead of a remake and throw all kinds of weird new material into the mix, then IS probably should've gone further and deeper with tarting up FE11... which might have made the fanbase more satisfied with FE11, and maybemaybemaybe encouraged NoE/NoA to release FE12.  Maybe.  Anyway, the juxtaposition of "remake" and "reboot" is very strange, and the presentation could've been more coherent.

Then again, if they'd tarted up FE11 with moe bullshit, I might not have liked it.  

By the same token, FE7 could really have been better integrated with FE6.

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#16: Least Favorite Character

Ah, that's too broad of a question.  A character I despise because they fail me in gameplay?  An intentionally unlikable villain that I don't like?  An allegedly "cute" or "funny" character that gets under my skin?  

How about Roro from FE12?  WTF, man.  Just go away.  I mean, I'm not pleased with Aine and Kleine and the rest of Eremiya's Orphanage Kill Squad, but Roro is too WTF for words.   

Also really disliked Sylvia but I now believe that to be the fault of a skewed translation and should not reflect upon the actual character.

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#27: Scene/moment that made you go RAEGQUIT

My explosion upon finding out Michalis was recruitable in FE12 is well-documented, as is a slightly more even-handed analysis that followed the RAEG.  But that threw me, yes it did.  Made me hate the entire reboot endeavor for a time.

And, reflecting back to #10, if I could change one thing about FE12, it'd be Michalis.  Have him die and stay dead, or have him live and actually be able to fulfill his self-proclaimed goal of rescuing Maria.  Not this half-assed fanservice bullcrap.

Comments

[amielleon]

What's particularly hilarious to me was that there was a lot of official translation wank in fandom at the time FE4 was vogue in LJ circles. (omg feminization of エイリク!)　And I don't remember people complaining about the FE4 patch. :|

By the way, can you think of a better way to phrase "ずっと忘れない"? "You haven't forgotten about me" sounds strangely ... retrospective, in English, and "you aren't forgetting me" just sounds weird. I almost wanted to put "You've been keeping me in mind all this time" but it makes it more about thoughtfulness than abandonment. There must be a better way to put that while maintaining the sense of abandonment with forget.

[shimizu_hitomi]

Maybe something like "Because you won't ever forget me, right?" I think the tense may be ambiguous here, though granted, Japanese verb tenses are one of my biggest weaknesses, so I don't want to say for sure...

[amielleon]

... Oh. Right. Yeah, that one's probably habitual.

Tenses haaaaaa. I still have no idea how writers of Japanese prose decide which tense to use in narrative.

All I know is that when they write English fanfic as ESL, they choose tenses in English in a befuddling way. :P