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#11: Favorite Level-- Uhhhh. That one that's a TARDIS. FE6 16X = FE8 Valni 8 = FE11 24X. Because it's a TARDIS! WMG on TV Tropes said so.
#18: Best Storyline--
Storyline in FE is a little hard to evaluate because of prequel/sequel/sidestory issues; FE7 gains a great deal of resonance if one has foreknowledge of FE6, for example, though as Raphi and others have pointed out, the two could've been tied together better. FE1 and FE9 turn out to be set-ups for sequels that knock over key assumptions about Archanea and Tellius respectively. Also, FE recycles itself. A lot.
As a self-contained story, I adore FE2. It's not epic. But it's a sweet little story about two great kids and their battle against some deeply ugly forces, featuring a human "villain" and a not-human Big Bad who just aren't the usual "Rawr, destroy humans" enemies.
But, overall... I still love the War of Heroes plotline from FE3. Both in the way it's set up, as a mundane and often brutal political story whose extra-ordinary dimensions are revealed one facet at a time, and in the way it deepens, expands, and in key senses inverts Archanea as presented in FE1. For a retcon job, it's a damned good one, one that makes sense of things (like the titular Fire Emblem) that could've been left unexplained as just your basic gameplay assumptions. And, crucially, the relationship between humans and The Other-- so essential to the character of the franchise as a whole-- first takes shape here as the player learns what's really gone on between humans and the various dragon tribes. FE4 gets the props for its horrific Chapter 5 plot twist, and the FE10 plot does a similar demolition job on the received truths of FE9, but I don't think they-- or key revelations contained in FE6 or the essential core structure of FE8-- would ever have existed if Kaga and the gang hadn't first cut their teeth on FE3 Book II.
#23: Something Epic--
Jagen in FE3. Because he's the BAMF Tactician to beat all BAMF Tacticians.
OK, Second-Gen Levin's pretty epic, too.
#11: Favorite Level-- Uhhhh. That one that's a TARDIS. FE6 16X = FE8 Valni 8 = FE11 24X. Because it's a TARDIS! WMG on TV Tropes said so.
#18: Best Storyline--
Storyline in FE is a little hard to evaluate because of prequel/sequel/sidestory issues; FE7 gains a great deal of resonance if one has foreknowledge of FE6, for example, though as Raphi and others have pointed out, the two could've been tied together better. FE1 and FE9 turn out to be set-ups for sequels that knock over key assumptions about Archanea and Tellius respectively. Also, FE recycles itself. A lot.
As a self-contained story, I adore FE2. It's not epic. But it's a sweet little story about two great kids and their battle against some deeply ugly forces, featuring a human "villain" and a not-human Big Bad who just aren't the usual "Rawr, destroy humans" enemies.
But, overall... I still love the War of Heroes plotline from FE3. Both in the way it's set up, as a mundane and often brutal political story whose extra-ordinary dimensions are revealed one facet at a time, and in the way it deepens, expands, and in key senses inverts Archanea as presented in FE1. For a retcon job, it's a damned good one, one that makes sense of things (like the titular Fire Emblem) that could've been left unexplained as just your basic gameplay assumptions. And, crucially, the relationship between humans and The Other-- so essential to the character of the franchise as a whole-- first takes shape here as the player learns what's really gone on between humans and the various dragon tribes. FE4 gets the props for its horrific Chapter 5 plot twist, and the FE10 plot does a similar demolition job on the received truths of FE9, but I don't think they-- or key revelations contained in FE6 or the essential core structure of FE8-- would ever have existed if Kaga and the gang hadn't first cut their teeth on FE3 Book II.
#23: Something Epic--
Jagen in FE3. Because he's the BAMF Tactician to beat all BAMF Tacticians.
OK, Second-Gen Levin's pretty epic, too.
and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 09:59 am (UTC)(He has seven. Soren, for example, has four or five depending on how you slice it.)
Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 10:14 am (UTC). . . do I smell angsty crossover potential?
Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 10:35 am (UTC)(Levin/Lyon sounds like it's so full of angst that by the law of contrastive angst, it may in fact be somewhat bland.
On the other hand, if we're talking about leveling continents...)
Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 11:26 am (UTC)Levin probably deserves better. . .I have a feeling continent leveling would almost certainly come about, though.
Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 01:51 pm (UTC)Anyway, undead!Levin leads his kindergarten army against long-haired prettyboys under possession with intent to kill, so I think that pairing is literally DOA.
Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 03:31 pm (UTC)But we're talking not entirely alive Lyon, so isn't that after the DK is forcibly ripped from his soul (thereby also driving him a little crazier a la Raphific)?
Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 05:43 pm (UTC)I still don't see it. Levin just doesn't have time for that sort of crap.
Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 05:46 pm (UTC)Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 06:48 pm (UTC)Re: and now for something marginally related
Date: 2012-01-02 01:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-02 10:20 am (UTC)And yeah, when I looked over FE3's script, it definitely was striking how much of the initial "FE" elements were there that I hadn't spotted in the earlier games. I mean sure, there wasn't the "dating sim" aspect or the supports, but I don't honestly find those truly essential the way 3's groundwork seems to be.
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Date: 2012-01-02 05:42 pm (UTC)FE3 was the anti-dating sim, for certain.