Picking Apart the FE13 Clues...

[mark_asphodel]

OK. So, now we have a bit more information. I have "annotated" this by including links to things I find relevant.

Krom: Descendant of the Holy King who saved the world from the Evil Dragon. Leads a vigilante force to conduct an investigation of his neighboring nation when they start acting weird. A man with a strong sense of justice and a skilled swordsman, wielding his nation's treasured sword, the Binding Blade "Falchion", in battle.

[Kid doesn't know you don't bring your holy weapon to the initial fight. I suspect it'll be stolen/broken or he'll be out of commission for some of the game. Might get turned to stone like a certain "Jeigan" character in FE5?]

MyUnit: Found lying unconscious on the ground, has lost his/her memory but knows Krom's name for some reason. Also, MyUnit is in the "Strategist" class, which uses swords and magic tomes. We've been waiting for this in a main character since... Cellica!

Liz: Krom's sister. Just to nail that one down. Strikes me as a bit of an Ethlin throwback.

I hope "Soiree" is a chick cavalier.

In summary: I think the FE2 influence here is stronger than a lot of the fanbase realizes. And my Gestalt impression of Krom at this point is "Sigurd V 2.0" more than anything else.

Comments

[amielleon]

Soiree looks like a chick cavalier to me, which is exciting! Generally speaking though, from the females we've seen so far I'm dreading a step back from the ground Tellius had tread.

[mark_asphodel]

Soiree looks like a chick cavalier to me, which is exciting!

Yeah. I think we're right about this one, and it'll sorely disappoint me if we're wrong.

I want to open a betting pool or something. I mean, I'm willing to wager that the whole dual-Lord thing allows for Krom to be out of the action for a while while MyUnit and Liz carry on. I'm not expecting a shock twist on the level of FE4, but I suspect either Krom, his sword, or both are inaccessible for a considerable chunk of the game.

[amielleon]

My vote's for Krom's sword is out of commission for some reason for a huge chunk of the game, but Krom himself only takes a very small break if he does at all.

[writerawakened]

I wonder if the fact that what we've seen so far is a mishmash of elements from previous games, if FE13 is going to be a deliberate throwback...or if it's just lazy design. (At this point it looks like it could be either.)

And I doubt Soiree will displace Titania in the "Awesome female redheaded mounted unit" department, but it will be kinda neat to finally have a girl cavalier.

Still not crazy about the art style though :/

[mark_asphodel]

At this point it looks like it could be either.

Yep.

but it will be kinda neat to finally have a girl cavalier.

I think the only girl starter cavalier to date has been Cecil in FE3/12.

Still not crazy about the art style though :/

I think it blows monkey chunks. It has the wedge-shaped faces that repel me in FE4 combined with a weird, slightly creepy stylized blandness that I don't associate with Fire Emblem at all. Plus the muted colors.

[raphiael]

Just from what I've seen, my first thought is that they've put in the "throwback" to say "Hey, look, it's still FE!" even with all the radical changes. The way FF keeps throwing moogles and chocobos into things, in a way.