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On Reclassing
Oct. 22nd, 2012 09:34 pmWent out of town this weekend. It was great. Back to reality tomorrow. Damn.
Anyway, when FE11 introduced reclassing as a gameplay element, a lot of the fanbase went apeshit and not in a positive way. Reclass was spoken of as some kind of abomination; I think the cherry on the lunacy sundae was the person who claimed it was actually unjust to the characters to take, say, the elderly priest Wrys and make a swordfighter out of him.
Well, two games later and reclass is entrenched enough that the FE13 supports actually make accommodations for the possibility that characters are no longer in their starting class by the time a conversation is unlocked. I also don't hear people screaming about it ruining the characters... though I do think that there is a valid point to the idea that reclassing dilutes a character's identity. I can make Swordmistress!Elice and Priest!Cain, but that's not... well, canon. It makes no sense in terms of canon. However, IMO the "everyone makes with everyone" pairings for FE13 dilute character identity, too-- the same as in FE4.
Which is what this is really about.
If we got a full-scale FE4 remake, some form of reclass would be helpful in fixing the game's lack of balance.
( Ideas and stuff. )
Anyway, when FE11 introduced reclassing as a gameplay element, a lot of the fanbase went apeshit and not in a positive way. Reclass was spoken of as some kind of abomination; I think the cherry on the lunacy sundae was the person who claimed it was actually unjust to the characters to take, say, the elderly priest Wrys and make a swordfighter out of him.
Well, two games later and reclass is entrenched enough that the FE13 supports actually make accommodations for the possibility that characters are no longer in their starting class by the time a conversation is unlocked. I also don't hear people screaming about it ruining the characters... though I do think that there is a valid point to the idea that reclassing dilutes a character's identity. I can make Swordmistress!Elice and Priest!Cain, but that's not... well, canon. It makes no sense in terms of canon. However, IMO the "everyone makes with everyone" pairings for FE13 dilute character identity, too-- the same as in FE4.
Which is what this is really about.
If we got a full-scale FE4 remake, some form of reclass would be helpful in fixing the game's lack of balance.
( Ideas and stuff. )
