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mark_asphodel) wrote2013-02-10 09:34 am
mark_asphodel) wrote2013-02-10 09:34 am
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FE13 Update: To Chapter 11
And here I will pause because I had almost no time to play yesterday and won't get another chance 'til tonight. I've been busy cooking, cleaning, astronomizing, and playing in the Internet Test Kitchen.
One thing to add on the front end-- I was taken aback with Sully being the Lance Cav when I played the demo because after Sain, Oscar, Abel, and Rody, I'd gotten used to the Green Cav being lance specialists. Nice to mix it up every once in a while, I guess. She's at A-rank now and Stahl's at B for swords.
I've started promoting once characters hit Level 15, so now I have a Level 17 Grandmaster Robin.
OK. So, the plot's barreling along, and now I have my dancer. As I said, originally I was thinking of Chrom/Olivia, but you have all of one chapter to get them to C-support, and if he's at C or higher with Sumia, Maribell, or Sully, they bump Olivia. If he's at B or higher with those ladies or female Robin, Olivia's out of luck. I'll pair her with Henry anyway, as that support looked like it offered actual character development.
I'm still playing semi-blind, but since I knew who was recruitable and who wasn't, Chapter 10 didn't fool me. Otherwise I might have mistaken that chapter's boss for the Honorable Recruitable Old Dude, aka the Lorenz. I don't think we get one of these in this game, which is sad 'cause I like that archetype. I guess Old Dudes are not sexy enough to be makin' the Gen 2 babies?
Oh yes. Chrom and Sully got married. She proposed to him. I like it. <3
Stahl/Cordelia and Gregor/Nowi at B. Robin/Anna at C. Lon'qu/Maribell is just not happening for some reason so I'll put Lissa back in rotation to boost her with Frederick. I need to get Owain because he has a fake Mystletainn. :)
[Stahl can support with Kellam (benched) and Donnel (benched) and Frederick supports with Virion (LOL) but they can't support one another? Boo hiss.]
Anyway, Stahl's a real sweetie, and I can't even recall what I read in the fan-translated supports that annoyed me. As for Frederick, I know damn well what annoyed me in his fan-supports, and he's so appealing in the main game itself[*] that again I wish I'd never read the stupid things. Hell, now he's even got a full-on case of Knight Failure Angst, so he's totally back in my good books until I unlock something that makes me feel otherwise.
* But stop cleaning up gravel constantly, k'thx.
A word about Sumia. Cordy's my main peg knight but I use Sumia now and again 'cause I want Cynthia from Gen 2 and now there's no chance she can swoop in and bag Chrom. But man, I do not like her. Saving Chrom in that cut scene was fine, but counterbalancing that is... everything else about her characterization and the specific "trope" she fits. No. I already saw some whining over on tumblr about "Wah, don't talk up how cool Sully is so you can hate on Sumia and bash Chrom/Sumia." Sorry, little children. I find Sumia dislikable in the extreme, and she earned that on her own, and while I was biased toward Sully back when she was "Soiree" she got into my affections on her own, and I don't have to like a character just because it appears I'm jumping on some new Chrom/Sully bandwagon by favoring one over the other.
It is permissible to not like Sumia. I don't like Ninian either. And whiteknighting and whining about character "bashing" is never, not ever, going to change my opinion.
One thing to add on the front end-- I was taken aback with Sully being the Lance Cav when I played the demo because after Sain, Oscar, Abel, and Rody, I'd gotten used to the Green Cav being lance specialists. Nice to mix it up every once in a while, I guess. She's at A-rank now and Stahl's at B for swords.
I've started promoting once characters hit Level 15, so now I have a Level 17 Grandmaster Robin.
OK. So, the plot's barreling along, and now I have my dancer. As I said, originally I was thinking of Chrom/Olivia, but you have all of one chapter to get them to C-support, and if he's at C or higher with Sumia, Maribell, or Sully, they bump Olivia. If he's at B or higher with those ladies or female Robin, Olivia's out of luck. I'll pair her with Henry anyway, as that support looked like it offered actual character development.
I'm still playing semi-blind, but since I knew who was recruitable and who wasn't, Chapter 10 didn't fool me. Otherwise I might have mistaken that chapter's boss for the Honorable Recruitable Old Dude, aka the Lorenz. I don't think we get one of these in this game, which is sad 'cause I like that archetype. I guess Old Dudes are not sexy enough to be makin' the Gen 2 babies?
Oh yes. Chrom and Sully got married. She proposed to him. I like it. <3
Stahl/Cordelia and Gregor/Nowi at B. Robin/Anna at C. Lon'qu/Maribell is just not happening for some reason so I'll put Lissa back in rotation to boost her with Frederick. I need to get Owain because he has a fake Mystletainn. :)
[Stahl can support with Kellam (benched) and Donnel (benched) and Frederick supports with Virion (LOL) but they can't support one another? Boo hiss.]
Anyway, Stahl's a real sweetie, and I can't even recall what I read in the fan-translated supports that annoyed me. As for Frederick, I know damn well what annoyed me in his fan-supports, and he's so appealing in the main game itself[*] that again I wish I'd never read the stupid things. Hell, now he's even got a full-on case of Knight Failure Angst, so he's totally back in my good books until I unlock something that makes me feel otherwise.
* But stop cleaning up gravel constantly, k'thx.
A word about Sumia. Cordy's my main peg knight but I use Sumia now and again 'cause I want Cynthia from Gen 2 and now there's no chance she can swoop in and bag Chrom. But man, I do not like her. Saving Chrom in that cut scene was fine, but counterbalancing that is... everything else about her characterization and the specific "trope" she fits. No. I already saw some whining over on tumblr about "Wah, don't talk up how cool Sully is so you can hate on Sumia and bash Chrom/Sumia." Sorry, little children. I find Sumia dislikable in the extreme, and she earned that on her own, and while I was biased toward Sully back when she was "Soiree" she got into my affections on her own, and I don't have to like a character just because it appears I'm jumping on some new Chrom/Sully bandwagon by favoring one over the other.
It is permissible to not like Sumia. I don't like Ninian either. And whiteknighting and whining about character "bashing" is never, not ever, going to change my opinion.
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May I add that the selection of ladies that Chrom CAN marry adds to my view of him as Mr. Everything Bagel? Peg Knight? Check. Troubadour? Check. Dancer? Check. Red Cav? A shout-out to Kent and Forde, perhaps, but CHECK. Oh, and the swordy-magicky-Other Protagonist girl who seems more like a (bastard) descendant of Celica than a true self-insert.
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