Even if Lewyn died in Ch5 and stayed dead he'd still have better
characterization than just about anyone else in the damn game. Adult!Lewyn
makes him a truly great character in FE canon, but he was already on the
top of the heap as far as this game goes.
I do think the unequal treatment of characters shows favoritism but it's a
bit of a chicken-and-egg issue on where that favoritism comes from. We
know that Jamke got more screen time than he was supposed to because Kaga
(I think) developed a soft spot for him, and yet what we got on Jamke in
the end doesn't feel like enough. And as much as I feel Shanan got shafted
someone on the dev team thought it'd be funny to inflict a Fake Shanan on
us not once, but twice! And clearly SOMEBODY thought Beowulf was awesome.
But yeah, I do think someone or multiple somebodies was writing this thing
going "Yeeaaaaah, Lewyn!" and "Yeeeah, Leif!" and so on.
[This is why the question of "Why does Thracia 776 exist?" is interesting,
because the dev team chose to illuminate and expand a story that already
got a shocking amount of screen time in FE4 and to lavish extra development
on characters that already had some of the best development in FE4. It's
not like they gave us Agustria 779: The Revenge of The Black Knight, after
all. So did the Thracia stuff seem like the best material, or was it the
best material because it was what Kaga and crew were most invested in, or
what? It sure looks like the latter.]
Re: Alec and Noish. I wasn't sure if they transcended their respective
gimmicks or not. Arden most certainly does not. Alec and Noish are indeed
One-Note-Johnnies in any event. I also didn't touch on Lex, Tiltyu, or
Fury. Do we get enough on Fury to understand her? Maybe. Is there more
to Lex than what we see? Is Tiltyu really that stupid? Not sure.
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Date: 2013-05-21 02:59 pm (UTC)Even if Lewyn died in Ch5 and stayed dead he'd still have better characterization than just about anyone else in the damn game. Adult!Lewyn makes him a truly great character in FE canon, but he was already on the top of the heap as far as this game goes.
I do think the unequal treatment of characters shows favoritism but it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue on where that favoritism comes from. We know that Jamke got more screen time than he was supposed to because Kaga (I think) developed a soft spot for him, and yet what we got on Jamke in the end doesn't feel like enough. And as much as I feel Shanan got shafted someone on the dev team thought it'd be funny to inflict a Fake Shanan on us not once, but twice! And clearly SOMEBODY thought Beowulf was awesome. But yeah, I do think someone or multiple somebodies was writing this thing going "Yeeaaaaah, Lewyn!" and "Yeeeah, Leif!" and so on.
[This is why the question of "Why does Thracia 776 exist?" is interesting, because the dev team chose to illuminate and expand a story that already got a shocking amount of screen time in FE4 and to lavish extra development on characters that already had some of the best development in FE4. It's not like they gave us Agustria 779: The Revenge of The Black Knight, after all. So did the Thracia stuff seem like the best material, or was it the best material because it was what Kaga and crew were most invested in, or what? It sure looks like the latter.]
Re: Alec and Noish. I wasn't sure if they transcended their respective gimmicks or not. Arden most certainly does not. Alec and Noish are indeed One-Note-Johnnies in any event. I also didn't touch on Lex, Tiltyu, or Fury. Do we get enough on Fury to understand her? Maybe. Is there more to Lex than what we see? Is Tiltyu really that stupid? Not sure.