Give Us This Day Our Daily FE12 Update

[mark_asphodel]

 Holy hell.  Update to the official site and everything.  Don't click if you don't want to know.

So, rash, stubborn Luke and composed, gorgeous Rody are members of this "Seventh Platoon" of Altean Knights, along with Katarina and My Unit.  I don't know why Cecil isn't mentioned... maybe she's senior to them?

I am really hoping that this advance promotion of Rody and Luke and their status as "classmates" to Marty Stu and the purple-haired chick will mean that the pair of them get some dialogue and characterization in the Prologue or the My Unit-led chapters.  I am also hoping it will lead to a burst of Cecil/Rody pix, because that would be win.  I don't know why I'm so excited over an obscure pair of cavaliers who never captured the fan imagination (that's the penalty for violating the red/green color scheme, I guess), but I am. 

Cord is back as a playable character.  Cord was another no-show in FE3 Book Two, so his presence in FE12 is yet another new spanner in the canon works.  At this point, the only members of the FE11 cast who will definitely NOT be back are Jake and Beck, as the Ballistician class has been removed from the roster and replaced by Dancer.  I'm a little bummed, but at least Feena will be able to use swords and so may prove kickass.

(I'm not saying the rest of the crew are all back, right down to Raddy and Tomas.  I'm saying we can only rule out the Shooters.)

The graphics and stuff are all basically what we saw in FE11 with maybe some minor tweaks, so don't expect this to look like the GBA games.  But I can give a flying flip about the graphics if the gameplay is good and the characterization and dialogue are decent, so color me happy thus far.

Comments

[penandpaper71.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that art. *saves* I'm amused about the weapon swap there. If these suspicions turn out to have any foundation, then it might happen again. Luke is holding a lance there, but a sword in his new picture, while Rody is holding a sword there and a lance in his new artwork. Maybe IS just wanted to swap the weapon for the sake of variety?

I like the flags. ^_^

I can never remember, probably because I don't really care about stats and archetypes except for a few rare occasions, but who is supposed to be the "Cain" and "Abel" gameplay wise?

I'm going to have so many cavaliers/paladins on my team when I finally play this game (Assuming that they translate it). O_O So, far I want to use Cecil, Rody, Luke, Cain, Abel, and Sirius. I think I need to cut my list some, but I can't figure out who to cut. D:

[penandpaper71.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for pointing that art out to me. ^_^

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

I can never remember, probably because I don't really care about stats and archetypes except for a few rare occasions, but who is supposed to be the "Cain" and "Abel" gameplay wise?

I have never seen a 100% applicable definition of "Cain" and "Abel" gameplay wise, so I really can't say. I believe Luke has better HP growth than Rody, marginally better defense, but maxes out on speed a little slower than Rody does. So I guess that makes Rody the Speed/Skill one and Luke the Strength/Def one, whichever those may be.

I think Luke places higher on the Serenes Forest tier list and Rody places higher at GameFaqs. So, uh... it's meaningless? :)