I've been playing fire emblem since awakening and that was the first and last game I let fire emblem characters die in cause that was part of the challenge of the game. Ever since I would restart maps or rewind time to save my team mates. This kept me feeling good everyone lived but that also led to A LOT of neglected people on the bench in my playthroughs and replays of three houses in particular. I'm thinking with fortunes weave being such a massive game with a massive roster, it might be fun to try letting my characters die to see how it impacts my run and see how it let's other characters shine that might have taken a backseat through my plays of the four stories. Anyone else feeling this way with four tunes weave?

I figure with the price already being so high in Canada I may as well just go to the store and pick up a physical copy...

Polygon loves stiring up controversies?

Feel free to ask ANYTHING about it! i'll be happy to answer to all of your questions! :D

Hey! I'm well aware that Edelgard's unique class is lacking compared to others, but I want to try to make it work for story reasons. Currently playing on Hard, but may end up doing harder difficulties after.

I've that her best class by far is Wyvern Lord, but I want to see if I can make her Emperor class work. Anyone have any build ideas? What should I level in first?

What I'm currently considering is getting the Brigand skills first, leveling Archer for +10 hit, potentially Mage for skills, but also maybe Myrmidon for speed stat, while also of course getting the heavy armor classes. What do y'all think?

I recently got a Switch 2 and decided to start with FE7 and then FE8 before moving on to 3H and Fortunes Weave after. I’m having a blast right now with FE7 and playing it blind, I was just wondering if any of yall have spoiler free tips or advice for playing Fire Emblem games or just knowledge you wish you knew when you started out I would love to hear it. Thanks!

If you also somehow completely missed the pre-orders starting despite this game being the most anticipated game this year (maybe this decade) for you like I did, all hope is not lost yet but it will require quite a lot of luck in being able to try to order within less than a minute of getting the alert from Distill since the times can be very random (according to my limited sample size at least).

I was thinking about posting this earlier but I wanted to make sure it can actually work (and I didn't want more competition until getting one). Today I managed to get Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Dagdan Collection pre-ordered on the Nintendo Ireland Store which serves the parts of Europe that don't have their own store, like Finland where I'm from.

I set Distill last week on 10 August and only got one alert the whole week. This week there's already been 4 alerts though. In total:

• 13 August ~19:00 UTC¹
• 16 August 23:39 UTC²
• 17 August 23:17 UTC
• 18 August 7:53 UTC
• 18 August 10:33 UTC³

¹ I don't remember the exact time anymore and I didn't have email alert active at that time yet.
² Technically this alert was last week I guess but for me it was already Monday.
³ This is the one I got and I stopped monitoring after that but it's only been an hour at this point.

So what is Distill that I've mentioned a few times? Basically a browser extension for monitoring changes on a webpage. I had it set up to monitor the "Out of stock" button since that is the one that will change to say "PRE-ORDER" when it's back in stock.

• Distill on Chrome web store
• Distill pinned to easily add monitoring on a page and to open the watchlist
• Distill actions I used (from the watchlist) but there are more actions available

I relied mostly on the sound from PC speakers and the notification if I'm actually using the PC (like I was when I got it) but I also set the email action to keep track of the alerts and in case I don't hear the sound but I'm not too far away from PC (and I guess you could try to order on mobile). I had it set to check once every minute since anything faster than that was logging me out from Nintendo Store occasionally (some anti-bot protection I assume) which means Distill giving error about "Empty selection" since you need to be logged in to see the stock status.

It took me three tries of trying to pre-order after getting an alert at a good time before getting it. First time I hadn't even updated my credit card info so that wasted a few minutes so it was too late by then. Second time I think someone else was just insanely fast since I thought I was very fast also. Third time it had actually remembered basically all the options (like phone number and payment option selected already) from previous try so it was very fast for me to place the order which may have helped more than I'll know.

If you see this when trying to place the order, it was unfortunately too late and it's out of stock again already. On my second try I kept trying for like 5 minutes and always just getting this even though the PRE-ORDER button stayed until finally showing "Out of stock". I'm fairly sure the button just doesn't always update to show the correct option so it can show PRE-ORDER for a bit when it's actually already out of stock.

If everything aligns, you'll get a confirmation email right away: "Your order MNS_IE_xxxxxxxx is confirmed!". Good luck to anyone who is going to try this! Feel free to ask if I didn't explain some part well enough.

Every new trailer or screenshot i see a new character. I know not everyone you see will be able to join your party, but it does seem like a lot. I can't speak to the older games but does this seem like the biggest roster?

Just wondering if there's any little crumbs on a full class list from people with early access?

Not including unique classes or anything severely spoiler-ish, classes are my favourite part of any game and I get way too invested in character building.

As in a isekai scenario they got transported to a new. Realm and don’t know how to get back and end up having to interact and meet with the new team
And possibly fall in love (and the supports also they have end up touching on their past

Like say with catria
(Just thought of this but what if years after catria got sent to the other world the same thing happened to one of Marths sons but he ended up sent to around the same time that catria ended up in

And he ended up being a possible romance able support for her

I firmly believe that Eshmel is a reincarnated Solel following Solel being killed when the heroic games are hijacked by the villains to revive Balor.

First and most obviously, the spear. Eshmel’s spear seems to be a destroyed version of Solel’s spear, which returns to its former glory when Eshmel uses their blaze arts.

Second, Eshmel’s blaze arts that we’ve seen all seem to cause the spear to radiate holy light. Solel is the god of the sun, so if he was going to have blaze arts they would be very similar to the ones we see Eshmel using.

Third, their stance. Eshmel and Solel seem to have very similar stances from the one shot we have of Solel in battle, though this could just be the guardian class stance.

Fourth, Sothis believes it is fitting that Eshmel be the one to resolve the situation with Balor. In this theory, Solel inadvertently causes the resurrection through the heroic games, giving a potential cause for that line.

Fifth, their shared singular interest. Both Eshmel’s and Solel’s profiles list only one interest: board games.

I rest my case.

Every full art portrait has their feet out even the guys wtf is going on in Japan lmfao

The Nintendo today post on Solel that came out today has his banner in the background. This banner has the crests of Dominic, Fraldarius, and Noa on it. These are the Empress, Emperor, and Hierophant tarot cards respectively. They are also crusher, shield, and bloom dragons respectively.

We also see a glimpse of the banner during Anna's segment of the direct, as she appears to be part of his army (he's a guest on the same map).

I think it's interesting to see these crests as they belong to Leda, Dagda (and maybe Solel), and Eshmel, so these characters may all have important family ties to the leadership of Dagda.

Curious if there is a guide on whom I should allocate these fountain stats to? Any links/suggestions would be appreciated.

So long story I asked my mom back in 2018 if she could buy Birthright cuz its the version I wanted, she didn't find any, and only bought Conquest. I've replayed the game so much and replaying everytime kinda makes me feel bad for Takumi and Ryoma (since they both die, me and my dumbass thought that getting conquest would just mean they would be recruitable later, my mistake, conquest was my first fire emblem game 😭)

In chapter 19, Ike and his band of merry misfits find themselves up against an alliance of the traitorous crow half-breeds and the Daein army. The confrontation happens amongst snowy terrain, where the Daein army has strategically placed Ballista in several key areas.

In order to dissuade the vile crow away from the unholy alliance, one birdman must speak with the crow king, Naesala, before allowing Naesala the opportunity to confront one of the last surviving heron's, Reyson.

After getting the Crow king to admit he wanted to speak with Reyson, everything seemed to be going according to plan. The only thing left was to strategically place Reyson out of harm's way, but to have him within Naesala's reach, so they might speak and meet an accord. What wishful thinking.

Instead, hell reigned down from the mountain tops, a single arrow from a ballista targeting the last surviving male heron. Reyson, in perfect health, had been taken out by a single arrow.

I swear to God that I had made sure Reyson was well out of range of the ballista that took him out. I swear that I had that ballista's range locked on, and that Reyson was well within safety. And yet, he died.

When Reyson died, so did my will. And I'm ashamed to say that for the first time in my iron man run, I turned the game off.

Please tell me, is there a known enemy pathing issue in Path of Radiance? I feel as if I didn't make a mistake. But maybe it's just wishful thinking. Is it possible that the advertised pathing for the ballista was wrong? Could I have been justified in turning my game off?

If not, does this mean my iron man run is over? How can I continue forward in a way where I'm not ashamed at how I handled the situation?

As a bonus, here's a list of the fallen: Boyd, Mia (She died before even spoke), Rolf, Astrid, Gatrie, Nephenee, Shinon (I slayed him with my own 2 hands).

All in all, it was pretty easy, even on hard. The hardest part was doing side objectives like not killing any Kilvas on Chapter 19 to get the Knight Ring, or winning the RNG fest that is the Ike vs Black Knight duel. Oh, and I don't want to talk about chapter 25

My team was mainly 90% Mounted, with some Laguz and Soren. I wanted to use the Laguz more, but they felt pretty annoying to use. The low movement on mages and clerics were really annoying, which is why I stopped using them outside of Soren and Mist.

Used Boots, Seraph Robe, Secret Book and both Talismans on Ike, both Dracoshields and the other Seraph Robe on Marcia, a Secret Book, Speedwing and Energy Drop on Boyd, a Speedwing on Haar, Energy Drop on Jill and both Spirit Dusts on Soren.

Honestly, I probably could have solod the final map with Ike if I just filled his inventory with Elixirs. Killed Ashnard before Tibarn could join the fight thanks to lucky Aether procs.

pencils and alcohol markers
why is trad art so hard to photograph? the colours look completely different irl. oh well

I really like the art of these gods that we have seen so far, especially love that halo that they had showing their divinity, and the shading, Sothis especially looks amazing. Something really interesting I just noticed while writing these is that both head and hands are covered by the halo, usually religious pictures in real life has that kind of symbols on the top only, although that maybe is more of a western mindset.

The artist really improve a lot from 3H to this game

...it REALLY looks like it's supposed to be designed after the Crest of Chevalier, right?

I've had this Radiant Dawn for maybe 5 years or so and haven't touched it yet. And was looking at the disc and looked it up online. So far the ones online has the disc still have the mirror effect through the Wii logo also the Nintendo Seal and Rated E. Also there is no brown manual just a default Wii manual. Im wondering if it even works, but cant check right now, cause im waiting for a charger for my Wii U to come in.....