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(shrugs) That's just what I thought of Excellus when I first saw him. Now, I can't look at him without thinking "effeminate guy."

And I got the ending with Chrom as the Avatar's husband... and there's nothing different about it. He's still just an add-on to the Avatar's ending snippet. (Which I was very disappointed by; I wanted to know what people thought of their marriage.)

Don't get me wrong this is the best game ever. x3 I didn't realize I was basically just murdering everything as opposed to making a strategy and going at it with a tiny army against a huge one like other FE games til recently.

I wish the dlc characters had real sprites and voices and talked more though!!!
However, it's absolutely perfect for Jaffar. <3
Most of the lines go "..." or "!"

I knew Yen'fay was a significant baddie, but not a Camus specifically. Significant B-list baddies get OAs all the time, Camus or not. I knew he was a traitor, but I had nothing to base that information on for myself. I only knew of Yen'fay for three chapters before I killed him and there are only minor references to him in that time without real shows of emotion or evidence. I just feel like there's a lack of substance there because there is just so much to squish in in those three chapters. I just feel like it could have been better if the whole Valm arc had more time to breathe instead of just hitting all the notes as quick as possible and then going home. Again, I'm not saying that Yen'fay is without merit, I'm just saying that I was a little disappointed in how they handled his role.

Even if they just got rid of Excellus reading the script to you after the fight I think the whole thing would have been a bit better. If the power is supposed to be in what is unsaid (and what is unsaid always has the potential to be super powerful, I know this well), then why do we have Excellus reciting what happened to us with all the subtlety of a brick to the face afterwards? Why couldn't we have sat on what we knew at that point or had it unfold more naturally? All the pieces are there, but I just don't think they were used well. Again, I blame bad pacing.

Also, the conversations in here as well as the experiences of other friends are making me wonder about normal mode and how much easier it is than hard mode. I started on hard mode classic and I thought that the difficulty was a good fit for me. I did do skirmishes but I also trained a large number of characters at the same time which called for a bit of grinding on the side (though not to a crazy extent, I'm not that kind of gamer). I also still felt like the main game was decently challenging. I keep hearing that normal is way too easy or that hard is a bigger jump up in difficulty than is has been in the past. Can anyone give me some more solid thoughts on this? How does it compare to past games?

Am I the only person who doesn't cosider Yen'fay a Camus? Or Mustafa for that matter. They're both being blackmailed. I don't associate blackmail with the Camus archetype - I always associate Camus types with loyalty to the point of stupidity, never blackmail.

As for how Yen'fay is handled in general, I don't care about him, but I really don't think I'm supposed to. I'm supposed to feel for Say'ri in that scene, and I do. Valm has the ingredients to do a lot of cool stuff and never really delivers on it for the most part (frankly, I'd prefer they'd have removed Valm entirely and put something else in for the middle portion because I don't buy most of the Valm stuff at all). Excellus's speech afterwards contributed to and was necessary for me feeling for Say'ri in that scene (and I don't much care about Say'ri in general); it's immediately after the kill when they have the biggest opportunity to make a scene of it and I needed to know about the blackmail concerning Say'ri for it to have the effect it did. If nothing was said, I wouldn't feel much of anything because there would be too little to go on by that point. Finding out about the blackmail later would also have little impact. Yen'fay could've been handled much better in general, but for that scene in particular, I thought they successfully accomplished what they set out to.


I did Hard Classic for my first playthrough, with zero grinding and found it to be enjoyable in difficulty. I did Normal Classic after that and never found it difficult at all, but it isn't insultingly easy. There's an acceptable jump in difficulty but I do think it's wider than it's been in previous games somewhat. The jump from Hard to Lunatic… let's just say I think it'd be better if there was a difficulty between Hard and Lunatic.

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No comment.... just no....

I really wouldn't compare Walhart to... say, Shiharam. That's a real Camus archetype.

If you claim that characters from the Valm storyline don't have enough depth, or if one-chapter bosses don't have enough depth, then you need to seriously step back and consider what your requirements are for "enough depth" in a game in which non-PCs typically only have 1-3 chapters to shine before they are killed, unless they are major antagonists or NPCs. Mustafa was well-developed for his one chapter of combat, I believe. Valm was most definitely rushed, but the characters there had enough there to make me believe that you could legitimately make that the focus of FE13 if you really wanted. Or if they wanted to make FE13 a longer game, too. Yen'fay's motivations were interesting enough to follow, though learning more about their family and country would've really helped in fleshing out their personalities. Even if Chrom had just asked Say'ri what Chon'sin was like and she talked about the political structure, or how she and Yen'fay factored into the ruling sphere, that would have done a lot for me. But que será será, I suppose.

Walhart was not a Camus archetype. He's an honorable enemy, yes -- he's sort of a less-Chaotic Evil version of Ashnard in that regard, as he prided strength above all else and didn't seem to give two shits about your gender, race, or anything as long as you could fight and survive -- but nothing about his personality implied that he would give up on his goals in order to join your side and effectively end his efforts to rule Valm, then Ylisse and Regna Ferox.

Also consider: Say'ri is one woman. She has Resistance members behind her, but you never see them. She's separated from them and it's probably a touch difficult to coordinate actions when you're not actually with the group. Is it that hard to consider that you can't really do much when you can't actually guide your units?

I definitely agree with Ryu, by the way. More map variety would've been really nice -- more Objective variety as well, actually -- and the Pair Up feature took me a while to get used to, particularly in how your units would align themselves when you selected the option. It took me a long time to get used to the fact that Pair Up would put the unit that selected the option behind the other unit instead of in front. Had to reset many a chapter because of that slip-up.

While it's got some dings, FE13 really feels like something Intelligent Systems tried to polish to a mirror shine. And I really enjoy it for what it's worth. I don't think I've gotten this much playability out of a Fire Emblem game since FE7.