Fates Localization Masterpost

I’m gonna make a pinned post about all this stuff, so people can find it on my blog easily. I’ll update it whenever I have more things to talk about regarding this.

Before Branch of Fate Story Changes

Birthright Story Changes

Conquest Story Changes

Revelation Story Changes

Character Changes: Peri

Shura’s Inconsistent Age

TRS actually had a trainee/Est that was perhaps "too good"! Early in the game, you get a choice between various units, one of them, Narron, is a cavalier with just the class base stats, but he has paragon & high stat growths. Not only that, but upon promotion, he becomes a Gold Knight, getting absurd promotion gains(+8HP, +6 Str, +7 skill/speed, +5 Def) as well as the Lethality, Adept, Pavise & Canto skills! The only real downside is dismounting to just swords, but even than, he's not bad!

Sounds neat!

Neat! Official Artwork for Keves and Agnus Queens! (Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Stuff)

(Spoiler-ish comparison stuff under the cut!)

Melia vs. Keves Queen (Same hair loops, same see-through under shirt, same jewelry)

Nia vs. Agnus Queen (Same ‘white mage’ hood, same ears, same accessory)

dontmean2bepoliticalbut :

Real life just makes me sad. Things could be so much better, and yet... 🙁

Funny how some of the people in fandom who wank hard about Byleth “having their identity threatened” and supposedly care so much about their character are also the ones who most verbally hate Silver Snow, the sole route where Byleth gets another significant character arc for themselves 🤔

Also funny how one of the big reasons why people hate Silver Snow is “No battle at Gronder” as if Gronder isn’t literally the worst chapter both in story and gameplay. Seriously that battle serves nothing to the plots other than to be trailer bait and a fairly uninspired connection to ~How Things Used To Be Before War~. And it’s a fucking terrible map to play, at that.

Do you have any favorite Est's or Trainees, I think Mozu is one of the coolest, I like how she can be surprisingly useful in conquest. Ross in SS was also pretty cool & I like the concept of super trainees as an easter egg.

Ross is one of my favorites, Nino will also always have a place in my heart. Mozu's cool as well.

Ah, I am sorry.

It's no worries, <3

I just feel bad every time I see it brought up again, cuz I can't contribute to the conversation about Armor Knights more than I already have

I was reading in the original card game, which used very similar mechanics to the SNES games, all Armored units, including generics, in the Jugdral sets, had the ability to move additional squares in exchange for willpower, which you use for skills, as their canto.

The downside was moving any square cost at least 1 willpower(2 for 2 MOV, 3 for MOV), but you could use this to make them keep with other units.

Whilst in the Archanea cards, Armored units, again including generics, had a predecessor to FEH’s obstruct in that enemy units couldn’t move past their adjacent squares.

The new cipher, instead has the vast majority (but not all, unlike the original) of armored units, gain +20 strength when attacked by a non magic using unit.

Which one do you think would work the best for an innate armor skill in an FE game?

I have no reference for either. And I'll try to say this in the best way I can, but this topic doesn't really interest me that much. I really don't want asks about it anymore.

It really is so nice that even though faith doesn’t work for him, he recognizes that it works for others and he loves that for them. Dimitri is just a very compassionate person, whose growth entails valuing the wants and needs of everyone around him. And that’s wonderful.

fuzzy-hats-and-socks :

Interesting

kotomi795 :

Another thing to note is that Dimitri's headaches and lack of sleep that Dedue mentions later on is implied to be because he went to the cathedral late at night to pray.

ignessie :

the tags in this post are just *chef’s kiss* fantastic

dmicld :

hmm

dmicld :

this is difficult to put together how i want to phrase it but i just… wish people would be more considerate and deliberate with how they treat the relationship between dimitri’s delusions and his violence—especially toward his allies. like i cannot stress this enough dimitri never actually hurts or is even implied to hurt anyone he considers his friend/ally in pt 2 azure moon. and i just so often see it discussed as though (1) it actually happened or (2) not only would it happen, but it would essentially play out as something to the effect of the randolph scene following chapter 14.

i’m (obviously? i hope) not denying that he uses violent language/threats, nor do i want to diminish the significance of that as something that should also be addressed. i’m not even saying don’t explore the relationship between dimitri’s mental illness and dimitri’s violence—however you see that, that’s not what i’m addressing here. but i do think that people have decided that dimitri operates by some sort of incoherent and indiscriminate blood for all logic which is simply not true for his character and IS so often an avenue for really gross ableism.

if you read the context of dimitri’s threats/violent language (especially towards byleth as this is the one that gets mentioned the most), he is so often couching those threats in language that suggests he wants byleth to kill him. like not ambiguously at all. he asks byleth to kill him multiple times in part 2 azure moon. and this is very reminiscent of his gilbert support chain (which can be viewed pre or post ts) where he essentially asks gilbert to kill him as ‘recompense’ for gilbert’s own perceived ‘failure’ at the tragedy—which, just as a related aside, the only thing dimitri thinks gilbert ‘failed’ to do was let him die with everyone else. like dimitri is so often expressing a sentiment of suicidal ideation/general suicidal thoughts in these scenes that mirror his support conversation with gilbert. the major difference is the specifics of the language itself, which is a reflection of the only interpersonal context (violence) that we know for certain dimitri has operated within for the last several years as a literal fugitive following his escape from his execution. like he is expressing a very difficult and very painful mindset to attempt to communicate when you do have clear and accurate language and a safe environment to do so and dimitri has neither!!

i realize that it’s a thorny thing to untangle but dimitri’s violent language vs his actual violence are two different things to an extent especially depending on WHO he is speaking to and the context of the conversation. again i cannot stress enough that i’m not trying diminish that just using language like this IS harmful, but i don’t think it should be equivocated with action especially action that doesn’t actually happen! dimitri doesn’t hurt his allies. he doesn’t. i can’t (and won’t try to) convince anyone whether or not he would or even under what circumstances but he doesn’t and i do not understand the desire to act as though he not only unequivocally would but also to make the scenario incredibly violent and cruel (which i’ve seen very often). at the very least it flattens his character if nothing else but the actual implications of this interpretation re discussions of mental illness (especially mental illness with ‘unsavory’ symptoms) like. please just operate with a considerate and deliberate mindset. like as the bare minimum.

Saw ur post about the fire emblem subreddit, nice to see absolutely nothing there has changed since 2015, probably earlier if you count the anti-Awakening circle jerk

Yeesh, so it's been like that for longer, eh? Not surprised, but it definitely doesn't paint a good look.

Holy Knight Ferdinand is a really interesting concept, I will take that Three Hopes, thank you very much

This isn’t in relation to how Three Houses is written itself, but I’d like to point out that this reminds me of how so many of the Edel-stans create problems based on Edel’s gender out of thin air. Seriously.

Now, I won’t say that Three Houses doesn’t have some misogynistic writing tropes at all, given that most characters who suffer under “Teh Crest Systum” are women who are being treated as breeding stock and baragaining chips. But the writers didn’t make women in particular suffering this kind of abuse as a plot point to be intentionally recognized or thought about, cuz not once does anyone in the game think “huh, it sure is weird how women in particular are suffering this degree of abuse, and men aren’t.” Apparently Sylvain hating people for not liking him for his personality and Hanneman feeling a type of way for what his sister went through is some great equalizer.

But I digress; the point is, 3H doesn’t care about pointing out misogyny nor is anyone’s gender an inhibitor on their lives. But as I said, Edelstans will create these problems whole cloth, and slowly but surely act as if they’re real and canon. And then proceed to act as if they are pioneering a feminist plot through their support of Edel cuz “THIS POOR GIRL IS SO OPPRESSED!!!”

And... creating misogynistic problems from nothing and applying them to a piece of media that didn’t (deliberately) have any of said problems in the first place? Just so you can prop up your fav character? That’s really not feminist in the slightest IMO. And I’m not a woman so maybe it’s not my place to comment on that, but it just seems incredibly backwards and regressive.

foulserpent :

i like how when the fantasy genre gets Feminist it's still very often like:

-lightly misogynist fantasy setting as backdrop for plucky heroine who shows everyone that Girls Can Fight, with numerous 'huhhhh????????? a GIRL???????????????!!!!!!!" scenes (that might have been saying something new in like, the 80s latest) trying so hard to prove Girls Can Fight that you wonder why they arent just creating a setting where women have relative social equality to begin with.

-heavily misogynist fantasy setting as backdrop for story where the author ascribes misogyny to innate human sexual differences divorced from cultural construction (shockingly, 100% in line with exact ways western gender binary and womanhood is culturally constructed). heroine spends much time lamenting on this, having been directly imparted with the author's great wisdom on these matters. other women are mostly repressed or antagonistic to our heroine, who herself spends many paragraphs fantasizing about boring male leads due to author's beliefs about this being an innate physical drive and preoccupation of all women (which is lamented about). at absolutely no point is people sometimes having gay sex and relationships acknowledged as a thing that exists.

-the same as the above but author is approaching from a 'we are the daughters of witches you couldnt burn' kinda angle and is writing a manifesto against christianity and patriarchy that is more rigid and binaristic in its views on gender than an early middle ages christian peasant.

You've heard of "Dimitri actually sides with the Kingdom army against the people of Duscur in Dedue's paralogue," now get ready for "Dimitri was gonna genocide Adrestia if he'd gotten the chance to on CF, and Ladlegard had to stop him." Nope, not kidding - I've seen multiple different people have this idea about him, all because of Sylvain's CF Chapter 16 explore dialogue and what Dimitri says at the very beginning of AM, not CF.

God, honestly I don't know where people come up with this stuff. Like, I'm a guy who loves inferring plot details from subtext-I love FE Fates for crying out loud-but there's like... no indication that Dimitri wants to "genocide" all of the empire. Is he reckless and wants to blaze through the empire to get to Ladlegard? yeah, but 1) Not on CF and 2) there's no reason to think he'd kill indiscriminately, he probably wouldn't give a fuck if you didn't try to stop him.

For as much as the stans play CF, they sure don't pay attention to like, anything that happens on it. If they did, they'd realize Dimitri's a much different person when he doesn't fucking lose eveything.

ngl if cf had el be the ice queen she usually is on the other routes and just had you go full villain id like it a lot more but they kinda just made her griffith berserk but a bad character

No frame of reference for griffith but I'll take your word for it. CF definitely is... a route.

Honestly, I do wish that things like side objectives where a thing. I don't like how it's basically IMPOSSIBLE to miss a chapter or recruitment in the recent FE games. Like, just something like a turn limit that gives you better weapons at the end of the chapter or even things like the silver card. FE7 especially EXCELLED in it's amount and variety of Gaiden chapters. If they made them realistic enough (Things like a character visiting a village, or even just deploying them in a specific chapter) it would be wonderful to have them back

Oh yeah I fucking love side objectives. Like, we hadn't had shit like that since... the DS games? And those were remakes. And proper gaiden chapters haven't been a thing since New Mystery, and before that, FE7 with it's standard objectives.

It'd be neat to see them return.