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[Ken the Wandering Soul]

I've been watching/listening to the new Souen no Kiseki trailer for the past half hour. God, I cannot WAIT to see this in north america.

[Sety]

If the rumoured pre-order extras are true I might have this game in my hands by the end of the month

[TJ]

Pre-order extras?

[Sety]

The JPN release is rumoured to have a calender, cards, arranged music cd and a few other extras with it similar to the JPN release of FE7 that is not going to be available for the US launch.

[Ken the Wandering Soul]

... Prooving once again that anyone outside japan will get the short end of the stick in gaming.

[TJ]

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/gfej/

They've updated the official website.... The theif looks kickass. ^^

[Sety]

http://nanashi.ath.c.../src/up2339.avi

The new advertisement is out

[Skyreus]

They've already updated the characters section with a 3rd page of characters. They seem to do that pretty regularly now although I have doubts on whether or not they'll continue to update it again considering how much they revealed already.

http://www.nintendo....mode/index.html

There's also a commercial up now.

[Sety]

There's also a commercial up now.

Which I just posted...>_>

[Skyreus]

Sorry, glanced over it (probably the word "advertisement" rather than commercial caused the overlook).

Well, think of it as a second outlet for the commercial

[Sety]

Riiiight......

Just the last time I checked, advertisement and commercial are the same thing according to the english language.

[Skyreus]

Riiiight......

Just the last time I checked, advertisement and commercial are the same thing according to the english language.

Commercials are advertisements.
Advertisements don't necessarily have to be commercials in more conventional views and word usage.

But technicalities aside as I said I glanced through the thread quickly and saw no "commercial" (okay, I used the "Find" feature) so I posted it up and I already apologized for missing it.
There's really no reason to get into any sort of argument over something so trivial.

[TJ]

Teh scans.

http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_01.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_02.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_03.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_04.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_05.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_06.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_07.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_08.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_09.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_10.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_11.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_12.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_13.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_14.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_15.jpg
http://forte.hiho.jp/shininghouse/souenn_16.jpg

I'm kinda getting bored from just ripping stuff off from fess, but whatever. =p

EDIT- Hey, I just discovered that The Sacred Stones is coming out on May 23rd. How long has this info been out? o.0

[FalconZero]

>.>
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Is this thread dead?

EDIT- Hey, I just discovered that The Sacred Stones is coming out on May 23rd. How long has this info been out? o.0

Dunno. I'm done with the Japanese version a long time ago and I got the English version a few days back. Just a few more chapters towards the end. I'm more interest in Ephraim, Joshua, Myrrh and Seth.

Besides, I don't get what Lyon was saying at the hot area. :s:

[TJ]

Grar. Lyon. I don't like the english names much. XD
Especially Cormag. =p

[Sety]

<_<....Sacred Stones was weak to begin with as a game and only story saved it.....

Story has been weakened further by bad translation and I've finished the game completely...now I can 100% say it is a bigger let down than FE7 was.

They've also screwed around with the stats and growths for no apprent reason making near next to no worthwhile changes.

[TJ]

I'd just say that the worst thing was the laughable difficulty. I'd say that NoA was just insulting our intelegence by making it even easier, but there are still people who think its too hard. >.<

[Sety]

[img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] of the supports were toned down too as was the language was changed.....also Ephraim's general language was changed [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img]. Ephraim is supposed to speak very informally but in the english version hes like any other noble.

Oh and just because this rocked so much.....

Seth: DASTARD!!!

[Ken the Wandering Soul]

It makes one want to kick on NoA official in the nuts.

[FalconZero]

Don't you guys like the new classes and new enemies in the game? Despite its drawbacks, I liked Sacred Stones better than its prequel. There are training grounds available (tower & ruins) but the setback is there's too little way to get more funding for strong equipments.

[TJ]

Theres unlimited funds. =p

[Sety]

Don't you guys like the new classes and new enemies in the game? Despite its drawbacks, I liked Sacred Stones better than its prequel. There are training grounds available (tower & ruins) but the setback is there's too little way to get more funding for strong equipments.  <_<


Edit: Oh shoot, I didn't know there were special endings in the game.  

Lets point out a few downsides......

-No more in game CG's
-Less memorable music
-Less animated faces
-Less entertaining supports
-Typos and mistranslations galore
-Lazy classes.....if you don't believe me make Marisa and Joshua into Assassins, Joshua just has Jaffar's sprite and Marisa uses Josh with pink hair. Also Valkyrie and Mage Knight.
-No more ranking
-Too easy to powerlevel
-Money is WAY too easy to get and you get free weapons in tower and ruins
-Playing the game afterwards for secret charas is pointless since you can't save anyway or use them in scenarios like in FE6.
-Every character can max near all stats.


Although this could be ammounted to FE8 was actually not made by the FE team and was a hand me down project....the actual FE team was doing FE9.

[FalconZero]

Well, normally I'd be comfortable without the ranking system because it requires more time to plan out a perfect strategy that earns you a high rank. (I always prefer to have all my party level up and not just my favortie ones).

And the fact about easy money, were you referring to the chests in the tower? I haven't come across one yet. In the battlefield, monsters only give like 1, 50 or 100 gold in a single battle as my party's equipments constantly wear out.

Oh, and that ending of Joshua and Natasha was romantic. I didn't think of that from the beginning when they first met.

[lord-of-shadow]

The game is inferior to Rekka no Ken in almost every way... but it's still pretty darn good. Almost as good as RnK actually, which is just about the highest complement I can give a game

[Sety]

Mm..thats at least saying something...despite the fact its one of the weakest titles in the FE series its definitely still above [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] of of the other games currently out for GBA.

[Skyreus]

The Sacred Stones definitely has a lot more flaws in its overall design than The Blazing Sword. Sety basically nailed most of the negatives although I haven't delved too far into supports yet so I have no comment on that at the time.

I really enjoy the field music being played after the splitting of paths though (I chose Eirika's path for my first playthrough and kept a save file to go back to Ephraim afterwards). But nevertheless overall the score is weaker.

One more thing I would like to add is the lack of Gaiden chapters. Those made a pretty big difference in the number of chapters between the two games (taking Lyn's tutorial chapters out of the mix). Just off the top of my head there were probably about five Gaiden chapters at least in The Blazing Sword.
But then again there are the extra dungeons in The Sacred Stones that I haven't gone through yet.

I probably don't have the dislike towards The Sacred Stones as much as Sety does but it's definitely a far weaker title compared to The Blazing Sword from what I've played so far.

Oh, and it just so happened Nintendo decided to release The Sacred Stones on the same day as the amazing WarioWare Twisted .

BTW Sety, have you played Path of Radiance (a.k.a. Souen no Kiseki) yet? If you have what do you think so far?

[FalconZero]

Oh, and it just so happened Nintendo decided to release The Sacred Stones on the same day as the amazing WarioWare Twisted .

I saw WarioWare Twisted too and I was thinking about trying out that game after beating The Sacred Stones. But instead, I ended up getting Wario Land 4. Maybe I wanted to finish the prequels first before going any further.

This is a bit off topic but did any of you play Advance Wars 2? The game's bit similar to Fire Emblem.

[Sety]

BTW Sety, have you played Path of Radiance (a.k.a. Souen no Kiseki) yet? If you have what do you think so far?

Yes I imported it.....

Overall its a awesome game the fact its made by the main team definitely shows, although the Normal/Hard/Extreme modes are complete jokes....since Normal = Easy, Hard = Normal and Extreme = Hard. Although theres way more notable differences between the modes than simply pumped up enemies which is good.

Characters....are definitely on drugs....no doubt, but skills tend to stop them being unstoppable at the same time also making them unstoppable. However unlike in FE8 they do have a extremely hard time maxing stats due to the fact [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] of units are pre-promoted. It follows the FE5 style of pre-promoted units with insane growths but very low starting stats stopping them from being unstoppable.

Music....hard to say....it suits the game very very well but its nowhere near as catchy as the older home console FE's, although I really like the new twist they gave some themes

Weapon customisation...is a major gimmick and complete waste of time, it offers next to no real rewards besides a pink sword >_>

But the bonus exp does make leveling mroe convenient and easier to distribute, menu/item management is much easier now since its gone back to a FE3 style of menus along with the FE7 pre battle menu conveniency.

Graphically its okay, they could've done much better with the actual battle scenes backgrounds do look nice and the FMV sequences are complete eye candy overload.

And finally.....no wonder Ike gets his ass kicked by his dad...he can't even hold a sword...who holds a sword over their head? o_O

Theres probably more I could say but I don't want to ramble on its definitely a good title that does seem quite rough around the edges in some places and polished in others. I think though the main issue is they've left the main game engine in its place and just basically polished it all up. Its good in that aspect but also bad as in theres little to offer after you finish.
If you say supports, then I'll just mention most canon pairings like Ike and his sister have NO supports. Also most charas only get around 2-3 supports.

[TJ]

Curse it all. I've been playing the english version of FE8 for too long... I'm starting to call some of the characters by their english names. x.x

And I might just be having bad luck in this file, but the english one feels harder than the japanses game to me. o.o

[lord-of-shadow]

I'm starting to call some of the characters by their english names. x.x

So? I think that it's better off that way. Unless you want to learn Japanese and play the Japanese versions, we should stick with the translations. I for one will try to avoid ever using the Japanese names again, at least while talking in an English forums, with English-speaking fans.