Fire Emblem is a difficult series, I don't know if you guys have heard

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famousringo said:

Oyvoyvoyv said:

famousringo said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

famousringo said:
I consider likable to be pretty high praise for a JRPG protagonist. Most of them fall into the category of mute, drama queen, or shallow caricature. Some of them even go for the hat trick. There aren't many I can actually empathize with.

I concur.

Then again, Fire Emblem isn't a jRPG.  It falls into the even more niche sRPG category and sRPGs generally crush jRPGs into the ground when it comes to character design and development.

 

Nah, I see lots of offenders in SRPGs, too. Even in Fire Emblem games. Guess I just have high standards.

 

 Well, most Fire Emblem characters are "one sided" and thus shallow as hell. But when you have 40 characters, it's kinda hard to have them switch sides and such. Seth being the exception when he kills Eirika in that glitch though.

Anyone specificly dull (of the main characters)?

You just wanna make me piss some people off, don't you? What the heck...

Yeah, obviously not everybody can have a ton of depth to them when there are dozens of characters, and supporting characters often have to fill a particular role which doesn't leave them a lot of room for personality. I can forgive a predictable bigot character like Jill or a joke character like Ilyana.

I'm a little reluctant to finger particular characters, just because I haven't played these games as exhaustively as some. There are a lot of support conversations I've never seen. Eliwood and Eirika would be my picks for least interesting main characters so far.

I do indeed enjoy seeing flying rats own the hell out of Link(s) indeed.

 

I agree with Eliwood, but it's been a while since I played FE7 (well, it's just a year, but I've played so many FEs it kinda messes up in my head).

Eirika though, seems like a somewhat balanced character (and I played Sacred Stones less than 1 hour ago). She's essentially a more realistic Fire Emblem character, as she seems somewhat intellectual, and has a number of great lines.

Ephraim on the other hand, seems more like a "I wanna go hit things" character.

 

I really liked Jaffar and Nino too. FE7 has some excellent writing, and that's one of the downsides by 8 (it's still awesome though). 9 has the best, and 10 is back on FE7 levels.