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Pineapple on 10 February 2012
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Khuutra said:
Pineapple said:
Khuutra said:
MrT-Tar said:
Krom is pretty much guaranteed as a character in SSB4 I think. Either alongside Marth and Ike or replacing Ike.


He'd be replacing Ike.

Any word on if this customizable character is a Lord?

It's probably a lot like the "My Unit" of Fire Emblem 12. I haven't played it yet, but fom what I gather the male one was mostly a less interesting version of Ike, but definitely a lord. The female unit was Eirika. The personality was somewhat changeable, but rather little.

I'd guess there's going to be a lot more to the unit this time around, though, as it's a full fleshed game (rather than a remake), and it's their second time around with one.

 

Krom seems rather odd, doesn't he? He's a blue-haired lord, the fourth so far in the series. He uses swords, which every lord has so far. He wields the "Sealed Sword Falchion", which is a mix of the Marth and Roy/Eliwood weapons, and he's a prince, which every lord apart from the Radiant ones have been. It's like he's a compilation of all the previous FE1-FE8 lords.

Well, Hector was definitely a Lord, and he was an axe man.

Point is I want another Axe Lord. Fire or Lightning support, either is fine.

Well, you can make the "My Unit" into an Axe wielder, so I suppose there's that.

The problem with an Axe Lord is that the lord should be a more powerful character than the other characters. Him being weaker, like for instance Roy in FE6 was, just makes things a bit tedious and annoying.

A Sword lord isn't too hard to balance. He'll have decent durability, won't get doubled by enemies, and will dish out decent damage. If you get RNG screwed with a Sword lord that would usually double enemies, but not doesn't, he's still decently durable.

 An Axe user is far harder to balance. If he's too slow, he'll be doubled by enemies. If he's too fast, he'll double enemies, while dealing incredibly much damage with each hit. Similarly, a high-levelled Axe lord might get such a high defence he'll barely take any damage at all from enemies. Hector suffered from both of these problems, being a brilliant unit throughout the entire game.

Essentially, a powerful, slow, high defence user can trivialise the game, a faster, lower damage and lower defence unit really can't. Thus, making an Axe Lord is a lot riskier and tougher to balance than a Sword one.