Fire Emblem Echoes release date is May 19

Also, Fire Emblem thread

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Don't compare that little boy to OP. The little boy isn't a faggot.

I can't believe this image is semi-relevant.

Is Echos basically Sacred Stones 2.0?
Or is it dumbed down like the first 3DS game was?

I also heard Treehouse aren't localizing it, but I've also heard rumors of them putting other people's names to cover up Treehouse doing work (i.e. localized by someone else, yet the work is exactly Treehouse's work- and they appear in the credits like they did minor shit like QA or proofreading.)

What if it's been named Fire Emblem (((Echoes))) for an even more sinister reason than that?

They seem to be keeping it as faithful as Gaiden for what I can tell, but adding GBA-style supports, that dungeon crawling mechanic and town exploration
I'm just hoping that they tweak the maps a little bit

8-4 is doing the localization, the same fuckers behind Awakening's western release
I expect a slightly better job than treehouse, but not by much since 8-4 also butchered a lot of things in Awakening

Also fuck, I feel old just remembering "American Badass" 'Taker, I can almost hear Limp Bizkit in the background

Granted, it's a tiny bit better than Treehouse, but the things they did to Awakening still drives me up the wall, and fuck them for removing the mute option for the player.

I still expect them to fuck up things a lot, just not as outright insulting as Treehouse did with Fates

I've been playing FE12 recently and I somehow managed to under level everyone but the player character.
I'm debating whether or not to just start from scratch, though it's been amusing watching him just massacre basically everything solo. Dude can kill dragons with just an iron sword and at E rank in swords.

From what i've seen, it's surprisingly faithful to Gaiden, including things like bows having 1-5 range, enormous terrain bonuses, and magic draining the user's HP. Stuff like growth rates have been improved, the dungeon crawling and village exploration have been expanded on, there are supports, and the presentation is a lot better, but the map design is also unfortunately faithful to the original game.