Yay or Nay to child units in Echoes? I personally think a few from select parents (say instead of all males like fates, alm has a child, and celica has one, but not all females have one) could bolster the roster and allow for a few unique convos
Nope nope nope nope nope.
Alm isĀ a child. Ā His canon age is approximately 16. Ā Heās not going to have any child of any meaningful age by the end of Echoes, thatās not how that timeline works. Ā I donāt care about Deeprealms shenanigans ā they donāt make sense and theyāre a bit too obviously shoehorned. Ā They can stuff it.
You can increase roster size without adding the whole cluster bomb that comes with S-rank child-spawning. Ā Shadow DragonĀ did it, pulling a handful of characters in by optional side chapters.
Itās not a bad mechanic per se. Ā Itās just contextually inappropriate. Ā It doesnāt add to Gaidenās world and would retcon some things that probably shouldnāt be. Ā There are better ways to add roster diversity. Ā Exempli gratia:
Gaiden is known for many things, one of which being that it contains villages that are actually explorable and contain NPCs. Ā Gaidenās villages, however, have almost no value ā one recruitable character, one useful item, etc., and then youāre done with it.
If the villages get padded out in Echoes, some (or all) of them could acquire a tavern building. Ā Taverns are hubs common across many RPGs and adventure games as places to recruit new party members. Ā Add a currency of some form, and then put a fixed number of recruitable characters in different taverns throughout the world, that can be hired at a specific cost. Ā Hiring characters is not new (see: Hugh in FE6, Volke in FE9 & 10, among others), and again, you have more cause to check in on villages from time to time.
Alternatively, village NPCs could become recruitable as generics to pad your roster ā youāre running a rebellion, after all. Ā If the village character fights and does well, it could improve your relationship with the village; if they die, it could sour.
Or, you could check in the handful of ports from time to time. Ā Valentia is just across the sea from Archanea, so why not send Archanean characters to Valentia in boats on occasion? Ā This would provide a legitimate way of including other popular characters such as Marth, Caeda, etc. Ā Put my boy Wolf in a boat.
tl;dr ā there are many many ways to add characters between GaidenĀ and Echoes, and putting marriage + kids in there is a lazy way to do it compared to the alternatives.
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