#radiant dawn

[misnamisshippingkingdom]

OoT Princess Zelda x Ike FE edit 💖

[afrozenpeach]

Accomplishments in modding: importing a save from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on Nintendo Switch Online... Into Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn on the Wii. A physical Wii.

[mauken-dyn]

Radiant Dawn's 4:3 aspect ratio for the story text bothered me more than it should have, and of course I didn't bother messing around with the Wii U settings until after I beat the game. CG cutscenes fit in the 4:3, but they were made in widescreen, so the top and bottom are empty (subtitles notwithstanding) which is fine, I'm just not used to it. Aside from that visual difference, playing the game in 4:3 feels so much better oh my gosh. Getting rid of those colored sidebars, as well as the game being consistent in the same aspect ratio (again, CG cutscenes aside), makes the game feel so much better. Those sidebars made the text scenes of the game feel claustrophobic to me. I did not like them at all. I would've taken those to be stretched for widescreen consistency. It is what it is I guess.

[mauken-dyn]

I was trying to figure out why Leanne said what she did about Naesala after reading his heart and it just hit me like an epiphany. Tellius writing is something special.

[theofficersacademy]

Micaiah is now available!

- Mod N

[video-game-jams]

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Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - Dawn Awakens

[mauken-dyn]

Titania was my MVP in both my Path of Radiance replay and my first Radiant Dawn playthrough. I love her and she deserves it. 🥺

[mauken-dyn]

I beat Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the first time. I was hoping it would be at least 50 hours to help it feel like a JRPG epic, concluding the Tellius saga / duology of games.

I did not expect it to take me over 70 hours to complete it. I spent a lot of time in the Base micromanaging my units and thinking over what moves to make during battle, so that's probably why my time might be a little inflated (I also had animations on most of the time, too).

I enjoyed my time overall. I had two issues with the story, one minor and one pretty major, which I'll spoil below the cut. Assuming you don't want spoilers, I'll end off by saying this was a really good sequel for a series that almost never does sequels and I found my time well worth playing this Fire Emblem game.

(Maybe recency bias, but this end screen is probably my favorite art of Ike ever. It's just so cool. Young Ike walking away from the viewer and knowing what he'll do from that point and being so proud of the boy. 🥹)

Okay...

Ranulf said if it's what Lethe decided, but it is NOT what she decided. The other laguz were gonna lose their minds until Lethe stepped in to stop them, but then she just goes along with them and repeats what they said (almost on their behalf) to Ranulf. She basically did a heel-turn on what she thought was right and went a total 180. That really stuck out as a weird writing choice. That's the minor one.

Everything I could possibly ask that happened from Path of Radiance or was taking place during Radiant Dawn was answered. What happened to Daein after the Mad King's War? Boom, answered. How would Elincia rule now that she was queen? Boom, answered. Who caused the Serenes Forest massacre? Boom, answered. Why didn't Ike have Ragnell? Boom, answered. How did Ashnard come power to so quickly? Boom, answered.

But this. This was the question I had since I started Path of Radiance years ago and finally this image showed up and I was so glad. I was so glad this was going to be answered. But then it wasn't. It was almost handwaved away as if it wasn't important. I was hoping by the end of Part Four there would be an answer. And there really wasn't. I gathered that Sephiran chose Ashnard when he was a prince and manipulated him to want to awaken the dark god, but that's just me speculating. So why did Ashnard want to awaken the dark god? Maybe I missed something and I really hope I did because I want an answer to this that was so integral to the entire story.