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Canonically Exeggutor loses one of its head and when a loose head finds other heads an Exeggcute is "born", oddish spread its seeds at night, muk is born in contaminated water at night, etc. there are many other examples and I don't know if they even bother anymore explaining how each species reproduces. What I'm trying to say is that the Breeding mechanic is bad and one of the worst things Pokémon did to its lore, every Pokémon reproduces the same way which makes all Pokémon feel the same and boring + is the reason baby Pokémon exist the old lore made Pokémon feel like strange creatures with alien origins, and breeding basically destroyed the cool monster concept and turn it into grandma's pet that I can duplicate infinitely in my backyard, until I get the right GENES (the opposite of Pokémon's message)

I'm just saying Armor knights wouldn't get doubled nearly as often if they brought back Pursuit.

I wanna see Oifey on Sigurd's back like Miquella on Radahn.

Avatars are fucking cancer.

There's a big glaring hole in your argument, and that's the fact that Genealogy is already a complete story that does not need an Avatar.

12:55 As someone who has an unwrapped copy of Engage on his shelf and is waiting for a good opportunity to sell it off, I can tell you this: Alear is the *WORST* Avatar in the franchise. Alear is *ALL* the problems an Avatar can have and then some. Personality that breaks the immersion? Alear is a wishywashy mopeball who tries to run away on the first fight and breaks down crying at the death of someone he/she just met. Pointless reason to have an Avatar? Alear makes no big player choices and the game never justifies having an Avatar other than "the other games did it". And then there's what detractors call the "Avatar Worship"... It's hard to get worse than having an Avatar that is LITERALLY worshiped by the whole land. It gets especially glaring once you find out about your past, in which... SPOILER ALERT It turns out Alear was a reluctant follower of the BBEG who turned on him, got shot in the back in return and has NO noble acts between taking out the BBEG in the past and now, as Lumera kinda just built up all that hype about Alear while the latter was in a coma. Really, whoever wrote this crap should never write a Fire Emblem game ever again.

Not sure if this would work for FE4, but I do love the idea of an avatar who exists across multiple generations, growing up and going from a young advisor to a wise mentor over the course of the game.

Yeah Alear is just straight up not an avatar in my opinion. Theyre literally just a main lord that the player is allowed to name, thats it. They have their own personality and arent any more customizable than any other character outside of their gender, theyre genuinely just a character whose name you get to pick.

Multiple problems with this idea. 1. The point of the avatar was newer to improve the narrative of the game, the point is to make bland character who the player can easily project themselves onto and who everyone praises and loves 24/7 in order to sell the power fantasy. They are a marketing tool, not a narrative tool. The only real exception is Shez, but that's because Shez was pretty explicitly made in response to the criticism Byleth got from the fanbase. 2. Avatars being a marketing tool also means that replacing Oifey with an original avatar in FE4 would mean that there's 1 less character that IS and Nintendo can sell you in Heroes and through other merchandise. Why would IS sell just additional Oifey alts in Heroes when it could also sell alts for the new female and male avatar instead? 3. Avatars in FE are meant as a type of power fantasy, that's why they are always among the best units in the game or sometimes arguably the best units in the entire franchise like Robin. Making it so that Oifey wasn't playable at the start and was Sigurd's errand boy ruins the power fantasy. The only real solution would be like how FE12 does it where Mark just does everything instead of the rest of the cast, however, the problem is that Sigurd is by the design of FE4 the strongest unit of the first gen and even if the avatar becomes stronger than him in chapter 3, they will still be overall overshadowed by Sigurd. 4. The world doesn't revolve around Oifey. In every FE game to feature an avatar, aside from FE7 where they were still experimenting and Kris who is more debatable, the most important people in the world are the avatars. However, in FE4 Oifey isn't the one who defeats Arvis and Julius and saves the world and its instead Seliph and Julia. Oifey cannot get the book of Naga of the Tyrfing and that means that the players would feel alienated by being the third wheel in the story. Ultimately, an avatar character doesn't really fit into the game and trying to make a character like Oifey into the avatar is like trying to put a square into a round hole.

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Maybe if it was like New Mystery (but toned down even more) it could work. But the avatar would very much have to be in the background. Basically, have the avatar start out as like a Chalfy/Grannvale Tactician joining Sigurd's group on campaign. The avatar could also be one of the survivors of "that event", and could witness both Sigurd's fall AND Seliph's rise from the sidelines. 25:30 This could potentially be solved with Echoes-esque Memory Prisms.

No Fire Emblem should ever have an avatar, every game that used one worsened the writing. Avatar worship destroys the main characters themselves & their struggle/story, it gets worse when romance is involved 💀 Having an avatar fundementally ruins the writing bc of the pandering & babysitting, why? Because the avatar represent the "player" & the company don't want the player to feel bad or be offended by a flawed avatar so they make the avatars boring & without personality or meaning, take out Byleth for example & all house leaders would have to rely on their allies rather than a walking corpse, or look at Corin.. then again I think maybe it's better to forget he/she ever existed 😑

More than making an avatar, your idea would be better if ofiey was a second lord or simply naming him like in FF7 lol

And why we don't make two avatars? The first one, a kind of Finn of Sigurd or Edain, the second, the son/adoptive son of our first character

Now this is Genealogy content I can get behind!

Dude with all due respect you just recreated the concept of script rewrites. You know the ones Shadow Dragon and Echoes did without an avatar character? Your pitch doesn’t even qualify since your pitch had no control of their appearance or their name. What you described is pov character.

4:28 Absolute Wrys erasure.

Echoes didn't have a avatar why the hell would you want to risk FE4

I 100% agree with you. Now that you've presented me with this, I'm actually hoping that they add an avatar for the game. I never actually seen the problem with an avatar within these games. It even helped me to feel connected to these games. I haven't played So what if I want to have a power fantasy? I feel like avatars can improve, and I do feel like it has some signs to continue on improving. Maybe some choice systems could work along the way that feels more meaningful that makes you connect with the character that you have.

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Honestly, having a avatar in FE4 would be fun, and their kid being friends with Seliph

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I originally played FE4 when i was a teenager. I just replayed it as an adult with 4 kids and man does it hit different. Something about your kids continuing your fight is powerful.

I can't say that this would be a good idea, instead I'd go to Thracia 776 to add units; My top picks; 1. Salem; the dynamic that a former Loptyr Cult member would add would be great, plus imagine the boss conversation potential here. However do the first ever playable Dark Mage in the series justice and make him more than just a good staff-bot. The story potential that this opens up would be a *COLOSSAL* missed opportunity if they didn't add him. 2. Saias; could make Valflame usable by the player through him, plus could flesh him out more in the process, just give him a unique version of the High Priest class that allows him to use fire magic. 3. Sara; Manafoy's granddaughter, do I need to explain this one or the story potential that it brings to the table? 4. Brigid as Eyvel in the second gen; that could be fun and be a stronger connection between the two games, if she wasn't killed in the first generation that is. 5. Troude and Perne of the Dandelion Bandits; would make for some interesting interactions considering that the scale of the fight is far bigger than what they're used to. Plus would be a little odd to have Salem but not them. Plus the whole former bandit thing, they may not have been evil bandits, but they were still bandits and other members of the army might have issues with that. 6. Xavier; feels odd that he wouldn't follow Leif past Manster, yes I know that he'd be a general in the game with the largest maps, but it would fit. Overall I picked characters that would be able to have interesting stories tied to them, that or had confirmed ties to notable FE4 characters. This wasn't a bunch of ass-pulls, but rather characters who would add something to FE4's story.

I can solidly disagree with Byleth being the best Avatar. A big thing Avatars accomplish is both giving the player a PoV character similar to them, and also letting them self-insert a little bit, all while role-playing. On paper Byleth would accomplish this, but in practice, Byleth has two main features holding them back. The first is being so blank a slate, that they're actually cardboard. Byleth has zero personality, and only began to gain one in Hopes and Heroes. Robin was designed with various personality traits in mind, ones that show up in story and supports, so the player has something concrete to latch onto. Meanwhile, Byleth has absolutely nothing to connect themselves to the player, and so relies solely on their gameplay role and nothing else, leading to them feeling more like a vessel for the player than a part of the world. Despite being such a blank slate, Byleth is too established in the world. We know Byleth's actual date of birth, the circumstances of their creation, and what their life was like prior to the player stepping into their shoes. Robin similarly, sidesteps the issue both with amnesia, and with having their time after their mother took them from the Grimleal to be left unexplored, so you could infer a life on the run, one in a village, or some other wacky explanation of your own. Byleth is incredibly rigid, and even has an Ashen Demon nickname, which then conflicts with the gameplay when they're a level 1 commoner with only D rank swords. Game hypes them up as an experiences mercenary and then makes them a villager archetype like the rest of the student cast because gameplay-story-intergration is hard, small indie dev studio, please understand :( In short, Byleth's net zero personality traits gives the player nothing to relate to or connect with, isolating them from the player, and their place in the world having just enough detail and establishment on the details, like Corrin, prevents them from having the flexibility that the player can infer little details and add a piece of themselves as well. Also being hailed as a skilled merc with years of experience only to spawn at level 1 in the starting class is the choice of all time.

I get where you're coming from, but I greatly disagree with your take. Good video, though.

09:21 Now that's a fucking take, I won´t say if it's a good or a bad one, but I can respect it

You really don't make a good case here, and honestly, I'd say it's because you have the complete wrong mindset about Genealogy.

i think this could be super cool if they make the original available legally and easily worldwide first

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I could just say "Don't worry is ok to be wrong" but am not going to sugarcoat it Gordon Ramsay would vomit seeing what you intended to cook and put you in jail

As long as Oifey has a MANDATORY moustache in Gen 2 regardless of your choices

Let me guess, you hate that women and men don’t have the same constitution and are weaker than men like in real life and thus making Fire emblem sexist, like that other retard that covers Fire emblem on TH-cam!

That’s literally what’s making Fire emblem worse, those damned avatar characters! No character personality at all!!!!

Just give Oifey more screen time. Keep Oifey as Oifey

This video definitely made me rethink the avatar story. After alear, i felt so detatched from the world, as my only big decision was who i gave my friendship ring to. But this, from the storytelling, and the narrative purposes of it make so much sense. And vrings a strong connection from gen 1 to 2. If IS did this, it'd be the most cinematic way to remake the story. But they'll probably just give you a pointless avatar for gen 1.

Please don't make the Avatar some dragon child who can't remember their past and is the child of the evil dragon kthanksbai.

I had to put my phone away at the byleth section and take a break. The idea of them being the best protagonist is bananas and it made me realize that three houses would probably be a better game if they didn't exist

I see where you're coming from here, but this is a disastrous idea. Oifey could never work as a self-insert for a variety of reasons, not the least of which are that he is either a wee lad or a passing impersonation of my father, neither of which are appealing as a self-insert, and especially not as a character whom you want as your surrogate for romance, which, like it or not, is a very important aspect of FE now. Oifey is cool, but he doesn't work as a viewpoint character. Another very important thing to mention in my eyes is that the choice of you *essentially being* Oifey is that it will feel so jarring to essentially miss out on 15ish years of your character completely randomly. The way i see it, just replace Oifey, because making Oifey as important as any avatar is would be hated, and at that point we're not really being faithful to the original vision anyway. Echoes is the perfect blueprint for how to do a remake, and i really hope IS keeps to that.

You're jumping into a volcano with this otherwise brilliant suggestion. Fire Emblem 12 is my favorite Fire Emblem in the series, and people vehemently despise it beCAUSE of Kris's inclusion. And that was for a remake of FE3, a game that... People liked, but don't hold so dear like with FE4. I believe Intelligent Systems would take the FE15 route and simply remake FE4 without an avatar because FE15 was praised heavily for not including a Kris. For me personally, FE4's biggest weakness is having a severely underdeveloped cast, even when considering the limitations of the SNES. FE5's characters manage to pop and be far more memorable despite also being a SNES game with no supports. One of the best things about FE12 is bringing back supports where Kris can converse with the cast, and if your idea goes through... I think they should reinstate that.

I get wanting to have a character like Oifey be more present as hes the one who basically sees the whole story of 4 from the beginning to end; in fact it makes sense because you could see everything from his perspective, but to make him into an Avatar or even a unit for both generations, is not needed. even calling him one is inaccurate anyway since it lacks the key piece of being a name-able self insert by default. The Storyteller, the audience's surrogate and Tactician sure, an Avatar not so much. also you forgot about Shez, the best Avatar

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*Tangent:* I'm more of the opinion that "Tactician" should be much more of a support-class. Not strictly fighting in battles, but the "Rally" ability should be further expanded upon, and gaining experience from directly influencing other unit movements [or even how their stats grow]. But more relating to the actual topic of this video: ...How interesting would it be if the former "replacement" units in FE4 [for if parent units didn't have children] were possible appearances for your Avatar?

I think I would like it if the "impact" that an avatar had on a possible FE4 remake is the "impact" of a Valflame to the face. Unceremoniously removed from the series forever in a hilarious twist on the avatar character. I think they should also be completely outpaced by Sigurd in order to reinforce this parody of the modern avatar character. Maybe make them an awful candidate to be a father of the child characters as well. I don't think people would perceive this as an avatar if you didn't shape the term "avatar" to refer to a consistent perspective instead of an audience surrogate to engage in wish fulfillment. I personally felt uncomfortable when the GBA characters faced forward and spoke to "Auren," because I don't need to be 100% anchored to the story via a dedicated surrogate. I like the concept of Alear (as much as the emblems and parent pacing undermine any arc they could've had) much more than Byleth's identity as a emotionless yet quirky dating sim protag. Hell, Shez is fun because they have a personality, thoughts, and personal conflicts. Shez in Three Hopes gets to be much funnier than Byleth in Three Houses, who is brought down by having no expression to pair with incredibly similar (but far less impactful) dialogue choices.

why do I need an avatar to care about a story and connect with it, I don't need to be in a story to care about it, I don't need to pretend I'm a part of story just because Its a game, games don't need to tell stories through the player if thats not whats intended by the creator.

I think if we get an Avatar it should be a Mark type. Like a ride along strategist just more important for this game. Maybe running off with baby Seliph to carry over to the kids generation. Also welcome back

This may be the worst Fire Emblem take I've ever heard.

Byleth kinda fails as a avatar due to the lack of customization. Sure, its cool they a blank slate, but they’re also very much meant to be a specific character in the world with a history aw a famous merc. So when you can’t even change anything about them it feels less like they’re a proper avatar and more like an avatar in the same way BotW Link is an avatar. They’re a character who lacks character.

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