This entire battle was what the Queen Mikoto chapter in Fates SHOULD have been. Watching through this again legitimately creeps me out. Corrupted Lumera’s movements in her cutscene with Veyle being so unnatural and jerky like she is literally being jerked around on strings (driving home that she is LITERALLY a puppet despite the glimmers of who she used to be you glimpse), the way she near-vertabrim (I think) quotes what she said to Vander, Clanne, and Framme when they trained against her with Alear in the early chapters, the way she’s so damn menacing with that sickly-sweet tone of voice…you could tell me this chapter was titled “Sombron Twists the Goddamn Knife” and I would have deadass said “yeah I believe that” (Also it helps that we get, like, more than two minutes of bonding time with Lumera. I think we get a whole SEVEN throughout this game, flashbacks included! lol)
The way Lumera's voice plays up her agony and sorrow just makes me genuinely believe there is *some* twisted truth to a few of the things she says, manipulated and corrupted of course but feelings that you can reasonably see her feeling deep down where she wouldn't want her child to see. Also Mikoto honestly should of just survived (maybe incapacitated) and she could of ended up as an antagonist in Conquest, wanting the status quo stay the same when it comes to Corrin given she literally kept their room the same ever since they were yanked. Maybe give her an arc about accepting change & moving on in Birthright. Literally show Hoshido in a more gray area of being too passive, not going into wars nor helping others that much. If I go further things will loop to a Garon rant so I'll stop here.
@@LonerofGaming I thought the same thing, Lumera is different from the other corrupted, even powerful leaders morrion and hyacinth were essentially reduced to either beasts or total puppets. It seems like on some level, sombron isnt controlling her directly and moreso bringing out what was already there. I think her battle dialogue with veyle shows this the best, lamenting on how she was denied time with her child that even her own murderer gets to savor. Lumera, the perfect deity goddess, genuinely despises the fact that she had to weather a millenia alone, watch over 30 generations of her subects come and go, all so she could spend barely even a single day with the child she was nursing to health. (and i think this song captures that so damn well) I also remember thinking "now THIS is how you make good use the perfect dead parent" archetype, until they had another long death exposition dump
I love how you set this up, gets more dramatic the further you listen. I just got the game on Christmas and loved it. Corrupted Lumera was rhe hardest fight in normal mode by far since 1 never played fire emblem in my life since i got the game from how addicted i am to smash bros and 2, i was jamming to the music. Thanks for posting this!
[Timestamps] Distorted Flash of Light 0:00 Distorted Flash of Light (Storm) 1:41 Goddess in Shadow 3:36 Goddess in Shadow (Frenzy) 4:09 Distorted Flash of Light (Final) 6:14 Whether you love or hate the idea of Corrupted Lumera, the music it brought is really good! Well I honestly don't like 5:25 -5:36 as much cause it borders on "it's actually disorientating if you focus too hard on it". It's possible to pull this glitchy vibe off without it bothering me examples being KFAD MissingNo. stuff but here it doesn't hit the mark for me. I feel like Lumera being revived for this battle works if you headcanon that all of her more negative emotions, all the feelings of loneliness and regret were just brought to the forefront. Being the last Divine Dragon would mean she'd have no real family left, complete isolation in a war against the fell dragon. Picking up Alear save both them and herself, forming the familial that was either stripped away or never given to them. Her death took away what gave her happiness, being with her child, negative thoughts to bring things back to what felt right should of at least cross the back of her mind in her death. The venom she spat against Veyle is something that makes sense given in state, the one who took everything away from her (in her broken sense of logic now) would be Veyle. It would hurt her more knowing Veyle and Alear had formed a bond as siblings. It's more interesting so see Corrupted Lumera pick up any lingering regrets she left behind rather than just the explanation be completely "evil cause brainwash mind control evil hahaha". She still is brainwashed of course but I like to think that these feelings didn't come from no where. It's likely she forgot what she did as a Corrupted given her final death cutscene but it just thought this would be an interesting point to bring up. I'm pretty proud with how I transition each track into each other, the formatting going Map, In-Battle, Pre-Battle, Battle, & Map (Final) worked out really well. It bothers me the Normal Distorted Flash of Light raw ends abruptly then has the ending you here, so I'm glad we have this work here. Visually I just used what I thought worked but I need to say, but god the clipping in the cutscenes that use in game models really bothers me, Lumera being the biggest example. I used my 30 second Switch record function for the whole video so there might be some weird small unavoidable cuts. Small nitpick for this game, why can't I turn off subtitles *outside* of the cutscenes like 3 Houses/Hopes, or even replay game cutscenes like said games? It's impossible for someone to record a full scene without subtitles because you can only turn them off *when they appear* which is stupid, and again the game cutscene thing bothers me given you can watch them perfectly fine in the literal previous game, why have we regressed? If you are wondering about why I did 2:04 - 5:22 like this, I just used my Vs. Malear video here because I can't unhear most of this dialogue exchange whenever I hear this music, watch it with voices here th-cam.com/video/qj3jfTP5BCc/w-d-xo.html
Technically speaking, there is one other song that fits into this bunch. It's called A Thousand Years Alone and it plays just before Distorted Flash of Light. But yeah, this is an incredibly good setup regardless!
@@NoNameAtAll11 Thanks! I actually debated if I should of had A Thousand Years Alone here when making this but ultimately decided against it. This was mostly out of preference but I prefer the current flow this gives off without it.
Wow, what a great intro into Canadian cuisine ,because this is definitely what this is and *DEFINITELY* *NOT* distorted flash of light and goddess in shadow in the same video!
When I listen to this holy but yet terrifying and sad mashup, I can’t stop thinking about my birthday, mainly because I played Chapter 25 on my birthday!
Don't worry, these "Not" videos are just named like this for tradition sake. I named them these when 3 Houses released when that was a problem but here it's just for fun.
I feel Engage's story is REALLY overhated. It's got a lot of really bad scenes and starts horribly, but there's also some really good stuff in the game that really doesn't get talked about enough. It's still the tackiest game in the series, but the story does ultimately come full circle, and has some pretty consistent themes that it fully explores, which is more than I can say for most Fire Emblem games, even the ones with my favorite stories. The world building sucks though. That is something I can't and won't defend lol.
Engage's story isn't bad. It's just very basic. It's better than Fates who was trying way too hard with no results. Engage is consistent, and it's got the best gameplay in the serie
![[Fire Emblem Fates] All Royal Siblings Battle Dialogue](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nJGa8qOr-cI/mqdefault.jpg)
The worst she can say is no.
Her: “Die you little defect!”
Proceeds to start battle theme that goes way harder than required.
This entire battle was what the Queen Mikoto chapter in Fates SHOULD have been. Watching through this again legitimately creeps me out. Corrupted Lumera’s movements in her cutscene with Veyle being so unnatural and jerky like she is literally being jerked around on strings (driving home that she is LITERALLY a puppet despite the glimmers of who she used to be you glimpse), the way she near-vertabrim (I think) quotes what she said to Vander, Clanne, and Framme when they trained against her with Alear in the early chapters, the way she’s so damn menacing with that sickly-sweet tone of voice…you could tell me this chapter was titled “Sombron Twists the Goddamn Knife” and I would have deadass said “yeah I believe that”
(Also it helps that we get, like, more than two minutes of bonding time with Lumera. I think we get a whole SEVEN throughout this game, flashbacks included! lol)
The way Lumera's voice plays up her agony and sorrow just makes me genuinely believe there is *some* twisted truth to a few of the things she says, manipulated and corrupted of course but feelings that you can reasonably see her feeling deep down where she wouldn't want her child to see.
Also Mikoto honestly should of just survived (maybe incapacitated) and she could of ended up as an antagonist in Conquest, wanting the status quo stay the same when it comes to Corrin given she literally kept their room the same ever since they were yanked. Maybe give her an arc about accepting change & moving on in Birthright. Literally show Hoshido in a more gray area of being too passive, not going into wars nor helping others that much. If I go further things will loop to a Garon rant so I'll stop here.
@@LonerofGaming I thought the same thing, Lumera is different from the other corrupted, even powerful leaders morrion and hyacinth were essentially reduced to either beasts or total puppets. It seems like on some level, sombron isnt controlling her directly and moreso bringing out what was already there. I think her battle dialogue with veyle shows this the best, lamenting on how she was denied time with her child that even her own murderer gets to savor.
Lumera, the perfect deity goddess, genuinely despises the fact that she had to weather a millenia alone, watch over 30 generations of her subects come and go, all so she could spend barely even a single day with the child she was nursing to health. (and i think this song captures that so damn well)
I also remember thinking "now THIS is how you make good use the perfect dead parent" archetype, until they had another long death exposition dump
I love how you set this up, gets more dramatic the further you listen. I just got the game on Christmas and loved it. Corrupted Lumera was rhe hardest fight in normal mode by far since 1 never played fire emblem in my life since i got the game from how addicted i am to smash bros and 2, i was jamming to the music. Thanks for posting this!
[Timestamps]
Distorted Flash of Light 0:00
Distorted Flash of Light (Storm) 1:41
Goddess in Shadow 3:36
Goddess in Shadow (Frenzy) 4:09
Distorted Flash of Light (Final) 6:14
Whether you love or hate the idea of Corrupted Lumera, the music it brought is really good! Well I honestly don't like 5:25 -5:36 as much cause it borders on "it's actually disorientating if you focus too hard on it". It's possible to pull this glitchy vibe off without it bothering me examples being KFAD MissingNo. stuff but here it doesn't hit the mark for me.
I feel like Lumera being revived for this battle works if you headcanon that all of her more negative emotions, all the feelings of loneliness and regret were just brought to the forefront. Being the last Divine Dragon would mean she'd have no real family left, complete isolation in a war against the fell dragon. Picking up Alear save both them and herself, forming the familial that was either stripped away or never given to them. Her death took away what gave her happiness, being with her child, negative thoughts to bring things back to what felt right should of at least cross the back of her mind in her death. The venom she spat against Veyle is something that makes sense given in state, the one who took everything away from her (in her broken sense of logic now) would be Veyle. It would hurt her more knowing Veyle and Alear had formed a bond as siblings. It's more interesting so see Corrupted Lumera pick up any lingering regrets she left behind rather than just the explanation be completely "evil cause brainwash mind control evil hahaha". She still is brainwashed of course but I like to think that these feelings didn't come from no where. It's likely she forgot what she did as a Corrupted given her final death cutscene but it just thought this would be an interesting point to bring up.
I'm pretty proud with how I transition each track into each other, the formatting going Map, In-Battle, Pre-Battle, Battle, & Map (Final) worked out really well. It bothers me the Normal Distorted Flash of Light raw ends abruptly then has the ending you here, so I'm glad we have this work here.
Visually I just used what I thought worked but I need to say, but god the clipping in the cutscenes that use in game models really bothers me, Lumera being the biggest example. I used my 30 second Switch record function for the whole video so there might be some weird small unavoidable cuts. Small nitpick for this game, why can't I turn off subtitles *outside* of the cutscenes like 3 Houses/Hopes, or even replay game cutscenes like said games? It's impossible for someone to record a full scene without subtitles because you can only turn them off *when they appear* which is stupid, and again the game cutscene thing bothers me given you can watch them perfectly fine in the literal previous game, why have we regressed?
If you are wondering about why I did 2:04 - 5:22 like this, I just used my Vs. Malear video here because I can't unhear most of this dialogue exchange whenever I hear this music, watch it with voices here th-cam.com/video/qj3jfTP5BCc/w-d-xo.html
You were on the money with the theory that being corrupted amplifies your negative emotions and traits. Fogato confirms as much in a DLC convo.
Technically speaking, there is one other song that fits into this bunch. It's called A Thousand Years Alone and it plays just before Distorted Flash of Light.
But yeah, this is an incredibly good setup regardless!
@@NoNameAtAll11 Thanks! I actually debated if I should of had A Thousand Years Alone here when making this but ultimately decided against it. This was mostly out of preference but I prefer the current flow this gives off without it.
@@LonerofGaming Nah, I getcha. It was just more something I noticed is all lol.
When you have to fight the crystals it can be annoying, but holy Mila is this a bop
Wow, what a great intro into Canadian cuisine ,because this is definitely what this is and *DEFINITELY* *NOT* distorted flash of light and goddess in shadow in the same video!
When I listen to this holy but yet terrifying and sad mashup, I can’t stop thinking about my birthday, mainly because I played Chapter 25 on my birthday!
you know in Fire emblem parents dont last long...unless youre Eliwood XD
Crazy how much better these tracks are than the main theme or finale
"not"
Don't Tell me they've been taking down this one track everywhere... Fucking hell.
Thanks for not uploading this track. I hate it.
Don't worry, these "Not" videos are just named like this for tradition sake. I named them these when 3 Houses released when that was a problem but here it's just for fun.
Shame the game does not even live up to this soundtrack.
Can’t believe it had a story almost as boring and shit as binding blade.
I feel Engage's story is REALLY overhated. It's got a lot of really bad scenes and starts horribly, but there's also some really good stuff in the game that really doesn't get talked about enough.
It's still the tackiest game in the series, but the story does ultimately come full circle, and has some pretty consistent themes that it fully explores, which is more than I can say for most Fire Emblem games, even the ones with my favorite stories.
The world building sucks though. That is something I can't and won't defend lol.
Engage's story isn't bad. It's just very basic. It's better than Fates who was trying way too hard with no results. Engage is consistent, and it's got the best gameplay in the serie
@@AvelineMelena at least fates was entertaining. I was checked out of Engage’s story for the entire game