Fire Emblem Akaneia: Difference between revisions

* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Camus in ''Shadow Dragon'', {{spoiler|Rudolf}} in Gaiden, {{spoiler|Hardin}} in Mystery of the Emblem.

** Possibly {{spoiler|Kleine}} in ''New Mystery''. Given how much of an extreme Jerkass {{spoiler|she}} was before, few saw [[Tear Jerker|that death scene]] coming.

* [[Art Evolution]]: ''Mystery of the Emblem'' was the first [[Fire Emblem]] to have an actual artist in the development team. To give an example, look at Astram's portrait between the various games: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/VincentASM/Site/FE1/Astria.png FE1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120518021252/http://www.serenesforest.net/fe3/face/astria.gif FE3], [https://web.archive.org/web/20111118124958/http://serenesforest.net/fe11/face/astria.png FE11], [https://web.archive.org/web/20111118122653/http://serenesforest.net/fe12/face/ASTRIA.PNG FE12]

** More apparent in ''Shadow Dragon'', as the character art was done by [[Shirow Masamune]].

* [[Back from the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Camus/Zeke/Sirius}} in ''Gaiden'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem'', {{spoiler|this time aiding you on your quest}}. Also {{spoiler|Michalis, though he gets [[Killed Off for Real]] near the endgame}}.

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Used in the remake of Mystery of the Emblem. {{spoiler|The [[Bishonen]] Michalis not only gets to [[Disney Death|come back from death twice]], but also lose all his scars, become a king, then leave the continent and become the king of another continent! And this is after he killed his own father, was a [[Bad Boss]] to his soldiers, and an overall tyrant. The very plain Hardin still dies unhappily due to being a tyrant despite a lifetime of good. The worst part was Hardin was possessed and had more of a connection to Marth, while Michalis did his evil deeds out of [[Ambition Is Evil|ambition]]}}. Seems you get a third chance if you’re really hot, but if you’re not attractive you don’t even get a second.

** Ditto for Ellerean as well (bonus points for being a blonde [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]).

** Still, there are no second chances for {{spoiler|Kleine and Eremiya}}, not even for their beauty.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Jagen in ''Mystery of the Emblem''.

{{quote|"Sir Marth, there is a desert ahead of us."}}

* [[Character Customization]]: The new main character of the ''Mystery of the Emblem'' DS remake is actually a creation of the player, built from a selection of designs and attributes.

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: The art style of ''Shadow Dragon''; improved slightly in ''New Mystery''.

* [[Continuity Snarl]]: The sidequest requirements in Shadow Dragon cause some pretty serious [[Mind Screw]] in New Mystery. Basically, ''everyone'' from Shadow Dragon returns alive and well in the sequal. While this was explained in the case of the scarifice in the prologue, the real problem is that Marth recognises ''all'' the sidequest-only characters, despite meeting them all in Shadow Dragon requiring practically ''all the other characters'' to be '''dead.''' Only one Shadow Dragon sidequest is explicitly stated to be non-canon: 24x (as Marth doesn't recognise Nagi) and that was the one with the ''least'' harsh requirements. Exactly how the others could of occured with everyone surviving just boggles the mind. Or maybe the sidequest requirements in the first game are just [[Canon Discontinuity]].

* [[Crutch Character]]: Jagen is a very well-known example and former [[Trope Namer]]. In the original, he has less than a 10% chance of raising each stat upon level up (with some having a ''0%'' chance), but starts decent compared to your level 1 unpromoted units. Arran replaces him in book 2 (Jagen is now Marth's tactician and doesn't fight) with only slightly better growths (Arran ''has'' a defense growth) and is ''worse'' than Jagen in the remake (his ''only'' advantage over a statsless replacement unit in growths is 10% extra luck growth).

** The remake gives Caeda a special weapon to compensate for her new inability (thanks to the introduction of weapon ranks) to grab Jagen's silver lance to compensate for her rather weak start.

* [[Doomed by Canon]]: Whoever you pick as the decoy in the prologue of ''Shadow Dragon''. {{spoiler|Canonically, this is Frey.}} However, check [[Gameplay and Story Integration]].

* [[Embedded Precursor]]: Book 1 of ''Mystery of the Emblem''.

* [[Equipment Spoiler]]: Subverted in ''Mystery of the Emblem'''s Book 2: You can get a few axes, but never get an axe user; you're supposed to sell them for cash. Averted in the remake, which features playable axe users and replaces those bonus axes with simply getting bonus money.

* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]: A mild but ''very'' clever form of it. The sacrifice in the prologue of FE11 can't be brought back using the one use "bring unit back from the dead" staff (even though characters that die by other means in the prologue can). Frey (who doesn't appear when the prologue is skipped and is seen as the canon sacrifice) [http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=21343&st=0 appears in the tutorial] in ''New Mystery of the Emblem''. {{spoiler|He reveals through conversations with the player character that he ''was'' the canonical sacrifice, but upon being discovered as a fake, was beaten up and left for dead. Frey was then rescued by some citizens, and survived with some memory loss and a terrible scar. So thus, you could not revive him with the Aum staff...because Frey never actually ''died'' to begin with!}}

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Recruitment requirements (a good number of people actually try to recruit Camus, or even Michalis), as well as gaiden chapter requirements in the FE 3 remake.

* [[Heroic Lineage]]: A strange case. Marth and the other Altean royal family members claim linage from Anri, the hero that defeated Medeus. Then Mystery of the Emblem reveals that they aren't actually descended from Anri, but his younger brother Marcelus. Yet Marth is called Anri's descendent anyway.

* [[Inventory Management Puzzle]]: Especially infuriating in ''Dark Dragon''. You can only give items to another unit, and once you've given an item, the unit's turn ends.

* [[Joke Item]]: FE3 loves this—they give you silver axes in a game where ''absolutely no one'' is able to use them.<ref>[[Vendor Trash|You were meant to sell them for funds]]; they are replaced by bags of money in the remake, as it actually has axe users.</ref> The remake gives you a bouquet of odds and ends, not the least of which is '''''{{spoiler|a bloody frying pan!}}'''''

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In Nagi's support with My Unit, she reveals she has some sort of divination ability and seems notes that My Unit is "an enigma" "guided by a mysterious fate" (That is, he/she is a glorifed player avatar), while MU notes he has felt someone's guidance. Strange.

* [[Left for Dead]]: {{spoiler|1=The ultimate fate of the decoy (canonically Frey) from FE11's Prologue, according to FE12.}}

** It's also worth noting that in the remake, to get the weaker Falchion, you have to have not only missed it but ''also'' have let Tiki die. (Tiki is the only other way to kill the final boss outside of [[Cherry Tapping]])

* [[Love Triangle]]: {{spoiler|Type 4 Love triangle in Book 1 with Hardin as A, Nyna as B, and Camus as C. In book 2, it becomes a type 5 as Camus now loves Teeta.}}

* [[Mercy Mode]]: The DS remakes give you replacement units if your unit count is less than the minimum required for a chapter.

** [[Easy Mode Mockery]]: Shadow Dragon gave you replacement units with rather insulting names like "Lucer", "Auffle", "Laim", "Rejek", "Owend", "Wymp", and "Wieklin"...

** Chapter 19 takes place in the pass of Archanea outside of the palace.

** Chapter 20 takes place inside the palace of Archanea where {{spoiler|Midia is held as a hostage again.}}

* [[Purple Prose]]: The English localization of ''Shadow Dragon'' is incredibly eloquent and floral to the point of bordering on this trope, an incredibly stark contrast to the rather barebones scripts of the earlier ''Dark Dragon'' and ''Mystery'' fan translations, and also fairly different from earlier official localizations of the series. In a case of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], common consensus is that the game is much better off for it, with the ''New Mystery'' fan translation seeking to emulate the style.

{{quote|'''Malledus:''' ''"Sire... You must live. Drink deeply now of these injustices; sip on these slights they serve. Remember them!"''}}

* [[Spiteful AI]]: Seemingly, the computer are more interested in scoring casualties rather than killing Marth, even if they can. [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|they know that if a character dies, the player's likely to consider the battle "lost" and restart anyways.]]

* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: In ''Mystery of the Emblem'' and its remake, {{spoiler|Lorenz dies at the end of chapter 1, which is his only appearance in the whole game; later, Boah is strongly implied to have died in his brief appearance late in the game.}}

* [[Time Skip]]: The events of ''Mystery of the Emblem'' happen 2 (or 4) years after ''Dark Dragon''. The new prologue chapters in ''Shadow Dragon'' happen 3 years before the latter.

* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: The ''Mystery of the Emblem'' fan translation is... unfortunate, with an overly literal interpretation of the dialogue that can be pretty stifling to read at times. Luckily, some redemption is coming in the form of ''New Mystery'''s fan translation.