I still have fond memories of my time with FFTA / FFTA2. If it comes to PC, it's day one for sure.

International students here in Atlanta and across academia are getting their visas pulled left and right, for as small as a dismissed traffic charge or no reason at all. What’s been going on these last few months has been inexplicably evil and destructive to higher education.

Rereading is pretty rewarding years after the fact. How I remember these stories reflected against how my perspective has changed over time can make reading some of my favorite books feel like a completely new experience.

Relics and their flavor text are such a treat. The Provence’s tail care relic in the IS3 expansion complements her module very well. I’d love to see future IS giving us lore tidbits of other ops that we can chew on.

I know people who reset their emulator before a is boss fight, and I myself might do a full device reset superstitiously. There was a time when if you were in IS combat during server reset it would kill your run as well, and that was especially tragic.

“Please… Let us know the name of the soul to be remembered…”
In one line, the game asks you to reflect on your entire experience and how it defines the conclusion of the narrative. When I think of Radiant Historia, I always come back to this one line, and my response to it.

In Radiant Historia,you make countless decisions for the sake of a past you struggle to define, a present you grow to love, and a future you want to save. Beyond the final boss and post game scenes, the final, most inconsequential decision of the game is actually the most meaningful.

For IS id recommend raising/mastery/module Ethan and Click, because as four stars they offer a lot of utility/CC for their cost. Pinecone, Totter, and Myrtle are also safe to raise as solid 4*s. Pinecone being one of my friend’s favorites as her skill 1 can answer a lot in IS4.

It’s rare that e2 lv 70 makes a damage or hp difference over e2 lv 40 compared to better play, but at higher IS difficulty maybe. Masteries for certain 4* can change how fast they can dps and cycle their skills, and mods can dramatically change their utility, so these should be considered first.

Really depends on who and why. If you like playing Integrated strategies it really helps to raise, mastery, and mod certain four stars like Ethan and gummy, as it really boosts their strength and resource cost effectiveness. In regular play they are easily replaced by higher rarity variants.

Heather! I loved her introduction in Radiant Dawn with Nephenee, only wish thieves had more utility than lock picking in that era. She definitely stepped up in desperate situations holding lanes next to Neph in Part 3 after I accidentally recruited Jill away. Thanks for the art!

Why Meteorite kept this name, I think only people still alive who know are Meteorite and a certain friend of hers. That and the other snippets of flavortext and dialogue of Firewatch and Meteorite is enough space for me to run rampant with my own HC of their story.

One aspect if Meteorite’s mod text I don’t see enough people mention is between the lines of her last tag. A Sarkaz who never kept a single name to define them through various jobs, yet it was the name chosen during what happened in Kazimierz that Meteorite chose to keep and bring to RI.

Thanks for the arts of these two characters! Even though we haven’t gotten much lore out of my favorite Arknights characters, the bits we do have speaks volumes of their shared history and how they impacted each other.

Pegasus Knights are my favorite class in FE, and your work sparked fond memories of flying Cordelia and Sumia together in Awakening. Thanks for sharing!

My cousin introduced me to Radiant Dawn in ~2010 and sent me straight with an R4 for my DS to play Shadow Dragon. Radiant Dawn alone has a massive cast of characters, cool set pieces, and various idiosyncrasies that make it my top fire emblem game, if not part of my own top 5 list.

If you enjoyed Three Houses, words cannot express how much I recommend the older Fire Emblems. All of the strategy and interesting maps to tackle with a compelling narrative without the hassle of monastery management. Building characters and their indiv. relationships feels extremely rewarding.

I have very fond memories of playing FFT Advance and Fire Emblem when I was young. Both those with Golden Sun and Radiant Historia (DS) had a magic that recent handheld games haven't been able to live up to for me.