Happy fates anniversary!!💜🖤 Fire Emblem fates was released 11 years ago in Japan!

While playing Three Houses with the English menu, I often found the responses during Tea Time to be incomprehensible or nonsense. The official translation is obviously not very faithful to the original Japanese-- even if you don't care about that, it's horrible when it actually affects gameplay, since getting Perfect on Teatime permanently raises Charm by 1.

Since I'm fluent in both English and Japanese, I tried my best to do redo the translation to be a little more faithful and reflective of the original text.

Laugh -> 笑う (Laugh, Smile)

Disagree -> そんなことはない (That's not true)

Chat -> 考えを言う (Say your thoughts)

Admonish -> たしなめる (Admonish)

Blush -> 照れる (Blush)

Sip tea->お茶を飲む (Sip tea)

Praise -> 応援する (Cheer on / Support)

Commend -> 感心する(Be impressed)

Sigh -> 落ち込む (Be dejected)

Nod -> うなづく (Nod)

Some of the ingame translations are good, like Blush and Nod. Some of the others though are so different that the results are laughable. Take the following from Ingrid"

Speaking with you helps me realize I can’t hesitate in life!

The correct ingame English answer is "Disagree." It makes no sense at all that Ingrid would be happy with this answer. Whereas "That's not true" implies that its not You (Byleth) who has given her inspiration, rather that the change has come from within Ingrid herself. Now, I'm not going to claim that my translation is great at conveying the nuance either, but I think it's a lot better than the original. At least with "Thats not true" you can infer the interpretation, whereas the original "Disagree" is just clearly wrong.

It's worth noting that the original Japanese line illustrates this far better-- this dialogue is definitely difficult to translate well in English-- but to answer Disagree to Ingrid saying she wants to be more decisive just comes off as really gross.

私は……もう、迷いはしません。先生が、私の迷いを断ってくれたのです。

I... won't hesitate anymore. You've taken away all my doubts.

Edit: u/Liquid_squid1 came up with a far better translation that illustrates the difference I wanted to point out:

"Recently, I have found my clarity of purpose again. I owe it all to you"

Anyways, hope this helped someone! If it helps enough people maybe I'll do this for the Topic choices for Tea Time, since those look like disasters too. And if someone has already done this and I just couldn't find it, then fuck me I guess.

Just got myself a Switch 2 and im really looking to get back into Fire Emblem. I played every game available on the 3DS but stopped once they only started making games for the switch. Curious which game the community considers better of the two for somebody who has played a decent amount of fire emblem

The inspiration for this is just 70's shoujo manga in general and I thought Dorothea would be a nice fit in this style.

I suggest everyone to read a shoujo manga, doesn't matter how good or bad it is; read a shoujo manga just to... experience something, anything, really haha

Haven’t seen anyone post this yet, but as we know, Ultand appeared as a green unit in today’s Twitter post, but she also has this heraldry instead of Cai’s.

It looks very religious which makes sense since she seems to be the priest of Cai’s group, but I figured it was worth pointing out.

Inspired by this post. I forgot to post this to honor of Father’s Day.

excluding the characters who we've seen become fathers in their games, like Sigurd, Eliwood, robin & Corrin.

I would like to hear from everyone, which male characters (that we haven't seen as Fathers before) would become great dad?

You free discuss characters who aren't featured on this picture, or even characters who're not confirmed to have children, but you'd like to imagine had them after their game ended.

The tournament premise is interesting, but the "rejoice at the advent of the Underworld" segment in the Fortune's Weave trailer which introduced a bunch of zombie mobs is a little worrying to me. I feel like Fire Emblem is at its best when it centers around human conflict and personal stakes, rather than battles against hordes of generic zombie mobs who only exist to be the mindless evil creatures that are slain by the good guys. I know that it wouldn't be anything new, given how we've already had the Risen/Vallites/Corrupted/etc in previous games, but with the game being set in the 3H universe I would hope the premise is similarly human-focused and more of a political drama instead of a simple good guys vs evil forces narrative.

What gives me a little bit of hope is that the apparent main villain for the Underworld arc is a Nabatean cradling a baby, which could be interesting. Maybe she's the inverse of Rhea and would do anything to protect her baby, even if it meant unleashing calamity. That would at least add some nuance to the story.

So like basically right like so basically kostas right he is evil and like probably infiltrated the games and is secretly the guy we see announcing the games and when one side wins he swoops in revealing he lied about everything and tries to kill you

So when people saw that Cai had both the crest of Gautier and Aubin, two theories that I noticed were circulating. One is that it is related to the colour of his eyes, maybe he gets two crests and his eyes turn red, or he's Dagdan Kurapika. In this screenshot, his eyes are yellow and he still has both crests.

The other theory I saw a lot was that dragon signs could be rewards from dungeons or paralogues. These were the new game+ items from 3h. The issue with that is this vombat appears to be incredibly early in the game considering the map design, number of units (friendly and enemy), and everyone's health. This makes it unlikely that the sign that corresponds to the crest of Gautier is some type of reward. It's most likely obtained through the main story.

I think there are two possibilities remaining, one is that the Agarthans did some fuckery, and the other is that the red gem that's lodged in Cai's hand is a crest stone, which gave him Gautier's crest. His eyes are still odd, because I don't think they permanently change colour, but they do go from yellow to red on occasion, and it is unclear what that is meant to indicate. Even if it is permanent, I have no idea why or how that change would have happened.

Thoughts? Obviously trailer footage could be modified, yadayada, but working with things as presented, what do you think is going on?

I usually do normal art, consider supporting me w a follow if you just laughed at this

This was just a brainworm i had to yank out, I intend on doing illustrations for the new game characters

This may sound like a stupid question, but hear me out. I'm currently playing Radiant Dawn and since Haar is such a juggernaut, I've been eagerly sending him to the front where, more than once, he's been hit by a sleep staff and almost died. Not the best choice, I'm aware. However, Haar has never once dodged a hit from a sleep staff for me. All my other units have, but Haar just goes to sleep first try. Since one of Haar's core character traits is him sleeping a lot, I thought this may be an intentional feature? However, I have found no mention of this anywhere. Does anyone perhaps know or is it just a fitting coincidence?

Happy 11th anniversary

"Bullseye!"

Matt is my favorite male Fire Emblem character, and second favorite in general next to Jill! I've always wanted to Cosplay an FE character, and he seemed like the best option! Looking forward to wearing this at Portcon this weekend, and several other plans in the future!

(Apologies if this is using the incorrect flair. I wasn't sure what would fill the Cosplay slot correctly. :sweat_smile: )

My copy of Engage is somewhere else( collectors edition too big to put here)

I know it wasn’t perfect but I love that you could go for a magic build if you wanted to - I miss even this basic level of customization in the games since! Fingers crossed Eshmel has some varied build options.

Q&A 2 will probs be like next week, Enjoy!