So, about that pay-for-play DLC...

Wow.  Pretty Marth is pretty... pretty unnerving, that is, with those eyes.  IDK, man, he's beautiful but he looks like the hypothetical offspring of Ike and Soren to me.  Tellius!Marth is a strangely compelling thing to behold.

Also, I think we can finally lay to rest the oft-spouted delusion that Ike is now the " ( Read more... )

I'm so glad I waited to write this one.

I was having second thoughts, you see.  Spending a great deal of time comparing the merits of "favorites" and the reasons why they rank can lead to second-guessing.  I was starting to wonder if poor Leaf really belonged "below the cut," down at #12, and if I shouldn't rearrange a few other things while I was ( Read more... )

This one should not be surprising at all, to anyone.

Rounding out the bottom five... Ephraim.

( He's hot. He kicks ass. He's... pixels. Sigh. )

#1 How did you find Fire Emblem?

Well, let's see. My brother-in-law, who had not yet graduated from high school, had come over to Grandma's place (where my husband and I lived at that time). He brought along a copy of Super Smash Bros Melee to play on our GameCube. I was thoroughly squeeing over Fox and Falco and discovering that I loved ( Read more... )

So, last night, I immersed myself in analyses of "The Day of the Locust" as a warm-up for embarking on my NaNo project for this year (officially signed up and everything, oh yes).  And I promised myself that I would be concentrating for the next thirty days on Detroit Novel and not on Fire Emblem fan works.

So, of course last night I have an ( Read more... )

So, I popped in on the SSB4 board to LOL at the silliness (Guys?  Pent will not be playable in this game.  I promise.), and somebody suggested Caeda as a playable character, and the inevitable sparring over Shiida vs Sheeda vs Caeda came up.

And then someone claimed that her name was an adaptation of the Irish name Sioda... which apparently is a ( Read more... )

( Fear the almighty power of the sequel )

 Part Two: When Pairings Eat A Fandom

( Now it's time for FE9/10... )

 I did not forget.

Though my analysis of the "epic" gets spotty from here on out, as there were certain characters I was quite interested in and others that I... wasn't.

( Another Green World )

 Below are some more essays I wrote circa 2008 regarding Super Smash Bros. and its fandom.  I had nowhere to post these at the time, so I may as well stick 'em up here if anyone wants to visit the fandom Wayback Machine.  There is probably something in here to offend everyone, so be warned if you do have a look.

Hah.  Looking back, at some points ( Read more... )