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Lyndis - How Nintendo Wrecked Her

Turaga Dlakii

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When I started reading stuff about Brawl, I got mildly excited by one thing. Lyndis, the first main character of the first Fire Emblem game I played (and potentially Roy's mother, I might add), was going to appear as an Assist Trophy. Because of this, I was slightly more inclined to buy the game. Then, I actually played.

 

Sure, Lyndis is okay by Assist Trophy standards (she's better than the Nintendog), but she's still pretty bad. Just one relatively weak attack? I'd certainly prefer getting Waluigi (WAA WAA WAA) or Kat and Ana (the ninja girls). I'd even prefer to use some Poké Balls. :annoyed:

 

Then, most offensively, is her voice. Given that she was from a GameBoy Advance game, they had nothing to go on, but they've well and truly fouled it up. Seriously, she is supposed to be 15 (or 17, if you're playing the English version), and they made her sound like an evil 40-year-old. They made her sound like the Goddess Ashera, the last boss in Radiant Dawn! :o

 

Don't believe me? Summon Lyndis, then listen very carefully. You'll hear, in a malevolent female voice that clearly doesn't belong to anyone else in the field, "Prepare yourself". Then, find someone who's finished Radiant Dawn, and have them play the introductory film for Part Four of the game. You'll hear Ashera, in the exact same tone as Lyndis, say:

I will know that you have strayed from your path, and I will punish your failure as I would reward your success.

See? Horrifyingly Ashera-like. :(

 

Yes, there's nothing to be done about it now. But it still offends, more than Pohatu's orange colour scheme. <_<

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Turaga Dlakii
But I like Pohatu... =O

 

*ignores blatant off-topicness* <_<

 

*taps Favourite BIONICLE Character portion of Bio box* So do I, but his orange scheme is downright offensive to old fans like myself. :(

 

Now, anyone agree with me on the Lyn front?

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Kortu Campesinos!

I completely agree on both arguements.

 

Pohatu's orange killed any small form of Bionicle appreciation I had left after they turned Hewkii gunmetal grey and made like every set a clone.

 

And Lyn is awesome. In SSB4 she should be the third FE character. She sounds real creepy in Brawl, though...

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Turaga Dlakii
I completely agree on both arguements.

 

Pohatu's orange killed any small form of Bionicle appreciation I had left after they turned Hewkii gunmetal grey and made like every set a clone.

 

And Lyn is awesome. In SSB4 she should be the third FE character. She sounds real creepy in Brawl, though...

 

They really should've made him tan or something. That still looks vaguely yellowish, and it would have make us zealots happy. But it's far too late now.

 

Hmm... I think that in SSB4, they should run some popularity poll and throw in the more popular Lords, and keep Marth no questions asked. Lyn, Hector, and Ephraim would all be WIN. :D *pictures Hector shattering Samus's armour* Music-wise, there's SO much good choice. :happy:

 

It's not so strange; think about how many Mario characters there are in it.

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Xaeraz
It's not so strange; think about how many Mario characters there are in it.

There's 8 characters from Mario, yet only 1 from Metroid! OUTRAGE.

 

Yeah, more polls for who to take. And go find my approval. You earned.

 

(check Tahuri's blog)

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Karkava

You know what, You're the first person in the world to actullay notice that, everyone else hasnt even acknoledged it. :bored:

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Turaga Dlakii
It's not so strange; think about how many Mario characters there are in it.

There's 8 characters from Mario, yet only 1 from Metroid! OUTRAGE.

 

Yeah, more polls for who to take. And go find my approval. You earned.

 

(check Tahuri's blog)

 

Yeah, that does seem really cheap. Perhaps Nintendo thought they compensated with Zero Suit Samus and throwing Ridley in as a Subspace Emissary boss. I still think it's a raw deal. I really should play a Metroid game soon...

 

And I got the approval (obviously).

 

You know what, You're the first person in the world to actullay notice that, everyone else hasnt even acknoledged it. :bored:

That might be partially because I'm the only member of BZPower who is that insanely devoted to the Fire Emblem series, and who started playing by having Lyn hack everything in sight.

 

But that's not the first I heard of it. On some Fire Emblem forum (which I won't name here, partially because I forget what it is), people were complaining about it. It's still one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard.

 

Trivia: When they designed Marth for Melée, they probably didn't have much to work with; only NES and SNES game sprites, and a dodgy animé which referred to him as "Mars".

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