Gaming/ Fire Emblem Update!

In gaming news, the Xbox One was announced yesterday, generating tons of hate from the internet.

Personally, I was never an Xbox fan to begin with, so I'm happy that Nintendo has a chance to perform well and make sure they don't screw up the WiiU.

In Fire Emblem news,

I was a bit shocked to hear that Fire Emblem: Awakening was nearly going to be the last game of the series.

Due to the decreasing of sales in DS FE games (Shadow Dragon, and New Mystery of the Emblem, which was Japan only), it is said that if Awakening did not sell more than 250,000 copies, it will be the last FE game.

Thank god it wasn't.

It exceeded all sales expectations, and it is soon going to be the first FE game to hit the 1 Million mark. For a niche genre, that's pretty good.

Now, for my Streetpass update.

I've maxed out Cynthia's stats, and her final class is the Bride class. Initially, I was just gonna leave her as a bride, then I realised that her skillsets are not really good, with a lot of them quite useless since I'm using her as a support unit and not a Rallybot (I'll get to that later).
Now that she's back as a Bride, she has Limit Breaker, Aether, Pavise, Renewal, and Luna.
Limit Breaker, again for obvious reasons. Aether was her sole healing skill inherited from Chrom. But I realised due to the low trigger rate (56/2 = 28%), it's not very reliable. So I put in Renewal just in case. Also, I placed Pavise in there as Cynthia has lower Def than Res as a Bride. As for why I put Luna, it's to compensate for her lack of Str (at only 50). Having Luna will help do more damage.

Another person I maxed out in stats is Langley. She is the Female Avatar from my Hard/Classic playthrough that I've recruited into my Hard/Casual run (via Avatar Logbook) to use her as a Rallybot.
A Rallybot is a character whose sole purpose is to use the Rally command in battle to increase the stats of all nearby characters. All Rally Skills stack with each other, meaning if your character has Rally Luck and Mag and uses Rally, all adjacent units get bonus of both Luck and Mag. However, same type of rallies do not stack on characters, meaning a person who received Rally Str twice in one turn will only receive a stat boost similar to receiving just one Rally Str.
The best Rallybots are usually any female character with access to a lot of classes. The best ones are characters from Spotpass or DLC characters since they get all the classes except for gender specific ones. I decided to use Langley instead since she could access a lot of the classes.
Rallybots serve to rally, and so I did not put Limit Breaker on her. Her rallies are Spectrum, Heart, Skill, Speed, and Res.
Rally Spectrum is a must for Rallybots since it raises all stats. Same for Rally Heart, which raises all stats (while less than Spectrum, it raises Movement too), and it's only available via the Bride class. I chose Rally Skill because skill activation is quite crucial in Streetpass. Same goes for outspeeding (or double attacking) your opponent, which is why Rally Speed is there. Also, since magic-based attacks are the most dangerous forms of attack in FE:A, I put Rally Res for that added defense against magic users.

So yeah, that's two characters done in my Streetpass, making it 6 characters.

4 more to go.