Their choices for Awakening were heavily limited due to the dearth of official artwork for the characters from Gaiden; essentially, the only art available for any characters from the game was that of the game manual, which explains both why they picked who they picked, and why the art looks so rough. The only characters to have art in the manual were the ten who appeared in Awakening, plus Silque, Gray, Tobin, Kliff (the latter three appeared all in the one image, making it hard to separate them), and the Whitewings (who were covered by other games/DLC). Nobody else had art from Gaiden of any form. Gaiden characters also never appeared in the original FE trading card game, which was where all the art for FE4 was sourced from.So I was messing around with Awakening for a bit, and looked at the Spotpass units for the first time in a long while. It's really surreal seeing the Gaiden units after playing Shadows of Valentia.
...And it also makes the ones they picked seem strange in hindsight. For reference, each past game got ten units, most of which were comparatively important characters. Gaiden got the following:
Alm, Celica, Clive, Clair, Luthier, Mycen, Boey, Valbar, Nomah, and Deen.
Why the hell did they put Deen, of all characters, in over someone like Saber?Especially considering Deen is unrecruitable if you go for Sonya. Alm and Celica are obvious, and Clive, Clair, Boey, and Valbar make sense (the latter since he was inexplicably on the cover of Gaiden), but I feel like Luthier, Mycen, Nomah, and Deen kind of jumped the line a bit. Then again, this is going by Echoes, and Gaiden had much less development for the more minor characters, so yeah. I just think it's neat is all.
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