Fire Emblem Fates: Good Guy Garon Edition
To use this modification you will need to either have CFW and Luma3DS installed, or another method to modify the game's core files.
Introduction:
Like many people, I was disappointed in the narrative given in Fire Emblem Fates. For something that claimed to speak to the grey nature of war, there was very little substance given to the Nohrians. I expected an obvious Good vs Evil scenario between the kingdoms, but even when you choose to follow Nohr, no effort was made to make them sympathetic. The most egregious example of this is King Garon, who is just awfully written.
This Conquest route mod seeks to fix this by transforming the pivotal role of King Garon from a cartoonishly evil caricature into a King loyal to Nohr who is slowly losing his mind. Many interactions with the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings were also altered to give the player character more of a voice and to flesh out the world. IMHO, these changes bring new life to the character's motivation in the Conquest path which are borne throughout to the very end of the game.
I tried to keep as much of the original text and lore as possible while incorporating the new material, however there may be a few areas where things conflict. Please understand.
What this does:
-Replaces the dialogue on the Prologue Chapters (1-5), including Chapter Summaries
-Replaces the dialogue on all chapters of the Conquest Route, including Chapter Summaries
What this does not do:
-This does not make any gameplay changes of any kind
-This does not make any changes to support conversations
-This does not make any changes to paralogue quests
This Conquest route mod seeks to fix this by transforming the pivotal role of King Garon from a cartoonishly evil caricature into a King loyal to Nohr who is slowly losing his mind. Many interactions with the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings were also altered to give the player character more of a voice and to flesh out the world. IMHO, these changes bring new life to the character's motivation in the Conquest path which are borne throughout to the very end of the game.
I tried to keep as much of the original text and lore as possible while incorporating the new material, however there may be a few areas where things conflict. Please understand.
What this does:
-Replaces the dialogue on the Prologue Chapters (1-5), including Chapter Summaries
-Replaces the dialogue on all chapters of the Conquest Route, including Chapter Summaries
What this does not do:
-This does not make any gameplay changes of any kind
-This does not make any changes to support conversations
-This does not make any changes to paralogue quests
Chapter Videos:
Overview of Changes (Mild Spoilers Within):
General:
- Expanded upon the reasons for the war between the two kingdoms. Neither side is blameless, though both claim to be.
- Shifted the central theme of the game to emphasize family and the sacrifices one would make for them.
- Added weight and consequences to decisions made.
- Removed or addressed various plotholes and idiot-ball moments.
- Provided a conclusive and satisfying ending to the route, making it its own stand alone game.
- No longer is a vessel at the start of the game, but is slowly being overwhelmed.
- Acts as the stern but fair ruler of Nohr mentioned in supports.
- Relationship with Corrin serves as the catalyst to the events in the second half of the game.
- Takes a more active role in the decisions made and suffers the consequences as a result.
- Grows into maturity over the course of the game.
- Is sometimes clever, is FAR less passive, and is 70% less whiny.
- Takes a more supportive role and serves as a companion, not an instructor, to the player character.
- Several key decisions were transferred to Corrin to make them more of a leader.
- No longer a master of disguise.
- Xander's out of character actions were changed to be more in-line with his support self.
- No longer blind to the changes in Garon.
- Small bits of backstory added to enhance the character.
- Backstory added to flesh out the character.
- More maternal and supportive lines added to enhance the character.
- Lines were added to highlight him being the forgotten child.
- Lines were added within character.
- Is more savvy during encounters with Corrin.
- Events in the later chapters are given depth and substance.
- Now less of a joke in later chapters.
MAJOR SPOILERS
- Plays an active and visible role over the course of the game.
Download: (ENG Updated 9/8/18)
Due to differences in the pathway and character limit between the English and Japanese version of the game, you will need to select the version that corresponds to yours. Please note the JPN version still uses the English names and has textual errors in the chapter summaries due to how it handles pronouns. Also please be aware that this works best on a vanilla game, as it will conflict with any other mods which modify the GameData.bin.lz, GameMap.bin.lz, and chapter files.
English version is here.
Japanese version is here.
English version is here.
Japanese version is here.
Installation: (via Luma LayeredFS)
To Install:
Boot up your 3DS Luma’s config menu by holding the SELECT button.
Turn on “Enable Game Patching”
On your 3DS SD card go to “Lumas” folder.
Create a folder called “titles” if there isn’t one
Create a folder with the title of your specific game. For instance, the title for USA FE Fates Special Edition is 0004000000179800.
Unzip FatesGGG into that folder. You’re done!
Boot up your 3DS Luma’s config menu by holding the SELECT button.
Turn on “Enable Game Patching”
On your 3DS SD card go to “Lumas” folder.
Create a folder called “titles” if there isn’t one
Create a folder with the title of your specific game. For instance, the title for USA FE Fates Special Edition is 0004000000179800.
Unzip FatesGGG into that folder. You’re done!
Update History:
- Main menu will now display GGG and version number upon proper installation.
- Reintroduced the EM Dash to the English Version instead of hyphens.
- Various typos and grammatical errors fixed.
- Minor wording changes/additions were made to enhance various characters.
- Minor changes made in wording to enhance conversation flow. Multiple Chapters.
- Corrected a misgendered reference. Thanks, Wijetron!
- Corrected several spacing issues and typos. Multiple Chapters.
- Corrected a misgendered reference for F!Corrin. Chapter 1. Thanks, Kawakammunism!
- Fixed several typos and re-worded a few items to help conversation flow. Multiple chapters.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to skip a line during the epilogue. Chapter 28.
- Added reference to Concubine War, Camilla backstory. Chapter 15.
- Added line to the Vallite Crystal scene. Chapter 15.
- Fixed a reference to Ryoma's JPN name. Chapter 10. Thanks, Samsonb79!
- Various pronoun, grammar, and typo fixes. Multiple Chapters.
- Initial Release
Special Thanks:
SecretiveCactus for their Fire Emblem Conversation Editor
thane98 for their Fire Emblem Fate’s Editor
DeathChaos25 for their Fates ROM Hacking General Thread
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