oh look it’s Yet Another Quick Discovery
inspired by the discovery of those dummy strings, i thought i’d try experimenting with inserting fe3 bosses into the game as enemies. nothing happened for the most part, except if you put gazzak into part 3, instead of a boss quote he gives us…
…a very short and very lost recruitment conversation for malice! honestly i’m surprised this is here at all; i’d have figured that after doing frost’s appearance in episode 2 they’d have decided for certain that all the recruitment banter would be delivered as part of the soundlink radio (which, ultimately, it was for malice and dice). the conversation doesn’t actually do anything to recruit malice and dice, for what it’s worth, and they just remain enemies until the usual time-based recruitment event kicks in of its own accord later on
roughly translated that’s:
| （リカード） ねえ、おいらの味方になってよ 金はすきなだけやるからさぁ |
(Rickard) Hey, why don't you join us? You can have as much gold as you want if you do. |
| （マリス） なに、ほんとうか？ よし、ひきうけたぜ！！ |
(Malice) What, are you serious? Right, it's a deal!! |
for what it’s worth, nothing interesting happened when i did this in the other parts; part 1 just gave the boss’s usual boss quote, and parts 2 and 4 just played some villager dialogue. no death quotes appeared in any of them either, much to my disappointment