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To join, you must find the underground arena where the Boulder invites those to foolishly challenge him. It is an arduous journey, one filled with lots of peril. Kinda weird when Leopold states he's trained to handle magic enemies. You think he'd be the Wyvern Knight with high Res growth yet low Def. Still, yeah, would make Karina OP.

...Those first few growths were horrendous. Damn you RNG goddess! *Shakes fist* I love Karina as well. One of my favorites, but I wish she actually had a defense growth. When I play as her, it's almost nonexistent. I remember manipulating the RNG to experiment and got 50 levels with her, only 2 had Defense and for a Wyvern Knight that's horrid...or maybe the RNG truly does hate me. Also, the Boulder pulls a Kongol from Legend of Dragoon. He needs no weapons, only his fists.

Clearly the Boulder should have been the main character instead of Anakin at chapter 11.

Looking at the stats and comparing them to my own, they are pretty similar. Big differences are my Shon has a bit more Defense and Strength, and what happened to Inanna's Skill? Haven't seen it that low as a 20/1 Falco, Also, Shuuda got some horrible growths as well. Course, with Tamiko, Cia and THE BOULDER, it'll be an easy journey for part 2.

True, you do have a point. It wouldn't really cure the problem, just build on it in another way. Hmm...at this point, probably best to stick it out then. The more dialogue you have, to more you can add to characters and dialogue. Maybe after a couple of more chapters, it might come forth...or not and we'll just have to live with the dialogue and characters we have :P

I can relate. I'm an English major and have been in various fiction writing and workshop classes over the last 2-3 years and perhaps my biggest problem that people tell me is that in terms of dialogue, characters can be a bit too similar. Like, I know my characters and their personalities, yet when I put it into dialogue, that doesn't transfer over from my thoughts. Perhaps the best way is to start with the little things. Maybe have Alice tell a bad joke or pun every now and then, like she thinks they are funny and not many are amused and she works at it to improve her jokes, (also, I do note that she did have a more laid-back way of talking, with "Nice to meet ya, kid", so you could bring this out instead/as well), or maybe make Ryan a little hot-headed and perhaps mischievous, like a trouble maker of his age, or you can maybe make his crush for Julie perhaps a bit more dominant in his actions and such. I think if you can give these characters these little perks, they'll start to grow as you get further with these characters and add more to them, even if they have to be cliche. For example with Amy. Maybe she can be scary when she's angry. It's been done before, the scary, angry cleric who's usually really nice and caring, yet it can lead to the development of the characters to make them a bit more unique from each other.

So, played most of this, just a chapter or two to go, and it is well done in pretty much every area, as the videos showed. Now, you mentioned in a video about sprucing up dialogue or something and I'm not sure how much or how far you've done it, but perhaps the only thing I could say against it, and this is obviously depending on the person, but the dialogue is laughably so anime. Too anime probably to a fault. Of course, it certainly isn't a surprise, but the lines are just so cheesy and anime and I pretty much saw 80% of the dialogue coming because of how much I've seen it in other media, sometimes seeing it coming word for word. The characters are just so cheery, so helpful to each other, so nice, so quick to apologize, etc., and while it's not a bad thing, it is boring in a way. Because characters are like this, there really feels like a lack of personality. I mean, from the actions and dialogue of Julie, Heather, Alice, Ryan, etc. There doesn't feel like much of a contrast between them, and I think that the dialogue is pretty much the core here. I think that the characters can be interesting enough, and have the background and personality to be, if the dialogue was just looked over and modified. The character of Raymond is an example of this. His personality is different, especially compared to the others, mostly because of his age and experience, that because of this he stands out more and is much more enjoyable in comparison. And I think that could be a key to look at. The older characters, like Alice, who is 19 if I remember right, could provide a contrast to the younger, cheery, and perhaps more naive characters. This really isn't too big of a deal, especially considering some of the things I watch, but when it is in a game like Fire Emblem, it does stand out to me. Obviously, you really don't have to change it and it really won't hurt anything, and if you already have plans to modify it, then at least you can read my thoughts on this anyways. Just hope to help make this hack a little bit better.

Another Halberdier, my favorite FE class. Can never have too many of those. He's not a Nephanee, but he still looks awesome.

His bases show that. Decently high and balanced. I've just never been able to get his growths to work for me. Cia always blasted him away in stats once I got her back.

Yeah, I got it too on my recent playthrough. I remember having to use Eduardo with Charge and RNG manipulate two 40% or so hits to do so. It's a good thing Eduardo was close to the boss when it happened. Glad it's fixed again.

Yeah, that's pretty much how Cia turns out, which is generally one of the best characters for me.. Itsuke usually turns out poorly.

The Boulder is also slower than hell. My Kevin usually has like 9-10 speed medium at that level. Course, like all good Knights, Strength, Skill and Defense are all you need. The Boulder will be fine, until he finds a blind Earthbender...

I'd like to request Hervor to be a main character in a FE hack. Her design is badass.

I've seen this mentioned before, but I'd like to second Tinny being recruit able by Seliph, as I was unaware Tinny would be in the chapter, due to the chapters being shorter than their counterparts and it is a big chapter with limited units available, so I just wasted a long time since I didn't bring.

I have the feeling that "No shit, Sherlock" should be the title of an achievement. :D Keep it going, Arch. I know what it feels like to redo work.

My fault, had something else written there. Changed it, forgot to take out the word.

I smell a liberties ideas.

Ironically, I'm a pretty huge idealist. As for the editing growths and stats, I've never tried it yet, but most hacks I've tried to edit you can pretty much use those tools to easily to do. Guess it's not the same for all.

Alright. I was more going into why there were so many people against it since these complaints have been going on for months. I really never had a problem with the difficulty of the game. I do wish some characters were more usable in the hack, as I think it's more fun to use characters you like compared to characters that are the strongest and every character being usable is something I value highly in an FE hack and gaming in general, but I'm not going to hate a game because it is not so, just something I prefer. Lastly, people, if Rachel isn't strong enough, just go into a hacking tool like Nightmare and increase bases and growths. That simple really.

The difference between Renault and Yodel compared to Rachel is that they can use staves where Rachel cannot, which makes them more useful. Not to mention enemies suck in FE6 and FE7 compared to the Last Promise lategame, so they can handle themselves until the final chapter. I actually save up all my stat boosting items for her, even the +3 to all one, and she still doesn't get to the high tier. I never had a problem with Rachel all that much, but I do agree that she needs to have been made better. She's not trained in war and isn't experienced so she's weak. Well, this is a jRPG. You can name a number of characters who are stronger than soldiers but have no training whatsoever in jRPGs. Comes with the territory. I know it's your call to make it realistic and I have no problem with that in the long run, but this genre is full of people being unrealistically strong. As for it being a war and people are going to die, this is true, but let's be honest people. How many of you on this thread alone restart a chapter when a character(s) die? I don't think I've ever seen a Fire Emblem Let's Play or Playthrough online that didn't restart the chapter when a character dies. People like their characters to survive and will redo an entire chapter even if they were close to finishing it to save a character. I'm one of those, even if it's a character I really don't plan to use. I'm sure we like our characters to survive. So I know you want to be realistic in that way Blazer, but I don't know of many people who share that sentiment in the community. I could be wrong and I wouldn't really be surprised, but this is just from what I've seen.

Seconded. Love the new Priscilla mug.

I second, third, fourth and fifth this.

It looks like Norne is in this. You now have my full support :D You'd have had it anyways, but it's nice to know my favorite character from Shadow Dragon will be in there.

No, none of them keep inventories. The exception is the Emblem Lance and Emblem Sword, which comes with Corben when he rejoins if you got either one in the prologue. If not, I assumes he'll probably come with Iron or Steel equivalents. My own question...has anyone noticed a change in the RNG in this game? I've been keeping track for awhile and I've never seen more 80%+ attacks miss and 30%- attacks hits before playing this hack. They rarely happen in a runthrough of normal FE7, but during this hack they happen all too often. Not that I mind, as it adds somethings, but I was wondering if the RNG was messed with for this hack or if my luck in battles in FE has changed.