Armagon

.....wait hang on, is this the normal end or true end?

Should've waited before typing this.

Don't forget to do the epilogue.

Not only does he have a laugh but when he does laugh, it's the one time you get to see his mouth.

Unlike Archanea though, the characters actually exist lol gottem I agree but Gharnef doesn't honestly bother me too much since he's just one guy.

In Elheim. He actually legit would've won right there but the terms of the deal were altered. True! At least he leaned more Gharnef and everyone else had their own motives for being bad. Like the devs talked about their Fire Emblem and Ogre Battle inspiration and legit I think Archanea was their biggest influence. I mean Alain hides out on an island come on. Actually yes.

Idk how it is on Expert but Swordmaster Meteor Mash was an absolute necessity. My "take out Galerius" squad consisted of Alain, Scarlett, Melisandre, Virginia and Yunifi. Comparing him to Manfroy is an insult.....to Baltro. I mean not a high bar but Baltro went for the throat+had insurance when you think about it.

You definitely should've been allowed to at least issue commands like you could with PoR Yellow Units.

LMAOOOOOOOOOO this didn't happen to me cause they all died.

Yes. But also no. Warpskipping doesn't snap the game in half as it would in Fire Emblem. For starters, you can only warp to an ally or facility so that's why it's more like Rewarp. Werefoxes can directly warp to an enemy squad but the range is much more limited. And also it's real time so that changes things. If anything, I used the warp stones to get a endangered squad out of the situation.

It means warp skipping in UO is in a convenient size. Although it's more like Rewarp than Warp. Now that I think about it, none of the cave systems in Xenoblade X have rivers. Although at least one of them does have some ponds inside.

It doesn't help Sylvalum that outside of it's Florida, the continent is completely blocked off from the ocean. No beaches outside of that little strip. Oblivia and even Cauldros have beaches. I sadly have not found any simulations/artistic renditions like you can find of a green Sahara or the time before the Isthmus of Panama formed. So I'm guessing it's something niche even within the scientific community. To think the course of history could've gone very differently if the Strait of Gilbatral never opened up again. For the record, geological evidence suggests the refilling of the Mediterranean wasn't a cataclysmic event but rather something more gradual. Canonical Alain/Scarlett it is then Shrimpers. Though, yes, canon ships will always be better than choose your own.

Fire Emblem fans when they play Unicorn Overlord

You can't do the Rite of the Covenant at all until you finish the Elheim arc. And the game at multiple times tells you you need to do it to defeat Galerius. The climax of the final battle scenes also have variations for each and every partner Alain can choose. So I'd say it's definitely integral to the plot. Yeah on one hand, Monica's team (her, Clive, Laurent, Auch and Ramona) were kinda struggling towards the end. On the other hand, Pike Lance go brrrr. Wild Rush go brrrr (the 3 Valor cost becomes less worth it the later in the game tbh). It does not. Strangely, Sylvalum is the only continent without any rivers. Though, on a related note, Oblivia's Yawning Giant is actually physically possible. It's what happened to the Mediterranean millions of years ago,when tectonic activity closed off the Strait of Gilbatral. Thousands of years later, the Mediterranean sea was the Mediterranean desert, thousands of feet below sea level and probably the most inhospitable place on Earth in recent geological time. These are probably more optimized than what I was doing lol. Word of advice for the final battle: You'll want Alain and his chosen ring partner in the same squad. Get Alain's prf sword. Have someone with multihits in the same squad (Swordmaster with Meteor Mash does wonders). This will make the final fight smoother.

Well paired up in the sense that as long as you gave the ring to someone, you'll avoid the bad ending. The pairing doesn't necessarily need to be romantic. That's not gonna stop people tho.

The bridges? Man I'm more upset the thing crash lands in Lake Ciel. Ruining the vistas. The epilogue is after the ending slides. It invokes the DnD necromancer vibes so I feel it works. How do you even do the first phase on foot? Tbf, you legitimately get the bad ending if you don't pair up Alain with someone so at least there's an actual plot incentive to get Alain hooked up with someone. It's not that bad at least. There's no Alain-sexuals. Yeah like the Alain/Travis Rapport was actually Alain/Travis/Lex.

The sickest fight in the whole series honestly.

Yo this is pretty damn cool. I'll likely post pictures of the UO artbook in the future.

A step above Kaga I'd say. There's the ending slides because why wouldn't there be but I wasn't talking about that. I was referring to the epilogue. The playable epilogue. Fair. But I'd still say UO is overall better written than Fire Emblem. Baltro is definitely a Ruben character honestly. Old garbage man with beard. Voice acting enhances it. With Vanillaware, I just kept getting collector's editions on accident. Both GrimGrimiore and Dragon's Crown were the deluxe editions. And a friend of mine has the cards that came with 13 Sentinels and he plans on giving them to me. So I said might as well and get UO's Monarch Edition.

The twist is pretty dumb ngl but as for the ending itself..... it's elevated by the epilogue. The epilogue is genuinely pretty damn cool, I can't think of many games that did it that way. At least that I've played. I'd agree but the British Royal Family pulled the same stunt so if anything, that was genius writing. Old FE wishes it had the level of worldbuilding UO does. That's actually what elevates UO writing for me. Every single town, every single fort, every single church, has an entry in the logs. They didn't have to do that but they did. Additionally, practically everything gets a log. People, places, terminology, etc. It also has visual worldbuilding too. Let me ask you something, could you actually tell the difference between Fire Emblem countries on a visual standpoint? And I don't just mean "oh this one's in the desert, that one's in the north". Being able to explore every book and cranny of Fevrith did wonders for it's worldbuilding. I payed $130, you guys are weak. Imma need a Death Battle between you and Brightbow to see who hates video games the most. I mean it doesn't have Metroidvania elements exa- *Remembers how some characters will unlock stuff on the map for you* .... actually maybe it does have Metroidvania elements for real.

It looks so fun man.

After Albion (or whatever region you did last) there's really not much else left to the plot so there isn't enough of room for it that to happen tbh. I'm lost. I don't think there's a single bad map tbh. I mean, apples to oranges cause the Fire Emblem comparisons don't always work but aside from specific mechanical moments, I don't think I actually hated doing a map. Which is cool.

Ok the post game is genuinely pretty cool.