darkkfan

Seriously though, how the hell did Tharja get so many votes after what happened in this topic? I mean, I've got nothing against her personally. It just doesn't make much sense.

Esau pls confirm.

I mean really all I would have had to do was shift the layer order... shame on me for being lazy. Oh well, it's probably what Wal-Mart would have done. They are fairly notorious for cutting corners after all.

lolyeah I was hoping no one would notice my sloppy photoshop work XD.

There's some serious Gen 2 bias going on in these two polls.

Wait why am I a fraud?

I'm not sure if it's because you're a comedic genius, FE1 is so ridiculous, or because I haven't slept in days, but this is honestly the funniest screenshot LP I've read in recent memory. It's probably a combination of those three factors. Anyway, keep it up. As someone who knows nothing about FE1, reading about the EXP counter with a mind of its own as well about the trading shenanigans is pretty hilarious, and your commentary and disappearing pegasus knights and the such make it even funnier!

Thanks everyone for voting! I have opted for normal mode, you may follow my run here: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=42259&hl= Enjoy!

The sequel to this topic's run has now begun at: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=42259&hl= Hope you guys like it as much as the original!

The sequel to Walhart FE9 has finally arrived! Sorry for the delay, I ran into a few technical difficulties but I think I've got everything straightened away now (not to mention I've been away for the past two weeks so that delayed things). As decided by this poll, I will be playing on normal mode. This means I will be focusing on LTC whenever possible. I am not an LTC professional and I am using boss units (so no healers or Jeigans) so my turn counts might be a bit higher than you are used to seeing especially for the first few chapters. Feel free to post and give your opinions on how I can shave off turns if you want! Again, I will post videos of screen recorded runs of each chapter. As with the first one, there will be no voice commentary. I will add some text below each video that encapsulates my thoughts on each chapter. I will also update the characters section after each chapter to record my thoughts on each character. This one will be more strategic than jocose since although I doubt anyone else will do anything similar, I do want to highlight strategy. I will try to make it entertaining, but it will be more serious than the last run (no cheesy chapter titles for example). The general chapter writeup format shall be similar to the last run. Credits to ShadowofChaos and VincentASM (for RAM and ROM hacking help respectively) for making this run possible! The Rules: - Normal Mode - All units have 0% growths in all categories (units that attack using the STR stat have 100% MAG growth and vice versa) - NO UNITS THAT ARE NORMALLY PLAYER CONTROLLED CAN ATTACK OR BE ATTACKED - Units that are not recruited bosses cannot trade, shove, pick up treasure, open chests/doors, etc. - Micaiah/Elincia/Ike is forced on all chapters but cannot fight or be attacked - All player characters must be killed off or benched when possible - Occasionally, extra characters will appear on the bench as a result of the hacks, these characters cannot fight, be deployed, or trade their weapons - Weapons held by units that are normally player controlled cannot be used (exception for the first few chapters) - Skills held by units that are normally player controlled cannot be removed - This LP starts at chapter 1, due to not having any units in the prologue whose use complies with these rules' - Nolan is, in effect, Pugo. His bases have been changed to be identical to Pugo's. Nolan/Pugo can only be promoted via master seal, and only after reaching level 14. - None of the recruits can die - If I cannot fill all of the deployment slots without deploying a character that does not meet all of these rules, the slot must be left empty - BEXP is NOT allowed - Save states are allowed in extreme circumstances, but I will not abuse them when they are not necessary - non-boss-recruits cannot be used to block spaces or anything of the sort - ally and neutral units are free to let fight/die - As usual, I won't be playing for reliability since I am the only person doing this exact run, but I will try to minimize resets and save states. Occasionally, you may see rigged RNs. I try to refrain from doing this and I will always point it out when I rig an RN. - units will be carried over between parts - each boss will join my party the chapter after they appear in the game - RECRUITABLE BOSSES DO NOT NEED TO BE KILLED! THEY WILL BE MOVED OUT OF RANGE ACCORDINGLY! - Escape and "X Arrives" chapters become Arrive chapters - BOSSES WILL ONLY BE KILLED TO SATISFY DEFEAT BOSS OBJECTIVES! THE BOSS MUST BE KILLED IN A DEFEAT BOSS CHAPTER, BUT HE WILL ALSO BE RECRUITED! Enjoy! Characters Chapter 1: Chapter 2: Chapter 3: Chapter 4: Chapter 5

It actually looks brown to me even in that art. But I might be wrong. In any case it is very hard to tell.

FE11 Wolf and Sedgar are a strange mix of an est and a prepromote and they are pretty generally considered "high tier". Just look to them for a decent model (they wouldn't necessarily have to be prepromotes either). Of course, you could argue that they aren't true "ests", in which case I'd direct you to all the above posts asking you to "define an est".

dark brown IIRC

cuz it's walmart. The demographic they appeal to isn't really the smartest of people. Boney's answer is good too. Still, that's pretty funny!

Yep

Someone asked in my other topic. Just to clarify these are the NA difficulty modes.

NA

Currently polling for which playstyle I should use on my next run. Vote and Post here: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=42233&st=0&p=2555514 Thanks!

So I'm doing the sequel to this soon (don't worry, there will be a formal introduction topic within a few days/a week), but it's basically a Boss 0% growth run of FE10 possibly with LTC elements. This game is (finally) all hacked with 0% growths and such, but I have a dilemma. I've created this topic mostly for one purpose: to get some feedback on a certain question. FE10's enemies are harder than FE9's, so if I decide to play on hard mode like I did for my FE9 generic 0% growths run, the first half dozen or so chapters will be much the same as with the original: 50+ turns a piece with a ton of vulnerary spamming and not much else. I haven't tested the mid to late game but I'd assume they would similarly make it less about LTC and more about surviving without getting slaughtered. Sure, there might be a few low turn chapters (as with chapters 20, 23, 24, 26, 28 or something like that) in the FE9 run, but the game would play much like my FE9 run (not saying that's a bad thing just putting it out there). The other option is to do normal mode. The first few chapters would still be grueling with only a couple units, but by the late DB/early part 2 chapters I should be able to start full on LTC'ing the rest of the game. This would provide a new kind of challenge from the last run, but I could no longer claim the same level of grueling difficulty. Personally, I'm leaning towards the second option since I won't be getting any healers till part 4 and no thieves, so hard mode would be extremely difficult and somewhat tedious (it may force Deus Ex Walhart Infinite vulnerary shenanigans again), but I don't want to bias anyone either way. So yeah, I created a poll for this, but I'd also love people to post and tell me what they think about these options.