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@Saint Rubenio made a hack. F**k. I reckon a lot of serenes users are aware of this Ruben fellow. He been around the forums for while now and he loves haunting the teehee thread and spreading his unfathomably based opinions that continue to die out every waking day. He's also one of 7 New Mystery fans and Tomas fans. That earns him points in my book, even if we argue over which country is worse to live in. It's his. Silly banter aside, a few months ago, he made a rebalance to Sacred Stones, originally meant to be a simple tweak to making the gameplay something that someone past the IQ of 8 could enjoy, but then became a passion project of sorts to rewriting the game and adding several new characters and elements overall to creating a fresh new experience to the classic yellow tint game, or a pointlessly bizarre one. That's what I want to know. Did he do a good job? There's at least 100 Sacred Stones reworks nowadays, and I want to give a hack he took the lack of humility courage to create the proper respect or dunking it deserves. It will be displayed publicly, much like my profile that is also made by him. He's plagued my FE online life, which being at a point where I can say that I have that is very depressing, so I might as well thank and curse him altogether with this new LP basically entirely dedicated to the guy and the inner machinations of his mind. For those who are just interested in the rebalance, it's probably worth it. Most bugs have been fixed by now (I think), and virtually anything beats vanilla FE8's gameplay, but you can skim through the LP just to be sure. I like to think that this LP will be a very decent showcasing of the hack and the thought that went through it, given that there's a 99.776% chance that Ruben himself will be commenting throughout the LP to whine and cry over how incorrectly I'm playing his hack, unaware that he already failed in not making Gheb recruitable. If he did, I will kiss him. It's like developer commentary! Only very bitter. I fully expect him to roast the crap out of me, and I'm ready for it. As long as he's not busy of course. berwick more like badwick I consider him a funny and based online pal who actually knows what's good about this damned franchise while also hating his guts for the unlucky 1/10 gacha pulls where he gives me the absolute worst takes and units that plagued an entirely different LP. Also he's Spaniard AND French. What the hell man? Why? We bicker a lot, but we also shake hands when bickering about everyone else. He's the Garon man. I'm the bones of Garon. Yeah, fun fact right there. This LP is 50% a s**tpost. 50% review. It's also an ironman run. I hate resetting on screenshot lp's. Although if I lose my lord, I'll ask all of you to pretend it was never that in the first place, but that won't be a problem, because I'm built different. This run will be hard enough knowing that Ruben will basically have 80% jurisdiction of how this run goes. Anyways, let's see what's new: Oh boy! Surely Ruben won't let me miss them here, right? To hell with buffing enemy defense. That's one thing that sucks about Engage maddening. Enemies be stupid tanky in the late game. Thank goodness DSFE knows better. But I liiiike terribly unbalanced units! I am going to grill the beard out of you. I point and laugh at fanfiction. Don't worry. I'll judge fairly. That just included being blunt, and cynical. So Ephraim gets the voices in his head that became OC's. That'll be something to behold. Perhaps his rout will be more strategy-like with the fixed and presumably limited new characters, unless he actually made over 20 or something 27. Guess there's my answer. Well done. I wonder how many are from Ephraim route as opposed to simply joining throughout the regular campaign. I tend to mute a lot of romhacks with unique soundtracks. They're not terrible. Just....weird choices. I'm sure you'll be above that. If I hear one song from obscure 2000's anime-esque game, I'm finding your house I clap and I jump. I recognize founder of FE. Kaga good! Praise creator of the worst FE game ever! He did make Archanea though. Big W. He made Berwick though. Massive L. Yes After SoHaE, it'll be nice to experience a hack with modern benefits like these, although I'm going to assume that this game does not use the skill system Due to this hack mostly being Sacred Stones again, I will mostly just be showing gameplay. You don't need to rewatch the plot of FE8. It's a Fire Emblem. The story can only offer so much on repeat runs, or even first ones. It saves me screenshots anyways. However, when cutscenes are completely new or provide major changes to the story, I will show them off, usually in spoiler tags in case you really just want to see that for yourself. I am rereading the plot to make sure I don't miss much, but I don't remember the script word by word, so if minor changes were made, then don't expect me to notice all the details RUBEN. Just call me a blind fool and move on for missing inventible Berwick references thrown in. As for units, I will mostly show unit base changes, but only show growths if I find the changes to be drastically noticeable. Most units will likely receive minor buffs or nerfs accordingly after all, and it mostly just equates to "the game is slightly more balanced". I'll also fully display brand new units to judge Ruben for creating. Given that Ruben states in his post that he highly recommends using the mGBA nintendo pc over the other vba one, I went and purchased that model. I get to use a new pc for the first time! Now I can't tell how much of the crisp visuals come from the nintendo pc or the hack's modernization. Chances are, the visuals will be a bit blurred when uploaded to an external site to post here, but I was wowed. Off topic to the LP, but I just wanted to let Ruben know that. Thanks. Imgur doesn't accept the screenshots though, so the switching process was tedious, but hopefully worth it. For those of you who don't know, this hack seemingly has more risks of bugs on the other gba player, so keep that in mind when you choose to play the hack. It's still in testing, but it's been enough months to where a moderate amount of patching has been performed. I will of course let this LP be an elongated playtesting model for Ruben to evaluate and correct other possible bug encounters if he still cares about his newborn child. One last thing before I start gaming. Anyone who is still playing Engage, use Vander and Lindon. Or play DSFE and use Cord. That is all. Silly Stones 1: The prologue I'm biased for Sacred Stones, given that it was my first FE game, but boy is it impossible to get back into nowadays. Now's a great time to try out a hopefully amazing version of the visually pleasing incest game by my lovely elderly friend, Saint Rubenio the 3rd, user of Maji. Also my cat destroyed my ps3. I need something else to do.