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[11:01:00] SB: ugh now i need a topic title [11:01:05] SB: i hate everything [11:01:25] Refaerith: "Fuck FE12: An FE12 Playthrough by Me, SB" [11:01:45] SB: i think i cant swear in the topic title But if I could, I would definitely have used that. Because I hate myself. Despite the amount of praise people give FE12, I've never liked this game. Which is weird, considering my favourite game is Shadow Dragon, and everyone seems to herald it as an improved version of FE11, but whatever. I think FE12 has some of the worst map design in the series, which is funny considering everyone talks about how much it improved since FE3 (which it is a remake of, if you dont' know), yet it didn't actually seem to solve any of FE3's problems, or just created new ones. I don't know since I've never played FE3 and don't really plan on doing that either! I'm not /blind/ for this by any means, obviously, but I've never actually beaten the game because of how dull I found it. I think I got up to Chapter 17 or so on Lunatic before getting bored? It was the Gra chapter, fwiw. I'm playing this on H2 because I don't really feel like going through Lunatic again but feel like the lower difficulties don't do a good job of showing how stupidly designed some of the chapters in this game are. I'm using the translation patch because I can't read weeaboo. It's actually a pretty good patch from what I've seen, so it's a shame it has to be wasted on a game like this :V [spoiler=THE PAIN BEGINS] For anyone who doesn't know, this game was the first FE to add in a MU/Avatar/whatever you want to call them. I'm still going to call them MU because it's shorter and there's nothing really wrong with it. I rnged appearance and name, and picked a mage because most of the magic users in this game aren't that good. After choosing all of this, you get to choose your character's past/present/future. These do (iirc) nothing in terms of changing the plot but influence your bases and growths. I chose Farmer's Child (HP base/growth), Diverse (Str+Mag base/growth) and Honourable (Skl+Spd) growth which I'll soon find out is incredibly suboptimal but I never claimed to actually be good at Fire Emblem so it doesn't matter. So now we jump into the first (of far, far too many) Prologue chapters, which are new additions to FE12. I hate almost all of them. ] So we begin by crashing into this girl here. It would probably help if at least one of us had our eyes open. We apologise, and so does this girl, and then she immediately asks if we came here to be a knight. I don't remember agreeing to this, but okay. It shouldn't be too hard to get in, considering they let Gordin through. The girl introduces herself as Marthipan's #1 fangirl. I think Shiida will fight her over that, but whatever. And over here, we have probably the best Cavalier in the game. ...And this loser. Fuck Rody. How could you know that? It's not like they were yelling about it or anything. Katarina is apparently psychic. Okay. Idk man if Gordin gets in, it must be pretty easy. I think the Cleric over there could probably 2RKO him with Mend. But either way, Jagen is clearly starting to lose it in his old age. Or is terrible at maths. You decide. ??? What did you think we would be doing as knights? tl;dr kat's a loser. And by "up next" he means "up first". But yeah, time for the map I guess. So, here we are. We can finally see our stats, which are frankly kind of abysmal. Mages have pretty awful bases, so there isn't much we can really do about that sadly. This map is incredibly simple and kind of boring. This applies to almost all of the prologue chapters, sadly. The boss here is Jagen, who somehow lost a ton of stats from Shadow Dragon which makes me sad. Thankfully, Javelins were nerfed into the ground for this game or else we would have no chance at beating him. We kill off the soldier, taking a hit in return, and then reach him. ...As you can see, this is kind of a shitty situation for us. Thankfully, I have an entire vulnerary to burn through, or else this would just be a wonderful RNGfest. He eventually drops, and we get an okay level out of it, I guess. And by that, he means me, because Katarina is completely useless. Even she admits this. I'm not sure if that's the right word, but okay? Actually, I'm pretty sure it was Lena who was responsible for ending the war in less than 100 turns, but nobody cares about the support staffbots apparently. This fangirling continues for a little while... ...Until Jagen tells her to shut up and we can move on. If it's peaceful, you shouldn't need to risk your life??? This speech is kind of silly. I can't take that face seriously. It just looks like Marth is trolling everyone. At this rate, we'll have a cheerleading squad for him set up by the end of the day. NEXT TIME, more boring tutorial chapters.