The Roger The Paladin Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Jeez! The poor kitty...! Those toys were evil. More so when you know the tooth that's gonna cause the chomp is slightly more resistant, so an observant child such as my younger self can always win. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If it's that easy, how come the Justice League never fell? A few of these are more complicated, but some are as easy as injecting Wonder Woman with something. They could've wiped out half the League in no time! Because Batman. Also Ra's was too stupid to target everyone at once or finish targets off, so by the time Wonder Woman, Flash and Superman were targetted, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Plastic Man had recovered. Also Green Lantern was still able to fight blind to a degree. Meaning the plans not only required resources that were excessively rare.... but were flawed anyway. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No, man, those are just HOES MAD. The fact that our fanbase spent days spamming the whole HOES MAD nonsense probably made the hoes even madder. We're the reasonable ones here! Three Houses saved the fanbase! Personally speaking, it definitely should've been Porky. I mean, the bee from the start of Earthbound is there as a spirit. Porky's complete absence is unforgivable. I can think of a dozen characters I would have preferred to Byleth. But I find the character far more fun in Smash than they ever will be in Three Houses. Ironic? Very. It's just... they bring something unique to Smash instead of being neither a realized character or an avatar but the uncomfortable middle ground. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I meant that the pun didn't even cross my mind. I meant I don't get the pun... oh never mind. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: A fine thing to joke about, I suppose. Well after reading about the Beast of Mogo Gold Rush Colony, I've never been able to take them seriously. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sheesh, what a jerk. Him, not you, obviously. Mind, it was fun getting everyone to act like they thought the fake page was him until he changed his account from his edgy troll name to another one to hide from the association. Seriously, he changed the name, but everyone could tell because it changed on all his old posts, being universal. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That sounds a lot of fun. What did you say the game's name was, again? I don't wanna go back to find it. It's not that I'm lazy; as you know, I am spanish. I'm too busy, I've got paella to eat and bullfighting to watch before my siesta. Somehow this is, alongside the horseman PTSD, the one running gag that's survived through all four LPs. I think. Zelda Breath of the Wild. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, it was your glorious introduction. Gotta call back to it from time to time. Technically, my first post was questioning if bizarro Sacae was Moonside in disguise. I mean, my first TRS post was Zeiss though (after I ended FE6 with the guarantee I was bringing it back next LP... little realizing I'd do it twice). 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Perhaps... Come to think about it, does Eleanora look like Christine at all to you? I was actually going to make that joke... but thought I was being crazy. Maybe it's legit. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, God... I can totally imagine him doing that. Piece of trash...! If I didn't, then I couldn't have made the joke. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...... ...Berwick Saga is a flawless game! Avert your logic this instant! I'm honestly going to suggest that Volcens is an idiot and forgets about her the moment she's locked up. Plot hole filled. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It also fried his writing, no doubt. Personally, I prefered it when it was love that drove him to villainy. Quite ironic. Spoiler I mean, technically wanting to be reunited with his children drove Nergal to use dark magic to try and open the dragon's gate... leaving him too insane to realize he'd literally got his children back and wanting to open the dragon's gate further for reasons he didn't even remember because now he was warped. Seriously, the whole thing could have been averted if he didn't lose it then. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'm not sure how Kaga expected to get away with that. When you realize the whole reason Nintendo sued was that Kaga literally had Xane in the draft. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You can, of course, entrust this task to me, and I oblige. For I have, as I always will, this lyre by my side! Not that I can blame him. That looks like it could get tiresome fast... Yeah. Constant rhyming is a complete pain. A habit from which he should refrain. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Except it somehow didn't knock you out too. Or Penelo, for that matter. I can imagine old Basselin would make it so the spell didn't send the lyre's wielder into a deep snore, but what's Zaiath's excuse? He's innocculated against sleep from listening to Penelo drone on. Not even the mightiest spell can manage more drowsiness. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Or this guy, who could be extremely dangerous with that thunder orb of his. What even is an old priest doing with a pirate gang? He's not a member or anything. He's just so charismatic they let him hang out with them. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: How dare you destroy my glorious return to musical fame! What do you mean, "glorious return to musical fame"? You're using an enchanted lyre to aid brigands in destroying a town full of innocents! There's nothing musical about that! You're a fuckin' bandit, and you'll die a fuckin' bandit! He reminds me of the old Flash Villain the Pied Piper. He sucks at music so he uses a fancy instrument to commit crime. Also I think it's somehow affecting me, because I feel really tired and am having trouble making my usual jokes. Might have to see if I can come up with more later. Sorry Ruben. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Jesus, another hit?! On a 18% chance? Sherlock, what's up with you today? You mocked him for losing those two sniper arrows. Now he's showing you he's a real sniper. Or maybe he's just upset about not getting the praise Sylvis does. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: A poet till the end. A failed one. That doesn't even rhyme... I know you have bigger things to worry about, but... To be fair, it's hard to rhyme when you've got an arrow in your throat. Not that I know from experience. But I imagine it's hard to do a lot of things when you've got an arrow in your throat. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I can't imagine Ophelia's going to be happy to see this... I don't know... she was worried about it being misused. It can't be misused if the enchanted string is broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkwing Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 On a random side note page 12 had enough content on it that the website kept crashing when I tried to view the 23rd update on my phone. On another note, it will be my Birthday by the time this reply is posted. Because I decided to start writing this near midnight. Yay On 5/15/2020 at 1:30 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: Did you play it on Maddening though? My current H5 run is reminding me just how much a degree or 2 of difficulty makes... Ah, yeah. I can see how Maddening can change things. Though if I am being completely honest, difficulty modes like Lunatic and Maddening never really interested me, at least for Fire Emblem. For the most part, I enjoy avoiding the overpowered stuff in the series, largely because one-man armies aren't always the most entertaining thing to watch with Fire Emblems gameplay, yet being forced to break the game with few options on how to do so doesn't engage me as much. I know Conquest is lighter on that aspect, but the abundance of enemy-only skills during the endgame doesn't sound fun. Heck, hearing Iago has a hexing rod among his repertoire of staffs alone killed my interest in trying the game on Lunatic. Shadow Dragon, though, I am more willing to give the higher difficulty a chance, although I'm taking my time with that one. I got cocky during my first run through of Hard 1, and lost a good chunk of my army before the lesson set in that, unlike Conquest, it wouldn't always be obvious how much stronger certain enemy units would be. Also, your let's play on the game is both hilarious and informative. I should get around to commenting on it sometime. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Dark magic is a bad thing in FE7. In FE6 Raigh uses it and he's only a bit of a douchebag, Sophia uses it and she's only a bit of a weakling, Niime uses it and she's only a bit of a terrible grandmother, all those bosses use it and they're only greedy - I mean, heck, Peres was just a loyal guy following orders. No mention to the whole "SANITY GET LOST TO DARKNESS" shenanigan that Canas talks about anywhere in the whole game. Awakening has a similar trend where every character that can become a dark mage has a darker side to their personality (such as Miriels "for science!" attitude and Libra's past, among others). Not certain if Fates continues the trend with dark mages specifically, but both games were actually rather good at having characters reclass options make sense. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Please forgive me, but I struggle to comprehend what you were trying to convey here. Other than the fact that Girls' Frontline looked semi-interesting to me until it turned out to be a rhythm game. Yeah, sorry. That ain't up my alley. I think that's just a minigame. Fire Emblem Heroes has something similar. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That sounds a lot of fun. What did you say the game's name was, again? I don't wanna go back to find it. It's not that I'm lazy; as you know, I am spanish. I'm too busy, I've got paella to eat and bullfighting to watch before my siesta. Somehow this is, alongside the horseman PTSD, the one running gag that's survived through all four LPs. I think. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...Berwick Saga is a flawless game! Except for RNG capture, which I imagine will become a running gag throughout this Let's Play, if it hasn't been one already. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Probably because they were too busy praising him for being amazing in RD. And pissing me off in the process. Seriously, I'm up to part 3, and so far I've liked everything except the parts with the Greil Mercenaries. Not only is their role in the story completely predictable and devoid of anything interesting or mysterious, but their chapters are mindnumbingly easy because they're all broken units. I hate them, I wish they'd go die in a ditch and return me to Brolan and his less awesome friends. Every time I go into the base and see Ike and his goons as the playable guys, I roll my eyes and think "great, another half hour of letting the game play itself in the background". I take it the game doesn't have a "Speed up animations" button from Awakening onward? If not, that definitely seems like something to add if/when the game gets re-released (honestly, I'm still kind of surprised Nintendo hasn't jumped at re-releasing the older Fire Emblem games. More people know about the series thanks to the 3DS games, and several of them are interested in the older games but don't want to mess with emulators, so re-releases would appeal to that crowd. Not to mention fans of the original games can now get it on a more convenient system. It's a win-win situation). On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That's the biggest reason I hesitate to replay this one, honestly. Not gonna lie, I feel tempted to come back to it every now and again, but it's so long for all the wrong reasons... wasting another 60 hours just to realize that I still don't like it is not what I'd call a good investment of my time. Yeah, my original plan was to go Blue Lions -> Verdant Wind -> Crimson Flower -> Silver Snow since several people pointed out not to do Verdant Wind and Silver Snow back-to-back due to how similar they are, but considering how long it takes to get to the timeskip, I'm honestly thinking about doing Crimson Flower afterwards largely because it is shorter than the other routes (that, and I am curious as to what Edelgards motivations are considering the war came more-or-less out of nowhere at the end of Part 1). While I am glad that the monastery does have a purpose and that the time spent there does pay off, I really wish the game sped up getting from point A to point B, as well as making it more obvious what stuff is optional. Especially on a first playthrough, I'm not certain how powerful my units should be before I can safely skip ahead. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Yep. Chapter 22 in particular is nearly impossible to do legitimately without casualties. The chapter is begging you to warpskip it. I'd say it's around chapter 21 that the game starts going downhill in this regard. Almost every chapter from there is either bad or a warpskip-fest. Which, admittedly, isn't that different from TearRing, but at least in TearRing only Holmes is affected by this, so you can just send Renee with him and call it a day. I see. I'll keep that in mind whenever I get to Thracia, since otherwise I'm not a fan of warp-skipping. I get the sense I am missing out on experience, and it just feels like cheating most of the time. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That seems to be mostly what The Roger explained. It's all right. But I still don't see him standing much of a chance if the entire League decided to gang up on him. It seems to be more of a "if this member goes rogue, do X" plan than a "how to defeat the entire team" one. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: My problem with routes in FE is that, as Three Houses proved, FE isn't nearly popular or profitable enough to afford to make so many routes. The series's budget, although it's increasing with time, isn't high enough to be able to withstand this much overspending. And so, you get a half-baked title with a ton of routes instead of a solid one with just one. Agreed. Although I wouldn't mind something like Echoes split again, but that's partially because both routes were simultaneous, and partially because I can see several interesting gameplay ideas that could come from tweaking the map system. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, I'm not so talented an artist, I am sorry. Apology accepted, and don't feel bad about it. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: No monsters in this one, I'm afraid. Aw, though it does fit in with the games down to earth nature, to be fair. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Eheh... ahhh... we won't have to wait until the endgame, my friend. Let me rephrase that; I am both intrigued and concerned about what the final sections of the game look like when endgame enemies are commonplace. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: So you can kill the main character, is that it? Well, it's one of those "characters get knocked out instead of killed despite wielding weapons of ranging lethality" situations. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Nope, but PoR is so damn easy that just using units will break it. So Awakening on Normal (and to a lesser degree Hard) difficulty without doing a challenge run? Yeah, Awakening has several elements that aren't good from a design standpoint, but as a player, one can choose to exploit or ignore them. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Yes. Yes it does. I suppose he wants double since he needs a really good story for why the prisoner with a wyvern is missing while the Sinon knights are off on an important mission. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: But... Ward's medium shields weigh as much as that, if not more, and he doesn't complain about 'em! My guess there is that they are far more practical and efficient than the old shield despite being around the same weight. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It could go both ways. I don't think it ever really comes up. Berwick Saga isn't the kind of game where the protagonist is the chosen one to meet with the gods. Huh. Guess we'll have to wait and see if there are other references there are to the religions background, then. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It is pretty nice to not have to worry about a weapon's durability. That was something I did enjoy about Echoes and Fates, even if said systems really only worked in their respective games (and Fates was really hit or miss on balancing the weapons). On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I'm not sure. Maybe he's just trying to dissuade Faye following the Clifford strategy guide on how to deal with your child. Wonder when Clifford wrote that, as well as how much money he made off of it. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You know, I'm actually not sure. Canonically he probably just flips and becomes insane, but they needed some way to show that visually. I think magic is probably the most reasonable explanation, although I won't lie that I find the image of Owen flipping his cloak inside out whenever On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Yep. Poor Daoud's determined to stop another tragedy from happening. Also, if you lose any of the green units, he doesn't join, which I feel implies that he's so distraught by so much death around him that he's unable to return to the battlefield. I honestly don't blame him at all. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, I mean, it is, isn't it? I wouldn't know, and I wouldn't care to learn. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Also a Breaking Bad reference. Never saw Breaking Bad. Don't really know if it's the kind of show I'd enjoy or not. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Oh, you dastard... I don't have many critiques towards Metal Gear Solid 2's story, but Snake withholding information from Raiden with "you didn't ask" being his only excuse was one of them. Considering how much the guy hated being kept in the dark in the previous game, it comes off as massively hypocritical, and becomes even more egregious when Raiden does ask questions and Snake sidesteps answering, occasionally pretty clumsily. With that said, his "get over it" is actually rather badass. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Okay, hold on, lemme check Aethin's files... "I think you have too many soldiers in your battle party!" He just says "I'll do my best!" when successfully hired. I see. Interesting how a different train of thought affects those kind of puzzles. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Huh, so Ruby has a unique quote. Trying to remember if I said that before. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Uhh! Pretty map! I haven't mentioned it, but the game zooms into the map before the prepscreen. This is handy in FoW maps, as this zoom-in does not include the fog, so you can take clean screenshots of the maps. Nice map, even if I do question what the rectangle of grey is about. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: This is the actual team we'll be deploying. Save for Owen and Axel, this is very much the de facto B team. Derrick is the de facto leader of the B team. Mayhap we should call it the D team? I'm cool with Derrick being the head of the D team. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ey, this guy rhymes! He reminds me of the first generic soldier in Shadows of Valentia, of all characters, because he also rhymed! On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You can, of course, entrust this task to me, and I oblige. For I have, as I always will, this lyre by my side! Not that I can blame him. That looks like it could get tiresome fast... I personally wouldn't mind, but perhaps that's just my amazement at people who can rhyme on a dime. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Except it somehow didn't knock you out too. Or Penelo, for that matter. I can imagine old Basselin would make it so the spell didn't send the lyre's wielder into a deep snore, but what's Zaiath's excuse? Maybe you have to aim the lyre at someone in order for the spell to take effect? Or maybe, despite being made of sound, it's not an area of effect spell? On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Okay! For all intents and purposes, you may think of Sherlock as the lord of the day. We've got to seize the building Penelo is standing on. Sadly, it doesn't seem like this map will be much of a mystery. With that said, this level might still make for an interesting story. We will have to wait and see. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Derrick leads the charge! As he always shall! On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I read this somewhere else. Remember how I once showed how pressing select will bring up those tiny health bars over every unit? Well, in FoW maps, pressing select will also show which units are hidden in the fog. That's actually really awesome. Without this feature, I wouldn't have ever found out that the beacons worked for the enemy as well. Which, admittedly, makes all the sense, but don't ask me to apply basic logic. Smol brain 2 smol, and all. That is an amazing quality of life feature that makes me sad Fire Emblem never stole it. Even though I would also be happy with Fire Emblem never again making another Fog of War map. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You know, he could've died here. Thankfully, he did well. Looks like we're off to a great start. All it takes is the threat of death for Arthur to do his job. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Fuck's sake, really? Is this how you want to start the day? Or, well, the night, rather. Heh, it looks like Derrick swung so hard he dug his axe into the ground a little. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...never mind, he just doubled an enemy for the first time in all of my BWS runs. I'm surprised I managed to catch the animation in time, because this was quite the shock. I like how he nonchalantly slaps the enemy with the axe. Quite the far cry from his imposing and powerful first swing. Heh heh heh, so Kaga did it first! But seriously, despite not being a fan of Three Houses animations, I do like how gauntlet-wielding knights just slap their enemy. There is something about that that will never get old. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I love it, seriously. It's so pretty. Oh, wow, quite the smooth loop, too. When the basic healing spell is cool to watch, you've got a good game on your hands. And yeah, that is a really smooth loop. Even if Czene will remain at 7 HP forever. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa okay good she's safe. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Garbage! Thank you. History repeated rather quickly. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ha! Perfect! You are a master at screenshotting thrown axes from that exact angle. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: The lower archer woke up. Yep, he had been sleeping all this time, due to Penelo's awful music. Gameplay-story integration! Though now I have a question about fog of war rules when a unit is under a status effect. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: This guy, who's just begging for Arthur or Ruby to try zooming past him. Spoiler alert, they won't. That is a very nasty arrow. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Or this guy, who could be extremely dangerous with that thunder orb of his. What even is an old priest doing with a pirate gang? Either he was captured in an earlier raid and forced to heal for the pirate crew, or he's their version of Friar Tuck. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Please, take it, and use it to drive away those rotten men! She said to the pirate. Albeit an awesome one. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: If he uses Hurry while dismounted, he can take cover in the house and his horse won't be in danger of instant death. Cool! So by getting off his horse, he can run a little farther, hide in a house, and his horse can't be hit by anti-calvary arrows? Videogame logic is an amazing thing. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, wonderful! Absolutely magnificent, yes. Finally, it happened. Urggggghhh... Well, at least it happened now instead of in the middle of a life or death situation. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Derrick the dodgetank, they called him. He doesn't even move to dodge, how does that work... Path of Radiance came before this game, so I can't quite say that Kaga did "missing=dodging" first. However, the NES games do not have a dodge animation, presumably thanks to hardware limitations, and thus the NES Kaga did it first. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Hoo, boy... Berwick Saga, more like Missing Saga. Unfortunately, that name does seem pretty accurate. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I haven't the faintest idea what this is. Owen accidentally caused a rainstorm after casting lightning? On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Speed. Magnificent. Thank you for getting this completely useless level, Sherlock. Truly appreciate it. The lack of notable level ups really shows how little they matter in this game, don't they? On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Awesome! I see the power of boners love is making Sherlock behave more competently than usual. Or maybe he chose the Night Person trait, thinking it was actually worthwhile? On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Cool, very cool. I don't remember this guy from my past runs, actually. Dire thunder is a great tome, and the Mjöllnir is a powerful thunder axe. Alas... How do you contain the power of lightning, much less put it in a stone? On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: This guy could be tricky to deal with, if he's allowed the chance to cut someone. There are sleep arrows, sleep knives, a lyre with a sleep spell... Are we certain that the world of Berwick Saga didn't accidentally invent tranquilizers? It seems that if Berwick Saga was a stealth game, the protagonist would have enough equipment to pull off a no-kill run. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Come, and give Daddy Thunderous a hug! Heh heh heh, yeah now I can't get the image out of my head. Maruj and Guenchaos cast magic by pretending to be an airplane. Owen casts spells by giving invisible hugs. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: More strength for the pile, and accuracy. Why do all the low-growth guys get all the skill points? Because it is a Saint Rubenio Let's Play. You may as well trademark it at this point. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, of course, you randomly have Counter and the rapier axe. Berwick Saga, folks! Where the generics with special traits are given names and portraits to set them apart... and then the regular generics are made special too, because fuck it! Berwick Saga: Everyone is Special! Especially Including the Bad Guys! On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Failed poet is the best class name ever. Penelo has Vantage, which is garbage, because he has 17 AS and thus outruns all my army. He also has throwing knives, which are a 1-range weapon with 3 crit. The lullaby is the real problem: it has 2 range and instantly, inevitably sends the attacker into a deep slumber. It's impossible to fight him, as he'll just put you to sleep immediately. Seems like even one-off bosses are given some love in the class name department. Even if there is hardly anything complementary about being a failed poet. I wouldn't be surprised if his high speed came from running away from angry mobs that demanded he stop rhyming. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It is scripted that Sherlock will always nail his first shot on Penelo. Just where do you suppose that you were aiming at, you fool? And now, you sleep, for I can-- Hold on... T-The string... You broke the red string...! It seems like Sherlock can only hit something at night or when the plot says so. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: How dare you destroy my glorious return to musical fame! By boring singing the audience to sleep, which... really isn't the best way to become famous. That is, unless you planned on making a reputation by recording lullaby albums. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: They didn't. Magnanimous. That's two sniper arrows down the drain. Thanks, Sherlock. A downside of bow durability and arrow type being separate, I see. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, at least it allowed Arthur to double. Fun fact: he holds his sword to his face for a split second before striking when he doubles. All these maps and so far I've been unable to react in time to catch that. Let's see if we can manage before the end of the game. Maybe he was hoping to mimic Eliwood's critical hit animation? God knows he needs all the help he can get to hit things. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Thankfully I was lucky, and he did not dodge with a 5% chance of doing so. Color me surprised. Bastard got the last laugh... Though now he should probably invest some skills in weapon maintenance. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Jesus, another hit?! On a 18% chance? Sherlock, what's up with you today? Maybe he decided that because he was the main character for once, he should start preforming like one? That, or hitting a shot with a 18 percent chance to do so looks pretty good in a book. "Sherlock and The Musical Pirates" has a nice ring to it. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: A poet till the end. A failed one. That doesn't even rhyme... I know you have bigger things to worry about, but... Don't really know if there's a fitting word here that rhymes with "alone" to be honest. Also, an arrow in the throat of an evil singer/poet is a pretty karmatic end. On 5/15/2020 at 12:29 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I can't imagine Ophelia's going to be happy to see this... On the bright side, it's sleep spell can no longer be used for nefarious purposes! Although the lyre itself could still make for a solid improvised weapon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Hawkwing said: Shadow Dragon, though, I am more willing to give the higher difficulty a chance, although I'm taking my time with that one. I got cocky during my first run through of Hard 1, and lost a good chunk of my army before the lesson set in that, unlike Conquest, it wouldn't always be obvious how much stronger certain enemy units would be. Also, your let's play on the game is both hilarious and informative. I should get around to commenting on it sometime. I should have known you were reading it. But being honest, I am kind of new to that difficulty (hence why I keep doing things like using the silver lance by accident or missing Draug not being doubled on the first map and using Jagen for the first pirate that just kind of both worked out in my favour). If there were a bar from luck to skill, I'd say I'm firmly sitting on the luck side, with any good habits (the use of my emergency break tactic, where I keep one of my best options for last, be Jagen's silver lance or Ogma) being learned from Iron manning a lot. 2 hours ago, Hawkwing said: Though if I am being completely honest, difficulty modes like Lunatic and Maddening never really interested me, at least for Fire Emblem. For the most part, I enjoy avoiding the overpowered stuff in the series, largely because one-man armies aren't always the most entertaining thing to watch with Fire Emblems gameplay, yet being forced to break the game with few options on how to do so doesn't engage me as much. I know Conquest is lighter on that aspect, but the abundance of enemy-only skills during the endgame doesn't sound fun. Heck, hearing Iago has a hexing rod among his repertoire of staffs alone killed my interest in trying the game on Lunatic. Depends which game. You can only get so overpowered in some. Then there's my Raphael that was having Nemesis bounce off him because his defense stat cap is so high, and throw on the Aegir Shield and the Duscur Heavy soldiers and the fortress knight bonus to a full defense Raphael. Then boost Raphael with a Rally defense. Not to mention the kitchen bonuses. None of it's practical for any sort of LTC. But it's funny to watch Nemesis call Raphael feeble, and then bounce off him harmlessly. Mind, it looks like you could theoretically do even more with Balthus. Who is the smartass that decided to make a DLC character that is literally in every way a step up from an existing one growth and cap wise? In a game where units not recruited auto-level yet? 2 hours ago, Hawkwing said: On another note, it will be my Birthday by the time this reply is posted. Because I decided to start writing this near midnight. Yay Also Happy Birthday. 3 hours ago, Hawkwing said: Not to mention fans of the original games can now get it on a more convenient system. It's a win-win situation Or just on a system. I ever tell you about the time I found a copy of Mystery of the Emblem for the Super Famicom on sale here? Very weird indeed. Didn't buy it because I had no possible way to play it... being a Super Famicom. Sometimes regret that decision just because it would have meant I owned a Fire Emblem from before they were released here. Then again, imported carts are more common here these days as items for the collector. I mean, I literally ended up with a copy of Mother 3 that way when one showed up for $20. I can't read Japanese... so it's basically a way for me to thumb my nose at Nintendo. 3 hours ago, Hawkwing said: Yeah, my original plan was to go Blue Lions -> Verdant Wind -> Crimson Flower -> Silver Snow since several people pointed out not to do Verdant Wind and Silver Snow back-to-back due to how similar they are, but considering how long it takes to get to the timeskip, I'm honestly thinking about doing Crimson Flower afterwards largely because it is shorter than the other routes (that, and I am curious as to what Edelgards motivations are considering the war came more-or-less out of nowhere at the end of Part 1). While I am glad that the monastery does have a purpose and that the time spent there does pay off, I really wish the game sped up getting from point A to point B, as well as making it more obvious what stuff is optional. Especially on a first playthrough, I'm not certain how powerful my units should be before I can safely skip ahead. That's the order I did it in. For the most part it worked out fine. There's one map that gives me headaches because of the music. And maps tend to see a lot of recycling. But other than that... 3 hours ago, Hawkwing said: just my amazement at people who can rhyme on a dime. It's plain to see you did that deliberately. 3 hours ago, Hawkwing said: So by getting off his horse, he can run a little farther, hide in a house, and his horse can't be hit by anti-calvary arrows? Videogame logic is an amazing thing. Depends on the terrain, his horse's condition, and whether they stop targetting the horse because he's not on it because it's become a potential resource for them to take. As for the hiding in the house... that's definitely easier once off the horse. 3 hours ago, Hawkwing said: Don't really know if there's a fitting word here that rhymes with "alone" to be honest. "His body fallen on cobblestone". "his body broken, every bone" "carve these words on my tombstone" "his glorious return met with a groan" "no more rhymes, just a dying moan". "his enemy's contempt for music shown". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Part 24 - Little problems. Something truly magical has happened. Five minutes ago at the time of writing, I was playing TF2. Just some chill nightly matches, nothing out of the ordinary. I began to heal a Demoman, and when I drew my attention to the name of the person in question, I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. I always pictured him as one of those asshole spy mains who abuse the cl_interp exploit and wear edgy loadouts, but still. I played a match with Kaga. I tried telling him that he made my favorite strategy games, but he did not reply. A shame. Anyway, that's it. Kaga did: Spoiler On 5/15/2020 at 7:15 PM, Benice said: I do hope I can finish chapter 10 before you get there...At this point my strategy is to wait and see how far our boys in the back can get. Good luck. I seriously doubt it'll work. Well, I didn't capture him, other than on the "I'm outta here before Minas murders me" version which I de-canonized(HECKING RNG CAPTURE! I GOT HIM TO 1 HP FOUR TIMES! FOOOUUUURR TIMES AND NOT ONE CRIPPLE AND HE PROCEEDS TO CRIPPLE IZERNA TO 6 HP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) so I suppose I may not. I can only hope I have more luck. And Daoud is most certainly not going to promote. I've only deployed him once and that was specifically to take out Theodore. Sheesh... She was my best bet to beat them once Marcel broke all of his shields. Ah, I understand. He is good. It'd be like losing Marcus in 13x. Ah, yes... imagine me losing someone good early on. Flashbacks to losing Dieck in chapter 5 If he had built a wall like Gardy had suggested it wouldn't have happened... Pfff... come now... The guy broke his bow three times! It was hilarious. How can one person be this lucky? I deserve the luck more! Have you any idea how much I've suffered!? Continual canon at its finest: FE7 and FE6. You mean, lack thereof? WHY DO SASHA AND NARRON SUCK SO MUCH?! Sasha and Narron. Suck. ...right... Yessir! I'm planning to play it soon. Well, let me know how it goes. Yaaaaaaayy! I really wish that Czene got robust instead so I don't have to pay to get her back every time. She does have a variant of Robust, though. It's called "being careful and using Hide to it's full potential." Why thank you, thank you. I'm expecting a call from Harvard to become the first grade 9 student to attend their art academy. Funny, I've been waiting for that call for years. Maybe they lost my number. I felt like it would. You remove the 7 from FE7 and replace TearRing with Berwick, and you've got the ultimate Saint Rubenio experience. Eyy, that was where Adel got crippled! Eyy, that's where Czene got crippled! Eyy, the guy who killed Elbert! Twice! Eyy, Axel is standing where Leon got crippled! You sure had fun with this map, didn't you? 0/10 Oswin is better at poetry. But is Oswin Derrick? No, right? 0/10, then. Replace Oswin's portrait with this. On 5/15/2020 at 7:55 PM, BrightBow said: Evil? What a mean thing to be accused of by a pirate.The kind of pirate who robs singers of their lyres in dark alleys, too. Come to think about it, how did Penelo find out about Ophelia's lyre? It's a reverse boobs-and-butt pose.That's... not a pleasant image... Of course you can already tell she triggered Adept by the afterimages on the first attack.Well, let me try to add drama somehow. Bringing Saphira might have been better since she plays on Casual mode... I think. I suppose I never actually finished a map after she died to see how the aftermath is handled.I have no idea, I think I must've deployed her like twice in all of my runs. I like Owen too much, I'm afraid. Sleep Knife guy is a douche. I just did the map and he jumped out of the forest to attack me from behind. Mind you, I've actually seen him entering the forest to try to sneak up behind me. But since I couldn't check his inventory, I left Faye behind to engage him, just for him to immediately put her to sleep.And that's when you started to hate her guts. I appreciate that Derrick has Mercy just to show that under his muffled demeanor is a really nice guy. Because it's not like he is actually good at using it effectively.Hey. How dare you imply that Derrick isn't good at something? He is the most overpowered unit I have ever used. You sure it only has 2 range? Because if it does, then Sylvis could Deadshot him. Huh. You know, that's not a bad idea. Perhaps it can be done, I don't know. In any case, it's pretty annoying that you have to attack him with Sherlock of all people to disable the Lyre. It's not exactly the most intuitive thing, given how he is a terrible match for him otherwise. Well, after a few guys get slept, one might try to attack him from afar, and since Sherlock's force-deployed... Sherlock is going for a trick shot. Everyone run for cover!I mean, he did say he'd try to knock it out of his hands, and instead destroyed it. Just like it's counterpart in Radiant Dawn, this Lyre is very fragile.Ha! I haven't used Lyre yet. To be honest, I think the only non-royal laguz I'm ever going to use is Nealuchi. Because he's funny. I wonder what the odds are that at one point you will pass turn 20 without thinking about Owen, and he will suicide against one of your units. Veria knows that happened to me more then once.High. Very high. I mean, it's happened before. Have half a mind to reset the turn and pretend nothing happened. Heck, I already did it once in another LP... ...well? Is someone going to bring up the Lilina image, or am I going to have to do it myself? Derrick dying would be a bit of a problem. Better not create a time paradox.Actually, something special happens if he dies. But, that's enough about that for now. Worth noting that Esteban's still gets his +1 vision range if he's sitting on a beacon. Ah! That's cool! Sure, I'll just grab Esteban's stinky corpse from whatever ditch he ended up in and throw it on a beacon! On 5/15/2020 at 8:16 PM, eclipse said: "It's too big, and that's why I like it". . .you know exactly what kind of response I'm going to give that. So let my immature humor ring through your ears! I'd let Berwick Saga fuck me in the ass if it was a man. ...... ...... ...... I regret nothing! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah...! On 5/15/2020 at 10:37 PM, Benice said: Pfft...Oh, wow. I beat chapter 10 by literally not doing anything at all; nobody moved from their starting position and I got it on my first try. I thought I would die laughing; several weeks trying to beat it only to have the green units do it for me. I cannot imagine that working out for me. With my luck? Psche. You, on the other hand, are the same man whose Raven dodged no less than 10 deadly blows in one enemy phase. Grrr... On 5/15/2020 at 11:28 PM, BrightBow said: That's great to hear. I figured there was a small chance that approach could work. The biggest obstacles are the ballista. And if the big Guardian positions himself in that small gap inside the fortress, there is little the greenies can do to punch through without help. But the ballista can miss and the Guardian might stay out of the way. Still not reliable enough. I will charge in there, lose someone, rant, and then win somehow. Not necessarily in that order. On 5/16/2020 at 3:56 AM, Golb89 said: That's actually a codename though. (Also, i'd like to mention she's a bunny. Named Rope. With a rope) Still. Rope. Oh, that shouldn't be a problem: (That comic isn't kidding: that's quite literally what her skill does) So what you're telling me is, she's secretly Gandhi. S stands for "Shikikan" (i.e. "Commander") If you are familiar with "The Idolm@ster", this is how they portrayed the Producer in the "Puchimas" comedic spin-off: ...that doesn't explain why this dude's head is a letter! It just explains why that letter in particular! That's furniture. And a pretty good piece too. (Though, admittedly, that one can't be bought) I guess I, too, would like a painting of a penguin, but... Reveal hidden contents It's the pattern of her panties. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Our_Days_at_the_Breakwater Of course. I should've known. It's anime. Isn't that how you deal with "musical pirates" in Berwick? Well, uh... no, in Berwick you deal with musical pirates by firing arrows at them until they die. Also, that's just a minigame implemented in the DJ Max collab (i mean, that's explicitely mentioned in the video's title), the actual gameplay is more like this: Not gonna lie, I dig the music. No double posting in a forum that randomly forbids you to edit your posts: definitely nothing wrong with that! Hey, it's not like they did it on purpose. It's probably some sort of obscure bug. I'm just worried about you, mate. Again with this! I'm okay with opinions that differ from mine, I really am - but this ain't an opinion, this is factually incorrect! If a few glitches and a bad story make for an incomplete game, then half of the industry are unfinished games! The original Super Mario Bros is an unfinished game! It has no story, and you can morph through walls by timing your jumps right! Because i effectively got the two of them confused: RtR is the one with Ava and Torie, not DoG. I guess I can understand that. Doesn't change the fact that there are, in fact, more complete hacks out there than Requiem. Then i guess you don't mind losing a unit (or rather, two). And failing a sidequest in the process. Again. Well, I suppose this'll become clear in due time. I hope. In italian too, and "Pennello" means "brush". But yeah, i'm pretty sure Penelo is supposed to be a female-only name: if anything because it was Ulysses' wife's name (and a character in FFXII) Maybe the guy changed his name to a female one because he wanted to sound more poetic. I think this guy is (or rather, was) reading this other LP. Maybe. Ah, Darkest Dungeon. Another one of those games that I've heard about, but know nothing about. He was probably developed by Paradeus. (Yes, they make dodgetanks) (Literal tanks, i mean, that can dodge) (Don't ask me how) I needn't ask. They employ the strategy developed by the legendary crusader Tom and perfected by the hero Derrick. That is, don't move an inch and somehow morph the projectiles through your own body. You can always count on Heidi's grampa! Ha! Now that you say it, he really does look like Heidi's grandpa. Well, you can always buy her another instrument... ... maybe. Why even is there furniture in this game? Does it also increase Doctor's HP growth by 10%? Does it also cost thousands of dollars? Also, Halfman's girlfriend: Ha! Halfwomann. And some "retroactive" stuff too: Ah! Martel! Out of my sight...! Hahahahahah... yep, mostly me as medic. (The previous one was supposed to be a placeholder until i got a screenshoot of this, but eh) I forgive you. On 5/16/2020 at 12:21 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: More so when you know the tooth that's gonna cause the chomp is slightly more resistant, so an observant child such as my younger self can always win. Hah. I had no idea. If I'm ever put in a saw-style death trap with one of these toys, I'll know the cheat code. Because Batman. Also Ra's was too stupid to target everyone at once or finish targets off, so by the time Wonder Woman, Flash and Superman were targetted, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Plastic Man had recovered. Also Green Lantern was still able to fight blind to a degree. Meaning the plans not only required resources that were excessively rare.... but were flawed anyway. Wonderful work, Batman. Absolutely magnificent. I can think of a dozen characters I would have preferred to Byleth. But I find the character far more fun in Smash than they ever will be in Three Houses. Ironic? Very. It's just... they bring something unique to Smash instead of being neither a realized character or an avatar but the uncomfortable middle ground. I can completely understand this sentiment. At least they're more than yet another Marth clone. I meant I don't get the pun... oh never mind. I think everyone lost track of the conversation a few updates back. Well after reading about the Beast of Mogo Gold Rush Colony, I've never been able to take them seriously. What... in the world... is that title?! Mind, it was fun getting everyone to act like they thought the fake page was him until he changed his account from his edgy troll name to another one to hide from the association. Seriously, he changed the name, but everyone could tell because it changed on all his old posts, being universal. That's a galaxy brain play, right there. Zelda Breath of the Wild. Ah. Now I feel kinda dumb. Technically, my first post was questioning if bizarro Sacae was Moonside in disguise. I mean, my first TRS post was Zeiss though (after I ended FE6 with the guarantee I was bringing it back next LP... little realizing I'd do it twice). That is correct. Well, either way, I am glad that in the end we could figure out why Zeiss was still in the prepscreen even though he was supposed to be dead. I was actually going to make that joke... but thought I was being crazy. Maybe it's legit. It's legit now. LP canon! If I didn't, then I couldn't have made the joke. Grr... I'm honestly going to suggest that Volcens is an idiot and forgets about her the moment she's locked up. Plot hole filled. There we go, see? Berwick Saga is flawless. Even if it does have Volcens in it. Reveal hidden contents I mean, technically wanting to be reunited with his children drove Nergal to use dark magic to try and open the dragon's gate... leaving him too insane to realize he'd literally got his children back and wanting to open the dragon's gate further for reasons he didn't even remember because now he was warped. Seriously, the whole thing could have been averted if he didn't lose it then. A tragedy. Still like Guenchaos better, but... honestly, I should probably refrain from criticizing Nergal. It's been so many years since I played FE7. When you realize the whole reason Nintendo sued was that Kaga literally had Xane in the draft.I mean, Runan originally had blue hair. To avoid further problems, he changed his hair to brown... which lead to him looking like a carbon copy of Leif. And he got away with it, too. Amazing. Yeah. Constant rhyming is a complete pain. A habit from which he should refrain. You...! You, sir, are a virtuoso of the verse! He's innocculated against sleep from listening to Penelo drone on. Not even the mightiest spell can manage more drowsiness. Bwahahahahahahah... okay, this makes total sense. He's not a member or anything. He's just so charismatic they let him hang out with them. This one just made my day. Gotta love this game and its skills, sometimes. He reminds me of the old Flash Villain the Pied Piper. He sucks at music so he uses a fancy instrument to commit crime. Pied Piper? Pish-posh, what a piss-poor name for a pauper of a villain! Also I think it's somehow affecting me, because I feel really tired and am having trouble making my usual jokes. Might have to see if I can come up with more later. Sorry Ruben. Penelo's power trascends the game. Rest well. You mocked him for losing those two sniper arrows. Now he's showing you he's a real sniper. But... his class name is horseman! He can never escape from my prejudice, no matter how hard he tries! Or maybe he's just upset about not getting the praise Sylvis does. Well, he ain't getting any of it any time soon. He lacks all the factors which make Sylvis the greatest. To be fair, it's hard to rhyme when you've got an arrow in your throat. Not that I know from experience. But I imagine it's hard to do a lot of things when you've got an arrow in your throat.I would be worried if you know from experience, how it feels to have an arrow in your throat. What can I say, I saw his neck sticking out and I couldn't resist the urge to put an arrow in it. Even if it doesn't make any sense that he can muster any words beyond "guuuuurrrrghhhh!" in that position. I don't know... she was worried about it being misused. It can't be misused if the enchanted string is broken. That much is true, yes. 9 hours ago, Hawkwing said: On a random side note page 12 had enough content on it that the website kept crashing when I tried to view the 23rd update on my phone. Sheesh... On another note, it will be my Birthday by the time this reply is posted. Because I decided to start writing this near midnight. Yay Happy birthday! It's still today, no? Accursed timezones... Ah, yeah. I can see how Maddening can change things. For the worst. Though if I am being completely honest, difficulty modes like Lunatic and Maddening never really interested me, at least for Fire Emblem. For the most part, I enjoy avoiding the overpowered stuff in the series, largely because one-man armies aren't always the most entertaining thing to watch with Fire Emblems gameplay, yet being forced to break the game with few options on how to do so doesn't engage me as much. I know Conquest is lighter on that aspect, but the abundance of enemy-only skills during the endgame doesn't sound fun. Heck, hearing Iago has a hexing rod among his repertoire of staffs alone killed my interest in trying the game on Lunatic. Personally, the only one I'd consider is FE12, because it's actually, y'know, kinda well-designed? As opposed to Awakening's (from what I've heard, anyway) and Three Houses's, which are terrible displays of poor game design. Shadow Dragon, though, I am more willing to give the higher difficulty a chance, although I'm taking my time with that one. I got cocky during my first run through of Hard 1, and lost a good chunk of my army before the lesson set in that, unlike Conquest, it wouldn't always be obvious how much stronger certain enemy units would be. Also, your let's play on the game is both hilarious and informative. I should get around to commenting on it sometime. The upside of Shadow Dragon's difficulty is that it's so customizable that there's an option for everyone. Same with FE12, although that one perhaps lacks an option between hard and maniac. The jump can be a bit daunting. Awakening has a similar trend where every character that can become a dark mage has a darker side to their personality (such as Miriels "for science!" attitude and Libra's past, among others). Not certain if Fates continues the trend with dark mages specifically, but both games were actually rather good at having characters reclass options make sense. Similar trend? Raigh is only a bit of an asshole because he has no social skills, and Sophia literally hasn't a dark bone in her (unless you count her being a bit brooding). There's nothing even remotely dark about dark magic in FE6. Though, in all fairness, that's more because dark magic is just a thing that exists in Elibe and nobody knows why. FE7 at least tried to give it some background, even if in the process they added one more contradiction to the pile. I think that's just a minigame. Fire Emblem Heroes has something similar. I remember that one. Don't think I ever tried it. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Yes, yes, I get it. I'm a dummy and don't know the popular games. Now excuse me while I continue playing my strategy game that only 776 people in the whole world know. Except for RNG capture, which I imagine will become a running gag throughout this Let's Play, if it hasn't been one already. It's more like something everyone uses because we all know that it's the only thing I'm going to let slide. I mean, heck, even the "no convoy" complaint that I hear so much is no problem for me because bags exist. I take it the game doesn't have a "Speed up animations" button from Awakening onward? Ha! Tellius, quality of life? They're the slowest games in the series! Even FE1 seems a bit faster! If not, that definitely seems like something to add if/when the game gets re-released (honestly, I'm still kind of surprised Nintendo hasn't jumped at re-releasing the older Fire Emblem games. More people know about the series thanks to the 3DS games, and several of them are interested in the older games but don't want to mess with emulators, so re-releases would appeal to that crowd. Not to mention fans of the original games can now get it on a more convenient system. It's a win-win situation). I don't think it's that simple. Re-releases of old games aren't done too often because the corporations know that the only ones who'll buy them are people who only have consoles / don't want to deal with emulators. That is a pretty tiny part of the public that might be interested in old games. Everyone else is going to emulate, or more likely, they've already emulated. Of course, then there's Ninty, who don't re-release their games and don't want you to download ROMs of them. Much like when they kill music channels, even though they do not provide a single way to listen to their games' music otherwise. Frankly, as much as I love Nintendo's games, in every other aspect they're abject scum. Yeah, my original plan was to go Blue Lions -> Verdant Wind -> Crimson Flower -> Silver Snow since several people pointed out not to do Verdant Wind and Silver Snow back-to-back due to how similar they are, but considering how long it takes to get to the timeskip, I'm honestly thinking about doing Crimson Flower afterwards largely because it is shorter than the other routes (that, and I am curious as to what Edelgards motivations are considering the war came more-or-less out of nowhere at the end of Part 1). Verdant Wind and Silver Snow are pretty pointless, honestly. They're lore routes from what I've heard, but otherwise they play really similarly to Azure Moon, only worse. They're also carbon copies of one another. Try sitting through one, and if you do just ditch the other. That is my advice, take it if you will. Though, to be honest, I think Azure Moon and Crimson Flower are the ones worth playing. Claude can eat shit. While I am glad that the monastery does have a purpose and that the time spent there does pay off, I really wish the game sped up getting from point A to point B, as well as making it more obvious what stuff is optional. Especially on a first playthrough, I'm not certain how powerful my units should be before I can safely skip ahead. In the war phase it becomes less and less important to do the monastery. I'm not sure why it even exists there. So many problems would be fixed just by removing the monastery from the war phase. I see. I'll keep that in mind whenever I get to Thracia, since otherwise I'm not a fan of warp-skipping. I get the sense I am missing out on experience, and it just feels like cheating most of the time. I feel the same, but Thracia actively works against those who don't warpskip. It's why I don't like the lategame, it feels like you can only do it in one, very specific way. It seems to be more of a "if this member goes rogue, do X" plan than a "how to defeat the entire team" one. Hence why he failed miserably in that one timeline where Flash died, Superman blasted Luthor and then the entire League lost their moral compass for some reason? Agreed. Although I wouldn't mind something like Echoes split again, but that's partially because both routes were simultaneous, and partially because I can see several interesting gameplay ideas that could come from tweaking the map system. Echoes's system is interesting. It's kinda like TRS's, though there are some key differences. I could get behind that one. Apology accepted, and don't feel bad about it. All right, thanks. Aw, though it does fit in with the games down to earth nature, to be fair. Yeah, it does. Not to worry, though - even if there aren't monsters like the ones in FE8 and Gaiden, we'll encounter some fiends of... a different nature. Let me rephrase that; I am both intrigued and concerned about what the final sections of the game look like when endgame enemies are commonplace. Heheheheheh... yes, be very concerned. As I will be. Well, it's one of those "characters get knocked out instead of killed despite wielding weapons of ranging lethality" situations. Ah, yes. That. On a related note, I can't wait to murder Ike with Tauroneo in RD. I don't dislike Ike, but I'll make him pay for all those chapters of boredom that his overpoweredness caused. So Awakening on Normal (and to a lesser degree Hard) difficulty without doing a challenge run? Probably, I wouldn't know. Yeah, Awakening has several elements that aren't good from a design standpoint, but as a player, one can choose to exploit or ignore them. That's something, at least. Kinda like how in FE8 you can choose to avoid Seth and the Tower. But then, it's impossible to avoid the terrible enemy quality. I suppose he wants double since he needs a really good story for why the prisoner with a wyvern is missing while the Sinon knights are off on an important mission. That makes sense. But more likely, he's just a greedy asshole and uses the fact that the Sinon Knights need all the help they can get to his advantage. My guess there is that they are far more practical and efficient than the old shield despite being around the same weight. That's probably it. Huh. Guess we'll have to wait and see if there are other references there are to the religions background, then. We'll find a few. That was something I did enjoy about Echoes and Fates, even if said systems really only worked in their respective games (and Fates was really hit or miss on balancing the weapons). I'm not sure how I feel about it, myself. It takes away from a part of the strategy, but it also makes it easier for devs to design maps knowing exactly what sort of gear you have at the moment. Wonder when Clifford wrote that, as well as how much money he made off of it. Only Faramir bought it, because he's a dick. Volo would've, but he didn't have any friends to use it on. I think magic is probably the most reasonable explanation, although I won't lie that I find the image of Owen flipping his cloak inside out whenever It is a pretty hilarious image, not gonna lie. I honestly don't blame him at all. It's a miracle that he joins at all after watching Lidran die. I don't think he would've if Reese wasn't so young... I wouldn't know, and I wouldn't care to learn. Relevant. Never saw Breaking Bad. Don't really know if it's the kind of show I'd enjoy or not. Neither have I, but Youtube occassionally recommends me clips of it. I don't have many critiques towards Metal Gear Solid 2's story, but Snake withholding information from Raiden with "you didn't ask" being his only excuse was one of them. Considering how much the guy hated being kept in the dark in the previous game, it comes off as massively hypocritical, and becomes even more egregious when Raiden does ask questions and Snake sidesteps answering, occasionally pretty clumsily. With that said, his "get over it" is actually rather badass. I don't know the context, so all I'll say is Badass? I see. Interesting how a different train of thought affects those kind of puzzles. You need to hone your skills, matey. Huh, so Ruby has a unique quote. Trying to remember if I said that before. Not really, it's the quote that all females use. It's just that Ruby's currently the only female who can use horses, since Christine... y'know... Nice map, even if I do question what the rectangle of grey is about. Probably a pier. I agree, it looks kinda bad. I'm cool with Derrick being the head of the D team. Heck yeah! Go D team! Ey, this guy rhymes! He reminds me of the first generic soldier in Shadows of Valentia, of all characters, because he also rhymed! Hah. A generic with personality? That's awesome. ...I also don't remember the guy. So... yeah. I personally wouldn't mind, but perhaps that's just my amazement at people who can rhyme on a dime. I agree that it is pretty impressive, but this guy seemed so full of himself... Maybe you have to aim the lyre at someone in order for the spell to take effect? Or maybe, despite being made of sound, it's not an area of effect spell? That's probably more like it. Ophelia did say that it's enchanted with a powerful spell. That probably works separate from the music itself. Sadly, it doesn't seem like this map will be much of a mystery. With that said, this level might still make for an interesting story. We will have to wait and see. The real mystery is whether or not Sherlock will miss all his shots this time. As he always shall! Unless he dies. But no, that cannot happen. He is Derrick! That is an amazing quality of life feature that makes me sad Fire Emblem never stole it. Even though I would also be happy with Fire Emblem never again making another Fog of War map. I'd like for them to do either. Ditch FoW, or steal Berwick FoW. Just... don't be like Three Houses, please. It has the same garbage FoW as all the FE games, but on top of that it's difficult to tell where the fog begins, due to how it works visually. Looks like we're off to a great start. All it takes is the threat of death for Arthur to do his job. Yeah, now that you mention it, he didn't miss as much when his life was in jeopardy. Heh, it looks like Derrick swung so hard he dug his axe into the ground a little. That's his normal animation, actually. As mediocre as he is, it's undeniable that he looks absolutely badass. Heh heh heh, so Kaga did it first! Yup. But seriously, despite not being a fan of Three Houses animations, I do like how gauntlet-wielding knights just slap their enemy. There is something about that that will never get old. I can imagine. When the basic healing spell is cool to watch, you've got a good game on your hands. Graphically good, at least. But this game is good in every way. And yeah, that is a really smooth loop. Even if Czene will remain at 7 HP forever. The poor girl. What a terrible night for a curse. History repeated rather quickly. I was quite baffled myself. You are a master at screenshotting thrown axes from that exact angle. A master of not being a master at all. Gameplay-story integration! Though now I have a question about fog of war rules when a unit is under a status effect. Beacons probably still work. That is a very nasty arrow. I'd like to get some for myself, too. That's how you disable some really nasty enemies. Either he was captured in an earlier raid and forced to heal for the pirate crew, or he's their version of Friar Tuck. Well, he's charismatic enough to be like Tuck, I guess. She said to the pirate. Albeit an awesome one. Axel isn't like the others. Axel has a daughter! So by getting off his horse, he can run a little farther, hide in a house, and his horse can't be hit by anti-calvary arrows? Well, he could've made it farther with the horse, but horses cannot traverse houses, so in this particular case, it was better to dismount. Videogame logic is an amazing thing. I agree. Never ceases to amuse me. Well, at least it happened now instead of in the middle of a life or death situation. And with a common weapon. Imagine losing something like the Euthyphro on green. Path of Radiance came before this game, so I can't quite say that Kaga did "missing=dodging" first. PoR came a month before BWS, which in game development might as well be no time at all. Also, in Tellius knights and soldiers "parry" the blows they dodge. Derrick doesn't do anything, the arrow just passes through him without doing anything. However, the NES games do not have a dodge animation, presumably thanks to hardware limitations, and thus the NES Kaga did it first. ...Aaaand there's also that, of course. Unfortunately, that name does seem pretty accurate. It's a very common complaint that doesn't affect me personally at all, like 99% of complaints about Berwick Saga. Owen accidentally caused a rainstorm after casting lightning? Uh, could be... The lack of notable level ups really shows how little they matter in this game, don't they? Yep. The growths in this game are the lowest I've ever seen, lower even than TRS - and you may recall how shitty all growths were in TRS. Or maybe he chose the Night Person trait, thinking it was actually worthwhile? Hah! Well, it did benefit him in this case. How do you contain the power of lightning, much less put it in a stone? Uuuhhhhhhhhh... magic? There are sleep arrows, sleep knives, a lyre with a sleep spell... Are we certain that the world of Berwick Saga didn't accidentally invent tranquilizers? It seems that if Berwick Saga was a stealth game, the protagonist would have enough equipment to pull off a no-kill run. Definitely, yes. Heh heh heh, yeah now I can't get the image out of my head. What have I done to one of my favorites... Maruj and Guenchaos cast magic by pretending to be an airplane. Owen casts spells by giving invisible hugs. KagaSaga mages are quite ridiculous. Because it is a Saint Rubenio Let's Play. You may as well trademark it at this point. I probably should. Berwick Saga: Everyone is Special! Especially Including the Bad Guys! To my great chagrin, at times... Seems like even one-off bosses are given some love in the class name department. Even if there is hardly anything complementary about being a failed poet. There's hardly anything complementary about it, but it's still awesome that they bothered to program a whole class (well, kinda - it's a reskin of Esteban's class) for Penelo. I wouldn't be surprised if his high speed came from running away from angry mobs that demanded he stop rhyming. Hahahahah... this is LP canon now. It seems like Sherlock can only hit something at night or when the plot says so. Mostly the latter. By boring singing the audience to sleep, which... really isn't the best way to become famous. That is, unless you planned on making a reputation by recording lullaby albums. Hey, maybe that really was his brilliant plan! I gave him too little credit. A downside of bow durability and arrow type being separate, I see. Bows also lose durability even when missing, so this was just a plain loss. Urk... Maybe he was hoping to mimic Eliwood's critical hit animation? God knows he needs all the help he can get to hit things. Probably, probably. Though now he should probably invest some skills in weapon maintenance. He should invest in a lot of things. Maybe he decided that because he was the main character for once, he should start preforming like one? That, or hitting a shot with a 18 percent chance to do so looks pretty good in a book. "Sherlock and The Musical Pirates" has a nice ring to it. Either way, I'm glad he decided to be useful for once. Don't really know if there's a fitting word here that rhymes with "alone" to be honest. Bone? All of his bones are broken, after all. Also, an arrow in the throat of an evil singer/poet is a pretty karmatic end. Quite so, yes. On the bright side, it's sleep spell can no longer be used for nefarious purposes! Although the lyre itself could still make for a solid improvised weapon... I... I doubt Ophelia wants to use her dad's lyre to whack people. 6 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said: I should have known you were reading it. But being honest, I am kind of new to that difficulty (hence why I keep doing things like using the silver lance by accident or missing Draug not being doubled on the first map and using Jagen for the first pirate that just kind of both worked out in my favour). If there were a bar from luck to skill, I'd say I'm firmly sitting on the luck side, with any good habits (the use of my emergency break tactic, where I keep one of my best options for last, be Jagen's silver lance or Ogma) being learned from Iron manning a lot.And even then, you're still doing better than me thanks to luck. Grumble grumble... Depends which game. You can only get so overpowered in some. Then there's my Raphael that was having Nemesis bounce off him because his defense stat cap is so high, and throw on the Aegir Shield and the Duscur Heavy soldiers and the fortress knight bonus to a full defense Raphael. Then boost Raphael with a Rally defense. Not to mention the kitchen bonuses. None of it's practical for any sort of LTC. But it's funny to watch Nemesis call Raphael feeble, and then bounce off him harmlessly. Mind, it looks like you could theoretically do even more with Balthus. Who is the smartass that decided to make a DLC character that is literally in every way a step up from an existing one growth and cap wise? In a game where units not recruited auto-level yet? The same smartass that designed the rest of the game. You know, the game that I keep chastising for being poorly designed in most ways? Also Happy Birthday. Indeed! Or just on a system. I ever tell you about the time I found a copy of Mystery of the Emblem for the Super Famicom on sale here? Very weird indeed. Didn't buy it because I had no possible way to play it... being a Super Famicom. Sometimes regret that decision just because it would have meant I owned a Fire Emblem from before they were released here. Then again, imported carts are more common here these days as items for the collector. I mean, I literally ended up with a copy of Mother 3 that way when one showed up for $20. I can't read Japanese... so it's basically a way for me to thumb my nose at Nintendo. Nintendo will never deliver, and even if they do it'll probably be worse than the fanslation. I say fuck 'em. That's the order I did it in. For the most part it worked out fine. There's one map that gives me headaches because of the music. And maps tend to see a lot of recycling. But other than that... Ahh, I wish I were as determined as you two. Alas, I could only swallow so much bad design. It's plain to see you did that deliberately. ...goddamnit, I hadn't even noticed before I read your reply! Depends on the terrain, his horse's condition, and whether they stop targetting the horse because he's not on it because it's become a potential resource for them to take. As for the hiding in the house... that's definitely easier once off the horse. See? Berwick Saga makes sense, because it is the best! "His body fallen on cobblestone". "his body broken, every bone" "carve these words on my tombstone" "his glorious return met with a groan" "no more rhymes, just a dying moan". "his enemy's contempt for music shown". You sure you aren't secretly The Penelo The Failed Poet? Nah... doesn't have the same ring to it as The Roger The Paladin. It first: Spoiler The other day, we kicked some guy's butt and took his stolen lyre. Derrick was there. Today, we give it back to its rightful owner. The lyre, I mean, not Derrick. I did everything I could to get it back to you in one piece, but... I broke the red string... ...... She starts playing the lyre here, and the music changes. I'm guessing they picked a piece that has a lyre in it on purpose. Huh?! How is it still playable...? Even with a string missing, one can play the same notes by using the other strings. Lyre players reading this, is this true? But red string or no, I do not mind. Mr. Sherlock... you brought my father's lyre back to me! I'm truly honored that you would do such a thing for my sake. Sure... I-I mean, think nothing of it, Miss Ophelia! Smooth, man. But at least you're better at this than your partner-in-being-a-famous-detective's-namesake. No, I'll never forget your kindness. To tell the truth, I had given up hope of ever seeing this lyre again, but despite that, you came to my aid... Are you sure? Yes... That is what I wish for. Ah, now that I think of it... I hear that it can also be used as a durable bowstring. Please take it, with my thanks. I know that it is hardly as great of a reward as you deserve, but I... No, I'm grateful to have it. Really, I am. I look forward to hearing your next performance, Miss Ophelia. Thank you... Could I ask just one more favor of you, Mr. Sherlock? Please do! I've always seen you sitting in the corner of the tavern, far away from where I perform... Whoops. Turns out she had you pegged all along. I'm so sorry, Sherlock. Oho! Never mind the apology, Sherlock. Congratulations, you've done it! You stand a chance now! O-Of course! It would be my pleasure. All right, a material, wonderful! 'Kay then, Children's Hero. Let's see how true that is. I do believe that Defender overhere is the Children's Hero. Look, he's saving the children inside the city from having to deal with a filthy peasant urchin. Isn't he just wonderful? By the way, isn't that the same dude who did away with our horses? How does he still have a job? Did we seriously never, ever tell Vanmilion? C'mon, even ignoring the horse business, he treats everyone who comes to the gate like shit! We've got bigger things to worry about than your little problems, kid! Now scram! Little problems?! A person's life is at stake! Ward to the rescue, as usual. Is there some sort of trouble going on here? Yes, there is! This blithering street urchin won't leave us in peace! You bastard... You're supposed to protect this city, but you don't even care that someone was kidnapped! Kidnapped? What's this now, boy? I bet you'd both be singing a different tune if I were rich, like Vanmilion or some other worthless hot-shot... Ergh... that's one way to react to somebody calling you "boy." Hold your tongue...! You're quite the feisty one! Do pardon me, I did not mean any offense by calling you "boy". I don't get Ward. He's kind to those who insult the shit outta him, but when he's faced with a nice little girl, he's an asshole. Why? Now, what's this about a kidnapping? Ah... Um, right... My friend Lena was kidnapped. Lena? Are you friggin' serious, Kaga? Lena? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHH!! THIS IS THAT DICKHEAD'S DEFINITION OF FUCKING "LITTLE PROBLEMS"!?! Me and all the others are worried sick about her... We promised we'd take care of each other... The "others"? Are there truly that many other children living on the streets? Haven't you ever been to the old parts of the city? We all lost our parents in the war. We have to look out for each other. It's not like we can count on anyone else to take care of us... What a tragedy... Well, lad, do you know where your friend has been taken? But General Ward, we have already received orders for the next mission... I am certain that Lord Reese will agree with me once I explain the situation to him. Once again, Ward is the hero of the people. Stuff like this is why I like him. In spite of his very complicated relationship with his daughter. Y'know, the one who's dead. I thought you might say that... Leave it to me, General. I will go inform Lord Reese myself. Thank you, Lady Tianna. Now then, do you know where these kidnappers took your friend? Yes, I know where their hideout is. But there's no way I can rush in there and rescue her by myself... You're gonna come with me?! My subordinates will assist you. Can you lead them to the kidnappers' hideout, lad? Of course I can. And it's not "lad," either. My name is Thaddy. Very well, Thaddy. I hope everything goes well. Well. That's been the update. ...nah. Let's do the intro text right now. All right, so Children's Hero! And the team of 8 soldiers that Ward sent to help the aformentioned hero! Wait for me, Lena... I'm coming to save you... I'll do everything it takes to get you back! So we've got a long-haired thief who wants to save a girl named Lena from bandits who have kidnapped her. How many more times must Kaga reuse this plotline before he's satisfied? Well, at any rate, there you have her. Lena. And here's the brigand of the day. He has this theme, but in the actual chapter I'm pretty sure he just uses Vie like all the others. Penelo, too, used Vie, but I forgot to link it last time. Guess I was affected by the lyre as well. ...... Enjoy it while ya can, lass. Couple days more, and ye'll be with whoever buys ya. This fuckin' game, man. It ain't afraid to go places, that much is certain... Help me... Ain't nobody comin' to help ya! This place is my turf, y'hear? Best be keepin' yer whinin' to yerself if ya know what's good for ya. (Help me... Thaddy...!) Boltz claims that this is his turf, but just down the hill, there's a random Imperial garrison that's just... kinda there. I'm not sure what the deal is with these guys. This can't be too far from Navaron. What in the world are they doing here? They ought to at least have the prudence to stay out of our way. Of course, they may not appreciate our presence here. Should it come to it, remind them of their place in this world. Yes, sir. If you do spot them, sound the alarm and send word as quickly as you can. I'll give the signal, and we'll all rush together to support you. Understood! Thank you, sir! We will stay vigilant! This is your hint for the map's gimmick. But that's not relevant today. 'Aight, so that's been the update. As usual with these mid-sidequests updates, it's been really short. Next time, we've got ourselves another bandit/Imperial mixed map. Hope everything turns out okay for us, and for you all in the meantime, of course! Pray farewell, y'all! To be continued Death count: Christine Esteban* Unavailable Capture count: 0 Reset count: 1 (Ward: 1) Current perfect streak: 1 map Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's... not a pleasant image... And yet IS keeps using it. The normal boobs and butt pose, I mean. Not the reverse one. Like this Catria one from Heroes: Maybe I'm just the only one being grossed out by seeing someone's spine broken. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I have no idea, I think I must've deployed her like twice in all of my runs. I like Owen too much, I'm afraid. Paramythis will pop up the same way Faramir does for Faye. So I'd imagine she can't die either. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: And that's when you started to hate her guts. Unlikely, since that happened on the same day you posted the previous update. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah! That's cool! Sure, I'll just grab Esteban's stinky corpse from whatever ditch he ended up in and throw it on a beacon! That was just a bit of trivia. Not something I expected to factor into this run. But it seems like we are in agreement that Esteban is probably laying dead in a ditch somewhere and that you consequently killed 2 characters back in chapter 3. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I don't get Ward. He's kind to those who insult the shit outta him, but when he's faced with a nice little girl, he's an asshole. Why? Maybe the next little girl should try to insult him like that. That might work. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Axel is going to lower the bridge then, I assume. Probably for the best. Using Thaddy to jump between the forests can be a bit risky because of that scout. But at least it's easy to steal that Killer Knife from him. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, at any rate, there you have her. Lena. You know, Lena is a fairly common name... oh, this Lena is a redhead too. What are the odds? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Maybe nobody will want to buy her, but why sell people what they ask for? They should try lootboxes. For a good lootbox, you need plenty of stuff that nobody wants so they keep spending money. It could revolutionize the whole industry. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: This fuckin' game, man. It ain't afraid to go places, that much is certain... At least they won't eat her alive, like the Mangulites do. Probably. Edited May 17, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I think the only non-royal laguz I'm ever going to use is Nealuchi. Because he's funny Wise choice. I wanted to bring Nealuchi to endgame but that would result in me missing the Leanne/Naesala paired ending. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Good luck. I seriously doubt it'll work. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I can only hope I have more luck. Honestly, me too. That escape map was annoying. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sasha and Narron. Suck. ...right... Six or so dry levels between the two of them over the first three maps kinda qualifies. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: How can one person be this lucky? I deserve the luck more! Have you any idea how much I've suffered!? *Inserts picture of Treck and Echidna dying from your FE6 LP.* Well, two of them broke on red and the other on the just-before-red one. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You sure had fun with this map, didn't you? AHAHAHAHAHAAhaahHAAGhaahhaagahahha YeS i onLy HAd to DO It 14 TImeS becAUAse SHIRock waZ bAd!1 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But is Oswin Derrick? No, right? 0/10, then. Replace Oswin's portrait with this. Ight. Also, Oswin COULD be Derrick; he knew that Kaga had more underaged girls than FE7 did. Because I guess St. Elimine Serra wasn't enough. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I cannot imagine that working out for me. With my luck? Psche. You, on the other hand, are the same man whose Raven dodged no less than 10 deadly blows in one enemy phase. Grrr... Ehh, the only actual threat was the Raze guy, and that was only if he poisoned Vester; after that, he walked straight to the throne because the ballista bloke attacked first, and then the mercy guy. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This could be a meme format now. 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: OH SNAP HE'S BACK! Good thing his growths sucked. Quote Something I've never seen before. Edited May 18, 2020 by Benice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 "Nobody wants ya" is probably the most comforting thing he said to her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: So what you're telling me is, she's secretly Gandhi. ? 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...that doesn't explain why this dude's head is a letter! It just explains why that letter in particular! Artist's license. Again. (Actually, they most likely copied it from the "official" GFL guide comics) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I guess I, too, would like a painting of a penguin, but... Here you go: 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Not gonna lie, I dig the music. Actually that's also exclusive to the DJ Max collab, though GFL's own tracks are pretty good too imo. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hey, it's not like they did it on purpose. It's probably some sort of obscure bug. A bug... or a feature? 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If a few glitches and a bad story make for an incomplete game, then half of the industry are unfinished games! Bingo! 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why even is there furniture in this game? Does it also increase Doctor's HP growth by 10%? Does it also cost thousands of dollars? That's from GFL actually (i mean, it's clearly written up there on the emulator's frame) but regardless: in both games furniture is used to decorate dorms and improve their level of comfort/ambience, thus increasing the amount of affection/trust gain of your units. In GFL you also gain batteries based on the total comfort of all your dorms and in AK operators resting in dorms recover morale spent working in the base's facilities faster with higher ambience. No effect of course on the Commander/Doctor, since they have no stats to begin with, and while most "special" furniture is acquired for free (as rewards and the likes) most "ordinary" furniture requires quite a lot of tokens/parts to buy (though in AK you can actually choose what you want to buy, whereas in GFL it's tied to a gacha) (Note: i couldn't find that video on YouTube anymore, so unless you can read russian or indian subs or speak chinese that's all there is available as far as i know) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: (Sorry, not sorry. Again) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengaius Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Something truly magical has happened. Five minutes ago at the time of writing, I was playing TF2. Just some chill nightly matches, nothing out of the ordinary. I began to heal a Demoman, and when I drew my attention to the name of the person in question, I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. I always pictured him as one of those asshole spy mains who abuse the cl_interp exploit and wear edgy loadouts, but still. I played a match with Kaga. I tried telling him that he made my favorite strategy games, but he did not reply. A shame. Anyway, that's it. Should have apologised for your Heals missing. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: All right, a material, wonderful! What does this make, Cupid's Bow? 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I don't get Ward. He's kind to those who insult the shit outta him, but when he's faced with a nice little girl, he's an asshole. Why? Maybe he just hates women? 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Huh? This guy is the lowest value on Valery's hit-list which means either he's not encroaching too much on the Community's ventures(they only have a little stock in this trade), or Valery has such a large enough income from this industry, that Boltz's gang is only a drop lost from the ocean. Edited May 18, 2020 by Pengaius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 (edited) It's not double-posting since Pangasius posted something in-between, right? Anyway, here is yet another [Addendum] for the pile: On 5/12/2020 at 8:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...I should've become a fisherman... Also: 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still. Rope. At least she chose that name herself. And beside, it works (unlike FE6's bosses) Edited May 18, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I always pictured him as one of those asshole spy mains who abuse the cl_interp exploit and wear edgy loadouts, but still. If that's THE Kaga, and not just a Kaga, then this has gone full circle. I just had a thought... what if Koga from Pokemon was based on Kaga? Guy literally uses the hell out of status effects the player can't hope to make the most of. 10 hours ago, BrightBow said: Maybe I'm just the only one being grossed out by seeing someone's spine broken. I'm sure someone finds the smooth curves erotic. (I'm so very sorry). 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What... in the world... is that title?! Mogo Gold Rush Colony is a location in Australia. The Beast of Mogo Gold Rush Colony was an alleged werewolf sighted in the area (or at least something that looked like one) in the same vane as the Beast of Bray Road was an alleged series of sightings of a werewolf in the vicinity of Bray Road in the US State of Winconsin. Basically, the last known encounter with this particular werewolf involves it terrorizing some schoolboys who are in a cabin on a school camping trip... before it gets chased off by a flock of GEESE. I don't mean some axe wielding pirates, or an over-powered SNK boss. I mean frigging waterfowl. How can I take that seriously? Worst werewolf ever. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: There we go, see? Berwick Saga is flawless. Even if it does have Volcens in it. When you realize this would have been a flaw if Volcens wasn't in it. Ergo Volcens is a necessary evil. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Pied Piper? Pish-posh, what a piss-poor name for a pauper of a villain! Well, you see the guy was born deaf. So he became obsessed with music after getting corrective surgery. But he was bad at writing anything people liked... despite being pretty good with inventing equipment that hit ultra-sonic notes and infra-sound pitches that allowed him to mind control people, rats, etc. Also he did way too many other sound gimmicks over the years to even talk about (including the old glass shatter-ing note chest-nut). Problem is, he was dealing with a foe faster than the speed of sound. Ergo literally born to lose. Guy was even a rich kid, so he didn't need to steal. He was already a millionaire. It was entirely taking it out that his music was a flop/lashing out at his parents because he hated them. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, he ain't getting any of it any time soon. He lacks all the factors which make Sylvis the greatest. A second x chromosome being among them? Wait... no, that'd just make him tri-chromosomed. Damn. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hence why he failed miserably in that one timeline where Flash died, Superman blasted Luthor and then the entire League lost their moral compass for some reason? You mean the one that was made up for the cartoon? Probably. Ironically the closest that ever happened in the comic was a parallel world where everyone in the league was bad from the get-go and most of their villains had the opposite morality. The Flash's counterpart there was pretty evil. Oddly enough, that world didn't have Aquaman or Martian Manhunter. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You sure you aren't secretly The Penelo The Failed Poet? If I were, I should be angry, as your LP has had a hand in my death... wait. 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Lyre players reading this, is this true? I know you can play different notes on the same string of a guitar, so possibly. I'd be a lyre if I said I knew for sure. 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I bet you'd both be singing a different tune if I were rich, like Vanmilion or some other worthless hot-shot... He wishes he had Vanmillion denarii. 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: So we've got a long-haired thief who wants to save a girl named Lena from bandits who have kidnapped her. How many more times must Kaga reuse this plotline before he's satisfied? I have a feeling I'm gonna need to do something drastic to make that chapter stand out now. 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Boltz claims that this is his turf, but just down the hill, there's a random Imperial garrison that's just... kinda there. I'm not sure what the deal is with these guys. This can't be too far from Navaron. What in the world are they doing here? Trying to work out what happened with that supply post? Executing Disaad's next brilliant scheme involving diverting a river to flood Navarron? I don't even know man. I just like blaming Disaad. 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I should have known you'd bring this sub-plot back. 8 hours ago, Benice said: OH SNAP HE'S BACK! Good thing his growths sucked. Shame it's not the one from Ruben's FE12 LP.... but the one from an alternate timeline where he reunited with Etzel earlier, and became quite powerful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 16 hours ago, Golb89 said: On 5/12/2020 at 8:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...I should've become a fisherman... More fishing Halfmann: https://www.awkwardzombie.com/awkward-zombie/tiring Also: On 5/17/2020 at 5:54 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, at any rate, there you have her. Lena. (Actually that's a typo, as she introduces herself as "Lana" instead of "Lena") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 On 5/17/2020 at 5:57 PM, Golb89 said: Pangasius Pengasius? I'm gonna call him that from now on. On 5/18/2020 at 10:07 AM, Golb89 said: (Actually that's a typo, as she introduces herself as "Lana" instead of "Lena") Kaga wrote Arknights too? On 5/17/2020 at 5:57 PM, Golb89 said: At least she chose that name herself. And beside, it works (unlike FE6's bosses) You really don't like Crownslayer, do you? I preferred her to that creepy choild from the prologue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted May 20, 2020 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 Part 25 - Paranoia agent. D'oh: Spoiler On 5/17/2020 at 6:56 PM, BrightBow said: And yet IS keeps using it. The normal boobs and butt pose, I mean. Not the reverse one. Like this Catria one from Heroes: Oh, God, the spine...! Corkscria! Maybe I'm just the only one being grossed out by seeing someone's spine broken. Not necessarily grossed out, myself, but that's a horrible pose. Also, I like the detail of the butt curtain. Very snazzy. Ah, to have FE5 and its pant-wearing women back... Paramythis will pop up the same way Faramir does for Faye. So I'd imagine she can't die either. Ah, I understand. I suspected something like this would happen, considering... ah, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Unlikely, since that happened on the same day you posted the previous update.Well, that was the day your hatred for Faye increased by 2%, then. That was just a bit of trivia. Not something I expected to factor into this run. Yes. But it seems like we are in agreement that Esteban is probably laying dead in a ditch somewhere and that you consequently killed 2 characters back in chapter 3.Why, you...! Leave me be! You are worse than a horseman and Butterman! Maybe the next little girl should try to insult him like that. That might work.Either that or he'll ignore her and her troubles. Perhaps it isn't worth the risk... Axel is going to lower the bridge then, I assume. Probably for the best. Using Thaddy to jump between the forests can be a bit risky because of that scout. But at least it's easy to steal that Killer Knife from him.That's a thing you can do? Never crossed my mind. I've always used either Axel or Larentia. Either way, that isn't the team I'll be bringing today, I hadn't done the preparations yet. I just wanted to get the text. You know, Lena is a fairly common name... oh, this Lena is a redhead too. What are the odds?Come now, don't pretend the name is all they have in common. Maybe nobody will want to buy her, but why sell people what they ask for? They should try lootboxes. For a good lootbox, you need plenty of stuff that nobody wants so they keep spending money. It could revolutionize the whole industry. The idea of slave lootboxes is so morbidly hilarious. At least they won't eat her alive, like the Mangulites do. Probably. Sheesh... I had better not fail. On 5/17/2020 at 9:35 PM, Benice said: Wise choice. I wanted to bring Nealuchi to endgame but that would result in me missing the Leanne/Naesala paired ending. Naesala's theme is great, so I'll probably bring him as well. Nailah too, for reasons that should be obvious enough if you've been paying any attention to the things I say. Tibarn can sit on the bench. Damn you, you luckster...! Honestly, me too. That escape map was annoying. Oi! How dare you suggest Berwick Saga is anything but concentrated joy at all times? I'll kill you! Six or so dry levels between the two of them over the first three maps kinda qualifies. You... do know that Narron's promotion singlehandedly turns him into the best unit in the game, and that Sasha promotes twice and into the best classline in the game, right? Their growths don't matter shit. *Inserts picture of Treck and Echidna dying from your FE6 LP.* No, don't remind me...! Well, two of them broke on red and the other on the just-before-red one. That's really not too bad. AHAHAHAHAHAAhaahHAAGhaahhaagahahha YeS i onLy HAd to DO It 14 TImeS becAUAse SHIRock waZ bAd!1 Ight. Also, Oswin COULD be Derrick; he knew that Kaga had more underaged girls than FE7 did. Because I guess St. Elimine Serra wasn't enough. Oswin is also invincible, like Derrick. Ehh, the only actual threat was the Raze guy, and that was only if he poisoned Vester; after that, he walked straight to the throne because the ballista bloke attacked first, and then the mercy guy. The Bester. This could be a meme format now. Doesn't need to be. Just the fact that I played a match with Kaga is enough. He was a good Demo, too. Not the talkative kind, sadly. OH SNAP HE'S BACK! To my great chagrin! Good thing his growths sucked. Seriously, he was on par with Wrys. Wrys! I'll never forgive you, no matter how many years may pass! Pretzel...! Something I've never seen before. I had trouble picturing what it's like, too. On 5/17/2020 at 9:48 PM, eclipse said: "Nobody wants ya" is probably the most comforting thing he said to her. With my luck, we'll manage to capture this bastard alive, unlike Hamilton, Laurus, Seamus and the dancing Imperial. Just watch. On 5/17/2020 at 11:56 PM, Golb89 said: ? It's a reference to Civilization. In the first game of that series, they made Gandhi's aggression value the lowest in the game to reflect his real life personality. However, if the player did anything to lower that value, it overflowed and looped back to 255, turning him into the most aggressive bastard in the game. As a result, he spent all his games spamming nukes. Everyone loved Gandhi's behavior so much that it became a staple of the series. Artist's license. Again. (Actually, they most likely copied it from the "official" GFL guide comics) Damnit, will nobody explain to me why letterhead is a letterhead?! Here you go: ...ah. Okay. Could it be considered bestiality if it's the human getting assaulted? Actually that's also exclusive to the DJ Max collab, though GFL's own tracks are pretty good too imo. That's pretty cool. A bug... or a feature? In a different forum I'd definitely go for bug, but this is the series that Kaga made... and this is a very Kaga thing to do... Bingo! Well, I do agree to an extent, but... hot damn, here I thought I was demanding! I don't compare to you! Now I might actually have to install Arknights and GFL, only so I can try to find a bug and prove to you that you enjoy incomplete games also. Hah! That's from GFL actually (i mean, it's clearly written up there on the emulator's frame) Well, since when have I been known for being observant? I am the same man who forgot to move Lilina. but regardless: in both games furniture is used to decorate dorms and improve their level of comfort/ambience, thus increasing the amount of affection/trust gain of your units. They ripped off Kaga. Kaga did it first. Kaga...! Praise be thy name! In GFL you also gain batteries based on the total comfort of all your dorms and in AK operators resting in dorms recover morale spent working in the base's facilities faster with higher ambience. What you're telling me is, if your house is really cute, it acts as a dancer. Check. No effect of course on the Commander/Doctor, since they have no stats to begin with, and while most "special" furniture is acquired for free (as rewards and the likes) most "ordinary" furniture requires quite a lot of tokens/parts to buy (though in AK you can actually choose what you want to buy, whereas in GFL it's tied to a gacha) Ahhhhh, of course. Good ol' microtransactions. Somehow makes Jonathan's deals seem good. (Note: i couldn't find that video on YouTube anymore, so unless you can read russian or indian subs or speak chinese that's all there is available as far as i know) It won't be a problem. I have a friend in the Czech Republic. (Sorry, not sorry. Again) I don't care what you say. I have not ripped off Girls' Frontline. Mainly because I didn't know it existed until you showed it to me. On 5/18/2020 at 2:16 AM, Pengaius said: Should have apologised for your Heals missing. I don't use the crossbow, so I can't miss my heals. My brain is galaxy-sized. And all those who could prove me wrong fall prey to my golden gun. Ahah! Hurray for more reference that nobody who doesn't play TF2 will get! What does this make, Cupid's Bow? Let me take a quick look at the atelier... ...oddly enough, it makes Earthblaze. Huh. I wonder what's up with that. Maybe he just hates women? Come now. Ward isn't that kind of person. ...uh, well, he did refuse to visit his wife when she died... ...And then neglected his daughter... ...And he treated Rosalie like shit for no reason... ...... ...ergh... but he has the endgame beard, so all is forgiven. All is forgiven. Huh? This guy is the lowest value on Valery's hit-list which means either he's not encroaching too much on the Community's ventures(they only have a little stock in this trade), or Valery has such a large enough income from this industry, that Boltz's gang is only a drop lost from the ocean. Valery's web of lies and manipulation runs deep. If the Raze Empire doesn't hurry to Narvia, he'll destroy it before they can! On 5/18/2020 at 2:57 AM, Golb89 said: It's not double-posting since Pangasius posted something in-between, right? Bwahahahahahahah... this one's great. Anyway, here is yet another [Addendum] for the pile: Bwahahahahahahah... great edit. Also: At least she chose that name herself. My next question is, why is her head square-shaped in both her chibi and her full artwork? And beside, it works (unlike FE6's bosses) Hey c'mon. It wasn't that bad then. Orlo's pretty awesome! And... Sigune's pretty awesome, too...! And... yeah... On 5/18/2020 at 6:12 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: If that's THE Kaga, and not just a Kaga, then this has gone full circle. Probably not, but a man can dream. A man can also make LP canon. It's LP canon that I played a match with our dear Shouzou. There. I just had a thought... what if Koga from Pokemon was based on Kaga? Guy literally uses the hell out of status effects the player can't hope to make the most of. It could be. I don't know. Pokemon's never been my cup of tea. I'm sure someone finds the smooth curves erotic. (I'm so very sorry). Poor, poor Erzheimer... Mogo Gold Rush Colony is a location in Australia. The Beast of Mogo Gold Rush Colony was an alleged werewolf sighted in the area (or at least something that looked like one) in the same vane as the Beast of Bray Road was an alleged series of sightings of a werewolf in the vicinity of Bray Road in the US State of Winconsin. Basically, the last known encounter with this particular werewolf involves it terrorizing some schoolboys who are in a cabin on a school camping trip... before it gets chased off by a flock of GEESE. I don't mean some axe wielding pirates, or an over-powered SNK boss. I mean frigging waterfowl. How can I take that seriously? Worst werewolf ever.Hey, geese are scary! Don't you underestimate them, you careless fool! By the way, that video is the greatest laugh I've had in a while. When you realize this would have been a flaw if Volcens wasn't in it. Ergo Volcens is a necessary evil. Honestly, Volcens is a great character. I'd even go as far as to call him one of my favorites. Even if he is a piece of shit. Well, you see the guy was born deaf. So he became obsessed with music after getting corrective surgery. But he was bad at writing anything people liked... despite being pretty good with inventing equipment that hit ultra-sonic notes and infra-sound pitches that allowed him to mind control people, rats, etc. Also he did way too many other sound gimmicks over the years to even talk about (including the old glass shatter-ing note chest-nut). Problem is, he was dealing with a foe faster than the speed of sound. Ergo literally born to lose. Guy was even a rich kid, so he didn't need to steal. He was already a millionaire. It was entirely taking it out that his music was a flop/lashing out at his parents because he hated them.Wow. That sounds like simultaneously the biggest dick and the most pitiful sod. I don't know how to feel about him. A second x chromosome being among them? Wait... no, that'd just make him tri-chromosomed. Damn. Uh... I-I don't think that would do much to improve him, no... Besides, why does everyone insist that I like Sylvis for her looks? Haven't I made it clear enough that it's her unmatched power that I'm into? You mean the one that was made up for the cartoon? Probably. Ironically the closest that ever happened in the comic was a parallel world where everyone in the league was bad from the get-go and most of their villains had the opposite morality. The Flash's counterpart there was pretty evil. Oddly enough, that world didn't have Aquaman or Martian Manhunter. My point is, Batman is full of shit. I could beat Batman in a fight. Yeah. Totally. ...... If I were, I should be angry, as your LP has had a hand in my death... wait. Hey, don't you complain. I revived you. Probably would've still revived you even if the Dakruon only had one use. Even if I never used you again afterwards. You just deserved to live. 'Twoulda been a tragic loss for the world of music. I know you can play different notes on the same string of a guitar, so possibly. I'd be a lyre if I said I knew for sure. Okay, that sounds close enough, thanks. He wishes he had Vanmillion denarii. But... he hates Vanmillionaires! I have a feeling I'm gonna need to do something drastic to make that chapter stand out now. Write a song for Derrick. Yes, that'll do. Trying to work out what happened with that supply post? Executing Disaad's next brilliant scheme involving diverting a river to flood Navarron? I don't even know man. I just like blaming Disaad. Poor Disaad, man. One of these days I'll have to find a way to bring him back. I should have known you'd bring this sub-plot back. Well, I made it for a reason. To justify shoehorning Arran back into my stories, because I love Arran. It just so happened to make for a convenient next villain. Shame it's not the one from Ruben's FE12 LP.... but the one from an alternate timeline where he reunited with Etzel earlier, and became quite powerful. Hey, you actually remember! I'm impressed. Didn't think anyone would bother keeping up with the Saint Rubenio Lore. On 5/18/2020 at 7:07 PM, Golb89 said: More fishing Halfmann: https://www.awkwardzombie.com/awkward-zombie/tiring Ha! That's hilarious. Also: (Actually that's a typo, as she introduces herself as "Lana" instead of "Lena") Wha... Wait, Lanzi? What kind of a name is Lanzi? 3 hours ago, Benice said: Pengasius? I'm gonna call him that from now on. I think I'll stick to Butterman, thanks. Kaga wrote Arknights too? Kaga did everything first! You really don't like Crownslayer, do you? I preferred her to that creepy choild from the prologue. That's fine. I missed: Spoiler First, Larentia gears up. She'll be coming today. No, I don't know why she's still carrying around those two materials. I forgot, okay? I won't rickroll you this time, I swear. Though, considering nobody commented on that, I wonder if anyone even fell for it. C'mon, give Aggro some views. He uploaded the whole Berwick ost! He's a hero! A Children's Hero! Anyway, thank goodness I remembered to give Faye a new sword at the last minute. Today's team and cartography. In retrospect, I probably should've brought Kramer instead of Faye, at this rate I'll never get his paralogue. Eh, whatever. As for the map, It's kinda like chapter 1-1, only the river goes horizontally instead of vertically, and there are Imperials, and the boss is on a cliff. To be honest, it's not much like chapter 1-1 at all. Anyway, the Imperials will leave us alone until we enter their range, so that's nice. The start of the map is pretty easy, but around the boss things can get tough. No text, since we got it last time. Thaddy is the map's lord. This garbage bag has this orb. No, his wormwood range doesn't count toward the Imperial alert that's mentioned in the mission conditions. Anyway. No playable units can use this, but Erzheimer wants it. Be nice if we could take it from him. Thankfully, we've just the means to do so. Whoa, look at that skillset! It's huge! Good thing, too, because Thaddy's basically a walking skillset. He's Czene with one more base strength and unable to promote to anything. Completely useless for combat. However, his utility is pretty high. - Locktouch does the same as it does for Czene. - Provoke? Okay, that's... a strange skill for a unit like this. - Steal, unlike Mug, is a command skill. Use it on a unit standing next to Thaddy without moving, and he can take one item that isn't nailed down. No weight limitations or anything like that, either. Pretty damn great skill. - Evasion will turn Thaddy into a dodgetank for a turn, and he'll no doubt still get hit, because this is me and my luck we're talking about. - Search. Meh. Worse than Axel at this. - Hide, always useful. - Critical I guess could be used to turn Thaddy into a bootleg assassin, but you'd need to feed him a ton of kills, and it's already difficult enough to give them to Czene, who actually gets something worthwhile out of it. All in all, even more worthless in combat than Czene, but he's a bit better as a pure thief, mainly due to Steal. I've never used him much, but he's there when it counts. Derrick will lead the charge! Yes! Derrick is slippery! Derrick is so epic that a gif of him just popped into existance! No, I totally didn't just make it. He's just that epic. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! OWEN! Off to a bad start, are we?! Well, I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you, pal. Owen is not your average helpless healer! Wahahahahah! NYAAAGAHHHH!! NO! You die now, you bastard. That's what you get for harming my healer! Oh, please... They have harmed Derrick! The fiends...! The guy has a factory-new battle saw. I'd love to get it. But I don't think it'll be possible. Axel, as usual, proves who's the best axeman around here. Your turn, Ruby. Shucks! Shon! Goddamnit! Blaaaaam! 'Aight, Arturo did it instead. Why does Arturo's horse look like it's experiencing extreme pain and/or pleasure? Sword level, nice. Arthur's promotion is, from my experience, the easiest of the "standard" promotions to get, but it's still nice to see him working hard for it. Nice, healing for the pile! This is great, because I forgot to replenish my supply of vulneraries. This is all we have aside from Axel's concoction. But I'm sure we won't need more, I mean, Owen's right there. All right, with full charge, it's the perfect jeiganing. I didn't need to use this, but I mean, might as well. C'moooon... And now she's lost the charge bonus. Wonderful. Might as well try this. If he gets hit, I can use Owen, but the chances of that happening are low. You know, Thaddy, I like Czene better than you. I've no reason to put up with this garbage. Please behave. Sigh... okay, there you go. Aaach, almost! Oooaaa-- blistering barnacles, balderdash and piffle, a pox on them all! Why is everyone aiming for Owen? Aegina is right there! And of course, he gets hit. Marvelous. No... NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! POISON! POISON! HE'S GONNA DIE TO THE POISON! NOT HERE! NOT NOW! NOT HIM PLEASE...! Oh, God, what have I done...! YOU! Die! Die, burn in hell, you... you... poopyhead! NNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHH ...I know, I know. You can already see he's alive. I couldn't even take a dramatic shot just before he lost health. My butt checks shrivelled into nothingness during that turn transition. He's not dying now, at least... but this is still far from ideal. Foo... okay, good job, Thaddy. This time. Not so much last time, considering Owen nearly died to patch you up. This guy says this at this point. Horseman...! I'm not sure what he's trying to do, but it'd be hilarious if the whole Imperial brigade charged at him. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Are you ready for a Derrick level? Amazing. Top tier unit right here. This doesn't go so well. ...Oh, damn you...! Larentia throws a pilum at this brigand. I caught the most amazing frame of that. D'awwww-- Arthur! At least it's just a basic leather MShield... still, you are a fool, Arturo. Unlike Ruby, who has finally succeeded. Okay, turn 3. First, does this guy reach Owen? No, he doesn't. All right... man's had enough of a bad day as it is. You! You won't break any more shields if I have anything to say about it! Axel and his unlikely hits. Way to go! He also robbed the imperial arrows. I would've prefered the breaker ones, myself, but some accuracy doesn't hurt, and these are better than the bronze ones we've been using. And to top it all off, a dodge. It was a hand axe, so no counterattacking, but hey, what can you do. Arthur picks up his spare shield and charges at the next enemy. He missed, and he also decided that, because he's mounted, he wouldn't do his cool doubling animation now that I was actually ready for it, for once. Thanks, Arturo. All right, let us try this once more. Full charge, go! Larentia... please... That's okay, I guess, but... sheesh... I'm glad I can at least count on you, Axel. Can I count on Ruby to Jeigan this for Aegina, though? Thanks. And that's a great bonus, too! This other guy fled to heal. Hmph... I'm actually going to use the Pallas Riana here, because it doesn't matter. It'll recover 8 uses when this map ends, so we have no reason not to use it a little bit. There we go. What even this is dude's deal? Why is he trying to provoke the Imperials like that? He has a killer knife, but... I can't see him surviving against all those monsters... there's two Derricks in there! The cutlass is almost broken from killing the venomous archer. Damnit... This was my attempt to catch Owen being injured by his poison once more. Thanks, grandpa reflexes. Really nice. Okay, Larentia! Can you please hit a thing? Of course not... do I seriously have to use the Euthyphro for everything just to get you to land a hit?! Get outta here. That hand axe guy next to Axel has an unequipped battle saw. I'm hoping he'll get next to Thaddy so I can steal it. Axel will do better than Larentia. Of course. Of course! Why not!? He equipped his saw, too, so now I can only steal the worthless hand axes. This is the fellow who fled to heal. Won't get him very far. Almost there... Oh, so he has this, as well! A shame... He only sealed his fate with it. Feh... sword would've been better. He doesn't need any more MShield points. You, get some healing. Is Owen going to miss the heal, too? No, that's not a thing in this game... Leveling up grants Owen a point of speed. Magic or HP would've been great, but I suppose I'll take some dodge rate. Ah, finally. Like I said. I could try this, but... meh. Let's just move forward. Let us begin to work on this idiot. I could've tried Pulverizing him, but if Axel missed that would've been a crippling, and I'm not interested. Baaaah! Baaaah! You do it, Derrick. Boom! Yeah! Derrick! Oh, good lord... Please? Can this work? Pretty please? Ah, thank you! That's... not the best frame I could've caught of this spell. But it'll do. At the beginning of turn 5, this happens. Thanks, real important. Oh, no... see this? This is where Aegina goes ahead and misses. See? See?! Thank goodness I used the Pallas Riana... she nailed the third hit. Almost there. Injury is gone. I could use Larentia to lower the bridge, but she'd need to take a turn dismounting, and she would be vulnerable to the horseman's arrows. So let's use Axel. By the way, this guy has been crying the whole chapter. That could not be any scarier. Well, actually, it could be. It could be Agvan. Urgh... By the way, vespa? That's the name of a famous old brand of bikes from the 40s. So why is a knife named after that? While we're at it, here's the archer to the other side of Boltz. He has arrows with +7 thunder damage, arrows with +33 critrate, arrows with higher might and accuracy, and a single arrow to put Larentia to sleep before he crits her down. He also has Double Shot on the other screen. My advice is to avoid. You know, avoid the guy sitting right next to the objective. Here's a really fun fact: Derrick can't cross the sand tiles. He, quite literally, cannot move from the lower half of this map. Joy. Turn 6 time. First off, heal Faye. Ah, that's great. Scout's on the other side of the map. We'll have time to prepare ourselves before he returns. Onwards, all! My strategy here is as follows: I have moved Larentia within the archer's range (marked with the flags) after he waited. Next turn, I'll throw a pilum at the thief to cancel his crying, and Canto away from the archer's range. I don't know if he moves, and I don't care to know. Looking good. You son of a bitch! You absolute piece of crap! Owen! Wait... I just remembered, I had Reese give Owen the Holy orb the other day! After forgetting for, like, 4 maps, I went into the game just to give him the orb so I wouldn't forget again. I took a screenshot, but I think I may've forgotten to put it in... ...where. WHERE!? WHERE IS IT!? WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!? DID I REALLY JUST FORGET TO SAVE AFTER THAT!? 4 MAPS! 4 MAPS IN A ROW FORGETTING TO GIVE OWEN THE DAMNED ORB, AND THEN WHEN I DID REMEMBER, I FORGOT TO SAVE! WONDERFUL! JUST WONDERFUL! Run! Run! Ruuuuuuuuuuun for your life! This is reminding me of the time I forgot to give Lilina an angelic robe for half of FE6... Derrick will slow them down, but he'll need help... Let's not waste any more time. All that crying has been in vain, fool! Hwahah, hah! Yeheheheh! I am powerful! I am so great at screaming, look: EEeeeEEeUuuuUUuUuuEeEeeAAaaaAAAA Awesome. Oh, no! My power, it is gone! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO This is how I found out that Larentia doesn't have 7 move, she has 6 move. Ruben is dumb and can't count. Might as well look at Boltz. He has two vulneraries, which is crap. He also has this, which is also crap. He also also has two thousand skills, which is even more crap. I use Throw for the extra hit and to make sure Derrick is ready for the next guy. Next guy has a hand axe. Magnificent! Shite, the shield is gone... good thing I bought another one from that one shop. Derrick's not out of the game yet! Sigh... See? See!? This is Aegina. I hope you love her. Faye, finish the job. This guy is coming back, but I have a plan. Hey, you! You're dumb! Okay, I'll kill you first. The vespa guy isn't powered up anymore, and this guy doesn't seem to be interested in moving. So... Arthur, lure the vespa guy closer! Incidentally, notice the flags. That's the range of the Imperials. Best not make a fatal mistake. Oh, come now... The problem here is that I'm pretty sure Boltz will try bolting out of here if I'm not careful. That's what this escape point is for. Or at least that's what I remember. Either way, I don't want to risk it, but that guy and his killer arrows terrify me...! Look at them! They're crimson red, blood red, because that's what they do, they spill all of the blood! 1 might? Who cares!? That's enough to kill Larentia with a crit! Cock... That takes care of Aegina, but Owen can be one-shot, I'm pretty sure. Accursed poison... Axel will approach carefully. Poor Owen, man. All he's done today is run away for his life and... well, nearly lose his life. This is so frustrating. If Owen had his holy orb, I could've had Thaddy use Evasion, but since he does not... Guys, please. I know how you love to gang up on simple mistakes. Since this is really starting to dick me off, I will leave this typo here, so you can all quote this line to correct it. This way, perhaps I'll actually remember to give Owen the blasted orb. And save afterwards. You won't, with your bow. That knife... is another story. Oh, thank goodness... Cockdiddling mongrel! Stop escaping inside the range of the Imperials! I cannot crush you to paste there...! All right, so this is all very nice, but I can't twiddle my thumbs forever. I must devise a plan of attack. So let's harm this fellow. And it's out of the enemy range with ya! Derrick equips his second shield, and he's back for more! Have you ever seen anything as epic? Ruby uses Axebane to dodge a blow that would otherwise have hit her. 'Least she's getting somethin' outta that... Thaddy will advance. I just had a most devious idea. I think that's a kill for Aegina. What do you guys think? Oh, he had a heal? I didn't notice. Well, drat. Uhhhh, he has no resistance! That means she can miss once and it won't be a problem! Of course, this means she doesn't miss. Hoo, boy... In a past run, I would've been extremely happy to see this. But her promotion is so lackluster that, in her case, I'd much rather get raw stats. Still. Accuracy. That is always great in Berwick Saga. Okay, so that's another turn. Maybe this time, we can finally focus on adv-- C'mon! Fuck off! Aegina! Get! Get! Oohhhh, Thaddy... I'm so sorry, man, but I keep having more important things to do than ensuring your safety. The reason Thaddy has moved forward is so he can Provoke-- ...the boss is invincible against provoking. Of course. Why wouldn't he be. Why? Why is that!? Provoke's description doesn't say anything about this! Well. Let's focus on this, first. This guy has another ancient amulet. We already used ours for blizzard, so I'd like to get this. Okay, wait, wait, one thing at a time. First, let's see... I'm just contemplating my options here. Axel stands a good chance of killing the archer, but then he'll be vulnerable to the vespa thief... perhaps if I use up my moves until he waits, and then I move in and delete the archer, but... then he might crit Larentia, who's in his range... hmmmm... GOOOOAAAA-- Ohhh, you've got to be messing with me-- I misclicked! As if this map couldn't get any more dumb, I fuckin' made Axel withdraw! Owen nearly dies in the first turn, everyone misses everything, reinforcements keep preventing the mages from moving forward, Derrick can't access half the map, and to top it all off, I fucking misclicked! And to add insult to injury, this is the one popup that I caught in time! I amaze myself, goddamnit! Argh! Okay, so now we no longer have the option to one-shot the guy. That's all right, his hitrate was shaky anyway. Oh, please... Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheheheheheh! I am the greatest marksman in the world! Watch! DOUBLE-SHOT!! Hah! Ahah! Hwahahah! The absolute buffoon tried to Double-Shot with his one sleep arrow! How dumb do you have to be? ...Well? Aren'cha gonna fire again? Sorry, boss. I only had one sleep arrow. Ya got plenty of other arrows! Use one o' those! I-I can't, boss! That's not how this technique works! ...Surrounded by idiots... Good thing I'm here, 'cause you morons might let the girl escape right in front of yer noses! ...sorry... I guess it's as good a time as any to begin working on the boss. I can't think of much else to do at this point. Begin to work through his vulnerary supply, at least. At this point you've been standing there for almost 5 hours doing nothing. All right, Larentia. Do this. Absolutely wonderful. Yes. Thank you, everyone, for being unable to do anything at all. Yes! More! I love watching everything I try fail miserably! If nothing else, I don't have to fear for Axel's life. Y'know, 'cause I made him leave for no reason. Perhaps use this to actually connect next time? Okay, so I just threw half of my army at this guy and they all failed. Piss and tears... I, ah... oooouuuughhhhhh... At this point, anything is worth a shot. Aaaaaaaaaaand of course this is what works. Couldn't have been any other way. If you nail it again, Ruby, I'll be prouder of you than your father's ever been. Which, admittedly, doesn't seem like it's saying much... Thanks. About time you did, too. That took far too long. AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Caught the popup. I am winner. It's about the most winner I'm going to be today, it seems... Sigh... All right, Larentia. Attempt #64253452, go. I am dumbstruck. The thief seems to be passive. All the better for me. Take note of the archer. Somehow I managed to get him to stand on the escape point, keeping Boltz from reaching it. Although, at this rate, I'm starting to wonder if he really does ever try to escape at all. All right, Owen, it's redemption time for all those misses back with Penelo. He employed a flashbang! 'Twas a waste. Can I hope for better luck with this? Good! Thank you. The Pallas Riana will do the trick next turn. Derrick is a merciful god. Yes, injuries before death. The BWS equivalent of redundant crits. Surely there'll be no need for the Pallas Riana in this situation, right? Good, thank you so much. All right, so... now we've got to think. How do we deal with this? Well, first off, let's patch everyone up with Owen. There we go. Now... Arthur and everyone else advance. Larentia is safe against vespaman. Not only that, but... She kills this idiot in one blow of the Euthyphro, so long as she has full charge damage. ...Sigh... I guess it's hard to aim with a spear that is three times the size of your whole body, isn't it... Okay, so let's at least do a little damage while she retreats. We have made no progress at all. Hmmm... well, Arthur will be safe from the vespa guy so long as the archer stays there. I think it's safe to do this. Just to calm my paranoia of Boltz escaping. This is such a bad idea. I should not have done this. Then, in the middle of my shitty plan, I came up with an even shittier one: lure him away with Thaddy. Even though by now he'd been able to cry himself to full power again. ...God no... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF wack. Okay, we're good. Neat. All right, Larentia! Surely, surely you can't miss a near-90% twice in a row! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSS! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! Ahahahahahahahahahah.... hahahah! That's a bad joke! Hold up, hold up, let me do the math on this one... or at least try to, I mean, I'm dumb and all that... please bear with me, I'm bad at this. Let me just get the right background music... Okay, since he's already waited, I can get Aegina out before he gets another chance at her. Which means for her to even have a chance to die, she needs to miss all of her Pallas Riana shots. For simplicity's sake, let's also assume that she'll die to the crit, which might not even happen (as the critical damage ranges from 10 to 20). Since every shot is calculated separatedly (or at least let's assume that), the chance to miss four times remains 4/100 (16/400). Then, the enemy needs to get a 33% crit on his 67% hitrate. So 33 * 67 / 100 = 22.11% chance of that... All right, and with that, the chance of missing all the shots and then getting a crit is (4/100) / (22.11/100) = 0.1809136137494346% So there we have it. The chance of death is roughly 0.2%. ...that was positively exhausting, and I required help from a friend, because I completely botched it up. Seriously, my first guess was that it was more likely for lightning to kill me right now than for Aegina to die here. Not sure how I managed that. Nice bit of nostalgia, though. It's been too long since I solved a math problem. The point I'm trying to make is, see that? I'm not risking that. Call me paranoid, if you wish. First, I already did it myself in the update title, and second, I don't give a damn. Aegina is alive. If I had tried that, Aegina may not be alive. That is all I need or care to know. On the other hand, the chance of death from this is 0, and I stand a chance to cripple him and take his precious arrows. Which, of course, did not come to pass. Okay, so. We failed. Again. And that dude's on the move, but Thaddy is hidden, so I'm confident that everything will turn out fine. Just fine. Very fine. Okay, Larentia. Third time's the charm. I can't even say I'm proud of you. That was pathetic. Can I hope for a redemption arc to top all of the top 10 redemption arcs? Where did I go wrong, RNGoddess? Have I not offered enough blood sacrifices? Whatever... okay, you stay here and keep Boltz from bolting. If he does, at all. Gh-- what!? OOOOOAAAAAAAAAARGGGH!! Of course, I'm such an idiot! Of course he knows where Thaddy is, even if he can't see him! Blind range tends to do that! Well, that's it. You failed to save yourself. With 19 base might, he only needs one extra point and you're toast. What's his strength? Three? 'Kay, bye Thaddy. ....... ...well. What the hell just happened. Desperate times, desperate measures. You gotta go, and you gotta go yesterday. Take THIS! Absolutely wonderful. Only Boltz is left. Oh, God, the crit... ...huh...? Where'd his vulneraries go? Wait-- oooohhhh... that archer traded them from him and used them to heal himself! Huh... perhaps it's a good thing Larentia refused to one-shot him, then! You can add this AI behavior to the list of things IntSys stole from Kaga, by the way. I know PoR and BWS came out at the same time, but what can I say, I'm biased in Kaga's favor. I know it's not immediately obvious. Since I'm an idiot and didn't bring archers, my strategy to deal with Boltz is to use the casual mode girl until she dies. Then I'll finish him with Aegina or something. Brilliant strats. Now that is a useful girl. Thaddy took such a blow that even Owen couldn't fully restore him. He'll carry that scar for the rest of his life. Hwwwaaaaahhhh! That's really bad...! Larentia helps with her pilums-- Ah! What did I say!? This one's injured! I tried to capture all of those bosses, but it's the child slave trader that I'm gonna get to spare! Me and my fuckin' fortune! Meh. I'll still take him for what he's worth. Twice the bounty is none too shabby. And that tiger brace is cool! You know, Larentia, I think you've surpassed Arturo in just one chapter. Right, then... again. No. No! No way! ADEPT! SHE GOT ADEPT NOW! AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, SHE NAILED BOTH SHOTS! EVERYONE'S BEEN MISSING EVERYTHING ALL MAP LONG, BUT NOT THIS ONE, NOPE, GOTTA HAVE THIS ONE! RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! Bollocks... HP. I am fine with this. Welp. That's it for the map. Mostly. As his last action of the day, Owen tops off Thaddy. It might come in handy. Buh-bye! Let's fetch Lena, and then we'll be free to leave. Thaddy! Thank goodness you're all right... Here, I'll get those chains off you. Let's get out of here together, Lena! Thanks, Thaddy... Lena appears on the map, disappears to the west, and... Remember this feature? It usually doesn't matter, but in this map it's easily exploitable. Y'see, I have a brilliant idea. For this idea, Thaddy needs to walk aaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way over to this side of the river. And now... hop! Hop! Alehop! We're here! A thorough success! But that's not all... Bwahahahahahahah, turn 30... Anyway, the next part of my brilliant idea is to get the wormwood for Erzheimer. However, since Steal can only be used without moving, I'd need to wait next to him... and then, I'd inevitably have to take a nosferatu blast to the face. Aaaaand it so happens that this guy just barely one-shots Thaddy. I considered a few options, and for a while I contemplated abusing the resetting rule and retry until he missed. But then, I thought back to when the vespa thief ran into Thaddy in the forest, and the solution presented itself. First step, Aegina waits. Thankfully, this guy moves first, so that's his turn wasted. And now we provoke him from the safety of the forest! Oi! Overhere! That robe doesn't compliment your skin color! What!? How dare you! These robes are the latest hit of Razite fashion! Where are you, heathen!? I'll tear you apart! And, exactly as I expected, he walked himself next to Thaddy the following turn. I actually thought he'd be ambushed and Thaddy would have to hit him to prevent his own death, but this is even better. Joink! And now, we leave before anyone else has a chance to do anything. No, I'm not facing the Imperial squad. This has gone disastrously enough as it is. Before the end, I'd like to show something cool. Turns out, the Razite priest has a battle quote, but it's special: it only plays when he attacks. In lieu of the cool latin for spellcasting, this is a nice bit of insight on the process of casting big snakes. Either that, or this guy's just dramatic. Very well, that's been the map. It was... it was something, all right. To be honest, I'm shocked we didn't lose anyone at any point. Thaddy could've been murdered three times over, Owen could've perished to the poison, Arthur could've been critted... All things considered, it could've been far worse. So let's count our lucky stars, few as though they may be, and pray that we all fare well until the next update! In it, we will get to enjoy Volcens's kind demeanor once more. May you all have a positively Volcens day, and I'll see you next time! Byeeeeeeeee~! To be continued. Death count: Christine Esteban* Unavailable Capture count: 0 Reset count: 1 (Ward: 1) Current perfect streak: 2 maps Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 23 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: What even this is dude's deal? Why is he trying to provoke the Imperials like that? He's here to interfere with any attempts to have Thaddy sneak between the forest tiles to reach the bridge station. He always stops next to a forest tile, and if he cancels the Hide status, the Imperials will get aggroed. So you have to pay attention to his patrol route if you want to pull this of. Unfortunately for Thaddy, while this map seems to be designed to show of his abilities, using Axel or Larentia is just so much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ? 'Kay, bye Thaddy. LUCIUS START PRAYING PLS 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: . ....... You've been Raven'd! 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oi! How dare you suggest Berwick Saga is anything but concentrated joy at all times? I'll kill you! With YOUR luck? No chance. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You... do know that Narron's promotion singlehandedly turns him into the best unit in the game, and that Sasha promotes twice and into the best classline in the game, right? Their growths don't matter shit. Only PROS promote people before their highest level! 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Everyone loved Gandhi's behavior so much that it became a staple of the series I think it was actually only civ 5 that intentionally did that. There was a discussion elsewhere about that. (Last to post wins? Don't remember.) 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Seriously, he was on par with Wrys. Wrys! I'll never forgive you, no matter how many years may pass! Pretzel...! One of these days I'm gonna play FE12 and make Wrys a Fighter-Berserker! 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...oddly enough, it makes Earthblaze. Huh. I wonder what's up with that. And also most of the cross/bows 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Damnit, will nobody explain to me why letterhead is a letterhead?! Because his head is a letter. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hey, geese are scary! Don't you underestimate them, you careless fool! I know somebody who was attacked by about 10 geese and had to hide in their car. I love how the bird named after canadians is a bundle of hatred. And how our national bird steals stuff. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I am so great at screaming, look: EEeeeEEeUuuuUUuUuuEeEeeAAaaaAAAA Me in math class. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Me when I have to do math in math class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Also, I like the detail of the butt curtain. Very snazzy. Blame that censored Tharja art. Made curtains over butts trendy. 40 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why, you...! Leave me be! You are worse than a horseman and Butterman! You could always work him into the fanfic in some incredibly silly manner. I mean, it's not like we saw him die. 44 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Obscure fact time. Olive Oyl had a brother named Castor Oyl who had been the protagonist of the Thimble Theater newspaper strip from 1920 to 1929, when the man met a sailor on an adventure. Said sailor was a fellow named Popeye, who helped Castor solve the case... at the price of the strip. That is to say, this secondary character made for a single serial storyline proved popular enough that he booted Castor Oyl into permanent obscurity and, to add insult to injury, started dating his sister. Seems to be a thing with sailors in comic strips to be too memorable to abandon. 54 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's a reference to Civilization. In the first game of that series, they made Gandhi's aggression value the lowest in the game to reflect his real life personality. However, if the player did anything to lower that value, it overflowed and looped back to 255, turning him into the most aggressive bastard in the game. As a result, he spent all his games spamming nukes. Everyone loved Gandhi's behavior so much that it became a staple of the series. Spoiler So this? (in spoilers but totally not a rick-roll). 58 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Could it be considered bestiality if it's the human getting assaulted? Yes, by definition. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hey, geese are scary! Don't you underestimate them, you careless fool! Seen it before. Dealt with geese before. You ever see their "teeth"? (I know, not technically teeth). Still find it hard to believe a so called werewolf would flee from them. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wow. That sounds like simultaneously the biggest dick and the most pitiful sod. I don't know how to feel about him. It doesn't help he's not been very consistent. He outright was involved in the murder of the Bart Allen version of the Flash just for being a Flash (not even the one he'd fought), but we also get times when he steals bread for the homeless from bakeries. Point is the guy's a mess of inconsistencies. Hell his real name hasn't even stayed the same. It used to be Thomas Peterson before the 90s, where it changed to Hartley Rathaway for no given reason. Anyway you look at it though, he's memorable. Definitely has had ups and downs in the career, but for any Flash villain not named Gorilla Grodd or Abra Kadabra that's the case. I mean, they all had that point where the Barry Allen version of the Flash died, and none of them really cared about bothering the new guy for the first 100 issues of his book. Meaning almost ten years where they had various attempts at reforming or bothering other people. Or both. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: My point is, Batman is full of shit. I could beat Batman in a fight. Yeah. Totally. I don't know. My boxer brother's supposed to be the same height and weight given for Batman. (6 foot 2 inches and 95-ish kg). So I know a way to approximate it. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, that sounds close enough, thanks. Funny enough, I know this because my brother's guitar had one of the strings cut years back (same guy who did my axe). Hence how he made up for it for a while. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hey, you actually remember! I'm impressed. Didn't think anyone would bother keeping up with the Saint Rubenio Lore. I remember everything. Except to switch out silver lances occasionally. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Though, considering nobody commented on that, I wonder if anyone even fell for it. C'mon, give Aggro some views. He uploaded the whole Berwick ost! He's a hero! A Children's Hero! I have my methods for not falling for them. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: - Provoke? Okay, that's... a strange skill for a unit like this. So what happens if he uses provoke, then hides before the enemy can get to him? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'm not sure what he's trying to do, but it'd be hilarious if the whole Imperial brigade charged at him. Indeed. Did I make that joke about hoping the grustian cavaliers were there to help me with the pirates in chapter 2, or did I just think it? I can't remember. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Here's a really fun fact: Derrick can't cross the sand tiles. He, quite literally, cannot move from the lower half of this map. Joy Guess he's Kefka under that armor. He doesn't want sand on his boots and has no one to help him remove it, 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This is how I found out that Larentia doesn't have 7 move, she has 6 move. Ruben is dumb and can't count. Gotta love flier mishaps. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hey, you! You're dumb! Okay, I'll kill you first. Not quite what Elbert was doing. Then again, he started off with "Poopnose"... so... 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: they spill all of the blood! The day of all the blood arrows. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: GOOOOAAAA-- Ohhh, you've got to be messing with me-- I misclicked! As if this map couldn't get any more dumb, I fuckin' made Axel withdraw! Owen nearly dies in the first turn, everyone misses everything, reinforcements keep preventing the mages from moving forward, Derrick can't access half the map, and to top it all off, I fucking misclicked! And to add insult to injury, this is the one popup that I caught in time! I amaze myself, goddamnit! Argh! Well.. at least Axel can't die if he's withdrawn... which you pointed out shortly after. But I'm leaving this as a reminder to put Holy on Owen. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheheheheheh! I am the greatest marksman in the world! Watch! DOUBLE-SHOT!! Hah! Ahah! Hwahahah! The absolute buffoon tried to Double-Shot with his one sleep arrow! How dumb do you have to be? ...Well? Aren'cha gonna fire again? Sorry, boss. I only had one sleep arrow. Ya got plenty of other arrows! Use one o' those! I-I can't, boss! That's not how this technique works! ...Surrounded by idiots... Good thing I'm here, 'cause you morons might let the girl escape right in front of yer noses! ...sorry... This guy's so dumb, he used double shot and only fired once. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Since I'm an idiot and didn't bring archers, my strategy to deal with Boltz is to use the casual mode girl until she dies. Then I'll finish him with Aegina or something. Brilliant strats. Well, if a unit's living casual mode... it only makes sense to use them that way. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What did I say!? This one's injured! I tried to capture all of those bosses, but it's the child slave trader that I'm gonna get to spare! Me and my fuckin' fortune! He's got a bounty on his head right? They'll probably hang him in the public square anyway. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bollocks... Well, guess you didn't spare him. Faye saw to that. Ironic when you planned for her to fail, she does what's needed perfectly. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: And, exactly as I expected, he walked himself next to Thaddy the following turn. I actually thought he'd be ambushed and Thaddy would have to hit him to prevent his own death, but this is even better. Is this the answer to that question about hiding and provoking? Because if so... then that's actually more or less what I was hoping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, God, the spine...! Corkscria! Cypher and Heroes are the gift that keeps on giving in that regard. Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, that was the day your hatred for Faye increased by 2%, then. Actually she was doing really well in that chapter. Gave her a HP booster, and she also got +10 HP from some Beef Bourguignon. She is pretty neat when she can actually take a hit without getting crippled. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: - Hide, always useful. Sure, but what is really noteable is to have it on a unit that can also use Provoke. When using Provoke while in hiding, the target will still move towards the Provoker. But they can't actually attack someone who is hidden. So they have to waste a turn getting into 0 range to undo Hide. And of course Thaddy can just run and hide somewhere else. Or use the turn to snatch something from their inventory. It's a pretty fun combo. On this map you can for example use the cover of the forests to lure the Raze Priest down the hill and even onto the other side of the river without ever actually alerting the Imperials. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, turn 3. First, does this guy reach Owen? No, he doesn't. All right... man's had enough of a bad day as it is. He doesn't actually attack as long as you stay south of the river. It seems like he is incapable of actually passing the river, judging by the fact that you can't use Provoke on him from south the river, but you can do it if you are on the north side. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The cutlass is almost broken from killing the venomous archer. Damnit... I suppose it might as well be broken, considering the whole point of the weapon is to get 2 hits. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Here's a really fun fact: Derrick can't cross the sand tiles. He, quite literally, cannot move from the lower half of this map. Joy. If I was wearing armor like that, I would probably also refuse to get anywhere near a river. Just ask Frederick Barbarossa about why you should be careful in that regard. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He thinks this is an escape attempt? Well, I suppose with Owen right there, it will quickly become one. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Might as well look at Boltz. He has two vulneraries, which is crap. He also has this, which is also crap. He probably has the Vulneraries to give you some leeway when trying to capture him. Like, the Gamble Brace dude in the desert also carries two of them. So that's nice. ...if only the other guys wouldn't usually snatch them away before you can work on the capture. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He also also has two thousand skills, which is even more crap. I don't think I've ever actually seen an enemy use Windsweep. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sigh... See? See!? This is Aegina. I hope you love her. She's good once every 7 turns. Might sound bad but Faye has to promote to even reach that point. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You won't, with your bow. That knife... is another story. You should have used Provoke from inside a forest. That way he has no choice but to get into melee range and stay there. Then you could have simply snatched the 80% accuracy knife. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Derrick equips his second shield, and he's back for more! Why use those super strong shields for enemies that can barely beat his base defense? Just stick with the Leather ones. There is an infinite supply of them too. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The reason Thaddy has moved forward is so he can Provoke-- ...the boss is invincible against provoking. Of course. Why wouldn't he be. Why? Why is that!? Provoke's description doesn't say anything about this! I think the tactical hints sections of the first sidequest did. In any case, it's not that this boss is immune to Provoke. It's just that he's stationary. You can't use Provoke on a target that can't actually reach you. It might not matter if it would take them 1 or 100 turns, but if your space is simply impossible to reach, then you can't Provoke them. And since the boss is incapable of ever actually moving away from his tile and doesn't have a 5 range weapon to target Thaddy right where he stands, you can't Provoke him from over there. Provoke should still work on him. But you would have to use it from a tile next to him. At least that's what I observed with other enemies. Those Imperials are actually a good opportunity to test this. If you try to use Provoke from atop that hill, you'll notice that you can provoke all of them except the Armors. Because Armors cannot scale cliffs, no matter what. But it works just fine if you try it from down below, hiding in the forests. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's about the most winner I'm going to be today, it seems... This is why Daoud is the best tank. Doesn't matter how much damage it is, every paper cut has a chance for injury. Better to pack Robust. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Take note of the archer. Somehow I managed to get him to stand on the escape point, keeping Boltz from reaching it. Although, at this rate, I'm starting to wonder if he really does ever try to escape at all. Well, the game generally makes a distinction between Green escape points for the player and Red escape points for enemies. So I don't think he could actually use it, even if he would run. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: All right, Larentia! Surely, surely you can't miss a near-90% twice in a row! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSS! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! Ah, classic Larentia. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: OOOOOAAAAAAAAAARGGGH!! Of course, I'm such an idiot! Of course he knows where Thaddy is, even if he can't see him! Blind range tends to do that! Funny thing is, if Thaddy had his weapon unequipped, the enemy wouldn't have triggered an ambush and he wouldn't have been given the opportunity for a counter attack. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ....... ...well. That could have been the first reset right there. Didn't get crippled either. Although I think that the game temporarily gives the hidden Robust skill to any mandatory units. I mean, the Mission screen only ever says Captured/Killed for defeat. It doesn't say anything about Crippled itself. And in the case of Sherlock's mission, if he were to be crippled before attacking the boss, the map might as well end there since it's impossible to still win. Edited May 20, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 You should've brought Kramer instead. Then maybe someone would've hit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) OKAY I WAS WRITING UP 10 UPDATES WORTH OF REPLIES AND LOST THE WHOLE THING. FUCKING HELL SERENES YOU'RE KILLING ME. I'VE LOST ENOUGH REPLIES AND TODAY WAS BAD ENOUGH- Alright, screw it, abridged version. It's been a long while, but I'm Baa-ack! So with the whole lockdown, it feels weird because while we're not that restricted, we can't really travel, trying to get work has been impossible and even socialising has this tinge of futility. Worst of all? I'm seeing this taking the whole year away. Goodbye 2020, you could have been a contender. On 3H, I've finished CF and AM. I don't really like the first half of AM much and Dimitri's part of the problem. Not helping matters is that it has the worst rpesented scene in the game (You know, the one after Gronder). CF has made me think quite a bit on Rhea's handling and the questionability of Edelgard's utopian vision. I'm planning on doing a whole personal screed on what I'd do with the game's story after finishing SS, I've wanted to do it since going through Part 1 4 times. Byleth it turns out is only some of the problem. Another point was that permadeath in 3H is too punishing and kind of discouraged to accept, that FEtuber Chaz did a good video on why that is. I also tried Maddening. I've only played to chapter 1 so far but I am seeing it's already terrifying. I named F!Byleth Locura. I know, call me out for doing the thing. Also, you know that one video you sent me showing Dimitri caught in a trap where the enemies didn't move until he went into range? I fell for it (I didn't watch it until this week). It literally didn't matter because Dimitri just crushed them (No 1-shotting Petra sure, but he held his own) and the others did jack to him and he broke them. Vantage was the MVP there. So, summary of the run so far: Aethin made me remember Padolf's name and I want him to know I'm disappointed. I don't know if there'll be sufficient paydoff for it. Faye's got ghosts following her that fight alongside her apparently. All the horses returning was nice, Czene and Axel are great, Seamus was actually horrible despite his sheer incompetence and for his ignoring the abuse can rest in noise. Derrick is perfect for you I suppose. He's a meme, but he's not utter trash. After all, the Raze priests used all the bags to make their garb. The part about Faye-Ike parallels is, I would argue, somewhat true. Clearly Alondite is not what made BK untouchable, Cowen's name ruins him for me, Faye like I said character wise reminds me more of Mareeta than Ike (the fact she didn't wander the world most of her life being a part of it), lack of 1-2 range is disappointing and sorry, but Professor Chaos and his baghead is not convincing me so far. Paramythis is wild, can't wait to be sad after you get her killed. Shit Christine's death was rough. I would have said even I realise he was willing to move (He moved to the temple, the idea he's never leave seems off), but that was harsh. Almuth and Byleth are not the same. For one thing Almuth is aiming to be a history professor, Byleth teaches mainly sword combat and because of how they lived would fail to teach history so badly. Also Almuth has Reinhardt's collar. Sherpa's like if Guts wasn't as depressing to learn about. Daoud seems like he might be the next meme album because I forgot he had War Cry. Laurentia is cool, of course she's in danger. Owen's fascinating, but because he slapped a woman he can join Clifford on the firing line. Sherlock's looking like he might be going places with Ophelia. You've not used Dean once, feels bad man. And not gonna lie, the Kaga did it first stuff is kind of ruining me this run. Christ, not everything was cogged off Kaga. Finally, Volcens is still terrible. True, Moridas was terrible for the purge, but Volcens still is. To finish, the saddest thing you've ever seen (Unless you're prepared, don't open the spoiler): Spoiler The guy turned himself into a vulnerary. Vulnerarwrys! I warned you, saddest shit I've ever seen. Edited May 20, 2020 by Dayni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 OKAY I MISSED TODAY'S UPDATE TOO? OKAY, THIS IS SO STUPID. FUCK 20/5, BURN IT ALL. I DON'T CARE IF THIS IS A DOUBLE POST. On topic, I didn't mention, but AW SHIT PRETZEL'S HERE. Knowing Pretzel, he should be failing. Why is he not failing? As for the rest, I see you decided Awakening's canon. How else does Elaine exist? So they've ended up immortal somehow, it's been a long time they've been around and Elibe's dead and is there something I'm missing? Oh yeah PRETZEL OF ALL DUNDERHEARDS DECIDES TO CHASE AFTER THEM. I also missed on the fact that Herman's really trying to not be seen as a Gharnef by acting like he's only a mere retainer. Sure, Gharnef. Sure. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Thankfully, we've just the means to do so. Whoa, look at that skillset! It's huge! Good thing, too, because Thaddy's basically a walking skillset. He's Czene with one more base strength and unable to promote to anything. Completely useless for combat. However, his utility is pretty high. - Locktouch does the same as it does for Czene. - Provoke? Okay, that's... a strange skill for a unit like this. - Steal, unlike Mug, is a command skill. Use it on a unit standing next to Thaddy without moving, and he can take one item that isn't nailed down. No weight limitations or anything like that, either. Pretty damn great skill. - Evasion will turn Thaddy into a dodgetank for a turn, and he'll no doubt still get hit, because this is me and my luck we're talking about. - Search. Meh. Worse than Axel at this. - Hide, always useful. - Critical I guess could be used to turn Thaddy into a bootleg assassin, but you'd need to feed him a ton of kills, and it's already difficult enough to give them to Czene, who actually gets something worthwhile out of it. All in all, even more worthless in combat than Czene, but he's a bit better as a pure thief, mainly due to Steal. I've never used him much, but he's there when it counts. Thaddy: a boy who can't do anything but be a thieving street rat. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NYAAAGAHHHH!! NO! Yam bandits. These people, I swear. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No... NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! POISON! POISON! HE'S GONNA DIE TO THE POISON! NOT HERE! NOT NOW! NOT HIM PLEASE...! THE YAM'S DANGEROUS 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He's not dying now, at least... but this is still far from ideal. Well at least he's not dead. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Amazing. Top tier unit right here. The meme continues. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Shite, the shield is gone... good thing I bought another one from that one shop. Derrick's not out of the game yet! If only he threw it for a finish. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: GOOOOAAAA-- Ohhh, you've got to be messing with me-- I misclicked! As if this map couldn't get any more dumb, I fuckin' made Axel withdraw! Owen nearly dies in the first turn, everyone misses everything, reinforcements keep preventing the mages from moving forward, Derrick can't access half the map, and to top it all off, I fucking misclicked! And to add insult to injury, this is the one popup that I caught in time! I amaze myself, goddamnit! Argh! Not gonna lie: This is kinda hilarious. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Well? Aren'cha gonna fire again? Sorry, boss. I only had one sleep arrow. Ya got plenty of other arrows! Use one o' those! I-I can't, boss! That's not how this technique works! ...Surrounded by idiots... Good thing I'm here, 'cause you morons might let the girl escape right in front of yer noses! ...sorry... Good thing the AI is stupid eh? 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahahahahahahah.... hahahah! That's a bad joke! Hold up, hold up, let me do the math on this one... or at least try to, I mean, I'm dumb and all that... please bear with me, I'm bad at this. Let me just get the right background music... Okay, since he's already waited, I can get Aegina out before he gets another chance at her. Which means for her to even have a chance to die, she needs to miss all of her Pallas Riana shots. For simplicity's sake, let's also assume that she'll die to the crit, which might not even happen (as the critical damage ranges from 10 to 20). Since every shot is calculated separatedly (or at least let's assume that), the chance to miss four times remains 4/100 (16/400). Then, the enemy needs to get a 33% crit on his 67% hitrate. So 33 * 67 / 100 = 22.11% chance of that... All right, and with that, the chance of missing all the shots and then getting a crit is (4/100) / (22.11/100) = 0.1809136137494346% So there we have it. The chance of death is roughly 0.2%. ...that was positively exhausting, and I required help from a friend, because I completely botched it up. Seriously, my first guess was that it was more likely for lightning to kill me right now than for Aegina to die here. Not sure how I managed that. Nice bit of nostalgia, though. It's been too long since I solved a math problem. The point I'm trying to make is, see that? I'm not risking that. Impressive, not taking a risk after sending away best Axe-l. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...huh...? Where'd his vulneraries go? Wait-- oooohhhh... that archer traded them from him and used them to heal himself! Huh... perhaps it's a good thing Larentia refused to one-shot him, then! You can add this AI behavior to the list of things IntSys stole from Kaga, by the way. I know PoR and BWS came out at the same time, but what can I say, I'm biased in Kaga's favor. I know it's not immediately obvious. I forgot that happens in PoR 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What did I say!? This one's injured! I tried to capture all of those bosses, but it's the child slave trader that I'm gonna get to spare! Me and my fuckin' fortune! LET HIM GO ON TRIAL THE SICK BASTARD NO HONOUR IN DEATH FOR HIM- 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ADEPT! SHE GOT ADEPT NOW! AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, SHE NAILED BOTH SHOTS! EVERYONE'S BEEN MISSING EVERYTHING ALL MAP LONG, BUT NOT THIS ONE, NOPE, GOTTA HAVE THIS ONE! RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! Bollocks... Or not I suppose. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: In lieu of the cool latin for spellcasting, this is a nice bit of insight on the process of casting big snakes. Either that, or this guy's just dramatic. Probably dramatic. I have a feeling the Raze order had a Drama group that meets on occasion to discuss current play trends and killing the Verian scum. 7 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: WELL FUCK BERWICK'S FUCKED LET'S GO TO VESTARIA. 7 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Arran, of course they wouldn't run. After Guenchaos, of course not. I am kind of curious, is Harriet from the bad timeline? And Rheuben? And are Wrys and Frost retired? 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Golb89 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Damnit, will nobody explain to me why letterhead is a letterhead?! Because that character is a self-insert, thus canonically he's not supposed to have a face (just like the Producer from "Idolm@ster") But if you really insist, this is how he she looks in the official GFL manga: https://mangadex.org/chapter/547692/12 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Could it be considered bestiality if it's the human getting assaulted? Uh... ... maybe? 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: In a different forum I'd definitely go for bug, but this is the series that Kaga made... and this is a very Kaga thing to do... Pretty sure we were talking about not being able to edit posts on this forum though... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Now I might actually have to install Arknights and GFL, only so I can try to find a bug and prove to you that you enjoy incomplete games also. Hah! Well, technically they both ARE incomplete, since their story is still in progress... As for bugs, GFL introduces 1 or 2 after every maintenance, but they almost always get fixed within an hour or so from the reports (though the current client still suffers from minor visual glitches, as well as questionable design choices that makes it look like a downgrade of the previous one), while AK seems completely "clean" thus far. Still, i would actually recommend AK to you, if anything because it manages to make ALL of its units viable in a way no other gacha (GFL in primis) could remotely compare to. Its stamina system really sucks though... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, since when have I been known for being observant? I am the same man who forgot to move Lilina. It's easy: if it has guns it's GFL, if it has animal ears it's AK- Err... forget i said anything. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What you're telling me is, if your house is really cute, it acts as a dancer. Check. It has no effects on actual gameplay though so... nope? Speaking of: You sure you actually haven't started playing AK already? 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahhhhh, of course. Good ol' microtransactions. Somehow makes Jonathan's deals seem good. Not really: the premium gacha in GFL only yelds skins and furniture, both of which are purely cosmetics (and if you remember the previous comic, the furniture in the 2nd panel comes entirely from event rewards) AK isn't so generous in that regard though... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It won't be a problem. I have a friend in the Czech Republic. Well, if you need tutoring here is the first lesson, free of charge: 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My next question is, why is her head square-shaped in both her chibi and her full artwork? Artistic license again i guess? 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait, Lanzi? What kind of a name is Lanzi? Most likely a code pen name. Which reminds me, another aspect where AK walks all over most other gachas (again, GFL in primis) is that, despite employing several different artists, the artstyle looks very consistent overall: considering they pretty much employ the exact same artists as their competitors, i guess the art director did a great job here. (Conversely, the less we talk about GFL's art director, the better) 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: All in all, even more worthless in combat than Czene, but he's a bit better as a pure thief, mainly due to Steal. Welp, guess he's really this game's Rope after all (or viceversa) (Also, pretty sure his Provoke is supposed to be used in conjunction with Evasion, and possibly Critical and Hide too) 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Shon! Goddamnit! Blaaaaam! "All that effort to turn you into a good unity not a liability and then you bail out of the final chapter just like that?!" 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why does Arturo's horse look like it's experiencing extreme pain and/or pleasure? Because it is? 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: By the way, vespa? That's the name of a famous old brand of bikes from the 40s. So why is a knife named after that? Motorbikes, specifically. (Also, "vespa" means "wasp" or "hornet" in italian) 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Here's a really fun fact: Derrick can't cross the sand tiles. He, quite literally, cannot move from the lower half of this map. Joy. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...where. WHERE!? WHERE IS IT!? WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!? DID I REALLY JUST FORGET TO SAVE AFTER THAT!? 4 MAPS! 4 MAPS IN A ROW FORGETTING TO GIVE OWEN THE DAMNED ORB, AND THEN WHEN I DID REMEMBER, I FORGOT TO SAVE! WONDERFUL! JUST WONDERFUL! Welp, at least you didn't let the damned orb fall into a bottomless abyss after the main antagonist skewered your girlfriend with a giant katana, i guess... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hwahah, hah! Yeheheheh! I am powerful! I am so great at screaming, look: EEeeeEEeUuuuUUuUuuEeEeeAAaaaAAAA Eh, amateur: 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, no! My power, it is gone! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Told ya! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Either way, I don't want to risk it, but that guy and his killer arrows terrify me...! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Look at them! They're crimson red, blood red, because that's what they do, they spill all of the blood! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Derrick equips his second shield, and he's back for more! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Well? Aren'cha gonna fire again? I-I can't, boss! That's not how this technique works! Basically the opposite of this: Maybe. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSS! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Very well, that's been the map. It was... it was something, all right. To be honest, I'm shocked we didn't lose anyone at any point. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Again, amateur: 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Spoiler https://mangadex.org/chapter/817558/24 https://mangadex.org/chapter/817558/26 https://mangadex.org/chapter/850054/5 https://mangadex.org/chapter/850054/6 Edited May 21, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 Part 26 - Heartbreak. I have just discovered that there's an orchestral version of this. There's also a heavy metal version of this. Yet none of the Berwick Saga pieces get anything but their official remasters, half of which sound worse than the originals. This world, I swear... Volcens: Spoiler On 5/20/2020 at 3:45 PM, BrightBow said: He's here to interfere with any attempts to have Thaddy sneak between the forest tiles to reach the bridge station. He always stops next to a forest tile, and if he cancels the Hide status, the Imperials will get aggroed. So you have to pay attention to his patrol route if you want to pull this of. Unfortunately for Thaddy, while this map seems to be designed to show of his abilities, using Axel or Larentia is just so much easier. To be fair, Thaddy can get Erzheimer's wormwood without breaking a sweat. So that shows his abilities all right. On 5/20/2020 at 6:00 PM, Benice said: LUCIUS START PRAYING PLS From heaven, you mean? You've been Raven'd! Well, when you consider that this and Owen only losing 3 HP to the poison were the only lucky things that ever happened to me in this chapter... With YOUR luck? No chance. Well, luck or no luck, Berwick is awesome. Only PROS promote people before their highest level! Dude, even I do it in TearRing Saga. And I think if my LPs have proven anything, it's that I'm not a pro. I think it was actually only civ 5 that intentionally did that. There was a discussion elsewhere about that. (Last to post wins? Don't remember.) I didn't know that. Then again, the only Civ I've played is Civ 5. One of these days I'm gonna play FE12 and make Wrys a Fighter-Berserker! You probably should. Wrys is hilarious no matter what you make him. Even as just a basic curate, you could potentially make him murder Gharnef. The great Dark Pontifex, downed by some old guy from the nation that nobody cares about. In fact, the devs cared so little about Talys that Wrys's ending title is "Altean Healer" in both FE11 and 12. Whoopsies. And also most of the cross/bows Ha! Because his head is a letter. ...... I... okay, that makes sense, yes, but... it's not quite what I... tch... I know somebody who was attacked by about 10 geese and had to hide in their car. I love how the bird named after canadians is a bundle of hatred. And how our national bird steals stuff. I am glad I've never had to encounter one. Me in math class. Me when I have to do math in math class. The math class soundtrack. On 5/20/2020 at 6:08 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: Blame that censored Tharja art. Made curtains over butts trendy. Oh, God... You could always work him into the fanfic in some incredibly silly manner. I mean, it's not like we saw him die. I could do that, but I've got a different idea that might... make that difficult to pull off. Obscure fact time. Olive Oyl had a brother named Castor Oyl who had been the protagonist of the Thimble Theater newspaper strip from 1920 to 1929, when the man met a sailor on an adventure. Said sailor was a fellow named Popeye, who helped Castor solve the case... at the price of the strip. That is to say, this secondary character made for a single serial storyline proved popular enough that he booted Castor Oyl into permanent obscurity and, to add insult to injury, started dating his sister. Seems to be a thing with sailors in comic strips to be too memorable to abandon. Oh wow, so that pudgy fellow was originally the main character of Popeye? Talk about unfortunate... Reveal hidden contents So this? (in spoilers but totally not a rick-roll). Yes, but with more nukes. Yes, by definition. I figured... Seen it before. Dealt with geese before. You ever see their "teeth"? (I know, not technically teeth). I haven't. Don't think there are many wild geese in Spain. Still find it hard to believe a so called werewolf would flee from them. Werewolfs are overrated. Geese are the true horror champions. It doesn't help he's not been very consistent. He outright was involved in the murder of the Bart Allen version of the Flash just for being a Flash (not even the one he'd fought), but we also get times when he steals bread for the homeless from bakeries. Point is the guy's a mess of inconsistencies. Hell his real name hasn't even stayed the same. It used to be Thomas Peterson before the 90s, where it changed to Hartley Rathaway for no given reason. Anyway you look at it though, he's memorable. Definitely has had ups and downs in the career, but for any Flash villain not named Gorilla Grodd or Abra Kadabra that's the case. I mean, they all had that point where the Barry Allen version of the Flash died, and none of them really cared about bothering the new guy for the first 100 issues of his book. Meaning almost ten years where they had various attempts at reforming or bothering other people. Or both. He doesn't know why he does half the things he does, but he does them anyway? So what you're telling me is, he's Holmes. I don't know. My boxer brother's supposed to be the same height and weight given for Batman. (6 foot 2 inches and 95-ish kg). So I know a way to approximate it. I would rather not, thank you. Funny enough, I know this because my brother's guitar had one of the strings cut years back (same guy who did my axe). Hence how he made up for it for a while. Hah! Neat. I remember everything. Except to switch out silver lances occasionally. Well, that happens to the best of us. I have my methods for not falling for them. Like memorizing all of the URLs? So what happens if he uses provoke, then hides before the enemy can get to him? How did you miss the part where Thaddy nearly got murdered in one shot? Indeed. Did I make that joke about hoping the grustian cavaliers were there to help me with the pirates in chapter 2, or did I just think it? I can't remember. I'm pretty sure you thunk it, because I cannot remember it. Guess he's Kefka under that armor. He doesn't want sand on his boots and has no one to help him remove it, Pffffff... Derrick being Kefka would be the most hilarious plot-twist, but no. Gotta love flier mishaps. No, you don't gotta. These things could result in death. And I don't like death. Not quite what Elbert was doing. Then again, he started off with "Poopnose"... so... I mean, Thaddy's also a kid who can't fight. The day of all the blood arrows. Ruben Does Not Get The Reference: 123425325354th Edition. Well.. at least Axel can't die if he's withdrawn... which you pointed out shortly after. But I'm leaving this as a reminder to put Holy on Owen. You're the only one who did. You all disappoint me... except you, of course. This guy's so dumb, he used double shot and only fired once. He only had one sleep arrow. The poor fool... Well, if a unit's living casual mode... it only makes sense to use them that way. That's right, see? I am a tactical genius. He's got a bounty on his head right? They'll probably hang him in the public square anyway. I mean, he's a literal child slaver. With someone like Seamus I'd call bullshit on Valery, but in this case, I'm pretty sure the bounty might be legit. Especially considering that it's pretty low. Valery probably lowered it himself so that noone would bother to go after Boltz. Outright removing it would be too suspicious. Valery...! Well, guess you didn't spare him. Faye saw to that. Ironic when you planned for her to fail, she does what's needed perfectly. She even fails at failing! Is this the answer to that question about hiding and provoking? Because if so... then that's actually more or less what I was hoping. Dude! Seriously! How did you miss one of the highlights of the update?! Pay attention! I demand that you focus entirely on me when you read my LPs! I am important! I am the paradigm of humanity! I am the angry bird god of the Badlands! Fear me!! On 5/20/2020 at 7:52 PM, BrightBow said: Cypher and Heroes are the gift that keeps on giving in that regard. Reveal hidden contents Reveal hidden contents Reveal hidden contents I can see some of these, honestly, but Corkscria is completely broken... Actually she was doing really well in that chapter. Gave her a HP booster, and she also got +10 HP from some Beef Bourguignon. She is pretty neat when she can actually take a hit without getting crippled.Ah. Huh. What a twist. Sure, but what is really noteable is to have it on a unit that can also use Provoke. When using Provoke while in hiding, the target will still move towards the Provoker. But they can't actually attack someone who is hidden. So they have to waste a turn getting into 0 range to undo Hide. And of course Thaddy can just run and hide somewhere else. Or use the turn to snatch something from their inventory. It's a pretty fun combo. On this map you can for example use the cover of the forests to lure the Raze Priest down the hill and even onto the other side of the river without ever actually alerting the Imperials.But... but then how did Thaddy ambush him and nearly got murdered!? He doesn't actually attack as long as you stay south of the river. It seems like he is incapable of actually passing the river, judging by the fact that you can't use Provoke on him from south the river, but you can do it if you are on the north side.Ah, that's interesting. I suppose it might as well be broken, considering the whole point of the weapon is to get 2 hits.Yeah... If I was wearing armor like that, I would probably also refuse to get anywhere near a river. Just ask Frederick Barbarossa about why you should be careful in that regard.Wow. That's a sadly hilarious way to die in a war. Drowned by accident. He thinks this is an escape attempt? Well, I suppose with Owen right there, it will quickly become one.It did! He probably has the Vulneraries to give you some leeway when trying to capture him. Like, the Gamble Brace dude in the desert also carries two of them. So that's nice. ...if only the other guys wouldn't usually snatch them away before you can work on the capture.If only Faye hadn't procced Adept! I don't think I've ever actually seen an enemy use Windsweep.Neither have I, but hey, it's the thought that counts. She's good once every 7 turns. Might sound bad but Faye has to promote to even reach that point.That is true. Besides, you can never go wrong with the Pallas Riana. You should have used Provoke from inside a forest. That way he has no choice but to get into melee range and stay there. Then you could have simply snatched the 80% accuracy knife.Well, what can you do. I'm not good at strateging. Why use those super strong shields for enemies that can barely beat his base defense? Just stick with the Leather ones. There is an infinite supply of them too. Jokes aside, you're completely right. Thanks for the tip. I'll see if I remember to actually do it. I think the tactical hints sections of the first sidequest did. Ah, that's possible. In any case, it's not that this boss is immune to Provoke. It's just that he's stationary. You can't use Provoke on a target that can't actually reach you. It might not matter if it would take them 1 or 100 turns, but if your space is simply impossible to reach, then you can't Provoke them. And since the boss is incapable of ever actually moving away from his tile and doesn't have a 5 range weapon to target Thaddy right where he stands, you can't Provoke him from over there. Provoke should still work on him. But you would have to use it from a tile next to him. At least that's what I observed with other enemies. Yeah, I figured it'd be something like that. The archer next to Boltz can't leave the hill, either. He moves about, but he can't be provoked if you aren't on the hill. Those Imperials are actually a good opportunity to test this. If you try to use Provoke from atop that hill, you'll notice that you can provoke all of them except the Armors. Because Armors cannot scale cliffs, no matter what. But it works just fine if you try it from down below, hiding in the forests.I see. This is why Daoud is the best tank. Doesn't matter how much damage it is, every paper cut has a chance for injury. Better to pack Robust.Well, Derrick is the best in my heart. Well, the game generally makes a distinction between Green escape points for the player and Red escape points for enemies. So I don't think he could actually use it, even if he would run.Why do I seem to remember that, then... Ah, classic Larentia.Urgh... Funny thing is, if Thaddy had his weapon unequipped, the enemy wouldn't have triggered an ambush and he wouldn't have been given the opportunity for a counter attack.Is that why the Raze priest didn't get ambushed? Because nosferatu is a range 1 weapon or something? That could have been the first reset right there. Didn't get crippled either. Second* Remember that Ward died in chapter 4. I just didn't have to reset too much because of mid-map saves. Although I think that the game temporarily gives the hidden Robust skill to any mandatory units. I mean, the Mission screen only ever says Captured/Killed for defeat. It doesn't say anything about Crippled itself. And in the case of Sherlock's mission, if he were to be crippled before attacking the boss, the map might as well end there since it's impossible to still win. That sounds plausible. Either that or I was surprisingly lucky with that one. On 5/20/2020 at 7:57 PM, eclipse said: You should've brought Kramer instead. Then maybe someone would've hit! I doubt Kramer would've had better luck. Guy's incapable of hitting things. On 5/20/2020 at 9:56 PM, Dayni said: OKAY I WAS WRITING UP 10 UPDATES WORTH OF REPLIES AND LOST THE WHOLE THING. FUCKING HELL SERENES YOU'RE KILLING ME. I'VE LOST ENOUGH REPLIES AND TODAY WAS BAD ENOUGH- Oh it's you! Alright, screw it, abridged version. Okay, fine. It's been a long while, but I'm Baa-ack! I am very glad. For a time I thought you'd finally gotten sick of my nonsense. So with the whole lockdown, it feels weird because while we're not that restricted, we can't really travel, trying to get work has been impossible and even socialising has this tinge of futility. Worst of all? I'm seeing this taking the whole year away. Goodbye 2020, you could have been a contender. The only good thing about 2020 is the symmetry. And, of course, Berwick Saga translation. ...... 2020 best year because Berwick Saga. On 3H, I've finished CF and AM. I don't really like the first half of AM much and Dimitri's part of the problem. Not helping matters is that it has the worst rpesented scene in the game (You know, the one after Gronder). CF has made me think quite a bit on Rhea's handling and the questionability of Edelgard's utopian vision. I'm planning on doing a whole personal screed on what I'd do with the game's story after finishing SS, I've wanted to do it since going through Part 1 4 times. Byleth it turns out is only some of the problem. You do that, and then tell me, so I can go "3H bad Berwick good." Another point was that permadeath in 3H is too punishing and kind of discouraged to accept, that FEtuber Chaz did a good video on why that is. I don't want to say "I told ya so", but... Oh, screw it, I do want to say "I told ya so". In fact, I've been saying this since before the game released and nobody believed me. Funny how I was being legitimately positive about the game back then. Reunion At Dawn did so much damage... By the way, I love how the one comment where I reply by saying "I agree completely" was removed. Wonderful. I also tried Maddening. I've only played to chapter 1 so far but I am seeing it's already terrifying. Good luck with Reunion At Dawn. Remember to play the whole game with the sole goal of beating that, because otherwise you won't make it. Everything else does not matter. You must plan around that chapter. And this isn't me saying this, it's literally everyone. I named F!Byleth Locura. I know, call me out for doing the thing. How dare you, I'll kill you. Also, you know that one video you sent me showing Dimitri caught in a trap where the enemies didn't move until he went into range? I fell for it (I didn't watch it until this week). It literally didn't matter because Dimitri just crushed them (No 1-shotting Petra sure, but he held his own) and the others did jack to him and he broke them. Vantage was the MVP there. Just because it didn't do anything doesn't mean it isn't bad game design. It could've been a healer, and then you would've been plain screwed. I still don't understand why that trap exists at all. Just an excuse to burn pulse uses? So, summary of the run so far: Aethin made me remember Padolf's name and I want him to know I'm disappointed. I don't know if there'll be sufficient paydoff for it. Hah! Well we'll see. Faye's got ghosts following her that fight alongside her apparently. Everyone who has Adept does. All the horses returning was nice, Except not all of them did. Czene and Axel are great, I completely agree. Seamus was actually horrible despite his sheer incompetence and for his ignoring the abuse can rest in noise. C'mon, man, he was funny! Derrick is perfect for you I suppose. He's a meme, but he's not utter trash. Derrick is perfect for all, and if you don't believe it, you're a horseman. After all, the Raze priests used all the bags to make their garb. Ahahahahahahah... aahhhhhhh... The part about Faye-Ike parallels is, I would argue, somewhat true. I'll take that. Clearly Alondite is not what made BK untouchable, Cowen's name ruins him for me, Faye like I said character wise reminds me more of Mareeta than Ike (the fact she didn't wander the world most of her life being a part of it), lack of 1-2 range is disappointing and sorry, but Professor Chaos and his baghead is not convincing me so far. You and your "it really isn't as good as you say Ruben" statements. Why can't everyone always agree with everything I say? In all seriousness, how does Cowen's name ruin him? Paramythis is wild, can't wait to be sad after you get her killed. It'd take a lot of skill to kill Paramythis, she's amazing. Shit Christine's death was rough. I would have said even I realise he was willing to move (He moved to the temple, the idea he's never leave seems off), but that was harsh. I'm a dumbass, all right? That's the explanation. I was completely convinced he didn't move for God knows what reason. I have clear memories of camping out around him and him not moving... but, again, I could've been camping just outside his range and misremembered in the worst possible way. It doesn't matter at this point. Almuth and Byleth are not the same. For one thing Almuth is aiming to be a history professor, Byleth teaches mainly sword combat and because of how they lived would fail to teach history so badly. Also Almuth has Reinhardt's collar. Ah! Reinhardt! Isn't that FEHeroes's main character? Sherpa's like if Guts wasn't as depressing to learn about. This. Daoud seems like he might be the next meme album because I forgot he had War Cry. He's just such a (war) crybaby. Laurentia is cool, of course she's in danger. I have no hope of her reaching the end. Owen's fascinating, Right? He's pretty c-- but because he slapped a woman he can join Clifford on the firing line. Dude! I won't argue Clifford (mostly because you're right about him), but Owen was about to turn into a murderous psycopath completely against his will! Spare him some bad reactions when he knows he will kill them both if he doesn't get the heck out immediately! What, you'd rather he let them drag him to Quescria? All three of them would've been killed if he did! Sherlock's looking like he might be going places with Ophelia. Eheheheheheheh... maybe. Or maybe he'll die. You've not used Dean once, feels bad man. He's a great unit, and his character arc is the worst in the entire game. In other words, I could never use him. Except I did in my second run. He was fun, but hot damn his arc fuckin' blows. And not gonna lie, the Kaga did it first stuff is kind of ruining me this run. Christ, not everything was cogged off Kaga. Ah... I apologize. I can see how that could get obnoxious. At this point, it's like a game for me. Find the KDiF! Or, sometimes, stretch a thing until it turns out KDiF! Besides, by now you should know that I'm completely insufferable. You brought this on yourself. Me and my fanboyism are entirely blameless. Finally, Volcens is still terrible. True, Moridas was terrible for the purge, but Volcens still is. Absolutely, but the fact that someone managed to be even worse is kind of impressive. To finish, the saddest thing you've ever seen (Unless you're prepared, don't open the spoiler): Reveal hidden contents The guy turned himself into a vulnerary. Vulnerarwrys! I warned you, saddest shit I've ever seen. Not really, the saddest shit I've ever seen was when I misclicked and had Axel withdraw early. On 5/20/2020 at 10:27 PM, Dayni said: OKAY I MISSED TODAY'S UPDATE TOO? OKAY, THIS IS SO STUPID. FUCK 20/5, BURN IT ALL. I DON'T CARE IF THIS IS A DOUBLE POST. We shall remember 20/5 as Volcens Day. Because it is awful. On topic, I didn't mention, but AW SHIT PRETZEL'S HERE. Heck yeah he is! Figured it was about time to get some closure on that. Knowing Pretzel, he should be failing. Why is he not failing? As The Roger pointed out, he's Stronk Pretzel, not Our Pretzel. As for the rest, I see you decided Awakening's canon. I have, yes. This takes place as Archanea is being destroyed in Awakening's backstory. How else does Elaine exist? Elaine exists because Albertus and Margaret fucked. Do you want more details, or is that enough of an explanation for you? So they've ended up immortal somehow, Remember that Albertus is a dragon. Arran, as revealed by Pretzel two updates ago, gained immortality due to time traveling shenanigans. As for Margaret, she'll be explained later on. it's been a long time they've been around and Elibe's dead and is there something I'm missing? Elibe's gone too, and it's been a long time, yeah. Keep in mind that Berwick happens hundreds of years after TearRing. Oh yeah PRETZEL OF ALL DUNDERHEARDS DECIDES TO CHASE AFTER THEM. Don't expect Pretzel to be smart. I mean, he's Pretzel! By the way, you totally inspired called the fact that I was going to bring him back last LP. Or at least I think it was you? Maybe it was The Roger, not sure... I also missed on the fact that Herman's really trying to not be seen as a Gharnef by acting like he's only a mere retainer. Sure, Gharnef. Sure. Hey! Stop trying to predict the storyline! Thaddy: a boy who can't do anything but be a thieving street rat. Well, he can try fighting, but... it does not end well. Yam bandits. These people, I swear. They just really like yam, okay? THE YAM'S DANGEROUS BURN IT Well at least he's not dead. Somehow... The meme continues. It'll continue the whole game long unless he dies. Take that as you will. If only he threw it for a finish. That'd make me love him even more. Not gonna lie: This is kinda hilarious. I agree, it was pretty hilarious. And dumb. Mostly dumb. Good thing the AI is stupid eh? This ain't smart mode. Impressive, not taking a risk after sending away best Axe-l. Stop reminding me. I forgot that happens in PoR I think it does, anyway. I'm seeing it everywhere in RD, so I assume it also happened in PoR. LET HIM GO ON TRIAL THE SICK BASTARD NO HONOUR IN DEATH FOR HIM- Or not I suppose. I tried. But Faye wouldn't have that. Probably dramatic. Of course. I have a feeling the Raze order had a Drama group that meets on occasion to discuss current play trends and killing the Verian scum. Bwahahahahahahahahahahah... maybe that's where they design their fashion hits. You know, the garbage bags. WELL FUCK BERWICK'S FUCKED LET'S GO TO VESTARIA. Stop! We are NOT leaving Berwick until it's over! And even after that, I won't be able to move on and will spend the rest of my life comparing everything to it! Arran, of course they wouldn't run. After Guenchaos, of course not. It was stupid of him to expect them to be reasonable. I am kind of curious, is Harriet from the bad timeline? The only ones from the bad timeline are Arran and Pretzel. Harriett is a regular girl from Archanea who was saved by Albertus, Margaret, Arran and Elaine as they escaped from Archanea's destruction. She's tagging along to pay them back for that. And Rheuben? At the moment, he's just a regular dude like Harriett. And are Wrys and Frost retired? Everyone who hasn't showed up had a normal lifespan. Which means they died centuries ago. Which, in turn, means I've killed myself off. Again. On 5/21/2020 at 12:54 AM, Golb89 said: Because that character is a self-insert, thus canonically he's not supposed to have a face (just like the Producer from "Idolm@ster") But how can I self-insert when I don't have a letter for a head? Unrelatable! But if you really insist, this is how he she looks in the official GFL manga: https://mangadex.org/chapter/547692/12 Which one of the generic anime girls is she? I prefer letterface, I must say. Easier to tell apart and remember. Uh... ... maybe? I'm not sure what I just watched. All I know is that I was a happier man before I did. Pretty sure we were talking about not being able to edit posts on this forum though... And isn't that the Kagaest feature? Well, technically they both ARE incomplete, since their story is still in progress... Ha! You like incomplete things! As for bugs, GFL introduces 1 or 2 after every maintenance, but they almost always get fixed within an hour or so from the reports (though the current client still suffers from minor visual glitches, as well as questionable design choices that makes it look like a downgrade of the previous one), while AK seems completely "clean" thus far. As if glitches were such a bad thing in every case. I can think of a lot of glitches that only brought me great joy. Like horsemen who raid villages. I've gotten so much mileage out of that one. Speaking of which, FE12 is an incomplete game, right? I mean, it has a bad story because Kris and horsemen that raid villages. Virtually unplayable. Still, i would actually recommend AK to you, if anything because it manages to make ALL of its units viable in a way no other gacha (GFL in primis) could remotely compare to. Well, I appreciate the suggestion, but on principle I give gachas a hard pass. I like my games best when I pay for them once and I get access to everything afterwards. Before you say it, I know that some gachas are better than others in this respect, but by the nature of the business model, they have to try and convince me to pay in one way or another. And I don't like that. Its stamina system really sucks though... Oh, so it also has the Facebook farm energy system. It's not just FEHeroes. Wonderful. It's easy: if it has guns it's GFL, if it has animal ears it's AK- Err... forget i said anything. Hahahahahahahahahah... that's what happens when both your games have "generic isekai" as their artstyle. It has no effects on actual gameplay though so... nope? ...wait, why would anyone buy furniture with real money, then? Speaking of: Okay, so... the bottom one is me determined not to buy furniture? Is that what you're trying to tell me? You sure you actually haven't started playing AK already? I have better things to do. Like marveling at the fact that I'm actually somewhat close to finishing Radiant Dawn. I thought I'd never finish another FE game... Not really: the premium gacha in GFL only yelds skins and furniture, both of which are purely cosmetics (and if you remember the previous comic, the furniture in the 2nd panel comes entirely from event rewards) ...no, wait, but can other players see this? Because otherwise, I cannot imagine a single reason why anybody would buy this thing... This isn't showing properly, I'm afraid... AK isn't so generous in that regard though... That is being generous? Making you spend real money for cosmetics that nobody else will see? I'm almost afraid to ask what Arknights does... Well, if you need tutoring here is the first lesson, free of charge: Pffft... reminds me of the day youtube randomly recommended Girls Und Panzer to me. Also, the thumbnail is L E W D Artistic license again i guess? Or, she's from Minecraft. I'll go with that. Most likely a code pen name. Hmmmmmmm... I wonder... Which reminds me, another aspect where AK walks all over most other gachas (again, GFL in primis) is that, despite employing several different artists, the artstyle looks very consistent overall: considering they pretty much employ the exact same artists as their competitors, i guess the art director did a great job here. (Conversely, the less we talk about GFL's art director, the better) That is pretty cool. FEHeroes is all over the place in this regard. You have awesome artworks, and then you have Lloyd. Welp, guess he's really this game's Rope after all (or viceversa) I have no idea how she works in her game, so let's say this is true. (Also, pretty sure his Provoke is supposed to be used in conjunction with Evasion, and possibly Critical and Hide too) As Brightbow pointed out, you're meant to use it with Hide. But since my luck is terrible, it nearly resulted in Thaddy's death when I tried it. "All that effort to turn you into a good unity not a liability and then you bail out of the final chapter just like that?!" Ahahahahahahahahahah... ah, Shon. Shon, Shon, Shon. Interestingly enough, he has a lot in common with Reese. I doubt Blazer even knew about Berwick Saga at all, but yeah. Kaga did TLP first. Sorry, Dayni. Because it is? Well, then... Motorbikes, specifically. (Also, "vespa" means "wasp" or "hornet" in italian) Ah! Didn't know that. Cool! Was there ever any doubt? Welp, at least you didn't let the damned orb fall into a bottomless abyss after the main antagonist skewered your girlfriend with a giant katana, i guess... Eeeeeeyyyyy, it's Game Everyone Loves But I Could Never Be Arsed To Play Because I Don't Like Conventional RPGs And Original Visually Looks So Bad Even I Can't Look Past The Graphics And Remake Is Being Sold In Multiple Parts Each At Full Retail Price With A Ton Of Filler Shoehorned Into Them To Justify The Scam! GELBICNBATPBIDLCRPGAOVLSBEICLPTGARIBSIMPEAFRPWATOFSITTJTS for short. ...... Why did a bald man appear out of nowhere to punch Sephiroth? Eh, amateur: That's... that's not even remotely loud, man. You want loud? This is loud! Told ya! It is impossible for me to comment on these separatedly. So here's my input: Why does everyone like to bully the Derrick lookalike, and no, Derrick wouldn't use a girl with a heart in her mouth as a shield. Basically the opposite of this: Maybe. Bwahahahahahaha... yep, exactly. I like her smug face, but... why? Why is this relevant? This shouldn't be relevant... it wouldn't be in a fair world...! Yes, this is what everyone thinks when I play a game. Totally. Again, amateur: Must you always call me an amateur? Reveal hidden contents https://mangadex.org/chapter/817558/24 https://mangadex.org/chapter/817558/26 https://mangadex.org/chapter/850054/5 https://mangadex.org/chapter/850054/6 ...all right, but why does this pop up when I hover my mouse over the chinese flag? ...Okay, I know it means the OG langauge of the manga was simplified Chinese, but still, let me make my lame joke. Is dumb: Spoiler The other day, my luck was terrible. This day, it might still be terrible. I don't know, and I won't find out either, because today is text day. Thanks to you, I was able to find Lena and bust her out of there. Everyone, show your appreciation to this guy here! If he hadn't helped me out back then, I don't know what could've happened. You should spare some thanks for Derrick. He is, after all, the leader of the D team. Awwww, there's no need to-- wait, why is one of them randomly named, and the other isn't? Who the hell is Marolles? Is he General Lawrence's descendant? I'm just glad this young lady is safe. By the way, Thaddy, are you looking after all of these children? Yeah, all these kids lost their parents to disease or to the war. But we're all fine, and we're working to take care of one another. The little ones take care of food and washing clothes. The older ones help the local shops carry their goods around. I work as a chimney sweep. All of you youngsters are doing such things? We might look like kids, but we're more reliable than most adults, I'd say! No one's gonna come and save us, so we have to work to overcome our situation by ourselves. If we all help each other, we can make it through this together. This is somehow real nice and real sad at the same time... Are you not lonely? Is it not painful for you all? ...It can be. I often hear the others sniffling in the night, thinking about the family they've lost... ...... Don't give me that look. We don't want your pity. Take a look at everyone's faces. Look at all of their smiles... Happy moments like these... That's all that I really need. L-Lena...! Ha ha ha... Hee hee... I give up... Come find me if you ever want to hire my services. I'll promise you a good deal! I will communicate your offer to Lord Reese. Wasn't it such a problem to justify hiring Czene? What's so different about Thaddy? His class name is the same! He has the Steal skill! He's a thief! Oh, but of course, that's right... Thaddy isn't a young girl. Ward hates young girls. They remind him of his daughter. Who is dead. Thanks, mister. All right. Valery time. ...That one, huh... And here I thought removing a zero from his bounty would suffice to keep the bounty hunters away... of course, it had to be you... Somethin' wrong, Valery? You don't look too pleased. That pleases me. ...It's no big deal. I'll just have to make some adjustments is all. I am truly happy I got to screw with you, Valery. Don't look so full of yourself, tactician. Or else I might print the wrong face onto one of these posters... you do look awfully like the average brigand, don't you? ...why, you bastard...! My beard does NOT look like a brigand's beard! One of these days... One of these days what, tactician? You have no idea what you're dealing with. You'd do well to accept my offers of friendship sooner than later. My patience runs thin... Never! You hear me?! Never! Hmmm... sleep tight, tactician. Don't have any nightmares where you cannot run. ...uurrrkkk... Let's go to the home of erotism. At least he's more of a decent human being than Valery. Yes, yes, you can have it. It's useless to me anyway, and it sells for a lot less than you're willing to fork over. Yoohoo! Wow, he pays better than Valery... The avid reader might've noticed that there's a new location we can access. We can now take a walk down to the lower streets of the city, where we find Thaddy. Like the tavern and the abbey, this is just a thematically-appropriate place to put Thaddy so we can hire him. Incidentally, his permanent recruitment happens when you've given him a total of 5000D throughout the game. That's a ton of money, but more than that, it's a ton of time, when you consider that he can only be hired once per chapter. All right! Just leave the hard work to me. Which is why I'm going to employ some life hacks and hire him right here, even though the chapter is about to end. Not sure if I'll bother with the full recruitment, but it doesn't hurt to try. Normally I don't have much use for him, but in an ironman run where I cannot rig most captures, I'd like to have a surefire way of obtaining items. We can also speak with the other children around the place. Isn't that the piece of trash that was bullying Arthur's brother...? He's so cool, isn't he?! Especially the way he can twirl those daggers around... Big Bro is a hero to all of us. He's amazing! When I get older, I want to be just like him! I'll do my best selling flowers until he gets back! ...Sheesh... I-I hope he comes back, too... Okay, fair enough... only one more remaining. Why is she colored differently, I wonder... Ah. Ah! AH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Nah I'm just messing with ya, I edited her in. The portrait is among the files, but it goes unused. Thank God... Now that I've made my extremely bad taste joke, let's leave this chapter behind. Derrick still cannot be hired for main missions, I see. Not sure if I've showed this off before, so I'll do it now. Anyway, for the next mission, I'd like Sylvis-- What...? WHAT?! No, but how can you... how could you have been hired by somebody else!? That is... that isn't... logical...! I'm the only one who can hire mercenaries! I'm the only one who can have you! Who!? Who took her away from me!? I'll tear them asunder...! My rage shall pierce their bodies as if lightning it were! That's it, nobody gets paid. I'll consider it next chapter. Now get! Everyone leave! I want to be alone... they took her from me... I'll make them suffer...! Hey, Lord Reese... Would you mind if I shoot your tactician? ...! Sylvis?! Not through the head, mind. But I think an arrow to the foot and a couple of weeks in bed would teach him a lesson he desperately needs. Yes! Shoot me! Show me the full extent of the power for which I love you so! Do it...! ...urgh... P-Please forgive him... He's a little, uh, unstable, but he has served us well so far... I'm not certain I would say that, milord... he was the one who ordered my d... Christine, to her untimely death... Ward... Chapter 5, folks! The main three are congregated in the office. To share good news, I hope! ...Regardless of how we look at the situation, milord, this is ill news. To think that the Duchy of Bornia would actually betray us... ...well. It happened. The signs were there, and now it's come to pass. Indeed. The entire city is swarming like a nest of hornets after hearing the news from Duke Roswick. Bornia has long been friendly to Narvia, so I expect it's quite a shock. I can imagine. Narvia and Bornia have long been among the strongest in the League. And Duke Reed has been best friends with our Duke Roswick for decades... This cannot be good for morale. The warning signs were there, but still... Why would Duke Reed betray his kingdom and allies...? Message for Lord Reese of Sinon! Suddenly, a faceless messenger at the door! I wonder what it could be... Coming! Very well. Ward, prepare the soldiers to sortie at a moment's notice. Yes, sire. Yes, Your Majesty. I'm terribly sorry... What is your brat Vanmilion even doing with his two thousand men?! Has he simply abandoned the front line to these traitors? Oh please... What reason do you have to even suggest that!? And here we thought Richard was bad... Heck, Richard was introduced as he was praising General Lawrence for his deeds! I wonder how General Lawrence is doing these days. Did we ever meet him, after all? I forget... I have ordered him to fall back to Aryuza for the time being. Aryuza? But that is a mere stone's throw away from us in Navaron! What purpose could you have for allowing them to come so close? There is a well-mantained fort in Aryuza, and a large river to slow the enemy's advance. It is an ideal location around which to form a line of defense. There, we shall halt their advance and begin our own counterattack. In addition, seeing their king take up the chain of command directly would bolster morale greatly. Interesting... At the moment, I have ten thousand soldiers at my disposal... certainly a force to be reckoned with! Yes... Yes! Volcens, yes! For once, Volcens yes! If I may interrupt, Your Majesty... VOLCENS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! HERMAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN don't you dare. There is something about this plan that I do not understand. There is something about your fucking face I do not understand! Your nose is too big, and I wear your collar better than you do! Shut up and let Volcens be redeemable for once! Yes, Herman? What is it? Firstly, our scouts say that Bornia's army numbers just under 5,000 strong. Why would our forces not simply eradicate them at the border? Gee, I dunno, maybe because THEY MORE THAN DOUBLE VANMILION'S NUMBERS!? Why, Duke Roswick, would you risk His Majesty's safety in allowing them to advance so close? Bornia and Narvia have been close allies in the kingdom for centuries. As such, there has been very little historical need to construct forts or defensive walls along our border. But to fight on the open plains that lie along the border would surely end in a massive slaughter for both sides. This is the surest way to prevent undue loss of life as we continue to struggle against the Raze Empire. As you have said yourself, Narvia has been closely allied to Bornia for many years... Why, if a certain someone were to bar the gates as soon as he left... Who, you? His Majesty's army would be left without any place to retreat! And given the defenses of this city, I doubt that even His Majesty's army would be able to retake it. And with thousands of Narvian and Bornian troops so close... Well, I assume you can see why I am so very concerned about this. ...... Lord Herman, I suggest you reconsider making such accusations. You've done it now, Herman. You've pissed off the grandpa. And no wonder! How many more times are you going to try to make him seem like a traitor? And, more concerningly, how many times will it take for Volcens to be convinced...? Slander? Perish the thought! I'm simply stating what is in the realm of possibility. As recent events have shown us, it is impossible to know the intent of even the most loyal of allies. My first and only concern is that His Majesty's safety is assured. ...Regardless of the actions taken, the town of Aryuza cannot be held with just Vanmilion's current forces. At the very minimum, withstanding the enemy siege will take two or three thousand more troops... If we do not act quickly, the citizens of Aryuza will surely be slaughtered! C'mon, Volcens. Even you must see that he's being perfectly reasonable...! It cannot be helped. For the Berwick League's sake, I cannot put my life at such risk... ...All right, then. Volcyboy does it again, folks. ...Well, I suppose you could send that uncivilized lordling of yours to do as you wish. I do not mind. Wha-- Are you fucking brainless, Volcyboy!? First, Reese is more civilized than you, or at least I haven't seen him storm out of any audiences after his sister roasted the hell out of him. Second, Roswick said Vanmilion will need at least 1000 or 2000 more troops. We barely have a hundred! It's a suicide miss-- oh, of course. That's it. Again. Urgh... "Uncivilized lordling"...? Do you mean Lord Reese of Sinon, Your Majesty? Who else would I mean? Right... I understand. I shall give the order, Your Majesty. That whole scene was a small flashback, actually. Roswick was explaining to Reese why he had been summoned to the palace. In the present, we're actually standing in the Map Room. My apologies, Lord Reese, but for all our sakes, I must ask this of you. Please ride out to Aryuza and help Vanmilion in any way you can. With pleasure, Your Grace. I will ride to his aid. In other words, we're going on a suicide mission. Yet again. You have my thanks. I shall advise in any way I can. Allow me to bring you up to speed on the current state of the war. he has nearly completed his invasion of the Lowland Duchy as well. That is, His Majesty will not allow me to send reinforcements to Hariheart. ...... Ahh, the famous Duke Bernard finally gets a face. After liberating most of southern Serenia, he now advances toward the Serenian capital, Zaltzhaim. The text is slightly delayed compared to the visuals on the map in this scene. Goddrom's face showed up before the game dropped his name, the arrow pointing to Zaltzhaim appeared before the game brought up the place, and Bernstol's portrait was already on-screen while the text was talking about Bernard's advance. There are also a couple of textboxes that go away far too quickly to comfortably read them. Kind of a wonky scene. Still, Aethin once told me the way these map scenes work internally, and frankly? I'm shocked that they came out as well as they did. Apparently there are automatic A-presses that are timed to happen when the textboxes are filled. They aren't even programmed to recognize when the box is filled, Aethin (or maybe it was his programmer pal Lightgazer) had to time them himself. Holy shit, that is horrible. It is inspiring that such an esteemed hero continues to serve so valiantly... Your father is a great man. Thank you, Your Grace. Small bit of characterization for Dad. I like how, continuing this game's trend of us not being the center of the universe, Bernstol's not the protagonist of the western front, but rather the Ward. In fact, now that I take a good look at them, Ward and Bernstol kinda look like Reese and Ward, respectively. Huh. Interesting detail. Here on the new Southern Front, we now turn our eyes to Bornia. For the moment, he is advancing past the border to Aryuza, where my son Vanmilion is fortified. Vanmilion set out with about 2,000 troops at his disposal, but now he has perhaps only half that left. Vanmilion will not be able to hold the fort at Aryuza for long. Please do not think less of your son for being caught in such an unfortunate circumstance. Bornia's army is renowned for its strength, and they vastly outnumber Vanmilion's soldiers. What's more, his forces are largely composed of inexperienced recruits like my own soldiers. The strength of one's soldiers does not an army make, Lord Reese. Rather, it is how their leader makes use of such strength that is important. You and Vanmilion would do well to heed these words carefully. I understand, Your Grace... Forgive me, I spoke out of line. There you go again, Reese... how did you "speak out of line", exactly? You tried defending his son, he gave you a piece of advice, and then you randomly deemed it necessary to apologize for no reason at all. You are the most canadian lord... My son is... unresourceful when it comes to commanding an army, you see. ...trashtalking your own son when he's getting slaughtered in the frontlines, on the other hand... Not so, Your Grace! Lord Vanmilion is... No, I shouldn't have said that... Please forget my careless words. Although I can understand that he's most likely just worried that his son might die out there. Don't worry, Ros. We're on it. Now then, prepare your soldiers for departure, Lord Reese. Yes, Your Grace! I will not fail you! I have left them on the desk in your room for you. When there's a letter available, the monthly report option pops up to remind you. Lord Reese, have you read the letter that arrived for you yet? I placed it on the desk in your room. It appeared to be important, so please do not forget to read it. Hmmmm... forget... what am I forgetting... Ah! Owen! I nearly forgot again! Okay, now it's done. Letter time. I must confess, I was up until the early hours of the morning planning what to knit with the yarn... When Duke Bernard saw my face in the morning, he burst out laughing. He said my eyes were bloodshot, like a white rabbit's! When he asked what I had decided to knit, I told him I would make a circlet for you. He and Father glanced at each other and laughed, saying that you would never wear such a thing. I felt myself turning beet red, and I ran back to my room. It's not true, is it? You'll wear it for me, right? No, sis. He cannot equip accessories, I'm afraid. And even if he could, I don't think he's capable of understanding what you feel. So far the only things that've gotten any emotion out of him are Volcens and food. I've only just begun on the circlet, so for now, I will send you the gift Father brought home for me: Yes! Dad funds! Gimme gimme gimme-- the sword Gram. Gram...! I remember how in my first run, for the shortest moment, I was disappointed that it wasn't dad funds. Then I took a look at the sword. It belonged to my late Father, and although it's old and worn, I hope it can still be useful to you in some way. Ohohohohoho... you have no idea, sis. You've just sealed the fates of all of Reese's enemies. Please do keep warm during these coming winter months, and take care not to push yourself too hard. May Mother Veria bless you in all that you do. Love, Lynette. All right, Gram! Gram, in norse mythology, was one of the names for the sword of Sigurd. Other names are Balmung and Nothung, but not Tyrfing. Tyrfing is a different sword that was said to bring misfortune to its wielder, which I suppose is also fitting. But enough about the name. What is this sword? It's the best lord weapon in the world, that's what it is. Next to Ward's knight sword, for comparison purposes. So, let's go over this. No weight is great. 13 might is amazing. 80% accuracy is making me fall in love. Durability is high, made even higher thanks to the Armsthrift portrait I bought from Jonathan. 18% crit! Brave effect! If Reese dies, the sword revives him! It breaks, sadly, so it's not quite as hilarious as the Dullahan, but still... Any one of these things would already make for a pretty good weapon. You know what happens when you put them all together? Gram singlehandedly turns Reese into the best combat unit in the team, surpassed maybe by Sherpa with the Brymranger, but that one has different problems. This is what truly sets Reese apart from your standard lord: once he gets this, he turns into a legit nuke. You need something dead this instant? Gram it, no problem. This is where most of my repairstones are going. I want this to last the entire game. Bottom-line, Bernstol is awesome as always. Thanks, dad! Now go and kick some Razite butt with Bernard! Okay, and now that we have the best sword in the world, we can go visit Marybelle and see what's up with her. ...! General Ward! Oh, thank the Goddess... Please, save my father! What in the world? Please calm yourself and explain what is going on here... Is it true that Aryuza is going to become a battlefield?! ...Yes, it's true. We of the Sinon Knights will be headed there shortly ourselves. Then you'll be in the area? Yes... What?! What possessed him to do that? He's such a stubborn mule... We've heard rumors for weeks about Bornia betraying the League... I've written letter after letter to my father telling him to come here, but he hasn't written back once! How troubling... I have no idea what kind of damage the town might take when forces such as ours collide... My father has always hated the military occupying the fort... And he's just so stubborn that he refuses to budge an inch! Ahh, yes, one of them "get off my lawn" types... that must be a pain. If possible, it would be best to do something before the battle begins... Sir Ward, if there's any way you can find my father and convince him to come here to Navaron... I understand. I do not know if I will pass through the city on the way to the fort, but... Thank you, Sir Ward! What is your father's name? It's Gasch. He's an odd fellow, but he steams a good ham. ...? ...okay, no, I'm just kidding. He's an odd fellow, but he's still my dear old dad. Please, save him... I will offer no promises. So much is still uncertain... Should the enemy overwhelm us, I will not be able to help him at all. Gee, Ward! How can you say such things? If you don't want to help, you can just say so! What an asshole, man... ...Damnit Ward! Of course you won't be able to help if you and your army are killed! That goes without saying! There's no need to apologize to her for not being able to save her father if you're dead! ...I understand. I will not resent you, Sir Ward, regardless of what happens. Thank you. I shall give the battle my all. Anyway, it's-- wait, the guild...? Valery...! What are we going to do...? My men are also on the lookout for him, but with Aryuza being as it is right now... Yeah, you've got a point there... I'm going to get back to it. I'll keep you informed of any new developments. Right... Good luck to you. The soldier bumps into Tianna as he exits. I love these little moments. In another game she'd just walk in and get the text, but instead we get these small things that spice things up. The devil is in the detail, as they say. Good afternoon, Valery. Hello, Lady Tianna... Is something the matter? You seem restless. The guilt getting to your head, Valery? Have you heard about that man named Munver? Munver... That thief who has been targeting aristocrats and wealthy merchants recently, yes? Right. Rich folks from all across the city came here to put a price on his head. We finally caught him, too... or rather, we thought we had. You thought you had? He escaped when he was being transported back here to Navaron, so we gave chase... Where in the world would that be? Anywhere near Aryuza. Aryuza? Is that not where the Bornian invasion is advancing to? Yeah, we assume he's going to try to slip into Bornia during all the chaos of battle. If he gets past the border, there's nothing more we'll be able to do. If Mr. Routh found out about this, he'd probably shout at all of us here at the guild for hours... Again... Boo hoo. I feel so sorry for you, you piece of trash. ...... This is such obvious manipulation... Tianna, you can't be falling for this-- You said that Munver has fled to a place near Aryuza, is that correct? That's right. The Sinon Knights are going to Aryuza on the morrow. They are?! Please, tell me all that you can regarding him. O-Of course! ...Valery...! I can see right through your carefully laid web of deception and lies! What are you scheming!? Me? I have no idea what you're talking about. I made a mistake, and the criminal got away. I admit it, I screwed up. Aren't you happy? No, I'm not happy! What is this guy Munver's deal, really? He steals from the rich. The rich want him gone. Is that not enough? No, Valery. I wouldn't trust you with a popsicle, you can't expect me to believe this nonsense! ...I'll pay you this amount if you carry through with my request. How's that sound? ...... ...deal. Excellent. Mind the step when you leave, tactician. ...damn you and your good deals...! This sounds like it may be less sketchy. Maria is pacing back and forth nervously. Oh, it's you, Izerna... Is there something worrying you? Perhaps I could help you. W-Well, I... I don't mean to pry. If you would rather not say, then... ...There's someone very dear to me in the city of Aryuza. I see... He is serving under Lord Vanmilion to reinforce the city's fortress. It won't be long before the Bornian troops reach the fortress... I'm so worried about him, but I have no way of contacting him... This man, is he...? Well, that definitely proves that there's no such thing as "vows of chastity" in this church. Which means Owen did nothing wrong. Well, aside from the whole "turn into murderous garbage bag" tidbit. But that isn't his fault. No wonder you're so worried! Every time he goes out to battle, he returns so weary and distraught... I don't want that for him, but... Maria... I just don't know what to do... I think I can help you, Maria. Lord Reese is headed to Aryuza to provide relief to Lord Vanmilion. If I request it, I believe he will agree to bring me along. Meh... only if I have to, Izerna. Only if I have to. Really...? I understand well the distress you must be feeling for this man. You will? I don't want to burden you... Don't worry about that. I promise you, I'll do everything in my power to get your message to him. The only tricky part will be to find him among the soldiers. Spoiler alert: that is not the tricky part. Maria's boyfriend has a name and a portrait. It would've been pretty interesting to have to try talking to all the generics, but then this request would've been a nightmare, so I'm glad Kaga had some restraint. Thank you, Izerna... I will write a letter for him. If you do find him, please give it to him. Of course. His name is Erec. He'll likely be on the front lines, so please be careful. Thank you ever so much for doing this for me, Izerna... Ey, I can take a peek! Let's invade this woman's privacy, quick! D'awwww, I can't read it... Let's buy some troops. I know nobody likes Clifford, but I need strong tanks, and Sherpa lacks the latter quality. Holy shit, that's expensive... bastard! Here you go, have your dough. I hope it makes you sick on the stomach. After the hiring spree, I sold a couple of things to have enough funds to do a bit of shopping. Daoud picks up a prototype SShield. These appear if you fulfill the shield request from last chapter, implying that Danton's successfully been able to fix the old shields we got him into something more reliable. Neat detail. Axel gives some of his junk to people who can actually use it. As well as the concoction to Clifford, because he has the HP to make use of it, I guess. Pilums for Adel to throw. By the way, this thing has appeared at the shop. Hopelessly expensive, but that is a really good spear. I pray I'll be able to nab it someday. That done, I buy vulneraries for everyone who doesn't have any. Lastly, I hire Thaddy, just for the heck of it. That's 1200D I've given him so far. If I keep hiring him for main missions, he'll be recruited by chapter 10 at the earliest. ...Then I realized Sherlock had no good bows, so I had to sell a couple more things to get him a long one. In lieu of Sylvis, he'll be coming to the next mission. Very well, and with that, I hereby declare this a finished update. Next time, we will go to the rescue of Reese's fellow blonde, and face Bornia's traitorous forces for the first time. Remember to hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, hit the share button, hit the follow button, hit the link to my Patreon, hit the link to my Onlyfans, hit the link to transfer funds to my bank account, hit the link to my change.org petition to make me supreme leader of the world, click the download button for Berwick Saga, but most important of all, hit the farewell button so you may all farewell! Haha, see you around~! Death count: Christine Esteban* Unavailable Capture count: 0 Reset count: 1 (Ward: 1) Current perfect streak: 2 maps Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 28 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: From heaven, you mean? Still seems to work for Raven! 30 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, luck or no luck, Berwick is awesome. Agreed. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Dude, even I do it in TearRing Saga. And I think if my LPs have proven anything, it's that I'm not a pro Ehh, if I'm playing to be fast or doing an ironman, I'd early promote, but when I'm just doing a casual run, I like waiting until the last minute to promote people. 35 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I didn't know that. Then again, the only Civ I've played is Civ 5. I've never played a civ game, so don't quote me on that, but you could always ask Ping. 38 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: You probably should. Wrys is hilarious no matter what you make him. Even as just a basic curate, you could potentially make him murder Gharnef. The great Dark Pontifex, downed by some old guy from the nation that nobody cares about. In fact, the devs cared so little about Talys that Wrys's ending title is "Altean Healer" in both FE11 and 12. Whoopsies. Maybe Marth married Caeda just to become the king of Talys? He secretly has a passionate affair with Catria, which is why Lucina and Chrom wear white and blue rather than red and blue. 46 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...... I... okay, that makes sense, yes, but... it's not quite what I... tch... It's infalliable logic. 47 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I am glad I've never had to encounter one. Well, they probably won't murder you on sight, but anger them, and oooh boy... 54 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: .. I actually thought for a moment that this was actually in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...... Don't give me that look. We don't want your pity. Take a look at everyone's faces. Look at all of their smiles... Happy moments like these... That's all that I really need. Don't take it personally, Thaddy. Your words just made Ward think about how he ignored his family until both his wife and daughter died. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: We can now take a walk down to the lower streets of the city, where we find Thaddy. Like the tavern and the abbey, this is just a thematically-appropriate place to put Thaddy so we can hire him. Well, the Abbey also holds the Cemetery. And presumably the Tarvern at some point was actually supposed to sell beverages. And the Lower Streets actually disappear from the selection the moment you hire Thabby. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah. Ah! AH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I'm not sure the kids can pay that much. I mean, this is more then Derrick takes to murder fools. ...although I'm not sure how Derrick survives on 3 boiled eggs per month. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What...? WHAT?! No, but how can you... how could you have been hired by somebody else!? That is... that isn't... logical...! I'm the only one who can hire mercenaries! I'm the only one who can have you! Who!? Who took her away from me!? I'll tear them asunder...! My rage shall pierce their bodies as if lightning it were! I wonder if all characters have a quote for when they can't be rehired. Like, Sherpa will claim in a later chapter that he already has a job, but as it turns out the reason you can't rehire him is because he will actively offer Reese his services for free in a cutscene. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Not through the head, mind. But I think an arrow to the foot and a couple of weeks in bed would teach him a lesson he desperately needs. Yes! Shoot me! Show me the full extent of the power for which I love you so! Do it...! ...urgh... Good grief, Sylvis doesn't need another Weiss in her life. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Who, you? His Majesty's army would be left without any place to retreat! And given the defenses of this city, I doubt that even His Majesty's army would be able to retake it. And with thousands of Narvian and Bornian troops so close... Well, I assume you can see why I am so very concerned about this. I mean, he could put someone else in charge. Or he could take Roswick with him. Surely you plan to actually use your thousands of troops at some point, right? That reminds me, considering the Ruben portrait is edited from Herman and since you have the portrait files, are the portraits stored as individual parts by any chance? Because as we saw with Yumil and Sarah, the game reuses plenty of assets for different portraits. So I wondered if maybe the game simply overlays individual parts. But considering what I recall Aethin saying about the game always having complete separate versions of a whole cutscene if there is even the tiniest variation, the game is probably not build in such a resourceful fashion. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahh, the famous Duke Bernard finally gets a face. If Vanmillion only has half of his 2000 men left, then combined with Sinnon's knights he has 1100... sorry, 1099 vs Bornia's 5000. So only slightly better then a 1 to 5 ratio. Meanwhile Bernhard is merely fighting at a 1 to 3 ratio. So in order to win this fight, Vanmillion and Reese have to basically surpass Bernhard. This doesn't bode too well. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still, Aethin once told me the way these map scenes work internally, and frankly? I'm shocked that they came out as well as they did. Apparently there are automatic A-presses that are timed to happen when the textboxes are filled. They aren't even programmed to recognize when the box is filled, Aethin (or maybe it was his programmer pal Lightgazer) had to time them himself. Holy shit, that is horrible. That must have been hell. I wonder why they even decided to handle world map scenes like that. Don't see why the dialog boxes couldn't just work the same as anywhere else. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: When he asked what I had decided to knit, I told him I would make a circlet for you. He and Father glanced at each other and laughed, saying that you would never wear such a thing. I felt myself turning beet red, and I ran back to my room. It's not true, is it? You'll wear it for me, right? Is this supposed to be a rip on Marth by any chance? This also reminds me how in the anime OVA, Marth's tiara was actually given to him by his sister. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Please do keep warm during these coming winter months, and take care not to push yourself too hard. There is a surprising lack of snow maps in this game, come to think of it. Or any other sign of winter, really. I mean, even the opening had some winter shots but we don't see anything like that outside of one side quest. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's the best lord weapon in the world, that's what it is. Next to Ward's knight sword, for comparison purposes. Personally I prefer the Edelstern. Does double attacks instead of adding one more. And it still does effective damage against Cavalry and Armor. It also gives Zade an avoidance boost at half health. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This is where most of my repairstones are going. I want this to last the entire game. I'm really more of a Rossweisse guy myself. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bottom-line, Bernstol is awesome as always. Thanks, dad! Now go and kick some Razite butt with Bernard! Remember, Lynette was the one who send the sword to Reese. She also said it belong to her late father, so that's not referencing Bernstol either. But considering Reese assumes Lynette is just a common orphan, you would think he would wonder where her father got such a fancy sword from. But who knows what Reese thinks, really? Not like we ever see him react to those letters. I suppose something Berwick made me appreciate about Zade is that in Zade case something things will get so much to him that his mask slips and we get some insight into the thoughts and feelings that he usually keeps hiding. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Valery...! You know, your baseless antagonism towards Valery kinda reminds me of how Volcen's treats Reese. Just saying. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Meh... only if I have to, Izerna. Only if I have to. Oh, just take the Izerna, the best healer and fastest promotion of the game. Although for once she isn't actually all that useful, just because of all the pressure you have to deal with right at the start to get things under control. My experience with that map is that things can get really out of hand on the first few turns and you can lose a lot of momentum. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Spoiler alert: that is not the tricky part. Maria's boyfriend has a name and a portrait. It would've been pretty interesting to have to try talking to all the generics, but then this request would've been a nightmare, so I'm glad Kaga had some restraint. Well, it's not like the game doesn't do that elsewhere. Several times actually, come to think of it. And I suppose there is also that case with Arkis back in Tear Ring Saga. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Daoud picks up a prototype SShield. These appear if you fulfill the shield request from last chapter, implying that Danton's successfully been able to fix the old shields we got him into something more reliable. Neat detail. Also, 50% accuracy small shield for a decent price. Sign me up. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Lastly, I hire Thaddy, just for the heck of it. That's 1200D I've given him so far. If I keep hiring him for main missions, he'll be recruited by chapter 10 at the earliest. There might be something that can be done about that if Thaddy gets some levels. He is tied for the largest cost increase per level along with Sylvis, +150 denarii per level. Or +1 Derrick, you could say. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Then I realized Sherlock had no good bows, so I had to sell a couple more things to get him a long one. In lieu of Sylvis, he'll be coming to the next mission. You could sell some materials to Halfmann, since they really only collect dust unless you have the whole set for an item. And getting items back from Halfmann barely costs any more money then what he gave you. But of course he keeps increasing the fee by small amounts the longer you wait. I think he starts out with +10% at the start and +5% for each additional chapter. But I could be wrong. Edited May 22, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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