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This LP is mostly dedicated to @AnonymousSpeed and @Saint Rubenio. These two funny lads recommended this hack to me on numerous occasion, and it got me interested. From what I've been told, this is an old japanese FE hack of Blazing Sword that serves as a midquel of FE6, starring Lyn's daughter, Saya. If I was a Lyn fan, I'd actually care! But what interests me are the numerous screenshots I've seen, discussions I've heard of it, mostly between the mysterious quickster and bishop Rubenio, and the memes. I saw an image of Vyland. That's literally all I need. I don't care if he's a boss, a playable unit, or just the protagonist's consciousness telling them to invest in crypto! Maybe it's not even him at all, and it's just a funny looking man! I plan to review the hack as I go along, so for those who know nothing about this, you can see this as a review based off first impressions, with a hint of funny gaming. From what I know, about one other LP of this game exists in Serenes, but it was when there wasn't an existing translation. I believe it only came out last year or so, so while the hack itself is old and won't contain any quality of life additions most modern fan games have, it will hopefully provide good gameplay, and a story better than that of the Elibe games. The story part probably won't be tough to accomplish though...Keep in mind, I'm not one who focuses in story too much, so I won't be too analytical there. It's mainly the gameplay I will focus on. Will it be a hack I would recommend others to try for themselves? I've only played The Last Promise and The Four Kings as other FE hacks to possibly compare with, but I'm more likely to compare it to the Elibe games. I hear it mostly tries to replicate the feeling of those games. I'll show screenshots of the plot, but I'll hide important stuff in spoiler tags for those that just want a basic premise of the story to determine if you want to experience it for yaself. If anyone feels like commenting on anything, don't hesitate to. Half of this LP is just to interact with good pals while having a laugh over a game they apparently like.

The ironman part is to provide a sense of challenge and hopefully interesting content, as the game doesn't have a difficulty setting and doesn't seem to be too difficult on its own merit. While I don't think FE games necessarily need to be designed around ironman'ing to be good, it will be nice to provide input out there to whether it makes for a good ironman game or not. It's always nice when FE games are fun to play ironman style. But really, this LP will probably be about memes. The main challenge will be how much the Speedwing thief and Holy Mountain Man will influence this run. As I said, it's dedicated to you two. Do whatever you want. I'll probably go ahead with your ideas. You're both based. You don't deserve it, but you get this anyways.

Prologue: Time of Departure

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The game starts off with a simple introduction of the kingdoms of Elibe, but of course, Bern decides to mess with everyone, and now factions are in a state of disarray.

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But for now, we focus on what's happening in Sacae, and I am already happy. It's my man Dayan! I just finished an FE6 rapid rebalance hack done by @AnonymousSpeed where I used him. Cool dude. Glad he's being used as a mentor. Here, he is Saya's tutor/master.

For anyone curious about the mod, it's a minor rebalance to FE6 that mostly tries to stay identical to the original, rather than attempting to to balance every unit in the game or change a million aspects of each stage. I playtested it and enjoyed it for the most part, but of course, that will depend on how much you like FE6. If you like the game, but think it could just a little more hit rate, a few changes to armor knights, promotable thieves, the ability to gain weapon ranks much faster, and a Merlinus that can actually fight, I highly recommend it. I believe it's still a work in progress as far as potential updates go, so you can always share your thoughts and make suggestions to them. I'm sure they'd probably appreciate it, or at least tolerate it.

https://forums.serenesforest.net/index.php?/topic/95983-anonymousspeeds-rapid-rebalance/

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Pretty sure that's a new outfit on Lyn's sprite. Cool. 

The Lorca tribe was wiped out 20 years ago, but Lyn's efforts allowed it to mostly become restored. I'm assuming this is referring to the events of Blazing Sword. Right now, Sacae is attempting to remain at peace while the other nations turn on each other in support or against Bern. 

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The prologue starts off with the typical training arc of the lord. She clearly wants to become as strong as Lyn and prove herself to everyone, brining honor to the Lorca tribe. Luckily, the standard for that is pretty low, so I think she's got this.

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Jesus Christ man! It was a level one archer! I'm pretty damn sure Saya woulda been fine! This is just Awakening al over again

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Glass, you do not want to know how many FE fans love turning little girls into demi god units.

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Finally, gameplay. And what an amazing first map too. Brings me perfect FE7 memories. In other words, not a great start.

There's not much to do here. The boss can reach you when attacking the archer, but this is the first map, so there's no way this kills you.

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Wow. She really is Lyn 2. She refuses to dodge and is dying already.

I should take look at her stats.

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Well she's twice as tanky as Lyn. Pretty fast too. You could say her strength sucks, but I like to think of it more as a Neimi reference.

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You know who would be the best assassins to send after the girl guarded by the mighty Dayan? Marty's biggest fan. Why send a guy with 3 strength and zero speed! This is the daughter of Lyn the Chieftain here! Of course she's going to be well protected! Maybe these are just simple brigands who have that title and this wasn't a planned assault, but I'm pretty sure you'd notice the yellow horse on the nomad, meaning you're boned. Oh well. It's just the prologue. I guess I was hoping for an intor more like FE6 or FE5. Those had decent first chapters. Never saw a reason to make the intro a chapter with only the lord. It's probably a Lyn reference here, given how they even bring up that Saya is roughly the same age now as when Lyn fought off the kingdom that poisoned her grandfather, Saya being 16. 

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Without much of an alternative, I use a vulnerary to patch up her wounds. They deal 13 damage together, so I can handle one more turn of tanking.

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Saya actually gets a lucky dodge here, so I can afford to attack next turn.

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Saya spills her first blood as she takes the life of an archer with a single slash of her blade.

Okay, it was 3 slashes, but it's the murder that counts.

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Wanting to avenge his best friend's death, Glass strikes at Saya, but it wasn't enough. Saya used DLC items to boost her stats to a point where she can tank the boss's axe, and she retaliated with a merciless cut to Glass's stomach.

I was so shocked by her lack of hesitation that I forgot to check his stats.

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Wow, great start.

By the way, I don't have anyone's growths here. I'm unsure if I'll ask for the growths or I'll play ignorant of them the entire time. I'll leave it up to Anon and/or Ruben.

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Damn. I knew it. She is going to be the bad guy!

At least have some hesitation...

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After asking Saya if she's alright, he gives her the whole speech about how everything is going to get all spooky from here on out, since most enemies have an actual speed stat.She tells him that she's been training for a long time and that she is prepared for her journey. Dayan hesitates

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but then this pretty cool Jeigan assures him that he is the least likely to die in this ironman, so she'll probably live.

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I can only assume this is Ruben. Specifically, the arc where he tried to play 3 Houses 3 times, then gave up and realized that all his teehee friends lied to him when they said 3 Houses fixed everything.

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And here are the enemies of the game, at least for now. The Djutes, aka, the b*****ds who made the Sacae route of FE6 the nightmare that it was.

Dayan, please don't say "These guys" again. It sounds very weird coming from you. I'll assume it's a translation thing.

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And with that done, Saya is allowed to leave on her little journey. More importantly, I can actually have a team to work with. 

Here's to a funny let's play. I would be pulling out beer right now, but I can't drink yet, and I don't have any of that. So I'll just drink Coca Cola. Cheers.

By the way, for anyone curious about the FE12 PMU LP, I don't plan to abandon it entirely, but I really need a break from FE12 right now. It doesn't help that my post that was nearly finished got deleted before I could post it, twice. Also, I've just been consuming a lot of New Mystery content on Youtube anyways. Don't feel like having it take all of my day.

 

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13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I've only played The Last Promise and The Four Kings as other FE hacks to possibly compare with, but I'm more likely to compare it to the Elibe games. I hear it mostly tries to replicate the feeling of those games.

Ruben calls it "GBAFE but good", I would more specifically call it "FE7 but good" since I actually like the other two GBA games. It definitely reads and plays like an FE7 sequel against the background of FE6, rather than an parallel story to the latter. Despite that, it does a better job respecting the lore of both games than FE7 did.

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Half of this LP is just to interact with good pals while having a laugh over a game they apparently like.

The ironman part is to provide a sense of challenge and hopefully interesting content, as the game doesn't have a difficulty setting and doesn't seem to be too difficult on its own merit.

It'll also hopefully get you to use more units as you replace the ones that die horrifically in the field of honor. This game has a lot of cool units, like Sergei and Feeler (it's not what you think he's allowed near the school), so a chance to try out more of them should be cool. Who knows? You might end up using a good unit.

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

The main challenge will be how much the Speedwing thief and Holy Mountain Man will influence this run. As I said, it's dedicated to you two. Do whatever you want. I'll probably go ahead with your ideas.

"A speedwing thief, a mountain priest, and a skeleton walk into a bar-"

Now that oughta be a webcomic.

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

You don't deserve it, but you get this anyways.

What a fitting gift for the blessed Resurrection Sunday, for this is a gift I do not deserve, just as the absolution of sins by Messiah.

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

But for now, we focus on what's happening in Sacae, and I am already happy. It's my man Dayan! I just finished an FE6 rapid rebalance hack done by @AnonymousSpeed where I used him. Cool dude.

Play it, then plug it. Revisions coming eventually.

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

The Lorca tribe was wiped out 20 years ago, but Lyn's efforts allowed it to mostly become restored.

How do you recover a tribe that was reduced to only one person?

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

The prologue starts off with the typical training arc of the lord. She clearly wants to become as strong as Lyn and prove herself to everyone, brining honor to the Lorca tribe. Luckily, the standard for that is pretty low, so I think she's got this.

I actually think Saya is much better than Lyn, for multiple reasons, but one of the more interesting ones is some equipment you'll be getting for her pretty soon.

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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"Eh...ya know, it's alright."

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I can only assume this is Ruben. Specifically, the arc where he tried to play 3 Houses 3 times, then gave up and realized that all his teehee friends lied to him when they said 3 Houses fixed everything.

HwUe.gifHwUe.gif<iframe src="https://gifer.com/embed/HwUe" width=480 height=270.000 frameBorder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="https://gifer.com">via GIFER</a></p>What a wonderful thing to say on Opposite Day.

13 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Here's to a funny let's play. I would be pulling out beer right now, but I can't drink yet, and I don't have any of that. So I'll just drink Coca Cola. Cheers.

It's kinda gross by comparison anyway, so you're not missing much. This message has been brought to you by the Southern Baptist Convention.

2 hours ago, TheChoZenOne said:

I knew my 1000 attempts at 3 houses iron man would make an impact 💀

Oof. Some people have virtues in abundance, that sounds like it takes some patience.

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 16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Half of this LP is just to interact with good pals while having a laugh over a game they apparently like.

I will tell you to use units.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

The Lorca tribe was wiped out 20 years ago, but Lyn's efforts allowed it to mostly become restored. I'm assuming this is referring to the events of Blazing Sword.

Yes. A running theme of the game is that it's a better sequel to FE7 than FE6. Which I mean as a diss to 7, not 6. I mean, obviously, one came before the other.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

what an amazing first map too. Brings me perfect FE7 memories. In other words, not a great start.

Yes, I will fully admit, this is not a great starting map. Thankfully, chapter 1 is a far more solid, FE6-like first map. Which... really begs the question as to why this one exists. And the answer is, so that Saya can start at level 2.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Wow. She really is Lyn 2. She refuses to dodge and is dying already.

This is the other problem with this first map. Saya is at a serious risk of dying already. Dayan clearly misjudged her strength.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I guess I was hoping for an intor more like FE6 or FE5. Those had decent first chapters. Never saw a reason to make the intro a chapter with only the lord.

No worries, chapter 1 is what you're asking for. It's not like FE7 or FE8, which continue to be extremely basic for a good handful of maps after.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Wow, great start.

Hoho, not bad! Saya tends to have serious strength problems for me, so this is an excellent way to begin.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I'm unsure if I'll ask for the growths or I'll play ignorant of them the entire time. I'll leave it up to Anon and/or Ruben.

Years ago I religiously checked growths. Nowadays, most of the time I don't care. For your convenience, however, I do have this guide that can be found in the translation's FEUniverse thread. Your call if you wish to check it.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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but then this pretty cool Jeigan assures him that he is the least likely to die in this ironman, so she'll probably live.

Good ol' Tsagan. More on the Seth/Titania side of the spectrum than Arran/FE6!Marcus, unfortunately, but I really like his design, so I use him often. He keeps up, though he tends to have some strength and HP problems.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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I can only assume this is Ruben. Specifically, the arc where he tried to play 3 Houses 3 times, then gave up and realized that all his teehee friends lied to him when they said 3 Houses fixed everything.

Nah.

I'm this guy.

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Y'know, village, multiple houses.

16 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Dayan, please don't say "These guys" again. It sounds very weird coming from you. I'll assume it's a translation thing.

I did warn you. It is rather wonky. I mean, it's already a miracle that we have a translation for this at all, so I wasn't about to be too harsh on it. But it's a fact worth mentioning.

 

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Ruben calls it "GBAFE but good", I would more specifically call it "FE7 but good" since I actually like the other two GBA games. It definitely reads and plays like an FE7 sequel against the background of FE6, rather than an parallel story to the latter.

That's kind of a meme, honestly. I enjoy FE6, myself. Though I disagree that it feels like 7. While it's true that it's more of a follow-up to FE7's story, in the gameplay I believe it's closer to 6, with its humongous cast and actually good map design.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Despite that, it does a better job respecting the lore of both games than FE7 did.

This though, is completely right.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I actually think Saya is much better than Lyn, for multiple reasons, but one of the more interesting ones is some equipment you'll be getting for her pretty soon.

Oh yeah, very true. Even if she still retains her mother's strength issues, this alone sets her miles ahead.

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4 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Ruben calls it "GBAFE but good", I would more specifically call it "FE7 but good" since I actually like the other two GBA games. It definitely reads and plays like an FE7 sequel against the background of FE6, rather than an parallel story to the latter. Despite that, it does a better job respecting the lore of both games than FE7 did.

Oh, you like Sacred Stones? That's cool. Unsure how I feel about it. There's a lot of things I love about SS, but it's hard for me to come back to it because of how accustomed I've gotten to difficult FE games, and FE8 enemy positioning and enemy level scaling does seem rather flawed, easy game aside. It might be my favorite of the GBA games, but that's largely bias from it being my first FE game and only one for years, making it the only FE game I have nostalgia for.

I'll hold you to that claim. Then again, it's not too hard to surpass FE7 in respecting lore.

4 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

This game has a lot of cool units, like Sergei and Feeler (it's not what you think he's allowed near the school)

God f**king damn it. Not Feeler. First Ruben, now you? I'm starting to think you two just use this game as a cover up to communicate illegal activities. 

4 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

"A speedwing thief, a mountain priest, and a skeleton walk into a bar-"

Now that oughta be a webcomic.

It would end after 2 comic strips. We go out of business, and we end up working under Kaga in Vestria Saga 3: Now Everyone Is A Hypnotized Damsel in Distress

4 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

What a fitting gift for the blessed Resurrection Sunday, for this is a gift I do not deserve, just as the absolution of sins by Messiah

🙏Amen🙏

4 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

How do you recover a tribe that was reduced to only one person?

Repopulation. Whoever you ship Lyn with died of exhaustion, but now the tribe is restored. 

No one better say they ship Lyn with themselves by disguising it as the tactician. Not today on such a holy time of year.

 

4 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

"Eh...ya know, it's alright."

Saya: "It's no Conquest gameplay, but I'll probably enjoy this sooner or later".

Dayan: "What the f**k."

4 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

It's kinda gross by comparison anyway, so you're not missing much. This message has been brought to you by the Southern Baptist Convention

Thank you Southern Baptist Convention.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I will tell you to use units.

Disgusting. You won't stop at anything to get others to convert to your twisted ideologies!

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yes, I will fully admit, this is not a great starting map. Thankfully, chapter 1 is a far more solid, FE6-like first map. Which... really begs the question as to why this one exists. And the answer is, so that Saya can start at level 2.

It's rather pointless. I don't need to be shown that she can fight. Literally everyone can guess that. Just have her start her adventure with her team. Show off that she knows how to fend off enemies while having some control as a leader or maybe she's flawed in aspects and needs the help of the jeigan to become a decent lord or something. Heck, you don't need a reasoning at all. It just feels like a waste of time. I won't let that downgrade the game so far though. It's just a 3 minute prologue after all.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

This is the other problem with this first map. Saya is at a serious risk of dying already. Dayan clearly misjudged her strength.

Yeah, if Saya doesn't dodge anything in the first two turns, then there's not much she can do. At turn 3, she would have 3 HP. Given that she takes 13 damage per turn, even a vulnerary wouldn't save her should get get hit twice again. You can't really afford to attack again because you'd be at 3 HP, so you'd just go to a forest tile and assume you'll dodge the boss. While it's improbable to take 6 hits in a row, I think a first map shouldn't revolve around any kind of expected dodges or be slowed to a crawl. Heck, I hated it when FE4 had clear "dodge with this unit" moments like with Shanan and that thief girl. I had to reset 3 times there.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

No worries, chapter 1 is what you're asking for. It's not like FE7 or FE8, which continue to be extremely basic for a good handful of maps after.

The thing with FE7 and FE8 is that I think they were purposely made to to ease new players into the series, but that doesn't bode well for veterans who want to play/replay the game like with FE6. I'm sure FE6's early game even on normal would be too much for someone to go in as their first game. Not to brag about my faves, but I think Shadow Dragon does a decent job making early games something to ease into on normal mode and easy hard modes, but the maps aren't just super basic, and provide a big challenge on harder difficulties. Although it gets TOO hard sometimes on H5. I really don't like chapter 3 or half of chapter 2, and the first 3 bosses suck. New Mystery has a forced prologue that I actually enjoy as far as puzzle maps go, since I think they subtly hint at how to master FE12 later on with tactics you might not consider at first, but that actually is something you'll mainly notice on higher difficulties. On normal, it essentially just tells you how to press buttons, and Kris does everything by blinking. It's probably just hectic and pointlessly challenging on hard.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Years ago I religiously checked growths. Nowadays, most of the time I don't care. For your convenience, however, I do have this guide that can be found in the translation's FEUniverse thread. Your call if you wish to check it.

I'll check it once I get like, 3 bad level ups with a character.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Good ol' Tsagan. More on the Seth/Titania side of the spectrum than Arran/FE6!Marcus, unfortunately, but I really like his design, so I use him often. He keeps up, though he tends to have some strength and HP problems.

I started typing my first impressions of him before your reply, but I do point out that I am saddened to see the Seth approach, since I have respect for the FE6 Marcus design in a Jeigan. But I don't know how hard this game gets, so I don't know how far he'll last in comparison to Titania or FE7 Marcus.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I'm this guy.

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Y'know, village, multiple houses.

You hate Resident Evil Village? You have multiple houses? 3 Houses? 

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I did warn you. It is rather wonky. I mean, it's already a miracle that we have a translation for this at all, so I wasn't about to be too harsh on it. But it's a fact worth mentioning.

I'll probably keep bringing it up from time to time. I doubt the translator is still checking up on if people are testing the translations, but maybe I can use these to assist should they want that.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That's kind of a meme, honestly. I enjoy FE6, myself. Though I disagree that it feels like 7. While it's true that it's more of a follow-up to FE7's story, in the gameplay I believe it's closer to 6, with its humongous cast and actually good map design.

I dunno. It is kinda feeling like FE7 so far, although it does use FE6's soundtrack more often at the moment. I guess it makes sense that there's more FE7 references since that game happened, while FE6 hasn't occurred yet. Gameplay wise, I'm really hoping for more of an FE6 vibe, except with more hit rates.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh yeah, very true. Even if she still retains her mother's strength issues, this alone sets her miles ahead.

I've never had too much issue with Lyn. It's mainly Eliwood I have awful history with.

8 hours ago, TheChoZenOne said:

Shaky is an iron man content creator now and not a PMU'er anymore. I knew my 1000 attempts at 3 houses iron man would make an impact 💀

I do 2 PMU's and now I'm the PMU man? I wasn't gonna PMU the series! Perhaps I should've done the Thracia capture-less run after all...

I hate to break it to you pal, but it was Anon's idea to have me ironman this. Took a bit of convincing too, but there's only so much I can do to add challenge to a game I've never played. But I appreciate your attempt to plug your 3H ironman streams💀. I won't stop ya.

Chapter 1: Beginning of Turmoil

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Time to check up on our village to see if the Djutes and/or Bern are trying anything funny on us. I mean, we're already being attacked, but personally, I don't see the need to be worried. Lyn's there, and she's supposedly at endgame stats from FE7. 

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Apparently those battles scarred you for life. What's with your eyes my guy? You need to talk? I won't listen, but you can pretend I am.

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Now I'm not saying that you're a bad guy because of your looks. I mean, that'd just be lookism. But...this IS Fire Emblem...

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Oh come on! He barely survived an attack from the Djutes! Don't go so hard on him for being unattractive to the average FE fan. 

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So not meeting someone means they're infiltrating your land? Think of all the introverts that just hardly leave their hut! I'd sure hate to be persecuted just because my town hardly sees me!

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Damn it. He is evil. I guess the stereotype is true after all. Don't blame me when I kill Gonzales.

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Saya! You can't say that! Lyn would be ashamed. It has to be against Sacaen honor to curse like that, especially as a bratty child. Just murder them with a cool head. That's much more forgivable.

Now, who are you people!?

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A slow and dull Illia knight. Hard, strong, slow.

D rank lances

Dull? That's rude. Why does an armor knight have 18 HP? He ain't no Kevin, that's for sure. I don't see him being particularly interesting. There's gotta be better armor knights later on. Doesn't help that he suffers from Bors syndrome, which I made up just now. The lances hurt him really bad when the early game mainly consists of axe units. With 4 skill, he's rarely going to land hits with a javelin. Oh well.

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A young, well trained, windbag of the knights of Ilia.

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Oh wow! 2 skill and 2 luck!? How did you know about my FE12 PMU? It brings back great memories of missing half of my shots. 

Skill aside, he seems to be the Sain of the game, and Sain usually ends up pretty good for me. Unsure if he'll be as funny. Design seems simple enough. Nothing to like or dislike imo. But what really got my attention is the other cav.

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A loyal knight of Ilia, despite his appearance, he's a man of honor.

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Grape. F**king amazing. That's such an amazing portrait too. I'm getting Anakin flashbacks. First guy's named after a Star Wars dude and now I get a fruit. If he's the Kent, he's already done a better job of being a good counterpart. Look at the difference of speed and strength. While I tend to value strength the most, Grape just seems like a keeper already. I  hope his supports are him trying to take things seriously, but deep down, he already knows it's a hopeless endeavor, and he's just accepted that.

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A young Lorca man with a mild mannered nature that acts as a brother to Saya.

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Acts as a brrother? Makes me think he's a tad relevant, but then again, Wolt was a close friend of Roy and he's not involve with the plot at all. I might just call him Mr Bloodshot. I can deal with 4 strength. You know, I hope I don't end up feeding kills to a unit, only for the next post to be Ruben telling me they're cringe and OP or boring. I'm not the master of analyzing how based a unit is based off first impressions, unless they're old, or big men. The ladder is pure coincidence.

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Experienced village leader of the old nomadic Lorca's tribe.

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I like the way this guy looks. It honestly feels exactly like something you'd see in the real Elibe games. Unless he was a boss and I don't remember. Seriosuly, I just like this design for a Sacaen Jeigan unit. I'm not a fan of the stats though. They feel more FE7 Marcus than FE6. Perhaps that's just the dirty elitist in me, but since I'm always right, I'll just say that they made him a bit too strong. I get being fast since he's a nomad trooper, but why does he have 11 defense? The weapon ranks are nice, but his iron weapons will be more than enough to 1RKO anything for quite a bit. Maybe enemies scale up quickly here.

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This reminds me of the first enemy of Genealogy. The prologue was always one of the only things I actually liked about the game. It was well made. Most other units here can't reach anyone, so you don't have many alternatives besides throwing Tsagan out, but that's no fun.

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So it seems Rostov can survive about 3 hits, while Grape survives 2. If ChoZenOne was playing this, it'd be 20 hits, because the first 17 missed.

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Something tells me Yeke and Rostov are going to be great friends. If they're already friends, I'll gaslight them into thinking the other one hates them, then get them back together. This action is usually known as Fire Emblem support grinding.

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Saya weakens a bandit, and I see that she dies in 2 hits. It's going to be tough getting her kills without dying, especially with this being an ironman. 

Do not defend her by saying she makes for a good dodge tank. I will point, laugh, and dance.

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I have a feeling about Rostov. Something tells me he should be getting the kills here. 

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Sieks, you're up. If only you had swords. A part of me wants to make you a superstar, but don't assume he'll make the cut.

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Eyyy! Sieks good.

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I end turn 2 with Orange rushing to the enemy's range to gain their attention, as well as give myself a good look on the map. Simple enough. It's not quite FE6 chapter 1 imo, but that could be because the enemies are weaker, and the Jeigan doesn't weaken enemies like FE6. I can't ask a hack to be hard, because for many, FE isn't about being made to drive you insane. Most old hacks didn't have multiple difficulties after all, and this is just the early game. It's decent enough for a first map. I like the enemy positioning quite a bit, and that archer poses a bit of a threat.

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Sure, just deal 6 more total damage than Rostov. That doesn't embarrass them at all. 

Grape seems really good. They're like a myrmidon with horse movement, and a funny name.

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I baited out one of the three fighters and killed them with Saya, but the furthest one just took that unit's place. I want to see if Yeke blinks when the blood from his arrow strikes his face. 

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There's no healers yet, but most of your army are equipped with vulneraries. Rustov is the first to prove that he is depraved enough to require them just to get by.

Tsagan buried the chasing archer alive, honorably of course.

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Alright! First level up, here we go.

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You are the worst unit in any rom hack.

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With one of my units already benched, I give the kill to Banana. Seeing him able to 1RKO an archer at base just makes the early game seem biased in his favor. I don't blame the dev. 

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Tsagan bumps into a passerby. He forges evidence to claim he is with the enemy and strikes him down for being an independent journalist.

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Here's a pretty easy setup for a boss kill. In fact, it leaves exactly enough HP for Rostov to kill with.

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But I hate Rostov, so I want a turn to give the kill to someone who deserves it more.

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The good thing about enemy steel axes is that their hit rate sucks. The bad thing is that they'll always hit you anyways until you don't need it to miss. It's what Kaga would've wanted.

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Here's Gara by the way. I love the portrait. It makes me grin. No further comments.

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I decide to give the kill to Yeke, given how his speed is worse than Berry's. Yeke could really benefit from doubling enemies.

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Hell yeah. Mage killer incoming.

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The village is rescued in 6 turns.

This isn't DSFE, so I can't show the turncount per chapter while displaying the seize command, but do I ever lie? 

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Are you kidding me? This is postgame Lyn! Wielder of the Sol Katti! I don't care if Lyn is considered a bad unit. There's no way she canonically did a 0% growths run you old fool! Surely, she had what it took to defend herself. Musta had a sleep staff at the ready.

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Oh shoot! Old man unit time! I wonder what he'll be. A sage? Bishop? Curate? They are a healer, right? Surely, they're a unit that can heal or fight back, right?

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But why though? Dayan hired Ilia mercs to aide you. It's not nesseacry to tell them to leave to sound like a kind person. Just go and do your little mother rescue mission.

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Okay. He literally is Sain. Good to know. You're almost redeemed. That good a chuckle outta me.

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¿Què?

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Oh wow. I get the famous Main Katti.

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And 5000 moneys!?

I think I also got the Sol Katti or something, but 5000! Yes!

 

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 27 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

God f**king damn it. Not Feeler. First Ruben, now you? I'm starting to think you two just use this game as a cover up to communicate illegal activities. 

No.

He knows too much, I better call my uncle at Nintendo, we require the ninjas.

28 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

No one better say they ship Lyn with themselves by disguising it as the tactician. Not today on such a holy time of year.

This cannot stop me because I am an atheist!

......

...Ah, but I also don't care about Lyn, so...

29 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

Disgusting. You won't stop at anything to get others to convert to your twisted ideologies!

Not until everyone is as correct as I.

30 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

I think Shadow Dragon does a decent job making early games something to ease into on normal mode and easy hard modes, but the maps aren't just super basic, and provide a big challenge on harder difficulties.

Shadow Dragon's first map in the harder difficulties would be pretty great if it didn't have Gazzak's insanely inflated stats or if Jagen didn't get 1% critted by everything. Ah well, swing and a miss. The map itself is good, the higher difficulties were just not very well thought out.

46 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

New Mystery has a forced prologue that I actually enjoy as far as puzzle maps go, since I think they subtly hint at how to master FE12 later on with tactics you might not consider at first, but that actually is something you'll mainly notice on higher difficulties. On normal, it essentially just tells you how to press buttons, and Kris does everything by blinking. It's probably just hectic and pointlessly challenging on hard.

Yeah, good summary. I don't mind the FE12 prologue, though. It gives Wrys a nice head start.

31 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

You hate Resident Evil Village?

I mean, the only thing I know about it is that it has dommy mommy vampire. You can surmise a guess as to how I feel about that.

31 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

Gameplay wise, I'm really hoping for more of an FE6 vibe, except with more hit rates.

That's kinda the vibe I get from it, myself, but what do I know. I'm just me.

32 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

I mean, we're already being attacked, but personally, I don't see the need to be worried. Lyn's there, and she's supposedly at endgame stats from FE7. 

...Oh, dear...

32 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Apparently those battles scarred you for life. What's with your eyes my guy? You need to talk? I won't listen, but you can pretend I am.

Oh no, this guy is completely mundane. He just has wonky eyes for no reason. One of the long-standing mysteries of this hack.

33 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Saya! You can't say that! Lyn would be ashamed. It has to be against Sacaen honor to curse like that, especially as a bratty child. Just murder them with a cool head. That's much more forgivable.

I love how metal Saya is at times. She's a lot more bloodthirsty than you'd expect from a daughter of Lyn that looks and plays like Lyn.

33 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

Dull? That's rude. Why does an armor knight have 18 HP? He ain't no Kevin, that's for sure. I don't see him being particularly interesting. There's gotta be better armor knights later on. Doesn't help that he suffers from Bors syndrome, which I made up just now. The lances hurt him really bad when the early game mainly consists of axe units. With 4 skill, he's rarely going to land hits with a javelin. Oh well.

There's another knight that's speedier, but more fragile than Sieks. Then there's a prepromoted general in the lategame.

None of them are all that great, but the general has a truly impressive beard.

34 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

Grape. F**king amazing. That's such an amazing portrait too. I'm getting Anakin flashbacks. First guy's named after a Star Wars dude and now I get a fruit.

Maybe he doesn't remember his real name and just said the first thing that came to mind when asked. Which happened to be grapes. I mean, given his eyes, he's got to be on something really bad.

34 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

I  hope his supports are him trying to take things seriously, but deep down, he already knows it's a hopeless endeavor, and he's just accepted that.

No text in this game's supports. They weren't fully implemented before the creator vanished from the face of the (Sword of Heaven and) Earth. A shame, I know.

35 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

You know, I hope I don't end up feeding kills to a unit, only for the next post to be Ruben telling me they're cringe and OP or boring.

The two cavs are the boring pick of the game, as all christmas cavs. They're the ones everyone uses. Better use the next cav.

As for Yeke... Ehhh in the one run where I used him he turned out pretty great. His eyes alone make him funny, though.

Use Sieks.

36 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

I like the way this guy looks. It honestly feels exactly like something you'd see in the real Elibe games. Unless he was a boss and I don't remember. Seriosuly, I just like this design for a Sacaen Jeigan unit. I'm not a fan of the stats though. They feel more FE7 Marcus than FE6. Perhaps that's just the dirty elitist in me, but since I'm always right, I'll just say that they made him a bit too strong. I get being fast since he's a nomad trooper, but why does he have 11 defense? The weapon ranks are nice, but his iron weapons will be more than enough to 1RKO anything for quite a bit. Maybe enemies scale up quickly here.

This is a spot-on analysis. The good and the bad. He's only really broken for the first few chapters, really, but he remains powerful through the first half of the game. Tsagan's strength and HP fall behind as the game continues, but he can last the entire game decently fine with some help and a bit of luck. Not quite Seth, but he is a really good unit nonetheless. Honestly, I'm just partial to his design, like you seem to be.

37 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Something tells me Yeke and Rostov are going to be great friends. If they're already friends, I'll gaslight them into thinking the other one hates them, then get them back together. This action is usually known as Fire Emblem support grinding.

Unfortunately, I don't think they have a support. This is why RD supports are cool, you don't have to build your team around the support options.

38 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Sieks, you're up. If only you had swords. A part of me wants to make you a superstar, but don't assume he'll make the cut.

He's... not great, most of the time. But he turned out pretty good in my very first run, so many years ago. So uh... something to look forward to?

39 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Eyyy! Sieks good.

Something to look forward to.

39 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

It's not quite FE6 chapter 1 imo, but that could be because the enemies are weaker, and the Jeigan doesn't weaken enemies like FE6.

Yes, when I described it as "FE6-ish", I meant in the enemy density and playable roster being greater, not it being exactly as good as FE6's first map.

40 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

I want to see if Yeke blinks when the blood from his arrow strikes his face. 

He doesn't. His eyes absorb the blood instead.

40 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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You are the worst unit in any rom hack.

But what about Logan?

Oh wait, right, he at least has the best support in the history of mankind with Anakin.

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TLP was so good, man.

42 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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With one of my units already benched, I give the kill to Banana

Ah, the run's Yubello, I see. At least when it comes to the naming scheme.

42 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Tsagan bumps into a passerby. He forges evidence to claim he is with the enemy and strikes him down for being an independent journalist.

I wasn't aware that Tsagan is a politician.

43 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Here's Gara by the way. I love the portrait. It makes me grin. No further comments.

For some undiscernible reason, this hack offers plenty of bosses that are just recolored GBAFE portraits. But the random ass brigand from chapter 1 gets his own custom face. Why? Who knows, who cares.

44 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Hell yeah. Mage killer incoming.

This is the kind of levels I got used to with him in the run I used him. Of course, anyone's guess if the same will happen for you, and there's a future nomad that I think you'll like better anyway, knowing your preferences.

44 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

This isn't DSFE, so I can't show the turncount per chapter while displaying the seize command, but do I ever lie? 

I could say no.

But I would be lying.

45 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Oh shoot! Old man unit time! I wonder what he'll be. A sage? Bishop? Curate? They are a healer, right? Surely, they're a unit that can heal or fight back, right?

Yeeaaaah keep dreaming.

45 minutes ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Oh wow. I get the famous Main Katti.

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And 5000 moneys!?

I think I also got the Sol Katti or something, but 5000! Yes!

I get the joke, but joke aside, those two swords carry Saya hard. Use them wisely.

 

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Well this seems like it will be interesting to observe. 

Haven't played this hack, but it seems interesting at least. 

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5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

God f**king damn it. Not Feeler. First Ruben, now you? I'm starting to think you two just use this game as a cover up to communicate illegal activities. 

Now me? What did I do?

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

It would end after 2 comic strips. We go out of business, and we end up working under Kaga in Vestria Saga 3: Now Everyone Is A Hypnotized Damsel in Distress

Anon, as he and his compatriots kidnap a damsel and carry her bound and gagged as a sacrifice to Kaga's hypnosis fetish: "Are we the baddies?"

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

🙏Amen🙏

Truly, truly. Hallelujah.

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Repopulation. Whoever you ship Lyn with died of exhaustion, but now the tribe is restored. 

No one better say they ship Lyn with themselves by disguising it as the tactician. Not today on such a holy time of year.

This somehow kills the man and not the woman who has to gestate and birth these children. Eliwood still lives, actually.

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Not to brag about my faves, but I think Shadow Dragon does a decent job making early games something to ease into on normal mode and easy hard modes, but the maps aren't just super basic, and provide a big challenge on harder difficulties.

There's also an actual tutorial in Shadow Dragon normal mode.

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Now I'm not saying that you're a bad guy because of your looks. I mean, that'd just be lookism. But...this IS Fire Emblem...

Lookism more like look'it'em. 'Cause they're clearly bad.

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Grape. F**king amazing. That's such an amazing portrait too. I'm getting Anakin flashbacks. First guy's named after a Star Wars dude and now I get a fruit. If he's the Kent, he's already done a better job of being a good counterpart. Look at the difference of speed and strength. While I tend to value strength the most, Grape just seems like a keeper already. I  hope his supports are him trying to take things seriously, but deep down, he already knows it's a hopeless endeavor, and he's just accepted that.

I used Grape, he was a 10/10 unit. Highly recommended.

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Alright! First level up, here we go.

You are the worst unit in any rom hack.

10/10

5 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Oh shoot! Old man unit time! I wonder what he'll be. A sage? Bishop? Curate? They are a healer, right? Surely, they're a unit that can heal or fight back, right?

He's a convoy.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

This cannot stop me because I am an atheist!

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4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I love how metal Saya is at times. She's a lot more bloodthirsty than you'd expect from a daughter of Lyn that looks and plays like Lyn.

I never saw Lyn as a particularly merciful character, so I thought it was kind of appropriate.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

This is the kind of levels I got used to with him in the run I used him. Of course, anyone's guess if the same will happen for you, and there's a future nomad that I think you'll like better anyway, knowing your preferences.

Time to eat up enemies like a fat boy a Golden Corral.

 

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

No text in this game's supports. They weren't fully implemented before the creator vanished from the face of the (Sword of Heaven and) Earth. A shame, I know.

Dude.

New SF writing project.

Sword of Heaven and Earth support patch.

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Oh, you like Sacred Stones? That's cool. Unsure how I feel about it. There's a lot of things I love about SS, but it's hard for me to come back to it because of how accustomed I've gotten to difficult FE games, and FE8 enemy positioning and enemy level scaling does seem rather flawed, easy game aside. It might be my favorite of the GBA games, but that's largely bias from it being my first FE game and only one for years, making it the only FE game I have nostalgia for.

I'll hold you to that claim. Then again, it's not too hard to surpass FE7 in respecting lore.

God f**king damn it. Not Feeler. First Ruben, now you? I'm starting to think you two just use this game as a cover up to communicate illegal activities. 

It would end after 2 comic strips. We go out of business, and we end up working under Kaga in Vestria Saga 3: Now Everyone Is A Hypnotized Damsel in Distress

🙏Amen🙏

Repopulation. Whoever you ship Lyn with died of exhaustion, but now the tribe is restored. 

No one better say they ship Lyn with themselves by disguising it as the tactician. Not today on such a holy time of year.

 

Saya: "It's no Conquest gameplay, but I'll probably enjoy this sooner or later".

Dayan: "What the f**k."

Thank you Southern Baptist Convention.

Disgusting. You won't stop at anything to get others to convert to your twisted ideologies!

It's rather pointless. I don't need to be shown that she can fight. Literally everyone can guess that. Just have her start her adventure with her team. Show off that she knows how to fend off enemies while having some control as a leader or maybe she's flawed in aspects and needs the help of the jeigan to become a decent lord or something. Heck, you don't need a reasoning at all. It just feels like a waste of time. I won't let that downgrade the game so far though. It's just a 3 minute prologue after all.

Yeah, if Saya doesn't dodge anything in the first two turns, then there's not much she can do. At turn 3, she would have 3 HP. Given that she takes 13 damage per turn, even a vulnerary wouldn't save her should get get hit twice again. You can't really afford to attack again because you'd be at 3 HP, so you'd just go to a forest tile and assume you'll dodge the boss. While it's improbable to take 6 hits in a row, I think a first map shouldn't revolve around any kind of expected dodges or be slowed to a crawl. Heck, I hated it when FE4 had clear "dodge with this unit" moments like with Shanan and that thief girl. I had to reset 3 times there.

The thing with FE7 and FE8 is that I think they were purposely made to to ease new players into the series, but that doesn't bode well for veterans who want to play/replay the game like with FE6. I'm sure FE6's early game even on normal would be too much for someone to go in as their first game. Not to brag about my faves, but I think Shadow Dragon does a decent job making early games something to ease into on normal mode and easy hard modes, but the maps aren't just super basic, and provide a big challenge on harder difficulties. Although it gets TOO hard sometimes on H5. I really don't like chapter 3 or half of chapter 2, and the first 3 bosses suck. New Mystery has a forced prologue that I actually enjoy as far as puzzle maps go, since I think they subtly hint at how to master FE12 later on with tactics you might not consider at first, but that actually is something you'll mainly notice on higher difficulties. On normal, it essentially just tells you how to press buttons, and Kris does everything by blinking. It's probably just hectic and pointlessly challenging on hard.

I'll check it once I get like, 3 bad level ups with a character.

I started typing my first impressions of him before your reply, but I do point out that I am saddened to see the Seth approach, since I have respect for the FE6 Marcus design in a Jeigan. But I don't know how hard this game gets, so I don't know how far he'll last in comparison to Titania or FE7 Marcus.

You hate Resident Evil Village? You have multiple houses? 3 Houses? 

I'll probably keep bringing it up from time to time. I doubt the translator is still checking up on if people are testing the translations, but maybe I can use these to assist should they want that.

I dunno. It is kinda feeling like FE7 so far, although it does use FE6's soundtrack more often at the moment. I guess it makes sense that there's more FE7 references since that game happened, while FE6 hasn't occurred yet. Gameplay wise, I'm really hoping for more of an FE6 vibe, except with more hit rates.

I've never had too much issue with Lyn. It's mainly Eliwood I have awful history with.

I do 2 PMU's and now I'm the PMU man? I wasn't gonna PMU the series! Perhaps I should've done the Thracia capture-less run after all...

I hate to break it to you pal, but it was Anon's idea to have me ironman this. Took a bit of convincing too, but there's only so much I can do to add challenge to a game I've never played. But I appreciate your attempt to plug your 3H ironman streams💀. I won't stop ya.

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Time to check up on our village to see if the Djutes and/or Bern are trying anything funny on us. I mean, we're already being attacked, but personally, I don't see the need to be worried. Lyn's there, and she's supposedly at endgame stats from FE7. 

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Apparently those battles scarred you for life. What's with your eyes my guy? You need to talk? I won't listen, but you can pretend I am.

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Now I'm not saying that you're a bad guy because of your looks. I mean, that'd just be lookism. But...this IS Fire Emblem...

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Oh come on! He barely survived an attack from the Djutes! Don't go so hard on him for being unattractive to the average FE fan. 

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So not meeting someone means they're infiltrating your land? Think of all the introverts that just hardly leave their hut! I'd sure hate to be persecuted just because my town hardly sees me!

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Damn it. He is evil. I guess the stereotype is true after all. Don't blame me when I kill Gonzales.

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Saya! You can't say that! Lyn would be ashamed. It has to be against Sacaen honor to curse like that, especially as a bratty child. Just murder them with a cool head. That's much more forgivable.

Now, who are you people!?

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A slow and dull Illia knight. Hard, strong, slow.

D rank lances

Dull? That's rude. Why does an armor knight have 18 HP? He ain't no Kevin, that's for sure. I don't see him being particularly interesting. There's gotta be better armor knights later on. Doesn't help that he suffers from Bors syndrome, which I made up just now. The lances hurt him really bad when the early game mainly consists of axe units. With 4 skill, he's rarely going to land hits with a javelin. Oh well.

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A young, well trained, windbag of the knights of Ilia.

E rank swords, D rank lances

Oh wow! 2 skill and 2 luck!? How did you know about my FE12 PMU? It brings back great memories of missing half of my shots. 

Skill aside, he seems to be the Sain of the game, and Sain usually ends up pretty good for me. Unsure if he'll be as funny. Design seems simple enough. Nothing to like or dislike imo. But what really got my attention is the other cav.

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A loyal knight of Ilia, despite his appearance, he's a man of honor.

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Grape. F**king amazing. That's such an amazing portrait too. I'm getting Anakin flashbacks. First guy's named after a Star Wars dude and now I get a fruit. If he's the Kent, he's already done a better job of being a good counterpart. Look at the difference of speed and strength. While I tend to value strength the most, Grape just seems like a keeper already. I  hope his supports are him trying to take things seriously, but deep down, he already knows it's a hopeless endeavor, and he's just accepted that.

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A young Lorca man with a mild mannered nature that acts as a brother to Saya.

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Acts as a brrother? Makes me think he's a tad relevant, but then again, Wolt was a close friend of Roy and he's not involve with the plot at all. I might just call him Mr Bloodshot. I can deal with 4 strength. You know, I hope I don't end up feeding kills to a unit, only for the next post to be Ruben telling me they're cringe and OP or boring. I'm not the master of analyzing how based a unit is based off first impressions, unless they're old, or big men. The ladder is pure coincidence.

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Experienced village leader of the old nomadic Lorca's tribe.

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I like the way this guy looks. It honestly feels exactly like something you'd see in the real Elibe games. Unless he was a boss and I don't remember. Seriosuly, I just like this design for a Sacaen Jeigan unit. I'm not a fan of the stats though. They feel more FE7 Marcus than FE6. Perhaps that's just the dirty elitist in me, but since I'm always right, I'll just say that they made him a bit too strong. I get being fast since he's a nomad trooper, but why does he have 11 defense? The weapon ranks are nice, but his iron weapons will be more than enough to 1RKO anything for quite a bit. Maybe enemies scale up quickly here.

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This reminds me of the first enemy of Genealogy. The prologue was always one of the only things I actually liked about the game. It was well made. Most other units here can't reach anyone, so you don't have many alternatives besides throwing Tsagan out, but that's no fun.

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So it seems Rostov can survive about 3 hits, while Grape survives 2. If ChoZenOne was playing this, it'd be 20 hits, because the first 17 missed.

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Something tells me Yeke and Rostov are going to be great friends. If they're already friends, I'll gaslight them into thinking the other one hates them, then get them back together. This action is usually known as Fire Emblem support grinding.

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Saya weakens a bandit, and I see that she dies in 2 hits. It's going to be tough getting her kills without dying, especially with this being an ironman. 

Do not defend her by saying she makes for a good dodge tank. I will point, laugh, and dance.

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I have a feeling about Rostov. Something tells me he should be getting the kills here. 

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Sieks, you're up. If only you had swords. A part of me wants to make you a superstar, but don't assume he'll make the cut.

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Eyyy! Sieks good.

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I end turn 2 with Orange rushing to the enemy's range to gain their attention, as well as give myself a good look on the map. Simple enough. It's not quite FE6 chapter 1 imo, but that could be because the enemies are weaker, and the Jeigan doesn't weaken enemies like FE6. I can't ask a hack to be hard, because for many, FE isn't about being made to drive you insane. Most old hacks didn't have multiple difficulties after all, and this is just the early game. It's decent enough for a first map. I like the enemy positioning quite a bit, and that archer poses a bit of a threat.

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Sure, just deal 6 more total damage than Rostov. That doesn't embarrass them at all. 

Grape seems really good. They're like a myrmidon with horse movement, and a funny name.

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I baited out one of the three fighters and killed them with Saya, but the furthest one just took that unit's place. I want to see if Yeke blinks when the blood from his arrow strikes his face. 

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There's no healers yet, but most of your army are equipped with vulneraries. Rustov is the first to prove that he is depraved enough to require them just to get by.

Tsagan buried the chasing archer alive, honorably of course.

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Alright! First level up, here we go.

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You are the worst unit in any rom hack.

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With one of my units already benched, I give the kill to Banana. Seeing him able to 1RKO an archer at base just makes the early game seem biased in his favor. I don't blame the dev. 

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Tsagan bumps into a passerby. He forges evidence to claim he is with the enemy and strikes him down for being an independent journalist.

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Here's a pretty easy setup for a boss kill. In fact, it leaves exactly enough HP for Rostov to kill with.

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But I hate Rostov, so I want a turn to give the kill to someone who deserves it more.

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The good thing about enemy steel axes is that their hit rate sucks. The bad thing is that they'll always hit you anyways until you don't need it to miss. It's what Kaga would've wanted.

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Here's Gara by the way. I love the portrait. It makes me grin. No further comments.

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I decide to give the kill to Yeke, given how his speed is worse than Berry's. Yeke could really benefit from doubling enemies.

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Hell yeah. Mage killer incoming.

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The village is rescued in 6 turns.

This isn't DSFE, so I can't show the turncount per chapter while displaying the seize command, but do I ever lie? 

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Are you kidding me? This is postgame Lyn! Wielder of the Sol Katti! I don't care if Lyn is considered a bad unit. There's no way she canonically did a 0% growths run you old fool! Surely, she had what it took to defend herself. Musta had a sleep staff at the ready.

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Oh shoot! Old man unit time! I wonder what he'll be. A sage? Bishop? Curate? They are a healer, right? Surely, they're a unit that can heal or fight back, right?

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But why though? Dayan hired Ilia mercs to aide you. It's not nesseacry to tell them to leave to sound like a kind person. Just go and do your little mother rescue mission.

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Okay. He literally is Sain. Good to know. You're almost redeemed. That good a chuckle outta me.

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¿Què?

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Oh wow. I get the famous Main Katti.

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And 5000 moneys!?

I think I also got the Sol Katti or something, but 5000! Yes!

 

Plug? 100 hours of non-stop grinding?! No one's gonna watch tha-.... Oh wait 💀

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On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Shadow Dragon's first map in the harder difficulties would be pretty great if it didn't have Gazzak's insanely inflated stats or if Jagen didn't get 1% critted by everything. Ah well, swing and a miss. The map itself is good, the higher difficulties were just not very well thought out.

Considering how the number difficulties were made, I seriously doubt that all of them were playtested. I think h5 is really fun, but only once you get past the first 3 chapters. And of course, the bosses are just stupid strong. 

SD has good maps. I wish more people appreciated them. 

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Yeah, good summary. I don't mind the FE12 prologue, though. It gives Wrys a nice head start.

Of course that's your reason. I see it more as Ryan o'clock.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

I mean, the only thing I know about it is that it has dommy mommy vampire. You can surmise a guess as to how I feel about that.

I mean, I can imagine you liking half of that.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

That's kinda the vibe I get from it, myself, but what do I know. I'm just me.

Yeah, you wouldn't know a lot. You suck at F Zero. Hardly worth listening to for gaming opinions.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh no, this guy is completely mundane. He just has wonky eyes for no reason. One of the long-standing mysteries of this hack.

Well crap. I guess it's up to me to invent the answer for the mystery.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

I love how metal Saya is at times. She's a lot more bloodthirsty than you'd expect from a daughter of Lyn that looks and plays like Lyn.

Lyn but based?

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

There's another knight that's speedier, but more fragile than Sieks. Then there's a prepromoted general in the lategame.

None of them are all that great, but the general has a truly impressive beard.

Hmm. Well, I'll see if I use one of them if any of them are "based".

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

No text in this game's supports. They weren't fully implemented before the creator vanished from the face of the (Sword of Heaven and) Earth. A shame, I know.

Ah, alright then. 

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

The two cavs are the boring pick of the game, as all christmas cavs. They're the ones everyone uses. Better use the next cav.

Of course you say that...

Why wouldn't you!?

I like Grape...

I'm not cringe.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

As for Yeke... Ehhh in the one run where I used him he turned out pretty great. His eyes alone make him funny, though.

The funny eyes though. I'll use him, but I can see him dying horribly.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Use Sieks.

So much for a turn count focused run.

Well, if I use Sieks, don't expect me to use the other knights. He'll hopefully be enough for Matthis Emblem.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

This is a spot-on analysis. The good and the bad. He's only really broken for the first few chapters, really, but he remains powerful through the first half of the game. Tsagan's strength and HP fall behind as the game continues, but he can last the entire game decently fine with some help and a bit of luck. Not quite Seth, but he is a really good unit nonetheless. Honestly, I'm just partial to his design, like you seem to be.

Be thankful that I'm correct enough to have similar opinions. Certainly, a relief after being boo'd in the Teehee forum for your insolent takes on FE, or that Trails game or something, I don't know!

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Unfortunately, I don't think they have a support. This is why RD supports are cool, you don't have to build your team around the support options.

But Ruben! Brief text of forced friendships between characters is like, the SOUL of Fire Emblem. 

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Something to look forward to

He only got one kill that chapter. If I'm lucky I'll find a chapter full of swordies. That will be his day.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Yes, when I described it as "FE6-ish", I meant in the enemy density and playable roster being greater, not it being exactly as good as FE6's first map.

Well as long as the enemy placement is like FE6, I'll be happy.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

He doesn't. His eyes absorb the blood instead.

I hate that it sounds really edgy, yet I like that idea so much. 

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

But what about Logan?

Oh wait, right, he at least has the best support in the history of mankind with Anakin.

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TLP was so good, man.

Is this better or worse?

Also, Mr Decoy Octospeed (anon), how would you rank TLP in comparison to FE6? Is it fair for me to like TLP more than FE6? It's just so perfect. All the good parts are nice to see in such an old hack, and the bad parts tend to be hilarious.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

For some undiscernible reason, this hack offers plenty of bosses that are just recolored GBAFE portraits. But the random ass brigand from chapter 1 gets his own custom face. Why? Who knows, who cares.

Dude, it's Gara. Of course he's special.

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

This is the kind of levels I got used to with him in the run I used him. Of course, anyone's guess if the same will happen for you, and there's a future nomad that I think you'll like better anyway, knowing your preferences.

...and just what are my preferences?

On 4/17/2022 at 4:22 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

I get the joke, but joke aside, those two swords carry Saya hard. Use them wisely

If I could sell them, I would.

23 hours ago, Pengaius said:

Well this seems like it will be interesting to observe. 

Haven't played this hack, but it seems interesting at least. 

That's basically what I thought. Interesting. Can't say too much now, since I just started, but I'm trusting the recommendations that it's good. I'll try to inform ya about the game's quality as the story progresses. Although, it certainly helps if you're a fan of the Elibe games. I'm not, but I enjoyed the first chapter for the most part, and I can respect the way the game tries to create a plot from the material of FE6 and FE7.

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Anon, as he and his compatriots kidnap a damsel and carry her bound and gagged as a sacrifice to Kaga's hypnosis fetish: "Are we the baddies?

So you're the Roshea and the rest of us are the Wolfguard that die? Or can we all be recruited?

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

This somehow kills the man and not the woman who has to gestate and birth these children. Eliwood still lives, actually.

You don't know what it's like doing it the Sacaen way. It's tradition.

Well obviously, Lyn was married to Will. 

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Lookism more like look'it'em. 'Cause they're clearly bad.

How could you say that!? I thought you were better than this, urbanization rebel.

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I used Grape, he was a 10/10 unit. Highly recommended.

Maybe I'll use this to counter Ruben saying they're boring. 

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

He's a convoy.

Yeah...I found that out.

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

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Oh well. No more Ruben. Now people can safely share their waifus without judgement. 

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I never saw Lyn as a particularly merciful character, so I thought it was kind of appropriate.

Lyn probably would've killed Dart for being a pirate if Eliwood wasn't around.

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Time to eat up enemies like a fat boy a Golden Corral.

What?

22 hours ago, TheChoZenOne said:

Plug? 100 hours of non-stop grinding?! No one's gonna watch tha-.... Oh wait 💀

Clearly, you haven't seen an Excelblem stream. 

Chapter 2: Broken Piece

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Yes, this is a Fire Emblem early game.

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As long as these aren't literal Fog of War clouds, I'm chilling.

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Another promoted nomad? You'd think she'd be another mentor, but the game states that this is a flashback, and she's close to her equal, another daughter of a chieftain, from a different tribe. She's only one year older, but I guess 20 levels ahead. Then again, it only takes like, 2 or 3 chapters to promote with enough dedication.

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More stronger? Okay, relax. The flashback is only 3 months back, not 13 years.

Wait, this can't be a flashback! The background color hasn't faded to a dull brown!

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Heaven and earth! That's like, almost the title!

There will absolutely be a point where the legendary weapon is picked up, and someone is going to say "The Sword of Heaven and Earth" unironically. I'm not ready for that.

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With the flashback done, Malledus the 3rd informs the player of the nomad's name, and their tribe. They're good friends of the Lorca tribe, though not nearly as strong or sadistic in map design as the Djute tribe. Saya hopes that they can meet up at some point, both to see Tsas again and possibly to gain allies in this conflict within Sacae.

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That depends. Is the dev a simp for Lyn?

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Yeah, how could you? You should've used your convoy to throw books at the enemy. 

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It's just a sentence Shaky Jones...She said "get rid of" Shaky Jones...

So the plan was for us to occupy a nearby fort frequently used by Djute tribes that is associated with Bern. However, it's infested with the Bordov Bandits. I don't know if that's a new title or something from the old games, but they're going to die, so it doesn't really matter.

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Plenty of enemies trying to stop me on turn 1. I can't reach enough of them to go for a full assault, but Tsagan's 11 defense means I can freely throw in him with no repercussion. Better yet, a bow means he can't accidentally route the enemy to steal my kills. That's one neat part about a nomad Jeigan. 

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Using a bit of rescue strats, I get Sieks to block the bridge, putting him in range of a merc that he'd actually have the weapon triangle against. Yeke is just in range of the archer, and everyone else waits around the area to help on the next turn.

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An axe unit easily could've gone first, but the merc was confident in his 1% crit. I mean, he hits twice. His chance to crit was practically 70%.

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Eyyy! 

It's the funny!

Ruben, say something funny!

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"Ah shit man. I jus done made a comment bout 3 Houses man. Now everyone's starting a war bout this Edelgard chick and @-ing me man. I shoulda just stayed in someone else's bed and raid some villages again man.

With the brigand bosses done ranting, it's back to my turn.

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Now this is content.

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Wait. I can use the Sol Katti? Already?

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I can! I shouldn't have been surprised though. It was also a personal weapon in FE7, but it often just felt like the S rank sword. Guess this lord's got a lot in her arsenal for early game standards. 

But it's not a 1-2 range weapon, so she's bad. Kelik better.

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She finished off the archer that Yeke missed one of his shots on, and gets herself a bit of defense. If I'm lucky, I won't need to give her an angelic robe. It's probably the best course of action in an ironman, but kamikazes are a better alternative than stooping to stat dumping the lord character of all units.

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Tsagan snipes an archer who was blocking Rostov's way. He chips the bandit, and now Yeke can get another level up.

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Given how low his HP is, I'm rather worried about that low luck. Wouldn't want one unlucky hit being the death of a unit I spent dozens of murders on.

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So Arel enters the store, and there really isn't a lot to buy. Honestly, I would've been grateful for a slim lance. It'd help Sieks quite a bit. 

I buy a lance for Rostov and head out.

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Ohhhh, please tell me this is what I think is!

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A former woodcutter from the village of Uru. He goes into battle to support his parents and sister.

D rank axes

Hell yeah! Woodcutters! The Lot and Wade! The Osian and Halvan! The Bord and Cord! My favorite archetype!

He seems to mainly be inspired by Lot in particular. Certainly not as fast as Cord, but very few can match up to Him. I'll assume he has a great speed growth. I'm glad we get a fighter duo in the early game. Something about that just pleases me. They don't really do that anymore. A shame, really. He doesn't look as cool as Toby, but I like it.

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A former carpenter from the village of Uru. A colorful man who likes to flirt with women.

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Bahahahaha! No speed?

I love it. This is great. This is my unit. Strong. Hilariously weak in other stats. Aggressive. You'd think I'm a Bord guy, which I am in a way, but Cord will always be supreme. Just look at him. He shines with confidence! 14 con! This is the best portrait so far. It's not my fault that fighters just so happen to always be the coolest characters. This unit is absolutely staying. They will only be undeployed when they're dead, which will not happen. 

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Finally. An enemy that Tsagan doesn't 1RKO.

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Although I've already reported to Rostov's parents that he died in battle, I don't have many other units who can reach this guy. Another level won't hurt. I don't know how long it is until I get the menu selection screen.

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This bandit's been a nuisance. He has 6 speed, which is actually enough to avoid getting doubled by just about everyone, so I've been ignoring him to send my army forward. Only Sieks can stop this beast of a man.

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Ya love to see it.

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Before Gim could come up with a plan, Toby rushes headfirst into the enemy squad. Given that they're mere goombas, they're no match against the mighty Toby.

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And he f**king misses. This is where the fun begins.

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And today, Toby learns a valuable lesson in teamwork. Gim's handaxe came in clutch, which by that I mean that I don't have to move Toby out of the way, which is arguably worse than death.

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Yeke is told to weaken a bandit for Guava, but his piercing eyes cut through the soldier's spirit, and Yeke's eyes proc black luna.

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Well, at least I can take on this bandit without dying on enemy phase.

Except I just noticed his crit. What was I thinking?

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I end turn 4 by visiting the village with my worst unit.

Sir, "an spear" is incorrect. You got my hopes up for calling it a spear but it's not a literal spear. Also, you get no maidens.

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Oh, there's one.

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 ...wait a minute

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Don't tell me this is just...

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Oh my f**king God, it is.

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A sister from the Eliime church. A kind hearted girl in search of peace.

E rank staves

Jesus f**king Christ, they didn't even try to make it unique.

This is Lena. I'm not going to comment on any other impressions. This is Lena, but with no warp.

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A war orphan boy. A fledging thief who wants to become a pirate.

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You look like PoR Sothe, but I'm still calling you Julian. Also, why are you a thief if you want to be a pirate. Just be a pirate. That's a thing you can be. This man must be on a quest to find a 2nd seal.

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I distract myself from the rescued cleric trope by giving Gim a kill. I don't know why this upset me, but it did. I feel disappointed for whatever reason, like I think it was...cringe.

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It's turn 6 now, and the boss has found out of the cleric's escape. They send out reinforcements, but the map's practically over already.

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This 2nd half of the map might as well not exist. There's nothing here, and the 3 soldiers occupying it at first just charge east, immediately leaving the area. Shoulda added a few more guys in between the most west top and bottom trees. Probably some cavs to make use of the ridersbane. It's not really hard to catch up with Julian and Lena 2.

I've been using a bit of rescue strats again to get Sieks and Saya caught up with the rest. Tsagan is now Sieks's steed.

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I can appreicate the design of the throne area for wat it is. You have to be careful how you go about it if you don't want to aggro everyone around. Doing the math, the numbers come out suprisingly exact. Many units can survive sets of enemy attacks by about 1 HP. I like to think that isn't just a coincidence. I just wish there was more to the map at all besides the first two and last two turns, but this is just chapter 2 I suppose. Much better than an FE7 early map stage imo. I guess I'd also call it better than FE6's chapter 2, since I'm not really a fan of all the enemies on the east side with the forts being just you dodging while trying to land shaky hit rates or Diek abusing.

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It only takes 1 point of strength, and Watermelon would become too strong.

Reminds me of when I played FE1. Jagen's built to set up kills just like this, but he actually got strength for me, so he 1RKO'd so many enemies in the early game. Shoulda used that opportunity to try LTC'ing it for laughs and giggles, but I couldn't be bothered to put effort in FE1. Sorry to the 3 people who love that game.

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Sieks likes to do a bit of gaming.

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No one else could touch the guy since they're a nomad on a forest tile, but Saya has the power of moving the trees at will. The Sacanes refer to it as woodcutting.

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After Yeke uses the forest to safely shoot the bandit's right eye, Grape goes in for the kill. I've been using Grape for chip damage quite often, but I want to see him actually level up.

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Rostov fans weep. I laugh. Apple sighs as he was hoping to be benched.

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This myrmidon has to die to ensure the safety of my army. The mage and archer deal a moderate chunk of damage to Grape, Saya, and Yeke. 

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But not Sieks. He pierces through the bandits one by one, his dull expression devoid of even the slightest twitch or frown as the blood of his enemies splatter onto his armor. 

This man cannot espace bad hit rate kills. This guy just happened to be standing within a forest time. I don't see why the accuracy sucks. You're clearly in the forest with them my guy. Where's the tree between you two? How can I play my Fire Emblem without my realistic gameplay!

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Tangerene 1RKO's now. Something tells me they didn't consider the benefits of a 9 speed cav when compared to Rokov.

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While it would've been nice to seize the throne this turn, Saya was one tile short of reaching it. I opt to give her the boss kill, since the other units would struggle to reliably hit them, and this guy seems meant to be slain with the newly received Mani Katti.

I missed both hits.

Ah, can't be helped. It can't be easy taking on the mighty Fengar. His stats must pretty high, leading the Bordov Bandits, at least around here. 

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...Bah!

This boss is horseshit!

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I was so happy for this setup. It all worked out perfectly. But alas, God did had other plans, as Sieks had unfortunately missed this pivotal kill.

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For He saw the true hero that was in need to claim him title as the savior of the village ransacked by sinful thieves. Sieks, already strong and bound to his honor-full role as a knight of Ilia, did not need to slay Rengar, for it would lead to gluttony.

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Toby, he was granted his desire, and he took out the bandit who dared harm innocent civilians. Now a hero, the protagonist will be much more considerate when he asks to join her for no good reason.

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Hell yeah. Defense. Time for the T-boy the Tank.

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The map was seized on turn 9. Perhaps I'll mark each turn on my shots, but I'm not sure I have any audiences that enjoy turn counts. It's probably for the best if I don't...

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Yes, this is a Fire Emblem early game.

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Man you guys look cool...

Oh, um. Sure, feel free to join. For no pay. At all. Just put your lives on the line because you like killing. 

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Not really.

Also, you guys don't even have a reason to join. You just think it would be safer to bank on the odds that I'll put you on the bench, providing you with free shelter with no work. If I get another thief, and I decide you're not worth keeping around, I'm killing you for content.

And that's it. Next time, we try to find Lyn, and will probably make no progress.

Aw crap.I forgot about Arel's stats. Oh well. Next time.

 

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9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Yeah, you wouldn't know a lot. You suck at F Zero. Hardly worth listening to for gaming opinions.

You-- I beat mission 7 on very hard. Come back to me when you do that too.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

But Ruben! Brief text of forced friendships between characters is like, the SOUL of Fire Emblem. 

The "SOUL of Fire Emblem" feels rather tacky when you play KagaSaga and it handles characters so much better that it's not even funny.

Okay, maybe it's a little funny.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I hate that it sounds really edgy, yet I like that idea so much. 

Right? I want fanart of it now.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Also, Mr Decoy Octospeed (anon), how would you rank TLP in comparison to FE6? Is it fair for me to like TLP more than FE6? It's just so perfect. All the good parts are nice to see in such an old hack, and the bad parts tend to be hilarious.

Not Decoy Octospeed (anon), but I do place it above all of GBAFE, myself. That one 15 year old made a better game than IntSys, and it's not even a contest lol.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Dude, it's Gara. Of course he's special.

True, I almost forgot that Gara is the long-lost brother of Nerring, the final boss of FE.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

...and just what are my preferences?

You know. Big men. That man bigly.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Oh well. No more Ruben. Now people can safely share their waifus without judgement. 

Never.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Another promoted nomad? You'd think she'd be another mentor,

Not really. Their relationship is, uh... a bit more complicated than that.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Malledus the 3rd

He's closer to August the 2nd. Clearly the hacker had good taste.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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It's just a sentence Shaky Jones...She said "get rid of" Shaky Jones...

She's going to take their heads and hang them from the gates of Lorca village.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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That depends. Is the dev a simp for Lyn?

Hoho... Oh, you'd be surprised... But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Better yet, a bow means he can't accidentally route the enemy to steal my kills. That's one neat part about a nomad Jeigan. 

Until the archer commits suicide. That's something that always happens to me in this specific map. That one archer is such an idiot.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Eyyy! 

It's the funny!

Ruben, say something funny!

Haha Path of Radiance something.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Now this is content.

I give this a 6/10.

Y'know. A Sieks out of... ahh.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

But it's not a 1-2 range weapon, so she's bad. Kelik better.

We can't all be as cool as Kelik. He can handle weight! Can you handle weight, Shakespeare?

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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9

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This is relevant. For reasons that I doubt you'll understand. Heck, I don't understand the 9 meme, myself. I just know this music is good and any excuse to link it is good.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Given how low his HP is, I'm rather worried about that low luck. Wouldn't want one unlucky hit being the death of a unit I spent dozens of murders on.

I mean, he's an archer. There's no good reason to let him get hit.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Ohhhh, please tell me this is what I think is!

It's Toby Here!

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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A former woodcutter from the village of Uru. He goes into battle to support his parents and sister.

D rank axes

Hell yeah! Woodcutters! The Lot and Wade! The Osian and Halvan! The Bord and Cord! My favorite archetype!

He seems to mainly be inspired by Lot in particular. Certainly not as fast as Cord, but very few can match up to Him. I'll assume he has a great speed growth. I'm glad we get a fighter duo in the early game. Something about that just pleases me. They don't really do that anymore. A shame, really. He doesn't look as cool as Toby, but I like it.

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A former carpenter from the village of Uru. A colorful man who likes to flirt with women.

D rank axes

Bahahahaha! No speed?

I love it. This is great. This is my unit. Strong. Hilariously weak in other stats. Aggressive. You'd think I'm a Bord guy, which I am in a way, but Cord will always be supreme. Just look at him. He shines with confidence! 14 con! This is the best portrait so far. It's not my fault that fighters just so happen to always be the coolest characters. This unit is absolutely staying. They will only be undeployed when they're dead, which will not happen. 

Gim is the one people use seriously. He's kind of a jack of all trades and master of none. You know, everyone's least favorite kind of unit in FE.

Toby is hilarious.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Ya love to see it.

He's only two points away from Sieks speed!

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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And he f**king misses. This is where the fun begins.

Bahahahahahah... Toby Here is like "I wanna be a FE6 fighter." Even though his hitrate is 95.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

You got my hopes up for calling it a spear but it's not a literal spear.

Fun fact: This old man isn't wrong. Rather, all of FE is wrong. What FE calls lances has historically been known as spears. Lances would be more like jousting lances.

Berwick Saga uses the terminology correctly. Because Berwick Saga is the best saga.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I distract myself from the rescued cleric trope by giving Gim a kill. I don't know why this upset me, but it did. I feel disappointed for whatever reason, like I think it was...cringe.

I'll defend Yuin a little. In my first run with the translation, I used him. He proceeded to become a stronger swordsman than Saya. In fact, he was my main sword guy. Y'know, the earlygame thief. It was quite the sight to behold.

Helga is a must-have for about two maps, and then the superior staffbot of this game appears and she stops mattering. I would highly recommend using him, for reasons that will become extremely obvious once you see his face.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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I can appreicate the design of the throne area for wat it is. You have to be careful how you go about it if you don't want to aggro everyone around. Doing the math, the numbers come out suprisingly exact. Many units can survive sets of enemy attacks by about 1 HP. I like to think that isn't just a coincidence. I just wish there was more to the map at all besides the first two and last two turns, but this is just chapter 2 I suppose. Much better than an FE7 early map stage imo. I guess I'd also call it better than FE6's chapter 2, since I'm not really a fan of all the enemies on the east side with the forts being just you dodging while trying to land shaky hit rates or Diek abusing.

I did tell you that this map has nice map design. Even if early on it's on the easier side. But then, so is TLP, right?

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Rostov fans weep. I laugh. Apple sighs as he was hoping to be benched.

You're making him work.

...oh God, I accidentally used Scum's crit quote that all of her horny fans love. Allow me to amend my statement:

You're pushing him to engage in physical labor. Much better.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Tangerene 1RKO's now. Something tells me they didn't consider the benefits of a 9 speed cav when compared to Rokov.

You know the best part? Most people I've seen playing this game seem to consider Rostov superior. You're a big outlier, in this respect. Congratulations.

But I still say use Nikita instead. Nobody has ever used Nikita. Be the one to give Nikita a chance.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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...Bah!

This boss is horseshit!

I should've seen that coming. But I'm glad I didn't. It got a big shit-eating grin out of me.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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For He saw the true hero that was in need to claim him title as the savior of the village ransacked by sinful thieves. Sieks, already strong and bound to his honor-full role as a knight of Ilia, did not need to slay Rengar, for it would lead to gluttony.

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Toby, he was granted his desire, and he took out the bandit who dared harm innocent civilians. Now a hero, the protagonist will be much more considerate when he asks to join her for no good reason.

It begins.

The favoritism.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Hell yeah. Defense. Time for the T-boy the Tank.

You know, I just checked his growths, out of curiosity, and... I was actually incredibly surprised. He has a 50% speed growth, the same as his strength growth. Huh. I wouldn't have expected that at all. Of course, his hideous base of 3 kinda renders the good growth moot, but still.

What I'm saying is, this isn't a great start. But who cares. I'd probably be happier if he managed to reach promotion with 3 speed. It'd be much funnier.

9 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

If I get another thief, and I decide you're not worth keeping around, I'm killing you for content.

There are two more thieves. A girl and a man. You'll probably prefer the latter, I'd say.

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Aw crap.I forgot about Arel's stats. Oh well. Next time.

Arel is interesting. He starts on a wagon, but he can't level up at the start. Instead, he begins levelling around the midgame, under the same conditions as FE7 Merlinus. It's a little weird, perhaps not even intentional, but rather some sort of hacking limitation. But I don't mind, because the convoy being free to deploy while having the ability to move from the start is basically the "best of both worlds" approach to Merlinus. He doesn't need any levels.

 

On 4/18/2022 at 6:26 AM, AnonymousSpeed said:

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I'm a Saint. You cannot fire me from Heaven. I'll fire you from Heaven!

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I never saw Lyn as a particularly merciful character, so I thought it was kind of appropriate.

In fairness, Lyn wasn't "particularly merciful" because she didn't ever get the chance to be or not be merciful. Because she hardly matters.

I mean, she is rather merciless to Lundgren, but c'mon, it's Lundgren. The man loves being evil. You don't show mercy to a man whose head looks like a half moon. He was born to be a dick.

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On 4/18/2022 at 11:05 PM, Shaky Jones said:

Also, Mr Decoy Octospeed (anon), how would you rank TLP in comparison to FE6? Is it fair for me to like TLP more than FE6? It's just so perfect. All the good parts are nice to see in such an old hack, and the bad parts tend to be hilarious.

Decoy Octospeed, a master of disguise.

I haven't played it, but I should at some point. I've heard it great. Sometimes on purpose, even.

On 4/18/2022 at 11:05 PM, Shaky Jones said:

So you're the Roshea and the rest of us are the Wolfguard that die? Or can we all be recruited?

Yes, but it requires a fairly convoluted chain of conversations and Kaga-esque nonsense requirements to get Shaky Wolf and Vulcan Ruben.

On 4/18/2022 at 11:05 PM, Shaky Jones said:

What?

There is a fat nomad. He wears golden colors.

On 4/18/2022 at 11:05 PM, Shaky Jones said:

That depends. Is the dev a simp for Lyn?

I think so, but the game seems to do alright in terms of not being obnoxious about it.

On 4/19/2022 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Fun fact: This old man isn't wrong. Rather, all of FE is wrong. What FE calls lances has historically been known as spears. Lances would be more like jousting lances.

Berwick Saga uses the terminology correctly. Because Berwick Saga is the best saga.

This is true, but it has the problem where two main weapon types start with "S", and that's about 10% as egregious as being so terribly wrong.

On 4/19/2022 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

I'm a Saint. You cannot fire me from Heaven. I'll fire you from Heaven!

lmao atheist saint

go on wheatboy, pray to Richard Dawkins to throw his reneged humanist award at me

maybe he'll publish another book his fans haven't read

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9 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

lmao atheist saint

Ye.

9 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

go on wheatboy

Pffft... Wheatboy? Where'd that come from?

Well sucks to be you, because as it turns out, I don't believe in wheat either.

9 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

pray to Richard Dawkins to throw his reneged humanist award at me

Who in the world is Richard Dawkins?

9 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

maybe he'll publish another book his fans haven't read

Oh. That's too bad for... Richard Dawkins?

No seriously, who is that? Is he the Pope of Atheism? I was not aware of that...

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Sorry for the delay. Did the chapter late at night, then struggled to recall how bits of it went the next day. Then imgur decided to be a b*****d and just keep telling me that things fail to upload. It still did that, but less so. Perhaps I should use a different source, but I don't know which one. It was fine before on my PMU's but now it hates me.

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2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

You-- I beat mission 7 on very hard. Come back to me when you do that too.

I'm the skeleton racer that kept beating you.

2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

The "SOUL of Fire Emblem" feels rather tacky when you play KagaSaga and it handles characters so much better that it's not even funny.

Okay, maybe it's a little funny.

KagaSaga, KagaSaga. Damn you Ruben!

If only you weren't a Fates fan and actually like Awakening's writing! Now you're just an anomaly. 

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Not Decoy Octospeed (anon), but I do place it above all of GBAFE, myself. That one 15 year old made a better game than IntSys, and it's not even a contest lol.

Based Blazer.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

You know. Big men. That man bigly.

Shut up.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Not really. Their relationship is, uh... a bit more complicated than that.

Well, this is a first impressions review after all. I'll eat my words as the game punches me. 

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

He's closer to August the 2nd. Clearly the hacker had good taste.

I was considering using Augustus as an example, but I didn't want to get my hopes up. Hopefully, this guy proves to be like him.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hoho... Oh, you'd be surprised... But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Dang. Lyn dies in chapter 24 and becomes the final boss of the game?

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Until the archer commits suicide. That's something that always happens to me in this specific map. That one archer is such an idiot.

He didn't attack Tsagan for me, but I used Tsagan to kill them next turn anyways. They just weren't worth wasting time tbh. Blocking the path and all that.

18 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Haha Path of Radiance something.

Rolf > Mia

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

I give this a 6/10.

Y'know. A Sieks out of... ahh.

I'm never playing Berwick Saga

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

We can't all be as cool as Kelik. He can handle weight! Can you handle weight, Shakespeare?

The weight of your mom

I'm sorry. That was inconsiderate of me. I can handle the weight of Ike's mom.

I'm a graverobber.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

9

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This is relevant. For reasons that I doubt you'll understand. Heck, I don't understand the 9 meme, myself. I just know this music is good and any excuse to link it is good.

Okay. What the fuck?

Here I was thinking you were referencing 999, which would've made you based. Instead I get confusion, but also satisfaction in knowing one thing.

Ruben listens to Touhou music.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

I mean, he's an archer. There's no good reason to let him get hit.

Sometimes, you need to block an enemy for Sieks kills. It happens. 

There's also enemy jav users. One day, an FE game will feature killer spears, and I'm not going to come unprepared.

Wait, 3 Houses already made throwing lances of light with crit in it on high dex golems for 50 crit and 4 range. Good game.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Gim is the one people use seriously. He's kind of a jack of all trades and master of none. You know, everyone's least favorite kind of unit in FE.

Toby is hilarious.

Oi. Don't go dissing on Gim. They're a team. You use em together! I always use Bord with Cord in FE12. I try to use Bord in Fe11, but sometimes he just falls off from no speed. Doesn't mean I don't at least try. Who knows. With my luck, Gim might just randomly specialize with one stat. It's like gacha, but free, and not manipulative.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

He's only two points away from Sieks speed!

Oh my God.....Ruben.....

"I mEAN, trAnslAtED lIterAllY, hIs naMe iS SiX"

No. You don't deserve to play the funny lego game specifically because of this.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Bahahahahahah... Toby Here is like "I wanna be a FE6 fighter." Even though his hitrate is 95.

Yeah, this chapter felt a lot like FE6...

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Fun fact: This old man isn't wrong. Rather, all of FE is wrong. What FE calls lances has historically been known as spears. Lances would be more like jousting lances.

"Fun fact: This old man isn't wrong. Rather, all of FE is wrong. What FE calls lances has historically been known as spears. Lances would be more like jousting lances."

🤓

I win.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

I'll defend Yuin a little. In my first run with the translation, I used him. He proceeded to become a stronger swordsman than Saya. In fact, he was my main sword guy. Y'know, the earlygame thief. It was quite the sight to behold.

That's a classic FE moment. Weak guy becomes stronger than strong character. Happens to my FE7 Matthew, but he falls off anyways because thieves don't deserve to promote until you're near the end of the damn game.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Helga is a must-have for about two maps, and then the superior staffbot of this game appears and she stops mattering. I would highly recommend using him, for reasons that will become extremely obvious once you see his face.

I highly doubt she's a must have. You have vulneraries. I got away with no Wrys on a practice ironman of FE12's prologue on maniac a while ago when I was bored. This was nowhere around the time of my actual ironman. I didn't even save at all. I just wanted to see how far I could get. The DS battery was what ended the brief run.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

I did tell you that this map has nice map design. Even if early on it's on the easier side. But then, so is TLP, right?

At least TLP has a fan made hard mode patch, even if some of the early game chapters are a bit wonky from bad hit rates (Corben needed a few 60 hits to get through, but that's just FE6). I wish this game had one too. These chapters show great potential to really challenge players and provide a great challenge for early game maps, while many actual FE games just throw whatever at the window because it's the early game. I'd also consider nerfing Tsagan's defense. Most jeigans don't even have 10 defense. 11 just seems ridiculous, given how weak the enemies are strength-wise. But who the hell is gonna make a fan made mod of this fan made rom hack?

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

You're making him work.

...oh God, I accidentally used Scum's crit quote that all of her horny fans love. Allow me to amend my statement:

You're pushing him to engage in physical labor. Much better.

Scum? Norhian scum?

Also, I'm not trying to make him work. He's just good. I don't see the meme here. He has 9 base speed, now 10. His strength, while low, can still 1RKO many enemies when doubling.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

You know the best part? Most people I've seen playing this game seem to consider Rostov superior. You're a big outlier, in this respect. Congratulations.

But I still say use Nikita instead. Nobody has ever used Nikita. Be the one to give Nikita a chance.

Who's most people!? I mean, I'm not all that familiar with the rom hacking community, but I rarely hear enough about this one to imagine a community has deemed Rostov as better, which he isn't! How? Even at base, Grape's just better. He literally needs 1 speed point to 1RKO, and still sets up kills near perfectly without it. Rostov doesn't do nearly as much damage, often has lower hit rates, and the slight tank boost isn't all that special. It's not hard to make walls or have Grape only take 2 hits. Sometimes, Rostov just can't do the finishing blow in comparison.

Nikita is a great name.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

It begins.

The favoritism.

The favoritism began since Sieks, and it shall continue to expand. Every FE game requires favoritism to enhance the gameplay.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

You know, I just checked his growths, out of curiosity, and... I was actually incredibly surprised. He has a 50% speed growth, the same as his strength growth. Huh. I wouldn't have expected that at all. Of course, his hideous base of 3 kinda renders the good growth moot, but still.

You think bases matter🤢?

Next you're going to say FE7 Bartre's bad and benched.

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I haven't played it, but I should at some point. I've heard it great. Sometimes on purpose, even.

You haven't? How dare you.

Now I want an LP on that.

22 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Yes, but it requires a fairly convoluted chain of conversations and Kaga-esque nonsense requirements to get Shaky Wolf and Vulcan Ruben.

I'll gladly take being a sniper class. 

Ruben still uses a minigun though. There's no FE substitute for him. It's just a literal minigun. The mountains have trained him well. 

I can picture ravens landing on Ruben's shoulders and beard.

23 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

There is a fat nomad. He wears golden colors.

Why does this make me more confused?

13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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go on wheatboy

Pffft... Wheatboy? Where'd that come from?

Well sucks to be you, because as it turns out, I don't believe in wheat either.

I'm sorry Ruben, but he got you good.

The denial of wheat doesn't save you. You're missing out on decent meals. Do you just eat wildlife or something?

13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh. That's too bad for... Richard Dawkins?

No seriously, who is that? Is he the Pope of Atheism? I was not aware of that...

I wouldn't worry about him. He's British.

Chapter 3: Sorry, I missed the title for this one

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Why do the bad guys always send weakling after the protagonist anyways? Was chapter 2 really their plan to wipe out the last of the Lorca tribe? A handful of lvl 1 archers and brigands? I guess those guys just happened to be defending the fort and weren't necessarily for Saya, but why have lvl 1 enemies guard a Bern affiliated fort!? And now we're in a stronghold, but the enemies are probably also going to be super weak. The djute are probably going to be given every drug in the world to go from this to FE6 Djute enemies.

Sorry for the rant. I just tend to get annoyed by that in so many games, but I guess it can't be helped.

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Of course it is.

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Hoo boy, they got spooky plans for her.

Also, who the hell are you guys? You couldn't look less blatantly evil, unless you had red eyes.

They tell her that she needs to remain alive for now for business purposes. She seemed to notice someone in the back, but then she falls unconscious.

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Ahh, that takes me back. Good times, good times.

Don't worry. I'm talking about a video game. I'm clean.

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I guess you can say that you've been...

slithering in the dark.

F**k you Ruben. This is payback for your awful Sieks pun.

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So the 2 evil Bern people are interrupted because the protagonist, against all odds, beat a squad of inexperienced enemies, which leaves them very disappointed with the chapter's boss to the left. He of course, begs to not have their alliance broken, and he is to kill us here and now. This is just the first half of FE7 in a nutshell.

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So this is just a portion of a portion of Sacae. Makes sense, but I suck at geography, so expect me to make a lot of mistakes. Why even waste time with the weakest division of the Djute? Oh well. Enough ranting. I don't know just how deep this all goes. It's time to play the game.

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Cool. New units who feel obligated to serve us for life because our thief just so happens to open a door. Really, I just do that to compel OCD, but it's nice to be rewarded.

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So we're to receive aide for this rescue operation, but we don't have time to wait on them, so we just need to head on without them, but that clearly means they'll show up as units later on. Either they're getting scammed, or our tactician pays them in advance, meaning that they're scamming me of appropriate war funds, even if we're not technically at war yet.

Turn 1:

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So this map is a stronghold with 2 villages right outside of it. I suppose you split your army to convince them to aide our cause while the rest head inside. That's interesting for a chapter 3. Honestly, it reminds me a lot of FE6 chapter 3.

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Here's the inner half of the stage. We got ourselves 2 prisoners, but I'll worry about them later.

There's a lot of variety when it comes to enemies here, so I reckon that this portion of the Djute tribe doesn't like sticking to a theme. They hate axe users though. That's why they got separate bandits to fight us last time. Why use enemies that Saya's good against after all. If only they brought a ridersbane. Then I'd be screwed.

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Alright Yeke. You're up.

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Given the fixed unit placement, the only way to deal any damage to the western set of enemies on turn 1 is through a hand axe strike from Toby. Unfortunately, Gim's the one who starts from it, so if you didn't trade that from the previous map, you have to waste Gim's turn doing just that. Why couldn't you warn me of that Ruben? Now I look like a fool. It's a bit of a shame no one else can get all that close to any enemies. I might've place 1 or 2 enemies around the stairs to give you something to work around when splitting the army, but I'm still chilling.

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It's not that bad so long as you don't make any enemies in prison.

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You asked them for 10,000 gold, didn't you?

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A dark mage and a curate. How ironic for them to share a cell. Shouldn't you be splashing the kid with holy water or something? 

I like you, silly bald man. You do not fear death. I like the shading of the wrinkles, and you seem like you'd be good company on a lonely day, like you have wisdom to share.

Turn 2:

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After unfortunately letting Rostov take out the soldier, Yeke visits the northern town. He didn't even say anything. The villagers just screamed in terror and threw whatever they could to appease him in hopes that he'll show mercy. 

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For those who were hoping he'd get better, I still hate him. I like strength, but that isn't good enough when your competition is a fruit.

Also, I'm extremely biased to cool units, which you're not.

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Given how no enemy believes in Seraph robes, even Saya can easily one round an enemy without a strong weapon.

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Avocado obliterates the enemy myrmidon, showing that either he is extremely fast for a cav, or that the dev really wanted a Lyn mode reference in their fan game.

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To ensure Saya's safety, I take out the eastern goomba with Tsagan, putting him in range of mage with 7 total might, meaning I take basically no damage at all. The layout here is really solid though. It's visually pleasing seeing the mage cover the tiles where the enemies were, so moving beyond them is a point of danger, especially since I believe they're what causes other enemies inside the fort to move. I even enjoyed the setup of the 4 enemies surrounding the pillars, even if the myrmidons hardly deal any damage. I guess the main reason I keep bringing up easy enemies when the game isn't required to be hard to be a good game is because of how much potential I see in it. Reminds me of chapter 6 of Shadow Dragon. It's design is really good for an early map, and I just wished I could experience this exact map, but with more of a cost per action. In other words, I'm greedy and want good things for myself. I do think the game naturally could've tried to be a tad harder though. I doubt people who go out of their way to play a romhack are generally inexperienced, especially if you're using a lot of FE6 material. Some numbers are precise. I can see why some units have the strength that they have, but Toby has 3 speed, and a myrmidon can't double him. That's just sad. 

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You know, if I can get this to work, I could pull off something kinda neat.

I missed. No fun in an ironman. Ah well, it's a part of the series.

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I'll just kill the archer with Gim.

I missed. What the hell man.

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I guess I don't have a choice but to only settle for game ending one of the two enemies this turn. What I was gonna do was have Sieks kill the myrmidon, then use the thief I don't care about to steal from the archer (who has a vulnerary), then kill them with Gim. It would've been like, a 7/10 moment for content. Now it's a 4.

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Of course he can't kill in one hit. I have Helga to heal, but this just didn't seem like my turn. 

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You piece of SoV.

Turn 3:

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Here's an example of a really good set of enemies. This gives off New mystery vibes. The enemies here are actually using steel weapons, so you're in trouble if you don't use units carefully. Ignoring the existence of Tsagan for a moment, I had to be a bit careful here to ensure that no one died. Considering how split your army might be, you don't have everyone to just charge headfirst into the situation. Of course, going right in front of the armor puts you in the distant soldier's range, pulling their squad early. Again, this seems great. I just wished more enemies had steel weapons every now and again. It's not like this turn was super hard or anything, but it's really nice to plan around, there's more than one solution, and you can plan for which one gives you the best kills to feed to your desired units, and let's be real. This is still better than GBAFE designs. IntSys stinky. Realistically, the main thing making this easy is the jeigan, so I guess a no jeigan run could spice up things a bit, but I won't stop using him until I can bench units, unless I actually go all in for good turn counts. He sure helps there, especially as a horse that carries Sieks and Saya. Game design wise, you might throw in horseslayers to keep him in check, but you have 4 cavs, so it'd punish a lot of your army. 

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It's funny how the Sol Katti is essentially the hard hitter weapon. It weighs you down a lot, so you mainly use it for finishing blows. 

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Not again. I've had a Lyn who kept getting defense, but no strength. Don't let her daughter go down this path too!

I mean, it's great for an ironman, but I like strength! Big damage go bam!

I didn't take many more screenshots, but I rescued Saya and moved her down. A shame too, I was praising this turn for being fun to play, yet I basically didn't record how it went. To be fair, it was mostly recue strats and the like. I believe used a vulnerary on Grape, but I'm not too sure. I did this like, 2 days ago from writing this. Got a bit busy and all.

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Apparently, they didn't translate the act of stealing a vulnerary. To be fair, a lot of small things are still in japanese in the unit stat menu, but it's not like I need to be told I stole a vulnerary.

At least I can finally get Gim to kill this damn archer.

I missed. F**k me.

Turn 4:

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FINE! I'll kill them with Yuin! It's not like I've been wasting 2 turns for a Gim kill! My God. I hate you, archer #3.

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Well Gim's gonna die of xp starvation now. He might as well raid this village. 

One thing I do want to mention. The old lady here said to take this recover staff. This is not the recover staff. Why do these villagers keep lying to me!?

I almost want to replay the chapter just to show you that line, but I'm sure Ruben will swoop in and defend this, so why bother?

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While everyone else proceeds to catch up, I use Grape and Tsagan to rush Sieks to the frontlines. Saya also got shoved ahead from Rostov and Yeke. Like I said, I didn't take a lot of shots for rescue strats, but that's what the past two turns here were mainly about. 

The idea is for Sieks to bait out the soldier to get chip xp, and because I get to see him take 0 damage. 

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Of course they will. But that's just what I want. The more men you send at me, the stronger Sieks becomes.

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Oh right. Our reinforcements. I forgot about those. 

You are literally Shanna.

Turn 5:

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The Ilia's apprentice pegasus knight of the mercenary group. A cheerful and lively girl.

D rank lances

A flier? Ugh. No thanks.

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The archer of the mercenary group. A calm, organized, and reliable person.

D rank bows

This is Dorothy.

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No, this is literally male Dorothy.

Of course I'm gonna use them.

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The swordfighter of the mercenary group. A lively and manly girl.

C rank swords

Hahaha!! Okay. That's funny. Those goofy open mouth smiles always get me. It's like, the one good part about Lilina. It's just so funny looking. I can't hate it. Also, you're a mercenary, so you get points for not being a generic female myrmidon. Not actually sure I'll train you, but I am considering it. You have decent stats. Maybe I'll leave it up to Ruben. How much does he hate happy girls? Then again, the description says manly. Surely that makes them cool in your eyes. I'm sure Anon's indifferent, but maybe he wrote a story about torturing her. Doesn't sound beneath them.

Well, those are the additional Illia mercs hired to aide Saya. Didn't need them, but an extra archer always makes me smile. If there's not too many of them in the game, I might have a team of them all...again.

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Yeke...what are you doing bud? I like your design. Surely you can repay all the xp I'm giving you with, you know, something BESIDES speed?

Ehh, I'm sure a steel bow can still 1RKO these enemies. I still enjoy your funny eyes, but keep getting no strength and I probably won't do anything about it because of my addiction to bow units. Bows are the best stat after all. I've been saying this for years.

For all the Toby fans, he got the kill from Siek's victim. There was too much gore for me to post the fight.

Turn 6: These turns are going by real fast

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Sieks is the reason I'm not showing as much gameplay footage as my PMU's. I can only say he baits out the enemy and takes 0 damage so many times, and it will continue to happen, so forgive the lack of explanation when my units shuffle about between some turns. 

Toby had to rescue Rostov because guess what happened?

He missed. 

In fact, Yeke was supposed to kill the myrmidon. Sieks and Augustus the 2nd were meant to trap the archer, but you'll never believe how that went!

He f**king missed!

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At least my life isn't dull. Poor Sieks. This does nothing to give him life. He fights to experience any form of adrenaline. Something to give him a reason to feel. He cares not if it's the joy of bringing pride to his country, or the fear of death.

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They call me DonDon. 

Turn 7: I'm actually going to punch something

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.....who do you think got the kill?

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It was Rostov. 

That is worse than a Tsagan kill. I am in misery.

At least Toby actually landed this hit.

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You remember the dark mage kid and old cleric man? Yeah, you guys didn't remind of them and I almost didn't even open their cell. Took me until now to even bother with their imprisoner. Maybe don't let me down next time, yeah?

Turn 8: Longer turns are finally back, and so are the MISSES

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PLEASE DON'T MISS

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THANK THE LORD!

It's no speed, but that stat's overrated. I'll prove that with Toby. Single digit endgame speed, let's go.

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...You had two shots Yeke...

HE WAS 7 FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!

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You could've hit at least once! Sieks could've gotten this! He actually got the hit!

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While Tsagan could be helping with the boss, or rescue-ing, I need his door key right now. The thief is way too far from this area to open the chests. I'd rather not wait, and Toby has the chest keys.

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No kidding. You look old enough to have actually seen most of One Piece. Don't worry. You'll probably reach the end before you die.

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An old monk on pilgrimage who has tasted both the sweet and bitter side of life.

D rank staves

Wait. Why is your defense cap higher than 20? I get luck. That's on everyone, but that Def cap is sus, forgive my language.

I can only assume this is the Wrys unit that brings a smile to Ruben's sullen face. I'm happy too.

No offense if your face is actually sullen. Your beard largely makes up for it.

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An orphan boy who uses ancient magic and who dreams of becoming an evil mage.

D rank dark tome

Typically, shamans are strong, but slow. I don't see myself using you. Shamans are a bit on the slow side with battle animations anyways. Also, you could be the anti-Christ just waiting to happen.

I'm considering looking up growths just to help analyze a unit overall should I want to inform audiences of them without necessarily using them myself, but that takes effort, which grosses me out.

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These reinforcements...aren't doing s**t.

Nice defense by the way. You're making Rostov look worthless.

Turn 9: Only the myrmidon remained

So most of the map has been routed. The southern team has been spending the last 5 turns just running upwards to catch up. The frontliners head to the bosses room while a few stick around for the possible addition of more reinforcements, and I only neede dto kill the myrmidon that Yeke failed to kill this turn. I was going to give it to Sieks, but for laughs and giggles, I went for the Toby kill.

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These screenshot are hallucinations. I neve replayed this chapter. It happened in a dream. None of this is real. The LP isn't real. Your replies were made up by my mind.

Turn 10:

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A torch staff?

F**k. This can only mean one thing.

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Fritz is rather late to the party, so this won't be his chapter sadly. At the very least, he'll get to be my certified mage killer.

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Here's another example of rescue strats. This one is mainly to seize the throne next turn. So I can say Erina actually did something helpful.

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Okay. last time I bring up rescue strats. It's how I get Sieks and Saya from place to place. It's quite fun to play around. And come on. Don't tell me this isn't amazing. Look at the reinforcements. It's perfect for Sieks. They also deal 0 damage. It's beautiful.

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Well that's a shame. But you know what's awesome.

That battle sprite looks just like Will. It probably is, but that makes me happy. Will's great.

Turn 11: 

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Money! But how will you carry all those coins? This isn't a bullion. This isn't a red gem. It's specifically 3000 gold. Toby must be carrying the whole damn chest.

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So I had Pineapple rush here to open the door for the thief whose name I forgot to open the chest this turn. It told me to find God.

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I appreciate the easy kill. Their light brand probably would've been better FE6 style, where it always does 10.

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Bwahaha! What!? Dude, you're worse than most enemies on this chapter! I'd be embarrassed if you were my underling.

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As much as I wanted to kill the boss with Fritz, the hit rate was too low, and I didn't want to risk death just for that. This was safer, but probably a mistake. Yeke. Get strength. or at least more speed. I doubt that defense will help you.

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I went through all that effort to seize on turn 11, but...Sieks. There's so many cavs back there. I can't just let ALL of them walk away with their lives because the child soldier sat on a chair. Guess I should've just gone softer on the boss to feed the kill easier, but I really was planning to seize this turn. This was a last minute change. I did it for us Sieks fans.

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And by God, was it worth it! They call him Speedy Stud Sieks.

He's also known as Siexy Sieks, but we don't talk about his other job. 

Turn 12:

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This would've been great for Gim

If Erina didn't miss! I hate you!

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I've wasted enough time here. This map was great. Wish I didn't miss so much, but this was fun. Hope to see more like it. As of right now, I would recommend this, but I can only hope it stays consistent in map design. I just hope it gets a tad harder too. If I wasn't blind here, I coulda saved a couple of turns, even without optimal strats. The thief kept running about from the village, making Gim follow him and giving me less units to fight the later half with. The cell probably could've been opened much earlier, and the turn 5 units honestly could've been the ones to enter those villages, but what can you do? 12 turns isn't bad at all I'd say. Everyone likes that number!

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And here I was thinking that you were the final boss.

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I'm surprised you were so willing to give that information. Maybe he felt betrayed by the Bernians for leaving his lvl 2 army to fight off Sieks's army.

I was hoping for Saya to snap and start beating the s**t outta him for info, and he dies from pain before he could fully reveal the info. Sounds like something you'd see in a Batman Arkham game, except without the killing part.

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Oh?

So apparently, Dayan needs our help back at home, so I can only assume the enemy brought ridersbanes. Saya want to go south where Bern has taken Lyn, but the others believe it's more important to check up on our tribe, and the army could possibly gain supplies there.

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Anyone remember that moment in Blue Lions where the cut content shows that you would've had a route split around where Dimitri wanted to rush to the Imperial capital, while some of the others wanted to return to Fhirdiad, but now it just doesn't matter what you say you want? That's kinda interesting. Not saying I want a choice here. I just wanted to bring that up. It probably would've been great.

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I'm sure Lyn will be fine. They'll either wait until you're able to rescue her, or wait until you're close enough to watch her die.

Wait! I can't forget Arel again!

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The brain of the Lorca tribe. Sometimes he's strict with Saya.

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8 speed is high for a transporter. A shame he doesn't seem to level up for a while at least. Ruben says he's a cool character, so I'm trusting him on that. As far as his performance as a unit, I assume he's a natural pick for the bench, since he can't fight. I don't need the convoy to win maps. I can give Toby 5 iron axes, and I'll be chill.

 

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On 4/21/2022 at 5:26 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Ye.

Pffft... Wheatboy? Where'd that come from?

Well sucks to be you, because as it turns out, I don't believe in wheat either.

It's a slang the hunter-gatherers use for the loser farmers.

The fool has said in his heart "there is no wheat".

On 4/21/2022 at 5:26 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Who in the world is Richard Dawkins?

Oh. That's too bad for... Richard Dawkins?

No seriously, who is that? Is he the Pope of Atheism? I was not aware of that...

"Pope of Atheism" isn't too far off. He's an evolutionary biologist, famously wrote a book called "the God Delusion" which said religion was fake and bad. Some people say he made atheism socially acceptable in western society, but this is complete tosser. His actual mark on the world laying the foundations of Reddit Atheism. Since redditors do not read books, the God Delusion has actually only sold 1 copy, which was to Dinesh D'souza.

Dawkins is mostly known as a prick, even to the atheists I've talked. I do not know what a "humanist award" is, but I assume it's sort of like getting a face tattoo you lack the self-awareness to regret. Dawkin's has his "taken away" (I do not know if there was a trophy or anything or if they just said they took it away while actually denying him nothing) because of a comparison he made between transgender people and trans-racial people.

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

Dang. Lyn dies in chapter 24 and becomes the final boss of the game?

Not totally off base, actually.

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

Who's most people!? I mean, I'm not all that familiar with the rom hacking community, but I rarely hear enough about this one to imagine a community has deemed Rostov as better, which he isn't!

Does the romhacking community actually play games, or just make romhacks?

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

Why do the bad guys always send weakling after the protagonist anyways? Was chapter 2 really their plan to wipe out the last of the Lorca tribe? A handful of lvl 1 archers and brigands? I guess those guys just happened to be defending the fort and weren't necessarily for Saya, but why have lvl 1 enemies guard a Bern affiliated fort!?

I imagine the levels are merely abstractions which do not actually exist within the game. Consider that Raigh joins at a higher level than Miledy.

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

I'm sure Anon's indifferent, but maybe he wrote a story about torturing her. Doesn't sound beneath them.

What? Me? Torture? Never. It would go against my raising as a southern gentleman. Now, a story about Corrin marrying Scarlet on the revelations route-

Emmy's great, she's also (spoiler) the daughter of Dorcas, and proved to be even stronger than Grape in my run. Female + good unit = you probably won't use her.

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

It's no speed, but that stat's overrated. I'll prove that with Toby. Single digit endgame speed, let's go.

I think this game uses FE7 promo bonuses, which means fighters get no speed on promotion. I honestly cannot express how pathetic GBA promotion bonuses are outside Binding Blade.

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

Typically, shamans are strong, but slow.

Not really in this game.

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

These screenshot are hallucinations. I neve replayed this chapter. It happened in a dream. None of this is real. The LP isn't real. Your replies were made up by my mind.

Imagine if you will another place in time-

On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

8 speed is high for a transporter. A shame he doesn't seem to level up for a while at least. Ruben says he's a cool character, so I'm trusting him on that. As far as his performance as a unit, I assume he's a natural pick for the bench, since he can't fight. I don't need the convoy to win maps. I can give Toby 5 iron axes, and I'll be chill.

Arel doesn't take up a deployment slot, so he is actually only ever on the bench of his carriage.

 

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10 hour s ago, Shaky Jones said:

I'm the skeleton racer that kept beating you.

Dang it. Always the same trick...

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

KagaSaga, KagaSaga. Damn you Ruben!

If only you weren't a Fates fan and actually like Awakening's writing! Now you're just an anomaly. 

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I'm never playing Berwick Saga

Your loss.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Ruben listens to Touhou music.

Yes. So what? Everyone should. It's great.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Sometimes, you need to block an enemy for Sieks kills. It happens. 

I mean, you can be less greedy and settle for Fiev kills.

C'mon, you gotta admit, you left yourself wide open for that one.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

There's also enemy jav users. One day, an FE game will feature killer spears, and I'm not going to come unprepared.

Wait, 3 Houses already made throwing lances of light with crit in it on high dex golems for 50 crit and 4 range. Good game.

You're just doing that on purpose to annoy me now, aren't you?

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Oh my God.....Ruben.....

"I mEAN, trAnslAtED lIterAllY, hIs naMe iS SiX"

No. You don't deserve to play the funny lego game specifically because of this.

What's wrong, Shaky? You seem rather upset. Do try to stop shaking in your boots, we need you relaxed so you may concentrate on the battles ahead.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

🤓

I win.

Ah. An insult to my honor. You've found my one weakness.

That's a line from B. Saga. Not the one you're thinking of, but also one I recommend.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Who's most people!? I mean, I'm not all that familiar with the rom hacking community, but I rarely hear enough about this one to imagine a community has deemed Rostov as better, which he isn't! How? Even at base, Grape's just better. He literally needs 1 speed point to 1RKO, and still sets up kills near perfectly without it. Rostov doesn't do nearly as much damage, often has lower hit rates, and the slight tank boost isn't all that special. It's not hard to make walls or have Grape only take 2 hits. Sometimes, Rostov just can't do the finishing blow in comparison.

I mean, I did specifically say "people I've seen playing the game", didn't I? I hope I did. It's what I meant to say.

Anyway, yeah, people seem to like Rostov better. I think. Or maybe it was just the one (now abandoned) LP I read years ago, which inspired me to both play this hack and do my own LPs.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Nikita is a great name.

So it is. Use him.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Ruben still uses a minigun though. There's no FE substitute for him. It's just a literal minigun. The mountains have trained him well.

I found the minigun in the mountains. I considered reporting it, but then I thought, what the heck.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I can picture ravens landing on Ruben's shoulders and beard.

Yes, I'm literally Henry. But better, because I have a beard, while Henry lives in Modern FE, a realm in which you are not allowed to have a beard. Unless you're Hanneman, because Hanneman is the most based person in Modern FE.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

The denial of wheat doesn't save you. You're missing out on decent meals. Do you just eat wildlife or something?

I pray to God to grant me a good meal. Then when He delivers the food from the skies, I go "psych, sucker! I still don't believe in you!" and run inside with it. Works every time.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Also, who the hell are you guys? You couldn't look less blatantly evil, unless you had red eyes.

One of these days, I really want a game where one of these blatantly evil-looking people is actually a really kind and selfless person, and the cute, sheepish, fragile-looking waifu is a psychopath. It'd make for one hell of a plot twist.

I mean, Triangle Strategy kinda does the first thing one time, but I want more.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I guess you can say that you've been...

slithering in the dark.

F**k you Ruben. This is payback for your awful Sieks pun.

I give this a 6/10.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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A dark mage and a curate. How ironic for them to share a cell. Shouldn't you be splashing the kid with holy water or something? 

No, gotta save that pure water for when there's enemy mages. Then he splashes the kid with holy water.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I like you, silly bald man. You do not fear death. I like the shading of the wrinkles, and you seem like you'd be good company on a lonely day, like you have wisdom to share.

There he is. NotWrys. My favorite of the three unpromoted healers on foot of this game. Rabi's cool too!

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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For those who were hoping he'd get better, I still hate him. I like strength, but that isn't good enough when your competition is a fruit.

Also, I'm extremely biased to cool units, which you're not.

Poor guy is going to hit the bench so hard.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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To ensure Saya's safety, I take out the eastern goomba with Tsagan, putting him in range of mage with 7 total might, meaning I take basically no damage at all. The layout here is really solid though. It's visually pleasing seeing the mage cover the tiles where the enemies were, so moving beyond them is a point of danger, especially since I believe they're what causes other enemies inside the fort to move. I even enjoyed the setup of the 4 enemies surrounding the pillars, even if the myrmidons hardly deal any damage. I guess the main reason I keep bringing up easy enemies when the game isn't required to be hard to be a good game is because of how much potential I see in it. Reminds me of chapter 6 of Shadow Dragon. It's design is really good for an early map, and I just wished I could experience this exact map, but with more of a cost per action. In other words, I'm greedy and want good things for myself. I do think the game naturally could've tried to be a tad harder though. I doubt people who go out of their way to play a romhack are generally inexperienced, especially if you're using a lot of FE6 material. Some numbers are precise. I can see why some units have the strength that they have, but Toby has 3 speed, and a myrmidon can't double him. That's just sad. 

You'd be surprised. I have a friend who played TLP before FE6.

Also, I like the amount of words here. I too would've appreciated a hard mode for this game.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Of course he can't kill in one hit. I have Helga to heal, but this just didn't seem like my turn. 

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You piece of SoV.

That was a very FE turn.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Here's an example of a really good set of enemies. This gives off New mystery vibes. The enemies here are actually using steel weapons, so you're in trouble if you don't use units carefully. Ignoring the existence of Tsagan for a moment, I had to be a bit careful here to ensure that no one died. Considering how split your army might be, you don't have everyone to just charge headfirst into the situation. Of course, going right in front of the armor puts you in the distant soldier's range, pulling their squad early. Again, this seems great. I just wished more enemies had steel weapons every now and again. It's not like this turn was super hard or anything, but it's really nice to plan around, there's more than one solution, and you can plan for which one gives you the best kills to feed to your desired units, and let's be real. This is still better than GBAFE designs. IntSys stinky. Realistically, the main thing making this easy is the jeigan, so I guess a no jeigan run could spice up things a bit, but I won't stop using him until I can bench units, unless I actually go all in for good turn counts. He sure helps there, especially as a horse that carries Sieks and Saya. Game design wise, you might throw in horseslayers to keep him in check, but you have 4 cavs, so it'd punish a lot of your army. 

Tsagan is just a big issue for these earlygame maps. He really should've been nerfed, because as it is, the best thing to do is employ the Seth tactic and just avoid using him much.

But at least he's not a paladin. He can't just wipe everything with 1-2 range mindlessly. That much, I gotta give to him.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Not again. I've had a Lyn who kept getting defense, but no strength. Don't let her daughter go down this path too!

I mean, it's great for an ironman, but I like strength! Big damage go bam!

Don't get your hopes up. My last endgame Saya had 8 strength.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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FINE! I'll kill them with Yuin! It's not like I've been wasting 2 turns for a Gim kill! My God. I hate you, archer #3.

This guy is the real MVP. If only you could've recruited him.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

I almost want to replay the chapter just to show you that line, but I'm sure Ruben will swoop in and defend this, so why bother?

Fun fact: This old woman isn't wrong, all of FE is wrong. What FE calls restore staves is actually mend staves. Restore staves are more like, jousting staves.

Berwick Saga uses the terminology correctly. Because it doesn't have restore staves, mend staves or staves.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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The archer of the mercenary group. A calm, organized, and reliable person.

D rank bows

This is Dorothy.

Yep.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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No, this is literally male Dorothy.

Of course I'm gonna use them.

Figured as much.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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The swordfighter of the mercenary group. A lively and manly girl.

C rank swords

Hahaha!! Okay. That's funny. Those goofy open mouth smiles always get me. It's like, the one good part about Lilina. It's just so funny looking. I can't hate it. Also, you're a mercenary, so you get points for not being a generic female myrmidon. Not actually sure I'll train you, but I am considering it. You have decent stats. Maybe I'll leave it up to Ruben. How much does he hate happy girls? Then again, the description says manly. Surely that makes them cool in your eyes. I'm sure Anon's indifferent, but maybe he wrote a story about torturing her. Doesn't sound beneath them.

Emmy is literally everyone who plays this game's favorite character.

Of course, for good reason. She's an incredibly solid female mercenary with a great design and a connection to a certain someone. And of course, she's manly. I like her too, though I must say, I personally prefer the second female hero of this game. For reasons that will become extremely obvious when you see her.

Yeah, there's two female heroes in this game. Isn't that awesome? Use both of them.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Yeke...what are you doing bud? I like your design. Surely you can repay all the xp I'm giving you with, you know, something BESIDES speed?

Yikes. In my run he had a healthy amount of both strength and speed. Still, there's plenty of time. He's only level 4.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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At least my life isn't dull. Poor Sieks. This does nothing to give him life. He fights to experience any form of adrenaline. Something to give him a reason to feel. He cares not if it's the joy of bringing pride to his country, or the fear of death.

You know, this has brought him to 9 strength.

And he has 3 luck.

If you substract 3 from 9, you get Sieks.

Cry me a river, Shaky. Cry me a big damn river.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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It was Rostov.

That is worse than a Tsagan kill. I am in misery.

At least Tsagan has a cool design. But hey, look on the bright side. Exact kill! Those are always so aesthetically pleasing.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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You remember the dark mage kid and old cleric man? Yeah, you guys didn't remind of them and I almost didn't even open their cell. Took me until now to even bother with their imprisoner. Maybe don't let me down next time, yeah?

Oh God.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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THANK THE LORD!

It's no speed, but that stat's overrated. I'll prove that with Toby. Single digit endgame speed, let's go.

I would be so happy if he made it to the endgame on his base 3 speed.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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...You had two shots Yeke...

HE WAS 7 FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!

Don't tell me he missed twice.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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You could've hit at least once! Sieks could've gotten this! He actually got the hit!

Oh God he missed twice.

This really wasn't your day, was it.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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No kidding. You look old enough to have actually seen most of One Piece. Don't worry. You'll probably reach the end before you die.

Ehhhh I'd say he looks about old enough to have seen half of One Piece. You need to be a dragon loli to be able to watch most of One Piece. And also enjoy it.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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An old monk on pilgrimage who has tasted both the sweet and bitter side of life.

D rank staves

Wait. Why is your defense cap higher than 20? I get luck. That's on everyone, but that Def cap is sus, forgive my language.

I can only assume this is the Wrys unit that brings a smile to Ruben's sullen face. I'm happy too.

You assume correctly. I don't get the defense cap thing either.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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An orphan boy who uses ancient magic and who dreams of becoming an evil mage.

D rank dark tome

Typically, shamans are strong, but slow. I don't see myself using you. Shamans are a bit on the slow side with battle animations anyways. Also, you could be the anti-Christ just waiting to happen.

I'm considering looking up growths just to help analyze a unit overall should I want to inform audiences of them without necessarily using them myself, but that takes effort, which grosses me out.

Rabi is actually one of my favorite units in the game. For starters, I love that the game hands you a shaman this early on - earlier than any regular mages, even! Rabi is also super strangely built for a shaman. His con is low, but he has great speed. His power is a bit on the lower side, but dark magic's power and his big speed allow him to dish out some immense damage once he begins doubling.

He needs a bit of luck early on to get a good few speed points. If he manages that, he's set to be your best damage dealer. Either that or I've just gotten lucky with him in all of my runs. I'd say give him a shot. If only for the novelty of an earlygame shaman.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Your replies were made up by my mind.

Too true. You're mad, Jones.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

That battle sprite looks just like Will. It probably is, but that makes me happy. Will's great.

It is, yes. He does get a slightly different palette when promoting, though.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

Toby must be carrying the whole damn chest.

Gotta use that big strength on something, since he apparently doesn't like landing attacks on things that move.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Bwahaha! What!? Dude, you're worse than most enemies on this chapter! I'd be embarrassed if you were my underling.

I mean, did you expect much from Breguet in a myrmidon garb?

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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And by God, was it worth it! They call him Speedy Stud Sieks.

He's also known as Siexy Sieks, but we don't talk about his other job. 

Ever closer to his goal of being Speedy Sieks.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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I've wasted enough time here. This map was great. Wish I didn't miss so much, but this was fun. Hope to see more like it. As of right now, I would recommend this, but I can only hope it stays consistent in map design. I just hope it gets a tad harder too.

It does, but it'll take a while.

10 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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I'm surprised you were so willing to give that information. Maybe he felt betrayed by the Bernians for leaving his lvl 2 army to fight off Sieks's army.

I was hoping for Saya to snap and start beating the s**t outta him for info, and he dies from pain before he could fully reveal the info. Sounds like something you'd see in a Batman Arkham game, except without the killing part.

I mean, he did die from the pain of granting a bad level up to his vanquisher. That's got to be the worst fate of all for these generic bosses.

 

7 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

It's a slang the hunter-gatherers use for the loser farmers.

Ah.

But I'm not a farmer! Silly Speed.

7 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

The fool has said in his heart "there is no wheat".

What are you gonna do about it, ah?

7 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

"Pope of Atheism" isn't too far off. He's an evolutionary biologist, famously wrote a book called "the God Delusion" which said religion was fake and bad. Some people say he made atheism socially acceptable in western society, but this is complete tosser. His actual mark on the world laying the foundations of Reddit Atheism. Since redditors do not read books, the God Delusion has actually only sold 1 copy, which was to Dinesh D'souza.

And Dinesh D'souza is...?

7 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Dawkins is mostly known as a prick, even to the atheists I've talked. I do not know what a "humanist award" is, but I assume it's sort of like getting a face tattoo you lack the self-awareness to regret. Dawkin's has his "taken away" (I do not know if there was a trophy or anything or if they just said they took it away while actually denying him nothing) because of a comparison he made between transgender people and trans-racial people.

I've not heard of this man before in my life. Not just because I'm not American, I've little interest in career atheists or atheist doctrine, if such a thing exists. I just call myself an atheist because I don't go to church and because I think it's a tad pretentious of humans to believe that the creator of the entire universe, a place so vast that our meager imaginations cannot comprehend its sheer size, is a big man that lives right above us and created us based on himself. Us specifically. Nah, if there's such a thing as a creator, I feel it's more likely that it's a lovecraftian abomination that our minds couldn't possibly understand, wandering the universe lightyears away from Earth.

I don't know, I'm just a guy. Tall for a guy, but insignificant in the grand scale of things. All I know is that I know nothing. That, and I've little sympathy for the church as an institution. But that's a whole another can of worms. This isn't the place for that discussion, I don't think.

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15 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

You haven't? How dare you.

Now I want an LP on that.

Screenshot LPs are kinda hard, and I usually take over a year to beat a Fire Emblem game just playing casually. So I might have to hold off on the offer of a let's play.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I mean, you can be less greedy and settle for Fiev kills.

Did you ever hear of the hero of my people, Fiveish?

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I pray to God to grant me a good meal. Then when He delivers the food from the skies, I go "psych, sucker! I still don't believe in you!" and run inside with it. Works every time.

Mana. "What is it?"

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

You'd be surprised. I have a friend who played TLP before FE6.

To be fair, TLP was natively released in English, and both require patching to play anyway.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

And Dinesh D'souza is...?

Catholic apologist. Conservative commentator. I think Dawkins is also considered a conservative now, weirdly enough.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I've not heard of this man before in my life. Not just because I'm not American, I've little interest in career atheists or atheist doctrine, if such a thing exists.

I don't know how popular he is outside the English-speaking world or even among people under 20.

Though I wouldn't call Dawkins or his ilk "career atheists", they usually had other stuff they did for a living, with the antitheism being more of a side gig that got wildly popular. Sort of a saturated market now, but he got a lot of engagement at the time.

Now, if there can be such a thing as "Christian Doctrine", there probably exists such a thing as "Atheist Doctrine". The two groups include about as many contradictory factions.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I just call myself an atheist because I don't go to church and because I think it's a tad pretentious of humans to believe that the creator of the entire universe, a place so vast that our meager imaginations cannot comprehend its sheer size, is a big man that lives right above us and created us based on himself. Us specifically.

Believe it or not, but it's right there in Genesis my dude.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

big

No.

Not just big.

Omnipresent Spiritual Being.

"Big" isn't even on the same level.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That, and I've little sympathy for the church as an institution. But that's a whole another can of worms. This isn't the place for that discussion, I don't think.

Can I interest you in Anarcho-Theistic Protestantism?

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3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Did you ever hear of the hero of my people, Fiveish?

Can't say I have, but he's probably not as cool as Sieks. He is certainly cooler than Fohr, though.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Mana. "What is it?"

The thing I use to cast spells?

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

To be fair, TLP was natively released in English, and both require patching to play anyway.

My friend does not speak English.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Catholic apologist.

"Apologist"? That's interesting to read as a man from Spain, a country where Catolicism is the predominant religion and Protestantism does not exist.

But of course, I'm an atheist, so it's all good, I don't mind. I mean heck, I'm not even sure what the difference is!

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Though I wouldn't call Dawkins or his ilk "career atheists", they usually had other stuff they did for a living, with the antitheism being more of a side gig that got wildly popular. Sort of a saturated market now, but he got a lot of engagement at the time.

Ah, I see.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Now, if there can be such a thing as "Christian Doctrine", there probably exists such a thing as "Atheist Doctrine". The two groups include about as many contradictory factions.

I suppose there might be people out there with such a thing as Atheist doctrine. Though for me it's more the default state due to my lack of beliefs.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Believe it or not, but it's right there in Genesis my dude.

That, I do not doubt.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Can I interest you in Anarcho-Theistic Protestantism?

Whuzzat? Believing in one's own time? That's probably for the best. I have nothing against religious people or their beliefs, but the church... You'd think greed, debauchery and power-grubbing like the Christian church has engaged in throughout history would run counter to their teachings. But then, Jesus said "do as I say, not as I do." I wonder how he'd feel about the state of the institution...

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10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

"Apologist"? That's interesting to read as a man from Spain, a country where Catolicism is the predominant religion and Protestantism does not exist.

What a terrible fate to befall a place.

10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

But then, Jesus said "do as I say, not as I do."

I'm not familiar with the verse, I'd appreciate if you could please direct me to it. Unless you mean Matthew 23.

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9 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

What a terrible fate to befall a place.

Well, those are certainly some words. We have the metric system. We win, I'd say.

9 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I'm not familiar with the verse, I'd appreciate if you could please direct me to it. Unless you mean Matthew 23.

Huh... Well, it's a common saying, but I cannot find its origin in the Bible. Accounts I've found on Google differ, I've found one that says Matthew 1-3, another that says Matthew 7:12. Then I tried to find the verses online, but I couldn't find anything to the effect of "do as I say, not as I do."

Ah, well. Wouldn't be the first time someone's misquoted. Apparently, Einstein never said anything about insanity at all!

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11 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Not totally off base, actually.

This can only end well.

11 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Does the romhacking community actually play games, or just make romhacks?

I...I don't know. What DO they do?

11 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I imagine the levels are merely abstractions which do not actually exist within the game. Consider that Raigh joins at a higher level than Miledy.

Honestly, Miledy should've had a higher level to justify her role in Bern and to nerf her a bit given her hard mode stats.

I think there should be a slight consideration for stuff like that myself. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's great. It helps for gameplay-story integration, which I like way more than purely a story that tries to excel purely through writing. Of course, I still think Genealogy does a terrible job with that, despite what others may say.

11 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Emmy's great, she's also (spoiler) the daughter of Dorcas, and proved to be even stronger than Grape in my run. Female + good unit = you probably won't use her.

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Some results are what?

I just wanted to remember who Emmy was because I'm not really remembering these units by name, and now I'm concerned.

I even went through the effort afterwards to search up "sohae", "Fe sohae", and "Sohae Emmy" and they were fine. Google doesn't really understand what I'm asking for on those ones, so it's specifically when they know that it's the famous Emmy from the Fire Emblem hack Sword of Heaven and Earth, that it warns me.

You people are degenerates.

11 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I think this game uses FE7 promo bonuses, which means fighters get no speed on promotion. I honestly cannot express how pathetic GBA promotion bonuses are outside Binding Blade.

But funny pink suit man! It helps devalue the importance of bases and emphasizes growths! You don't want the elitists to win, do you?

11 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Arel doesn't take up a deployment slot, so he is actually only ever on the bench of his carriage.

Oh, so he's like FE7 Merlinus, but has FE6 Merlinus move. That's cool. Now I feel a bit silly.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

It's just Okabe laughing.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yes. So what? Everyone should. It's great.

I forget that this is becoming more normalized. For better or worse. I don't know if I can handle a world where everyone listens to it.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I mean, you can be less greedy and settle for Fiev kills.

C'mon, you gotta admit, you left yourself wide open for that one.

I will purposely make more 3 Houses references and anything else you might dislike.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

You're just doing that on purpose to annoy me now, aren't you?

Exactly, and Fiev kills sure as hell ain't helping you!

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

What's wrong, Shaky? You seem rather upset. Do try to stop shaking in your boots, we need you relaxed so you may concentrate on the battles ahead.

If I don't lose a unit, this can't really be an ironman now, can it?

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I mean, I did specifically say "people I've seen playing the game", didn't I? I hope I did. It's what I meant to say.

Anyway, yeah, people seem to like Rostov better. I think. Or maybe it was just the one (now abandoned) LP I read years ago, which inspired me to both play this hack and do my own LPs.

They are foolish. Clowns. Even on first impressions! Rostov is boring. His design is really simple, and Grape is...he's Grape! Funny name, funny face, funny stats. What's not to love!? I love frail units that kill. Sure, I like strong units, but I'm not allergic to fast ones. Grape just destroys with one strength boost. I hate Rostov!

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yes, I'm literally Henry. But better, because I have a beard, while Henry lives in Modern FE, a realm in which you are not allowed to have a beard. Unless you're Hanneman, because Hanneman is the most based person in Modern FE.

At least the enemy can have beards, I think. At the very least, they can have mustaches.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I pray to God to grant me a good meal. Then when He delivers the food from the skies, I go "psych, sucker! I still don't believe in you!" and run inside with it. Works every time.

Betrayal. The ultimate sin. 

Just like when you betrayed me by saying Yubello was good.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

One of these days, I really want a game where one of these blatantly evil-looking people is actually a really kind and selfless person, and the cute, sheepish, fragile-looking waifu is a psychopath. It'd make for one hell of a plot twist.

I mean, Triangle Strategy kinda does the first thing one time, but I want more.

We can get a rom hack maker-er and use our combined genius-ness to make the perfect rom hack. Whether you want to pay them or get Anon to torture them is up to you guys.

Speed variable man, I can't NOT see you as a sadist from your bloodlust shown in that Awakening slaughterhouse post. What the hell is even happening? Jesus Christ!

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

There he is. NotWrys. My favorite of the three unpromoted healers on foot of this game. Rabi's cool too!

Huh. I thought you'd dislike them. I'm sure not getting great first impressions. The Anti Christ Ruben! They literally WANT to be become a sorcerer!

But I guess the atheist man doesn't care for such a risk...

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That was a very FE turn.

No wonder FE fans hate FE

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Tsagan is just a big issue for these earlygame maps. He really should've been nerfed, because as it is, the best thing to do is employ the Seth tactic and just avoid using him much.

But at least he's not a paladin. He can't just wipe everything with 1-2 range mindlessly. That much, I gotta give to him.

They should've just made him frail. Most nomads are. Sue had single digit defense on endgame for me, and Shin wasn't much better. He should have like, 7 or 8 defense with almost no res. His high early game HP will be what lets him tank more than your others. 11 is just too much.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Don't get your hopes up. My last endgame Saya had 8 strength.

My current Lyn on the fe7 run I stopped playing because I REALLY don't want to do 19x for 19xx has 5 strength at level 11. I benched her, but I can see Saya having a similar fate.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Fun fact: This old woman isn't wrong, all of FE is wrong. What FE calls restore staves is actually mend staves. Restore staves are more like, jousting staves.

Berwick Saga uses the terminology correctly. Because it doesn't have restore staves, mend staves or staves.

Oh my f**king God, Ruben, I will throw you off a cliff and force your demise to be an overused Awakening meme.

No staves? What's even the point anymore? If it's nothing like FE, that means it's bad!

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Figured as much

Don't tell me you wouldn't have cared if I benched them. Surely this is your type of unit.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Emmy is literally everyone who plays this game's favorite character.

Of course, for good reason. She's an incredibly solid female mercenary with a great design and a connection to a certain someone. And of course, she's manly. I like her too, though I must say, I personally prefer the second female hero of this game. For reasons that will become extremely obvious when you see her.

Yeah, there's two female heroes in this game. Isn't that awesome? Use both of them.

Yeah...apparently she is...explicitly so

I just knew that the manly part would be what gets you to actually enjoy the happy female unit. I wonder what the 2nd one will be like?

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

You know, this has brought him to 9 strength.

And he has 3 luck.

If you substract 3 from 9, you get Sieks.

Cry me a river, Shaky. Cry me a big damn river.

I have no eyes to cry any river. I use the bone marrow of others of form puddles for bathing my bones. 

I'll get you your river, but from the bones of every Berwick character you must adore so much, appropriately referred to as soldiers instead of units.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

At least Tsagan has a cool design. But hey, look on the bright side. Exact kill! Those are always so aesthetically pleasing.

This was really pleasing. I'm glad Toby was able to cheer me up. 

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh God he missed twice.

This really wasn't your day, was it.

I didn't even bring up every single miss...it really was not my day.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Ehhhh I'd say he looks about old enough to have seen half of One Piece. You need to be a dragon loli to be able to watch most of One Piece. And also enjoy it.

I think there's a certain someone who's lying to us about making good progress on that. But I guess we cannot complain, for we have not seen it and when it becomes amazing. Just give it 257 episodes. Or perhaps we simply must read the manga, except I hate reading. Last time I read a book was Mother, an early 1900s novel about worker's rebellion and socialism. The story itself was actually decent imo, but I sure as hell don't plan to read it again. It probably placed me on a watchlist, given that it was banned for decades for...obvious reasons. I don't recall the number of pages IRL anymore, but on an online PDF, it was 1000 pages.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Rabi is actually one of my favorite units in the game. For starters, I love that the game hands you a shaman this early on - earlier than any regular mages, even! Rabi is also super strangely built for a shaman. His con is low, but he has great speed. His power is a bit on the lower side, but dark magic's power and his big speed allow him to dish out some immense damage once he begins doubling.

He needs a bit of luck early on to get a good few speed points. If he manages that, he's set to be your best damage dealer. Either that or I've just gotten lucky with him in all of my runs. I'd say give him a shot. If only for the novelty of an earlygame shaman.

Grrr, you just HAD to actually like them.

I was so certain you wouldn't too. I don't wanna use theeeem. But if I do, I can possibly slap in that this is a live PMU in the middle of progress, and I really will become the funny PMU man. I don't like dark mages, or kids. But you know what? If this is one of your favorites, I can find fun in seeing them suck and dying in battle.

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Gotta use that big strength on something, since he apparently doesn't like landing attacks on things that move.

It was mainly Gim that missed. Toby only attacked about three times this whole chapter. Pretty sure he actually landed all of them.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

And Dinesh D'souza is...?

Ruben, surely you can do SOME research. After all, with no divinity, your God by default must be science. It's what the internet has determined.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I've not heard of this man before in my life. Not just because I'm not American, I've little interest in career atheists or atheist doctrine, if such a thing exists. I just call myself an atheist because I don't go to church and because I think it's a tad pretentious of humans to believe that the creator of the entire universe, a place so vast that our meager imaginations cannot comprehend its sheer size, is a big man that lives right above us and created us based on himself. Us specifically. Nah, if there's such a thing as a creator, I feel it's more likely that it's a lovecraftian abomination that our minds couldn't possibly understand, wandering the universe lightyears away from Earth.

Okay, I completely get the lovecraftian thing. I still think that God is something that is just too complex for us, despite many religions claiming that we were made in the shape/form of God themselves. I guess God is often referred to as a he, but I never say it by gender, because I feel like a divine creator simply cannot be compared to a mortal. Maybe this means I'm not religious or something, but I often only see myself believing in about half of Catholicism. My family consists of Catholics, but I don't share their beliefs to the extent that they do, but I wouldn't consider myself an atheist necessarily, even though I do sometimes have doubts about it all on bad days. I don't go to church either or pray, because I never feel like God really just goes to whichever human that prays and just randomly picks who to bless and who to let suffer from 3rd world problems, but that's quite a major topic. I mainly feel like they would be more neutral to the development of humanity, and doesn't exactly prioritize humans over all else, even if it might go against some of the stories in the Bible. I suppose if God was a divine incomprehensible entity, then it'd be odd for Jesus to just coincidentally be a human to represent God on Earth, but I reckon it could be that God could've chosen anyone/anything, but at that point humans have already become the dominant species. I don't know. Usually, I just tell people I'm indifferent on the matter. I say I'm not religious per se, but I don't think I'm an atheist either. Honestly, I'm still in the middle of figuring myself out with this. Maybe I genuinely need to find God.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I don't know, I'm just a guy. Tall for a guy, but insignificant in the grand scale of things. All I know is that I know nothing. That, and I've little sympathy for the church as an institution. But that's a whole another can of worms. This isn't the place for that discussion, I don't think

Don't worry about it. I'm sure my little vent about religion was also a bit over the line for a few people. I think we can share these opinions as long as it remains moderately respectful. 

Besides, calling the church bad is a 3 Houses reference.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Screenshot LPs are kinda hard, and I usually take over a year to beat a Fire Emblem game just playing casually. So I might have to hold off on the offer of a let's play.

That's fair, although I urge you to try the game out at some point. It's practically a sin that you haven't already. It's actually the 12th commandment.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Believe it or not, but it's right there in Genesis my dude.

Yeah that's the thing. I know things state it, but I guess I just don't...believe everything? Which then makes me think if that's forbidden. I certainly would be despised saying that at a church. I sure don't believe in the Tower of Babel story. Not saying I'd mock those who do or anything, but I question if it's considered idiocy or maybe heresy to just say you accept certain aspects of a religion and not others, because some might say you may as well not believe in them or just insult them. If this was a game, I could just claim to be neutral and get the blatantly good ending, but that is not the case here.

3 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Can I interest you in Anarcho-Theistic Protestantism?

Maybe this was an awful thing to bring up after all.

Wait, I never started this conversation. Screw you Ruben.

Just kidding. This is all just an extremely dangerous level of banter that could have me and Ruben burning in Hell for al eternity. 

I'm going to stop replying here before I have a count of 30 sacrilegious claims.

Chapter 4: Beyond the Darkness

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Wait, the Kutolah tribe is attacking us? Aren't they, like, the good guys or something? Aren't most of the playable Saceans in the Elibe games from there? I guess the lore was that they became allied with the Lorca tribe at some point when Bern was invading Sacae, which I guess is right now. Maybe that's what's gonna happen? I shouldn't speak too quickly though. I could be misunderstanding this all, or maybe the translation is wonky.

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Yep. Darkness. Without it, you just can't say it's FE, right?

Why do fan games still include things nobody likes? Just let me have a game without them.

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Arel assures Saya that Dayan will be fine, as have aide of the Kutolah tribes and the Ilia mercs. If the tribe is completely destroyed when we get back, I am going to consider letting out a sigh of disappointment, but won't actually do it, because audible fake sighing or typing the act of it is cringe. 

Also, I did speak out of turn. The beginning text really did imply that Kutolah was the enemy or something, or maybe it wasn't? I just have to ask, was it a mistranslation or does "danger of" mean the thing is in danger. I genuinely do not know. I was so confused. Why would it say the Kutolah tribe is in danger though? The prime focus here is the Lorca tribe. The other one is simply an ally. 

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Tired? Please. This isn't Thracia. We can fight all night. 

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Looks like they forgot a T. Either that or she's 7, which wouldn't be beyond Fire Emblem at this point.

So this girl has apparently been with us at some point between chapter 3 and 4 as Saya was making her way back. Her home is currently being occupied by brigands, because brigands like to bully orphans. Since we're mostly nearby that village, we might as well give it a visit for free xp. 

Arel, actually being smart, warns Saya that this can possibly be a trap, given that some groups have been known to use children as traps. Saya, being the boring protagonist, tells Arel that he's being cringe and to give her a chance. I'm not saying I would've immediately left her to fend herself, but what's wrong with some caution?

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Oh, but after Tsagan's quick little reconnaissance, he notices that the town is surprisingly empty, and that he saw shadows lurking about, as if we're about to enter a 4th chapter, so I guess we have to praise the brat mage for telling the truth and apologize. Except we don't! If we already sent him to investigate, her little info was worthless. Really, it just means that we went ahead and took caution after all, which is what Arel wanted. Arel didn't say "Screw the kid, leave them to rot!", although that would admittedly have been based. He just got confirmation that this is safe intel, so we can proceed as planned.

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To Hell with you!

Turn 1: Darkness

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And then Otto said "Let there be light".

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We got ourselves some spread out enemies here. I like it. Would've preferred if it just wasn't dark at all, but with the torch staff ready and at 10 uses, I'll usually have enough vision to see what's ahead throughout the map. Stage layout is decent too. Got the villages, the upper and southern paths for optional methods on getting through enemy lines, decent variety of enemies across the map. Some of them even use steel weapons to actually threaten my units, but they don't spam effective weapons you can't see like that b*****d from chapter 9 of fe6 with a halberd. F**k you. Every time man....Congrats. You made a FoW map not complete s**t. 

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It just dawned on me that I was never given flux tome. That's odd. Usually you're given a weapon for a unit. You don't just have to buy their first weapon for them to be useable. Like, you'd think there'd be one in a chapter 3 chest or maybe on a nearby enemy here. Maybe the piece of human garbage is carrying a dark tome to see if she could use it. I'm not complaining really. It's just...weird. Is it just me? It feels unnatural.

Also, why is a general store selling satanic tomes?

Speaking of human garbage:

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A girl who wants to be a great wizard. Good-hearted who hates to lose.

D rank anima

You are a child. And a brat. The worst kind of character. Since you're not an important character, I seriously doubt you're going to have some redemption arc like Sanaki. You're just the game's Delthea. If that's your thing, then by all means use the tiny magic girl to your heart's content, but I already have enough things going for me to get in a watchlist. How dare you insult Arel? And then she pisses me off even more in the end of the chapter. Such a predictable "look at the kid who deserves to be pitied but also praised" unit. Despicable!

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Shanna the 2nd flies to the village to ensure that it doesn't get destroyed on turn 2. I don't know how long it takes, but I'm not taking any risks. I could've had her use a jav to bait both the soldier and mage, but I'd prefer the soldier to head west, and I'd probably just miss anyways.

Turn 2: You can skip the turn 1 arc

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Toby time

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Aw sweet. The Ruben Repellent.

I don't know if I'll use this. Luck is nice when a crit is fatal in an ironman, but it does sell for a lot of gold. And I love money.

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Shaky Jones! How could you waste a bandit on Tsagan? You might as well throw Saya into a 3 Houses maddening map with ambush spawns, cuz your run is dun.

You want to know what happened?

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Rostov. You've landed that jav hit like, once, ever.

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After more torching, I can see the lower enemy positioning. 

You can't see too much here, But Yeke and Tsagan are just in range of the northern mage, while Fritz in rang of the fighter, who has a hand axe. Sieks is in range of the merc and soldier. Frequent rescue strats were used on turn one to get Sieks and Otto this far ahead on turn 2, given how they start on the back of the map on turn 1. Good turn. Pretty fun and I got to plan a lot. I really enjoy the spread out here, as I said before, and the enemies have gotten a bit stronger than from chapter 3, so people who aren't Sieks and Tsagan do need to be somewhat careful when approaching the enemy.

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Look at this dude. 

The knockback from Sieks's armor made him iron deficient.

Turn 3: Why is This FoW Map so Fun?

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3 speed isn't a problem at all. Look, he's not getting doubled. He kills. That's all you can ask of someone.

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Okay. So I might have put Toby's life on the line, but would you rather I wait for them to come to me? That'd be out of Toby's character, and would ruin immersion. I'm doing myself and the game a favor.

I like how this actually rewards you for aggressive plays. With the right moves, you can remove enough obstacles for them to not target one unit on enemy phase, but it takes planning and emphasizes your positioning. Enemy positioning is by far the best part of this game, and I love it for that. So far, I'd say FE12 and FE6 are games that use it the best in the mainline games, although FE6 does have a few crappy moments, mainly in the Sacae route. Fe11 has some great positioning too, but I'm not the biggest fan of how many enemies are just horses and armors, so that's a bit of a downside. All of these are generally games considered to be great player phase focused games I believe. I'm comparing these to this because I love those fe games, and I want to praise SoHaE after being a bit mean to it lately. Really, if this game just had stronger enemies and a weaker Jeigan, it'd be an S tier FE game. Great maps. For those who love the parts of the games I just mentioned, but aren't actually masochists who want a crazy challenge, this is your FE hack to play, especially if you like Elibe.

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The boys stick together. 

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Fritz's skill is rather poor, but this just makes him a true FE6 reference.

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One crit? I suppose Emmy does have bad luck. Do I really need to waste a goddess icon on her? If she gets crit'd, then that's God's way of telling me she is hiding sins beneath that smile.

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You know what? Why not? Maybe he'll be a busted thief. It's happened before. Ruben said he was strong for him, and he never lies or exaggerates a unit's strength.

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Welp. You screwed it. You're benched. Helga's benched too. You ruined it for her. I'm not going down this path again.

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Breaking the tree log thing, my mounts head northeast to clear out the enemies that might try to ambush my southern units later on. Maybe it would've been better to have them swapped, but my mounts broke the log quicker, and I may as well use the horses where they are now. 

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An energy drop would be great on Yeke. Maybe an angelic robe? He tends to need vulneraries, as he can easily get 2RKO'd. Still debating on if he's going to stick around for endgame or not.

Turn 4: Holy Stat Growth!

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An axe man with 100 hit. Ya love to see it.

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It's always the Lot unit. I always get the best. Axe units just never let me down! I am the Cord Connoisseur. This title actually applies to all units in a similar archetype. Love em all. Of course, Toby is still great, but we already have the Bord apologist.

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What the f**k?

I tend to take screenshots of every level up in my LPs, but I make an exception for healers. I don't think they matter much, since they're just meant to heal units in the background of my 500 IQ plays, but of course, Wrys's successor does not let me down.

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Can you imagine if that missed? It's be such good content! I wouldn't even be mad. It did hit, but somehow, I had doubts it would. Perhaps I suffer from RNG trauma.

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Well there's only one real choice here.

I bought several hand exes, an iron axe, and a javelin. I also got a slim lance should Sieks ever need a bit of extra hit, although I could've just given him blue hair peg girl's slim lance. Oh well. Some people think Fiona is better than Meg, so I'm not the most foolish person here.

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Okay. These two units apparently know how to kick my a**. They both wield steel weapons and would kill me if I approached one tile closer. Thank goodness for the torch staff.

As you can see below, I let Sieks be the man who baits out the merc.

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And the dude got a 1% crit on him. Forget Oswin. Sieks is a madlad.

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Tsagan may have gotten a few kills from being in the frontlines, but I wanted to make sure I reached this village on time. Wouldn't want to miss a protentional stat booster.

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There were no survivors that night.

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As of right now, I don't actually know if I will use Rabi or not. Maybe? I guess I can give them a kill or two here.

This felt a bit risky, as I think Eggplant wasn't at full HP here, and Rabi could technically miss a hit here and get hit by a fighter in the dark. I was mostly confident Pear would live, but there was no guarantee and I didn't want to wait. As for the south, many head east, but a bit of caution was used on Saya in case. The only enemy I could see was one armor enemy.

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Oi! You can't just use his one weakness! Heat. It reminds him of his troubled childhood in his home where the thermostat didn't work. 

Turn 6: I Need To Emphasize The Brilliant Enemy Positioning Again, Is It Just Me?

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With more steel weapon enemies and magic users lying around the eastern half of the stage, I've suddenly had to start actually thinking about how to make sure a unit doesn't die. I like it. It gets progressively harder, and appropriately so. 

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This is the last time I will bring this up this chapter I promise. I love the enemy layout here. I think it's a super underrated aspect in FE when discussing gameplay. It's the main reason I'm not a fan of FE4. Too much of the same layout of mashed up enemies in one big conga line. Here, they're spread out, but not randomly so like Sacred Stones. I have to actually think about how to approach the turn, but given how the enemies aren't FE12 lunatic or anything, I'd still say it works for newer players, and could be a recommend form of challenge for most FE players. Rescue strats help quite a bit if you wish to kill with weak units. The attack ranges align quite well. As I said, even the map itself works around it, and the torch staff really helps show JUST enough to show you most of the threat of each turn. This is my favorite map so far, and I'm really having fun. If it keep up like this, I'll 100% be promoting this hack by the end of the LP. 

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This is my cup of tea.

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Fritzs is going to be as good as Dorothy, I can feel it. Whether you think that's a compliment or an insult, I leave to you.

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He missed. Toby time it is.

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Crap. No strength? 

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Again, Cabbage is attacked by 2 enemies. One is a jav user. He barely survives these 2 attacks, but the fact that he survives at all makes Rostov worthless.

Turn 7: Hey, I'm Near The End

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Okay. Now, Fritz can show why I paid his merc team 2 Cordcoins.

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Speed is speed.

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Seeing such degenerates raid a village of innocent civilians at the dead of night, Yeke decided that now is the best time to test out the nuclear arrow. 

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Oh. is that female Navarre?

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Nevermind. It's just Navarre. Sorry. I'm going to get canceled now.

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Then why are you hanging out with a mercenary? If you're siblings, then you probably should've gotten used to it by now. If you're lovers, I recommend rushing to S support, then giving me your child soldier, because this clearly won't work out between you two.

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So they are siblings. Disregard the child unit comment. I was joking. 

So according to these badmouthed thieves, they captured this dude's sister, and now he's willing to work with them for no pay for them to release her. They don't seem to even be abusing her or anything. Heck, they even promised to let her go. Surely, nothing will go horribly wrong.

Turn 8: Wait, No

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Oh crap. They appeared outta nowhere. Guess they knew I was nearby. I'm unsure whether their spawn is turn based or proximity based. I asked and Ruben assumes its turn based, but it's hard to tell with a romhack. If anyone knows the actual answer, I'd appreciate it.

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Well, you don't seem that strong. These are the stats I was sort of expecting on the generic chapter 3 myrmidons, except with a bit less defense.

What annoys me is their killing edge. I get it. You're the edgy myrmidon. But do you really need to be an enemy with a random chance to kill my units? Does the game want me to run or just hope you don't crit? Never been a fan of that. They're probably recruitable, so I don't think I can just kill them. My guess is that you need to seize the map, then she'll join, knowing that his sister is safe now, similar to Ayra. I like that idea. Working around a sudden threat near the throne with some backup. It's just the critical part that sucks, given that only 2 units can reliably survive, and I made the mistake of sending Tsagan in the back to take out reinforcement bandits from the back.

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Well s**t. 

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This soldier was a bit tanky, so only Saya with the Sol Katti could 1RKO them.

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Rescue drop strats with my mounts were utilized to keep any of my units from being in Pascal's range. I had to be pretty careful with how I positioned myself, as to make sure I don't get cornered at some point. Kumquat blocks off the top brigand from starting a fight with my mages, as they might already be in trouble from the western ones approaching. In a way, I was getting cornered. I had to rush Tsagan and Toby back here to help out with the mess. Gim and Tsagan helped out with rescue drops for both Emmy and Otto. It was a bit complicated, but kinda fun.

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Eat your fruits and you'll grow up strong. Eat big and you'll grow big. Eat nothing and you'll grow up like me.

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Whoops. Bad cropping. Oh well, I'm not redoing it. It shrunk because the rest of the screen became red from his dying HP.

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Pascal's got nothing on the Sheild of Ilia.

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Oh. They're actually just letting her go? What kind bandits. It's nice to see some rogues have a bit of heart. Brigand's honor and the like.

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Or not. They didn't immediately send someone after her, but I'm assuming this is implication that he's planning on spying on her or something. Either way, it seems like she left, so no point in worrying about them now.

Turn 9: This One Was Actually Pretty Scary.

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A surprise mage almost killed Sieks. I hate it when surprise mages attack you in the middle of the night.

I throw Helga in to heal him and used Rostov to get her the hell away from sword man.

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Fritz saves Persimmon's life by clearing out the archer infestation of 1 archer.

The cav finishes off the brigand and is alive for now.

Unfortunately, I think my fear was right, and the remaining turn 9 screenshots weren't saved. It's mostly on me, but I was almost certain that I saved them. It's nothing I can't explain though. The mages deal with the west bandit, and Rabi was placed in the mountain tile. While I don't like dodge strats, he was stuck in a pickle. I knew that there's another brgand enemy in the dark to the left, and the fighter to the right can barely reach the mountain with a hand axe. I could stand one tile to the left of it, but then I risk dying if I missed the first flux hit, so I decide that the mountain is the safest, especially since Ai might let the west brigand go for Liane anyways.

That's exactly what happened. It's literally 1 of 2 times where she fights.

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Well you can see Rabi in the mountain tile here, but I was referring more to the process of fighting, moving of Liane, and other trade strats I actually wanted to show this turn. Tsagan, while he could've gone for the boss this turn, killed the mage, as Saya was one space away from seizing the throne. I was hoping to seize on turn 9, but moving Saya closer on turn 8 would've put her at risk of a crit, so I have to be patient. Here, Pascal can only target Tsagan and Sieks, while the fighter can target many allies. I was a bit proud with the setup having Saya rescue-dropped from my other units who had to clear out enemies in a way that still left her space to be dropped in, and close enough to the throne while guards shielded her. Just one more turn, and I can say I did a challenging map flawlessly!

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What...

Turn 10: You've Gotta Be Kidding Me

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Are you serious? You DO have to recruit Pascal by talking to them? With a unit who joins two turns later? At the bottom of the map!?

Well now you've just ruined the map design for this last bit! Ignore what I said earlier about the who sezie without killing Pascal thing. The game just wanted you to turtle for 2 turns then possibly wait longer for her to catch up. If I had known this is how it'd go down. I'd have placed Caeda with no wing spear to where she was to rescue drop her. This is not good recruitment design imo, especially if this was zone based. It'd be forcing you to wait and retreat, and it's not so obvious to blind players that they'll just show up like that. I genuinely thought they just left the stage. Did you really need to convey that little plotline through several turns? If it's turn based, then I guess it's on me for not being slow, but then that's a tad ridiculous. If I was optimal, I could've had Tsagan kill the boss by rushing north before Pascal ever showed up. What would've happened then? Or what if I did have Saya seize on turn 9? Would I have just missed Risette too? It ruins the pacing of the stage that I thought the stage was doing so well on.

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A sister from the church of Elimme. Caring and helping people is what she lives for.

D rank staves

She doesn't even want to look at me. You're just mocking me. I don't need you anyways. I have Otto. Admittedly, I probably would use you over Helga, but Otto ain't dying anytime soon pal. I hate you. You crushed my dreams of a perfect Fog map.

Stats might be alright for a healer, but with 2 already on my team, I don't even see why the game gives you a 3rd so early on.

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I need an archer kill to cheer myself up.

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You know what? Screw it.

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Congrats Tsagan. You're still broken. RIP to Bodrov.

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You have died as you lived. No damsels.

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That's right. I'm not going to bother. As much as I want my first run to be one where everyone is recruited, I do not respect you enough to bother. I am not retreating for 2 to 3 more turns and make the past 2 ones all for nothing. You're literally Navarre. Besides, shouldn't killing the boss end your service? You can naturally see your sister being safe with us. She's a blue unit. Realistically, this should still end with you joining us, right? No! Of course not! Why would it end that way!?

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I disrespect the recruitable by stabbing them with Sieks for minimal xp gains before leaving. They land 2 criticals in a row. Couldn't kill. 

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Great. Now Sieks has contracted Pascalitus. It's when your growths get lowered from the result of fighting a s**t unit. Just make the last turn bring me back to saltiness, why don't you.

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Excuse me!?

This brat fought two times! Neither killed! It didn't even help! Your advice meant nothing because Tsagan already told us of the enemy fort here! Stop putting her on a pedestal just because she's the silly young mage girl! How's that gonna teach her to have respect or anything? Just be correct one time and you can call everyone crappy and be full of yourself! Goddamn Delthea clone! 

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Oh Hell no! Arel, you did nothing wrong. You are just trying to protect Saya in trying times! Lyn's gone, Dayan's in trouble, brigands and Bern are invading Sacae, of course you're suspicious. And what do you think she does? She gloats about being right! Justice for Arel. New Jeresy for Liane.

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This dialogue doesn't even make sense. So now that your old boss is dead, you just follow a new one? Don't you want to protect her this time or something? She offers to join, and the dialogue does not imply that he rejected the idea, nor does she even bring up meeting us (which I guess makes sense in a way because we didn't talk but she was a blue unit so gameplay wise she was following our orders), but she still ends up being on my team when the next map starts. He just leaves I guess. If the two meet here, why doesn't it do whatever the game would've done if they met on the battle, and have him join me? It just really wanted me to do the healer talk thing? This chapter, while really fun, has the worst storytelling so far. It almost feels entirely like a bad trope or something. As if I had to play and see everything in one specific way.

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Lord Theseus. What a name. Maybe he's the final boss and the 2nd phase will be called Lord Antitheseus.

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Why does everyone always ally with evil cult people? At least, I'm guessing that's what the Ninaz are. Can an FE villain try to do something without convincing themselves that working with literal Satanists is a good idea? 

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You're weird for saying weird guys in 998.

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Oh? Didn't think I'd get one so soon. From what I've been told, there's a few in the game, but none have any requirements, so they're all just separate chapters that are purely optional.

This was a great map, but not an amazing chapter imo. I started out grumpy, got really happy afterwards, only to be grumpy again. I'm still enjoying this game quite a bit so far though. The anger is somewhat exaggerated for...well I just sound rude all the time. 

 

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1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

It's just Okabe laughing.

...Maybe?

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

I will purposely make more 3 Houses references and anything else you might dislike.

Three times two is Sieks.

Sieks, Shaky! Sieks! The horrible puns will haunt your dreams!

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

They are foolish. Clowns. Even on first impressions! Rostov is boring. His design is really simple, and Grape is...he's Grape! Funny name, funny face, funny stats. What's not to love!? I love frail units that kill. Sure, I like strong units, but I'm not allergic to fast ones. Grape just destroys with one strength boost. I hate Rostov!

Will you create the anti-Rostov alliance?

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Betrayal. The ultimate sin. 

Naaaaah he takes it in good humor. God's got thicker skin than that, he's fine with my shenanigans.

...Either that, or this is the reason why my luck is always so inconsistently bad. But nah, I doubt that's it.

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Just like when you betrayed me by saying Yubello was good.

And he was!

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Huh. I thought you'd dislike them. I'm sure not getting great first impressions. The Anti Christ Ruben! They literally WANT to be become a sorcerer!

I know Rabi doesn't look like my kind of character, but he's a really fun unit, and that's what counts the most in a game without supports.

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But I guess the atheist man doesn't care for such a risk...

I am immune to such triffles.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Oh my f**king God, Ruben, I will throw you off a cliff and force your demise to be an overused Awakening meme.

I regret nothing! Nothing! Hahahahahahahahahaha...!

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No staves? What's even the point anymore? If it's nothing like FE, that means it's bad!

It has orbs instead. Orbs like heal and mend. Eh?

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Don't tell me you wouldn't have cared if I benched them. Surely this is your type of unit.

Oh no, I wasn't saying that. I just thought it was pretty obvious you'd love this guy at first glance. The natural order of things, so to speak.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

I have no eyes to cry any river. I use the bone marrow of others of form puddles for bathing my bones. 

I'll get you your river, but from the bones of every Berwick character you must adore so much, appropriately referred to as soldiers instead of units.

I'd get angry at you for saying such deplorable things about Berwick characters, but I enjoy the prose with which you expressed them. You get a pass today. Do not expect a second one tomorrow.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Or perhaps we simply must read the manga, except I hate reading.

I don't. However, I have better things to read.

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Last time I read a book was Mother, an early 1900s novel about worker's rebellion and socialism.

...Oh.

Interesting, comrade.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Grrr, you just HAD to actually like them.

I was so certain you wouldn't too. I don't wanna use theeeem.

Too bad.

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But if I do, I can possibly slap in that this is a live PMU in the middle of progress, and I really will become the funny PMU man. I don't like dark mages, or kids. But you know what? If this is one of your favorites, I can find fun in seeing them suck and dying in battle.

You can try. Or he will become your new Yubello.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Ruben, surely you can do SOME research.

No, I demand that others go out of their way to inform me. That, and I honestly don't care who that man is.

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After all, with no divinity, your God by default must be science. It's what the internet has determined.

 

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Okay, I completely get the lovecraftian thing. I still think that God is something that is just too complex for us, despite many religions claiming that we were made in the shape/form of God themselves. I guess God is often referred to as a he, but I never say it by gender, because I feel like a divine creator simply cannot be compared to a mortal. Maybe this means I'm not religious or something, but I often only see myself believing in about half of Catholicism. My family consists of Catholics, but I don't share their beliefs to the extent that they do, but I wouldn't consider myself an atheist necessarily, even though I do sometimes have doubts about it all on bad days. I don't go to church either or pray, because I never feel like God really just goes to whichever human that prays and just randomly picks who to bless and who to let suffer from 3rd world problems, but that's quite a major topic. I mainly feel like they would be more neutral to the development of humanity, and doesn't exactly prioritize humans over all else, even if it might go against some of the stories in the Bible. I suppose if God was a divine incomprehensible entity, then it'd be odd for Jesus to just coincidentally be a human to represent God on Earth, but I reckon it could be that God could've chosen anyone/anything, but at that point humans have already become the dominant species. I don't know. Usually, I just tell people I'm indifferent on the matter. I say I'm not religious per se, but I don't think I'm an atheist either. Honestly, I'm still in the middle of figuring myself out with this. Maybe I genuinely need to find God.

It's an incredibly complicated matter, yes. I suppose it's not exactly right of me to say that I'm an atheist, because this is far closer to my feelings on the matter than an arrogant belief that I know better than anyone and can say for sure that there is no God. That's the whole point. I can't say anything for sure. I'm just some guy.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Don't worry about it. I'm sure my little vent about religion was also a bit over the line for a few people. I think we can share these opinions as long as it remains moderately respectful. 

Freedom of expression, and all that. Nobody here is calling anyone names for believing in different things. Long as we keep it that way, we're good, I'd say.

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Besides, calling the church bad is a 3 Houses reference.

Bahah! Good one.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

This is all just an extremely dangerous level of banter that could have me and Ruben burning in Hell for al eternity. 

Good. All the hotties are in hell.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

I could be misunderstanding this all, or maybe the translation is wonky.

You misunderstand, yes. The Kutolah are good guys that are in danger.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Yep. Darkness. Without it, you just can't say it's FE, right?

Why do fan games still include things nobody likes? Just let me have a game without them.

Friendly reminder that Berwick Saga fixes FoW.

One of these days I should challenge myself to go one post without mentioning BWS. But that day is not today.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Ahahahahah... Ah, I love this line. Random-ass loli bringing in the big profanity guns. Wonky translations are the best. They almost save this girl from being terrible. At least she's got a nice hat.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Arel, actually being smart, warns Saya that this can possibly be a trap, given that some groups have been known to use children as traps.

I love that the game brings this up, by the way. A surprisingly dark thing to passingly mention like that.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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And then Otto said "Let there be light".

The torch staff is actually not very powerful. The two of them just used the combined power of their bald heads to reflect the light of the flame, turning them into walking floodlights.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Some of them even use steel weapons to actually threaten my units, but they don't spam effective weapons you can't see like that b*****d from chapter 9 of fe6 with a halberd. F**k you. Every time man....

The one and only man on Earth capable of vanquishing The Seth.

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Congrats. You made a FoW map not complete s**t. 

Told ya this game based, flaws and all.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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It just dawned on me that I was never given flux tome. That's odd. Usually you're given a weapon for a unit.

A talk with Yuin would've fixed that, but then, you had no way to know. Ah well, at least you can just buy one here.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Also, why is a general store selling satanic tomes?

It's elder magic, dude. Don't upset Canas, he doesn't have long to live.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Aw sweet. The Ruben Repellent.

How so? I do believe in some goddesses. Y'know, the kind that would step on me.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Rostov. You've landed that jav hit like, once, ever.

The joys of nonexistent skill.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Look at this dude. 

The knockback from Sieks's armor made him iron deficient.

Sieks is just so epic. Look at him just standing there while this man turns into a natural aberration before his eyes. Uncaring, coldhearted. Dull.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

I like how this actually rewards you for aggressive plays. With the right moves, you can remove enough obstacles for them to not target one unit on enemy phase, but it takes planning and emphasizes your positioning. Enemy positioning is by far the best part of this game, and I love it for that. So far, I'd say FE12 and FE6 are games that use it the best in the mainline games, although FE6 does have a few crappy moments, mainly in the Sacae route. Fe11 has some great positioning too, but I'm not the biggest fan of how many enemies are just horses and armors, so that's a bit of a downside. All of these are generally games considered to be great player phase focused games I believe. I'm comparing these to this because I love those fe games, and I want to praise SoHaE after being a bit mean to it lately. Really, if this game just had stronger enemies and a weaker Jeigan, it'd be an S tier FE game. Great maps. For those who love the parts of the games I just mentioned, but aren't actually masochists who want a crazy challenge, this is your FE hack to play, especially if you like Elibe.

Very good analysis. I wish I could put my thoughts on FE maps into words so well.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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You know what? Why not? Maybe he'll be a busted thief. It's happened before. Ruben said he was strong for him, and he never lies or exaggerates a unit's strength.

Ever heard of such a thing? Of course not.

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Welp. You screwed it. You're benched. Helga's benched too. You ruined it for her. I'm not going down this path again.

Ah well, you'll probably like the third thief best anyway.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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It's always the Lot unit. I always get the best. Axe units just never let me down! I am the Cord Connoisseur. This title actually applies to all units in a similar archetype. Love em all. Of course, Toby is still great, but we already have the Bord apologist.

Ayyyy that's awesome! Hope you can keep these two throughout the game, I really do.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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What the f**k?

I tend to take screenshots of every level up in my LPs, but I make an exception for healers. I don't think they matter much, since they're just meant to heal units in the background of my 500 IQ plays, but of course, Wrys's successor does not let me down.

Ahhh, there we go. He's started. Soon he'll be your light mage of choice.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Can you imagine if that missed? It's be such good content! I wouldn't even be mad.

If your unit dies from this, all you can do is thank the RNG for allowing you this chance for righteous fury. And content. Even if you aren't a content creator, telling all your friends about how you missed a 99 and died is always really fun.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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And the dude got a 1% crit on him. Forget Oswin. Sieks is a madlad.

Sieks is going to conquer the world if you let him. His spear dulled, but he makes up for it with sheer strength.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

If it keep up like this, I'll 100% be promoting this hack by the end of the LP.

Wooo! Here's hoping.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Crap. No strength? 

Hey, but he's gotten res. Mage killer and all that.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Oh. is that female Navarre?

Nope, he's just Navarre. I like the second myrm better.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Nevermind. It's just Navarre. Sorry. I'm going to get canceled now.

Eh, I'll forgive you if you just don't recruit him. Wink wink nudge nudge.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Well s**t. 

That smile hides a veritable killing machine.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Eat your fruits and you'll grow up strong. Eat big and you'll grow big. Eat nothing and you'll grow up like me.

Literally be a fruit and you'll be as powerful as Grape!

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

This is not good recruitment design imo, especially if this was zone based. It'd be forcing you to wait and retreat, and it's not so obvious to blind players that they'll just show up like that. I genuinely thought they just left the stage. Did you really need to convey that little plotline through several turns? If it's turn based, then I guess it's on me for not being slow, but then that's a tad ridiculous. If I was optimal, I could've had Tsagan kill the boss by rushing north before Pascal ever showed up. What would've happened then? Or what if I did have Saya seize on turn 9? Would I have just missed Risette too? It ruins the pacing of the stage that I thought the stage was doing so well on.

Yeah, I'll admit, it's not great. I'm only just now realizing it, too. Never been an issue for me, but then, I've played this game for a long time.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

I don't need you anyways. I have Otto

Otto and his amazing first level, lest you forget!

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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You know what? Screw it.

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Congrats Tsagan. You're still broken. RIP to Bodrov.

Bahahahaha... Oh man, strength is one of his weakest growths, too... This is a man that wants to be here all game.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Great. Now Sieks has contracted Pascalitus. It's when your growths get lowered from the result of fighting a s**t unit. Just make the last turn bring me back to saltiness, why don't you.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Okay look, I know you're siek of the puns, but I just have a feeling that level Sieks is going to be a perfect level...

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

This chapter, while really fun, has the worst storytelling so far. It almost feels entirely like a bad trope or something

In fairness, it is a pretty clear filler chapter. Just something to build up to the climatic Kutolah map a little.

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

Maybe he's the final boss and the 2nd phase will be called Lord Antitheseus.

lol

1 hour ago, Shaky Jones said:

The anger is somewhat exaggerated for...well I just sound rude all the time. 

Not to worry. I get it.

 

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On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Shaky Jones said:

Who's most people!? I mean, I'm not all that familiar with the rom hacking community, but I rarely hear enough about this one to imagine a community has deemed Rostov as better, which he isn't! How? Even at base, Grape's just better. He literally needs 1 speed point to 1RKO, and still sets up kills near perfectly without it. Rostov doesn't do nearly as much damage, often has lower hit rates, and the slight tank boost isn't all that special. It's not hard to make walls or have Grape only take 2 hits. Sometimes, Rostov just can't do the finishing blow in comparison.

I have arisen from the abyss to confirm that there were people who thought that Rostov was better than Grape, and that I was one of them. can't speak for anyone else who may have held that opinion, but in my case it was just a hefty dose of personal experience bias + a preexisting preference for the "strong" cavalier over the "fast" one. and in any case I also thought Tsagan wasn't overpowered, so it's probably safe to discard all of my circa-2018 Sword of Heaven and Earth opinions. (except Sergei being great, because he is great! Emmy and the other female Hero too. [I kinda blanked on this being a blind LP, but Ruben has already alluded to the existence of those units, so can I presume that it's OK to mention them as well as long as I don't go into specifics?])

wow, I really need to replay this game. I don't think I ever ended up finishing it, I have a particularly bad habit of nearly finishing a game and then abandoning it for no apparent reason when it comes to Fire Emblem. in this case it works out though because at the time I played it the fan translation hadn't released, so I had no idea what was going on in the story; guess I finally get to find out! (heck, may as well make it an ironman too; I'm not sure I've ever made a serious attempt at one [i.e. one that I didn't give up on after like 4 chapters lol], and SoHaE's obviously FE6-inspired unit design seems like it would lend itself well to the playstyle)

anyway, hope this wasn't too out of the blue! I've read the first few updates (not the latest one though, yet) and I'm enjoying the LP so far!

 

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1 hour ago, Ruminant said:

I have arisen from the abyss

Oh hey! Haven't seen you around in ages. Good to see you're doing well.

1 hour ago, Ruminant said:

to confirm that there were people who thought that Rostov was better than Grape, and that I was one of them. can't speak for anyone else who may have held that opinion, but in my case it was just a hefty dose of personal experience bias + a preexisting preference for the "strong" cavalier over the "fast" one.

I just like Nikita, honestly. He has a fun face and nobody likes him. Perfect for me.

Of these two, I'll admit I always had a preference for Grape, based entirely on his face. He looks so good.

1 hour ago, Ruminant said:

except Sergei being great, because he is great! Emmy and the other female Hero too.

I second these. Sergei's a fun mage in a game full of really mediocre ones. I've gotten great results out of Leo in the past, but he's kinda boring. Eliza, the prepromoted sage, is the other fun mage of the game. Her growths are uncharacteristically insane for this game. She has a Lilina-tier magic growth! Quite the interesting unit, her. As for Emmy and the other female hero... It's just nice to see a game with female heroes as the norm rather than the exception.

1 hour ago, Ruminant said:

[I kinda blanked on this being a blind LP, but Ruben has already alluded to the existence of those units, so can I presume that it's OK to mention them as well as long as I don't go into specifics?]

I mean, "units exist in this game" isn't much of a spoiler, now, is it?

Just don't spoil the more plot-critical ones and it'll be fine, I think, unless Shaky says otherwise.

1 hour ago, Ruminant said:

at the time I played it the fan translation hadn't released, so I had no idea what was going on in the story; guess I finally get to find out!

That's how I felt when I saw the translation, myself. As I've said a few times before, it's wonky, but it gets the job done. It's enough of a miracle that it exists at all, better not look a gift horse in the mouth! You can tell the Kaga influence in a few places. I'd wager the creator was a fan.

1 hour ago, Ruminant said:

(heck, may as well make it an ironman too; I'm not sure I've ever made a serious attempt at one [i.e. one that I didn't give up on after like 4 chapters lol], and SoHaE's obviously FE6-inspired unit design seems like it would lend itself well to the playstyle)

Sure! SoHaE is a great ironman game.

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ok I finished reading the last update after playing a few chapters myself. just gonna respond to it and not the older chapters so there isn't too much to read

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17 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Wait, the Kutolah tribe is attacking us? Aren't they, like, the good guys or something? Aren't most of the playable Saceans in the Elibe games from there? I guess the lore was that they became allied with the Lorca tribe at some point when Bern was invading Sacae, which I guess is right now. Maybe that's what's gonna happen? I shouldn't speak too quickly though. I could be misunderstanding this all, or maybe the translation is wonky.

Yeah, my guess is this is a mistranslation; maybe for something like "Knowing the Kutolah tribe is in danger", perhaps? so what's supposed to be a simple "rushing to help your allies" summary ends up being needlessly confusing and implies your allies are suddenly a threat. (I'm really grateful that this game has a fan translation at all, especially when it's a fangame itself! It does seem to be pretty rough in places, though.)

17 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Why do fan games still include things nobody likes? Just let me have a game without them.

In fairness Sword of Heaven and Earth seems to adhere pretty strictly to the formula of official FE games (particularly the Elibe ones given the setting + being an FE7 romhack), but... yeah, no, that's not a good excuse for continuing to include this terrible mechanic! (Actually as far as widely-disliked mechanics go I don't mind [GBA] fog that much... at least it's not desert. oh god this hack has a desert map doesn't it? I wish I could remember.

17 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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A girl who wants to be a great wizard. Good-hearted who hates to lose.

D rank anima

You are a child. And a brat. The worst kind of character. Since you're not an important character, I seriously doubt you're going to have some redemption arc like Sanaki. You're just the game's Delthea. If that's your thing, then by all means use the tiny magic girl to your heart's content, but I already have enough things going for me to get in a watchlist. How dare you insult Arel? And then she pisses me off even more in the end of the chapter. Such a predictable "look at the kid who deserves to be pitied but also praised" unit. Despicable!

I'll admit to finding Liane kind of entertaining, but "good-hearted" certainly isn't how I would describe her... Maybe another mistranslation? (Okay, probably not. More likely a product of assuming that being a child automatically = pure and innocent when children can be horrible jerks too. [Some would argue that's their default mode of existence, but I digress...])

18 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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What the f**k?

what do you mean this is clearly a normal Wrys Otto level up, what do you think the defense cap is for?

17 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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That's right. I'm not going to bother. As much as I want my first run to be one where everyone is recruited, I do not respect you enough to bother. I am not retreating for 2 to 3 more turns and make the past 2 ones all for nothing. You're literally Navarre. Besides, shouldn't killing the boss end your service? You can naturally see your sister being safe with us. She's a blue unit. Realistically, this should still end with you joining us, right? No! Of course not! Why would it end that way!?

Yeah Pascal really is not worth the trouble of recruiting when he's just Navarre, especially when you already got a better sword unit in the last chapter! (Okay that could also describe Navarre himself, but at least you can put Navarre on a horse in the remake; Pascal here has no such opportunity.)

17 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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This dialogue doesn't even make sense. So now that your old boss is dead, you just follow a new one? Don't you want to protect her this time or something? She offers to join, and the dialogue does not imply that he rejected the idea, nor does she even bring up meeting us (which I guess makes sense in a way because we didn't talk but she was a blue unit so gameplay wise she was following our orders), but she still ends up being on my team when the next map starts. He just leaves I guess. If the two meet here, why doesn't it do whatever the game would've done if they met on the battle, and have him join me? It just really wanted me to do the healer talk thing? This chapter, while really fun, has the worst storytelling so far. It almost feels entirely like a bad trope or something. As if I had to play and see everything in one specific way.

Interestingly this dialogue also plays if you killed Pascal, like I did when playing this chapter. Bit confusing when he's supposed to be, you know, dead... (I'm guessing that the trigger is "seize without recruiting Pascal" without regard to whether you killed him or not, that would make the most sense, and it also kind of backs up your last sentence here about the chapter only being intended to be experienced in a very specific way.)

17 hours ago, Shaky Jones said:

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Lord Theseus. What a name. Maybe he's the final boss and the 2nd phase will be called Lord Antitheseus.

I'd be more afraid of having to fight him on a boat map myself; Theseus' ship and all.

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

A talk with Yuin would've fixed that, but then, you had no way to know. Ah well, at least you can just buy one here.

Aww, I missed out too... I thought it would be a talk with Saya, or maybe with Otto given he somehow managed to keep his staff while imprisoned; Yuin didn't occur to me. (My third guess was that there would be one in one of the chests, so at least I got Yuin being involved right?)

(Keep in mind that although I've played this game before, it was only once years ago and I don't have a great memory. You can also probably tell that I went ahead with this chapter before reading your comment...)

5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh hey! Haven't seen you around in ages. Good to see you're doing well.

Good to see you too! I mostly just lost interest in FE for awhile, and when it came back I didn't think to come back to Serenes... I was never that much of a forumgoer, I guess.

5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I just like Nikita, honestly. He has a fun face and nobody likes him. Perfect for me.

(note for Shaky: minor gameplay spoilers)

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I just noticed how insane it is that Nikita has 27 base HP as a level 3 Cavalier... consider me converted! I'm definitely using him now, until I inevitably get him killed through sheer lack of forethought. (I actually paused Chapter 5 to write this comment, and I've already had several near-misses that I only got out of by sheer luck or accidentally exploiting the AI to do something else... Technically one miss if you count Pascal, I was going slow enough that I probably could have safely recruited him had I not forgotten to move Risette on the turn she shows up.

5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Sure! SoHaE is a great ironman game.

Considering that it gives you three healers in the first four chapters, I'd be more surprised if it weren't! That seems like total overkill if you were expected to never lose any of them. (and to be honest it still kind of does, but I'm not complaining! I like healers)

 

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