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14 hours ago, ping said:
Shanan was probably called "mister" by a teenager for the first time recently, so that's why he's a bit sensitive here.
He would've needed to talk to someone for that to happen. And we all know he became mute over the past 20 years.
14 hours ago, ping said:Everybody point and laugh at Faval for his lack of rugged manliness. He's good with children! How embarrassing!
Next you'll tell me he has emotions. Real men aren't like that!!
14 hours ago, ping said:
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I think I like this John Constipatius. Too bad he has to die.
He's one of the best, I agree. Going out on a high note, because he's the final John Constipatius.
...instead, the final map showcases far, far, far worse portrait reuse.
14 hours ago, ping said:
: "It's you! YOU are Seliph! Gah... If not for you, Blume and Ishtore would still be... You will not escape me!"
Oh, she cared about Blume and Ishtore at least a little bit? Huh. I didn't think she cared about anyone at all.
14 hours ago, ping said:: "You really are every bit the ingrate your dear mama was!"
: "Hilda! You... What you did to Mother..."
: "Ahh, that takes me back! It's been so long since I've had as much fun as tormenting that eyesore you call 'mama'... Ahahaha!"
Hilda, she called her "Mother" just now.
: "No! You... I won't forgive you..."
: "Why, if I didn't know better, I'd say that's the smart mouth of someone all grown up! What could a brat like you ever hope to do? Good think you miss your mama. You're about to join her in hell!"
Okay but this battle convo is amazing, though. We need more Hildas in this series.
...just, y'know, not how IntSys did it.
14 hours ago, ping said:
: "That makes sense... And I suppose it means we'll be crossing blades with Thracia's dracoknights again."
: "Mm. I'm afraid so. So long as this war continues..."
: "To be honest, Altena, I believe this actually good news."
This is really bad wording, Leif.
14 hours ago, ping said:
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: "Nngh... So this is how the gods will my fate..."
lol
lmao even
14 hours ago, ping said:
: "Mm, of course. I don't think there's a single corner of Chalphy which I don't recall fondly... Lord Sigurd and Lady Ethlyn... Noish, Alec, and all of my other peers among the young knights of Chalphy..."
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: "..."
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: "Every last face there was a friendly one..."
Poor, poor Arden...
14 hours ago, ping said:That said, Seliph being perceived as a savior isn't entirely baseless, as much as I dislike the trope of the "Chosen One" - but that should come from who his mother is. Deirdre is the one with Naga blood - and since Arvis's claim to power comes from her lineage, that isn't much of a state secret, either. Who exactly Seliph's father is (apart from "not Arvis") doesn't really have to matter in this narrative.
Yes, but see, Deirdre is a woman, so she can't be the important one.14 hours ago, ping said:
...okay, that does not sound like something DA:O!Morrigan would say.
She'd probably rather die going "fuck you" or something.
14 hours ago, BrightBow said:You guys didn't deserve Arden.
They didn't, but Arden helped them to the end anyway, because Arden was a true hero.
2 hours ago, ping said:Warrior Sharlow.
Finally, a worthy successor for Yubello.
Oh that's lovely. Imagine, he just starts bonking people on the head with Hannibal's berserk staff while the man looks on with a tear on his eye like "that's my boy."
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1 hour ago, Jotari said:
ut anyway, the reason in particular that Hilda being a boss of this chapter annoys me in particular. It's because there's another vampish Velthomer lady who is conspicuously absent.
Yeah, you know, Aida should absolutely have been the boss of Miletos, actually.
1 hour ago, Jotari said:(and is delivered pretty hamfistedly there too).
They literally did it with an "as you know," lol
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9 hours ago, Armagon said:
First Best Buy, now Target...
Hang in there, Carrefour.
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14 hours ago, Jotari said:
Oh! What! Oh no, I was, eh, talking about her, uh, Volcannon. I mean Bolganone. Yeah, that's one hot book.
Do not be ashamed.
9 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:That'd be a cool way to do it. Honestly, they could leave Scorpio and the Beigenritter in charge of Castle Jungby. Would be more interesting than... uh... whoever's in charge of the southwest castle in Miletos. Let Hilda run Evans, and give Marpha to a Loptyrman, and we're golden.
I mean, it's kinda nice to see Miletos... but it's also the portion of the continent with the least lore. Who was running the place before Grannvale? What is their culture like? What are the people from there even called? Is there literally a single named "Miletosian" whom we can identify?
I won't lie, it kinda feels like a filler place. They needed land between Thracia and Arvis for build-up so they just threw Miletos in there.
6 hours ago, ping said:Yeah, I like the @Interdimensional Observer's head canon, but I agree that Hilda would make a bigger deal about being brothers with the Emperor
unless she doesn't want to direct Ishtar's attention to her and Julius being cousins.Just from her looks, I would've headcanoned Isaachian heritage for her. I'm sure there's black-haired characters explicitly stated to be from somewhere else, but that hair colour is still mostly associated with that country.
It'd be neat if she was a Miletos royal and that's how she ended up being queen of the place lol
And thinking about it, the only character that comes to mind that's black-haired but isn't from Isaach is Asaello.
6 hours ago, ping said:Even Carcino from Sacred Stones isn't this bad off. Even if it's really easy to forget Rennac is from there because he's far easier to associate to the Rausten gang.
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17 minutes ago, Jotari said:
Hmm...Should I confess to thinking this collection of pixels is hot or not?
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9 minutes ago, ping said:
I wasn't sure in which direction to go, so I went with both.
Even still. Beats most RPGs, where they tell you your guy's strength is 47, your weapon's power is 81, the enemy's defense is 19 and then you deal 472 damage one turn and 521 the next and God knows why the fuck anything happens.
18 minutes ago, ping said:
There it is again. It's even funnier the 8th time!
21 minutes ago, ping said:Of course, it helps Ishtar that basically everybody looks like the lesser even when compared to a woman who doesn't just go along with the child hunts, but is furious when some babies aren't stabbed, nagadamnit.
Hilda's great. She's not sympathetic, she's not possessed, she's not sexy... She's as horribly, unabashedly, generically evil as every ugly recolored man ever, and she's about as physically unattractive as anime women are allowed to be. And, you know what? That's neat.
22 minutes ago, ping said:
: "Ah, General Riddell. We've got orders for you from Queen Hilda. She wants you to move out at once."
I feel like I should know who this is but I can't put my finger on it right n...
...Wait, Morrigan? Why Morrigan...?
23 minutes ago, ping said:: "Excellent. It's high time that we had work which better befits knights. I am absolutely fed up with hunting children! I swear, if I have to hunt even one more child..."
: "Oh, what a pity that is. You see, we've a handful of escaped brats who are all in sore need of an execution."
: "Oh, for the love of..."
I do love how John Constipatius the VII has a worse reaction to the childhunts than Very Sympathetic Silver-Haired Camus.
24 minutes ago, ping said:
: "Heh... The shock stripped you of your memory all those years ago, did it? Perfect. Now, come!"
: "N-no! Take your hands off me!"
: "Heh heh... You cannot resist fate, my dear. Now, cease your struggle and come along..."
: "No! Ahh... Lord Seliph... Help... me..."
Funny dialogue, I have to admit. If Kaga hadn't been a coward, he would've had Manfroy kaga Arion like this in the previous chapter, too.
Manfroy just has clairvoyance. He can just divine where the silver maidens he needs are at any given moment.
26 minutes ago, ping said:I'm loathe to say this, but Deirdre's abduction was much more well-written. For Deirdre, there was at least some set-up - it's established that Manfroy is looking for her, and Deirdre's feeling of dread (which Julia shares) comes back in dramatic irony when her acting on it (running after Sigurd because she felt impeding doom if they came apart) allows Manfroy to kidnap her without anybody's notice. Julia's abduction... just happens.
Gen 2: Where you find yourself missing even the worst gen 1 plot points!
25 minutes ago, ping said:
Morrigan is about what you'd expect from a Dark Bishop. Fairly tanky. Weighed down by their tomes. The three castle guards all use Hel, so you'll need a healer nearby to approach Morrigan, but since the guards don't move while their boss is alive, you should be fine if you take that precaution.
...Oh, right. I forgot...
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3 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Image & Form Games has been pushing SteamWorld into as many genres and aesthetics as they can, to mixed reception. Though I get any creative impulses to avoid repeating the same thing over and over again, despite what fans may want.
Yeah they do seem determined not to repeat stuff, which is a valid approach I can get behind. Again, I'll want to see more. I mean, they haven't even made the Steam page yet!
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6 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Not like there was much to it. -Or so says someone who wouldn't describe themselves as an indie gamer.😅
Eh, the platform for indies is PC anyway. The only indies that make their way to consoles are those profitable enough to be able to afford the jump.
7 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:I think I'll wait for a sale for that. I liked Heist well enough, but I'm in no rush, I've enough on my gaming table.
I have great memories of Heist, even played it multiple times. Perhaps another run will be in order for the release of the second game.
...Already aesthetically I think I like it less, it does that thing where it's turned into a pseudo-3D, which is usually done to alleviate costs. And I feel like I preferred the original "space bounty hunters" hook better than this "pirates in an actual see" thing. But we'll see. There's only a very short trailer at this point, not much to go on.
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Holy shit.
I ignored the Indie World direct, ended up clicking on it after it was done, skimmed through the timeline bar quickly.
Steamworld Heist 2.
Thanks a lot Ninty, as soon as they make the Steam page I'm throwing it on my wishlist.
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11 hours ago, Jotari said:
EDIT: I see two other people have already commented on Musar's blood purity before me. But I'll have you know I actually had my full comment about him written out before either of you guys posted. I just had to cycle to the train station immediately before I could finish writing about Arion.
You know more about Gen bossmen than I do. Heck, while you were writing your in-depth, well thought-out post, I had to go on google because I thought Ridale was the one with the holy blood.
11 hours ago, Jotari said:Hey, I beat Maddening Engage before the DLC ever came out. I guess that makes me a better Fire Emblemler than you. And you've seen my Eckesachs play log, so you know how mistake prone I am!
You probably are. I burned out really badly after the "get all the emblems back" map and never recovered.
2 hours ago, ping said:Look, you can't expect me to do basic maths when fire embling.
Yeah, it's not like this is the one game series where you can do basic math with the stats displayed and actually get a result you can use for anything lol
...Seriously FE is so cool for that.
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1 minute ago, ping said:
...because another John Constipatius (surely related to Incontinentia Buttocks) spawns from that area.
He's her father-in-law.
19 minutes ago, ping said:
In the north, John Constipatius CIXX. is even tankier than Judah, even before taking his Shield Ring into account. He's also really fast, since Tornado, like all the non-Forseti wind spells, only has a weight of 2. This is important, since he also has the Pursuit skill, and 18 AS actually doubles a lot of units on our team.
The Constipated clan gets stronger and stronger with each appearance. What's next, John Constipatius with holy blood?
...Actually, the joke doesn't work, because it's not next one that has holy blood. It's this one. Yeah, I think you missed it, but this rando with the funny shitass face has holy blood. Hot damn.
21 minutes ago, ping said:
: "Hey! You're Sharlow, right?"
: "Huh? Sorry, but who are you, miss?"
: "I'm Leylia! Er, you've never seen a dancer before, have you?"
: "No, sorry... Not yet."
: "Heh! Y'know, if you ever have time to spare, I can show you a bit of dancing. Deal?"
: "T-thank you..."
[+1 Lck --> Leylia]
Certainly a conversation of all time. With words and all. Looking at the chapter's script on the wiki, Lene and Coirpre discover that they're both from Dahra, but even that is absent from Leylia and Sharlow's dialogue. Supporting Jotari's suggestion that Sharlow could just have been Hannibal's biologial son, it seems like their being siblings won't amount to anything in the story.
Eh, I'm still partial to Hannibal and his adoptive son mirroring Travant and his own Garon'd child. This'd be lost if Sharlow was his biological son. These two don't need to be related at all, though.
...And this convo would've been garbage either way. Ironically, we were talking about her looking more mature being an upside, but then we get to this convo and she's being sultry with what looks to be an 8 year old. Genealogy!
23 minutes ago, ping said:Very sweet convo. No wisecracks to be made here.
I have one wisecrack: Why does Cairpre not get this?!
Being Cairpre is suffering.
24 minutes ago, ping said:
And then, Arion gets saved by Julius.
I'll be honest, I had to laugh a little at this. I know, there's the precedent of Julius saving Ishtar earlier, but since he and Arion didn't really have any connection at all, this is still an extremely contrived way of letting Arion return in endgame. Manfroy could've swooped in, all "Mwahahahahhh, I shall brainwash youuuuuu!", and it couldn't have been sillier.
...I believe that is what they call foreshadowing.
I won't lie, I forgot this is how Arion survived.
...It... does not make much sense, does it.
26 minutes ago, ping said:why not attach the HP bonus to only one of them
and have the other increase all of Hannibal's stats by +5 instead?If only.
27 minutes ago, ping said:As far as gameplay is concerned, the map had some neat ideas. The two Wyvern squads, led by Altena and Travant respectively, going after Meath were a decent way to have the player divert some resources. The Dragon Trinity Strike is pretty cool, although it's easily foiled by Return and Warp because the squads are really weak. At the start of this update, we *could* have had a cool pincer between Grutia's troops and Grannvale's reinforcements... but then we didn't because Judah decided to go for the all-stationary approach. Lost opportunity. Overall, a 5/10 map - an effort was made, and some of it was successful.
Welp, that's been my favorite map of gen 2. Probably. We'll see how much mileage you get out of the last two chapters.
28 minutes ago, ping said:So you consider your enjoyment of the game more important than a miniscule mechanical advantage?
Fake FE player.
Cry me a river. And I'll have you know, Im consider my enjoyment of the game less important than preserving my run's "purity."
Seriously, I should've just used the DLC in my Maddening run of Engage. But my stubborn ass just couldn't stop thinking "I need to beat it properly once so I prove I can do it." Well, I didn't. I'm the one crying a river now.
28 minutes ago, ping said:The greatest twist about that is that you secretly haven't been a beardman all along.
Travant has a secret beard.
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9 minutes ago, Armchair General said:
Well, it's an sidescroller that mainly gates you by sending beefed up enemies at you. But you can stunlock some of them with 2 or 3 elemental spells from your mage's combination attacks or git gud with the block command. But so far, the game feels incredibly small for an Switch game.
And as great as the combat is, they've settled with doing the "elemental reskin" routine and there's hardly much of anything that could be considered an challenge... Until I faced the ruler of the ice dungeon
Oh wait - you're talking about Rising, right?
Yeah that was basically just a little side thing made as a kickstarter reward to hold people over before the game proper. All I've heard of it indicates it is rather mid.
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1 hour ago, ping said:
Ah, but I did have a reason to do that: it greatly amused me.
1 hour ago, ping said:Make it "Rodelbahn" and you have the German word for a sled run. A beautiful name for a boy.
Pretty sure Project Naga tried to go for this but corrupted.
1 hour ago, ping said:Lex/Sylvia, let's go.
(just theorycrafting - but that actually sounds like the most convenient option if you're going for ranked, no? Coirpre gets Paragon, Lex can pass him the Renewal band to give him a nice 20k to blow on staves, not like Lex would lack the funds, and you don't really care about how useful Coirple's staff botting is. And Lene can do Vantage/Sleep Sword memes to get through the arena, so she'll cap out, too.)
I suppose that is one niche. Of course, in regular play Corple has to choose between Paragon and any stats that are actually useful to him, whereas Sharlow just shows up with everything he needs. Because subs are cool.
1 hour ago, BrightBow said:didn't even give you an exploding sword or anything.
Plot twist: that was the kicker. If Travant had given Altena a sword that blows up she would've loved him way more.
1 hour ago, Revier said:Kaga calling different parts of the world more/less civilized? Oh dear.
Spaniard here. I can confirm this entire country (all of it) is a desolate arid wasteland. Also, I am Travant.
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17 minutes ago, Jotari said:
Yeah, I should have said he's better than Hannibal, at the very least. But I think his chip healing and instant warping capabilities puts him at more useful than a lot of the substitute units and eugenics units with substitute levels of pairing quality. I guess, I could say, if one were to do an "all subs except Sylvia" run then he'd be of middling quality of contribution to the remaining two maps. Though Sharlow would still be better as innate paragon and berserk are pretty great for the unit late game healer Est is trying to be.
Hmmm... Actually? I have to concede the point, as I am the living proof. I did, in fact, do a sub run with Cairpre present. A really bad Cairpre too, his father was Alec lmao. He was still a lot more useful than the big scrub-tier subs like Tristan and Roddlebahn or whatever his name is this time of year.
Really, his biggest problem is just that he's worse than Sharlow and they can't exist together. Combined with Laylea being arguably as good as Lene, leaving Sylvia alone ends up seeming like a better choice, and this is very bad for poor Cairpre.
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1 minute ago, Jotari said:
Hot take. Coirpre is not that bad. In fact, I'd say he's more useful than Hannibal. Sure, he's a level 1 staff bot more than half way through the generation. But really, what are you expecting to do with him? He has A rank staves, he can use any staff you want (except variable Valkyrie), his stats basically don't matter. You don't need another combat unit. He's pure staffbot/10. If you had to grind his weapon ranks then yes, absolutely that would be horrible. But from the moment he's out the gate, he's good to go. Sure, he won't heal as much as Ced or Lana because his magic will probably be a lot lower than theirs, but he'll heal enough to get you out of a tight spot when you need it with physic. And magic is completely irrelevant for Warp and Return. Besides, most of the time you'll be having him use mend from inside the home castle anyway to heal up people who have failed an arena run. That's a function. And if you're going for a rank, even without paragon, having staff at all if much more useful for grinding out levels. Of course, with no Arena potential, he'll run out of money fast abusing Warps and Returns, so what he really needs is a special relationship with Hannibal where there's one way Parent to Child money transfer (and give it to Finn->Leif and Oifey/Shannon->Seliph too, maybe). That would give Hannibal more of a purpose too, as you can have him go through the Arena to raise money for Coirpre.
Oh, Cairpre is definitely better than Hannibal, as is Sharlow and every other unit in gen 2. Cairpre's problem is that being better than Hannibal means nothing, he wants Sylvia to marry Claude or else he gets didly squat out of his dad and his sub has everything you'll ever need of him with less effort required. Except Valkyria, I guess, but Valkyria is a lot better in theory than it is in practice.
Agreed that Hannibal and his son needed a special relationship. Especially considering Hannibal can't marry, it'd been cool to make him have that parental bond with his son so he can make money for him at the arena. That'd been pretty cute.
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7 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
As I said before- methinks Arion was listening to the father he was used to hearing, and ignored the one actually in front of him. Or perhaps, to make Arion a little less blind, examined the two, and when deciding on how to interpret the contradictions between the fathers, fell lopsidedly in favor of the old one.
Tunnel vision, people in crises of the worst kind aren't immune to it. Indeed, some disasters only get worse/happen because some people fail to see what is truly happening in front of them.
(By Michalis before him and TRS Julius thereafter, Kaga seems to have liked moody wyvern princes who get into unnecessary battles.)
It's a fine interpretation and there is precedent as you say. It's just even dumber in Arion's case because Travant basically hands him peace on a silver platter.
7 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:If/when Genealogy gets remade... I haven't the faintest how they could possibly fix Coirpre. Short of turning Silvia's Dance from a class skill to a personal one, being a second refresher would maybe improve him?
Erase him, have Sharlow always exist.
...in all seriousness, letting both get berserk would help, but the problem is that Coirpre really really needs paragon due to his starting situation, and he just... Doesn't get it, unlike Sharlow. Unless they completely change how they function as units, I fear the concept is kinda dead on arrival. I mean, seriously, level 1 priest halfway through chapter 8?
5 hours ago, Jotari said:What happens if you don't kill him? Can you make him go green?
Nah, if Hannibal is recruited he just vanishes. He had one week left before retirement and it passed when Hannibal is recruited.
1 hour ago, ping said:was thinking that he maybe could've reached the same goal by just pulling a Siriüh and disappear without a trace
and only come back wearing a bitchin' mask when Arion is kidnapped by a somehow revived Manfroy. But you're right, him dying is a clear cut that would fulfil any desires of revenge on the side of Leif specifically.If he disappeared, the rebels could accuse Arion's peace negotiations of being a ploy to bide for time, lower their guard and provide Travant an opportunity to return and strike again. Travant had to die, and die in spectacular fashion to leave nothing to chance.
1 hour ago, ping said:You consider 25-ish XP on a character who already one-rounds bosses with plenty of overkill "no need?"
Fake FE player.
Murderer.
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6 hours ago, Armagon said:
Portrait of Ruin cause i could use some Castlevania and it looked fun when @Saint Rubenio played it
Jonathan, Charlotte, Jonathan, Charlotte, Jonathan, Charlotte.
I'd still call Ecclesia better but that's just me. PoR is still perfectly fine.
2 hours ago, Armchair General said:Well, due to an unfortunate mishap, we've got two copies of Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising. So far, I kind of hate it. It's not exactly terrible, but I'm at the point where the volcano went off and the villagers are setting up spa. It just feels like I'm just sitting through an VN than an actual game, at the rate of how often I get pulled back to town.
Not good. That is what I was concerned about - gameplay being boring.
...is the story any good so far, at least?
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1 hour ago, ping said:
: "What a sorry joke... Me, a distinguished general, stuck babysitting some brat?"
: "Excuse me, Mister Distler, but... Let me go! Papa doesn't want to fight. He's out there risking his life all because of me!"
: "Silence, boy! If Thracia's legendary Shield refuses to ply his warrior's craft of his own will, then we will force him to, by any means necessary!"
:" Oh, Papa... Sorry..."
"Mister Distler" sounds funny. And as far as extremely minor bossmen go, he's... alright. While he doesn't display much of a personality in this exchange, the contrast to his extremely compliable "Yes, King Travant, whatever you say" attitude earlier is a neat small detail.
He's probably exhibited the most personality out of all the recolors of this one face. Not that that's saying much.
1 hour ago, ping said:
I'm sure this will go swimmingly.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think I would've preferred if Leif would've brought a bit more rational substance to his speech. In particular, comparing Gáe Bolg to Gungnir and ask if Altena never wondered about her weapon being equivalent to her father's legendary heirloom. But even if not too cynical, I'm certainly being very pedantic with this.
I mean, "muh eyes" is a giant cliche, but eh, what are you gonna do.
1 hour ago, ping said:
: "Altena? Oh, you have got to be joking. Why? Why, why, WHY did you abandon your post for the second time in as many days?"
I do love how exasperated Travy is here.
1 hour ago, ping said:It's still good, though, I think. Of course, I know (and knew when playing) that Altena is playable and Arion stabbing her is a fake-out - and I do wonder if I would've recognised it as such if unspoiled because of the lack of fanfare. Maybe not, considering the Wiseau-like brevity of Eldigan's execution...
Anyway - Travant is great in this scene. Might be the first time he shows a certain moral greyness, with how his adoption of Altena has been framed as just an act to use her innate power. But here, he recognises the writing on the wall: Seliph's army is going to win, and with Travant being a famously traitorous and backstabby (even though that's a bit of an informed attribute, in my opinion), not to mention the killer of Leif's parents and abductor of his sister... Travant's chances to negotiate a peace with Seliph seem slim at best. So, instead, he hands over his crown to Arion, who does not carry any of that baggage, with what I see as a pretty clear implied recommendation to make peace with Leonster, and then he goes off to get himself killed with his honour intact because warrior codes are weird like that.
Yeah, this scene is another part of what makes Travant one of, if not the best villain in this game.
For what it's worth, I don't think he's getting himself killed for "weird honor codes" here. Travant's many things, but he doesn't strike me as one to put much stock in honor. No, I think what he's doing here is ensuring that all the baggage you listed dies with him. With him having paid for his many misdeeds, the rebels' fury is satisfied, and nothing stops Arion from wiping the slate clean and, with Bloom gone as well, negotiating a path towards a new, bright era for Thracia. In theory.
It's not a terrible plan, all things considered, and it shows that at least to a degree, he did genuinely wish the betterment of his homeland, if he's willing to ensure it even if he will be too dead to benefit from it.
But, of course...
1 hour ago, ping said:'Tis a shame Arion is an idiot.
1 hour ago, ping said:
: "My lord Hannibal is depending on me to defend this castle. If you wish to claim it, you must first claim my life!"
: "General Hannibal... Forgive me, my liege..."
Kapathogia: Beaten. Not terribly difficult. Dermott and Seliph run ahead to beat Distler quickly, too.
There was no need for this. You needlessly killed Philip 4.
Murderer.
1 hour ago, ping said:
[HP 70% | Str 10% | Mag 50% | Skl 20% | Spd 20% | Lck 30% | Def 10% | Res 30%]
Skill: Paragon
Weapon Level: Staves (B)And so, as almost everybody on our team has reached promotion, we are given a Lv.1 Priest. How nice.
Honestly, while Paragon is obviously great, and 50% Mag growth without any holy blood is pretty nuts, Sharlow doesn't really seem like he has much of a niche. With Julia leaving after this chapter, you might think that he can be an alternative offensive staff user with high Mag, but Sharlow needs to get to Lv.20 and promote (at which point he'll be at 25-26 Mag on average) to overtake what Ced (24 Mag) and Lana (still 22 Mag despite her physical dad) have right now.
Now imagine Sharlow, except he doesn't have Paragon, he likely has higher stats in worse places and he doesn't get the awesome item from Hannibal that Sharlow does a little later into the chapter. An item, I might add, that's arguably better than even the best case scenario here, which is marrying Sylvia to Claude so her son can get Valkyrie. And that's difficult enough - it's more likely that Sylvia will marry Lewyn or Alec and the wonder boy will eat shit and get nothing he can use at all.
Being Cairpre is suffering.
1 hour ago, ping said:
: "My apologies, Altena. I had to give Father a convincing show, that I might ensure your survival. I had no choice but to deal such a powerful blow."
Only for Travant to immediately go "you didn't need to go that far" and leave to meet his destiny five minutes later.
I don't know, Arion. I think you may have misjudged your father a tad. Even without the line that you (Ping) said should've been there (and I'd agree to be honest), considering he was clearly already toying with the planthat he'd end up doing, he probably would've just had Altena imprisoned until he was dead. Congratulations, Arion - you achieved the exact same end, but Altena got a headache for it.
1 hour ago, ping said:: "I wish I could, and I would were it not for Father's final words to me...
No, but seriously, how do you misinterpret Travant's final words to you so fucking badly, man? You literally got the exact opposite of everything he meant!
1 hour ago, ping said:Actually, that makes the dialogue with Leif a bit better in retrospect. If Leif has Quan's eyes, it seems appropriate that seeing them might trigger some subconcious memories for Altena.
Yeah, pretty decent save on their part, I'll admit.
1 hour ago, ping said:
[HP 60% | Str 50% | Mag 5% | Skl 10% | Spd 10% | Lck 10% | Def 30% | Res 5%]
Skills: Pavise, Adept, Vantage
Weapon Level: Swords (A), Lances (A), Axes (B), Bows (B)Unfortunately, Hannibal seems like he has much less of a niche than Lawrence's indoor Gradivüh usage. He's bulky, yes, but actually slightly less so than Seliph, Leaf, Ulster, and Larcei. And Nanna, Fee, Altena, and Johalvier aren't all that far behind, either. His Str is middling (same as Oifey, Patty, and Lester), his other stats kinda bad. No innate Pursuit, either.
There he is.
Hannibal is so funny. All the trouble of walking around Kapathogia, confusing his AI, killing the bossman and then moving the extremely sluggish priest all the way to him, and you get... the worst unit in gen 2. Bar none. Basically the only thing of value he ever does is give Sharlow a cool staff. If Sharlow even exists.
But who cares. He is the cool beardman. You simply must use him. Give him the pursuit ring. Kill Arvis with him! (Actually, don't, it's hilariously difficult to make happen)
1 hour ago, ping said:And that is that. I didn't finish this turn, so technically, Hannibal's recruitment hasn't happened officially yet, so this is where the update will end, too.
Now that he's dead and buried... I'm not entirely sure how to feel about Travant. Ambivalent or inconsistent? His final conversation with Arion was great (on Travant's side, anyway); outside of that, I didn't see much evidence that he was more than an ambitious bastard. With which there would be nothing wrong with - I still think Chagall played that role quite well back in Gen 1 - but the attempts to humanise him mostly seemed half-hearted and not that convincing as a result. Specifically, when Altena tells Seliph that Travant did treat her like a daughter, that is in stark contrast to the actual scenes with them and Arion, where the latter is the golden boy while Altena is treated as that annoying brat that will spout her bladibla about not being an asshole and won't do what she's told.
Still, overall, Travant made for a good villain for these two chapters. Opportunistic, with less than world-spanning (or -destroying) ambitions... but with a bit of an impression that he could've been used a bit more interestingly.
He definitely could've done with some improvements and some less idiotic dialogue in the Manster part, but all things considered, he's a pretty good villain that makes something of an impression. Pretty great by Genealogy standards.
...And now it's one more chapter of okay-to-good villains and then, uh... the final chapter. Just, the final chapter.
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37 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Mosaic of the Roman god Oceanus, discovered in the 1980s in a 4th century AD Roman villa located in Carranque, Spain. You approve of the blue beard like rolling waves @Saint Rubenio?🌊
And Shrimpy, yes those are crustacean claws and antennae emerging from his head.I knew this country was cool.
37 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:anime did not invent unnecessarily sexualization.😝
They may have perfected the art but they certainly did not pioneer it.
38 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:When Enlightenment era Europe developed a liking for this ancient lady of rational thought, she began being depicted in the 1700s & 1800s as a beautiful youthful nude woman in the classical/Renaissance/neoclassical style. -Despite the fact said sculptures/paintings are supposed to depict her tragic death at the hands of a fanatical Christian mob in 415 AD, and Hypatia was born around 360 AD, which means she would've been ~55 years of age.
...Yikes.
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14 minutes ago, Revier said:
are the infantry units in general balanced against cavalry(and their equivalents, like pegasi and wyvern) units in these games?
Short answer: Nope.
Long answer: Basically never in the series's 17 game history.
Efforts have been made in a few games to nerf cavalry, but fliers? They've been the best classes in every single game, pretty much. There is no real difference between the stats of infantry and mounted units, so they just do the same thing but they get to places faster. IntSys has always relied on effective damage to combat mounts, but effective weapons do not suffice against the units with the highest ability to maneuver around them. So you end up with "unit that does things" vs "unit that does things but gets there faster."
Fangames often take the route of locking them to one weapon type and/or making the stats of cavalry units more middling compared to infantry, so the comparison is closer to "unit that does things" vs "unit that does things worse but gets there faster." You know, an actual trade-off. Still, it's tough - movement is a pretty amazing stat and one of the very few that cannot be grown except with a statbooster that in every game is exceedingly rare. Having more of it is a trait that's much harder to replicate than, say, having a lot of strength or defense.
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59 minutes ago, Lightchao42 said:
You should
but have you finished Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright yet?lmao
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12 minutes ago, ping said:
Diligent ping from chapter 5 lives in the past and thus knows that "Lutetia" is the Latin name and Lutèce is just the frenchified version of it. He also knows that the accent on the second syllable is an accent grave, not aigu (which is to say going down, not up). 😛
I can't believe I ate shit and died again.
12 minutes ago, ping said:Really?
I genuinely just picked three names that an idiotLewyn might confuse with Azel.And you landed on three names that show up in Berwick Saga specifically. Alfons in particular isn't even that close so I found it funny that you just happened upon it lol
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1 hour ago, ping said:
Look who stands at the center.
They know who the important one is.
1 hour ago, ping said:Travant's "family resemblance" also spells out that Arion is well aware of Altena's parentage. Yet another thing where he doesn't take an own position and just goes along with what Travant is doing. Textbook Mitläufer, the guy.
I mean, maybe Travant's wife hated him too.
1 hour ago, ping said:
: "Your Majesty, I've said it a thousand times and I'll say it again. There is no use fighting this war! We must arrange a truce with the liberators if we wish to recover the strength to endure!
Hey, there's that attempt at a truce you were asking for.
...From the recruitable, to signal he's recruitable. Because of course.
1 hour ago, ping said:I will say that Hannibal's love for his adopted son is a nice contrast to Travant's... rocky relationship with Altena. And it's also set up as Travant sowing the seed of Hannibal's eventual defection himself, but we'll see how exactly his dialogue with Sharlow will look.
Hannibal is just the best.
1 hour ago, ping said:Well, since I talked about Mitläufer earlier - here's a literal one. Kaga likes his Nazi-related names, although Distler is quite a different category than fucking Heinrich Himmler.
Or Joseph Goebbels, who shows up in Berwick. I've probably already said it, but it just... still blows my mind that he went there lmao. Then again, he already dropped the Himmler bomb in FE1 so we were fucked from the onset.
1 hour ago, ping said:
: "The point of a battle comes from how you conduct yourself in it, Seliph."
...what.
It means Seliph is justified in conquering a whole country because he's the good boy everyone loves, devaluing the entire point of gen 1 in the process.
Gen 2 writing!
1 hour ago, ping said:
Oifey has a line?! ...Well, now there's much less of an excuse that he hasn't had any presence at all between his joining and now.
Alas, if/else statements are just so difficult....I mean, honestly, yeah, kinda, but you'd think they could've done it at least just for Oifey and Shannan. It's not like this was made by a small indie developer, it was a whole team with Nintendo's backing. They can afford the time and money to throw a few if/elses in there.
1 hour ago, ping said:slip past towards Luthecia (which should've been Lutetia, if you ask me).
More precisely, Lutéce. Where's the diligent Ping from chapter 5?
1 hour ago, ping said:: "Patty! Hey! PATTY!! Don't tell me you've been stealing again!"
: "Oh, er... Yep. Just a bit, though!"
: "Ugh. Look, I don't care if you're just stealing from the enemy. I don't like you stealing at all! Knock it off, okay?"
: "What, d'you think I like doing this? That I'm stealing for the fun of it?! This army needs to eat, y'know, and we need gold for that! We don't have all that many options here!"
: "Yeah, but haven't you heard what people are saying about you? I caught this guy mocking you, like being a thief's a walking punch line... 'What else didja expect from a pirate's brat? Like mother, like child,' he kept saying. Of course, I wiped the floor with him for that..."
: "It doesn't matter what people think, Faval! Let them say whatever they want. Doesn't change a thing about Mom... And it doesn't change that she was an heir of Ullur the Crusader! I was in tears when Lewyn told me about her... I've never been so happy!"
: "Yeah, me too... Y'know, we haven't exactly had the best lives. Poor orphans and all that... But I never even dreamed that our mother could actually be a noblewoman! I don't suppose you remember anything about her, Patty?"
: "Nope! Not a thing... You?"
: "Yeah, but... only a little... She was a kind and beautiful woman..."
: "So is she... Do you think Mom's dead?"
: "I can't say for sure... But as soon as the war's done with, Patty, we're gonna go look for her. We'll find our mother... Bridget... And even though we don't even know his name, maybe we'll find our father, too..."Whoops, no portraits.
1 hour ago, ping said:"Eh, maybe she banged Axel. Alex? Alfons?
Doubtul, all three of them would take another three Kaga games to show up.
1 hour ago, ping said:Tsk.
I can't believe I ate shit and died.
44 minutes ago, Jotari said:47 minutes ago, ping said:You're both wrong. Clearly what Kaga named him after was the bloom shader effect.
I present to you, High Bloom.
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3 hours ago, TheSilverKnight9 said:
My favorite characters were Jahn and Mieu by a mile. I absolutely loved their dynamic.
They seem to be the most popular characters in the hack haha. Glad you liked them as well! Also nice to see more people appreciating the Tick. And his cousin!
3 hours ago, TheSilverKnight9 said:Made me a bit sad I didn't get to
betray Zephiel at the end!
Might I ask, and it might be in the secret page on the guide but I can't figure out how to open that lol is there a way to preserve the Sword of Seals at the end? I tried killing Roy in a few ways and with a few people and none of them worked.
SpoilerThere is no good ending. The "preserve the binding blade" thing is just a bit of a mean tease, Idunn and Jahn's little plan just fails. I understand how it could lead to confusion though.
3 hours ago, Jotari said:Ah, given you're throwing random Sacred Stones minor characters, I'm guessing we'll be seeing a Fire Emblem Naglfar next! Well if you need me to playtest like before, I'm willing. Glory to Beran!
A fine guess! Just one thing you got wrong - it's Fire Emblem: Dark Stone, actually. Felt a more apt titular mcguffin than the tome that comes out of nowhere in the final chapter, and also better mirrors the vanilla title, like Eckesachs did with the Binding Blade.
Thank you for offering to playtest! I was going to start seeking out folks for it very soon, as I am quite close to having the preliminary version ready. Expect a DM in short notice.
Also funny you should mention Beran. He happens to be part of the starting team. So look forward to a whole game of Beraning.
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