Saint Rubenio

Part 18 - Freedom is a lie. Replies: Update:

Part 17 - The fires of hell. (I swear to God, if I need to make the title the ugliest, brightest thing ever so it's visible, I will) Well, guys, I've finally done it. I got a new phone, and with it, I gave Heroes a chance at last. It was okay. I was given a thousand orbs for being so cool, no doubt, and in one of life's little ironies, Raigh as a starter. Pretty sure he's guaranteed, alongside Matthew, possesed man from Fates and Miles Edgeworth (although Edgeworth is a little buggy, the game insists on calling him "Virion", I don't know what that's all about), but the fact that one of my all-time favourites is guaranteed makes me very happy, so I'm not complaining. Then I started summoning, a bit of this and a bit of that. Got a bunch of Fates characters I couldn't give less of a shit about, 3 star Seth who I inmediately put to good use, another Raigh, Klein, and two Merrics who don't look like Merric. Right now I'm using Seth, Raigh, Klein (he's underleveled, but oh well), and Lyon, whom I bought from some remote corner of the menus. Not too unhappy, although if the game could've given me Cecilia (not Camilia), Sheena, Hardin, Wrys, Marth, Athena, Jagen, Innes, Arran, Minerva and Lilina instead of, say, Ninjas #1 through #10, I would've been that much happier. Honestly, I don't know. It's a decent game, I suppose, but already I'm having difficulties finding stuff to do. The story's mindlessly easy and feels like little more than a grind for free orbs, while the PvP modes feel like a gamble (roll the dice and see if you'll get an opponent whose units don't vastly outmatch your own!). I wasn't expecting anything as good as a mainline FE, but this is a tad worse than what I was hoping for. Also, it appears in the last update I mistakenly refered to the Guardian Dragon Mousa as Mouse, which resulted in everyone saying mean things to me and my subsequent run towards my mommy, tears rolling down my face. Okay, no, actually, I just laughed my ass off. First second typo I make when transcribing and it has to be something like that. Replies: Update:

Part 16 - Dick. More format changes. Since I'm still worried about my posts being hard to find for anyone who falls behind, I'm going to use this bigger, greener font for the titles. Let's see how this works out. Replies: Update:

Part 15 - Happy reunions and exposition. Time for a format change. Replies have started to get overwhelmingly huge in both size and number. Which isn't a bad thing, mind. I love it. However, it's starting to get to a point where just finding the tiny spoiler bar so as to read the update itself is a little harder than it should be. Thus, so my posts (which, in the end, are what you guys are here for) are lost in the sea of replies, I'll put all the replies to the replies in a spoiler. Not only will the updates look a lot cleaner, but I will have an easier time finding the number of the last part. I swear, I have to scroll up way too much just to ensure this isn't like my FE12 LP where by the end of it the title count was about four updates behind. Of course, there's the downside that my posts will be incredibly small compared to most of the replies, so there's a chance they might get a little too hard to find. I'll have to think of something if the issue turns out to be too big to overlook. Tell me if you like the new format better or not. Replies: Update:

Part 14 - Zombies made of pure gold.

FE6 - Unpopular opinion, I think, but it has one of my favourite casts in FE. They have a lot more substance than it may seen, hidden away in those supports of theirs. Also, dark magic is actually decent in this game. Shocking, I know. FE7 - I'm not as fond of this game as I am of the others, but I always loved Pent. He's too badass. Renault might be one of the most fascinating characters in the series to me, as well. FE8 - Lyon's my favourite villain in FE (well... in Ephraim route, although he does have his moments in Eirika's), and I really enjoy the rest of the villain cast as well (Orson in particular, as little screentime as he has, I just love what there is of him and what he represents). FE11 - As basic as it is, it's a ton of fun, especially with all the QoL features that were introduced (skipping enemy phases, skipping battles, highlighting the enemy's attack range...). Add to that Cirosan's patches to remove some of the dumber gimmicks and you've got a really solid FE on your hands, so long as you can look past the lack of supports and the ugliness (although, personally, I like the artstyle for the portraits. No excuses for the terrible animations, but I have a soft spot for those bleak, serious, pseudo-realistic portraits. Especially Marth's, I love how he appears to be permanently mad. NMotE!Marth's portait was a bit of a letdown after that). FE12 - Best gameplay in the series, and while the supports and the story tend to be a mixed bag, when it's good, it's really good. There's a reason Arran is one of my favourite characters in the series, and that's his one support in FE12 (Kris isn't even bad in that one! Can you believe it?). Also, the BSFE characters. I love the BSFE characters. All of 'em. See my rank? Tear Ring Saga (I know it's not official FE, but I'll count it in anyway) - Huge story. Really big. I've been through the full game two times and I still feel like I haven't seen even half of it. Also, the amount of Kaga-ish shenanigans that can be found in that game is just hilarious.

You're very welcome, then. Well, allow me to reuse this image here... She has two more points of magic but a lot less res because of how res works in this game, so there's that. If you want to be that guy, you can say she's got 11 more points of strength than she normally had. Also can I just say I love how her highest growth is strength of all things? Just have her throw away all of her tomes and punch enemies to death. I need a cold shower. Her highest growth is strength. That's hilarious. Do use her. That's like, if I grabbed Wrys and made him one of the main characters of a random fanfic that I shoehorned into a game's already established storyline in which Wrys doesn't even exist. So random! Very green. He doesn't have 30 HP yet, and he's only 2 levels away from the goal. I believe in him still. Oh hey, it's Guy With Anime Closed Eyes (I never understood that, honestly. Half the time these characters aren't even blind, they just don't like seeing!), Guy I Don't Care Much About, and... ...oh, you can't be serious-- yet another unit without green hair! Perfect! Just genial! Great, and he makes as much sense from a gameplay perspective as his eyes do from a design viewpoint. I wish I knew how everyone gets all these freaky frames in their LPs. Never once did I encounter anything like this! Neither in my FE6 LP nor in any of my many, many GBAFE runs! Is it an emulator thing? Do I just have the magic emulator? So we're not going to talk about the fact that Oscar is firing nothing with his nonexistant arm and somehow the enemy takes damage. He's not the Chin. The Chin is the best. Not this guy. This guy is not the Chin. And you were saying all that shit about him not being good. You're right, he's not good: he's great! I'm tempted to suggest that maybe that nice generic soldier from before's the bizarro version of a certain cousin of Doom Guy... but no, we've got enough injokes going as is. I know that feeling. I mean, I think there's exactly one run of FE6 where I didn't use Raigh, and that's because he fell in battle (you know what I'm talking about...). I also wish I could use Arran in FE12, but alas, that's just-- ...I'm perhaps too much of a fanboy. That was the final chapter, too! Aaaanyway, I think Druid Nino sounds rather funny, and it could make for some interesting interactions with Raigh, so go ahead and do it if you will. Maybe he just doesn't want to let me win after what I did to him in the FE6 LP. That physically hurt me. Too bad for him, Bors is having fun. So much fun... Astounding. It's the perks of being a veteran from the base game. He knows his stuff. Of course! Everyone's playable, green hair or no green hair, but a badass like Duessel doesn't get jack shit. Classic greenFE. Cecilia just makes everything better. That was cute. I liked it, even if I don't particularly care for either Nino or Rebecca. Yeah, she's a cool woman. Hoo, boy. That sounds like a ton of joy. My friend and I both lost Amelia there when he played FE8 for the first time and I played along. With any luck, Nino won't follow the footsteps of the one she replaces.

Part 13 - We were just about to have a feast.

Part 12 - Tanks! I'd just like to wish everyone a happy christmas. As a gift, here's an update. He did die in the bridge, actually! But this makes no sense, his eye is very much there, and his hair's not the right color... However, the hairstyle's the same, and it is true that traumatic events can cause a person's hair to go white, or even fall off prematurely... so maybe our dear The Roger The Paladin's just toting a wig! Or maybe pink hair just goes dark green instead of white upon aging! Yeah, that's right, and his eye... it could be a fake glass eye! And of course, the first thing he'd do upon reaching foreign lands would be to get a girlfriend like he never could in Archanea! Mel looks a lot like Shiida! It all makes sense now! He's definitely Roger from Archanea! I cannot believe it!

Part 11 - More ingenious plans.

^ Enjoys cuddling teddy bears, no doubt. < Didn't get a notification that this has been revived until today for whatever reason. Is otherwise loving the fact that they added a pope hat for Medic in Team Fortress 2. v Probably doesn't know who the character from my profile picture is.

Part 10 - The Four Stooges. I've been told that Cecilia now has an alt in Heroes! Well, kick fucking ass, some love for my dear Cecilia! Let's see what she looks like... ... ...oh man. Oh God, oh man! OH GOD, OH MAN! OH GOD, OH MAN, OH GOD OH MAN OH GAWD!! It's just another Camilla alt, nothing to see here. They just fucked up and colored her hair green. I'M NOT BITTER, I'M NOT BITTER AT ALL...! THEY JUST COMPLETELY BUTCHERED THE GREAT DESIGN OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS, THAT'S ALL! You know what? If this is the price to pay to get into Heroes, I think I'm okay with Arran not being in. Or Frost, or Matthis, or Frey, or Malice, or Knoll, or the Sabre Knights, or Dougy, or Eugen, or Cec-- never mind, she's in, and SHE'S FUCKING RUINED! WHY DID THEY TURN HER INTO CAMILLA!? WHYYYYY!?!?!!? SHE DOES NOT HAVE THOSE BOOBS IN FE6! I'm overreacting, am I. I should just fap and be done with it. Urgghh... I just can't. Sorry.

Part 9 - Secret plans and prison breaks.

Oh, damned wiki... I should've known it was lying to me with the lack of cipher images! I had no idea he had a card for so long. It's about as awesome as I hoped it'd be. Thanks, now I feel a lot better. ...incidentally, can I just say I love that the friggin' Reaper is just kinda hanging out above him? 'Cause I love that.

Part 8 - The map that randomly has the best map theme in the game. Seriously, listen to that. It's awesome.

Ah, I knew I did well to throw the Lotsin sprite your way. Orsin would never have been able to do quite as well! Hah, perhaps. We'll have to see... but, I digress, this is neither here nor then. Poor Jahn. Didn't get any love at all, neither by the players, nor the devs. I insist that he reeks of last-minute addition. What does that matter, again? Well, Lyon did have him leave the room. In Ephraim's route, there's a scene where Vigarde and Lyon are heading out, God knows where to, and Duessel stops them to question their orders. So he definitely has him go to bed, at least. Anything else is anyone's guess. I have no idea! Hey, at least you had more ideas than I did. I didn't even know who this buffoon was, or that he was popular at all, or that he got a Cipher card while Arran got jack shit and I'm not bitter, I'm not bitter, it's just some meme got a cipher card before one of my top 3 Archanea characters...! That's not even an original sprite, it's, if I recall correctly, an unused bandit sprite that could be found in the base game. It's a cool detail, it seems like the characters from older games got the older sprite while the ones from new-- ...okay, maybe it's just the kids that got the-- ...it's completely random, isn't it? This made me feel a little fearful for the future. I know what it is to lose this kind of level... This is one of those situations where doing an ironman isn't so bad. Best to sacrifice some scrubby unit than to have to screw everyone else over. Of course, if this was an ironman, the scrubs would be the only ones not to die, because FE hates you. D'aww... don't slack off, Lotsin! Scratch that, you're still the game-carrying juggernaut that I came to love. Yep, definitely still got it. Also, that thing about Gromell? Now that's believable. What, is he going to be this game's Morgan or something? Aw, yeah, all my favs are doing well. You and I both know I was not able to do this kid justice in my own run... Dem stats! His defense is lower than I'm used to for Lot, but eh, he's getting there. Did this happen in the game, too? He just sorta left? It's been a while since I last played Eirika's route. Almost? It is greener than hers! It's teal, whereas Eirika's a pure blue! ... ...the disrespect for Eirika is real, isn't it? Damn... Well, with any luck she'll redeem herself by not handing over stones to demons this time around.

Part 7 - The Marster.

Part 6 - Defying my expectations. Good news, everyone! This part marks the first time Imgur has been shitty in this LP! I had to upload the update thrice, because once it felt like rearranging the whole thing, and the next it failed to upload half the pictures! Isn't that just positively flabbergasting? How could Imgur possibly not be good at its one job? Agh... Still, gotta thank the captcha that too many images cause to appear, because on top of that, I missclicked and almost posted the update half-done. All I need now is to write everything outside of the spoiler box, and we'll have the Trinity of LPing Annoyance.

I just beat Death. Seems like I only needed to announce I can't do it to a bunch of people who don't care in order to be able to do it. Just felt like saying it. It's taken me days, spare me some bragging, all right? ...now I'm just afraid of Blackmore... Also, that was hilarious. Thanks. That'll be all. Thanks for reading.

Part 5 - More 'nam flashbacks (because I'm unoriginal) Finally unlocked Luigi. The game finally let go of him after 40 characters, and that's not even in World of Light, I've yet to find him there. And I still haven't gotten the mage outfit for the Mii Gunner I need to make Barlowe and a plethora of other characters that I'd love to have. Urgh... but at least I got Luigi now. Yeah, the plunger indeed does not work as a recovery option, but on the other hand punching people in the face with a plunger for 5% damage is the most hilarious thing ever, so... win some, lose some, I guess?

Part 4 - 'Nam flashbacks. Remember when I said I wouldn't get Smash Ultimate until next monday and I wouldn't be able to play because I'm busy? Well, remember the time I said I wouldn't start a new LP until a year later because I was busy? Yeah, same deal, except this time I'm not dropping out. Yet. Apparently my piss-poor luck isn't restricted to FE, because I'm like 30 characters in and still no signs of Luigi anywhere in sight. Gee, thanks, game. I really needed Yoshi, or Jigglypuff, or Luca-- actually, I did want Lucas, but still! Where's my Weegee boi?! I need him so I can clear up all my doubts regarding his new grab and ledges!

Part 3 - Backtracking. Only a couple days 'till Smash Ultimate, everyone! Although, I probably won't get to play until monday, since I want it physical, and I probably won't get to play that much until next friday since I have The Week (which I already explained in the OP), but still! Fucking biggest Smash ever! So many things I want to see... like if the pros are right and Luigi truly got nerfed to oblivion, or if the other pros are right and Luigi isn't actually that bad, or if that rumor I read somewhere is right and Luigi faces Dracula as his final classic mode boss (don't tell me, I want to confirm it by myself), or if either Richter or Simon have a Barlowe alt (doubt it, but hey, a man can dream. Also, Barlowe for Spirits anyone?), and to play in New Pork City again after enjoying that stage so much in my childhood days... Aahhh I can't wait! Even if the only FE newcomer is Chrom, which is probably the most underwhelming choice they could've picked, in my humble opinion. They have all these lords and important characters that would make for unique playstyles, and they choose yet another swordie from a game that was already badly overrepresented in Smash, and is an echo of Roy on top of that? Come now... you know I don't really hate (or love) the 3DS titles, but half the FE reps come from there, not to mention that half the FE reps are clones of Marth and ALL OF THEM are swordies! I mean, at least Robin uses magic as well and Corrin employs their dragon powers and Marth is the original, but what's everyone else's excuse? I'm not going to be one of those "I want Sakurai to do THESE THINGS THAT HE OWES ME or else I'll SEND DEATH THREATS TO HIM!!!!!" guys, but I can't say I'm too thrilled about Chrom either. Still, he and Whatshisfaceroar are only two tiny stains in the face of such amazing newcomers as Guy Sakurai Promised Would Never Be Playable Because Of Size, The OG Protag From Barlowe's Series and his brother, SquidBois and Sakurai Trolls Everyone Who Dared To Think The Grinch Leak Was Real With An Actual Leek. Anyway, back on topic.

Actually, I have to disagree with you there. I absolutely love how bonkers the difficulty curve is, because it actually makes the whole experience feel a little more inmersive without breaking the gameplay: this is a war, the enemy isn't just going to throw weaklings at you day after day so you can gain experience to defeat the big baddies after a while. Look no further than Fort Balt. One of the game's hardest chapters, yet it comes pretty early. It isn't just fitting in the context of the story and the characters present, it also made it into quite the memorable chapter. You've been fighting these weak lords, idiot generals and stuff for a while now, but suddenly, you're hit with a formidable battle topped off by one of the game's most memorable boss fights. It's great. While I don't think all of the game's chapters are as great in how they handle difficulty (in particular, the finale could've done with being a bit harder), I definitely do not feel like a non-linear difficulty curve is a bad thing, especially considering how a lot FEs actually get consistently, boringly easy at the end. I'd take this over that any day. I also think you're judging the game's story a little too harshly. It is fairly clear that the game's missing a layer of topping, but the base? It's all there. The characters get story arcs and they're all wrapped up okay, the story has a clear start and end, the game's brimming with backstory... Sennet and Tia, I don't think they were wasted potential as some people seem to think they are. Sure, they didn't have that much time onscreen, but you get a pretty good idea of what their goals and what they do throughout the game. They're off on their own adventures. It surely would've made for a fun game, but I actually like the idea of another group doing their own stuff that is clearly important but that you don't really influence as a player. Makes it seem like there's a bit more to this war than "Runan's good guys" versus "Guenchaos's bad guys", and considering how long the game already is, maybe it would've been a little counterproductive to double that by adding a Sennet and Tia campaign. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that the only part of the story that truly felt incomplete to me was everything regarding Istoria. Sooo Richard's fighting them to reclaim Mahl, Prince Ronald appears that one time to explain how he freed Tia and how Richard would suffer the same fate as him... and that's about it. They're never heard from again. Pretty sure noone from Istoria joins as a playable character, either. Considering how much of a killer design Ronald had, it really is a shame he had almost no screentime or relevance at all. In short, yeah, I don't think this game really feels all that incomplete. They couldn't do some things they wanted to do, perhaps, but that doesn't stop the game from being a full, perfectly enjoyable experience that isn't really missing much of anything, aside from a couple, easily ignored issues. ...please forgive me if I went on a bit of a fanboyish rant there. I love this game, it's in my top 3 FE list both gameplaywise and storywise. I just had a most pressing need to speak my mind.

Part 2 - Where's the Matthis? Actually, I disagree on the Lee statement there, 3 def is bad. Very bad. He's very good, don't get me wrong, but not quite Narron. Also, heeey, unit suggestions! I didn't get any in the last LP, which is understandable, considering in the last LP everyone died but the ones noone liked, Marcus and Lot. Since you asked so nicely, I suppose I shall have to see if it can be arranged!

Very well, everybody, I think that's enough time. I like the fact that everyone got at least one vote (I counted Tryhard's as a vote for Narron), but there can only be one victor, so I am happy to announce Lee as the winner, with three votes. May he be a great help, and may I not get him killed horribly. Now, here's hoping you guys behave and choose Luca next time, although I can't deny I'm glad you picked my favourite. Update will come out in a few days, so sit tight.