Saint Rubenio

... ... ... .................. ........................................... Part 53 - The fall of the dragon and the demon. I just read the first page of the thread, for old times' sake. It's amazing to see how nobody, up to and including me, expected the axe siblings and fucking Marcus to become the MPVs of this LP.

I don't know if I'm all that happy with someone being inspired by my LPs. They blow. I know nothing about this game, so I suppose I shall be discovering it alongside you. This is going to be fun, isn't it? "Sort of" green? That's as blue as it gets! This is a sham, all of it! Why couldn't Fado be the main Lord? His hair is actually a sort of bluish green, and even his armor is green! He'd be perfect! You disappoint me, FEgreen. Maybe he's just a special Thief Lord. He snags everything the enemy has! Ahem. My apologies. Personally, I don't find that to be so bad. It's handy to be able to take screenshots of the overworld after moving your entire army. With autoend turns, you just can't do that. FE.png Please tell me this game forgets about Tomas. It would make me very happy and very sad at the same time. Incidentally, if Tomas is in this game, please do use him. That's all I ask for.

Part 52 - The underwhelming finale.

Hello! I've been playing Order of the Crimson Arm for a while and thus far, I've been having a blast. I've a few issues with the game here and there, but overall, I'm really liking it. However, I have a problem that I was hoping somebody could help me with. I made myself a custom tactician with his own palette. The portrait works fine, as does the unpromoted palette. No such luck with the promoted sprite, I'm afraid. According to FERecolor, this is my palette. The red headband looks wonky, but other than that, I'm happy with it. However, according to Order of the Crimson Arm... This is how it looks. The differences may not be all that noticeable in this tiny screenshot, but since I always play in fullscreen... Yeah... that sticks out like a sore thumb. I have no idea why this may be happening. The palette works fine in FERecolor, and the default palette does too, but ingame, they're both flawed like this, the default one just works better because the main colour is black. Also, I've taken a look at a Crimson Arm LP that I found on Youtube, and it seems like that person also had the same problem (although he didn't seem to notice it), and he was using the default palette, so I don't think it's an issue on my end. It's not a very major bug, of course, and certainly not a gamebreaking issue, but it annoys me, since I admit the only reason I didn't bench myself for Aras was that I wanted to see that sweet Necromancer sprite in action. I won't force anyone to do anything, but please consider taking a look at it for the full release, MaskedRider. If you could fix this, I'd be most grateful.

Part 51 - Prelude to disaster. I take longer and longer to push these updates every time, don't I? I'm sorry, but given that we're reaching the climax of the game, the crap fanfic's starting to overwhelm me a little. It takes time to write all that, y'know? But it's worth it, in my humble opinion. Let's see what you think of this. Suffice to say, I've had this conclusion in mind since chapter 7. The rest, I made up as I went, but not this. I do hope I can manage a decent ending, at least. I could never have said it better. That's exactly what Murdock was: a true man of war. Also, more elegant than weaselly Narcian could've ever hoped to be. For example, Ohtz is in dead last out of 80 with the only comment being "his sprite is re-used." Hmmm... wait, that means the Brilliant Dumbass wasn't dead last? What the hell... where is he? ...he's... not even here. Fitting. Also Orlo is at 55, over characters like Lot and Wade, Guinevere, Douglas, Niime, Astolfo (poor him at 75th), and a few more. You know, perhaps this poll wasn't that great after all. C'mon...

Jeez, that's harsh. But I did ask for it. In all seriousness, rather ironically, my very first sprite is now my favourite of the first three I made. I ended up not using it because I didn't want to look like a vagely-psycopathic fatass in my own LP. Then I went on to use it differently. That sprite of yours is okay, I feel. It has a severe lack of shading (that hair just does not belong there), I think, but otherwise, it's not bad at all. Of course, take all I say with a grain of salt, I'm no artist.

Eh, fair enough. This is the sprite we're talking about just so it's not as blatant that we're completely derailing this thread just as it was getting started. Feel free to talk crap about it, it was my third sprite.

I'm kind of surprised you jumped in 5 seconds after I posted that to mock Wrys again. C'mon, it wasn't that bad... I like it better than Big Eyes overthere, anyway.

This is the sprite I made of "myself" (not that he looks anything like me) to use in my LP. For the longest time, I was quite happy with it, but as time went on, I made other sprites and honed my spriting abilities somewhat (I think this just looks way better overall), and eventually I grew to find this one to be really ugly. Not the suit, I still like how the suit turned out, but there's something about the face... I think it's that everything is just so big! The nose is huge, the mouth almost cuts into the cheek, the eyes are ridiculously big... the rest I'm happy with, but that face needs fixing. There's also the fact that there are a lot more colours there than the GBA could take (16), but that's all right, these were never intended to be put in a game, and even if they were, it's easily fixed.

Dark. I've always liked dark magic better, even though I'm fond of light magic as well. Also, dark mages tend to always look badass in these games, my personal favourite being Lyon's Necromancer sprite. If I had to choose a specific class, I'd be a Necromancer for those sweet, sweet cape moves. Would you rather have IntSys release the most amazing FE game ever, but then proceed to only make mediocre/bad FE games thereafter, or have them release merely good/decent FE games forever?

My, that got kinky fast. Can you hear that? It is the sound of mods looming over the "lock thread" button. Nino's not my type, so... Echidna. Or Malice. Either one'd be good. Both'd be better. Yeah... Let's bring the thread back into E territory, shall we? Would you rather meet Mario or Luigi? That sounds harmless enough.

Depends, do I get to use a silence staff on Serra beforehand? Also, I like how everybody ignored this. To answer your question, I'd rather do neither, but if I had to choose one... I suppose my hair. Having a dirty butt is the worst thing ever. I'd feel guilty for sitting anywhere. My question is: would you rather play through FE6 with Wendy and Sophia as the only allowed units, or play normally but you have to sacrifice every character you like, one per chapter? Now let's see if I actually get it answered.

Part 50 - Bern burns.

I've been silently following this project for a while now. I didn't want to get into it at first because I have a bit of a rule against playing incomplete hacks. We all know how common it is for these projects to be abandoned. I understand that hacking is hard and time-consuming, and I won't judge a hacker for leaving their project, but I just don't want to get invested into a story that might never be finished. Suffice to say, it makes me really happy to know that this one will get finished, and soon at that. Think I'll wait for the really-complete version to be released. In the meantime, I suppose I could try and see if I can make a hackbox and palette for my tactician.

Likes it when somebody tells him "your a good person".

In my current FE6 playthrough, Marcus is wielding Durandal. In chapter 22. I'm serious. He's not even just good in the usual "Jeigans can still rescue!" sense. Instead, he's gained enough stats to be a really competent combat unit with the aid of his full support with Roy. Even though, admittedly, he's not my best unit (that honour belongs to Lot), the fact that he can still both dish out and take damage better than half of my elites is quite baffling, to say the least. Probably my most ridiculously blessed unit ever. I've had blessed units (Matthis carried one of my FE12 playthroughs. Matthis), but a blessed Jeigan? And the best part about it is, it's all recorded. Shameless self-advertising!

Part 49 - Lucky streak. At last, I gave in, and bought a Nintendo Switch, which may or may not have influenced the long time it took for this update to come. Sorry. I got Super Mario Odyssey, I suppose that's mandatory, but the main prize I was after is... the fucking crossover with the rabbids, because a strategy game where Luigi exists, is recruited early and is great sounds like everything I've ever wanted. Damn, is it fun. Luigi kicks so much ass, it's unbelievable. Even though I definitely would like it if I had more freedom to swap characters around, I can understand the reasons behind the restrictions, to a certain extent. Any other recommendations are welcomed, so long as they're not on PC. Games that are available on PC I usually prefer to get on PC. If I bought the Switch, it was for the exclusives, so if you're going to recommend anything to me, please make it something I can't get on the better platform. Yes, I know I'm going to get hate for this. I stopped caring about hate around the time I willingly sacrificed two fan-favourites.

Use the Dougyman. He's a decent enough general, I'm told. Also, Hugh, just so you have an excuse to throw cash around.

This one is the good one. I swear to God, if things don't go as planned one more time, I will... I will... rrrgghhhh...! Part 48 - Marksman training, also known as the update where literally everything went wrong. Phew... man, that was rough. But at last, it's over. I have prevailed! All that remains is to push the update and enjoy some well deserved rest... ... Oki-dokie, now let's make sure everything's in order... not that I can think of any reason it wouldn't be. Wait, I haven't opened the spoiler yet, but the sidebar says there's a lot of stuff to get through before the bottom of the page... No... it can't be! Not now, not this update of all updates! No... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUURGH...!!! Fun fact: for whatever reason, it took me several attempts to post the fixed version. I just... no comment.

Sorry for the double-post, but an update on the update is in order. I have finally found a way to upload the images so that Imgur doesn't shit itself. ...I'll have to upload all 500~ pictures one by one. I'm serious, that's the only way it works. I tried uploading two at once, and that's enough for Imgur to go nuts. It's going to take a while, so I think I've earned the right to demand that you at least acknowledge me and give me a "thank you for being the bestest LPer ever" post or two. Anyway, that's all. Expect the update to come in three days, or something like that. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

Look alive, everybody, it's Canada time. As in, I apologize, but the update's going to be delayed. Guess why. It's Imgur again. A shame, too, since it had been a really long time since it last gave me trouble. The last update I remember where I had some major technical problems was chapter 14x, and that wasn't even Imgur's fault. I suppose the summer sales have gotten people 'round to buying more games, so more pictures are being uploaded to Imgur for LPs, blogs and the like, which is proving to be really exhausting for the elderly rat inside a running wheel that the owners of Imgur like to call "server". Thing is, since thursday, I've been trying to upload the next update -- sorry, the first part of the next update multiple times every day, to no avail. Every time it either refuses to upload even after passing a dozen captchas, or when it does, the order's all screwed up for no reason, rendering the album fundamentally useless. I don't think it's ever taken this long to stop being an asshole, usually it ends after a day. Add to that the fact that I've had a slightly busy week (finally got my driver's license, yay! It only took two LPs!), and, well, here we are, a week after the last update and I am unable to so much as begin writing the next. I'm sorry, there's not much I can do if Imgur decides it wants to suffer a stroke. Hopefully tomorrow it'll be feeling more cooperative. Cross your fingers.

Part 47 - La créme de la créme de Biran. Yes, in the french version of FE7 (and the spanish one, and the italian one, and pretty much all of the european localizations if I am not mistaken), Bern is named Biran. If you're expecting me to be able to explain this decision, I am afraid I'll have to disappoint you.

Part 46 - Fluctuating speed.

I'm going with Michele. Her face is too funny.

Part 45 - Murderdoc's in. Over a week, huh? Not that long a wait, I suppose, but compared to my usual "schedule", I'm quite late to the party that I host. Tear Ring Saga is to blame. I finally got around to playing it again with a better emulator. The one I used my first time playing the game, ePSXe, didn't even have trottle mode, which meant when the PS1's shenanigans (read, everything has to load and things happen really slowly) started to really hurt my enjoyment of the game, I had no way of getting past them, so I ended up dropping the game in chapter 36 of 40. This time, however, I used a far better emulator, Mednafen, one that is said to be even more accurate than Sony's own emulator that they have in-built for retro-compatibility in the PS4, but more importantly, one that actually allows for fast-forwarding the boring parts! When I got to Murdock, I was reaching the final arc of the game, and, well... suffice to say, I just didn't feel like playing FE6. I'm sorry. It's over now, though, so I'll try to get the LP back to speed. By the way, I know I heartfeltly recommended Tear Ring already in the last LP, but allow me to do it again because, damn, what an awesome game. It's got its flaws, but hey, what doesn't? There's also the fact that I am getting ever-so-slightly tired of FE6. It's not just the detail of having lost half the cast, the same thing always happens to me at this point in the game. I can't quite explain it, I always get tired and bored here. That doesn't mean I'll quit the LP, but expect that updates might take a little longer than usual. Remember the chronicles in the last LP? Same deal, more or less.