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    how is this game frustrating again?

    in Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

    Posted

    On 12/18/2020 at 7:34 PM, Marienburg said:

    I'm playing on NM and the hit rates on thrones are really annoying. You're just spending turn after turn watching your effective weapon charges deplete as you miss and miss and miss. My Lot carrying the Hammer died to a Debias 1% crit after I spent 4 turns missing everything on Debias while he was at 5 hp. Very frustrating.

    I feel you. Axe wielders are terrible in this game.

    What do you guys think about the routes in this game?

    in GameBoy Advance Era

    Posted

    19 hours ago, Christmas Dayni said:

    I can see why that map could be a pain, but to me it matches up with 17S, a map with FoW, Ballistae and and mountains you have to work around and a Bolting sage. How did you do with 18S, considering the yurts do spawn reinforcements.

    Engaging I can understand, but Fair? Which difficulty were you playing?

    I'm actually really a fan of 11A, but it's also tight in terms of getting everything done, I can get finding it to be too much.11B worries me because of Bartre to be honest, I feel like I'm in less control there sometimes. B route Gonzalez being better is bizarre, unless you early promoted because you can't do that on A as for some reason he's level 11 on B and 5 on A.

    Generally disliked wouldn't be the right word, just that people have a preference for the A route.

    I played both of the runs at Normal! I already had tons of problems on the first run so I didn't even consider doing it at Hard. Gonzalez being 11 in B route must be the reason. I didn't remember him being at level 5 in A route, so it must mean he was weaker and I could use him less in the latter.

    18 hours ago, Shadow Mir said:

    I'd say the Sacae maps all suck ass, but chapter 20 Sacae in particular is one of the worst designed maps in the entire game, owing to two Bolting Sages, which are already a massive pain in the ass normally, an iron ballista, and a Berserk staff... All of which are in positions where you can do nothing about them. Especially the former, because resistance is shit for just about everyone, and because of their position (in the center of the map), it's very very easy for them to double team and kill a unit.

    While I do agree that the bolting sages can be infuriating at times, I found map 20 to be a breeze after a couple torches, luring the axe wielders in the bottleneck and send the mages (namely Niime, promoted Lugh, promoted Raigh and promoted Lilina) in the vanguard and let them take (or dodge) the boltings, thanks to their high resistance.

    Although it doesn't have anything to do with the routes, I found Chapter 16x to be the worse in regards of boltings and casters.

     

    14 minutes ago, OriginalRaisins said:

    I find 11A to be one of the better-paced maps in the game. Ironically, trying to take it too fast leads to headache. The first time I attempted the map, I dropped Rutger and Fir (both of whom had fair levels) over the wall by the shops as a way to try and move through the map more quickly. All this did was anger the fighters and archers early, and they swarmed Echidna's village.

     

    She shows up in the "fortune telling" screen of battle preparation.

    I can see why people find that map to be well-paced. When I have to do everything mechanically just to recruit everyone and visit the villages it doesn't work for me. It also doesn't really help that I'm the kind of guy that HAS to recruit everyone and gather all the items ^^" Chapter 11B while being less inspired in regarding of design it was way easier to get everything done without too much of a hassle.

    What do you guys think about the routes in this game?

    in GameBoy Advance Era

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Dayni said:

    Not gonna lie, I am surprised to see someone say that.

    Not merely someone saying that Ilia is more BS, but that both A and Ilia are worse.

    What about the unit choices did you find worse?

    As for the units, Lalum/Elphin barely matters in gameplay though Elphin is considered deeper that's for sure, while Dayan is considered the better unit and from what I remember of his conversations he does get a bizarre one with Yodel about affinities while Yuno gets mostly team mom of the Iklian units.

    Also, are you Bartre > Echidna?

    Actually I'm more of a Echidna >>> Bartre in this case.

    Anyway, what I meant about the enemy choice unit and placement is: in the fog map I just hated the mass of flying pegasus knights in the A route. They are weak, true, but they seem to storm you endlessly. The nomads on the other hand are more powerful but they can always bottlenecked in many ways and dealt with in many ways. Pegasus knights are (almost) always about having archers or other flying units that can reach them. On the other hand you got ballistae literally EVERYWHERE so using flying units in those chapters is not a viable options (or, at least, can get pretty obnoxious). 

    Also, chapter 19B and 20B were much more interesting in my opinion because of the map design and enemy choice, due to the forementioned reasons I find nomad and nomad troopers really engaging and fair to battle with. Didn't really like 18B though, too straigthforward I think. 

    Chapter 11A also was my least favorite in the entire game: trying to recruit everyone in that map while stopping the bandits felt like a chore. I found 11B to be way easier to do. Also for some reason my Gonzalez in B route was stronger, but I'm not sure if it was just my impression.

    As stated in previous topics I'm relatively new to the Fire Emblem internet community so I didn't really know that the B route is generally disliked. That's interesting.

    What do you guys think about the routes in this game?

    in GameBoy Advance Era

    Posted

    I recently played twice through The Binding Blade and I found the B route (both Elphin and Sacae) much more enjoyable than the A route I did on my first playthrough. 

    Maps and storyline are not that different but I found them to be a bit less bullshit in B route than A route (aka enemy placement and enemy unit choice). I have to say I was not particularly intrigued by this game's storyline, but the B route was also a little more interesting (although just slightly, I mean... it only adds minor nuances to it). 

    What do you people think? What are your favourite routes in this game and why?

    Also:

    Elphin >>>>> Lalum

    and

    Dayan >>>>> Juno 

    IMO

    What is a pitfall?

    in General Fire Emblem

    Posted · Edited by Sengu

    As the title says.

    I'm new to the FE community on the internet and I stumbled upon this word many times, but didn't really understand what it means in the context of the games. Can someone enlighten me and maybe get a little more specific?

    (yeah, I suppose this question is really naive and dumb but hey, what can you do)

    how is this game frustrating again?

    in Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

    Posted · Edited by Sengu

    I guess it depends on how you play it.

    Personally I like to recruit every character during my first run, as well as letting no one die. This is my way to have fun with Fire Emblem. Now the problem with this is that I found Binding Blade to really exagerate with the reinforcements and has a weird balance with the rolls of the hits, missing even with 90 or above. All of this results in a lot of trial and error, especially if we talk about the reinforcements issues since you don't know where will they be coming from. I can think of Chapter 21 which was a real nightmare for me and I had to abuse the suspend\resume feature. 

    The impression I got from this game is that was meant to be played in some kind of "rush mode", at least if you want to recruit everyone or get past Chapter 22.

    Is there a cheap solution to get these two games?

    in GameCube and Wii Era

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Tactician_Iris said:

    If you have an original PAL GCN you can look into getting an AR Freeloader disc for PAL consoles - this should circumvent the Region Lock and let you play NTSC/JPN games.


    That said, I have yet to play a JPN game in my PAL console with my Freeloader, but I can attest to it working with NTSC games (Baten Kaitos: Origins, a 2 disc game, works great).


    It should be noted that there are also Freeloaders for the Wii, but I can't vouch for how well they work - iirc, it depends on the model of Wii you've got - with later models being much more finicky on working with certain versions of Freeloader for Wii discs (if at all).


    Just as a precaution though, if you play a JPN game on another region's console there's a chance the game wants to reformat the memory card - I'm not sure entirely why it happens (granted I haven't really looked into why or which JPN titles do/don't reformat memory cards) but it's usually recommended to use a separate Memory Card for JPN games.

    Thanks, this is interesting. I was looking for a way to bypass the region lock but didn't stumble upon this AR Freeloader you speak of. I will look into it, although when I was living in Japan my passion for Fire Emblem didn't reignite, so I didn't acquire any japanese copies of the forementioned titles. Maybe I can get them from some japanese website if the shipping costs are "ok".

     

    13 hours ago, Pengaius said:

    The law requires that I answer no. The thing with the Tellius games is that there weren't too many copies made or sold outside of Japan. This makes them pricier. The only advice I can give you is to find a reputable seller on a secondhand selling website like ebay, and privately contact them  to see if you can get it cheaper. Sadly, you aren't going to be able to find any in the 20-30 range, if you do, be wary, as they might be scamming you.  

    Thanks, do you happen to know some alternatives to ebay? 

    Is there a cheap solution to get these two games?

    in GameCube and Wii Era

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Hello72207 said:

    The only cheap solution is to learn japanese, sadly, as far as I know. These games do not have a lot of non-Japanese copies and so the cost is extremely high compared to other FE games, or games from that era.

    I know japanese, so the language is not a problem for me. The real problem is the console since european ones are region locked so I can't get japanese games to work on my GameCube and Wii. 

     

    58 minutes ago, Yexin said:

    as far as i know, there's no way to get them at a reasonable price

    they also tend to get even pricier depending on the language: italian versions tend to cost a lot more simply because there are less available copies compared to other languages i know what i'm talking about

    i'm sorry, this will probably never change: the only thing you can hope for is to wait for a port, a remaster or a remake of those games

    Yeah, I'm italian as well and I noticed this kind of trend. I hate that. 

    What is your unpopular Fire Emblem opinion?

    in General Fire Emblem

    Posted · Edited by Sengu

    I'm relatively new to the Fire Emblem community so I'm not sure about what the unpopular opinions are. Also I only played FE6 and 8, and a bit of the original FE for now so...

    Judging from the few things I've read around the internet I'd say mine are:

    • Phantom Ship in FE8 is a fun and engaging map
    • The Sacred Stones > The Binding Blade
    • I like the Tower of Valni (although many of its levels are rip-offs from FE6)
    • Wolt > any other archer in FE6
    • The way FE6 handles how to get past Chapter 22 it's really obnoxious

    I guess I'll be able to expand a little bit on these opinions once I played through FE7 as well.

    What are the best units to train in The Binding Blade?

    in Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

    Posted · Edited by Sengu

    If we're talking about pre-promotes, then in my experience the best units to invest in are Rutger, Lilina and Deke. As far as the game goes, you will get a lot of promoted units but I can think of a couple of pre-promoted even in the furthest chapters (like Hugh and Zeiss) that are "ok".

    I recently played the game for the first time and I found Rutger to be completely broken. He doesn't have a great amount of defence, but he can basically dodge his way out the whole game and confront every boss without breaking a sweat. As for Lilina if you wait to promote her at 20, she becomes an undestroyable magic tank (I'm not a fan of promoting so late, but I hear many people are). She gets incredibly high magic and of course high resistance. Deke doesn't shine in any particular way but I found him to have over all good defence and tons of HP. He is also pretty accurate if you stick to swords (didn't personally bother to train him with axes, I didn't find them to be so useful in this game).

    Hi, I'm new

    in Introductions

    Posted · Edited by Sengu

    Hi all!

    I can't say I'm a huge connoisseur of Fire Emblem as a series, but since I was around 10 I have played The Sacred Stones COUNTLESS times and it's a very nostalgic game for me. Recently I had my hands on some older iterations such as The Binding Blade (which I just finished, bad ending duh) and The Blazing Sword (which I plan to start soon). 

    As for my background, I'm 27 and I was born and raised in Italy but my father is from the UK. I have also lived in Japan for some time. While I was there my passion for the series didn't reignite so I lost the chance to get my hands on some Fire Emblem games, since old games in Japan are pretty cheap and the language is not a problem for me. 

    Cheers.

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