Hawkwing Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Part 20 - Flying menace. Yay! We get to see this game's unique flier units! Which if I heard correctly, they can only be attacked by ranged weapons on the enemy turn while they can take damage if they engage in combat. I am very curious to see how this mechanic works in practice. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Go ahead, then! What's stoppin' ya? That I am terrible at watching movies and televisions shows when I have the opportunity to do so. It's also rated R, the house is largely occupied due to the quarantine, and I have a younger brother that isn't old enough to watch it. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Meanwhile, apparently the laguz are fearsome killing machines in the eyes of the beorc, and yet in the gameplay they're absolutely pathetic. Can't even do shit half the time! How are those guys feared at all? You just have to survive until they lose the ability to mantain their natural forms! Although, at least they're better than Elibean manaketes. Y'know, the ones that died by EXISTING? I do find it kind of funny that Awakening and Fates handled shapeshifters better gameplaywise but dropped the ball on the storytelling aspect. Seriously, the taguel are barely relevant for one level, and while I like the lore behind them, you have to scour through every little thing Panne and to a lesser degree Yarne say to find it, and even then said information is easy to miss. Meanwhile, the shapeshifters in Fates have a single level that acknowledges their existence, and then they never appear again, which is a shame because they were actually interesting to fight, even if the level gimmick(s) in Conquest could have been handled better. Manaketes amount to "hey, they're a thing" in Awakening while Corrin and Kana are the only ones that can become one in Fates. Dragon Veins were interesting, if not the game changer I was expecting them to be. They're not flawless in gameplay, either. I have a soft spot for the taguel, but I don't blame people who reclass Panne and Yarne the first moment they get, and I'd say their biggest weakness is that they fall behind without reclassing shenanigans given how their lack of a promotion means they never get a stat boost. Better than manaketes, where the class is fine but the characters in them are a little too reliant on their class bonuses (Tiki is good, but she's optional and you get her around the 2/3's mark), and Corrin's dragon form pretty much just amounted to another weapon with a cool cosmetic difference. The beaststone/beastrune gimmick for the other Fates shapeshifters was cool given how it changed the role they could serve, even if it was a little barebones. I really like shapeshifters, so I hope that a future game does them more justice. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That is a message the game goes to great lengths to convey. I don't necessarily mind that Fire Emblem doesn't go as far as it could with that message (because to be completely honest, a lot of strategy games don't do that), but it is nice to see a game that does acknowledge how hellish war can be. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's been done before, by Kaga. There's a chapter in Thracia that's like this but in the fog. Still, there's one key difference: the escape point is on the other side of the map, and both you and the green units start in the same place. You're meant to clear the path for yourself while protecting the green units from ambushing pegasus knights. I was wondering if Thracia 776 did something like that. I want to play that game sometime, but given its reputation for being blind player unfriendly, I am in no rush to do so. I'm already not a fan of having a second screen up when playing the GBA games to keep track of how slowly quickly characters support with each other and how you unlock the gaiden chapters. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: And this isn't the only gorgeous map in the game, either. Yay! More artwork to look forward to! 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's another similarity to Guts from Berserk. That guy moves in a very similar way, down to the cape concealing his arms. That said, at least it looks like Sherpa has to make an effort to swing the thing around. Guts has a sword that is bigger than him but moves it like it's a stick. My friend finds it to be absolutely badass. I thought it was kind of dumb. Wielding giant swords as if they were nothing is definitely one of the most overused tropes out there, and not all of them have an excuse of super strength or something like that. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I make it look like he's sobbing pitifully, but in reality, he probably sounds closer to this. That's probably the most condensed swearing I've seen in my life, but that meme was hilarious. R.I.P. R Lee Ermey. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: An occasionally he uses it to block bullets, doesn't he? What's up with that? I know he wears bullet-proof armor, though his cape having that ability might just be because "he's batman". 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: And you already were always worried about the minions. What can I say? I enjoy when largely unimportant characters get some characterization, even if it is simple. Helps as a reminder that not everyone is a faceless goon and they have their own stories. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Holy shit peeled Pedro looks terrifying. I kinda regret looking that up now. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Treasure is worth more, as are repairstones and the rarer weapons. Bags are still ridiculously valuable for a bunch of brown cloth with a cord. Fair enough. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I didn't feel like making a headsplit edit for this one rando. Don't blame you. I take it like decapitations, it's something you can only do once per let's play. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But... no, that's not how it works in this game! In this game it allows you to counterattack like in FE, regardless of the damage taken! It's a great thing to have 99% of the time! Vengeful is the one you're thinking about. Right. My bad. I wanted to make a call-back but forgot that the skills did different things despite sharing a name. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: After the rain is a conversation theme. I associate it with Sylvis, since she seems to get it more than others. I do believe we've heard it already, back when she captured the boss for us. And I fell in love. The wind blows is a map theme that plays in this game's desert maps. It's damn great, but personally, I like advancing waves, clouds of war and a couple of other map themes more. I see. Really, the whole soundtrack is excellent. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He probably died standing like Ernst, and his body hasn't moved or decomposed at all since TRS. Anyone who attempts to move him meets his glare and is instantly deterred. Critters trying to feast upon his corpse implode upon touching him. Rumors say he's not dead at all, he just doesn't feel like moving. Heheheheh, yep, I say this is what canonically happens after he dies. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Frankly, at this point I might enjoy that. I am sick to death of every new FE I try being mindlessly easy. I look at the amount of RD chapters I still have to bore myself through, and it's so disheartening... and I'm actually half-enjoying this one! The maps are boring, but they're better than PoR's or FE3's, and that is... worrisome, to say the least. At this point, I could probably just say *Insert "You Would Enjoy Conquest" Comment* whenever the game pops up. I do still recommend the game. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, story doesn't matter to me, as you know. I mean, it does kinda matter, it's nice if it's good, but if it's bad it's no biggie. Characters matter a bit more to me, because I can't stand using characters I hate, but I can also overlook that if the game is good enough. Going in knowing that the story wasn't very good and the characters lacked depth definitely helped, I will say that. Peri and Charlotte are really the only characters I outright hated (though I did regret not making the latter a healer when I had the chance), though the rest are more missed opportunities than anything else. The cast can still be entertaining if you go in with the right mindset. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Three Houses's problem was that they were too busy making four routes to bother with small details such as not recycling 3/4 of the routes, actually designing good maps, and giving the monastery anything fun to do. I'd like them to be a bit less ambitious next time around, frankly. It's clear that they were in way over their heads with 3H. Given how hit or miss Fates and Radiant Dawn was when they got ambitious, yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing a more straightforward story in the next game that removes what didn't work and irons out what did. And for goodness sake, improve the visuals and the pace! Those are perhaps the biggest reason why I have a hard time continuing through Three Houses. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Nuibaba, weak? The only way I could beat her was by sending everyone at her, and then retreating so they didn't all die horribly to the thousand troops she had next to her! My ass is weak! Weak in terms of HP. Mathilda always one-shot her with a crit and even with raw damage came close to doing so. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, so there's an even sturdier medusa guy in the final chapter. The one with the swamp, the balls, Jedah, all those fun things I've heard about? I'm glad I never bothered. Sorry to say it, 'cause I know you like it. But boy am I glad I'm never coming back to this game... I actually like the final level thanks to the music, Duma being an interesting boss, and how it could be seen as most of the games mechanics reappearing for a final challenge. Don't blame you. I love the unique mechanics, presentation, and the fast pace, but I won't try to pretend that the game is for everyone. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, I can understand. Some of the quotes in 3H and Echoes were pretty fun. Those quotes are actually something I really do enjoy about modern FE. They help give the characters personality. Very much agreed. It does make me think that some supports are redundant, considering how I sometimes got a better understanding of a characters personality by what they said in battle than what was said in support conversations. I do hope they drop the "badass quote before critting" shtick for the next games, though. It's cool, but I believe it's run it's course by now, and it doesn't help that I still think Awakening has the best critical hit quotes. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I actually used the Archanea wreckage in my sidestory. It's supposed to take place right as Archanea is destroyed. Of course, being unfamiliar with Awakening, I don't doubt that I'll run into inconsistencies if I try to focus too much on that aspect. But yeah, there's a thing you might not've noticed. Huh, didn't think about that before, actually. That's pretty cool. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Then I quit the game because I was so sick of it all that I couldn't stand the thought of pushing through one more of those awful maps. Nuibaba I'd say is the worst of the lot. Granted, I still hate the swamp maps, but compared to Tear Ring Saga, they're not as painful as I once thought they were. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He's a genius, really. He's ensuring that the war ends as quickly as possible so less people die. What a hero of the people. So he's a strategy gamer that realizes that he's lost but decided he's going to loose legitimately instead of quitting and starting a new game? 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, good ol' no-death challenges. Contrary to what my taste in FE games might imply, I'm usually not the kind of guy who does them. Depends on the game. Some games are easy to go through without dying, while others not so much. Though now that I think about it, Awakening is really the only game I consistently do challenge runs for. I think the ease that one can do one, the amount of mechanics that can be exploited or ignored, the already prevalent replayability, and how they add an actual, well, challenge to the game are the main reasons for that. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Huh. Thanks. That's a fun dodge position. Makes it look like Elbert doesn't give a crap, which in turn makes provoke more effective. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: AAAAAAAAARGH! WHAT IS THAT?! What in the world is THAT THING!?! Flying mount time! 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Quadruple drat! Quintuple drat! Sextuple drat! DRAAAAAAAATT!! Heh heh heh. That's a pretty strange looking hit position. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Eyyyy, guy! Look, there's your wife! Oh, I'm sorry. It's just one of your comrades, the one I speared through the face. Should've known, face's too pretty to be your wife. CEASE YOUR MUTTERING AT ONCE, AND EMBRACE YOUR DEMISE, DASTARD!! Damn, that's a harsh yet effective insult. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Seriously, though. He couldn't shield himself from Daoud's crying hit, he can't hit the broad side of a barn, he looks kinda like Tommy Wiseau... I think we've met somebody even unluckier than me, folks. He also seems to be more effective when he's offscreen. Maybe like you his luck fluctuates when he's playing publicly. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh hey. They're Reiss's axes. They look like the exact same guy, but with different expressions depending on the situation. It kind of makes me wonder if that's what they were originally designed for. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Pleasedon'tdiepleasedon'tdiepleasedon'tdiepleasedon'tdie And then he went and nailed the first shot. I worry too much. But can you blame me, really? Every time I don't worry, someone dies. Pfffffftt I don't blame you, but it sure is hilarious and cathartic to see your worrying be for naught. Especially considering what has happened in the past. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahh, accurate arrows! I like this, thanks. ...Fork. Gore Fork. I admire your restraint. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: REESE! STOP IT! ACCEPT THE NEW UNIT FOR ONCE IN YOUR BLASTED LIFE, YOU STUBBORN MORON! Considering how prevalent the trope of the bad guy intending to get caught so they can do damage closer to the heroes, I don't blame Reese for being cautious. Still, Reese is one of the most recruit-averse lords I have seen in the series. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: REESE! STOP IT! ACCEPT THE NEW UNIT FOR ONCE IN YOUR BLASTED LIFE, YOU STUBBORN MORON! YES! TRAP! I AM GLAD THAT WE ARE CHASING AWAY THIS TRAP! DOES HE ALWAYS DO THIS?! YEAH! YEAH, FUCKER DOES! IT'S INFURIATING-- WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?! LORD REESE, YOU'RE A DREAM COME TRUE! PLEASE TAKE ME AS YOUR ADVISOR! WHY IN THE WORLD HAVEN'T YOU LEFT YET?! GET THE HELL OUT! I'LL TAKE YOUR HEAD AGAIN! I'LL TAKE YOUR HEAD TEN TIMES OVER! THAT'S A LOT OF PLATES I'LL BE NEEDING! AND I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PLATES FOR THAT AT THE MOMENT, SO I SUGGEST YOU LEAVE MY SIGHT AT ONCE! THAT'S BECAUSE I TOOK ALL THE PLATES! I KNEW THEY WERE TRAPS! WHY, YOU-- C'MERE! RAAAARRRRGHHH!! HAHA, TRAPS! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! MERLINUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Merlinus: Out-trapping Admiral Ackbar himself. Wonder what kind of DM he would be. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Reese of Sinon... I see... Then you are the Margrave's son... Let me ask you this, Reese of Sinon: If your father became a worshipper of Raze and joined the Empire, would you simply abandon all that you hold dear in blind obedience? Would you really be willing to do all that, even for your own father? ...I would not. Even if my father ordered me, I would not be able to bring myself to kill innocents like that. One of the better reasons for defecting I've seen in Fire Emblem. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: So, Larentia! I didn't reveal her face and stats because it would've been (even) easier to guess she was recruitable, but here she is. She's kinda like Sierra from TRS, in that her stats are lackluster, but everything else she has is so amazing and exclusive to her that it's simply impossible to pass her up. For starters, she's the one and only playable flier in the game. Fliers in this game work differently than those in FE. Aside from being able to fly over terrain, fliers can also fly over enemies. They also cannot be attacked by melee weapons, it takes at least range 1 to be able to reach them in the sky. They can be counterattacked with melee weapons once they come down to attack, of course. To compensate for this, however, fliers cannot block enemies, as they'll just walk right under them. They can't stand in the same tile as the flier, though, so that's something. Also, a flier can't distract enemies very well, since they're so difficult to reach. Like all other riders, they have the option to dismount to do all these things that they can't do while up in the sky. Oh, and by the way, her wyvern cannot ever die. Notice how it doesn't even have a health bar under Larentia's? This all sounds completely overpowered, but the game will throw scary archers, crossbowmen and mages very often to keep Larentia in check. She has no vulnerability to arrows, mind, but they're still things that can hurt her, and with her mediocre stats, she can't tank 'em very well. And then there's the fact that there's only one Larentia in the entire game. In the context of the ironman, this is even worse than usual, because I don't get to preserve her. I lose her, and that's it, she's gone forever. I was curious to see how Berwick Saga handles fliers, and I am not disappointed. I can see why you only get one, though, as well as why Fire Emblem hasn't stolen this. I am also curious what fighting enemy fliers are like, if there are any. Wyverns also can't die, proving once more that they are superior to winged ponies. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What's that? Still not enough to make her an absurdly broken unit, Kaga-style? Sure, have a thousand great skills as well! - Canto + literally no movement restrictions = balance is Kaga's passion. - Watchful + literally no movement restrictions = better than Czene at her job. - Mercy + literally no movement restrictions = better than Derrick at his job. - Adept... eh. Adept is cool when it happens. - You know, as if she wasn't difficult enough to attack already, she has Throw, to better fight from a safe distance. - Windsweep! She has Windsweep too! She doesn't even have to risk getting counterattacked when coming down to fight, because she can just use this and Canto to the other side of the mountain before you can say "broken"! So what kind of unit do... all of these boons result in? Simple: one that I am deathly afraid for. Her stats, man. Look at those! She's on par with or worse than Adel in every way, but without the broken skill that ends every fight before it starts! And unlike with Sierra, I don't get to throw statboosters at the weakness until it ceases to be. I'll try to keep her safe for as long as I can, but I make no promises. She's too good to be true. Larentia will definitely be interesting throughout this let's play, that's for sure. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ouch... well, one of two is good. I can see what you mean by healers being dramatic when they get hit. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Here's a gif of Larentia. Because, I mean, look at that animation. Definitely gif-worthy. And the gif makes it look a bit choppier than it truly is, too! This game is a work of art, I swear. Awesome. I can see why they featured a wyvern rider in the intro. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...noo... c'mon, don't do that... don't just namedrop your wife before you die... only player characters are allowed to do that...! By the way, no, "Marlene" is never seen in the game. It just so happens that this one-off is married and has children. And now those children are orphans and that woman is a widow. All because I wanted experience and that simurgh down. What even is a simurgh down...? We're the good guys! ...Well, those provoke jokes just lost their humor. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Pretty damn cool, although I kinda preferred TRS's blizzard, with the ice missiles. Thunder, much like in TRS, still requires that you cast lightning on yourself before you throw it at the enemy. Looks great. Hellfire is probably the best looking of the three, if only because I love the way the camera follows the fireball. Why isn't Berwick Saga more well known? These are epic! And I am also afraid that this will spoil me to the magic effects of other games. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Faye! Once again, Faye has a silly looking damage animation. It looks more like she became stiff and was knocked over instead of getting stabbed. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You think she just hates me because of all the thirsty comments? I wouldn't be surprised. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The first axeman is upon us. I don't like sund. He's course, and ruugh, and irrituting, and he gets everywhure. Heh, nice alteration of the meme. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Don't look like it did. All right, that's all three. Third and last citizen request fulfilled! Ouch. Don't want to think to hard of how a spear took off a chunk of his head. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That just about couldn't have been any closer. Five turns down the drain... oh, for fuck's sake... Yikes. I was legitimately worried that you may have had to restart this whole chapter when I first read the update. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, either he can't or he didn't, because that's that. Revolver Ocelot always comes to mind when I see that phrase. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Stop! By the way, these are different screenshots, as you can tell by their filenames. I'm just so amazing that I managed to catch literally the same exact frame both times. Go figure. I actually mistook Ward for a dark mage considering how dark colored and big his cape is. Also, stuff like this is what makes your let's plays so much fun. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE'S BEEN TURNED INTO A GARBAGE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!! Not what I was expecting, but grabbing a grayer cloak and putting on the hood is an anticlimax I wasn't expecting. Though considering this is his shtick... it makes me wonder if he plays Don't Escape every day in real life. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: As for the spell, it's TRS's nosferatu in HD. I absolutely love TRS's nosferatu, so you can guess how much I like this animation. Ey! A callback! Nice! Especially since the game doesn't have a lot of them so far. Also, does all dark magic have the weird eye thing in the background? 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: As a bonus, here's Czene's 1-range counterattack, since I found the animation to be pretty awesome. That dash is pretty awesome, I agree. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Don't blame this on Ward, folks. This was entirely my blunder. If anything, it says a lot about Ward that he was able to survive his own, endgame-ready attack, amplified by Vengeful. Damn. Really wasn't expecting to see Ward kick the bucket anytime. I can see how magic damage can pull its weight in certain situations, as the Euthyphro proved earlier. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Potential for a Roger joke? Maybe? 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Reese, ashamed of his terrible level, escapes immediately as the next turn begins. Unlike Leif in Thracia, Reese can leave the field without resulting in the capture of everyone else. Thank goodness. I was curious if this game had that rule for escaping. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No problem. It's all over. All three requests were done, all the materials were obtained, the boss was killed... pretty much the only thing we missed out on were the swarm orb and that plain horse. Ward's reset breaks the perfect streak, sadly, but still, I'm happy with how this turned out. Next time, we return and talk to Volcens. That's always fun. We'll also get like three hundred character events, so look forward to those as well! I'll see you in the next update of this, the Saint Rubenio Berwick Saga LP! lleweraF! This was an interesting map! I see why you split it into two updates. I already got the impression from the previous levels, but I see what you mean by the main missions having far more to do. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I did manage to get these death quotes from the green units, though. I missed a few, but whatever. Yes, the green units have death quotes. They say nothing if they're captured, but it still amazes me that they'd go as far as to give each of these guys a personalized death quote. Attention to detail. This separates masterpieces from the flock. Also, those are really sad. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This one is extremely interesting to me, because I actually had no idea that the guy did mention his lover in his death quote. I just happened to nail her name by pure dumb luck. Well, I did have him say a shortened version of it, but still. It's plausible. It could've been Marie, or Helena, or Siobhan, or anything else really. It worked out well, all things considered. Your luck once again applies outside of gameplay. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: While attempting to work out how this happened, I came across this nifty little feature I didn't know existed. There's a unit list that doesn't just show all the enemies on the map, it also shows the ones that have died. There's one for each faction, with different colors to show units that are closer to death. The green ones are all of the members of my team that weren't deployed. I'm impressed at how much information these lists have. Even more options. It seems like this screen would only be useful to certain players, but it is neat that it exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) Spoiler 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Nearly killed emulation and romhacking, you say? You speak as if deleting three or four rom sites is enough. It's impossible to kill emulation and romhacking at this point, mate. They can't touch emulators because they're technically not illegal I'm pretty sure, and roms are so easy to spread around, that after so many years it is impossible to delete them all without deleting the entire internet. And that would make Nintendo worse than Hitler. Well, i DID say "nearly" (and while that's true for roms PC games are another thing and they DID kill The Iso Zone) 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But you did...? The important thing is that the meme below that one is not true and you cannot prove otherwise. I am not scum! I'm glad. You kinda screwed up quoting, so I have no idea what you're replying to, but I'm glad to know I can count on you I didn't though: On 5/7/2020 at 10:41 PM, Saint Rubenio said: No, I would rather not. On 5/8/2020 at 1:03 AM, Golb89 said: But you did...? On 5/5/2020 at 10:03 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Look at it again and you'll see you are the one who messed up their reply there. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...you know, come to think about it, the main reason I utterly despise 3H is that chapter. That chapter singlehandedly ruined the entire game for me. 'Cause by God, I've never seen such horrendous map design in anything else ever. And then some people defend it! I try not to get angry at others' opinions, but "Battle Before Dawn is actually good" is one take that makes my blood boil. Kinda reminds me of "Rondo of Swords" 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Derrick has his own game!? Why did nobody tell me that before?!! Err... you might have wanted to put that under "spoiler". Twice, i mean. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I can see the similarities, yes... On 4/20/2018 at 2:02 PM, Saint Rubenio said: 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: To make it more Berwick Saga-related, you could probably replace it with actual weaponry. I didn't intend to make it related to Berwick, just to the Berwick-related meme Falconcrest posted. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why does he always die? Maybe I really am him... It seems you are VERY confused on who's supposed to be who in these comics (unless you are just mocking me, i guess) Also, i edited that post a few hours ago with some additional content, so you'll might want to check it again. Maybe. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, thankfully the final straggler was able to limp his way out of the axeman's range. But that archer, that archer...! 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Aha! Pisaro is in range of those two! Now I can-- Watch him go. Oh, well. Who cares. I'll take this over risking Sherpa or Ward for a few thousand denarii. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Look at that, she might just get a second level today. No, I'm totally not biased in her favor. Whatever gave you that idea? 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Aside from being able to fly over terrain, fliers can also fly over enemies. Meanwhile, elsewhere... 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wonderful screenshot, isn't it? Thank goodness I thought to take the gif. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, the green units have death quotes. They say nothing if they're captured, but it still amazes me that they'd go as far as to give each of these guys a personalized death quote. Some of them also have "legit" portraits, for that matter (though so did those two greenies in Ghast's hack) This was way longer than i expected so i put it all under spoiler, Ruben's style: maybe next time i'll try to resize my images instead. (Actually, i wish everyone else BUT Ruben did this: without signing in tracking the actual updates was a massive pain in the @ss, in the TRS LP too) [Addendum] On 4/18/2020 at 2:27 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That reminds me, Father has set aside twenty thousand denarii TWENTY THOUSAND DENARII!?!!?!?! for you. I will include it with this letter when I send it to you. ...TWENTY THOUSAND DENARII!!! BERNSTOL, YOU'RE MY NEW FAVORITE CHARACTER IN THE GAME! YES, TWENTY THOUSAND!!! I could buy furniture with that kinda money...! Bernstol is a god. I mean, hell, no wonder - he's the one who assigned the Endgame Beard to us! A man with such a subordinate couldn't possibly be any less than a badass! A generous badass. On 5/5/2020 at 10:03 AM, Saint Rubenio said: It's a bit less than last time, but look at all that cash! I could buy furniture! Hmmm... but, no. There is one piece that I'd like, actually, but I can get it later, as I won't need it till the next chapter. Edited May 10, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes. It's danged difficult to want to do it when I have to see Perceval's face again contend with her horrendous level ups. Elbert's first level got him more stats than Enid's gained in four. (He got Hp, Speed, Defense, Sword skill, S shield skill, Enid has 2 hp, 2 sword skill.) But I will do it! I just need to hack into the game and give her 5 magic! Or...Something! Give her an inspirational speech! FORCE HER TO WATCH ALL OF MERLINUS'S DIALOGUE IN FE6!! No, that's too far. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: double drat and triple drat! Quadruple drat! Quintuple drat! Sextuple drat! DRAAAAAAAATT!! Oh man. I feel for you. I really do. I've lost/crippled Czene so many times that way... 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Aight, folks. Time of truth. Will this be the first reset of the LP? Yep. Yes it is. I mean, I'm resetting literally two moves, but it still annoys me to put Ward's name in the reset counter before Reese's. Don't blame this on Ward, folks. This was entirely my blunder. If anything, it says a lot about Ward that he was able to survive his own, endgame-ready attack, amplified by Vengeful. Should I save the gloating that Ward lasted one more main mission for me for now or for later? Ignore the fact that I probably would have gotten him killed if I'd deployed him. And how he died 14 times in chapter 6. (HAVE FUN, MINAS!!!!!! I DON'T REGRET IT ONE BIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'D DO IT AGAIN!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!) Can we really gloat if we killed Marcus in 13x? Shut up. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Frankly, it feels a bit cheap, but this game's main missions are so long that I couldn't imagine resetting them entirely every time. So yeah. I guess I'm lucky that this has happened right next to the save point. Hah! Besides, I can guarantee you that at some point I'm going to forget to deploy the wrong unit and I'm gonna end up wishing I could fully reset. *Cough cough* Chapter 9 taking me 189 turns *cough cough* 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, no... no...! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE'S BEEN TURNED INTO A GARBAGE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!! Oh GodDeESs eLImINe... I iS yoUr lOyaL ZuRVaNT... Why do I find that text so hilarious? 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: As for the spell, it's TRS's nosferatu in HD. I absolutely love TRS's nosferatu, so you can guess how much I like this animation. As a bonus, here's Czene's 1-range counterattack, since I found the animation to be pretty awesome. Imagine Czene being fast enough to reach 11 AS before promotion. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I like how his sprite's coloring is more accurate when he's a Raze priest. Makes me wonder if he wasn't always supposed to be a Raze priest, and was only changed to be a fake Verian priest at the last minute. As for the spell, it's TRS's nosferatu in HD. I absolutely love TRS's nosferatu, so you can guess how much I like this animation. It may be my computer slowing down to 12 FPS, but I do find the animation rather long. Drat, I should probably play Eugen Emblem soon. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Thank you, Lord Reese. I will assist in helping the other soldiers to retreat. Your orders, sir? So, Larentia! I wish that I'd have used her before Marcel's paralogue...She could have been good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Part 20 - Flying menace. No relation to Flying Nonsense. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Meanwhile, apparently the laguz are fearsome killing machines in the eyes of the beorc, and yet in the gameplay they're absolutely pathetic. Can't even do shit half the time! How are those guys feared at all? You just have to survive until they lose the ability to mantain their natural forms! Although, at least they're better than Elibean manaketes. Y'know, the ones that died by EXISTING? Yet... the Elibean manaketes don't change back during gameplay. While the laguz do. Talk about story and gameplay desyncs. Now if you switched it around... 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sheesh... though, to be fair, it took my FE6 massacre for me to develop the paranoia. Whereas I've always been a pessimist so I lose people when I forget something or the RNG decides to crit me. Then again, my runs haven't had an audience, haven't needed to be entertaining, and have had things like the Great Gatrie to make them work. Not that Path of Radiance needs much. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Here, the chapter turns into a pseudo-defense map where you keep the Imperials from advancing long enough for the greens to reach the escape points. And then, of course, you have to be careful not to be caught too far away when the time comes. Definitely an interesting concept. Escape, defense and escort in one. Whether it's fun to play I'll leave to people who have. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Or maybe her dad told her the tale of "Kreiss the Bronze Paladin and the wicked Maerchen" as a child, and it's stuck with her since. Perhaps it's contained in Barker's book of poetry? Wouldn't that be a coincidence. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My ass is weak! You might want to see a doctor. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, so there's an even sturdier medusa guy in the final chapter. The one with the swamp, the balls, Jedah, all those fun things I've heard about? I'm glad I never bothered. Sorry to say it, 'cause I know you like it. But boy am I glad I'm never coming back to this game... I like that map. A lot. Like it's my favourite final boss in the series. But the medusa guy is way easier to handle than Nuibaba in my opinion because being endgame, your units are better developed with more options. Possibly even physic and fortify depending on how far Tatiana is. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I actually used the Archanea wreckage in my sidestory. It's supposed to take place right as Archanea is destroyed. Of course, being unfamiliar with Awakening, I don't doubt that I'll run into inconsistencies if I try to focus too much on that aspect. But yeah, there's a thing you might not've noticed. As I recall Awakening was pretty vague on it. Unless there's more locked behind the DLC I never bought. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Glad to see we agree on this. I like to use that stage... in Training mode. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You're pretty good! I have a killer reaction time. I once stepped on a snake that had wandered into the house, and despite the fact the lights were out and I couldn't see it, was able to register what it was and dodge the bite before it struck. Then it escaped into the lounge room and I was never able to catch it, so I assume it left at some point later or died given it's not likely to be alive 6 years later. I also, through a combination of A.I. manipulation, reflex and luck, have managed Perfect rounds on Geese Howard in Art of Fighting 2 with two characters (which if you look it up is insanely dickish with it's A.I.), and Rugal Bernstein (who the developers described as having been designed to be the cheapest bastard in a fighting game to compensate for being a solo character in a team battle thing) in King of Fighters '94 no less than four times, and I have the screenshots to prove it. My platforming history includes every Ghosts n Goblins, 2D Castlevania bar Chronicles, and any Battletoads game save the Gameboy one... which I haven't beat yet. Still can't beat F-Zero GX's story mode either as I'm terrible at racing games. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Or maybe it was Valery to begin with. Except instead of a beheaded horse, he put your chipped axe in your bed. I know full well who it was. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, yes, it's all coming back... you mention the fact that there's only one myrmidon and one mercenary, but at least there are prepromotes there. Canas? One and only shaman, and one and only dark mage until Athos. Amazing. Dark mages (except reclasses) tend to be a commodity though. Something to do with them being stereotyped as villains. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Good ol' Morshu. I always thought that the most hilarious part about him is the way he moves. He just... his head remains stationary while his belly moves around erratically and his body... sort of slides closer to the screen. What I find hilarious is that I find him more memorable than most official Zelda characters. Not because the official ones are bad, but because he's so.... Morshu. I must be the only one who'd kill for re-releases of the CD-i Zelda games. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He's a genius, really. He's ensuring that the war ends as quickly as possible so less people die. What a hero of the people. "I will have my entire army die by bad tactics so no one need die. I am a genius." 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: There's also been a Pizarro in this game, if you recall. The guy with a dropable Sinon Stallion in chapter 2. I thought I saw the name before in the game. Except I assumed it was on the wanted poster. Point is, I wanted to point that out because Stompo. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: golfers are insane! Very obviously. They spend all day playing with their shafts balls and holes. What a maddening boring existence. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahahahahahah... I don't think he will. If only he'd used a different word... I particularly don't expect him to. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, so the problem with Silque's summons is that they can solo the game? How is that a problem!? Not sure. But as I said, this is among the reasons the final map medusa user is easier. You can most likely have Silque's summons swarm him, and even wear down Duma for Alm. Just get her to level 18... or promote her and get her to whatever level (18 unpromoted, but if you promote her whatever level you promoted her at gets subtracted. Then you add on an extra level. As clerics promote to saint at level 12, this'd mean you'd get her to level 7 as a saint. It should also be faster to level her this way because of the way exp is calculated in this game too. So really the only reason not to do it that way is if you're going for the absolute maximum stats by grinding. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: One-shot Nuibaba?! That was possible?! What kind of a shitty team did I have...!? Mathilda can be like that. Personally I'd warp in Alm and use Double Lion, which allowed him to hit twice before she hit once then rescue him out. Very good for wrecking Rudolf The Red Armored Emperor too. Actually, double lion is good in a lot of situations. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, for better or worse, he's going to do dumber things than just calling a vase "erotic" Oh dear. How poetic. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hard Ironmanning is something I've never tried. I just don't enjoy the thought of starting a FE playthrough only to be forced to drop it midway by a mistake. But, to each their own. It makes me try harder. Mind the only game I've attempted it with that's actually forced me to drop runs was New Mystery (once involving the desert of death, the other time when Roro/Legion taught me the value of not over-estimating myself). I mean, FE7 and Sacred Stones may as well have been regular runs, PoR had a strength screwed Ike who couldn't damage enemies without a steel blade until after promotion (then with the help of every energy drop I got he capped), but was more than made up for by the ridiculously sturdy Mia and speedy Gatrie I had. Shadow Dragon... well there was an incident with Xane. I also had a really, really, really close call with Tiki. Seriously 1 hp from death. Only survived because I "wasted" a Seraph robe on her before screwing up and almost getting her killed while invading Medon/Macedon. Awakening was another story entirely. Cordelia bit the big one on the boats, Lon'qu bit it later because losing his wife was bad for him and then I royally forgot how the A.I. on Tiki's paralogue worked and lost her for real. Fates was a case where I went with a different challenge. Instead of doing iron man runs, I did no royals no named Corrin runs. With the dragon veins, that was interesting to say the least. Anyway, point is... having done the easier games, my intent is to work on the harder ones. Or redo the ones I made mess-ups on and try and get them perfect. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahahahahah, well, the rule of cool usually overrules safety. In my case it's the need to kill every enemy that crosses my path. Including the damaged guardians around the bomb shrine by shield deflection. Then I stuff up one shield deflection, or take one hit from the one bokoblin with an OP earlygame weapon, or get knocked off a cliff by a minor impact. I'd like to say the Stone Tallus is also a potential threat, but it's attacks are so telegraphed even if they kill you one hit. If you've had practice it's easy. Point is, this game has a tutorial area that's beautiful in that it can kill you a 100 times over if you aren't 100% careful. It's the best damn tutorial I've ever seen because it's not hand-holdy. It lets you learn in a large open area until you've proven yourself ready to leave, at which point you get a key item that allows you to get beyond what felt like the boundary before. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: AAAAAAAAARGH! WHAT IS THAT?! What in the world is THAT THING!?! What is Zeiss doing on the map? 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Eyyyy, guy! Look, there's your wife! Oh, I'm sorry. It's just one of your comrades, the one I speared through the face. Should've known, face's too pretty to be your wife. Elbert was a real rapscallion before travelling back in time and dyeing huh? 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: YES! TRAP! I AM GLAD THAT WE ARE CHASING AWAY THIS TRAP! DOES HE ALWAYS DO THIS?! YEAH! YEAH, FUCKER DOES! IT'S INFURIATING-- WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?! LORD REESE, YOU'RE A DREAM COME TRUE! PLEASE TAKE ME AS YOUR ADVISOR! WHY IN THE WORLD HAVEN'T YOU LEFT YET?! GET THE HELL OUT! I'LL TAKE YOUR HEAD AGAIN! I'LL TAKE YOUR HEAD TEN TIMES OVER! THAT'S A LOT OF PLATES I'LL BE NEEDING! AND I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PLATES FOR THAT AT THE MOMENT, SO I SUGGEST YOU LEAVE MY SIGHT AT ONCE! THAT'S BECAUSE I TOOK ALL THE PLATES! I KNEW THEY WERE TRAPS! WHY, YOU-- C'MERE! RAAAARRRRGHHH!! HAHA, TRAPS! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! MERLINUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! I like how Merlinus was kind of dormant most of Tear Ring apart from the incident in the Headless Club, but he's come back into full force here. Where was he when Zieg came in? 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'll try to keep her safe for as long as I can, but I make no promises. She's too good to be true. So high risk, high reward. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Waaaahahah! Excellent, excellent! How shocking. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: a widow. Also mocked by Elbert. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I don't like sund. He's course, and ruugh, and irrituting, and he gets everywhure. Furtunutuly, yuu'll bu ublu to huvu hunchmun rumuve hum frum yuur buuts. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Pretty terrible edit, if I do say so myself. But the axe is ours. Sund apparently thought he was stealing the Devil Axe. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That just about couldn't have been any closer. Five turns down the drain... oh, for fuck's sake... Damn. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE'S BEEN TURNED INTO A GARBAGE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!! What a terrible curse for the Sinon Knights. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: THE... Terrifying Heinous Entity. So he's going to make use of Owen's curse... 11 hours ago, Hawkwing said: Wonder what kind of DM he would be. No monsters. No NPCs. Just Traps. Lots and lots of traps. 11 hours ago, Hawkwing said: Potential for a Roger joke? Maybe? Yes, I did make a joke out of this. But considering it's origins, Ruben's the only one who'll get it. 9 hours ago, Benice said: Can we really gloat if we killed Marcus in 13x? Shut up. And that's how I know about something in your thread before I get to it. Damn. 9 hours ago, Benice said: Oh GodDeESs eLImINe... I iS yoUr lOyaL ZuRVaNT... Please do this. PLEASE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 [Addendum of the addendum] (aka "here we go again") Garud(a) and the Glacier Axe: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/frostleaf Sund(ay) and the Volcano Axe: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/zima Dominic(a) and the Nimbus Axe: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/shaw Also, i forgot to mention before that this... On 5/5/2020 at 10:03 AM, Saint Rubenio said: ... was originally supposed to be "part 2" of this... On 3/24/2020 at 6:13 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ... but the project was abandoned for obvious reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Part 22 - Very sad update in general. There are two part 20s. Wonderful. It's started already. This time, though, I'm going to skip straight to part 22 so we can keep at least a semblance of consistency. : Spoiler On 5/9/2020 at 11:14 PM, eclipse said: Ward can't steal the show every time Reese takes too long! Ah, I suppose so. To be honest, Reese's gonna begin to steal shows next chapter. That's when he gets... that. On 5/10/2020 at 2:44 AM, Pengaius said: Arkis never wound up on one of these lists therefore Arkis > Ward Why, you...! You've been waiting this long just to resume your cocksucking of Arkis?! Butterman! BUTTERMAN! Buttermënsch, damnit! Also every time that Ward (or Reese but he hasnt caused any resets so I'm not worried about that) dies, you should gore edit his last gore portrait, so it stacks. That's a good idea. I think I'll take you up on it. On 5/10/2020 at 2:59 AM, BrightBow said: Ah, classic Faye. Well, except that she usually gets crippled too.You really do hate her, don't you? I suppose that's all the more reason to make something outta her. Looks to me like everyone who can reach is provoked already. So the greenies should be fine.Ah. Well, I didn't want to take any chances, 'aight? Every time I do, something horrible happens. Well, judging by the color palette, two of them are Sherlock.Yay! Twice the Sherlock, double the misses! Hey, I appreciate it. Can't attack you at 0 range if you stay in the air.Why would anyone want to kill Larentia? She rocks! Getting rekt truly is her Fayte.Oh, no... even you've started with the puns now. I should keep Ward to prevent my threads from being filled to the brim with puns... Weak, I know. I'm having a slow day, okay? Poor guy has no idea how bad these axes are. There is a reason the game expect you to just hand over all three. They are just not worth keeping anyway.Yeah, that does help to take the good guy's choice. The hundreth notch? Oh please. Your axe has D-rank durability. It can survive for 20 hits tops.Maybe he has an S-rank axe that he keeps at home, and every time he kills someone he goes back and puts a notch on it? I would guess that it is also meant to serve as a link to TRS as well. That is pretty cool. In any case, I wonder if "Janura" is supposed to be the name of the snake.Could be, could be, considering how it's one of the few things that is consistent from one game to the next. He is the endgame beard because he dies before the endgame. Baaahhh... Well, at least he and Christine can now ignore each other in heaven. That was so needlessly cruel. I love it. On 5/10/2020 at 3:05 AM, Hawkwing said: Yay! We get to see this game's unique flier units! Which if I heard correctly, they can only be attacked by ranged weapons on the enemy turn while they can take damage if they engage in combat. I am very curious to see how this mechanic works in practice. Well, we didn't get to see much that day. Perhaps the next. That I am terrible at watching movies and televisions shows when I have the opportunity to do so. Okay, fine. That is a valid reason. It's also rated R, the house is largely occupied due to the quarantine, and I have a younger brother that isn't old enough to watch it. Ahhhh, yeah, probably best to prevent any ugly accidents. I do find it kind of funny that Awakening and Fates handled shapeshifters better gameplaywise but dropped the ball on the storytelling aspect. Seriously, the taguel are barely relevant for one level, and while I like the lore behind them, you have to scour through every little thing Panne and to a lesser degree Yarne say to find it, and even then said information is easy to miss. Meanwhile, the shapeshifters in Fates have a single level that acknowledges their existence, and then they never appear again, which is a shame because they were actually interesting to fight, even if the level gimmick(s) in Conquest could have been handled better. Manaketes amount to "hey, they're a thing" in Awakening while Corrin and Kana are the only ones that can become one in Fates. Dragon Veins were interesting, if not the game changer I was expecting them to be. They're not flawless in gameplay, either. I have a soft spot for the taguel, but I don't blame people who reclass Panne and Yarne the first moment they get, and I'd say their biggest weakness is that they fall behind without reclassing shenanigans given how their lack of a promotion means they never get a stat boost. Better than manaketes, where the class is fine but the characters in them are a little too reliant on their class bonuses (Tiki is good, but she's optional and you get her around the 2/3's mark), and Corrin's dragon form pretty much just amounted to another weapon with a cool cosmetic difference. The beaststone/beastrune gimmick for the other Fates shapeshifters was cool given how it changed the role they could serve, even if it was a little barebones. I really like shapeshifters, so I hope that a future game does them more justice. Well, there's one fine shapeshifter that isn't from those games: In Berwick Saga, the game that does everything right-- okay, no. It's Xane. Xane is a unit that I haven't really ever used, but objectively speaking, he's ridiculously strong. Why would you bring anyone else, when you could deploy Xane and have two of your strongest unit? Or two warpers? Or two tanks? The only things he can't be are a second Marth, thief or Feena. In FE12 he's even better, too, because he arrives slightly earlier and has Feena to help him catch up after shifting. I don't necessarily mind that Fire Emblem doesn't go as far as it could with that message (because to be completely honest, a lot of strategy games don't do that), but it is nice to see a game that does acknowledge how hellish war can be. If you enjoy it, boy you're going to love a certain scene in this very update... I was wondering if Thracia 776 did something like that. I want to play that game sometime, but given its reputation for being blind player unfriendly, I am in no rush to do so. I'm already not a fan of having a second screen up when playing the GBA games to keep track of how slowly quickly characters support with each other and how you unlock the gaiden chapters. I won't lie, Thracia doesn't like newcomers. The Manster arc is brilliant, though. I'd totally recommend it, even if I aren't fond of the endgame. Yay! More artwork to look forward to! There was a certain map that I felt tempted to share back in the TRS LP, when I was first playing through BWS. That's how pretty that one is. Wielding giant swords as if they were nothing is definitely one of the most overused tropes out there, and not all of them have an excuse of super strength or something like that. They explained how Guts was able to do it, but it was more of an excuse than anything else. I can't really remember it anymore. That's probably the most condensed swearing I've seen in my life, but that meme was hilarious. Hahah, yeah. I was looking for the original version, actually, but the meme was the better outcome. R.I.P. R Lee Ermey. Ah... I was not aware. I know he wears bullet-proof armor, though his cape having that ability might just be because "he's batman". That seems to be the reason for a lot of things, doesn't it? Like the fact that he apparently has a contingency plan for every single member of the Justice League, despite the fact that all of the higher-ups could literally just walk up to him and punch a hole in his head. I guess he could keep kryptonite around for Superman, but what's his plan for Wonderwoman? And... really, all the others who fly, move really quick, are super strong, super durable and have no weaknesses? Mind enlightening this ignorant young man? What can I say? I enjoy when largely unimportant characters get some characterization, even if it is simple. Helps as a reminder that not everyone is a faceless goon and they have their own stories. I dig it too, myself. That's why I write Minion Misadventures at all! Always love when mooks get personality. I kinda regret looking that up now. Of course you do... Fair enough. The point to remember is, Bagman was the most brilliant businessman of his era. Don't blame you. I take it like decapitations, it's something you can only do once per let's play. Not really. Headsplitting is just difficult to do. I ain't no artist. Right. My bad. I wanted to make a call-back but forgot that the skills did different things despite sharing a name. No worries. I see. Really, the whole soundtrack is excellent. Completely agree. Heheheheh, yep, I say this is what canonically happens after he dies. Seriously, it's one of the things I kinda miss in BWS. BWS's story is excellent, but it's much more down to earth. I sometimes miss the ridiculous shit that TRS would pull on occasion. Like, Eugen was a completely bonkers character. Not to say that I dislike BWS's story, mind. I love it, better than all of FE. But I think that goes without saying, considering that so far, this whole LP's being a love letter to BWS where I deflect/ignore any and all criticism to the game. Except RNG captures. Those can go fuck themselves. Hamilton and his squad, Seamus, Laurus... we could've spared them all... At this point, I could probably just say *Insert "You Would Enjoy Conquest" Comment* whenever the game pops up. I do still recommend the game. Hah, well, as always, I'll keep it in mind. Even if the presence of characters like Camilla does, admittedly, make me hesitant to try it out. Going in knowing that the story wasn't very good and the characters lacked depth definitely helped, I will say that. Peri and Charlotte are really the only characters I outright hated (though I did regret not making the latter a healer when I had the chance), though the rest are more missed opportunities than anything else. The cast can still be entertaining if you go in with the right mindset. Duly noted. Given how hit or miss Fates and Radiant Dawn was when they got ambitious, yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing a more straightforward story in the next game that removes what didn't work and irons out what did. And for goodness sake, improve the visuals and the pace! Those are perhaps the biggest reason why I have a hard time continuing through Three Houses. I just want them to finally ditch the routes nonsense. Avatars are bullcrap, but I can accept them. Heck, Kris was a blight on the story, but gameplay-wise they were extremely fun, since they could become anything. For all the "better than Fates!" talk, though, Byleth strikes me as the worst Avatar, because not only are they a terrible character (because they've no character beyond a few self-aware references and get the same amount of avatar-worshipping as all the others), they're also a terrible avatar (because they cannot be customized in any way, so they fail at avataring). Also their designs make me want to puke. ...oh no, I went on a tangent of hate against 3H again. Anyway, as I was saying... Avatars are bad, but harmless. The route stupidity only serves to stretch the available time and budget so thin that the game isn't allowed to be truly great. One or at most two routes, please. Four only served to turn what could've been an absolutely amazing game into a mediocre one. That I hate for being so mediocre. Weak in terms of HP. Mathilda always one-shot her with a crit and even with raw damage came close to doing so. Ah, right. You need a crit. You see, the problem is that I never, ever consider crits in my strategies, because I don't get them. Most of the time. I actually like the final level thanks to the music, Duma being an interesting boss, and how it could be seen as most of the games mechanics reappearing for a final challenge. Well, I'm happy for you. Don't blame you. I love the unique mechanics, presentation, and the fast pace, but I won't try to pretend that the game is for everyone. Thank you for your understanding. Very much agreed. It does make me think that some supports are redundant, considering how I sometimes got a better understanding of a characters personality by what they said in battle than what was said in support conversations. I do hope they drop the "badass quote before critting" shtick for the next games, though. It's cool, but I believe it's run it's course by now, and it doesn't help that I still think Awakening has the best critical hit quotes. Well, crit quotes are cool, I believe. If there weren't crit quotes, Hanneman wouldn't scream "AHA! A WEAKPOINT!", and... well, he'd still be my favorite "old wizard man" in the series, somehow, but a bit less so. Seriously though, that guy's voice was perfect for the character. I almost couldn't believe my ears when I recognized him as Desaix. Somehow that guy has a great range, but is extremely recognizable. Go figure. Huh, didn't think about that before, actually. That's pretty cool. I thought you hadn't, hence why I pointed it out. I understand that it is kind of unbelievable that I'd acknowledge modern FE in any non-hateful way. Nuibaba I'd say is the worst of the lot. Granted, I still hate the swamp maps, but compared to Tear Ring Saga, they're not as painful as I once thought they were. Hahahahahah... well, I won't lie, as much as I like TRS, those swamp maps can go die. Jesus, I still get horrible flashbacks to that one map... curse you for dying, Attrom...! So he's a strategy gamer that realizes that he's lost but decided he's going to loose legitimately instead of quitting and starting a new game? Nah, he's just a really really really bad strategy gamer. That is dumb. Depends on the game. Some games are easy to go through without dying, while others not so much. That is obvious. Though now that I think about it, Awakening is really the only game I consistently do challenge runs for. I think the ease that one can do one, the amount of mechanics that can be exploited or ignored, the already prevalent replayability, and how they add an actual, well, challenge to the game are the main reasons for that. I can see where you're coming from, here. That's a fun dodge position. Makes it look like Elbert doesn't give a crap, which in turn makes provoke more effective. He shares it with Adel, Leon and Arthur. In other words, all the basic cavaliers. Flying mount time! Eeyup. Heh heh heh. That's a pretty strange looking hit position. Yeah, I noticed it too. Damn, that's a harsh yet effective insult. I feel a little bad about it, myself... He also seems to be more effective when he's offscreen. Maybe like you his luck fluctuates when he's playing publicly. I think he's even worse off. Because at least I don't look like Tommy Wiseau. They look like the exact same guy, but with different expressions depending on the situation. It kind of makes me wonder if that's what they were originally designed for. It's a funny side-effect of the game's fondness for using generic portraits for everything. Like with TRS, there's also a ton of unused portraits that could've been used instead. Still, I, too, enjoy how much the generics are used. I don't know why. Guess it's because I love how the generics look in this game. Those guardians are badass, I wish I had a helmet like that. Pfffffftt I don't blame you, but it sure is hilarious and cathartic to see your worrying be for naught. Especially considering what has happened in the past. Certainly better than when my worrying is for something. Gore Fork. I admire your restraint. Ahhhhhh... hahahah, it didn't even cross my mind. Considering how prevalent the trope of the bad guy intending to get caught so they can do damage closer to the heroes, I don't blame Reese for being cautious. Especially considering the game that BWS is a sequel to. Still, Reese is one of the most recruit-averse lords I have seen in the series. Oh yeah. He just keeps refusing everyone! If it were up to him, we'd still have our initial team of 7 6. And Derrick. Somehow he never complained about the guy whose face he can't see and whose voice he can't hear. Merlinus: Out-trapping Admiral Ackbar himself. Wonder what kind of DM he would be. One where every step of the way is a trap. One of the better reasons for defecting I've seen in Fire Emblem. Her excuse is definitely more solid than Zieg's was. I was curious to see how Berwick Saga handles fliers, and I am not disappointed. I can see why you only get one, though, as well as why Fire Emblem hasn't stolen this. I am also curious what fighting enemy fliers are like, if there are any. I can understand why this hasn't been stolen, too. It's something that you have to plan around. Wyverns also can't die, proving once more that they are superior to winged ponies. There aren't pegasi in this game, actually. Fliers are extremely rare on both sides, and they're always wyverns of one kind or another. Larentia will definitely be interesting throughout this let's play, that's for sure. If she doesn't die in her first mission, of course. I can see what you mean by healers being dramatic when they get hit. All the magic-types are really dramatic. You should see Aegina. But if I can help it, I won't be the one to show it. Awesome. I can see why they featured a wyvern rider in the intro. Yeah, it's basically the same entrance as the fliers in TRS, but even flashier. The game in general feels like TRS with thrice the budget. TRS looks and feels like an indie game far before indie games took off. And, when you think about it, the concept is similar. Kaga formed his own small company to make the games he dreamed of without any limitations beyond his team's ability and the budget. Guess you could say Kaga did indies first! ...Well, those provoke jokes just lost their humor. Yeah... that was the intent. Heh. Why isn't Berwick Saga more well known? Because, even though it outsold both of Tellius in Japan, that really isn't saying much. This is a very niche game, and a complicated niche game at that. Still, it does seem to have a fanbase over in Japan. Think about it, though. If it wasn't for the Kaga connection bringing FE fans to this game, BWS may've never been translated. What a terrible timeline to live in that would've been... These are epic! Oh yeah. Absolutely. This game is wonderful to look at. And I am also afraid that this will spoil me to the magic effects of other games. Well, just you wait until we get to some of the even fancier spells. I didn't show it because I forgot to give it to Owen, but holy is gorgeous. Once again, Faye has a silly looking damage animation. It looks more like she became stiff and was knocked over instead of getting stabbed. I think she tried to T-pose to assert dominance. But they knocked her first. I wouldn't be surprised. Neither would I. Urgh... Heh, nice alteration of the meme. Thanks! Ouch. Don't want to think to hard of how a spear took off a chunk of his head. By knocking it really hard. Yikes. I was legitimately worried that you may have had to restart this whole chapter when I first read the update. Nah... I already covered my own back there. Revolver Ocelot always comes to mind when I see that phrase. Well, the context is pretty similar. I actually mistook Ward for a dark mage considering how dark colored and big his cape is. Hah, yeah. I just find it to be a bit wonky that his cape is blue, when in his artwork it's green. But eh, who cares. Also, stuff like this is what makes your let's plays so much fun. Hahahaha... ah, damnit. Not what I was expecting, but grabbing a grayer cloak and putting on the hood is an anticlimax I wasn't expecting. It's only an anticlimax because you guys were hoping he'd turn into a fuckin' werewolf or a vampire or something. C'mon. I thought as soon as I pointed out that he was stuck with a dark orb it'd be pretty obvious what he'd turn into. Though considering this is his shtick... it makes me wonder if he plays Don't Escape every day in real life. Well, uh... more on that later in this update. Ey! A callback! Nice! Especially since the game doesn't have a lot of them so far. Yeah! Also, does all dark magic have the weird eye thing in the background? Could be... That dash is pretty awesome, I agree. Of course you do. Damn. Really wasn't expecting to see Ward kick the bucket anytime. He wouldn't have, if I hadn't blundered horrendously. And I mean, it took leftover damage from a crit, a Vengeful blow and magical damage to down him. Considering the Vengeful hit, it could be argued that only Ward can kill Ward. I can see how magic damage can pull its weight in certain situations, as the Euthyphro proved earlier. It'll save our asses more than once, I can assure you of that. Potential for a Roger joke? Maybe? Hahahahahahahah... well, maybe. We'll see. I was curious if this game had that rule for escaping. Nope. This was an interesting map! I see why you split it into two updates. I already got the impression from the previous levels, but I see what you mean by the main missions having far more to do. Main missions are really big. The first one I could get away with putting in one update (first update, and all), but really, mission 2 was already pushing it. Attention to detail. This separates masterpieces from the flock. Indeed it does. That's why I was so impressed to find out that these dudes do have death quotes. Also, those are really sad. Yeah... and reading the files, there are a few ones that are even sadder. Not sure if they're unused or I just didn't catch 'em, but... "It hurts... It hurts so much... Someone, save... me..." "I couldn't even make it... through my first battle..." "I can't die here... There's still so much... I want to do with my... life..." Your luck once again applies outside of gameplay. You can say that again. And you will. Even more options. It seems like this screen would only be useful to certain players, but it is neat that it exists. This game is deep, man. On 5/10/2020 at 3:56 AM, Golb89 said: On 5/10/2020 at 3:56 AM, Golb89 said: Well, i DID say "nearly" (and while that's true for roms PC games are another thing and they DID kill The Iso Zone) Fair enough. Even if it's a lost cause, it's still a shitty cause to try and destroy the preservation of old games. I didn't though: Look at it again and you'll see you are the one who messed up their reply there. Ah... well, excuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuse me, Princess! Kinda reminds me of "Rondo of Swords" Why? Does that one also have a shitty-ass map that ruins the whole game? Err... you might have wanted to put that under "spoiler". Twice, i mean. Why? Why is it such a big spoiler that the Derrick lookalike is Arknights's protagonist? Or... wait, is he the protagonist at all? I'm getting even more confused... Still see the resemblance. That's Martel casting purge and nearly killing Dougy. Damn...! My blood is boiling just remembering him. How could FE6 manage to use the same portrait for the best throwaway, the worst and the most average and forgettable? Did they do it intentionally? I didn't intend to make it related to Berwick, just to the Berwick-related meme Falconcrest posted. I demand that you make Berwick-related things in my Berwick LP! It seems you are VERY confused on who's supposed to be who in these comics (unless you are just mocking me, i guess) No mockery here. I am extremely confused as to what that dude's role in the game is. Your contradictory messages do not help. Also, i edited that post a few hours ago with some additional content, so you'll might want to check it again. Maybe. Perhaps I will. On 5/8/2020 at 4:09 AM, Golb89 said: On 5/5/2020 at 10:03 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Also, doctor? Is this a coincidence, or did you go out of your way to search for a doctor OC because of the four times I've mentioned I'm a main medic in TF2? 'Cause If so, this is... pretty damn great! Thanks! (Note: unfortunately none of those actually apply in-game) Ha! Maybe not to this game, but this is exactly how I play Medic in TF2. I'm no combat medic, I spend most of my time healing, but when someone comes after me, I don't flee for dear life while missing all my crossbow shots like all the meta medics. I take out my blutsauger and teach them not to underestimate the healer! Hahahahah... Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah! This format is hell! Anyway, why is Martel in my chair? Or, wait, is that my chair? What the hell is the context?! Hah! Sure. How do you delete something from the internet? Meanwhile, elsewhere... Hahahahah... ah, yeah. That's basically what happens here, too, since Larentia can't stop in hexes with ground units in them, and viceversa. Do you have one of these for every situation? Yes. Yes you do. Hahahahahahah... okay, that was good. Who even is this character? Some of them also have "legit" portraits, for that matter (though so did those two greenies in Ghast's hack) Oh yeah, Bloodlines. One of those wonderful hacks that are permanently stuck in a WIP state. May it and Staff of Ages be completed some day. A few years back I wouldn't have believed they had a chance, but nowadays, with more and more projects being finished and hacking being more convenient than ever, the future looks brighter. I mean, heck, even Midnight Sun returned, even if it didn't do so as a FE hack! Still have loads of respect for TLP for managing to be finished (with loads of content to boot) in an era when absolutely nothing was ever finished. This was way longer than i expected so i put it all under spoiler, Ruben's style: maybe next time i'll try to resize my images instead. (Actually, i wish everyone else BUT Ruben did this: without signing in tracking the actual updates was a massive pain in the @ss, in the TRS LP too) I've had this complaint before. In fact, it was what prompted me to make my updates more compact. Then I made my titles huge and green so they'd be harder to miss. On the other hand, though, this is more difficult for me to quote. And also, it makes this site's already unstable ctr+z to go bonkers. I tried to undo a simple mistake and it undid 10 minutes of replying to you. Thanks. [Addendum] No seriously. What is the Derrick lookalike's role in the game? I am so confused. Also, I can't separately reply to these two because this format is horrendous. So yeah. There you go. On 5/10/2020 at 5:17 AM, Benice said: It's danged difficult to want to do it when I have to see Perceval's face again contend with her horrendous level ups. With the liquid magic, she's guaranteed to get enough magic at level 10 at the latest. Thanks, bracket system. Elbert's first level got him more stats than Enid's gained in four. (He got Hp, Speed, Defense, Sword skill, S shield skill, Enid has 2 hp, 2 sword skill.) But I will do it! I just need to hack into the game and give her 5 magic! Or...Something! Give her an inspirational speech! FORCE HER TO WATCH ALL OF MERLINUS'S DIALOGUE IN FE6!! No, that's too far. Imagine caring about stats in Berwick Saga. Oh man. I feel for you. I really do. I've lost/crippled Czene so many times that way... Sheesh... I'm lucky it didn't happen. This time. Should I save the gloating that Ward lasted one more main mission for me for now or for later? Ignore the fact that I probably would have gotten him killed if I'd deployed him. And how he died 14 times in chapter 6. (HAVE FUN, MINAS!!!!!! I DON'T REGRET IT ONE BIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'D DO IT AGAIN!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!) Well... uh, save the gloating for the next time I lose some unit because of a stupid blunder. Can we really gloat if we killed Marcus in 13x? Shut up. Hahahahahah... ahh, arguments with oneself. The most fun part of being an insane person LPer. *Cough cough* Chapter 9 taking me 189 turns *cough cough* JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST ON A DICKSUCKING BIKE how did that happen Oh GodDeESs eLImINe... I iS yoUr lOyaL ZuRVaNT... Why do I find that text so hilarious? Not sure. I guarantee you that there'll come a time that you won't find it so hilarious, though. Imagine Czene being fast enough to reach 11 AS before promotion. To be honest, it surprised me as well that she was able to do it. It may be my computer slowing down to 12 FPS, but I do find the animation rather long. Drat, I should probably play Eugen Emblem soon. Bwahahahahahahahahahahah... to think, all these months worshipping him, and I never thought to call TRS that. You definitely should play Eugen Emblem. It should run better than Ward Emblem, too, since it's on the PS1, which is generally easier to emulate. I recommend Mednafen with a UI add-on! PCSX1 is kinda shit, even if it seems to be the most popular PS1 emulator. I wish that I'd have used her before Marcel's paralogue...She could have been good! Well, it doesn't make that much of a difference. Her stats blow either way. On 5/10/2020 at 3:09 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: No relation to Flying Nonsense. Hahahahaha! I'd almost forgotten that one. Yet... the Elibean manaketes don't change back during gameplay. While the laguz do. Talk about story and gameplay desyncs. Now if you switched it around... Switching it around would definitely make more sense. The laguz mechanic was dumb as hell and only served to make them no fun to use. I'm going to make Nealuchi work, though, no matter the cost. He's too hilarious not to. Whereas I've always been a pessimist so I lose people when I forget something or the RNG decides to crit me. Then again, my runs haven't had an audience, haven't needed to be entertaining, and have had things like the Great Gatrie to make them work. Not that Path of Radiance needs much. Path of Radiance? Don't make me laugh. It's impossible not to break that one open. Definitely an interesting concept. Escape, defense and escort in one. Whether it's fun to play I'll leave to people who have. I find it pretty fun. But, of course, I'm probably not the most objective opinion out there, since I am this game's biggest fanboy and all. Perhaps it's contained in Barker's book of poetry? Wouldn't that be a coincidence. Hah. Imagine that. A book full of fairy tales from my TRS LP. Perhaps Sennet wrote it and named it in his uncle's honor. You might want to see a doctor. I love how you strategically ommitted the context for that. I was actually wondering if someone would. I like that map. A lot. Like it's my favourite final boss in the series. But the medusa guy is way easier to handle than Nuibaba in my opinion because being endgame, your units are better developed with more options. Possibly even physic and fortify depending on how far Tatiana is. Still... meh. Berwick Saga has the best final m-- okay, okay, okay, enough BWS worshipping until I get to the update. As I recall Awakening was pretty vague on it. Unless there's more locked behind the DLC I never bought. All the better for me, then. I like to use that stage... in Training mode. Ah! Training! I have a killer reaction time. I once stepped on a snake that had wandered into the house, and despite the fact the lights were out and I couldn't see it, was able to register what it was and dodge the bite before it struck. Then it escaped into the lounge room and I was never able to catch it, so I assume it left at some point later or died given it's not likely to be alive 6 years later. I also, through a combination of A.I. manipulation, reflex and luck, have managed Perfect rounds on Geese Howard in Art of Fighting 2 with two characters (which if you look it up is insanely dickish with it's A.I.), and Rugal Bernstein (who the developers described as having been designed to be the cheapest bastard in a fighting game to compensate for being a solo character in a team battle thing) in King of Fighters '94 no less than four times, and I have the screenshots to prove it. My platforming history includes every Ghosts n Goblins, 2D Castlevania bar Chronicles, and any Battletoads game save the Gameboy one... which I haven't beat yet. Still can't beat F-Zero GX's story mode either as I'm terrible at racing games. You're pretty good! I know full well who it was. Well, I won't pry. Dark mages (except reclasses) tend to be a commodity though. Something to do with them being stereotyped as villains. They are... outside of GBA. But in GBA, you have a Raigh, a kid; Canas, a kindhearted nerd; Knoll, a depressed researched; Sophia, a half-dragon girl; Niime, an old hermit; I mean, hell, Ewan can go shaman. Ewan. My point is, in GBA dark magic is far less rare and not particularly associated to an evil cult, like in other continents from the series. That makes its rarity in FE7 all the more jarring. What I find hilarious is that I find him more memorable than most official Zelda characters. Not because the official ones are bad, but because he's so.... Morshu. I must be the only one who'd kill for re-releases of the CD-i Zelda games. Yeah, I can see what you mean. The memes made him immortal. "I will have my entire army die by bad tactics so no one need die. I am a genius." Volcens's mind. I thought I saw the name before in the game. Except I assumed it was on the wanted poster. Point is, I wanted to point that out because Stompo. Hahahahah... Stompo. Very obviously. They spend all day playing with their shafts balls and holes. What a maddening boring existence. ...interesting assessment. I particularly don't expect him to. Well... meh. Not sure. But as I said, this is among the reasons the final map medusa user is easier. You can most likely have Silque's summons swarm him, and even wear down Duma for Alm. Just get her to level 18... or promote her and get her to whatever level (18 unpromoted, but if you promote her whatever level you promoted her at gets subtracted. Then you add on an extra level. As clerics promote to saint at level 12, this'd mean you'd get her to level 7 as a saint. It should also be faster to level her this way because of the way exp is calculated in this game too. So really the only reason not to do it that way is if you're going for the absolute maximum stats by grinding. All right, then. Mathilda can be like that. Personally I'd warp in Alm and use Double Lion, which allowed him to hit twice before she hit once then rescue him out. Very good for wrecking Rudolf The Red Armored Emperor too. Actually, double lion is good in a lot of situations. I can see why it would be. Brave anything is cool. Oh dear. How poetic. Hah! Isn't that right? It makes me try harder. Mind the only game I've attempted it with that's actually forced me to drop runs was New Mystery (once involving the desert of death, the other time when Roro/Legion taught me the value of not over-estimating myself). I mean, FE7 and Sacred Stones may as well have been regular runs, PoR had a strength screwed Ike who couldn't damage enemies without a steel blade until after promotion (then with the help of every energy drop I got he capped), but was more than made up for by the ridiculously sturdy Mia and speedy Gatrie I had. Shadow Dragon... well there was an incident with Xane. I also had a really, really, really close call with Tiki. Seriously 1 hp from death. Only survived because I "wasted" a Seraph robe on her before screwing up and almost getting her killed while invading Medon/Macedon. Awakening was another story entirely. Cordelia bit the big one on the boats, Lon'qu bit it later because losing his wife was bad for him and then I royally forgot how the A.I. on Tiki's paralogue worked and lost her for real. Fates was a case where I went with a different challenge. Instead of doing iron man runs, I did no royals no named Corrin runs. With the dragon veins, that was interesting to say the least. Anyway, point is... having done the easier games, my intent is to work on the harder ones. Or redo the ones I made mess-ups on and try and get them perfect. I like how you finish with "having done the easier games" while including New Mystery, which is either easy (on normal) or pretty much the most difficult game in the series without being bullshit (on lunatic). In my case it's the need to kill every enemy that crosses my path. Including the damaged guardians around the bomb shrine by shield deflection. Then I stuff up one shield deflection, or take one hit from the one bokoblin with an OP earlygame weapon, or get knocked off a cliff by a minor impact. I'd like to say the Stone Tallus is also a potential threat, but it's attacks are so telegraphed even if they kill you one hit. If you've had practice it's easy. Point is, this game has a tutorial area that's beautiful in that it can kill you a 100 times over if you aren't 100% careful. It's the best damn tutorial I've ever seen because it's not hand-holdy. It lets you learn in a large open area until you've proven yourself ready to leave, at which point you get a key item that allows you to get beyond what felt like the boundary before. That sounds pretty cool. What is Zeiss doing on the map? Ahahahahahahah... a classic. Elbert was a real rapscallion before travelling back in time and dyeing huh? Maybe he matured when he married and had a son almost as stiff as Reese. I like how Merlinus was kind of dormant most of Tear Ring apart from the incident in the Headless Club, but he's come back into full force here. Where was he when Zieg came in? Remember how, in FE6, the one time there really was a trap he thought everything was fine and there was no reason to distrust the cartoonishly evil shaman? Yeah. So high risk, high reward. Basically, yes. How shocking. Pfffffhwahahahahah... took me a moment to get that one. Also mocked by Elbert. Jikes... Furtunutuly, yuu'll bu ublu to huvu hunchmun rumuve hum frum yuur buuts. UwU I regret nothing! Sund apparently thought he was stealing the Devil Axe. Crooked axe* And if he had he would've been a lot scarier. Three supporter guys with the crooked axe aren't something I'd like to confront. Damn. Yeah... Glad he at least held on until I could save. What a terrible curse for the Sinon Knights. Terrible indeed. Nothing worse than becoming a garbage bag. THE... Terrifying Heinous Entity. So he's going to make use of Owen's curse... Hahahah, a good reference. No monsters. No NPCs. Just Traps. Lots and lots of traps. Traps! Yes, I did make a joke out of this. But considering it's origins, Ruben's the only one who'll get it. Indeed... And that's how I know about something in your thread before I get to it. Damn. Spoilers are always a bitch. Please do this. PLEASE. I agree! I think! On 5/11/2020 at 3:04 AM, Golb89 said: [Addendum of the addendum] (aka "here we go again") Garud(a) and the Glacier Axe: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/frostleaf Sund(ay) and the Volcano Axe: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/zima Dominic(a) and the Nimbus Axe: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/shaw Sunday is my favorite female name. Also, a literal firefighter with a tail? Ah, anime... Also, i forgot to mention before that this... ... was originally supposed to be "part 2" of this... ... but the project was abandoned for obvious reasons. Ha! A shame about that. : Spoiler The other day, we saved all of our allies from the Lowlands and escaped with our lives. Today... urgh. Volcens. Very Volcens music, too. It's the same as the one that plays in game overs. Huh. He's actually saying something nice, for once. Even if he's being needlessly patronizing by refering to Reese as "son of Bernstol." But at least he's being semi-nice. Thank you, Your Highness. Before I depart, however, I have a humble request... Do you, now? The Pesilian knight by the name of Larentia who defected to our side... I hear that she has been imprisoned under suspicion of being a spy for the Imperial Army... Oh. Well, I hate to be on Volcens's side for once, but that's a necessary precaution. It would've saved a certain woman so much heartache... Wait-- What am I saying!? He's threatening to take my flier away from me! VOLCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENS!! Yes, what of her? Such a matter should be of no concern to you, Lord Reese. Return to your quarters. It does concern me, Lord Herman. I gave her my word that I would guarantee her safety. To betray that promise would bring shame upon the Knights of Sinon! Then it was a promise poorly made. Hold your tongue before you meddle further in matters of the kingdom. I am a leader in this kingdom! Do I not have a say in such things? Gotta say, all jokes aside, I'm kind of in the Wonderful Three's side here. Reese has known Larentia for a grand total of five minutes, and although her explanation was solid, who knows. She could perfectly be a very good liar. It's best to investigate and make sure that she's good before releasing her. Of course, knowing these three, they'll probably order her execution and call it a day. Of course not. Also, there's the fact that they're still assholes. You and I... we are simply retainers. His Majesty's word is all that matters. Even so, I... Y-Yes... My apologies... The Pesilian woman's fate will be decided after our formal investigation is finished. If she is truly sincere, as you say, then you need not worry. ...I understand. I will leave the matter to your capable judgment, Your Grace... Sad music. It is not your fault, Lord Reese. Do not worry on my account. Oh, well. Guess she'll join us later. Nothing to be done about it... Mr. Jung, would you be willing to hand Larentia over to me... discreetly? Oho? What's this, Reese? I would like her assistance during our upcoming mission, and what Lord Herman doesn't know won't hurt him. Hah! Wow. You impress me, Reese. This sort of corruption is not what I expected from you. ...Yes? Y'see, my wife just had our first kid the other day, and now all sorts of expenses have started piling up... Ergh... Ward, may I remind you that your liege was the one who suggested this deal in the first place? It'd be bad if word got out that a prisoner was released illegally... I think it's only natural that I'd get some sort of compensation for keeping my mouth shut. ...How much are you asking for? Let's say... 675D? 675 denarii?! Outrageous! It's not really outrageous, Ward. We pay more for a few of our mercenaries. Are you trying to extort us?! Take it or leave it, pal. If you don't like the deal, it saves me the trouble of risking my neck. Oh, and one more thing. You've got to bring her right back here once you've returned. Pleasure doing business with you. Heh heh... ...... So, uh... yeah. Turns out, Larentia is a "mercenary". That is, you have to pay to use her. Only instead of a fee for her services, you're paying off a guard to bail her out of prison illegally. I'm not sure if this is such a good idea, but... flier. You can bet I'll take the deal. Upon returning, the Empire takes that one soldier we captured back in exchange for moneys. Thanks! And it's time to reap what we've sown! First off, give back Reiss's three axes. Like I mentioned, you can refuse to give him any axes. You can also give him only one or two, but it's really not worth it. Still, if you refuse him, he says... It's been so long since those axes were stolen, maybe it's best to just forget about the whole ordeal. Sorry for causing you trouble. Aww, don't worry. I would never separate you from your dear axes. Without a doubt... Those are my axes! How on earth did you find them? When we were in the Goran Plateaus on my previous mission, we ran into a group of bandits. As luck would have it, they happened to be carrying some unusual axes! How lucky indeed... Naturally, you were the first person I thought of when I saw them. Yes, of course... Thank you so much! It was a pure coincidence. Think nothing of it. Very well... I can see you are quite sincere. Here, I'll give you the price I paid for the axes. haha funny mid-sentence screenshot, may the goddess protec diers are always strapped for cash these days. ...Oh, I'm just happy that I can finally hold my precious axes again! Ohhhhh, my axes~ I will never again let us be set apart~! Oh, my life has had no meaning since I lost you~ my axes~! ...... Oh, there we go again... why'd you have to get them back, General Ward? Now I'll have to endure this for days... and here I thought paying off those brigands would be enough to spare me this annoyance... ...! Once again, we can just refuse, but it's even more pointless this time, because the old shields are bad. Afternoon, Lady Tianna. About those old Imperial Shields that I mentioned before... We've had a change of plans, so we won't be needing them anymore. Sorry to trouble you like that. Hope I didn't cause Lord Reese any headache over those shields... This is really weird, because he definitely does take the shields if you give them to him, and he doesn't mention any "changes of plans" there. What gives? Anyway, here. The soldier with Tianna drops his shields on the counter. Neat attention to detail. Wow, thanks for taking care of that so quickly! General Ward tried lifting one, and he said it was far too heavy to be practical, just as you said. They only weigh 6. He lifts shields like that every day. Please... These will surely benefit from being melted down and made into something far less bulky. You just leave that to me! That is what General Ward said. Well, that's awful kind of him. Leave it to my Orlando and Lumiere to make only the very best! Here's the money in exchange for bringing me these shields. I will deliver it to Lord Reese at once. Goodbye for now, Mr. Danton. Stop by any time! We'd love to have you. I like how he paid us less than Reiss for his beloved axes. ...Axes...! Will you shut your trap already, Reiss!? Ah, it's you from the other day! I have been looking for you, Mr. Adenau. For me? What ever for? Yes, regarding the book of poetry that you mentioned the other day. Could this perhaps be it? T-This is... it is! "Barker's Poetry"! How on earth did you find it?! Just as you suspected, it was in the Goran Plateaus. I thought so! These poems are too precious to remain lost. I am glad the book was found. I am not a reader of much poetry, but it seemed quite precious to you. That's a short stanza from the book. What does it mean? "Barker's Poetry" is a lengthy and ancient hymn depicting the two gods Raze and Veria. In it, they are portrayed as a husband and wife. Husband and wife...? The story goes that Father Raze once looked upon Mother Veria and fell deeply in love with her. However, Raze had a jealous heart that tested the patience of Veria, and she left him. After her departure, Raze regretted his actions and began to pursue Mother Veria once again. Yet still, she fled from him, no matter how many times he professed his love for her. And that is why the heavens spin round each other, turning the night into day and the day into night. Hah! Barker had a way with words. That was a pretty awesome backstory! This opposition between the gods continues even between their people. Then this centuries-long war is simply a lover's quarrel between gods? That aside, you have my deepest gratitude for returning this to me. Please, take this as a reward. It is the least I can do for you for finding my book. I could not help but be interested when you were so anxious to find it... The bartender here told me you are a military secretary. If I hadn't happened to meet someone of your station, I never would have been reunited with my book. Thank you. I will put it to good use. Please take care not to lose your book in the future! Of course. Thank you, madam. A bit less than the other two quests, but of course, this one was the easiest. Still much appreciated! And after selling Ali Baba's treasure... We've got 30 grand, just as when we started the chapter, but without any of the added expenses! That means... Furniture time. I think you'll find that this furniture is quite a cut above the rest, thanks to my discerning eye for beauty. We're going to get the art: "Revival". The tapestry's good too, but I mean, look at the price tag. Everything else isn't worth the price. Especially the treasure chest. You can open it every chapter to get either a silver coin, a gold coin or treasure. At a price of 36k, you'd need to get treasure in 7 chapters (on a 20% chance, mind) just to begin to cover the cost of the thing. It's trash! Yes, this is a masterpiece of the genius of art, David Millet! For 22000D, I believe it to be considerably worth the price. You know, Jonathan, somehow I doubt there's even a shred of truth in that pitch. Who even is David Millet? Luckily for you, however, the Serenes wiki does a better job at selling this to me than you could ever hope to. I mean, if it wasn't for the wiki it'd be easy to assume that most of these do nothing! All right, let's go check that out. 'Aight, there's the thing. The doormat has always existed, but I forgot to put it. As far as I know, it does absolutely nothing. Anyway, so what does this do? Well, for whatever reason it isn't displayed, but it grants Reese Armsthrift. You know, the skill that makes weapons more durable? Reese will be getting a special little sword next chapter, one that will singlehandedly turn him from a decent unit to an absolute monster of a fighter. The ability to preserve it longer is a fine investment, in my opinion. And besides, how could I possibly LP Berwick Saga and not buy furniture? That's like playing BWS and not using Derrick! Preposterous! All righty! We have no less than five character events to go through. Let's start with Sherpa. Cool music. Hey now, what's that supposed to mean? I heard you were helping out here, so I came to pay you a visit. Please don't tell Lady Tianna that I've been working here! Why not? If she finds out, I'll be scolded! Even though I just come here to work when I have free time... I know that Lady Tianna would certainly disapprove of me working in a place like this... Again, what's that supposed to mean, huh? That's what I'm wondering. Tianna frequents this place as well. Not sure how she's supposed to hate it so much. If you know she would disapprove, why seek work in such a place? Exactly what kind of establishment do you two think I'm running here? I want to be useful to Lady Tianna in some way. You hear all kinds of rumors from across the city in this dingy bar! Hahahahahah... you think they're doing it on purpose? The guy's right there, there's no way they haven't noticed him. By the way, Princess, did you see Mr. Sherpa sitting just over there? Sherpa is here...? Yep, he is. Did you guys notice him? Princess... Yeah, Princess! Why so cold? He saved your sorry ass! Are you really still mad over that one joke he made? I heard that someone like you was sucking up to the Narvians... Looks like the rumor was true! ...... (Sherpa...?) Haven't you got anything to say to your old comrades? Your friends? Do you, Sherpa?! No... I have nothing to say to you. Don't you have any shame at all?! Well, this isn't good. I mean, Sherpa could probably whoop that rando five times over with the Brymranger, but... still, not good. Fight me, you bastard---! He hits Sherpa. Then Aegina's reaction betrays her cold façade. Hey, are you and Sherpa here knocking boots or something, girl? What?! How dare you! Why would I have anything to do with a man like-- Then keep your trap shut before I shut it for you! I should mention that the music hasn't changed. It's still that goofy little tune. Rosalie moves around behind the counter and grabs something from one of the cupboards. Meanwhile, Sherpa steps forward behind Aegina. ...! Hah, how the hero has fallen! To see a man like you whipped by such a little girl... I'm sick of listening to you. Are you going to kill me or not? I'm right here. I won't resist. Hmph... Since your lady's watching, I think I'll let you live for now. But know this, Sherpa... You will never be forgiven. All traitors will be executed. That's the law of the Conoll Clan. Don't forget that! Okay, the asshat is gone. Thank goodness... Rosalie?! Are you all right? And why are you holding full bottles of liquor in both hands...? Heh, heh... W-Why indeed, I wonder...? Bwahahahahahahahah! Now I'm imagining her jumping over the counter with the most savage war cry and just chucking bottles at the asshole. Sherpa wouldn't even need to draw the Brymranger! H-He's simply joking, of course! I would never do that! Ha ha ha... Thank you, Rosalie. Sherpa, who was that man? What did he want from you? Who knows? Go ask him yourself. Sherpa... That was kinda unpleasant. I hope Faye's event is less so. This one's a bit more melancholic. ...... Would you... Would you mind if I asked you a few questions? ...... I have been curious about you ever since we first met. Keep in mind that she was unconscious when he saved her from Chaos. She probably met him at the guild. The way you handle your sword... It is very similar to the technique that my father practices. ...... Well, he certainly is blessed in the art of conversation, is he not? From whom did you learn to use a sword? Or rather, have you heard of my father, the swordmaster Cowen? Ah, finally. He knows how to speak. However, I have never met him. But your technique... There's not much variation among Izmil swordfighting styles. Of course they'd be similar. Oh... I see... There was another person whose style you reminded me of, as well... From whom did you learn the sword? Where in Izmil are you from? Thrown away...? The man who raised me told me as much. Until I was 14, he taught me how to fight and how to live in this world. After that, I went from country to country to practice my skills. That is how I came to this land. I came here in search of a man who stole two sacred blades and left my father for dead... ...... ...And in Demias Forest, I finally found the one I had sought: Chaos, a Dark Master of the Raze Empire. However... Yes... You're lucky you even survived. Why not give up and go home? This is starting to remind me of Ruby and Clifford... I hope this does not go as badly. I cannot! I must reclaim my father's stolen swords at any cost! You've got spirit, but with those skinny arms of yours, there's nothing you can do to a man like him. At the time, Chaos was protected by a magical power. Had that not been the case, I would not have lost to him. No... You still would've lost. Badly. Don't take Chaos so lightly. How can you say that to me? What do you know about my situation that I do not? I watched the two of you fight. You're barely fit to wield a sword, let alone face a man like him... If you want, I can teach you, but... Teach me...? There's only so much that can be done to teach you, given your... limitations, shall we say. Oh wow. We've got one hell of a big shot here. Wanna try saying that to Sylvis's face, for example? If you will not approve of me, then why would you even offer?! I have no need for a teacher with an attitude like yours! I will use my own strength to recover the stolen swords! Do what you want. I've said my piece. Very well! Good day, Faramir! Well, now we've just gotta prove the overpowered edgelord wrong, don't we? She must become powerful enough to kill Chaos. We need to teach this guy a lesson in humility. That was kinda awful. Let's hope this is, uh... less awful? Well, the music certainly isn't awful, but... I wouldn't dream of toying with your emotions, fair maiden! I assure you, I speak truly! Hee hee... It has truly been a blessing to be able to speak with you both! Father Owen, you are usually so polite and gentle, but on occasion, I can see a more frightening side underneath... What ever do you mean, milady? ...... Ah, forgive me... I shouldn't have said something so insensitive... Ha ha ha, do not worry... your... selves... Oh, shit...! It's starting! He flirted for 20 turns! He knew he should've left, but the booty's call... it was too strong...! He fades in and out, while his sprite changes colors. Still, it seems he was able to stop it. But Father, you're so pale... We can't just leave you alone like this! Madam Quescria will know what to do. Here, give me your hand... They both step back. ...It's just a little headache. Sorry for startling you... Will you really be all right...? Y-Yes... Aaaugh... I'll be... fine... Father Owen... Little did Owen know, he was not the only creep in the Temple of Veria who enjoyed watching from the shadows... That was, uh... interesting. This one... sounds more depressing than anything else, but I'm sure it won't be so bad. Ah, that must be the boy he asked Ward about at the start of chapter 4. But there's nothing I can do... to repay you now... Don't talk like that, you fool! You're going to pull through! Don't you want to live?! Music stops here. ...This is Daoud, folks. His 15 year old protégé just bled out in front of him. That is Daoud's second scene. I'm sorry, sir, but he's... No... He can't be... How could this happen?! He's just a kid! Now the music is even more depressing. Great. My condolences, but... He now rests peacefully in Mother Veria's loving arms. Don't give me that bull, woman! Your goddess doesn't give a damn about us humans! This boy's mother was so devout, always praying for her son's safety... And look what happened to him! I do not know what to say... You're... We crossed paths during the battle in the Goran Plateaus. Thank you for your help back then. No, it was you who helped me... Sister Luciana, please forgive me. I lashed out without thinking. Your sorrow is only human. There is no need to be so apologetic. No, my words were inexcusable. You've been nothing but kind and helpful to me ever since we arrived... What do you plan to do now, Sir Daoud? Will you not continue to lend your strength to the cause of justice Yeah, I agree! You should definitely join us-- by joining the Verian Army? ...Ward, for the love of-- you sure it's a good idea to recommend him to join Volcens? It's his fault entirely that Lidran's dead corpse is rotting away two steps behind Daoud! The Verian Army?! They're the cowards who ran away to Narvia and abandoned us to die! See, Ward? See? He's completely right, damnit! I must advise you to keep words of that sort to yourself, Sir Daoud. It is not wise in these current days... What would you have me do, then? Just sit around while good soldiers like you are ordered to their deaths? If you do not want to serve the King, at least not directly, I can introduce you to my liege, Lord Reese of Sinon. Ah, now there's a better idea! Are you asking me to join the Knights of Sinon? Would you rather be a lumberjack? Your talents would be wasted. ...Fine. I owe you a debt, anyway. Also... Also what? ...Sheesh... I see... ...... Please don't be horrible, please don't be horrible, please don't be horrible... This scene's music is very erotic. Gah! Oww... Huh? Oh, it's you, Czene... Can't you do something about this rotten horse of yours? Every time I get close to her, she bites and kicks at me! Really? Hm... Let me give it a try. Hey, watch out! The horse actually has an animation that plays rapidly when it's agitated. It slows down considerably here. Again, not something I can convey. ...Huh? There we go... Good girl... See? It's easy. How...? You shouldn't try to restrain her. How would you like being forced around by some strange person? I suppose I wouldn't like it... But she's a horse. This horse was once abused by humans, so she's very sensitive to things like that. Is that so...? I guess I'll have to take extra care when dealing with her, then. Please do! I feel so sorry for her. She's been through so much... I don't want her to grow up with her heart closed off to me. Here, I'll show you how to treat her wounds properly... S-Sure, go ahead... A fade to black happens here. I was too slow to catch it. As usual. Didn't you dad tell you? Dad and I don't talk much. Not unless we've got something important to say. Oh, I see... Hm? Around here, the erotic music changes to this less erotic music. Really? You're from the Tania tribe? That's right. As I assume you've heard, horses are a big part of our lives. On our 10th birthdays, we're given our own foal, which we have to take care of all by ourselves. I see! ...... ...What's wrong? This foal... she reminds me so much of the one I was given... Her coat, her eyes, her markings... They're so similar, it's like my first horse was reborn... ...Reborn? ...... When I was playing with my friends, I took my eyes off of her, and she got separated from the herd. When we finally found her, she was already dead at the bottom of a cliff. Based on the tracks left behind, we think she must've tumbled over while being chased by a wolf. ...... In human years, she was about the same age as I was... Isn't that so sad? She was my first responsibility, and I couldn't protect her... I just left her there all by herself while I was away playing... ...Goddamnit, and it seemed so much more positive when it started... H-Hey, don't cry...! ...I'm sorry. But that's why I wanted to save this horse, who's so like Tico... ...... All right, that's it! Starting this chapter, we get to choose which sidequest we want to do first. Children's Hero introduces a new character, but I think we'll do Color Chord first. ...Because that's where the arc of one of our three silent companions begins. I'm not sure if to call it a paralogue. It revolves around Sherlock, but it always happens at this point so long as he's alive, whereas the four characters I've talked about before need to reach certain level and happiness thresholds to get their paralogues. Hmmm... perhaps we could call it an afarlogue? Anyway, it's the cool music again! Sherlock! Always a pleasure to have you. But what's with this "it's been a while" talk? You were in here yesterday! All right, you got me... I know who you're here to see, you sly dog. In fact, I'm glad you came. Y'see, your favorite eye candy's got something troubling her recently. She's up on the second floor. Let's continue this conversation up there. C'mon, follow me. Sherlock, you already know our lovely musician and singer, Ophelia. Ophelia, this is Sherlock. He's a patron here, and might I say, a big fan of yours. Yes, likewise... I've always enjoyed your performances, Miss Ophelia. ...May I ask what the trouble is? You have no idea how difficult it was to find this music. I'll give you the short version. It was a few weeks back... She'd just wrapped up here, and she was headed back to the inn. All of a sudden, some man in a dark robe jumps out of the alleyway! A mugger?! Luckily, she didn't get hurt... Seems that all that the guy wanted to take from her was her lyre. It was a special one, too. An original Basselin. Basselin? Sherlock, this is your very first scene ever. Please refrain from leaving a bad first impression by following Roy's guide to conversation. But when I was a little girl, he got into an accident that burned his hands terribly. Since then, I have carried on his name as a musician... But that lyre was his final work before the accident. He called it his Lullaby Lyre. I see... Sounds like it's a very important memento to you. Yes... But I have never used that lyre in my performances. My father's lyre was special. He always played it for me when I had a hard time falling asleep. I fear that in the hands of this thief, it could be terribly misused... It's not like she can't do her work without that harp, since it's not for public performances... But it's been a real worry on Miss Ophelia's mind what that dirty thief might be doing with her harp. We tried going to the mercenary guild for help, and they gave us some information, at least. They did? That's a new one... Quote Ahh, if it isn't Alex. Are you here to pay the "safety" fee? No, Valery. Miss Ophelia here and I wish to ask you something. The singer, hmm? Well then, what is it that troubles you? A thief stole my father's harp, and-- Ahhhh, yes, of course, him... hmm... yes, quite expendable. All right, I'll tell you what you want to know... J-Just like that...? Well, no, but I'll discuss the details with Alex later. There's no need to trouble the fair dame with the boring technicalities, is there, Alex? ...... There've been odd reports of musical pirates over by Port Samoa, a few leagues down the coast. "Musical pirates" has to be the most hilariously dumb description I've ever seen for pirates. You sure Valery didn't try to con you, but he just happened to nail it by accident? How's about it, Sherlock? Could you lend a hand? Ah, well that's so very convenient, isn't it? And Miss Ophelia, you've helped me to ease the tension from battle more than a few times with your voice. I feel like this is the least I can do to thank you for that. T-Thank you, Mr. Sherlock... You are too kind. Wow, wow, calm down. It's just Reese's office. No need to lose our heads, music. Yes, sir! This mission is to be conducted during the late hours of the night. Would you not be disadvantaged, fighting just with your bow under the cover of darkness? Leave this to the others. You will have other chances to fight. If I may be so bold, General... I've heard worrying news that these pirates may be employing magical means of attack. If due care is not taken, there could be heavy casualties. ...Sherlock, where did you hear this information? From Alex the tavern owner, milord. He himself heard it from the guild. I believe the information is good. ...I see. Hwahahahahahahah... c'mon, Ward, he's trying to help. Cut him some slack, won't you? B-But General, I just... I thought you ought to know... Had you not considered that the guild would be the first ones we would ask about this pirate problem? Thank you, General! But remember, I will not be there to save you this time. Sherlock... You have grown up, certainly, but you still have a long way to go. Don't get yourself killed trying to impress a beautiful woman. Y-Yes, sir... Okay, took long enough, but it's preptime at last! First stop, the dungeon. There she is... Talking to her does nothing, but notice that Jung has appeared beside Euclid. And there you have it. As far as the gameplay's concerned, she's a mercenary. Also, remember when I explained how tactics points are doubly important because there's a unit that is only recruited if Reese promotes early? Well, there you have her. It's Larentia. Not sure what happens to her if Reese promotes late, but I don't want to find out. By the way, here's a funny oversight: When Larentia is present, Weyl thinks there are no prisoners. Anyway, I guess we can't recruit her right now, since I mean, Euclid and Weyl are both right there, there's no way we can get her out. Is there...? What...? Oh, right. Off to the bench with ya, Izerna. Wait, really? Weyl! You're not gonna say anything!? We just lifted a prisoner right in front of you! ...and that's 337D for you, Sir Weyl. Sorry I didn't get more outta them. Didn't wanna go too hard on 'em, lest they called the deal off. I'll ask for more next time. Right, good work, Jung. !! What are you staring at? Didn't you see your lord leaving? C'mon, shoo! ...this town is a goddamned trainwreck... You said it. What about you? Not gonna do anything either? Of course not. Euclid here is a loyal guardsman... and he'd like to keep his job. Isn't that right? Y-Yes, Sir Weyl... ...... Whatever. Let's go to the guild, and-- "Too many soldiers"? Oh, I suppose so... Dammit-- Okay, you, you and you. Follow Izerna to the bench. Sure hope not, Arturo. Sure hope not. Preparations time. Sherlock grabs some gear, since he'll be forcefully deployed in the mission. Ruby gears up, as well, while Axel retrieves some of his equipment back from Daoud. And now, Halfmann! Here, have garbage-- wait, what? Oh, nooo...! He has no more room for anything! Dammit. Well, I guess that's the end of the joke. And here I thought you were completely stupid-- I mean, had bigger pockets. I'm done being mocked by you. Get out of my sight. You can take your broken gear, and shove it up your-- Okay, okay. There's no need to resort to that fucking language. ...I should've become a fisherman... Anyway, we could craft this thing right now! It deals 7 fire damage to the enemy when it is used. However... I'd rather save up the materials for these two items. The infernal edge not so much, but the Tabarzin lasted me the whole run last time, and it made my axemen into quite the powerhouses. I'd better try to get it as soon as possible. To that end, I leave both materials I already have in Orlando's care. It also requires a broadaxe, but I can just purchase that. So let's just hope we can get our hands on some gold dust sooner than later. And that's it! Been a long update, but I hope you've all made it safely to the end. Next time, we face the "musical pirates". Wonderful. I hope I can count on you to be here to watch it! See ya 'round! Death count: Christine Esteban* Unavailable Capture count: 0 Reset count: 1 (Ward: 1) Current perfect streak: Nope Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: This scene's music is very erotic. Czenoch confirmed? 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Little did Owen know, he was not the only creep in the Temple of Veria who enjoyed watching from the shadows... That was, uh... interesting. This one... sounds more depressing than anything else, but I'm sure it won't be so bad. What is up with that soldier with a portrait in chapter 6's main mission? He gets some dialogue out of Daoud after the chapter if you capture him for a reason I haven't yet figured out. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hey, are you and Sherpa here knocking boots or something, girl? What?! How dare you! Why would I have anything to do with a man like-- Why does literally everybody hit on Sherpa?! Rosalie, Aegina, another person that I won't spoil... 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I am not fond of this chapter. Mostly because four of my units got crippled in it. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: . Dammit-- Okay, you, you and you. Follow Izerna to the bench. YOU MONSTER! How is Adel supposed to promote now? 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: They are... outside of GBA. But in GBA, you have a Raigh, a kid; Canas, a kindhearted nerd; Knoll, a depressed researched; Sophia, a half-dragon girl; Niime, an old hermit; I mean, hell, Ewan can go shaman. Ewan. My point is, in GBA dark magic is far less rare and not particularly associated to an evil cult, like in other continents from the series. That makes its rarity in FE7 all the more jarring. Well, dark magic is a bad thing in Elibe, and as much as I love Sacred Stones, we don't learn anything at all about dark magic's lore there. I believe that Canas' three brothers all went vegetable because they lost control of their magic; that's why Canas is different; he likes knowledge, not power. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: He wouldn't have, if I hadn't blundered horrendously. And I mean, it took leftover damage from a crit, a Vengeful blow and magical damage to down him. Considering the Vengeful hit, it could be argued that only Ward can kill Ward. Or a ballista in chapter 5 that dealt a thicc ton of damage to him. (19, IIRC? He missed the kiteshield block.) 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: With the liquid magic, she's guaranteed to get enough magic at level 10 at the latest. Thanks, bracket system. Gyhrgh! I literally gave Aegina the liquid magic 3 minutes before this update! 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Imagine caring about stats in Berwick Saga. The green lights going up are pretty. And speed is pretty great; the supporter lance knights in ch. 9 had 45> hit rates on her even in supporter range. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well... uh, save the gloating for the next time I lose some unit because of a stupid blunder. Only if it's someone I don't like. Or Sherpa. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahahahahah... ahh, arguments with oneself. The most fun part of being an insane person LPer. What's the difference? 33 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, I suppose so. To be honest, Reese's gonna begin to steal shows next chapter. That's when he gets... that. Imagine having THAT for more than 14 turns. MIIIIIIINNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!!!!! 34 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST ON A DICKSUCKING BIKE how did that happen Clifford sorta died in my first four attempts when he got critted twice in a row. I eventually gave up, bought as many large shields as possible, gave Marcel the Zweihander and camped him in a chokepoint for 90-ish turns. I couldn't let him die after he went to go save his Spoiler Girlfriend in the previous chapter, could I? Erm, anyways, eventually Obama's horse died so I could safely Astra them with Faye and Focus chant with Aegina. Also, I think it was Saphira who crippled Grady, but I may be misremembering. And then I went back, did the citizen requests, (only I didn't find the spy) and clapped the buff boss. And killed the Arse who kept shooting the prisoners. 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bwahahahahahahahahahahah... to think, all these months worshipping him, and I never thought to call TRS that. You definitely should play Eugen Emblem. It should run better than Ward Emblem, too, since it's on the PS1, which is generally easier to emulate. I recommend Mednafen with a UI add-on! PCSX1 is kinda shit, even if it seems to be the most popular PS1 emulator. Berwick saga will always be Faye Emblem for me. Ahhh...She's so lovely... I should probably play Eugen Emblem when I'm not totally slammed so I can enjoy it more. 41 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, I can see what you mean. The memes made him immortal. CD-i remakes when? I honestly wouldn't mind if they got fully remade aside from the cutscenes. They're so gold! The old man with a lamp one is my favorite: Spoiler I should really play Faces of evil one day... 45 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: To be honest, it surprised me as well that she was able to do it. She didn't gain speed for me until promotion. If I kill her new horse, I'm gonna be so mad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 You can thank Aethlin for that wonderful translation! I'm sure it was great in Japanese, but keeping the poetry flowing in another language is a feat unto itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You really do hate her, don't you? I suppose that's all the more reason to make something outta her. Nah, I hate few characters who are not from Awakening or are player avatars. If I didn't like her, I could just ignore her. And that's not a courtesy Awakening or Fates ever give you. But losing like 80%+ of your HP in one blow is so very bad in this game. In fact, player characters are actually more likely to get crippled then enemies. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The Pesilian woman's fate will be decided after our formal investigation is finished. If she is truly sincere, as you say, then you need not worry. In retrospect I do have to wonder what sort of investigation they were actually running, considering how this whole thing turned out. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It is not your fault, Lord Reese. Do not worry on my account. I would worry a lot less if they didn't put her in the same cell as all the other prisoners. But then again, they did let her keep her weapons. They have two cells here. Strange that they don't use it for this. Well, I'm sure if you were to collect enough prisoners, they will eventually fill up too. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Like I mentioned, you can refuse to give him any axes. You can also give him only one or two, but it's really not worth it. Still, if you refuse him, he says... From what I remember when testing this, the reward also increases exponentially for each additional axe. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: We're going to get the art: "Revival". The tapestry's good too, but I mean, look at the price tag. Everything else isn't worth the price. Especially the treasure chest. You can open it every chapter to get either a silver coin, a gold coin or treasure. At a price of 36k, you'd need to get treasure in 7 chapters (on a 20% chance, mind) just to begin to cover the cost of the thing. It's trash! Well, according to Serenes Forest, there is also a "1/32768 chance each chapter of additional chest containing any of the seven Talismans". Why do I have the feeling that not a single person ever got one of those additional chests legitimately? And here I thought Gaiden had awful drop rates for the 3 celestial lances. Just for comparisons sake, I looked up the chance of obtaining a shiny in the first Pokemon generations and it's 1/8192. Until Gen VI, at which point it became 1/4096. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Exactly what kind of establishment do you two think I'm running here? Well, an establishment that combines alcohol and 14 year old girls at the very least. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: H-He's simply joking, of course! I would never do that! "I was only going to break them over the table and use them as daggers." 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, he certainly is blessed in the art of conversation, is he not? He most certainly hones his edge. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I watched the two of you fight. Faye just does not pick up on the implication that she has a stalker. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If you will not approve of me, then why would you even offer?! Good question. I've permanently recruited him and I still have no idea what Faramir's deal is. If he's working for Cowen... well, Cowen didn't mind teaching her. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But Father, you're so pale... We can't just leave you alone like this! Madam Quescria will know what to do. Here, give me your hand... Love the file names. Yeah, there are cases in this game where there are portraits that show the same design from different angles, and there are cases like this where parts of the portrait are directly reused. I would most certainly love to have a dump of all the game's portraits. Considering what a treasure trove the TRS one was. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This mission is to be conducted during the late hours of the night. Would you not be disadvantaged, fighting just with your bow under the cover of darkness? To be fair, it's not like he can hit anything even in broad daylight. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: And there you have it. As far as the gameplay's concerned, she's a mercenary. Also, remember when I explained how tactics points are doubly important because there's a unit that is only recruited if Reese promotes early? Well, there you have her. It's Larentia. Not sure what happens to her if Reese promotes late, but I don't want to find out. Well. the promotion event will happen in chapter 10 regardless of the tactics rank. So I'd imagine it won't change anything. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: By the way, here's a funny oversight: When Larentia is present, Weyl thinks there are no prisoners. His line probably just depends on the presence of enemies that got captured. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Talking to her does nothing, but notice that Jung has appeared beside Euclid. Reese should probably check if that guy even works there. Edited May 12, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Part 22 - Very sad update in general. "Just like Norton after his best friend Lionel died because of me Arkis" 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why? Does that one also have a shitty-ass map that ruins the whole game? Sort of: basically most maps could ruin the whole game depending on various stuff (like who you did or didn't use etc) and it's extremely easy to do so without following a guide/walkthrough. Also, there was one specific map in the "chaotic" route where you needed to do a (vaguely hinted) very specific thing to avoid a game over two maps later, and since the game (on an actual DS) only had two save slots if you saved after each map (like you normally would) and missed that thing, well: hope you like to restart from the beginning... assuming you even know that you could indeed avoid that game over (kinda like FE6's "bad ending", which could be easily mistaken for a potential sequel hook instead) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why? Why is it such a big spoiler that the Derrick lookalike is Arknights's protagonist? Or... wait, is he the protagonist at all? I'm getting even more confused... Err... i think you should rewatch that "Derrick's tragic past" video again then: You'll notice that the "Derrick lookalike" (the one who "kicks a child") and the Doctor/player/protagonist (the one who dabs) are two completely different characters. (Though i guess that means Derrick won't actually turn out be a girl then: i'm disappointed...) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still see the resemblance. Well, that's exactly why i posted that specific pic of Kroos "brilliancing"... 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No mockery here. I am extremely confused as to what that dude's role in the game is. Your contradictory messages do not help. Admittedly, i suppose posting fanarts showing the Doctor with and without their mask didn't help (but still doesn't explain how you managed to mistake him/her for Derrick's lookalike all this time) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Anyway, why is Martel in my chair? Or, wait, is that my chair? What the hell is the context?! Well... On 5/10/2020 at 3:56 AM, Golb89 said: On 5/9/2020 at 10:41 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, thankfully the final straggler was able to limp his way out of the axeman's range. But that archer, that archer...! ... she's "that archer" in that case. (Actually, between this and several other of your replies i'm starting to think half of the stuff i post, most notably the quotes, remains hidden or something) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahahahah... ah, yeah. That's basically what happens here, too, since Larentia can't stop in hexes with ground units in them, and viceversa. Err... that's NOT actually what happens here too though (quite the opposite in fact) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Who even is this character? I'd say she's Arknight's equivalent of Czene, but after that dialogue she had with the horsemaster i thnk there is another character who might fit her better... ... maybe. (After reading her latest dialogue with Enoch, i guess that's most likely not the case though) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Also, I can't separately reply to these two because this format is horrendous. So yeah. There you go. Would it make you feel better knowing i wasted a good half an hour to insert those inside the spoiler without deleting half of its previous content just to get the "you can't edit this post anymore" message? (Even though i edited it just fine half an hour before, when i "parked" them there) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ha! A shame about that. There were supposed to be quoted in-game screenshoots of Saphira and Volo accompanying those two comics: did you choose not to quote them, tried to but couldn't or did they not show up at all to you? (Genuinely asking for the same reason i mentioned above) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: These will surely benefit from being melted down and made into something far less bulky. You just leave that to me! Great job, Danton! 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I like how he paid us less than Reiss for his beloved axes. Well, i would also pay less for a bunch of scrap metal than for 3 magical axes (especially when you had to defeat a literal firefighter with a tail to get one of them) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I have been looking for you, Mr. Adenau. *Insert that 3H comic i posted before here* 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I think you'll find that this furniture is quite a cut above the rest, thanks to my discerning eye for beauty. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, this is a masterpiece of the genius of art, David Millet! For 22000D, I believe it to be considerably worth the price. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bwahahahahahahahah! Now I'm imagining her jumping over the counter with the most savage war cry and just chucking bottles at the asshole. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Little did Owen know, he was not the only creep in the Temple of Veria who enjoyed watching from the shadows... 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No... He can't be... How could this happen?! He's just a kid! "He had a portrait, for f@ck's sake!" 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...I should've become a fisherman... Yeah, you should have. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Next time, we face the "musical pirates". "Remember to add Clear to your echelon and bind keys if you are playing on an emulator" Edited May 12, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) [Addendum] (Aka "i just edited my comment 5 minutes ago, but now i can't anymore. Again") 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh yeah, Bloodlines. One of those wonderful hacks that are permanently stuck in a WIP state. May it and Staff of Ages be completed some day. A few years back I wouldn't have believed they had a chance, but nowadays, with more and more projects being finished and hacking being more convenient than ever, the future looks brighter. I mean, heck, even Midnight Sun returned, even if it didn't do so as a FE hack! Actually, nowadays FE romhacking is as good as dead and SoA is a prime example of that, since they basically dumped the whole thing and remade it in FEXNA, and pretty much every other project being actively worked on right now is made on RPG Studio or some other engine like that. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still have loads of respect for TLP for managing to be finished (with loads of content to boot) in an era when absolutely nothing was ever finished. Nothing... including TLP itself: with all the bugs, glitches and general unpolishedness (not to mention that pitiful excuse of a story) it feels more abandoned than finished imo. The fact someone felt the need to turn the "Hard Mode" version of it into basically an enhanced reboot (with additional playable characters, both old and new) instead just proves it: as far as i'm concerned the only REAL finished hack we got in all these years is "Requiem", and that one too could have used quite a bit more polishing. (No, "Order of the Crimson Arm" is NOT finished either) ("Death or Glory" probably is though, i don't remember atm) (Also, RIP "Dream Of Five"...) Edited May 13, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 [Addendum of the addendum] (Aka "i figured out the issue: if you sign out you can no longer edit your own posts even if you sign back in") 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ha! Maybe not to this game, but this is exactly how I play Medic in TF2. I'm no combat medic, I spend most of my time healing, but when someone comes after me, I don't flee for dear life while missing all my crossbow shots like all the meta medics. I take out my blutsauger and teach them not to underestimate the healer! Hahahahah... 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Like I mentioned, you can refuse to give him any axes. You can also give him only one or two, but it's really not worth it. Well, Sund(ay) for instance would REALLY love to get that Volcano Axe back... ... maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 [Addendum of the addendum of the... nope, this is actually a standalone] On 3/30/2020 at 10:59 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahah, yes! An awesome level! I wish you'd gotten shield level as well, but oh well. We'll work on that after I buy you a shield. She sure took that to heart... On 4/4/2020 at 5:31 AM, Hawkwing said: On 4/3/2020 at 5:12 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I am expecting a few memes to be made out of this format at some point. Until then: On 4/8/2020 at 1:59 PM, Saint Rubenio said: All right, and with that-- Huh?! Where'd all these come from...? Oh, yeah! As it turns out, I misremembered: the 17 extra posters don't appear next month, they appear as soon as we return with Valentin's corpse. And once you are done with all of them, here is the next batch: Maybe. On 4/24/2020 at 12:43 AM, Saint Rubenio said: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, WHAT A FAILURE OF A MAP! I FAILED, I FUCKING FAILED IN EVERYTHING! I COULDN'T GET ESTEBAN, I LOST CHRISTINE, I COULDN'T KILL GAROS, I COULDN'T EVEN SEARCH THAT LAST HOUSE! WHAT EVEN WAS THERE, I CANNOT REMEMBER! Shhhhitttt... thank goodness it's over... ooouuugh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Golb89 said: Until then: You reminded me that I had this abomination: There are people who can understand how to use MS paint...And they scare me. I guess I'll post some other memes too. Spoiler Ruben selling things to Halfmann be like: And that is quite enough visual punishment for today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: That seems to be the reason for a lot of things, doesn't it? Like the fact that he apparently has a contingency plan for every single member of the Justice League, despite the fact that all of the higher-ups could literally just walk up to him and punch a hole in his head. I guess he could keep kryptonite around for Superman, but what's his plan for Wonderwoman? And... really, all the others who fly, move really quick, are super strong, super durable and have no weaknesses? Mind enlightening this ignorant young man? I could check, given the story that was established in was literally one where Ra's Al Ghul stole the plans and used them... to almost kill the whole league. Okay, nanobots that ignite Martian Manhunters skin playing off his pyrophobia (the martians died to a plague his evil brother genetically engineered that caused their flesh to ignite, hence because of the psychic trauma of a race with telepathy dying burning, any Martians involved have a fire weakness. Exception being said evil brother because he did it because he was born without telepathy, which turned him evil because he was an outcast), toxins based on Scarecrow's fear gas that made Aquaman pathologically afraid of water, freezing and shattering Plastic Man into pieces (meaning he needs someone to put him back together), blinding Green Lantern (mind the Kyle Rayner version, who was a newbie at the time), using a projectile that's moving at a different vibratory rate on the Flash knowing he'd try to shift vibratory rate to have the projectile pass through him as he usually does... only for it to attach to his spine and start giving him seizures with toxins, more nanobots which basically drug Wonder Woman (because she's not impervious to being drugged). You more or less got the Kryptonite, though they used Red Kryptonite. Yeah... honestly I think Mark Waid was pushing it with that story. Anything that he couldn't answer "drugs or nano-bots". In case you're wondering, that was the active roster at the time, so no. I have no idea what anyone else was. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Byleth strikes me as the worst Avatar, because not only are they a terrible character (because they've no character beyond a few self-aware references and get the same amount of avatar-worshipping as all the others), they're also a terrible avatar (because they cannot be customized in any way, so they fail at avataring). Also their designs make me want to puke. Agreed. Ironically the only time I like Byleth is in Smash Bros... where everyone hates them. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: I never, ever consider crits in my strategies, because I don't get them. Most of the time. The only time one should consider a crit in their strategy is if the thing can screw you over... whether by an enemy getting one, or the crit resulting in an extra unsurvivable round of combat. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Ahhhhhh... hahahah, it didn't even cross my mind. I don't get it. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: It's only an anticlimax because you guys were hoping he'd turn into a fuckin' werewolf or a vampire or something. C'mon. I thought as soon as I pointed out that he was stuck with a dark orb it'd be pretty obvious what he'd turn into. To be fair, I think I wrote that joke before you pointed that out. Also I like joking about werewolves. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Not sure. I guarantee you that there'll come a time that you won't find it so hilarious, though. Not me. It reminds me of a facebook troll I used to know who used to victimize girls I knew resulting in me making a page with his name and making a bunch of embarrassing posts about "gUrLs beInG IcKy aNd grOteSk". He ended up begging me to stop, and he's been irrelevant for nearly a decade now (I think, for all I know he just moved on to annoying people I didn't know). That said, every time I see something with random capitals, (especially relating to a woman ruining something given it was his favorite thing to talk about before I ruined him), I die laughing. I especially remember the first time I saw Julius' death quote in FE4. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Hahahahaha! I'd almost forgotten that one. Literally my first thought. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Hah. Imagine that. A book full of fairy tales from my TRS LP. Perhaps Sennet wrote it and named it in his uncle's honor. Plot twist. He somehow found all the songs I wrote, and made it the basis for it. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: You're pretty good! Still terrible at racing games. Pretty bad at FPS as well actually. Though apparently I'm surprisingly good at aiming without bothering to use any sort of zoom function in those. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: They are... outside of GBA. But in GBA, you have a Raigh, a kid; Canas, a kindhearted nerd; Knoll, a depressed researched; Sophia, a half-dragon girl; Niime, an old hermit; I mean, hell, Ewan can go shaman. Ewan. My point is, in GBA dark magic is far less rare and not particularly associated to an evil cult, like in other continents from the series. That makes its rarity in FE7 all the more jarring. Yet two options for Sacred Stones is still almost as bad as one. Then again, coming off three... yeah. That is jarring. Least it wasn't Tellius, where the sole dark mage in two games is hidden behind a second playthrough and ludicrous requirements. Seriously, what sort of sick joke was that? On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, I can see what you mean. The memes made him immortal. A status it's hard to achieve in the Zelda games. Every new game you meet characters like Vaati, or Groose who feel like they're going to be big parts of the series now.. then they fade away and are mostly remembered for one or two games. Discounting Impa, who was actually in the manual for the original and the comics Valiant put out back when the Zelda timeline was two games long, Tingle was the only character who achieved much of a recurring status. I mean, Vaati's looked like it for a bit, but he gradually got pulled back into Ganon's shadow like every other villain. Oh, and Dampe the grave-digger hasn't done all that bad. But the point is most Zelda characters get a couple appearances then fade out. So really Morshu is pretty normal for the series apart from being meme'd. Kind of like Groose actually, but without the plot significance. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: I like how you finish with "having done the easier games" while including New Mystery, which is either easy (on normal) or pretty much the most difficult game in the series without being bullshit (on lunatic). Well... I did do the easier games. And New Mystery... but not New Mystery on Lunatic... because I can only be so insane. Hard's fine. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: That sounds pretty cool. It really is. You can come up with multiple ways to do the same task, like shooting down a hornet nest near an enemy camp so they'll get attacked by them, or rolling boulders through them, shooting down the lamp they have hanging up in their cave to hit their stockpile of explosives, lighting the grassland around their camp on fire and letting them burn, making a massive snowball and rolling it through their outpost. Mind, that's only the basics. This is a game with a physics engine and very interactive environment... meaning you can come up with lots of ways to achieve the same thing. One of the stupidest I came up with was surrounding an enemy camp with piles of firewood while they were asleep, and lighting them up, leaving them in a circle of campfires.... after I stole their weapons. Then I woke them up. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahahahah... a classic. The sad fact I couldn't resist doing that the moment I saw a Wyvern. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Maybe he matured when he married and had a son almost as stiff as Reese. Maybe it's just the pain from losing Christine. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Remember how, in FE6, the one time there really was a trap he thought everything was fine and there was no reason to distrust the cartoonishly evil shaman? Yeah. Maybe he was warned he'd be throttled if he called out about traps one more time, then afterward argued they would have avoided it if they let him warn them. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Terrible indeed. Nothing worse than becoming a garbage bag. What an Erksome curse. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Hahahah, a good reference. I almost introduced myself as "Terrifying Heinous Entity Roger the Paladin, star of numerous bad creepypasta and demonic overlord of the ninth circle of hell" in a certain test run (which I have to get back to work on soon). I decided to go the more traditional route. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Gotta say, all jokes aside, I'm kind of in the Wonderful Three's side here. Reese has known Larentia for a grand total of five minutes, and although her explanation was solid, who knows. She could perfectly be a very good liar. It's best to investigate and make sure that she's good before releasing her. More like Fliar, am I right? But it is sad when Volcens makes sense. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: So, uh... yeah. Turns out, Larentia is a "mercenary". That is, you have to pay to use her. Only instead of a fee for her services, you're paying off a guard to bail her out of prison illegally. I'm not sure if this is such a good idea, but... flier. You can bet I'll take the deal. Two questions: 1. How does he explain her absence if Volcens decides to execute her while Reese is away to be a douchebag? 2. How does he explain her absence if she gets killed on a mission? On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Naturally, you were the first person I thought of when I saw them. How could you not associate happy Axe-man with Axes? On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Ohhhhh, my axes~ I will never again let us be set apart~! Oh, my life has had no meaning since I lost you~ my axes~! ...... I could believe this is real dialogue. Wait... On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, there we go again... why'd you have to get them back, General Ward? Now I'll have to endure this for days... and here I thought paying off those brigands would be enough to spare me this annoyance... ...! You evil man. Bringing Happy Axe-man misery. You're worse than Valery. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: "Barker's Poetry" is a lengthy and ancient hymn depicting the two gods Raze and Veria. In it, they are portrayed as a husband and wife. Husband and wife...? Nope. I didn't write any of that. Must just be Sennet's OC. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: At the time, Chaos was protected by a magical power. Had that not been the case, I would not have lost to him. No... You still would've lost. Badly. Don't take Chaos so lightly. He's not wrong. I'm still seeing if I can get enough material to do a parody song on that. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, now we've just gotta prove the overpowered edgelord wrong, don't we? She must become powerful enough to kill Chaos. We need to teach this guy a lesson in humility. It's funny. I don't remember anyone giving Ike that crap. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: ...It's just a little headache. Sorry for startling you... Will you really be all right...? Y-Yes... Aaaugh... I'll be... fine... Father Owen... The fact they're still concerned for him after that... mind, I am too, but I know that he's got more than a headache going on. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: See, Ward? See? He's completely right, damnit! I relate to this guy. I know you don't want any fatalities, but definitely keep him and Axel going. I mean, also Elbert, but more for the provoke jokes. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: This scene's music is very erotic. Oh no. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: ...Goddamnit, and it seemed so much more positive when it started... Damn it... On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Sherlock, this is your very first scene ever. Please refrain from leaving a bad first impression by following Roy's guide to conversation. To be fair, they were both reasonable questions. Asking if the man was a mugger as opposed to a would-be-murderer, kidnapper, or something else I'll only allude to makes sense... as does not knowing what the hell a Basselin is. On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: "Musical pirates" has to be the most hilariously dumb description I've ever seen for pirates. You sure Valery didn't try to con you, but he just happened to nail it by accident? Maybe there's a recording industry in Berwick we don't know about and they're into burning CDs? On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: B-But General, I just... I thought you ought to know... Had you not considered that the guild would be the first ones we would ask about this pirate problem? Has Ward not considered the guild may not tell him that for reasons relating to not paying Valery? On 5/13/2020 at 4:09 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Here, have garbage-- wait, what? Oh, nooo...! He has no more room for anything! Guess he has half a brain after all. On 5/13/2020 at 4:56 AM, Benice said: I believe that Canas' three brothers all went vegetable because they lost control of their magic; that's why Canas is different; he likes knowledge, not power. Funny enough, more or less the reason Nergal's like he is. Using dark magic to achieve his goals fried his brain. Anyway, now that I've finally done my comment (man I literally was late to the party on this one) I can post and work out what else I'm doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hawkwing Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 So I finally managed to get to the timeskip portion of Three Houses two days ago. I think I may have mentioned reaching it before, but admittedly I jumped the gun there and thought that it would occur sooner than I had predicted. Also, good lord does this game like to take its sweet time. It took me 62 hours to get to the halfway point, and unfortunately, a fair chunk of that time felt like I was jumping through hoops just to get to the more interesting parts. I still like the game, but it really isn't as replayable as it wants to be. As for Reunion at Dawn... Personally, I didn't mind the level, but trust me, I easily see why you hate it. A unit being RNG screwed or you not picking the right classes and weapon/skill setup can make this map a breeze or a pain in the butt, and even then knowing that its coming doesn't alleviate everything since you have to go through a different level before this. With that said, while I would place this level on a "worst Fire Emblem levels" list, I think there are worst ones in the series. Reunion at Dawn may be unfairly difficult if someone gets RNG screwed, but aside from that and clumsily switching the mission object after defeating the boss, there's not a whole lot else wrong with the level. There are other Fire Emblem maps that have objectives outside the players control, are boring to go through, and/or have other forms of bullcrap that you have to go through every time you replay the game which I would say are more frustrating than this one. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: There are two part 20s. Wonderful. It's started already. This time, though, I'm going to skip straight to part 22 so we can keep at least a semblance of consistency. Huh, I thought that was deliberate considering it was a continuation of the same level. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, there's one fine shapeshifter that isn't from those games: In Berwick Saga, the game that does everything right-- okay, no. It's Xane. Xane is a unit that I haven't really ever used, but objectively speaking, he's ridiculously strong. Why would you bring anyone else, when you could deploy Xane and have two of your strongest unit? Or two warpers? Or two tanks? The only things he can't be are a second Marth, thief or Feena. In FE12 he's even better, too, because he arrives slightly earlier and has Feena to help him catch up after shifting. Honestly, I think Xane might be my favorite unit in Shadow Dragon, and now that I think about it, maybe even Fire Emblem as a whole. I know that it's pointless to give him experience considering he more or less gains nothing from leveling up, but he is just so much fun to use, being able to duplicate any member of your army gives him amazing versatility and lets you see what two Marths wrecking the battlefield would be like. It's a real shame that Fire Emblem never repeated his gimmick outside of Archenea (and TRS). I didn't include him in the original list because I thought the mechanic was well-handled and distinct from how other shapeshifters function, with few gamplay comparisons beyond "they can shapeshift". On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I won't lie, Thracia doesn't like newcomers. The Manster arc is brilliant, though. I'd totally recommend it, even if I aren't fond of the endgame. I am still interested in playing Thracia 776 (and Geneaology of the Holy War, for that matter), but it's not a game I'm in a rush to try out. Also, I take it the endgame gets a little too staff-heavy on both sides? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That seems to be the reason for a lot of things, doesn't it? Like the fact that he apparently has a contingency plan for every single member of the Justice League, despite the fact that all of the higher-ups could literally just walk up to him and punch a hole in his head. I guess he could keep kryptonite around for Superman, but what's his plan for Wonderwoman? And... really, all the others who fly, move really quick, are super strong, super durable and have no weaknesses? Mind enlightening this ignorant young man? I remember there being a five minute video of Batman stating his contingency plans that played during the credits of one of the animated Justice League movies. It doesn't always go into detail, but is interesting nonetheless. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I just want them to finally ditch the routes nonsense. Avatars are bullcrap, but I can accept them. Heck, Kris was a blight on the story, but gameplay-wise they were extremely fun, since they could become anything. For all the "better than Fates!" talk, though, Byleth strikes me as the worst Avatar, because not only are they a terrible character (because they've no character beyond a few self-aware references and get the same amount of avatar-worshipping as all the others), they're also a terrible avatar (because they cannot be customized in any way, so they fail at avataring). Also their designs make me want to puke. ...oh no, I went on a tangent of hate against 3H again. Anyway, as I was saying... Avatars are bad, but harmless. The route stupidity only serves to stretch the available time and budget so thin that the game isn't allowed to be truly great. One or at most two routes, please. Four only served to turn what could've been an absolutely amazing game into a mediocre one. That I hate for being so mediocre. On Avatars, honestly I just want IS to stop half-assing them and either ditch the concept so the writers can focus on the characters and story without having to worry about a "self-insert", or to create a game designed with an avatar in mind so that the story and gameplay would actually benefit from "me" or "my character" being a part of it. I don't dislike any of the avatar characters, but they really don't do their jobs as avatars that well. Even Robin, who I believe is the best handled of them, fits the role of an audience surrogate (due to them asking questions the player might have and being able to interact with every member of the cast) more than the role of an avatar. I like the idea of different routes, or at the very least alternative paths, but I've seen that in practice it often results in a lot of "do or don't do X to get the Y route", which ends up destroying the purpose, so I've accepted that they don't work all that well in Fire Emblem. With the exception of Echoes, since while that ended up being linear in practice, the idea could create some interesting situations of controlling several armies at once in a nonlinear fashion. That has some potential. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Thank you for your understanding. You're welcome. Although admittedly it's easy to do in a series where every single game has its fans and detractors. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, crit quotes are cool, I believe. If there weren't crit quotes, Hanneman wouldn't scream "AHA! A WEAKPOINT!", and... well, he'd still be my favorite "old wizard man" in the series, somehow, but a bit less so. Seriously though, that guy's voice was perfect for the character. I almost couldn't believe my ears when I recognized him as Desaix. Somehow that guy has a great range, but is extremely recognizable. Go figure. I agree, though after four games of it, I'd like them to take a break and focus on giving us some actually badass critical animations again, since the 3DS games and Three Houses were pretty simplistic in that regard. Also, Hanneman and Desaix really share the same voice actor? That's pretty interesting, although I can barely tell they're the same guy when comparing their voices. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It's a funny side-effect of the game's fondness for using generic portraits for everything. Like with TRS, there's also a ton of unused portraits that could've been used instead. Still, I, too, enjoy how much the generics are used. I don't know why. Guess it's because I love how the generics look in this game. Those guardians are badass, I wish I had a helmet like that. Yeah, the soldiers with helmets seem to be far more interesting generic portraits than the bandits so far. Speaking of which, we have been fighting our fair share of bandits, even on maps that feature imperial enemies. Is this something Berwick Saga does throughout the game or just at the beginning? On 5/10/2020 at 9:09 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: No monsters. No NPCs. Just Traps. Lots and lots of traps. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: One where every step of the way is a trap. Guess I should have expected that. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: There aren't pegasi in this game, actually. Fliers are extremely rare on both sides, and they're always wyverns of one kind or another. Considering how popular wyvern riders tend to be as both characters and units, I can see where Kaga was coming from. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, it's basically the same entrance as the fliers in TRS, but even flashier. The game in general feels like TRS with thrice the budget. TRS looks and feels like an indie game far before indie games took off. And, when you think about it, the concept is similar. Kaga formed his own small company to make the games he dreamed of without any limitations beyond his team's ability and the budget. Guess you could say Kaga did indies first! I could joke that kaga did it first, but there were enough early videogames made by one guy or a small team that could qualify as "indie games" nowadays that I would say technically he didn't do it first. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: By knocking it really hard. I know that, but it wouldn't have looked pretty. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It's only an anticlimax because you guys were hoping he'd turn into a fuckin' werewolf or a vampire or something. C'mon. I thought as soon as I pointed out that he was stuck with a dark orb it'd be pretty obvious what he'd turn into. Well, we haven't seen any monster units in the game yet, and some of them in the series use regular weapons... Also, on a side note, I spent a few days trying to look for a meme about one of the Lego Star Wars animations where Palpatine accidentally came into the Galactic Senate chamber wearing a hood, and someone shouted that they were a sith lord to everyone's shock. Then he took it off and everyone sighed in relief. It was hilariously fitting for Owens situation, but I for the life of me cannot find it. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: He wouldn't have, if I hadn't blundered horrendously. And I mean, it took leftover damage from a crit, a Vengeful blow and magical damage to down him. Considering the Vengeful hit, it could be argued that only Ward can kill Ward. I am both intrigued and concerned about the strength of endgame enemies and how they pose a threat. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You can say that again. And you will. Any you will say that again. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Why? Why is it such a big spoiler that the Derrick lookalike is Arknights's protagonist? Or... wait, is he the protagonist at all? I'm getting even more confused... I think that Arknights doctor is like the summoner in Fire Emblem Heroes, where they lead your units and "interact" with characters in the story. I could be wrong, though. The Captain in Blustone is the first unit you get, and they're as susceptible to the gameplay mechanics as any other character. They're just always present for the story. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: How do you delete something from the internet? You get banned somewhere that you can post pictures (and maybe videos). That's the only explanation I can think of of for why some memes seem to disappear. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Who even is this character? Arim Bill-something from Rhode Island that is a specialist that uses rope. That's my guess from reading the words in the background. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Path of Radiance? Don't make me laugh. It's impossible not to break that one open. Is there a Fire Emblem game that can't be broken? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Traps! Wonder if Fred and Merlinus ever met. Also, really random question, but are there copies of older school playboy magazines that actually have nothing but the articles? I know during its early days that they actually did have well-respected writers submit short stories (mostly because the magazine paid well) and interviewed several historically famous people, and they sound rather interesting in their own right. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Also, a literal firefighter with a tail? Ah, anime... And here I joked that beards were a fire hazard. Also, I think that's a squirrel. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Very Volcens music, too. It's the same as the one that plays in game overs. Ah, so that's the game over music. I guess that answers the question of where that track plays. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh. Well, I hate to be on Volcens's side for once, but that's a necessary precaution. It would've saved a certain woman so much heartache... Wait-- What am I saying!? He's threatening to take my flier away from me! VOLCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENS!! Aw, when gameplay and story desires clash. An excellent combination of hilarity and frustration. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I would like her assistance during our upcoming mission, and what Lord Herman doesn't know won't hurt him. Hah! Wow. You impress me, Reese. This sort of corruption is not what I expected from you. Given how nearly everyone else that has some moral fiber and isn't running a business also engages in some under-the-table arrangements, it was only a matter of time before Reese caught on. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: So, uh... yeah. Turns out, Larentia is a "mercenary". That is, you have to pay to use her. Only instead of a fee for her services, you're paying off a guard to bail her out of prison illegally. I'm not sure if this is such a good idea, but... flier. You can bet I'll take the deal. An interesting twist on the mercenary mechanic storywise, but does the price double for main missions like it does for the actual mercs? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: When we were in the Goran Plateaus on my previous mission, we ran into a group of bandits. As luck would have it, they happened to be carrying some unusual axes! How lucky indeed... I really wish someone made a meme of Joshscorchers "convenient" comment, because they keep popping up in moments like these. Might make one myself at this point, if I didn't decide to start writing this reply later in the day. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, there we go again... why'd you have to get them back, General Ward? Now I'll have to endure this for days... and here I thought paying off those brigands would be enough to spare me this annoyance... No wonder Pejj doesn't have many citizen requests; he's one of the few that decides to take things into his own hands. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Afternoon, Lady Tianna. About those old Imperial Shields that I mentioned before... We've had a change of plans, so we won't be needing them anymore. Sorry to trouble you like that. Hope I didn't cause Lord Reese any headache over those shields... This is really weird, because he definitely does take the shields if you give them to him, and he doesn't mention any "changes of plans" there. What gives? Schrödinger's Gun, because my original attempts to explain it without linking TV Tropes ended up being needlessly long winded. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: General Ward tried lifting one, and he said it was far too heavy to be practical, just as you said. They only weigh 6. He lifts shields like that every day. Please... He said too heavy to be practical, not too heavy to lift. And heavy things can wear down even the most sturdy of soldiers over a long period of time, which is undesirable given how much it can slow down other aspects of logistics. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That is what General Ward said. General Ward really needs to learn to start saying these things in front of the person in question. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: "Barker's Poetry" is a lengthy and ancient hymn depicting the two gods Raze and Veria. In it, they are portrayed as a husband and wife. Husband and wife...? The story goes that Father Raze once looked upon Mother Veria and fell deeply in love with her. However, Raze had a jealous heart that tested the patience of Veria, and she left him. After her departure, Raze regretted his actions and began to pursue Mother Veria once again. Yet still, she fled from him, no matter how many times he professed his love for her. And that is why the heavens spin round each other, turning the night into day and the day into night. Hah! Barker had a way with words. That was a pretty awesome backstory! This opposition between the gods continues even between their people. Then this centuries-long war is simply a lover's quarrel between gods? Is this the actual lore behind the game or just a poets rendition of it? Considering how odd the background of the Emiyu was, I could see it going either way. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, this is a masterpiece of the genius of art, David Millet! For 22000D, I believe it to be considerably worth the price. You know, Jonathan, somehow I doubt there's even a shred of truth in that pitch. Who even is David Millet? Luckily for you, however, the Serenes wiki does a better job at selling this to me than you could ever hope to. I mean, if it wasn't for the wiki it'd be easy to assume that most of these do nothing! David Millet... is the name of several people in the world, several of them still living, so I don't know if anyone is being directly referenced here. And yeah, it does suck that you have to rely on the internet to find out what the heck these things do. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, for whatever reason it isn't displayed, but it grants Reese Armsthrift. You know, the skill that makes weapons more durable? Reese will be getting a special little sword next chapter, one that will singlehandedly turn him from a decent unit to an absolute monster of a fighter. The ability to preserve it longer is a fine investment, in my opinion. And besides, how could I possibly LP Berwick Saga and not buy furniture? That's like playing BWS and not using Derrick! Preposterous! Ah, so he does get a special sword! And one that makes him amazing, too. I am extremely curious why he gets it and what it does. Also, Armsthrift! A skill in Awakening that ranges from "helpful" to "absolutely breaks the game" depending on the unit, and one that made me wish I used mercenaries more often. But seriously, I wish that skills that prevented weapon durability from decreasing were more common. I kid you not that unarmed is my favorite skill in Three Houses simply because it doesn't waste any weapon uses (the other being that it lets a unit fight under their own strength, and punching monsters to death with their bare hands will never get old. Sucks that the brawler and grappler classes have the worst class designs in the game). On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I want to be useful to Lady Tianna in some way. You hear all kinds of rumors from across the city in this dingy bar! Hahahahahah... you think they're doing it on purpose? The guy's right there, there's no way they haven't noticed him. Pfffffffftt Alex's commentary makes this scene that much funnier. Wonder what other jobs and tasks Rosalie had before meeting us. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I was wondering why Kaga was making a movie reference here, then I remembered what Sherpa's class name was. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I am very curious what the background behind this is, which means the game succeeded in its hook. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Rosalie?! Are you all right? And why are you holding full bottles of liquor in both hands...? Heh, heh... W-Why indeed, I wonder...? What Rosalie thinks would happen: Spoiler (I for the life of me could not find a gif of this, despite it being a good basis for one) What would actually happen: Spoiler On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: This one's a bit more melancholic. Huh, funnily enough I was going to ask when that song played. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Thrown away...? The man who raised me told me as much. Until I was 14, he taught me how to fight and how to live in this world. After that, I went from country to country to practice my skills. That is how I came to this land. Will we get some background on this mysterious man that raised Faramir, or will he just give more ellipses when asked? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Does he have this attitude because of sexism or because he holds the "War is ugly when noncombatants have to fight" mentality? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Hee hee... It has truly been a blessing to be able to speak with you both! Father Owen, you are usually so polite and gentle, but on occasion, I can see a more frightening side underneath... Holy crap that really is Yumil without her hood. Considering how other generic portraits look, I am now legitimately curious if they planned for certain characters to have multiple portraits but changed plans at some point in development. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It's starting! He flirted for 20 turns! He knew he should've left, but the booty's call... it was too strong...! How does one flirt for 10 hours? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: He fades in and out, while his sprite changes colors. Still, it seems he was able to stop it. What kind of cloak did he get that could change colors like that? Is it magic, or does he just flip it inside out? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...This is Daoud, folks. His 15 year old protégé just bled out in front of him. That is Daoud's second scene. War is hell. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...Sheesh... Reese is 17? And dying at 15... On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: This scene's music is very erotic. I see what you did there. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: The horse actually has an animation that plays rapidly when it's agitated. It slows down considerably here. Again, not something I can convey. Yeah, Berwick Saga takes advantage of this presentation style. Again, you're doing a good job stating what's happening. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Around here, the erotic music changes to this less erotic music. So that's where it plays. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Tico is one way way to refer to someone from Costa Rica. If it was Tuco I could make a The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly reference. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...Goddamnit, and it seemed so much more positive when it started... This game doesn't pull punches, even when striking several times in a row. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: All right, you got me... Now that I think about it, is this first time Sherlock speaks at all and has revealed his portrait name? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You have no idea how difficult it was to find this music. I'll take your word for it. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I'll give you the short version. It was a few weeks back... She'd just wrapped up here, and she was headed back to the inn. All of a sudden, some man in a dark robe jumps out of the alleyway! A mugger?! Luckily, she didn't get hurt... Seems that all that the guy wanted to take from her was her lyre. It was a special one, too. An original Basselin. Basselin? Sherlock, this is your very first scene ever. Please refrain from leaving a bad first impression by following Roy's guide to conversation. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Yes... But I have never used that lyre in my performances. My father's lyre was special. He always played it for me when I had a hard time falling asleep. I fear that in the hands of this thief, it could be terribly misused... Sleep is back! And this time it's not a staff! Also, a sleep enchantment on a musical instrument... makes a ton of sense. To the point that I almost wish another game utilized the concept. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: There've been odd reports of musical pirates over by Port Samoa, a few leagues down the coast. "Musical pirates" has to be the most hilariously dumb description I've ever seen for pirates. You sure Valery didn't try to con you, but he just happened to nail it by accident? I do legitimately want at least one musical themed level in Fire Emblem, with enemies and allies singing different verses of a song. It would probably fit better as DLC or in a more lighthearted Fire Emblem game, but I'd like to see an attempt nonetheless. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: And there you have it. As far as the gameplay's concerned, she's a mercenary. Also, remember when I explained how tactics points are doubly important because there's a unit that is only recruited if Reese promotes early? Well, there you have her. It's Larentia. Not sure what happens to her if Reese promotes late, but I don't want to find out. I take it Reese will have proved to be a fine enough tactician by then that he words will finally hold some weight on a political level? On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Whatever. Let's go to the guild, and-- I would go(?) with you but(?) its too late and I'm in "finish the update" mode right now. Maybe I'll guess later. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Here, have garbage-- wait, what? Oh, nooo...! He has no more room for anything! Huh, so there is a limit to how much crap he can carry. I guess that's to give his pawn shopping (I know it's loan sharking but he sucks at it) a purpose to separate him from just selling to any of the other shops. On 5/12/2020 at 2:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Anyway, we could craft this thing right now! It deals 7 fire damage to the enemy when it is used. However... Huh, didn't expect shields to be able to do damage in this game. Kind of makes sense how striking a burning hot shield might damage the attacker. Though I can see how this kind of shield can be a pain in the enemies hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 38 minutes ago, Hawkwing said: It's a real shame that Fire Emblem never repeated his gimmick outside of Archenea (and TRS). Even more blatant when you realize Narcus was intended to be Xane... 38 minutes ago, Hawkwing said: As for Reunion at Dawn... Personally, I didn't mind the level, but trust me, I easily see why you hate it. A unit being RNG screwed or you not picking the right classes and weapon/skill setup can make this map a breeze or a pain in the butt, and even then knowing that its coming doesn't alleviate everything since you have to go through a different level before this. With that said, while I would place this level on a "worst Fire Emblem levels" list, I think there are worst ones in the series. Reunion at Dawn may be unfairly difficult if someone gets RNG screwed, but aside from that and clumsily switching the mission object after defeating the boss, there's not a whole lot else wrong with the level. There are other Fire Emblem maps that have objectives outside the players control, are boring to go through, and/or have other forms of bullcrap that you have to go through every time you replay the game which I would say are more frustrating than this one. Did you play it on Maddening though? My current H5 run is reminding me just how much a degree or 2 of difficulty makes... 44 minutes ago, Hawkwing said: I remember there being a five minute video of Batman stating his contingency plans that played during the credits of one of the animated Justice League movies. It doesn't always go into detail, but is interesting nonetheless. Evidentally based on the story I sited... though I think Mark Waid missed something Green Lantern wise. It had already been established there was a literally blind Green Lantern https://greenlantern.fandom.com/wiki/Rot_Lop_Fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted May 15, 2020 Author Share Posted May 15, 2020 Part 23 - Blessed marksman. Hey, you: Spoiler On 5/12/2020 at 8:56 PM, Benice said: Czenoch confirmed? Well... perhaps. We'll just have to wait and see. What is up with that soldier with a portrait in chapter 6's main mission? He gets some dialogue out of Daoud after the chapter if you capture him for a reason I haven't yet figured out. Ahhh, yes... You'll know what's up with him when either you get to the ending, or you promote Daoud. I think. I never promoted him. Why does literally everybody hit on Sherpa?! Rosalie, Aegina, another person that I won't spoil... Hah! Well, I mean, I guess everyone just loves a one-eyed big dude. I am not fond of this chapter. Mostly because four of my units got crippled in it. Jeez... YOU MONSTER! How is Adel supposed to promote now? I do not expect him to ever manage. But I'll keep using him. Vantage is too much fun. Well, dark magic is a bad thing in Elibe, and as much as I love Sacred Stones, we don't learn anything at all about dark magic's lore there. Dark magic is a bad thing in FE7. In FE6 Raigh uses it and he's only a bit of a douchebag, Sophia uses it and she's only a bit of a weakling, Niime uses it and she's only a bit of a terrible grandmother, all those bosses use it and they're only greedy - I mean, heck, Peres was just a loyal guy following orders. No mention to the whole "SANITY GET LOST TO DARKNESS" shenanigan that Canas talks about anywhere in the whole game. I believe that Canas' three brothers all went vegetable because they lost control of their magic; that's why Canas is different; he likes knowledge, not power. That makes sense... but then why is Raigh sane? He sought the power, to protect all those he held dear as he claims. Or a ballista in chapter 5 that dealt a thicc ton of damage to him. (19, IIRC? He missed the kiteshield block.) Ballistae aren't surprising, they deal thicc damage to everybody. Gyhrgh! I literally gave Aegina the liquid magic 3 minutes before this update! R.I.P. The green lights going up are pretty. Yeah, I guess so... And speed is pretty great; the supporter lance knights in ch. 9 had 45> hit rates on her even in supporter range. Still not something anyone wants to risk. Only if it's someone I don't like. Or Sherpa. Why Sherpa, though? What's the difference? This. Imagine having THAT for more than 14 turns. MIIIIIIINNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!!!!! Oh, boy... Clifford sorta died in my first four attempts when he got critted twice in a row. Ah, wonderful. I eventually gave up, bought as many large shields as possible, gave Marcel the Zweihander and camped him in a chokepoint for 90-ish turns. Okay, so that's interesting... ...Wait, what? How'd that work? Don't you have to rush to save the green units? I couldn't let him die after he went to go save his Reveal hidden contents Girlfriend in the previous chapter, could I? Erm, anyways, eventually Obama's horse died so I could safely Astra them with Faye and Focus chant with Aegina. Also, I think it was Saphira who crippled Grady, but I may be misremembering. And then I went back, did the citizen requests, (only I didn't find the spy) and clapped the buff boss. And killed the Arse who kept shooting the prisoners. Pfffft... "Obama's horse"... Oh, man... Berwick saga will always be Faye Emblem for me. Ahhh...She's so lovely... Okay, calm down. I should probably play Eugen Emblem when I'm not totally slammed so I can enjoy it more. Please do. It has Eugen in it! CD-i remakes when? I honestly wouldn't mind if they got fully remade aside from the cutscenes. They're so gold! The old man with a lamp one is my favorite: Reveal hidden contents Okay, that's interesting, to say the least... I should really play Faces of evil one day... Is there even a CDI emulator out there? She didn't gain speed for me until promotion. If I kill her new horse, I'm gonna be so mad! In my first run I got it to last her the entire game. Just keep her clear of broadhead arrows and poleaxes, and you'll be fine. On 5/12/2020 at 8:59 PM, eclipse said: You can thank Aethlin for that wonderful translation! I'm sure it was great in Japanese, but keeping the poetry flowing in another language is a feat unto itself. Yes, indeed. He did a most excellent job. On 5/12/2020 at 10:39 PM, BrightBow said: Nah, I hate few characters who are not from Awakening or are player avatars. If I didn't like her, I could just ignore her. And that's not a courtesy Awakening or Fates ever give you.Ah... Well, I wouldn't know. But losing like 80%+ of your HP in one blow is so very bad in this game. In fact, player characters are actually more likely to get crippled then enemies.Yeah, yeah, but still... she's trying, all right? In retrospect I do have to wonder what sort of investigation they were actually running, considering how this whole thing turned out.The Volcens investigation: if suspect does not lick boots, kill. I would worry a lot less if they didn't put her in the same cell as all the other prisoners. But then again, they did let her keep her weapons. They have two cells here. Strange that they don't use it for this. Well, I'm sure if you were to collect enough prisoners, they will eventually fill up too.Fairly certain both cells fill up if you capture enough people. From what I remember when testing this, the reward also increases exponentially for each additional axe.Ah, that's wonderful. Well, according to Serenes Forest, there is also a "1/32768 chance each chapter of additional chest containing any of the seven Talismans". Why do I have the feeling that not a single person ever got one of those additional chests legitimately? And here I thought Gaiden had awful drop rates for the 3 celestial lances. Just for comparisons sake, I looked up the chance of obtaining a shiny in the first Pokemon generations and it's 1/8192. Until Gen VI, at which point it became 1/4096.Ha! Now that is hilarious. Well, an establishment that combines alcohol and 14 year old girls at the very least.Sheesh... "I was only going to break them over the table and use them as daggers."Why not both? Break 'em on the guy's head, then shank 'im. He most certainly hones his edge.Quite so, yes. Faye just does not pick up on the implication that she has a stalker.Well, it is a stalker that saves her life every time she's close to death. Still a fair cause for concern, but... Good question. I've permanently recruited him and I still have no idea what Faramir's deal is. If he's working for Cowen... well, Cowen didn't mind teaching her.I cannot remember from my first run. I didn't get their ending. Fairly certain one of the swords broke in the final chapter, and that's why. Love the file names. Yeah, there are cases in this game where there are portraits that show the same design from different angles, and there are cases like this where parts of the portrait are directly reused. I would most certainly love to have a dump of all the game's portraits. Considering what a treasure trove the TRS one was.Well, I do have a dump of the game's portraits, but I hesitate to share it without Aethin's permission. I know he doesn't own the game, but he generously allowed me to have it, so... Call me overly meticulous, if you want. To be fair, it's not like he can hit anything even in broad daylight.That much is true. Well. the promotion event will happen in chapter 10 regardless of the tactics rank. So I'd imagine it won't change anything.Yeah, but Serenes ominously points out that Larentia is only recruited "if Reese promotes in chapters 7 to 10". I can't help but wonder if she's executed after that... ...oh, never mind, Reese promotes at the start of chapter 10. Okay, that's my goof then, but why does Serenes specify "chapters 7 to 10" if Reese cannot take any longer to do it...? His line probably just depends on the presence of enemies that got captured.Yes, it does. Reese should probably check if that guy even works there. Well, he does have the keys to Larentia's cell, so either he does work there, or something is horribly wrong. Valery is behind this too, no doubt. Quote "Just like Norton after his best friend Lionel died because of me Arkis" Damn you, Arkis...! Butterman's beloved! Sort of: basically most maps could ruin the whole game depending on various stuff (like who you did or didn't use etc) and it's extremely easy to do so without following a guide/walkthrough. Ah. I understand. It's one of those. Also, there was one specific map in the "chaotic" route where you needed to do a (vaguely hinted) very specific thing to avoid a game over two maps later, and since the game (on an actual DS) only had two save slots if you saved after each map (like you normally would) and missed that thing, well: hope you like to restart from the beginning... assuming you even know that you could indeed avoid that game over (kinda like FE6's "bad ending", which could be easily mistaken for a potential sequel hook instead) Now that is absolutely great, isn't it? Err... i think you should rewatch that "Derrick's tragic past" video again then: You'll notice that the "Derrick lookalike" (the one who "kicks a child") and the Doctor/player/protagonist (the one who dabs) are two completely different characters. Ah. Well, I am mentally challenged, then. (Though i guess that means Derrick won't actually turn out be a girl then: i'm disappointed...) So am I. That'd make him the best waifu in the game. He'll have to settle for best husbando, I suppose. Well, that's exactly why i posted that specific pic of Kroos "brilliancing"... Hahah, of course. Admittedly, i suppose posting fanarts showing the Doctor with and without their mask didn't help (but still doesn't explain how you managed to mistake him/her for Derrick's lookalike all this time) Because they're both wearing edgy clothes that conceal their faces. Well... Don't "well" me! Explain! ... she's "that archer" in that case. Mm, of course... (Actually, between this and several other of your replies i'm starting to think half of the stuff i post, most notably the quotes, remains hidden or something) Nah, not really. I'm just kinda dumb. Err... that's NOT actually what happens here too though (quite the opposite in fact) Okay, whatever. I don't even like Advance Wars, anyway. Rope? Her name is Rope? This is the epitome of FE6's habit of giving bosses personalities based on their weapons! This girl is literally just her tool of choice, down to her name! I'd say she's Arknight's equivalent of Czene, but after that dialogue she had with the horsemaster i thnk there is another character who might fit her better... Well, if she's anything like Czene, then she sure needs a crapton of power. That girl hits like a wet noodle. ... maybe. No, uh... not quite. If Czene were like that, I wouldn't be using her. (After reading her latest dialogue with Enoch, i guess that's most likely not the case though) Nope, nope it isn't. Would it make you feel better knowing i wasted a good half an hour to insert those inside the spoiler without deleting half of its previous content just to get the "you can't edit this post anymore" message? (Even though i edited it just fine half an hour before, when i "parked" them there) Not really, no. I do not relish in the suffering of others. Uh, not most of the time. There were supposed to be quoted in-game screenshoots of Saphira and Volo accompanying those two comics: did you choose not to quote them, tried to but couldn't or did they not show up at all to you? (Genuinely asking for the same reason i mentioned above) They showed up okay. Pressing "quote" removes all quotes in the quoted post, though. Selecting a specific part of the post and quoting only that quotes the quotes fine, though. I wonder what's up with that. Quote. Great job, Danton! Uhhhh... okay, but why is that guy's head an S? Well, i would also pay less for a bunch of scrap metal than for 3 magical axes (especially when you had to defeat a literal firefighter with a tail to get one of them) Then you are clearly not as loving as Reiss is with his axes. *Insert that 3H comic i posted before here* Ha! That implies I would ever return Bernadetta's crap to her. Not a chance. The only thing I ever gave her was a spear through the gut when she was trying to shoot down my units. Those dolls are Berwick players also. ...okay, now we're going a bit too far. What does this have to do with anything? Hah! Yes, exactly like that! That's Owen looking at the clerics as they pass. Then he turns into a garbage bag. "He had a portrait, for f@ck's sake!" Right? It's insane that he passed like so...! Yeah, you should have. You can't fish kitties, though... what even is the context? "Remember to add Clear to your echelon and bind keys if you are playing on an emulator" Please forgive me, but I struggle to comprehend what you were trying to convey here. Other than the fact that Girls' Frontline looked semi-interesting to me until it turned out to be a rhythm game. Yeah, sorry. That ain't up my alley. On 5/13/2020 at 2:26 AM, Golb89 said: [Addendum] (Aka "i just edited my comment 5 minutes ago, but now i can't anymore. Again") You really need to be patient, man. Wait a bit in case you think of something else. I don't mind it that much, personally, but double posting can get you in trouble. Actually, nowadays FE romhacking is as good as dead and SoA is a prime example of that, since they basically dumped the whole thing and remade it in FEXNA, and pretty much every other project being actively worked on right now is made on RPG Studio or some other engine like that. I suppose I should've said "FE fangames", because those are doing better than ever. And what are you talking about? That isn't right. If you go to FEUniverse there are plenty of quality projects being made in ROMs. FE7 has mostly been abandoned, but FE8 hacking is doing quite well. Two I've been following are Sun God's Wrath and Vision Quest. SGW has capturing, which alone is enough to pique my interest, and VQ is the first unfinished hack that I tried out and managed to hook me enough to play to the end of the version. Nothing... including TLP itself: with all the bugs, glitches and general unpolishedness (not to mention that pitiful excuse of a story) it feels more abandoned than finished imo. Hard disagree. It has over 30 chapters, a clear ending, a postgame that works quite well, and there aren't any gamebreaking bugs at all. Sure, a couple characters are missing an ending, paired endings don't work, Levion is missing from the postgame for whatever reason, Rana's legitimately interesting conversations with Kelik cannot be seen except for the first one, Lyam's portrait glitches out slightly in his supports... but that is all hardly what I'd call major. Anyway, TLP is very much a complete game. You can say it's good or bad or whatever, but it's undeniable that it is "finished". There's a clear start and end to both the story and the gameplay, and there are no bugs that keep you from reaching the latter. Say it's bad if you think so, but calling it an unfinished project just because you believe it isn't so good is unfair to Blazer's efforts. I mean, heck, being told stuff like this is probably why he left the community and hates to even mention TLP nowadays. The fact someone felt the need to turn the "Hard Mode" version of it into basically an enhanced reboot (with additional playable characters, both old and new) instead just proves it: No... no, it doesn't. By this logic, any game ever that's had a rebalance mod is unfinished. Games like, y'know, FE6, FE8... Ironically enough, the hard mode version is the unfinished project here. The Last Promise is flawed, but not unfinished. I think you're confusing the two terms here, mate. as far as i'm concerned the only REAL finished hack we got in all these years is "Requiem", and that one too could have used quite a bit more polishing. Requiem is definitely more polished than TLP, but it suffers from a vastly inferior and uninspired gameplay, which is why these days I'd call TLP the better game. The story is pretty amazing, though, that much is certain. But TLP is much more fun and creative in its gameplay. And I know there are a lot of people who play these games for the story and the story alone, but I am not one of them. ...leaving that aside, I think somebody's forgetting about Road to Ruin. That one is short, true, but it's very much complete. What is the problem with that one? And then there's also the japanese Sword of Heaven and Earth, and Heaven's Bloom which suffers from bad portraits but is otherwise done, and Justice and Pride, which doesn't pique my interest all that much, but it's definitely finished; and Order of the Crimson Arm, which is playable from start to finish, although it kinda falls apart at the end; and Carcino's Civil War, which is very short, but that's what the creator intended from the start. Just a few examples. I think you should reconsider your assessment that ROMhacking is dead, because it really isn't. It's doing better than ever in fact. Perhaps you're just looking in the wrong place? Because this opinion of yours seems like it's outdated by 3 or 4 years. (No, "Order of the Crimson Arm" is NOT finished either) I agree to an extent. It's playable to the end, the gameplay works just fine, but the state of the final chapters is... not pretty. I think the guy realized he was about to leave his project forever dead like all the others, and rushed to release something, anything, just to escape that fate. Still, as far as gameplay's concerned, there's a definite ending. ("Death or Glory" probably is though, i don't remember atm) Nope, that one's been completely dead and buried for many years. How does one come to think that this is alive but miss Road to Ruin? (Also, RIP "Dream Of Five"...) RIP. That one's a legend of unfinished projects, along with Midnight Sun. On 5/13/2020 at 2:48 AM, Golb89 said: [Addendum of the addendum] ...triple posting! (Aka "i figured out the issue: if you sign out you can no longer edit your own posts even if you sign back in") Jeez! The poor kitty...! Those toys were evil. Well, Sund(ay) for instance would REALLY love to get that Volcano Axe back... Yeah, well I ain't giving it back. ... maybe. No, she can go fuck herself. I ain't giving it back. Reiss loves it more. On 5/14/2020 at 3:04 AM, Golb89 said: [Addendum of the addendum of the... nope, this is actually a standalone] Wow, quadruple posting! I'm kinda impressed, honestly... but, really, you should be careful. Again, not a problem with me, but you're going to get a warning at this rate. She sure took that to heart... Hah! She did, didn't she? I'm glad... Until then: And once you are done with all of them, here is the next batch: Maybe. Okay, so however put up those bounties is not a reasonable person. ...Sorry. Do not get it. Again. On 5/14/2020 at 6:04 AM, Benice said: You reminded me that I had this abomination: Hahahahahahahahahahahah... this is amazing. There are people who can understand how to use MS paint...And they scare me. I guess I'll post some other memes too. Reveal hidden contents Ruben selling things to Halfmann be like: And that is quite enough visual punishment for today. The TRS/FE7 one speaks to me on an emotional level. On 5/14/2020 at 10:46 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: I could check, given the story that was established in was literally one where Ra's Al Ghul stole the plans and used them... to almost kill the whole league. Okay, nanobots that ignite Martian Manhunters skin playing off his pyrophobia (the martians died to a plague his evil brother genetically engineered that caused their flesh to ignite, hence because of the psychic trauma of a race with telepathy dying burning, any Martians involved have a fire weakness. Exception being said evil brother because he did it because he was born without telepathy, which turned him evil because he was an outcast), toxins based on Scarecrow's fear gas that made Aquaman pathologically afraid of water, freezing and shattering Plastic Man into pieces (meaning he needs someone to put him back together), blinding Green Lantern (mind the Kyle Rayner version, who was a newbie at the time), using a projectile that's moving at a different vibratory rate on the Flash knowing he'd try to shift vibratory rate to have the projectile pass through him as he usually does... only for it to attach to his spine and start giving him seizures with toxins, more nanobots which basically drug Wonder Woman (because she's not impervious to being drugged). You more or less got the Kryptonite, though they used Red Kryptonite. Yeah... honestly I think Mark Waid was pushing it with that story. Anything that he couldn't answer "drugs or nano-bots". In case you're wondering, that was the active roster at the time, so no. I have no idea what anyone else was. Ah, okay, so it turns out Batman just drugs everyone. If it's that easy, how come the Justice League never fell? A few of these are more complicated, but some are as easy as injecting Wonder Woman with something. They could've wiped out half the League in no time! Agreed. Ironically the only time I like Byleth is in Smash Bros... where everyone hates them. No, man, those are just HOES MAD. The fact that our fanbase spent days spamming the whole HOES MAD nonsense probably made the hoes even madder. We're the reasonable ones here! Three Houses saved the fanbase! Personally speaking, it definitely should've been Porky. I mean, the bee from the start of Earthbound is there as a spirit. Porky's complete absence is unforgivable. The only time one should consider a crit in their strategy is if the thing can screw you over... whether by an enemy getting one, or the crit resulting in an extra unsurvivable round of combat. In those cases, the only consideration to be done is "this is going to screw me over, I had better pray". I don't get it. I meant that the pun didn't even cross my mind. To be fair, I think I wrote that joke before you pointed that out. Also I like joking about werewolves. A fine thing to joke about, I suppose. Not me. It reminds me of a facebook troll I used to know who used to victimize girls I knew resulting in me making a page with his name and making a bunch of embarrassing posts about "gUrLs beInG IcKy aNd grOteSk". He ended up begging me to stop, and he's been irrelevant for nearly a decade now (I think, for all I know he just moved on to annoying people I didn't know). That said, every time I see something with random capitals, (especially relating to a woman ruining something given it was his favorite thing to talk about before I ruined him), I die laughing. I especially remember the first time I saw Julius' death quote in FE4. Sheesh, what a jerk. Him, not you, obviously. Literally my first thought. Heh, well I can understand that. Plot twist. He somehow found all the songs I wrote, and made it the basis for it. I mean, you are a character in the game. Also a character who died. Still terrible at racing games. Pretty bad at FPS as well actually. Though apparently I'm surprisingly good at aiming without bothering to use any sort of zoom function in those. I'm awful at traditional fighting games, myself. I'm sorry, but I can't bother to learn a thousand button presses for a combo. Yet two options for Sacred Stones is still almost as bad as one. Then again, coming off three... yeah. That is jarring. Least it wasn't Tellius, where the sole dark mage in two games is hidden behind a second playthrough and ludicrous requirements. Seriously, what sort of sick joke was that? Oh yeah, I've heard. He sucks too. A status it's hard to achieve in the Zelda games. Every new game you meet characters like Vaati, or Groose who feel like they're going to be big parts of the series now.. then they fade away and are mostly remembered for one or two games. Discounting Impa, who was actually in the manual for the original and the comics Valiant put out back when the Zelda timeline was two games long, Tingle was the only character who achieved much of a recurring status. I mean, Vaati's looked like it for a bit, but he gradually got pulled back into Ganon's shadow like every other villain. Oh, and Dampe the grave-digger hasn't done all that bad. But the point is most Zelda characters get a couple appearances then fade out. So really Morshu is pretty normal for the series apart from being meme'd. Kind of like Groose actually, but without the plot significance. Morshu is quite legendary, is my whole input on this matter. Well... I did do the easier games. And New Mystery... but not New Mystery on Lunatic... because I can only be so insane. Hard's fine. Hard is still nowhere near as easy as some other titles in the series. It really is. You can come up with multiple ways to do the same task, like shooting down a hornet nest near an enemy camp so they'll get attacked by them, or rolling boulders through them, shooting down the lamp they have hanging up in their cave to hit their stockpile of explosives, lighting the grassland around their camp on fire and letting them burn, making a massive snowball and rolling it through their outpost. Mind, that's only the basics. This is a game with a physics engine and very interactive environment... meaning you can come up with lots of ways to achieve the same thing. One of the stupidest I came up with was surrounding an enemy camp with piles of firewood while they were asleep, and lighting them up, leaving them in a circle of campfires.... after I stole their weapons. Then I woke them up. That sounds a lot of fun. What did you say the game's name was, again? I don't wanna go back to find it. It's not that I'm lazy; as you know, I am spanish. I'm too busy, I've got paella to eat and bullfighting to watch before my siesta. Somehow this is, alongside the horseman PTSD, the one running gag that's survived through all four LPs. I think. The sad fact I couldn't resist doing that the moment I saw a Wyvern. Well, it was your glorious introduction. Gotta call back to it from time to time. Maybe it's just the pain from losing Christine. Perhaps... Come to think about it, does Eleanora look like Christine at all to you? Maybe he was warned he'd be throttled if he called out about traps one more time, then afterward argued they would have avoided it if they let him warn them. Oh, God... I can totally imagine him doing that. Piece of trash...! What an Erksome curse. Ha! I almost introduced myself as "Terrifying Heinous Entity Roger the Paladin, star of numerous bad creepypasta and demonic overlord of the ninth circle of hell" in a certain test run (which I have to get back to work on soon). I decided to go the more traditional route. Probably for the best, but I would've liked it. More like Fliar, am I right? But it is sad when Volcens makes sense. Damn you, Volcens, for accidentally being right for once...! Two questions: 1. How does he explain her absence if Volcens decides to execute her while Reese is away to be a douchebag? 2. How does he explain her absence if she gets killed on a mission? ...... ...Berwick Saga is a flawless game! Avert your logic this instant! How could you not associate happy Axe-man with Axes? It is simply inconceivable! I could believe this is real dialogue. Wait... Hahahahah... You evil man. Bringing Happy Axe-man misery. You're worse than Valery. Valery probably was the middle-man between this guy and the bandits! Nope. I didn't write any of that. Must just be Sennet's OC. Sennet's OC, Senate. He IS the Senate! He's not wrong. I'm still seeing if I can get enough material to do a parody song on that. Please do. It's funny. I don't remember anyone giving Ike that crap. Probably because they were too busy praising him for being amazing in RD. And pissing me off in the process. Seriously, I'm up to part 3, and so far I've liked everything except the parts with the Greil Mercenaries. Not only is their role in the story completely predictable and devoid of anything interesting or mysterious, but their chapters are mindnumbingly easy because they're all broken units. I hate them, I wish they'd go die in a ditch and return me to Brolan and his less awesome friends. Every time I go into the base and see Ike and his goons as the playable guys, I roll my eyes and think "great, another half hour of letting the game play itself in the background". The fact they're still concerned for him after that... mind, I am too, but I know that he's got more than a headache going on. They're clerics, it's their job to be concerned for the suffering and the ailing. And Owen's very obviously ill, doing 180 personality turns every now and again. That's clearly more than just a touchy jerk with a headache. I relate to this guy. I know you don't want any fatalities, but definitely keep him and Axel going. I mean, also Elbert, but more for the provoke jokes. I'll try. I don't think I'll be able to promote him, but I'll see what I can do. Oh no. We could probably call it "Vase's theme" at this point, couldn't we? A shame. It's such a nice theme... Damn it... Yeah... To be fair, they were both reasonable questions. Asking if the man was a mugger as opposed to a would-be-murderer, kidnapper, or something else I'll only allude to makes sense... as does not knowing what the hell a Basselin is. Yeah, but he could've done it in a way that does not remind me of Roy! Maybe there's a recording industry in Berwick we don't know about and they're into burning CDs? Uuuhhh... yeah, let's go with that. Has Ward not considered the guild may not tell him that for reasons relating to not paying Valery?Ward is too naïve. He still believes in Valery. Guess he has half a brain after all. Damn you, Halfmann's halfbrain! I demand that you let me mantain this joke throughout the rest of the game! Funny enough, more or less the reason Nergal's like he is. Using dark magic to achieve his goals fried his brain. It also fried his writing, no doubt. Personally, I prefered it when it was love that drove him to villainy. Quite ironic. Anyway, now that I've finally done my comment (man I literally was late to the party on this one) I can post and work out what else I'm doing. Hang in there, buddy. 13 hours ago, Golb89 said: Nope: signing in/out makes absolutely no difference. Just wait on your replies a bit. That way, you can just add things if you come up with anything. 9 hours ago, Hawkwing said: So I finally managed to get to the timeskip portion of Three Houses two days ago. I think I may have mentioned reaching it before, but admittedly I jumped the gun there and thought that it would occur sooner than I had predicted. Also, good lord does this game like to take its sweet time. It took me 62 hours to get to the halfway point, and unfortunately, a fair chunk of that time felt like I was jumping through hoops just to get to the more interesting parts. I still like the game, but it really isn't as replayable as it wants to be. That's the biggest reason I hesitate to replay this one, honestly. Not gonna lie, I feel tempted to come back to it every now and again, but it's so long for all the wrong reasons... wasting another 60 hours just to realize that I still don't like it is not what I'd call a good investment of my time. As for Reunion at Dawn... Personally, I didn't mind the level, but trust me, I easily see why you hate it. A unit being RNG screwed or you not picking the right classes and weapon/skill setup can make this map a breeze or a pain in the butt, and even then knowing that its coming doesn't alleviate everything since you have to go through a different level before this. With that said, while I would place this level on a "worst Fire Emblem levels" list, I think there are worst ones in the series. Reunion at Dawn may be unfairly difficult if someone gets RNG screwed, but aside from that and clumsily switching the mission object after defeating the boss, there's not a whole lot else wrong with the level. There are other Fire Emblem maps that have objectives outside the players control, are boring to go through, and/or have other forms of bullcrap that you have to go through every time you replay the game which I would say are more frustrating than this one. Fair enough. Though, you haven't played it on maddening. That is where it gets truly horrible. Huh, I thought that was deliberate considering it was a continuation of the same level. Nah, back in chapter 3 I gave them different numbers. Honestly, I think Xane might be my favorite unit in Shadow Dragon, and now that I think about it, maybe even Fire Emblem as a whole. I know that it's pointless to give him experience considering he more or less gains nothing from leveling up, but he is just so much fun to use, being able to duplicate any member of your army gives him amazing versatility and lets you see what two Marths wrecking the battlefield would be like. It's a real shame that Fire Emblem never repeated his gimmick outside of Archenea (and TRS). Even in TRS, Narcus can't replicate the ally's stats perfectly, so he's just a worse Xane that arrives even later. But yeah, Xane is a great concept for a unit. Not one I've used too often, for some reason, but he's cool. I didn't include him in the original list because I thought the mechanic was well-handled and distinct from how other shapeshifters function, with few gamplay comparisons beyond "they can shapeshift". I see. I am still interested in playing Thracia 776 (and Geneaology of the Holy War, for that matter), but it's not a game I'm in a rush to try out. Also, I take it the endgame gets a little too staff-heavy on both sides? Yep. Chapter 22 in particular is nearly impossible to do legitimately without casualties. The chapter is begging you to warpskip it. I'd say it's around chapter 21 that the game starts going downhill in this regard. Almost every chapter from there is either bad or a warpskip-fest. Which, admittedly, isn't that different from TearRing, but at least in TearRing only Holmes is affected by this, so you can just send Renee with him and call it a day. I remember there being a five minute video of Batman stating his contingency plans that played during the credits of one of the animated Justice League movies. It doesn't always go into detail, but is interesting nonetheless. That seems to be mostly what The Roger explained. It's all right. But I still don't see him standing much of a chance if the entire League decided to gang up on him. On Avatars, honestly I just want IS to stop half-assing them and either ditch the concept so the writers can focus on the characters and story without having to worry about a "self-insert", or to create a game designed with an avatar in mind so that the story and gameplay would actually benefit from "me" or "my character" being a part of it. I don't dislike any of the avatar characters, but they really don't do their jobs as avatars that well. Even Robin, who I believe is the best handled of them, fits the role of an audience surrogate (due to them asking questions the player might have and being able to interact with every member of the cast) more than the role of an avatar. Agreed. Either do or don't. Byleth's weird middle-ground only fails to succeed at being an avatar and at not being one. I like the idea of different routes, or at the very least alternative paths, but I've seen that in practice it often results in a lot of "do or don't do X to get the Y route", which ends up destroying the purpose, so I've accepted that they don't work all that well in Fire Emblem. With the exception of Echoes, since while that ended up being linear in practice, the idea could create some interesting situations of controlling several armies at once in a nonlinear fashion. That has some potential. My problem with routes in FE is that, as Three Houses proved, FE isn't nearly popular or profitable enough to afford to make so many routes. The series's budget, although it's increasing with time, isn't high enough to be able to withstand this much overspending. And so, you get a half-baked title with a ton of routes instead of a solid one with just one. You're welcome. Although admittedly it's easy to do in a series where every single game has its fans and detractors. Yeah, that much is true. I agree, though after four games of it, I'd like them to take a break and focus on giving us some actually badass critical animations again, since the 3DS games and Three Houses were pretty simplistic in that regard. Ah, yes. Agreed there. Also, Hanneman and Desaix really share the same voice actor? That's pretty interesting, although I can barely tell they're the same guy when comparing their voices. It's difficult, he did a good job at playing them in a completely different way, but you can tell by the way he drags the words when he speaks. Yeah, the soldiers with helmets seem to be far more interesting generic portraits than the bandits so far. Indeed. Speaking of which, we have been fighting our fair share of bandits, even on maps that feature imperial enemies. Is this something Berwick Saga does throughout the game or just at the beginning? Considering how much time we spend fixing the people's problems, and the fact that there's an entire mechanic around brigands (bounties), you can expect bandits to show up for most of the game. That said, I'm fairly certain that brigands will not be the focus of any other main mission from here. Guess I should have expected that. If nothing else, you cannot fault Merlinus for being unpredictable. Considering how popular wyvern riders tend to be as both characters and units, I can see where Kaga was coming from. He succeeded at making fliers feel exotic, at any rate. I could joke that kaga did it first, but there were enough early videogames made by one guy or a small team that could qualify as "indie games" nowadays that I would say technically he didn't do it first. Well, he still did it pretty early, so there's that. I know that, but it wouldn't have looked pretty. Well, I'm not so talented an artist, I am sorry. Well, we haven't seen any monster units in the game yet, and some of them in the series use regular weapons... No monsters in this one, I'm afraid. Also, on a side note, I spent a few days trying to look for a meme about one of the Lego Star Wars animations where Palpatine accidentally came into the Galactic Senate chamber wearing a hood, and someone shouted that they were a sith lord to everyone's shock. Then he took it off and everyone sighed in relief. It was hilariously fitting for Owens situation, but I for the life of me cannot find it. Hah! Well don't worry, I can imagine what you were trying to do. I am both intrigued and concerned about the strength of endgame enemies and how they pose a threat. Eheh... ahhh... we won't have to wait until the endgame, my friend. Any you will say that again. Ah! A surprise! I think that Arknights doctor is like the summoner in Fire Emblem Heroes, where they lead your units and "interact" with characters in the story. I could be wrong, though. The Captain in Blustone is the first unit you get, and they're as susceptible to the gameplay mechanics as any other character. They're just always present for the story. So you can kill the main character, is that it? You get banned somewhere that you can post pictures (and maybe videos). That's the only explanation I can think of of for why some memes seem to disappear. Eh, that's one way, I suppose. Arim Bill-something from Rhode Island that is a specialist that uses rope. That's my guess from reading the words in the background. Well, she claims to be called Rope, so... either Golb bamboozled me, or she's just... yeah. Rope. Is there a Fire Emblem game that can't be broken? Nope, but PoR is so damn easy that just using units will break it. Wonder if Fred and Merlinus ever met. Perhaps they were childhood buddies. Also, really random question, but are there copies of older school playboy magazines that actually have nothing but the articles? I know during its early days that they actually did have well-respected writers submit short stories (mostly because the magazine paid well) and interviewed several historically famous people, and they sound rather interesting in their own right. I have no idea, I'm too young to have ever read playboy magazines. And here I joked that beards were a fire hazard. Ward's beard is a nuclear hazard. Also, I think that's a squirrel. Errr... yeah, let's go with that. Ah, so that's the game over music. I guess that answers the question of where that track plays. I think I've linked it before, in chapter 2. Aw, when gameplay and story desires clash. An excellent combination of hilarity and frustration. And as usual, Volcens is the source of both. Hmph... Given how nearly everyone else that has some moral fiber and isn't running a business also engages in some under-the-table arrangements, it was only a matter of time before Reese caught on. I suppose so, but it's still interesting to see the goody-two-shoes protagonist of the game coming up with such a deal. An interesting twist on the mercenary mechanic storywise, but does the price double for main missions like it does for the actual mercs? Yes. Yes it does. I really wish someone made a meme of Joshscorchers "convenient" comment, because they keep popping up in moments like these. Might make one myself at this point, if I didn't decide to start writing this reply later in the day. There's no rush, I mean, this is gonna happen for almost the entire game. No wonder Pejj doesn't have many citizen requests; he's one of the few that decides to take things into his own hands. That's the characterization I was going for, yes. Schrödinger's Gun, because my original attempts to explain it without linking TV Tropes ended up being needlessly long winded. Schrödinger, Chekov's archnemesis. He said too heavy to be practical, not too heavy to lift. And heavy things can wear down even the most sturdy of soldiers over a long period of time, which is undesirable given how much it can slow down other aspects of logistics. But... Ward's medium shields weigh as much as that, if not more, and he doesn't complain about 'em! General Ward really needs to learn to start saying these things in front of the person in question. Well, General Ward is a bit of a jerk, but who's going to say it to his face? He's the Endgame Beard! Is this the actual lore behind the game or just a poets rendition of it? Considering how odd the background of the Emiyu was, I could see it going either way. It could go both ways. I don't think it ever really comes up. Berwick Saga isn't the kind of game where the protagonist is the chosen one to meet with the gods. David Millet... is the name of several people in the world, several of them still living, so I don't know if anyone is being directly referenced here. I'm not sure if it's a reference to anything. Most likely Jonathan just made it up. And yeah, it does suck that you have to rely on the internet to find out what the heck these things do. I don't even understand why these things aren't displayed. Some of them increase Reese's growths, which, okay, you can't see anyone's growths, but how come Armsthrift isn't displayed in Reese's skill list? Ah, so he does get a special sword! And one that makes him amazing, too. I am extremely curious why he gets it and what it does. Heheheh... you're going to see, and you're going to see well at that. Also, Armsthrift! A skill in Awakening that ranges from "helpful" to "absolutely breaks the game" depending on the unit, and one that made me wish I used mercenaries more often. But seriously, I wish that skills that prevented weapon durability from decreasing were more common. I kid you not that unarmed is my favorite skill in Three Houses simply because it doesn't waste any weapon uses (the other being that it lets a unit fight under their own strength, and punching monsters to death with their bare hands will never get old. Sucks that the brawler and grappler classes have the worst class designs in the game). It is pretty nice to not have to worry about a weapon's durability. Pfffffffftt Alex's commentary makes this scene that much funnier. Wonder what other jobs and tasks Rosalie had before meeting us. I'm just hoping she isn't keeping Arina company at her, uh, other workplace... I was wondering why Kaga was making a movie reference here, then I remembered what Sherpa's class name was. That's a reference? I had no idea. I am very curious what the background behind this is, which means the game succeeded in its hook. We'll get to see it, in due time. What Rosalie thinks would happen: Hide contents (I for the life of me could not find a gif of this, despite it being a good basis for one) What would actually happen: Hide contents Fairly certain she doesn't intend to break it over the counter, but rather over the guy's head. There's no need to hold onto it when it's already done its job, is there? The part where the plastic bottles rebounded and hit their wielders was pretty amazing, thoguh. Huh, funnily enough I was going to ask when that song played. Well, there you have an example. Will we get some background on this mysterious man that raised Faramir, or will he just give more ellipses when asked? Uhh... honestly? I cannot remember. Though this scene seems to be implying that it could perfectly be Chaos himself, so... If the game doesn't propose a better alternative, I might just make that my headcanon. Does he have this attitude because of sexism or because he holds the "War is ugly when noncombatants have to fight" mentality? I'm not sure. Maybe he's just trying to dissuade Faye following the Clifford strategy guide on how to deal with your child. Holy crap that really is Yumil without her hood. Considering how other generic portraits look, I am now legitimately curious if they planned for certain characters to have multiple portraits but changed plans at some point in development. Sarah never shows up again, so I'm pretty sure they just didn't want to bother much with her portrait. How does one flirt for 10 hours? By being far too horny for one's own good. What kind of cloak did he get that could change colors like that? Is it magic, or does he just flip it inside out? You know, I'm actually not sure. Canonically he probably just flips and becomes insane, but they needed some way to show that visually. War is hell. The poor kid... Reese is 17? And dying at 15... Yep. Poor Daoud's determined to stop another tragedy from happening. Also, if you lose any of the green units, he doesn't join, which I feel implies that he's so distraught by so much death around him that he's unable to return to the battlefield. I see what you did there. Well, I mean, it is, isn't it? Yeah, Berwick Saga takes advantage of this presentation style. Again, you're doing a good job stating what's happening. Thanks. I can only hope so. So that's where it plays. One of the places, anyway. Tico is one way way to refer to someone from Costa Rica. If it was Tuco I could make a The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly reference. Also a Breaking Bad reference. This game doesn't pull punches, even when striking several times in a row. Nope... just in that update, we saw corruption, a child's death, a man affected by a terrible curse, a girl who lost her dear horse, a suicidal man who won't fight back... Not quite what you'd expect from usually humorous characters as them (except Daoud, of course). Now that I think about it, is this first time Sherlock speaks at all and has revealed his portrait name? I used him once before, but it was my own dialogue. This is the first time he speaks in the story. I'll take your word for it. All right, please do. Hah! Oh, you dastard... Sleep is back! And this time it's not a staff! It's only "back" because I didn't get hit by any of chapter 3's sleep arrows, in all fairness. Also, a sleep enchantment on a musical instrument... makes a ton of sense. To the point that I almost wish another game utilized the concept. Well, as with everything, it's probably in Kaga's Notes, so IntSys might get to it one day. I do legitimately want at least one musical themed level in Fire Emblem, with enemies and allies singing different verses of a song. It would probably fit better as DLC or in a more lighthearted Fire Emblem game, but I'd like to see an attempt nonetheless. Well, this isn't quite what you say, but it's something. I take it Reese will have proved to be a fine enough tactician by then that he words will finally hold some weight on a political level? Not quite, but your guess is close to the truth. You'll see. I would go(?) with you but(?) its too late and I'm in "finish the update" mode right now. Maybe I'll guess later. Hah! Okay, hold on, lemme check Aethin's files... "I think you have too many soldiers in your battle party!" He just says "I'll do my best!" when successfully hired. Huh, so there is a limit to how much crap he can carry. I guess that's to give his pawn shopping (I know it's loan sharking but he sucks at it) a purpose to separate him from just selling to any of the other shops. I am profoundly disappointed, personally. Huh, didn't expect shields to be able to do damage in this game. Yeah, some rare shields deal rebounding damage when the enemy hits them. Kind of makes sense how striking a burning hot shield might damage the attacker. Though I can see how this kind of shield can be a pain in the enemies hands. Oh, believe it. It's gonna be a huge pain when they show up. 8 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said: Even more blatant when you realize Narcus was intended to be Xane... I'm not sure how Kaga expected to get away with that. Did you play it on Maddening though? My current H5 run is reminding me just how much a degree or 2 of difficulty makes... I did, and that's the reason I despise it so much. Evidentally based on the story I sited... though I think Mark Waid missed something Green Lantern wise. It had already been established there was a literally blind Green Lantern https://greenlantern.fandom.com/wiki/Rot_Lop_Fan Well, to be fair, being blinded all of sudden would destabilize anyone. Here's some Berwick Saga update: Spoiler Before we begin, I give these three some thin horses to use. Let's go. Uhh! Pretty map! I haven't mentioned it, but the game zooms into the map before the prepscreen. This is handy in FoW maps, as this zoom-in does not include the fog, so you can take clean screenshots of the maps. Anyway, as you can see, Sherlock is mandatory. This is the actual team we'll be deploying. Save for Owen and Axel, this is very much the de facto B team. Derrick is the de facto leader of the B team. Mayhap we should call it the D team? Here's the map. We have three houses we can visit. The illuminated tiles are beacons. If you stand on one, your vision range increases dramatically. This applies to the enemy as well, however. That pirate and that archer cover much of the map. I only realized this halfway through. Seriously impresses me how much I'm learning in my third run. This game is too big, I swear. But, that is why I love it. Enter Bandit, the generic bandit of the day. He's not even a bounty. That should tell you how relevant he is. Listen up, you lot! This town is ours now! Bleed the place dry! Don't leave a single grain of wheat behind when we're gone! Also meet Penelo. "Pene" means dick in spanish, which allows me to make the obvious joke with this guy's name. Also, in my first run, at first I thought he was a really ugly chick. That would've been interesting, but alas, 'twas not to be. He's just an ordinary asshole. The forest? What are you on about? The blackness hides an evil that mine eyes could never see, but twigs and branches creak as demons stir in-- Knock that off, will you? Don't go causing trouble with your little poetic fantasies again. In fact, why don't you get going? Lend a hand to the men clearing out the town for loot. I'll be glad to have you out of my hair for a change... I like how the generic bandit leader can't stand this guy. You can, of course, entrust this task to me, and I oblige. For I have, as I always will, this lyre by my side! Not that I can blame him. That looks like it could get tiresome fast... ...Penelo, does that old piece of junk even work? It looks like it's half-rotted to bits already, not to mention the rusted string... A piece of junk, you call it? Oh, I strongly disagree! Shoot! Ophelia wasn't kidding. That thing is powerful! Well, well... What say you, doubter of my prowess, after hearing that? Heh, it is impressive. I'll give you that, Penelo. Except it somehow didn't knock you out too. Or Penelo, for that matter. I can imagine old Basselin would make it so the spell didn't send the lyre's wielder into a deep snore, but what's Zaiath's excuse? In fact, I think you can handle this. I'm going to go on ahead. Oh yeah, Zaiath leaves as soon as the map starts. Penelo is the boss of the day. Did you see that one coming? Okay! For all intents and purposes, you may think of Sherlock as the lord of the day. We've got to seize the building Penelo is standing on. Derrick leads the charge! I read this somewhere else. Remember how I once showed how pressing select will bring up those tiny health bars over every unit? Well, in FoW maps, pressing select will also show which units are hidden in the fog. That's actually really awesome. Without this feature, I wouldn't have ever found out that the beacons worked for the enemy as well. Which, admittedly, makes all the sense, but don't ask me to apply basic logic. Smol brain 2 smol, and all. Anyhow, advancing with Arthur lands him squarely within an enemy's line of sight. You know, he could've died here. Thankfully, he did well. C'mon, Ruby. Do not fail me! Thank you for doing as I asked. This is it. If only I knew how to use this sword properly...! Ahhh, goodies! We must make haste. I'm not sure if the houses can be destroyed, but I don't want to find out. Derrick! Time to do some Derricking! Fuck's sake, really? Is this how you want to start the day? Or, well, the night, rather. Nice dodge, but that's not going to help you. -15 AS isn't the kind of speed you can double on. ...never mind, he just doubled an enemy for the first time in all of my BWS runs. I'm surprised I managed to catch the animation in time, because this was quite the shock. I like how he nonchalantly slaps the enemy with the axe. Quite the far cry from his imposing and powerful first swing. Baah! Annoying. Ah, but no matter. You've made me proud, Derrick. I already knew you were the sturdiest and the strongest, but I had no idea you were the swiftest as well! The Raze empire couldn't hope to compare to your might! Gah! Asinine! ...oh, for goodness's sake... and there's my first blunder. Left Czene on a cliff. Wonderful. Sometimes I have to wonder if there's even if a brain in my skull at all. Also, I think her spine is broken. Her feet are facing this way, but her chest is facing that way. Guess this is as good a time as any for some MAGIC GIFS! I love it, seriously. It's so pretty. Oh, wow, quite the smooth loop, too. Anyway, she was healed to full, but now Derrick faces further opposition. AH!! Desperation!? A random pirate had Desperation! This game can be so nasty sometimes. Thankfully, he made the mistake of using this against Derrick. Ahahahahahahah! Yes, Derrick! At 20%, I think this is the least likely WpSkill growth we've seen procced so far. Derrick truly is a master. As for you, I think we might as well try to feed you to Czene. Go, Axel! Jeigan! D'oh... D'ah! Annoying pests... What is happening?! ...Welp! Half the army decided they weren't feeling like hitting anything, so we've in a bit of a terrible spot now. At least this guy was finally jeiganed properly, though... There is risk here. She may miss, and then he may cripple her, and then she could die. I have no idea why I tried this. Please do not die. Please. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa okay good she's safe. Most worthless injury ever. Gee, sure, I'll try to take 0.5 HP from him to see if we can cripple him. Thanks for nothing. Okay, Czene. Attempt noº 2. Garbage! Thank you. Damned thieves... Derrick's defense won't deter them. Aaaand there goes the Desperate idiot again. Look at that, even with that skill he only has a 50% chance to hit. Of course. Thankfully we can retaliate. That guy's only rushing to his death with that skill of his. Oh, all right! Easy experience for Czene. The guy's only carrying a beaten up bandit axe, which is bad, but we could potentially use it for an atelier weapon. With the pirates out of commission, it's time to deal with the thief. Ruby won't be the one to do it. All right, first things first, Owen heals Arthur. Ehh... worth a shot. Ha! Perfect! Thank you, Axel, for being awesome. The lower archer woke up. Yep, he had been sleeping all this time, due to Penelo's awful music. All righty. Derrick with lead the charge this next turn. But first, let's capture this dude. C'mon, gimme something good! Your strength growth is 10%, but perhaps you could get lucky? Figures... Derrick is healed to full, and Owen gains some more light points in the process. Onwards, Derrick! Fearlessly into the darkness! He reveals a few things, like for example... This guy, who's just begging for Arthur or Ruby to try zooming past him. Spoiler alert, they won't. Or this guy, who could be extremely dangerous with that thunder orb of his. What even is an old priest doing with a pirate gang? Anyways-- Goddamnit! Stop with the magical weapons already! You doing this on purpose? Was this map designed to counter Derrick in particular? He's already the worst unit in the game! Let him be a meme in peace! Axel, check out this humble abode. Please, take it, and use it to drive away those rotten men! Nice! That isn't bad. It's a bit chipped (green durability), but it works. All right, so tell ya what. Arthur would need to enter the priest's thunder range to whack the archer. However... If he uses Hurry while dismounted, he can take cover in the house and his horse won't be in danger of instant death. Cool! Only problem would be if he got through his shield, but I'm sure he won't-- Yeah, see? And there we go. He tried attacking him again, but it's too late, and since he used up his turn, he couldn't set up another overwatch. Guy's no doubt panicking. Here's a random screenshot of this guy's Charisma range. Wow, that even covers the boss. Better make sure he stops breathing before we go after Penelo. Ruby will attempt to injure with the harpoon. Those arrows could come in handy. No dice. Ah, wonderful! Absolutely magnificent, yes. Finally, it happened. Urggggghhh... Well, there's what things are looking like. Ruby needs to either go or dismount before that guy has a chance to kill her steed. Oh hey Vectar. This is all that I have left... We'll get to you in a moment. For now, let's try this one more time. Baaah... c'mon! Ahah! You've made your last mistake! Derrick, destroy him! Bah, that is fine. We'll get him next time, Derr. Hah! Derrick the dodgetank, they called him. He doesn't even move to dodge, how does that work... ...ohhhhh, doggone it! Bastard priest healed the archer... drat! Hoo, boy... Berwick Saga, more like Missing Saga. Well, you get outta there before your horse bites the dust. I need to do some damage to this guy fast, so let's blast him. Or ourselves. That's also fine by me. Cool, thanks, Owen. I haven't the faintest idea what this is. Ah, it's Derrick taking no damage. Again. Well, whatever. Time for some more missing. Can I hope for another random doubling? Of course not. Well then, Sherlock to the rescue. Is it too much to ask that you nail both shots? Hey, that's perfect! Thanks, Sherlock. Knew I could count on ya, for a change. And now... c'mon, a good level. Speed. Magnificent. Thank you for getting this completely useless level, Sherlock. Truly appreciate it. Okay, now... Derrick's gotta leave the thunder mage's range. Thunder always has a chance to crit, and where there's crit, there's death. Not risking it. Dang it! That's a hit. You can tell because Axel's sprite is bright. Sigh... okay, that's it. Enough fooling around, you're dying now. I know it's no good to harm a man of the cloth, but I mean, he's in a pirate gang. Heeey, perhaps we can kill him right now! Awesome! I see the power of boners love is making Sherlock behave more competently than usual. Yep, definitely. This is the game's way of granting you one chance to screw up without dying horribly. Oh! Sherlock has uncovered a guy hiding in the forest! Cool, very cool. I don't remember this guy from my past runs, actually. Dire thunder is a great tome, and the Mjöllnir is a powerful thunder axe. Alas... This guy could be tricky to deal with, if he's allowed the chance to cut someone. So let's try dealing with him the cheesy way. Come, and give Daddy Thunderous a hug! Damnit, Owen... You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if your life depended on it! Finally tired of playing with the archer, Arthur leaves. It's Axel's turn to play! Yeheaaaah! Axel! More strength for the pile, and accuracy. Why do all the low-growth guys get all the skill points? Ack! Oh, no... there we go... now I have to protect him... Never mind, poor thief was too unlucky for that to work. Oki-dokie, let's work on this guy. Ha! A futile attempt to save yourself! What do you even have... Ah, of course, you randomly have Counter and the rapier axe. Berwick Saga, folks! Where the generics with special traits are given names and portraits to set them apart... and then the regular generics are made special too, because fuck it! At any rate, things seem pretty tranquil right now. Perhaps we could start on the boss. Well, first we gotta pay these kind folks a visit. Is this the end for our town...? Don't be so melodramatic. We'll be right there! Momentarily. Sniper arrow time. Hit and run! Hmmm... no, I won't risk getting slept. Instead, we whack this guy. Ohhhh, I cannot believe it... fucker didn't just heal, he hid, so now I have to waste Arturo's turn! There we go. Derrick uses Mercy to bring this guy to 1 HP. With this, Czene gets another kill. Axel pays Vectar a visit. In that case, please take this with you! It's a bit worn, but it should still be somewhat useful. Meh... Worn is right. This is pretty garbage, I won't lie... Worth a shot. It's a one-shot, and a safe one, so... yeah. Let's go. Hah! I cannot believe it! Axel got lucky again! Wow! That's three times in one chapter! Axel Unlikely Hits, they called him. Heh! Material got! You're too late to save him. Czene uses Watchful to reveal Penelo from a safe distance. Thank goodness for her, otherwise we'd need to get dangerously close just to see him. Failed poet is the best class name ever. Penelo has Vantage, which is garbage, because he has 17 AS and thus outruns all my army. He also has throwing knives, which are a 1-range weapon with 3 crit. The lullaby is the real problem: it has 2 range and instantly, inevitably sends the attacker into a deep slumber. It's impossible to fight him, as he'll just put you to sleep immediately. ...almost impossible. There is a way. It matters not, you knave, for none resist this melody! (I don't want to break that lyre... But let's see if I can't knock it out of his hands!) It may seem like this is a pretty hopeless shot, but... It is scripted that Sherlock will always nail his first shot on Penelo. Just where do you suppose that you were aiming at, you fool? And now, you sleep, for I can-- Hold on... T-The string... You broke the red string...! Ha! He changed his tune fast. What's wrong? No fancy rhymes this time around? How dare you destroy my glorious return to musical fame! What do you mean, "glorious return to musical fame"? You're using an enchanted lyre to aid brigands in destroying a town full of innocents! There's nothing musical about that! You're a fuckin' bandit, and you'll die a fuckin' bandit! Well, there goes the lyre. He's still a 17 AS monster, but now he's defenseless against 2-range attacks. Once we kill this guy, Penelo will be mostly alone. Haaaah! I forgot about his Counter! This just isn't this guy's day. He got slept by Penelo for no reason, and now he's being murdered also for no reason. But hey. He's profitable. His job done, Axel has the time to visit the final house. Please, help us! I will give you this medicine as payment for your services. By far the best of these items. This heals 40 HP, which... admittedly, is far too much 9 times out of 10. But still. Free heal. Good job, Arturo. Always the accurate man. Reliable. Now, let's see if we can kill Penelo. He's extremely dodgy, but sniper arrows should do the trick. They didn't. Magnanimous. That's two sniper arrows down the drain. Thanks, Sherlock. This is the dumbest potshot I've ever taken. Yeah, thought so. By the way, you know how magic is beautiful in this game? I probably need to remind you, because my screenshots are doing it no justice at all. Ruby succeeded this time around. Good on her. Arthur harms-- OOOOOOOORRRRGHHH forgot the Counter again. How can one person be this idiotic?! Well, at least it allowed Arthur to double. Fun fact: he holds his sword to his face for a split second before striking when he doubles. All these maps and so far I've been unable to react in time to catch that. Let's see if we can manage before the end of the game. Blargh... I cannot risk that. The Counter could screw me over. So let's just stay put, and have Derrick score a kill. Well. Guess he'll get those two experience points another time. Okay, so it's turn 10! Derrick needs to get out of there before Penelo has a chance to crit him to death. Like so. Dammit! Hmmmmmmmmm.... I should not have taken this risk. I definitely should not have taken this risk. He could've been crippled or something... Thankfully I was lucky, and he did not dodge with a 5% chance of doing so. Color me surprised. Bastard got the last laugh... Okay! Time to try this once more. You probably thought this was a joke, but nope. This is how I'm gonna deal with Penelo. In retrospect, it would've been a wise idea to bring Sylvis along to use Aim on him. But, frankly, it's already lucky enough that I decided to bring Czene to feed her experience. Only later I realized that, without her or Larentia, I would've needed to park someone next to him to see him. At least this guy's gone now. This has... accomplished absolutely nothing. Okay, it has accomplished something. Sherlock will be helping Owen with the basic bronze arrows. No point in wasting even more sniper arrows. His hitrate is 18%. Good luck. Owen misses a couple more times while I miss all the thunder frames. The rest of the army heads back to beat up that one lonely guy on the other side of the map. He has a coin, you see. Ho-- oh, wow. Sherlock actually hit him. I was not expecting that. While that happens, Derrick moves forward. If you're wondering why I keep showing all of these misses instead of skipping them, it's because... They help to emphasize how unbelievable Sherlock's performance is being. I mean, I'd much rather Owen hit him, since he deals far more damage, but I'll take this for what it's worth. Owen is bad at hitting things, sadly. All right, time to begin working on this guy! He has a coin, but also Pulverize. We need to be extremely careful that he doesn't get the chance to hit anyone on his turn. Oh, fuck off. Thankfully he's already waited, because Arthur cannot Canto away now. At least he got something out of that. Dangit! Back to this, eh... This is how things stand-- oh, what?! Okay, okay, wait. First off, save Arthur. And now... Where the hell did Penelo go!? Did he escape? No way...! Did I take too long!? Have I failed to recover Ophelia's lyre? No, wait, right. I'm just dumb. I need Czene to stay there so she can continue revealing him. Psch... damned Hide... Oh God, seriously! Didn't I catch a single good frame of thunder today?! Between Arthur and Ruby, they finish off the guy, never getting inside his Pulverize range. All right, fine. Jesus, another hit?! On a 18% chance? Sherlock, what's up with you today? Maybe we could get lucky and kill him right now? Nnnnnnnnnnope. Ah! Enemies! Oh, crap... they've got Supporter! That means 4 crit! Aahhh... C'mon! Die, you dick! I want to get out of here! Derrick finally put his defense to good use and counterattacked for some pretty good damage. Another WpSkill level for Derrick? Sure, thanks! Fooo... no, that could be a death right there. In retrospect, it would've been better to do this the other way around and get Derrick his level, but I was panicking. Without support, this guy's screwed. There we go. That's a start. Oh, no... you son of a-- Well, might as well show off the beacon's effect, while we're here. There you go, see? That's quite the huge vision range. Sadly, these beacons wouldn't work against Penelo, since he has the plain Hide skill. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!! No! No! Another Supporter, and with a better axe to boot! That guy could one-shot anyone in my party...! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Oh, thank goodness... oh, thank God... oh, thank fuck... blistering barnacles, too close, too close...! Get out, get out, get out! That's it, you have to die now. Sniper arrows, go! Do not fail me again, Sherlock...! Haha, I am quite impressed! You've been nailing some shots that I was not expecting from you today. Keep this up, Sherlock, and you may be a worthwhile unit yet! A poet till the end. A failed one. That doesn't even rhyme... I know you have bigger things to worry about, but... We can seize starting next turn. Ohhh, and the lucky bastards managed to uncover Axel... that's it, I'm leaving next turn. I want nothing to do with this. Let's go. Couldn't care less for that one coin. Let's give the city one more sweep to make sure the pirates are gone, then we can head back. In the meantime, there's something that I need to retrieve... It was around here somewhere... I can't imagine Ophelia's going to be happy to see this... Well, at any rate, we got it. Next time, we give this back to Ophelia and meet this so-called "hero of the children". Till then, farewell, for if you don't farewell, you farebad, and that's not faregood. Faresee ya! Death count: Christine Esteban* Unavailable Capture count: 0 Reset count: 1 (Ward: 1) Current perfect streak: 1 map Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 25 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well... perhaps. We'll just have to wait and see. I do hope I can finish chapter 10 before you get there...At this point my strategy is to wait and see how far our boys in the back can get. 26 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahhh, yes... You'll know what's up with him when either you get to the ending, or you promote Daoud. I think. I never promoted him. Well, I didn't capture him, other than on the "I'm outta here before Minas murders me" version which I de-canonized(HECKING RNG CAPTURE! I GOT HIM TO 1 HP FOUR TIMES! FOOOUUUURR TIMES AND NOT ONE CRIPPLE AND HE PROCEEDS TO CRIPPLE IZERNA TO 6 HP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) so I suppose I may not. And Daoud is most certainly not going to promote. I've only deployed him once and that was specifically to take out Theodore. 28 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still not something anyone wants to risk. She was my best bet to beat them once Marcel broke all of his shields. 31 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why Sherpa, though? He is good. It'd be like losing Marcus in 13x. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Pfffft... "Obama's horse"... Oh, man... If he had built a wall like Gardy had suggested it wouldn't have happened... 33 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, so that's interesting... ...Wait, what? How'd that work? Don't you have to rush to save the green units? The guy broke his bow three times! It was hilarious. 35 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Dark magic is a bad thing in FE7. In FE6 Raigh uses it and he's only a bit of a douchebag, Sophia uses it and she's only a bit of a weakling, Niime uses it and she's only a bit of a terrible grandmother, all those bosses use it and they're only greedy - I mean, heck, Peres was just a loyal guy following orders. No mention to the whole "SANITY GET LOST TO DARKNESS" shenanigan that Canas talks about anywhere in the whole game. Continual canon at its finest: FE7 and FE6. 35 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Please do. It has Eugen in it! WHY DO SASHA AND NARRON SUCK SO MUCH?! 37 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Is there even a CDI emulator out there? Yessir! I'm planning to play it soon. 38 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: n my first run I got it to last her the entire game. Just keep her clear of broadhead arrows and poleaxes, and you'll be fine. Yaaaaaaayy! I really wish that Czene got robust instead so I don't have to pay to get her back every time. 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahahahahahahahahahahah... this is amazing Why thank you, thank you. I'm expecting a call from Harvard to become the first grade 9 student to attend their art academy. 41 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: The TRS/FE7 one speaks to me on an emotional level. I felt like it would. 41 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Anyhow, advancing with Arthur lands him squarely within an enemy's line of sight. Eyy, that was where Adel got crippled! 43 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: ! ...oh, for goodness's sake... and there's my first blunder. Left Czene on a cliff. Wonderful. Eyy, that's where Czene got crippled! 44 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: . Or this guy, who could be extremely dangerous with that thunder orb of his. What even is an old priest doing with a pirate gang? Eyy, the guy who killed Elbert! Twice! 45 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: w... Derrick's gotta leave the thunder mage's range. Thunder always has a chance to crit, and where there's crit, there's death. Not risking it. Eyy, Axel is standing where Leon got crippled! 45 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Haha, I am quite impressed! You've been nailing some shots that I was not expecting from you today. Keep this up, Sherlock, and you may be a worthwhile unit yet! 0/10 Oswin is better at poetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Evil? What a mean thing to be accused of by a pirate. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sometimes I have to wonder if there's even if a brain in my skull at all. Also, I think her spine is broken. Her feet are facing this way, but her chest is facing that way. It's a reverse boobs-and-butt pose. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Of course you can already tell she triggered Adept by the afterimages on the first attack. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, no... there we go... now I have to protect him... Bringing Saphira might have been better since she plays on Casual mode... I think. I suppose I never actually finished a map after she died to see how the aftermath is handled. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ohhhh, I cannot believe it... fucker didn't just heal, he hid, so now I have to waste Arturo's turn! Sleep Knife guy is a douche. I just did the map and he jumped out of the forest to attack me from behind. Mind you, I've actually seen him entering the forest to try to sneak up behind me. But since I couldn't check his inventory, I left Faye behind to engage him, just for him to immediately put her to sleep. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Derrick uses Mercy to bring this guy to 1 HP. I appreciate that Derrick has Mercy just to show that under his muffled demeanor is a really nice guy. Because it's not like he is actually good at using it effectively. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Penelo has Vantage, which is garbage, because he has 17 AS and thus outruns all my army. He also has throwing knives, which are a 1-range weapon with 3 crit. The lullaby is the real problem: it has 2 range and instantly, inevitably sends the attacker into a deep slumber. It's impossible to fight him, as he'll just put you to sleep immediately. You sure it only has 2 range? Because if it does, then Sylvis could Deadshot him. In any case, it's pretty annoying that you have to attack him with Sherlock of all people to disable the Lyre. It's not exactly the most intuitive thing, given how he is a terrible match for him otherwise. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: (I don't want to break that lyre... But let's see if I can't knock it out of his hands!) Sherlock is going for a trick shot. Everyone run for cover! 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Just like it's counterpart in Radiant Dawn, this Lyre is very fragile. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: You probably thought this was a joke, but nope. This is how I'm gonna deal with Penelo. I wonder what the odds are that at one point you will pass turn 20 without thinking about Owen, and he will suicide against one of your units. Veria knows that happened to me more then once. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, so it's turn 10! Derrick needs to get out of there before Penelo has a chance to crit him to death. Derrick dying would be a bit of a problem. Better not create a time paradox. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, might as well show off the beacon's effect, while we're here. There you go, see? That's quite the huge vision range. Sadly, these beacons wouldn't work against Penelo, since he has the plain Hide skill. Worth noting that Esteban's still gets his +1 vision range if he's sitting on a beacon. Edited May 15, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 16 hours ago, Golb89 said: Nope: signing in/out makes absolutely no difference. Send me a PM if it starts to get obnoxious (or if it gets to the point where you get warning points). --- "It's too big, and that's why I like it". . .you know exactly what kind of response I'm going to give that. So let my immature humor ring through your ears! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Pfft...Oh, wow. I beat chapter 10 by literally not doing anything at all; nobody moved from their starting position and I got it on my first try. I thought I would die laughing; several weeks trying to beat it only to have the green units do it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 (edited) 54 minutes ago, Benice said: Pfft...Oh, wow. I beat chapter 10 by literally not doing anything at all; nobody moved from their starting position and I got it on my first try. I thought I would die laughing; several weeks trying to beat it only to have the green units do it for me. That's great to hear. I figured there was a small chance that approach could work. The biggest obstacles are the ballista. And if the big Guardian positions himself in that small gap inside the fortress, there is little the greenies can do to punch through without help. But the ballista can miss and the Guardian might stay out of the way. Edited May 15, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Rope? Her name is Rope? This is the epitome of FE6's habit of giving bosses personalities based on their weapons! This girl is literally just her tool of choice, down to her name! That's actually a codename though. (Also, i'd like to mention she's a bunny. Named Rope. With a rope) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, if she's anything like Czene, then she sure needs a crapton of power. That girl hits like a wet noodle. Oh, that shouldn't be a problem: (That comic isn't kidding: that's quite literally what her skill does) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Uhhhh... okay, but why is that guy's head an S? S stands for "Shikikan" (i.e. "Commander") If you are familiar with "The Idolm@ster", this is how they portrayed the Producer in the "Puchimas" comedic spin-off: 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...okay, now we're going a bit too far. What does this have to do with anything? That's furniture. And a pretty good piece too. (Though, admittedly, that one can't be bought) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You can't fish kitties, though... what even is the context? Spoiler It's the pattern of her panties. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Our_Days_at_the_Breakwater 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Please forgive me, but I struggle to comprehend what you were trying to convey here. Other than the fact that Girls' Frontline looked semi-interesting to me until it turned out to be a rhythm game. Yeah, sorry. That ain't up my alley. Isn't that how you deal with "musical pirates" in Berwick? Also, that's just a minigame implemented in the DJ Max collab (i mean, that's explicitely mentioned in the video's title), the actual gameplay is more like this: 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You really need to be patient, man. Wait a bit in case you think of something else. I don't mind it that much, personally, but double posting can get you in trouble. No double posting in a forum that randomly forbids you to edit your posts: definitely nothing wrong with that! 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I mean, heck, being told stuff like this is probably why he left the community and hates to even mention TLP nowadays. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Nope, that one's been completely dead and buried for many years. How does one come to think that this is alive but miss Road to Ruin? Because i effectively got the two of them confused: RtR is the one with Ava and Torie, not DoG. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Sorry. Do not get it. Again. Then i guess you don't mind losing a unit (or rather, two). And failing a sidequest in the process. Again. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Also meet Penelo. "Pene" means dick in spanish, which allows me to make the obvious joke with this guy's name. Also, in my first run, at first I thought he was a really ugly chick. That would've been interesting, but alas, 'twas not to be. He's just an ordinary asshole. In italian too, and "Pennello" means "brush". But yeah, i'm pretty sure Penelo is supposed to be a female-only name: if anything because it was Ulysses' wife's name (and a character in FFXII) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The blackness hides an evil that mine eyes could never see, but twigs and branches creak as demons stir in-- I think this guy is (or rather, was) reading this other LP. Maybe. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Derrick the dodgetank, they called him. He doesn't even move to dodge, how does that work... He was probably developed by Paradeus. (Yes, they make dodgetanks) (Literal tanks, i mean, that can dodge) (Don't ask me how) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Please, help us! I will give you this medicine as payment for your services. By far the best of these items. This heals 40 HP, which... admittedly, is far too much 9 times out of 10. But still. Free heal. You can always count on Heidi's grampa! 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I can't imagine Ophelia's going to be happy to see this... Well, you can always buy her another instrument... ... maybe. Also, Halfman's girlfriend: And some "retroactive" stuff too: On 5/9/2020 at 10:41 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It's always the eyes. Why can't it be her perfectly reasonable logic and the fact that she's not shanking you? On 5/12/2020 at 8:09 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ha! Maybe not to this game, but this is exactly how I play Medic in TF2. I'm no combat medic, I spend most of my time healing, but when someone comes after me, I don't flee for dear life while missing all my crossbow shots like all the meta medics. I take out my blutsauger and teach them not to underestimate the healer! Hahahahah... (The previous one was supposed to be a placeholder until i got a screenshoot of this, but eh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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