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On 3/25/2020 at 2:13 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Uedfz3v4 o...something's terribly wrong here, and I hope it's just that Valery is bad at his job...

I mean...

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flash forward to Chapter 5's citizen requests

 

On 3/25/2020 at 2:13 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Yeah, I'm good, thanks.

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Just out of curiosity, have you ever done Volo's alternate recruitment in your previous playthroughs?

On 3/26/2020 at 9:49 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

9qk5ifz8 oNotice how his sprite is now glowing red? That means he's provoked. Some enemies can actually be provoked by attacking them. The popup won't appear in those cases. It's really random, and of course, it cannot be done from a distance, like Elbert's witty remarks.

This is caused by a hidden skill called Hateful! I think the only other hidden skills are Robust+ (same effect as Robust, but invisible) and Vulnerable (makes it easier to be crippled).

The unused skills in the game are:

  • Safe Zone: +15 Hit and Avoid to allies within 3 hexes
  • Leader: +5 Avoid to allies within 3 hexes
  • Acrobat: all traversable terrain costs 1 movement
  • Debility: all parameters are halved from their usual values (this might actually be used in Ch 12, now that I think about it...)
On 3/26/2020 at 9:49 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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Oh man, 11 might... this might be more of a match for Axel.

Unlike the Military Fork, which is kinda meh, there's one unused pitchfork that's actually crazy broken: Might=8+1H, Hit=100, Weight=6, Rank=1, Durability=D, x2 strikes, Crit=100. It's the only unused pitchfork in the game, and it goes by the lovely name of SPEAR_UNUSED.

20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

9qk5ifz8 oIt's the eyes. The eyes are the key! See, your eyes are all wrinkly and shriveled. Nothing like Reese's gems.

It's at this point that I'd like to bring up Reese's beta portrait to everyone:

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He looks like such a doofus!

20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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I'd like to point out here that these text boxes are programmed in the most inconvenient way possible. They're all stitched together from different text files like this in Japanese:

  1. [stat name]
  2. by ##
  3. rose/fell

...where the difference between rising and falling is only reflected in position #3. This is all fine and dandy for Japanese, where the verb comes at the end of the sentence, but English does not do that. However, since I couldn't swap #2 and #3, I had to do this instead.

  1. [stat name] became
  2. ##
  3. greater/less

...which absolutely grates on me every time I read it. I hate it so much. This is one time that I really wish they had made a different message for every situation.

20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Zlonc8lu oI don't know... Archbishop Lebough said he would investigate the matter himself, but...

Cy4m1yfp oWhere was this water drawn from?

Lgjkwhcy o..."but" what, Luciana? Ah, I guess he just didn't have the time. He is the Archbishop of the church, I suppose.

This line made even less sense in the Japanese version. She says "Lebough-sama said he would try to look into it alongside the Church, but..." and trails off... Seemingly implying that a whole group of priests is somewhere twiddling their thumbs, desperately trying to remember what the word "poison" means and how it could possibly get into someone's drinking water that was drawn from a river.

But you're certainly right that the implication seems to be that he's busy. On Kaga's blog, he mentions that the other three Archbishops were killed because they were traveling alongside Mordias's army when he was ambushed, so Lebough could very well be swamped with work.

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On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Bwahahahahahahahah... I only wish I knew anything about the context of this line. Other than the fact that it's on a series I've long since called "one of my favourites", of course. You know, for supposedly being "a fan", I really aren't much of a Fire Emblem fan, am I?

Probably a joke about how Ryoma won't attack you until 25 turns have passed (20 on Lunatic) on the final level you face him in Conquest. While not as bad as some other examples in the series, I would call it one of the few "bullcrap" levels in Conquest, as the only unit that can cause a game over is parked right next to the guy infamous for being able to solo Birthright (which on a side note a Ryoma-only challenge run is something I will absolutely do in the event I ever get Birthright). Sure, you can oneshot the guy if Corrin turned out godlike, but if they turned out average or were RNG-screwed or you decided to make them a class that uses axes in a game where the weapon triangle is far more important, then you'd better hope the rest of your army is strong enough to defeat the other two bosses on the map and reach Ryoma in time. Oh, and on Lunatic, this is the level that introduces Inevitable End, which causes stat debuffs to stack, which means that even the toughest of units can be reduced to having the durability of a piece of paper if they get hit enough.

Again, it's not as bad as some other levels in the series. A weak Corrin can be compensated by having a strong army and vice versa, the time limit gives you enough time to reach Ryoma, and there's very little outside the players control that can screw over the map. I just don't like that they put the game-over unit right next to a beast of a unit, and how getting RNG-screwed can make this map harder than it needs to be.

...Not sure why I went on that rant, especially since there were maps in Conquest I disliked more. I suppose it's because the ones I hated had good ideas and execution, they just weren't fun to play through and/or could have been even better (I actually wouldn't mind seeing the wind mechanic appear in a different Fire Emblem game, and beastbane+pass would have been a nice twist on the illusion gimmick if it had appeared in an earlier level), whereas the difficulty of Ryoma's chapter can be reliant on whether Corrin got RNG blessed or screwed.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

A lot of this could be applied to TLP, actually... huh. Perhaps I would enjoy Awakening more than I'd think.

Again, Awakening is a fun game with an impressive amount of freedom, just don't go in expecting everything was well-designed. There are a lot of broken things in the game, but you can ignore or exploit said broken mechanics, if you catch my drift.

Also, while I personally think the games cast is more well rounded than people give it credit for, do know that it pulls the "looks like a one-dimensional trope at first but is later shown to be three dimension" trick. While this makes it more satisfying to unlock supports, it also means you're going to have to deal with a questionable first impression for a while.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Play it! It was made by Cowga! That means it's amazing!

...seriously though, I would rank it below Berwick, but above TearRing.

I might check it out someday, then. Maybe when I'm not juggling 12 games at once.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Probably, yeah. Once again, I fail at LPing. Damnit...!

That wasn't a criticism of your LPing skills, and more of an observation that it is probably a mechanic that is easier to grasp by playing the game yourself than by watching someone else.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

The other Dean is also kinda slightly edgy, in a way. And so is Berwick's! What's with the name Dean?

In Greek, it means "monk or dignitary in charge of ten others".

In Anglo-Saxon English, it means "Valley".

In Hebrew, it means "Law" or "Justice".

The dictionary definition is "the head of a college or university facility or department".

...Yeah I don't know how the name became associated with edgy characters in Fire Emblem games.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Hahahah... well, I don't recall there being anything quite like the Slaver, but we'll see some dark stuff down the line, so prepare yourself.

Thanks for the warning. I'm fine with something being dark as long as it doesn't go overboard.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

I was waiting for somebody to notice 'em. What's your favorite so far?

Don't know, since they're all great. Maybe later I'll come to a decision on my favorite.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Ah, yes. As usual.

...why is the background Princess Bride, though?

If I remember correctly, it was one of the examples the guy gave that wasn't niche in some way. Or it was the easiest to screenshot, one of the two.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

This. Exactly this.

Doesn't help that despite MyCastles flaws (there were some buildings that were largely useless or limited mechanically, and while I can buy the explanation storywise, you can tell that it was mostly a gameplay excuse than anything else), it didn't overstay its welcome, it was a lot more clear when you did everything you could, and there was a strategic element to which buildings you added/upgraded since for they most part you could only do so once per chapter (such as deciding between adding more weapons in the shop or making the mess halls food bonuses stronger and so on).

The Monastery addressed my complaints about the story implementation and how some facilities were useless, and then took a step back everywhere else.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

I've looked it up. Apparently it works badly on modern systems, but other than that, it seems to have a good fame.

It's a pretty good adventure game that successfully executes stealth and racing mechanics, and Jade actually knows most of the NPCs and they know her, giving the world more natural exposition than "press A and the NPC will repeat the exact same response every time". It's not flawless, seeing as any gamer will know how to defeat the bosses the moment they appear (although the final boss pulls some neat tricks, and the second-to-last one is a lost Star Fox boss) and it's on the short side, but overall it's a well-made game that I can't think of a reason for why it didn't sell well or why it's not discussed more.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Hey, that's kinda neat! Hah.

Again, it only affected a small part of the game and I don't mind that the next few games didn't have it (especially when Fates had the same mechanics and then some) but it was cute and something to look forward to when recruiting another character.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

No, it's... it's from map 1...

Oh... well then...

On the bright side, I am now encouraged to pay even more attention to character and place names.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Hoo, boy... You sweet summer child, you have no idea... this game might be even more confusing than TRS...

*Internal Screaming*

On the bright side, I don't have plan to attend any college classes in the near future, so with hope I won't be (as) distracted by real life as much as last time.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

...as opposed to the fact that they're, y'know, gravesites?

Coulda phrased that better on my part.

I meant that the game got me thinking more about how each one of those gravestones was a person that had parents, maybe some siblings or children, and lived a long or short life. I've thought of those things before, but it got me to think about those kind of things more deeply I suppose it what I was trying to aim at.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

...Okay, maybe that was excessive. In any case, we're gonna take the credit and claim that it was us that did everything. Because we're the heroes!

I mean, she just took out the boss. Everyone else fell by your armies hands.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Pobpolog oHa ha ha!

Txzubig9 o Already he seems more like a jolly grandpa than anything else.

So much so you named his portrait "grandpa".

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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The throne room is, visually, one of my favourite locations in the game. Look at that place. Majestic, as it should be.

I remember seeing this place before. It is rather majestic yes.

Also, that's a large curtain in the background.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Txzubig9 oYes! Volcens! I love you, man! Aren't you just the greatest king ever! Now that is totally the proper response to the situation! Volcens!

Uedfz3v4 oGod fucking damnit fuck, shit, Volcens! Aaaaaaaaaaargghh you piss me off so much, you dumbaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! VOLCENS!

If you bet on multiple horses and one of them wins, can you say "called it!"?

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy oSo Reese just explained how his father is doing the absolute best he can for his sovereign. Maybe he did lose his cool a bit, so I guess we can fault him for that. Now, what is Volcens's reaction?

Rvbhl4qb o

How has this guy not been assassinated yet? Did he earn a medal in Fidel Castro's "surviving assassination attempts" Olympics? Or is it just because the enemy doesn't have a good navy?

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Zig1fg6v oAre you feeling all right, Brother? Have you become hard of hearing, or was his formal manner of speech simply too difficult for you?

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(That's obviously my edit, if you couldn't tell due to my perfect editing skills. Yeah...)

Txzubig9 o...I think we found Eugen's bloodline, folks.

She may not appear as often as Eugen, but she's already on her way to filling in his shoes. I would legit not be surprised if they were related somehow.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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9qk5ifz8 oAh, don't worry, Padolf. It's not so surprising. Time and time again, you will prove that you're not really familiar with much of anything.

One day that will be the end of Padolf, won't it?

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy o ...by the way, what the hell?! I thought you wanted to speak with Reese! You made him come all the way here, kneel and spit out that whole spiel, all for you to run off like a spoiled child a minute later?! Is this the man who is in charge of the League? Jesus!

He's not right in the head, is he?

Why is it that no matter the government, someone crazy can always end up in charge? Well, except in anarchy, except he could still participate in his own way.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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Lgjkwhcy oAllowing this boy-- but it was your king who created the scene! Reese hasn't opened his mouth in ages!

If is evil looking collar didn't spell out that he was a bad guy, blaming the hero for someone else's actions is.

Wonder what benefit he gets from Volcens being in charge.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Jhvoux35 o My dear Princess, I'm afraid I have no idea what you are talking about.

Lgjkwhcy oWait, did he just... resist her attack? And he responded calmly, without losing control of the situation entirely like the other two?

Uedfz3v4 o...this one's gonna be the real danger, isn't he...

Self-Control! It adds a lot to a villain.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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That was the most ridiculous scene in the game so far. It's obviously intentional, but... Like, seriously, let's stop for a moment to think about what's happened. Volcyboy summoned Reese here, insulted him and his father for no reason at all, got rekt by Sienna, and like two minutes into the audience, he flees and Reese is dismissed. What a huge waste of everybody's time...

A ridiculous scene that sets up that the people in charge are either crazy, incompetent, have their own agendas, or are actually heroic but have to deal with this crap.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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I'll get used to it, but these dialogue scenes updating one at a time while both are on screen has led me to read both of them continuously. Point being I was confused for a short while as to why Reese would go from "Not at all!" to "come again?" before rereading.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

9qk5ifz8 oIncidentally, I like how Volcens apparently doesn't have an army and is instead keeping a bunch of mercs on his payroll.

Not too unusual in real life, even if it tends to backfire at some point.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy o In other words, you're using your station and leverage to handpick what platoon your daughter gets assigned to, while some other poor girl gets to serve alongside "those dreadful mercenaries". I wouldn't have expected this sort of corruption from one of the heads of the church.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy oThen again, this being Volcens, it's more likely that she's tried everything she could do by-the-book, and because Volcens is a complete moron, the only thing she's got left to do is save her own daughter, if nobody else.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

9qk5ifz8 oThere we go, that's what I like to see! We're now complicit in a clear case of corruption, but again, this is Volcens we're talking about - working around him in dubiously legal ways is probably the only way to get anything done.

I'm surprised that you didn't comment on Three Houses regarding corruption in the church. Still, this is a pretty intriguing case of grey morality, and probably one of many throughout this game.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

9qk5ifz8 oIndeed, this is one of the game's biggest running themes. It's kinda like Thracia, in that our own conflict will be much smaller in scale, and the focus will be on the common people and their troubles. We'll have some big climatic battles down the line, and we'll be made aware of the progress of the war throughout the continent, but most sidequests are all about fighting for the sake of the common folk, and even in the main missions we'll never be leading the frontlines. This is something that Reese only just realized in the last sidequest.

I remember you mentioning that Berwick Saga focuses on how peoples lives are affected by war. Interesting choice not to have the game focus on the "important" battles like many other games do.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

3cxl4xfi oAh, Princess Sienna... She's said to have been intelligent and corageous even in her youth.

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And if she channels Eugen's wit and snark and weaponizes it, this war would be over before the first chapter ends.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

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This got a huge laugh out of me.

All that's missing is King Arthur.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Krsflixo oOh, sorry. I shouldn't pry like that. I'm Ruby, by the way. I'm a knight, but I don't have a lord to serve under, so I travel the land in search of glory instead!

So they're more or less ronin. Or black knights if they painted their armor black.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Zlonc8lu oMy name is Luciana. I'm a sister at the abbey nearby.

I keep misreading Luciana as Lucina, and it doesn't help that both of them have longer hair that's blue.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

9qk5ifz8 oSo far, the church's higher-ups consist of a woman who isn't afraid to meet with a lowly lord to beg him to take her daughter in, and an archbishop who has the time to spare to visit the kids of a tiny abbey like this. Not your typical religious leaders, that's for sure.

I take it that the church and religion of this game will be expanded upon later? These are already pretty unique setups regarding the topic matter, at least for SRPG's.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Zlonc8lu oHe said that based on the symptoms, it is likely they were poisoned. After examining their drinking water, he said there was no doubt.

What a twist!

But seriously, I'm guessing that some enemy soldiers are attempting to poison an allied army and this ended up being one of the logical though terrible consequences. Especially since you stated earlier this wasn't a bandit chapter.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy oNot sure about him, but I do indeed believe so. You suck, Ruby.

We don't even know her stats or skills yet and already we know your opinion on her.

Now the question is whether or not she's Saint Rubenio Let's Play "I'll Still Use Them" bad.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

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...oh my God she's amazing...!

Sylvis is a... prepromote? I'm not sure what to call her, to be honest. She's a tad stronger than our current forces, and she doesn't promote, but she's also very low level and her class isn't the promotion of any archer class. The concept of classes in general is more nebulous in Berwick Saga than it is in FE; whereas in our beloved series there's a set of classes that almost everybody strictly adheres to, in BWS you'll find that a good chunk of the playable units, and even enemies, have their own classes. Case in point, Ward and Volo. Sylvis is even more unique, as we'll find some enemy veteran knights and swordfighters, whereas sniper belongs to Sylvis and Sylvis alone (as far as I recall).

Leaving that aside. Remember Raquel from TRS? Incredible sniper that joined early but couldn't kill? Here's an incredible sniper that joins early and can kill. Sylvis sure knows how to make a great case for herself; not only does she arrive out of the blue and wrecks Griff in one shot to impress the player, she also seduces them with better stats than either of the present archers, as well as equipment that the player otherwise won't have access to for a few chapters. Of course, since they're her own possessions, you cannot just give 'em to Sherlock or Christine (who are no doubt green with envy). Wanna enjoy those awesome items? Gotta use her!

And it's not just her equipment. That'd be godly enough, but then you take a look at her skillset. That's when you really fall in love with her.

- Overwatch is a common skill in strategy games, but oddly enough, I don't think it's ever been in FE. When Sylvis activates this skill (can only be done if she hasn't moved), she uses up her turn. It lasts until she moves or takes another action. As long as it's set up, any enemies that walk into Sylvis's range will automatically get shot by her. If she nails them, they will be stopped in their tracks, unable to take action. Really good in a lot of situations, though the enemy tends to get more mileage out of it.

By the way, yes, it can be used alongside Hide. Yes, the enemy will put that combo to good use. Yes, it will no doubt get me screaming at one point or another.

- Deadeye is another skill that cannot be used after moving. It'll add one more hex to the attack, at the cost of some accuracy. Basically, any bow can potentially be a longbow in her hands. She can break some encounters pretty hard with this.

- We know Aim, and we know it's awesome. Of course she has it.

- She's on the brittle side, so Hide is the way to go if she finds herself in a bind.

- She can use bows up to level 10. As if she wasn't better enough than all the other archers, every good bow is going to her for a long time.

- Maim, if it procs, increases Sylvis's cripple rate. It only serves to add one more layer of RNG to an already RNG-heavy mechanic, so it's the weakest skill she has. I think it really only exists to justify her so easily crippling Griff, as well as a future moment of a similar nature. Still, when it happens, it's a pleasant surprise.

Sylvis's weaknesses? She cannot mount, and she needs to be paid.

Sounds too good to be true. Aside from the "no horse and have to pay" part, Is there a catch somewhere? Or do you love her so much because there is no catch?

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

Zvbsl5tm o......

9qk5ifz8 o What?

Zvbsl5tm o...you're never coming back for this, are you.

Txzubig9 o I have no idea what you're talking about. Gimme moneys! C'mon, hurry!

Zvbsl5tm oRight... I'm so bad at this...

Does some offscreen adventurer ever buy what you put in the pawnshop, or do the items remain there permanently?

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:

The log splitter is actually a little mightier than the iron axe, but it suffers from lower accuracy.

Makes sense. Trees are mightier than men, but they don't dodge.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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Holy shit, Brightbow was right! There was an option to combine arrows all along! Two runs and I never noticed...

Then Shadow Dragon came along and allowed you to do it with every weapon!

Then Awakening automatically filled the weapon to full durability even when you didn't want to, Fates used the Shadow Dragon method for staves but everything else didn't break, Shadows of Valentia had competent blacksmiths but no shops, and Three Houses brought repair back. Yay?

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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Clicking on any unit makes Arina present them the menu. Excuse the glitches, they'll be fixed in the next update.

I'm kinda curious what Saut! Jed Veal, Orange Rabbit, Chicken Fricass! Je, and Papillote Shrooms are now. Not that I'd like to eat them, mind, but I'm curious what they're made out of.

On 3/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said:
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Right now, though, what this has done is make her even godlier than she already was.

Kaga Did It First

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Maim is just such a frustrating ability. Not only is triggering it entirely random, but it only increases your crippling chances. So if she still fails to cripple, it's like the ability never activated in the first place. And yet it still has only limited charges per map.
It's also very unlikely that it triggers when you actually need it. While I don't completely understand the formula for crippling, I do know it depends mostly on the amount of damage dealt in one hit. In this game, everything but the most basic gear is in limited supply. So Sylvis can't exactly shoot Steel Arrows everywhere just to make sure she deals enough damage in case she happens to trigger Maim.

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1 hour ago, Hawkwing said:

I'm kinda curious what Saut! Jed Veal, Orange Rabbit, Chicken Fricass! Je, and Papillote Shrooms are now. Not that I'd like to eat them, mind, but I'm curious what they're made out of.

Not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but I believe that they would be Sauteed Veal and Chicken Fricasse. Not sure about the other two, though.

 

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1 hour ago, Hawkwing said:

...Yeah I don't know how the name became associated with edgy characters in Fire Emblem games.

Most likely cause? James Dean. Look him up, I'd argue it makes total sense.

Also as an aside, I'm trying to get TearRing working. So far, my emulator's up and running (So at least I can finish FF7) but I haven't gotten the ROM to yet.

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Part 5 - Take out the garbage.

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On 3/28/2020 at 6:48 PM, BrightBow said:

Probably. It's just I didn't recall anything from your update that could be interpreted as a "streak count". Plus, it seemed rather farfetched that you would want to "curse" your own playthrough.
And I just gave a turn count in my post, so I figured maybe that's what this was referring to.
Plus, I have a bit of a history of getting warnings for saying mean things about Awakening and Fates. And my comment was referencing Fates, so I just got paranoid.

I have to wonder just how aggressive you were, that something like this is enough to send you down a spiral of paranoia.

 

On 3/28/2020 at 6:51 PM, Benice said:

When it got to the part where the princess was talking to Volcens about fufilling a wife's role because he doesn't have one, I thought Kaga pulled an Arvis X Deidre moment for a minute there. Good thing that so far it's more pure than that.

I really don't think Sienna feels that way about her brother. I'm not entirely sure who's the older one, but she definitely sees him as a baby brother. Extremely baby brother.

 

On 3/28/2020 at 7:26 PM, BrightBow said:

Most certainly looks prettier then Garon's empty halls. Or any of Awakening's throne rooms  for that matter.

There's people here! Omigosh!

Or this: 
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I seem to be feeling dejá vù. I wonder why.

I guess he's doing a Cartman impression.

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The good thing about Southpark's artstyle is that, since it's purposely horrible, I can easily replicate it!

The only bad thing about Sylphis is that hiring her feels like you're ripping her off.

Absolutely. That price is not fair.

Oh there they are. Somehow missed them until now.
Well, that was a nice pile of needless anxiety.

Pffhahahahahah... oh, dear.

 

On 3/28/2020 at 8:20 PM, Hawkwing said:

Excellent point. Now that I think about it, I can't think of a single game where food was present and it didn't do something mechanically.

It's just easy and intuitive to do something with food, even something as simple as the classic "eat a chicken to heal first-degree burns".

So IS copied Kaga's homework and then crayoned in different hair-colors and dialogue?

I mean, Garon and Volcens are suspiciously similar in a lot of regards... only one's badly written, and the other's bad.

Of course, I've not seen Garon to properly judge him, but I just wanted to call Volcens names, okay? It's just a fun thing to do.

I mean, technically Kaga did it first in TRS with Maerchen and his brother, but you could recruit one and the other came off more as a parody than anything, so it subverted the trope before it even became one (for Fire Emblem, anyway).

Kaga is always first. He subverts tropes before they come into existence.

That got a chuckle out of me as well.

There aren't as many laugh-out-loud moments as in TRS (sadly, Ward never punches drunk Reese in the face), but there are definitely some hilarious lines to be seen.

I really like your description of the goal. That's a pretty badass line.

Thanks!

Seems Kaga really stepped up his game with showing rather than telling important aspects about Berwick Saga.

He stepped up his game in a lot of ways. This is, after all, his masterpiece! Even if I do like Thracia's capture system better. Well, nothing's perfect, right?

Do Axel (who I thought was just Axe the first time I read this line) and the bandit have the exact same sprite, just different hair/headgear?

Yes, indeed. A lot of playable units have their own personal classes (Reese, Sylvis, Izerna, Dean), or at least classes that aren't often seen elsewhere (Ward, Volo, Adel and Leon, Elbert, Christine), but Axel is no more than a generic pirate with van one million useful skills and brown hair instead of a red headband.

I was suspecting that it came back, but it's still cool to see that there are different sprites for each weapon as was the case in TRS and the SNES Fire Emblem games.

Actually, I'm afraid that is not quite the case. All spears, all swords, etc. look the same when wielded by the same unit. That class just has a pitchfork sprite because it is only ever seen wielding pitchforks. This is actually the only Kaga game (outside of the NES ones, of course) where there are no different sprites for each weapon. Disappointing, I know, but I doubt they would've been able to make such gorgeous animations if they had to account for different weapon sprites.

The simple mustache change got a bigger laugh out me than it really should have.

Hahah, thanks. I'm glad.

I can see why Axel is one of your favorite units. Pulverize alone looks fun to use.

And it is, it very much is.

A Very Saint Rubenio Let's Play result, I must say.

Hahahahah... I hate that this is true.

There's a charge bonus? And it's lost on the second strike?

Yes, and yes. I explained the first thing in the first update, you probably missed it.

...That's a pretty neat attention to detail that has some strategic considerations. From the little else I know about Berwick, I'm expecting this will be the tip of the iceberg of such examples.

There's a lot of obscure stuff in this game, yes. We'll be discovering more as we go.

I don't know why, but I find Christine kneeling down to fire with a crossbow to be a neat detail.

It's a cute sprite, I like it also.

I'm expecting some nastier enemies with this skill to appear later on in the game.

You bet there will be.

So knives are weak, but annoying? I see Fates ran with the same design philosophy, albeit in a different way.

To be fair, knives tend to be better in the player's hands than in the enemy's in this game. Except for a certain knife that we'll discover later on.

So a magical weapon would deal both physical damage and magical damage, or just the latter? I'm fine with Fire Emblem just having magical weapons deal magical damage due to being streamlined, but if Berwick Saga's does both, then that's a pretty interesting way of handling it.

Both. Some physical damage, some magical. If you look at the thief with the air knife, you may notice that, when he hit Adel, he dealt 3 damage and 2 extra. The 2 extra was the wind damage.

Berwick Saga had some really damn good background artists.

Agreed.

On the bright side, we now know that Berwick Saga's notifications fade from view instead of just popping out of existence

Useful knowledge right there.

I got that impression from the previous screenshots, but it looks like a fun way to dodge things.

Makes me wanna do the same. Somebody toss something at me!

Oh, wow. The game actually accounts for provoke. Or he says that when you attack him, but it's neat nonetheless.

Actually, it's only this time, because it's very obvious that they want you to do this. The rest of the time, people say nothing, they just charge at Elbert.

Even earlier, it always looks like the pirate is staring at the thing that almost stabbed them. Fights between pirates where both of them just hop around must be silly to watch.

They've got fun animations. Not sure if they surpass the flying princess, but they're a lot of fun.

Now it looks like Dean is about to shoot his foot.

I'm sorry, but I can't unsee Dean's axe as a gun from some of these angles.

Hahahahahah... well, can't say I blame you.

Wait, did you recolor his vest?

No i totally didn't recolor his vest why

Are those lines in his chest supposed to be arrows? They look kinda like the strings from his coat got caught in his wound, honestly.

Hence why I said that it's the worst death edit I've made in my life.

Reminds me of how your army or the enemy can disrupt birds in Battle Realms which gives away their inexact position. Certainly seems to be an interesting way to find out where hidden enemies are.

...Man, I really need to play Battle Realms again. It's one of the few RTS games that I was competent at, and the way you upgraded units was pretty interesting. Yet I never got very far due to life distracting me, and then another game caught my interest.

That happens all too often to all too many people. What a tragedy. Damn you, time! Why must you be so limited?!

Looks like she modified her crossbow to launch flashbangs. It seems archers really did advance great leaps and bounds after TRS.

Urgh...

I remember one of the videos you linked that showed Berwicks awesome animations was a level were you were tasked with capturing people (with the comments implying the mission was pretty suspicious), so yeah it does look solid in motion.

It's simple, but effective. I hope I'll get to capture someone sooner than later. Though, if my luck with Benner in the first update was anything to go by...

That... is one really incredibly risky yet clever way to make someone interested in hiring you.

She's the best sniper around. If there was anyone who could make it work, regardless of the risk, it's her.

And it seems to be working.

Well, she just happens to be one of my top 3 women in this game. I mean, did you see her official artwork? She wears pants! And green! And she's a badass unit! How attractive is all that?

...In all seriousness, she has one of my favourite designs in the entire game. She just looks amazing.

Ey, a new addition! I can't wait to see what the highest record will be!

A stroke of genius, if I may say so myself. Now we'll get to acknowledge my successes, for a change!

 

On 3/28/2020 at 8:56 PM, eclipse said:

Read the very bottom of the update, and you'll see what I mean~!

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Repede is the second-best thing in Tales of Vesperia!  The only reason why he's not the absolute best is because his backstory is hidden away in stupid places.

I googled his name. All I found is that apparently there's a guy called Yuri and his surname is the same as Mars's. What's up with that?

Though if the water is being poisoned, then wouldn't more than just the kids be sick?

Don't worry, it'll be acknowledged. Not today, but next time.

 

On 3/28/2020 at 9:20 PM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Trust me, I can name a tonne. Like the Mar-Vell version of Captain Marvel (1967-1982). Guy literally had his own series more of that time than not... but they killed him with cancer. Which is kind of why no one brought him back. It was meant to be a ballsy and powerful move and bringing him back would under-mine it. I'd actually written up a paragraph of more examples detailing who they were, how they died and why they never returned (including the version of Clayface they used in Batman TAS' comic counterpart, and his replacement with the 40s version of Clayface who had originally been a guy in a fancy mask) but, then decided it was too lengthy. Point is, if the story is powerful, the character is unpopular/forgettable, the character can be replaced, or the character only has a handful of appearances, it's easy enough to keep someone dead. Carrion had two of these going for him. He debuted in Spectacular Spider-man 24, and died in 31. His replacements have both had more appearances than him, and are similar enough (I mean it was a full body costume) that even a writer on the series mistakenly thought they were clones of him a couple years back (seeing as he was a clone).

His name is Carrion, for crying out loud! He was doomed from the start! Doomed!

Nemesis got wrecked so hard that I didn't even need to use another unit. After that spectacle, I've been unable to go back to the game because I feel like the laughter caused by a legendary foe calling you feeble, then proceeding to have his knock-off sword of the creator harmlessly bounce off you every time you fight him (except when he does a whopping 1 damage by a combat art, which then proceeds to be healed by your shield) is the most fun I had with the game. Which is not me saying I hated it, just that I laughed like a maniac the entire time.

I can imagine. That was so anticlimatic. Of course, his backstory is that he's literally an earlygame brigand, so it's no great wonder that he was unable to stand up to an endgame team.

Comes from a joke my brother made years ago (we're talking so long ago Smash 4's roster hadn't even started being announced bar a few guys) where he was making fun of Sonic OC's cliches by creating one that "wasn't a recolour". See, he's Tonic the Hedgehog. By an accident of birth he was born a liquid instead of a solid. He was destined to run really fast, even more fast than Sonic, but because of his birth defect he can't. The evil Robotnik (not yet a doctor) earned his medical degree by capturing Tonic and distributing him globally as medicine for coughs. So now Sonic really hates Robotnik, and when he's not fighting him has to collect his brother in a bottle so he can use the chaos emeralds to take on his rightful form (as a solid) and run really fast. So long story short, as the ultimate joke on doing a lazy recolour and acting like it's a fully original creation that is not derived from something else, Tonic was actually just a picture of a water bottle off google images with a name and "copyright" slapped on. Immature? Yes. Fun? Also yes.

I love how the backstory in and of itself is convoluted enough to be a believable Sonic OC backstory. All this for a water bottle. Hahahahahah...

Yeah... I still don't understand the physics there. Just that it's obvious Intelligent Systems didn't distinguish one type of water from another.

Anything to kill my units. Remember the wyvern lord that randomly was slower than his peers just so that Hugh could double and kill him, sealing his own fate? I remember. I wish I didn't, but I remember.

For all my self-deprecation in the titles, I seriously doubt I'll ever be able to come even close to the FE6 LP. God, what an inmense fucking trainwreck that was.

It was a joke on the origin of the Mushroom power up being because of that one mushroom which contains toxins that make you think you're growing if you eat it. What did you think?

Ahahahah... ah, let's... let's not talk about what I thought.

"Incest"
*giggling*
"Hey IS"
" What"
"I Just thought of something less wholesome than incest"
"Let me hear it"
"Milk"

And that's the story of how Kaga left IntSys. They tried to contain him, so he set himself free.

I once did a thing where I put some Fates stuff into a random story generator that resulted in a funny smut-fic about those two. Sort of. Camilla tried to make it a smut-fic but Corrin had none of it and ended up murdering her.

That sounds... oddly appropriate.

Suddenly I realize why there was no hit. Apparently they hadn't handed over the stuff yet, ergo officially there was no bounty until they had a down payment. By talking to the villagers, Ward got a heads up on it before it was officially filed cutting through the red tape.

But... then why were the villagers saying that they'd put up the hit at the guild but there'd been "no takers yet"?

So the villagers didn't bother giving it over because Ward's beard could have taken the bandits alone.

Of course, Ward's beard is the answer to all of life's questions. That much I can agree with.

So is the LP title actually a Volcens' speech?

I doubt he has that kind of self-awareness.

Well... damn. What a reVolcens development.

Revolc-- oh goodness... is there nobody who can be saved from you? Disaad display needs to stop!

Keep reading, you'll get this one soon enough.

I don't know. That sounds like a dealbreaker.

Ahahahahah... be honest, are you doing this on purpose?

More like Halfmind. Sucker.

I'll have him hoard all my crap, if only for the joke. We'll see how full his pockets are by the end of the game.

 

On 3/29/2020 at 6:01 AM, Dayni said:

I haven't seen most any of the S convos at this point, (I looked at Sothis literally as a joke.)

Is there any other way to look at that? "I married the 1000-year-old little girl that lives in my head" sounds like the start of a friggin' joke. I wonder what the punchline is. Maybe that's the punchline, actually.

Hell, first time playing I literally stayed alone. I can't say if they add much of anything.

That's what I did, too. Poor Jeralt, his ring went unused. As did he.

Again, while I do feel like the minimal dialogue choices weren't bad, I do not think that we need an avatar unless they're willing to take the story side of it more seriously.

Agreed.

Very early on there's a sniper that easily ruined my Claude. I was afraid I'd be utterly ruined. This was at the point where it was just him and Byleth and the lack of preps did. not. help.

If only it had just been one sniper in my case.

I never said I wasn't frustrated by that map.

Thank goodness. If there is one thing that I absolutely, irrationally despise, it's when people use that shitty "BuT IT's YoUr CLasS! It'S Ur DutY TO TeACh ThEm As theIr TeACher! ToTallY JusTIfIed to ScRew YOu oVEr WiTH A mAp lIkE rEUNiON aT DaWN iF YOU DiDn'T UsE tHEM!!!1!" excuse to defend this map. It's a goddamned videogame.

...in all honesty, Three Houses is a game that I merely dislike. The hatred comes purely from the hordes of people worshipping it and pretending that it can do no wrong. I know it's childish and irrational, but I cannot help but be frustrated by it. It's why I can't stand the subreddit anymore. It's all fanart of the same five characters from Three Houses, and the same five discussion threads about the same five topics regarding Three Houses.

That said, one day I randomly found a fanart of friggin' Norton of all people. That made my day, hah.

Then again, I'd have to come back to Shadow dragon and see if it runs better on this laptop (still RIP my DSl)

Desmume isn't the most efficient of emulators, but I think it might work at least acceptably? Give it a shot, what's the worst that could happen?

Don't even try No$GBA, though. Worst emulator I've seen. Just the other day, I spent over an hour desperately trying to save my friend's The Last Promise savefile. He had been playing on No$GBA because he didn't know any better, and the game crashed at the end of chapter 21, preventing him from proceeding. I had to find a way to make those saves compatible with VBA so he could continue with that one.

I know it's an oddly specific reason to hate an emulator, but yeah.

I absolutely wanted Hard harder, even while playing as blindly as I could (and can) manage. But clearly we don't quite see eye to eye.

Hey! That's not true! I like you, man! Even if you're constantly disagreeing with me!

Also, up to 13 uses is stupid, definitely less. I'm going to just stop there for reasons.

Oh, the uses weren't my issue. My issue was how frequently the game would pull some unpredictable bullshit out of the blue, completely screwing me over, solely so they could get me to waste those uses. It's terrible game design, the kind that'd embarrass even Kaga, and it's all over the place.

I mean, I'm not saying he can't use magic, I tried Mortal Savant in the late game of Verdant wind and he was plenty capable. He ended up with similar magic and strength, so he could cast fine enough.

Admittedly, pretty much anything is viable in hard. Maddening, though...

Is it though?

I mean, I'm obviously overstating a lot of it, which should make it too far.

Oh, there definitely are people out there who think exactly as you do. Hence why I said it's a "decent summary" of why people don't enjoy GBA as much anymore.

I can't take it seriously.

Like Narcian.

Eh, fair enough. Then again, Petrine (who most often brings that theme with her) was never a very serious villain. She's literally "big tiddy goth domina". Pfah!

Well, it's a stretch.

A reasonable stretch!

To be fair, I actually like him, one of the best rivals that isn't Blue "motherfucking" Oak imo.

Wasn't that guy called Gary?

The current hack community's kinda overwhelming, because there's so much out there. A lot of it is interesting for a variety of reasons too.

Yeah, that's true. Another thing that's also true is that a lot of projects are either extremely vanilla, or are never finished. I mean no disrespect to anybody, but that's just the truth of the matter. Still, we're actually improving a lot on that aspect. But that's the reason I respect TLP so much: shit as much as you want on it, but it's a complete hack with tons of content in the prehistory of FE hacking. I will never stop admiring Blazer for pulling that off, even if he hates TLP nowadays. He even made a postgame that doesn't break horribly and is actually better than FE's few postgames! Not that FE is known for its riveting postgame content, but...

I mean, do we not rant? Especially with this thread so far because of 3H and my not utterly worshipping the ground Berwick walks on.

In other words, it's all your fault. You are the one who is causing my thread and me to be ranty! Not me! I am perfect! Like... like those two brigands from map 1-1...

Ah Feh pass. Just, why?

Greed is why. Greed.

Also, I have no idea about Switch Online, but knowing that we're lumped under Ninty UK I just know it's likely going to suck. Besides, I don't think you're wrong to be suspect. It's all too possible that this is attributed to stupidity but you can never tell.

It wasn't just Splatoon, either. Splatoon had the countless disconnects, but Smash was completely unplayable because every match played in slowmotion, and same went for Mario Maker. It was just a miserable experience overall. Especially considering I was using the same cocksuckin' internet cable as my computer!

I'll say this: I'll learn some time. It'll probably suck.

Never doubt it.

I mean, Byleth essentially is a fucking pseudo-Jeigan and when you can recruit the faculty you get plenty of units with good bases (and sadly Manuela. And she has speed.).

Yes, but as I said, this is all pre-war. In the war phase you get diddly-squat.

The lack of a Gotoh is pretty indicative for IS as a whole, considering the last ones were Basilio + Flavia in Awakening. Also, the idea of pushing these guy's levels is something I'd have considered. And how is your Byleth getting demolished?

In my last run? He was a mage. Once again, Maddening being a shit difficulty that requires that you break it in order for it to be beatable.

This does not fix Reunion at dawn in most of your base class is dead if that's true. I'm positive that's awful. I thought the other students would show up actually when I first played, where the fuck was my Felix/Ingrid/Dorothea/Linhardt, game? Then again, I've always kind of considered the idea that you need to think to the future with this game anyways and Three Houses really wants you to do that in maddening.

I should probably confess the point that IS has shown that they're not as interested in accounting for permadeath. And with how the community at large has played for years, can you blame them? Okay, I can assume you can. I wouldn't blame you, but I've always kind of played with the long term in mind (hence shamelss hoarding)

I know how most people play. Heck, I myself don't often have the willpower to do ironman, unless I'm LPing. But then, why keep permadeath as an option, if you're going to design the game in ways that'll make playing with permadeath inviable? Just axe it already, be honest about it. Don't let me softlock myself because I wasn't feeling like resetting for Hilda.

Nah, Nuibaba's still fucking worse. Saying that, you know my opinion of SoV.

Hard disagree. You can use your entire team, you can prepare for it, you can cheese it with retreat, you can leave and grind if you so wish, it's optional, and it's far less difficult than Reunion At Dawn, even if it's more tedious. Reunion At Dawn only seems better because on Hard it's easy, just like the rest of the game. But at its core, RaD is just a bad man, through and through, far more malign as a concept than the Abode.

So, a joking comment about the seeming contradiction in liking BB despite itself results in this.

To quote myself:

Why, you-- I wasn't even ranting there! What, you want me to rant now?! 'Cause you bet your ass I can rant! Just fuckin' try me, man! They'll call me the runtman! I mean, the rantman!

I recommend a low-salt diet.

I already don't eat too much salt. Still, thanks for the suggestion.

I mean, for all that I used him in PoR it seemed to (much as he was benched after he fucked off and joined Daein.) and Geoffrey did as well.

As for Skrimir, when did I use him?

...who in the world is Skrimir?

Ooohhhh right, Caineghis's son. For some reason, this is one character that can never seem to stay in my mind. I cannot count the amount of times I've looked him up, realized who he is, and promptly forgotten about him again. I don't think there's a single character in the pre-Awakening series that I'm so thoroughly incapable of remembering.

Post-Awakening, well, I keep misremembering Reina as Rinkah. Yeah. By the way, who decided to name her Queen in spanish? Please...

Clearly not, it seemed like something Kaga just never did.

He learned. About time, too.

I on the other hand have been mainly playing it handheld and with the joycons in. That twiddling doesn't hurt and I don't think the loads were bad (I'm not pretending some weren't a bit long though.)

They weren't bad, but considering they were often just loading two models and a bad JPEG for a background... I can understand the longer loads on the maps themselves, as the useless "zoom in and control the unit manually" gimmick seemed very heavy on the hardware.

I still don't understand why that needed to exist. I mean, neat, I guess, but... why? It's completely useless!

My other controller's an 8-bit do. There's no vibration or motion. Oh.

You can live without those. It just makes Super Mario Oddyssey slightly less convenient to play. Also, I think there may be a couple of moons that you can't get without motion controls. Dunno, I got bored before I made it that far. With these open-ended games, I always either complete the game and then get bored while sidequesting, or sidequest heavily but then can't be arsed to do the main story.

Don't remind me: this forum forces the emojis, I wish there was an option to turn them off.

I haven't used one in my life. Well, no, that's not right. I have used this one.

:KnollRoll:

To this day, I am still unable to comprehend why this exists. I'm glad it does, but why?

As for those two, having a paired ending shouldn't mean it's incestuous. I blame the writing.

And it isn't. The only hint to incest is the unfortunately named legendaries the pair get. The rest was all the community's depravity at work.

Did he only tell Sylvis then? Somehow she knew.

Maybe she was spying on Ward and Reese. She probably saw Ward's beard and thought "there's money to be had there!", so she set out to impress him.

....Or not?

...or not what?

I thought you loved just how shit he was.

Frankly? Yes. I absolutely love how shit this bastard is. I hate him, but I love him. He's one of my favorite characters, simply because of how much fun he is to despite.

I feel we need some giant popcorn for the inevitable catharsis.

Hahahahahahahah... oh, boy. How I look forward to some of this game's stuff.

Out of curiousity, just how far did you get into the game? Finished, halfway...?

And yet Eugen would hit on her before attepmting to recruit her to fight Gerxel.

That's typical Eugen right there.

And if this kind of retort is powerlevel she is at least Leonie tier (And yes, I mean either TRS or 3H, Leonie's great I swear one of if not the best commoner and best bow users (The Bernie fans are suckers I tell ya))

Yeah, both Leonies are great. 3H's is a better waifu, admittedly. Mostly because the other one is 15, like everyone else in TRS. Poor Mintz.

This is Volcens.

The man who on hearing his father died went right inward to his kingdom and holding court in a duchy by the sea which could be more easily invaded than elsewhere. The guy who shows no commanding aptitude and I doubt can fight. The guy who seems uninterested in his underling's doings and takes lackeys and lickspittles as his primary sources, trusting nobody like as if the BS ad was 100% literal.

Of course this man(child)'s in charge of the league. If only Kaga was using this as a serious subversion of theming in his works. If he's an actual villain at some point his actual competence compares to Yahn. Yep, that guy who my opinion's of is gutter tier. We're going there.

This is a very me-tier rant. I say this because this is almost exactly my thoughts on the matter at some point or another.

This fucker's the Gharnef, only he figured to actually pretend to not so obvious in his evilness.

Hahahah... c'mon, give him a chance. I know he has a bad face, but I mean, so do I - heck, I'm using the same oversized collar as him! Does that make me the Gharnef of this forum? Well, does it? Never judge a book by its cover.

Well, Berwick's doomed, let's just move on to Vestaria so I can legit bitch about the visuals.

Son of a-- no, you're not getting away. We're playing this game, whether you like it or not!

That or he got swindled into getting some terrible mercs because they were as terrible as him.

Either looks bad.

This is Volcens. Worst case scenario is the norm when it comes to this clown.

Somehow, I'm not sure Kaga was actually thinking like that. I don't think that he was considering the thematic implications that deeply.

Considering he wrote a whole series of notes that made Manfroy interesting, I'm likely talking out my ass.

C'mon, who do you think he is? IntSys?

Yeah, that's a lot of them.

(Sometimes I remember some weird shit.)

Weird, maybe, but perfectly fitting.

Raquel was better because she could jeigan. Sylvis too much power, 7.8/10.

But Sylvis can also jeigan, due to how Berwick works! What are you on about?

And yes, maim should have been activateable. Why is capturing so RNG in Beriwick?

Because Kaga may have calmed down a little since TRS, but he still despises humanity.

Also, "She cannot mount, and she needs to be paid.". That absolutely is now being taken the wrong way, you dirty bird.

Ergh, well, I mean... I would love to be mounted on by her Stop twisting my words, you heap of trash.

Of course there's a fucking exploit.

That's the way.

Indeed it is. By all means they should've made it so you could pick the people in the restaurant through a menu, but we work with what we get.

....Not gonna lie, but with hit in this game as it stands, there's one item to really consider in this menu. Pretty sure the cod raises hit. It is essential.

Okay, I get arguing for the happiness boost, but still. You bitch about 3H, but in a game with 1 RN, I'm not gonna pretend sub-80 wouldn't cause me concerns.

I mean, sub-80 concerns me in every single game. 1 RN, 2 RN, 1337 RN, anything.

The wall, she's gonna fall.

Pfff... that's good, okay.

Also, I've been having issues with images being loaded in this browser. I'm an unhappy camper.

That happens. Exercise some patience, is all I can say.

 

On 3/29/2020 at 8:29 AM, The Roger The Paladin said:

Have you ever tried capturing an injured bird to take to the vet? It's not always easy. They may not fly with a broken wing, but they will move surprisingly fast and get into places you won't. Now imagine trying to capture someone with a weapon who is actively trying to kill you, without killing them in the process. I mean, you accidentally hit an artery in the heat of combat with that arrow you were trying to disable that leg with, or they try to dodge an attack and get it in a worse spot... then you've accidentally killed them. No capture. Do not collect 200 dollars.

......

...have you tried to capture a bear with a bow and arrow, The Roger? I thought we agreed that you wouldn't do that unless I died in a car accident!

Now my sarcastic comment about that being a dealbreaker looks worse than it did before. Thanks.

Don't kid yourself, it always looked stinky.

(Though to be fair, if a girl needed to be paid to be involved with me, I'd avoid her like the plague)

But what if I want to pay her to kill enemies rather than, y'know, the other things? Then it's totally justified, right?

...well either way, I'm not gonna stop hiring Sylvis, so deal with it.

 

On 3/29/2020 at 4:26 PM, Aethin said:

I mean...

  Reveal hidden contents

flash forward to Chapter 5's citizen requests

Eheh... yeah, let's... let's not.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever done Volo's alternate recruitment in your previous playthroughs?

I have never used Volo. I stick by my principles, thank you very much.

...one day I probably will try it.

This is caused by a hidden skill called Hateful! I think the only other hidden skills are Robust+ (same effect as Robust, but invisible) and Vulnerable (makes it easier to be crippled).

I still don't understand what the purpose of these hidden skills is. Robust+ is literally just there to make capturing even more miserable!

The unused skills in the game are:

  • Safe Zone: +15 Hit and Avoid to allies within 3 hexes
  • Leader: +5 Avoid to allies within 3 hexes
  • Acrobat: all traversable terrain costs 1 movement
  • Debility: all parameters are halved from their usual values (this might actually be used in Ch 12, now that I think about it...)

Those all seem like variants of existing skills, except Debility. Speaking of, that definitely does look like

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Vester,

though, since the wiki (the bad one, but it's not like the other one has any info at all regarding Berwick) mentions that his stats are halved until he's spoken to.

Unlike the Military Fork, which is kinda meh, there's one unused pitchfork that's actually crazy broken: Might=8+1H, Hit=100, Weight=6, Rank=1, Durability=D, x2 strikes, Crit=100. It's the only unused pitchfork in the game, and it goes by the lovely name of SPEAR_UNUSED.

Holy guacamole. Now that is a pitchfork I can get behind.

It's at this point that I'd like to bring up Reese's beta portrait to everyone:

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He looks like such a doofus!

He looks like the protagonist of a bootleg version of BWS.

I'd like to point out here that these text boxes are programmed in the most inconvenient way possible. They're all stitched together from different text files like this in Japanese:

  1. [stat name]
  2. by ##
  3. rose/fell

...where the difference between rising and falling is only reflected in position #3. This is all fine and dandy for Japanese, where the verb comes at the end of the sentence, but English does not do that. However, since I couldn't swap #2 and #3, I had to do this instead.

  1. [stat name] became
  2. ##
  3. greater/less

...which absolutely grates on me every time I read it. I hate it so much. This is one time that I really wish they had made a different message for every situation.

Well, it works. In these cases, that's really what matters.

This line made even less sense in the Japanese version. She says "Lebough-sama said he would try to look into it alongside the Church, but..." and trails off... Seemingly implying that a whole group of priests is somewhere twiddling their thumbs, desperately trying to remember what the word "poison" means and how it could possibly get into someone's drinking water that was drawn from a river.

Hahahahahahahah... to be honest, the church doesn't seem like the most efficient organization in Lieberia, considering what the high-ranking priests behave like. Y'know, chapter 3?

But you're certainly right that the implication seems to be that he's busy. On Kaga's blog, he mentions that the other three Archbishops were killed because they were traveling alongside Mordias's army when he was ambushed, so Lebough could very well be swamped with work.

Pretty sure it's mentioned ingame that he's the only Archbishop left, or at least it's implied. Lebough is, by all means, the sole lead of the church at this point, so while he probably would love to assist with something like this sidequest, he simply cannot. And that's where we, the backwater savages, come in!

 

23 hours ago, Hawkwing said:

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My timing is truly something to behold.

Isn't it? I felt half tempted to comment on it at the time.

Probably a joke about how Ryoma won't attack you until 25 turns have passed (20 on Lunatic) on the final level you face him in Conquest. While not as bad as some other examples in the series, I would call it one of the few "bullcrap" levels in Conquest, as the only unit that can cause a game over is parked right next to the guy infamous for being able to solo Birthright (which on a side note a Ryoma-only challenge run is something I will absolutely do in the event I ever get Birthright). Sure, you can oneshot the guy if Corrin turned out godlike, but if they turned out average or were RNG-screwed or you decided to make them a class that uses axes in a game where the weapon triangle is far more important, then you'd better hope the rest of your army is strong enough to defeat the other two bosses on the map and reach Ryoma in time. Oh, and on Lunatic, this is the level that introduces Inevitable End, which causes stat debuffs to stack, which means that even the toughest of units can be reduced to having the durability of a piece of paper if they get hit enough.

Again, it's not as bad as some other levels in the series. A weak Corrin can be compensated by having a strong army and vice versa, the time limit gives you enough time to reach Ryoma, and there's very little outside the players control that can screw over the map. I just don't like that they put the game-over unit right next to a beast of a unit, and how getting RNG-screwed can make this map harder than it needs to be.

That sounds like an interesting map, at least.

...Not sure why I went on that rant, especially since there were maps in Conquest I disliked more. I suppose it's because the ones I hated had good ideas and execution, they just weren't fun to play through and/or could have been even better (I actually wouldn't mind seeing the wind mechanic appear in a different Fire Emblem game, and beastbane+pass would have been a nice twist on the illusion gimmick if it had appeared in an earlier level), whereas the difficulty of Ryoma's chapter can be reliant on whether Corrin got RNG blessed or screwed.

Though that's definitely a downside to it.

Again, Awakening is a fun game with an impressive amount of freedom, just don't go in expecting everything was well-designed. There are a lot of broken things in the game, but you can ignore or exploit said broken mechanics, if you catch my drift.

Also, while I personally think the games cast is more well rounded than people give it credit for, do know that it pulls the "looks like a one-dimensional trope at first but is later shown to be three dimension" trick. While this makes it more satisfying to unlock supports, it also means you're going to have to deal with a questionable first impression for a while.

I see. Maybe one day, maybe one day.

I might check it out someday, then. Maybe when I'm not juggling 12 games at once.

12?! Christ...

That wasn't a criticism of your LPing skills, and more of an observation that it is probably a mechanic that is easier to grasp by playing the game yourself than by watching someone else.

Well, too bad your laptop's like, junk. No offense.

In Greek, it means "monk or dignitary in charge of ten others".

In Anglo-Saxon English, it means "Valley".

In Hebrew, it means "Law" or "Justice".

The dictionary definition is "the head of a college or university facility or department".

...Yeah I don't know how the name became associated with edgy characters in Fire Emblem games.

Maybe it's the valley part. It's like, a valley of torment. Very edge.

Thanks for the warning. I'm fine with something being dark as long as it doesn't go overboard.

It never goes as far as the milk, believe me. It goes some places, but never quite to that point.

Don't know, since they're all great. Maybe later I'll come to a decision on my favorite.

Hahahahahahahah... have you tried putting my meme face through google translate?

If I remember correctly, it was one of the examples the guy gave that wasn't niche in some way. Or it was the easiest to screenshot, one of the two.

Hmmm. Well, in any case. It was fitting enough.

Doesn't help that despite MyCastles flaws (there were some buildings that were largely useless or limited mechanically, and while I can buy the explanation storywise, you can tell that it was mostly a gameplay excuse than anything else), it didn't overstay its welcome, it was a lot more clear when you did everything you could, and there was a strategic element to which buildings you added/upgraded since for they most part you could only do so once per chapter (such as deciding between adding more weapons in the shop or making the mess halls food bonuses stronger and so on).

The Monastery addressed my complaints about the story implementation and how some facilities were useless, and then took a step back everywhere else.

That seems to be the case for a lot of Three Houses, doesn't it?

It's a pretty good adventure game that successfully executes stealth and racing mechanics, and Jade actually knows most of the NPCs and they know her, giving the world more natural exposition than "press A and the NPC will repeat the exact same response every time". It's not flawless, seeing as any gamer will know how to defeat the bosses the moment they appear (although the final boss pulls some neat tricks, and the second-to-last one is a lost Star Fox boss) and it's on the short side, but overall it's a well-made game that I can't think of a reason for why it didn't sell well or why it's not discussed more.

Interesting.

Again, it only affected a small part of the game and I don't mind that the next few games didn't have it (especially when Fates had the same mechanics and then some) but it was cute and something to look forward to when recruiting another character.

Cute details like that are always nice.

Oh... well then...

On the bright side, I am now encouraged to pay even more attention to character and place names.

Heheheh... let's see if you manage all right!

*Internal Screaming*

On the bright side, I don't have plan to attend any college classes in the near future, so with hope I won't be (as) distracted by real life as much as last time.

Hopefulee.

Coulda phrased that better on my part.

Ah, it's 'kay.

I meant that the game got me thinking more about how each one of those gravestones was a person that had parents, maybe some siblings or children, and lived a long or short life. I've thought of those things before, but it got me to think about those kind of things more deeply I suppose it what I was trying to aim at.

Ah, yes... all those depressing things that most try not to ponder on too deeply.

I mean, she just took out the boss. Everyone else fell by your armies hands.

That much is true. We also took down the other boss.

So much so you named his portrait "grandpa".

Hah! Right.

I remember seeing this place before. It is rather majestic yes.

Also, that's a large curtain in the background.

Only the best for the best king, am I right?

If you bet on multiple horses and one of them wins, can you say "called it!"?

To be honest, it was kinda obvious.

How has this guy not been assassinated yet? Did he earn a medal in Fidel Castro's "surviving assassination attempts" Olympics? Or is it just because the enemy doesn't have a good navy?

I have no idea, frankly. Maybe Raze's just hoping he goes mad and orders the execution of everyone competent in the League?

She may not appear as often as Eugen, but she's already on her way to filling in his shoes. I would legit not be surprised if they were related somehow.

Sienna's great. Not quite to Eugen's level, but in all fairness, I don't think there's anyone in BWS that reaches Eugen's level of pure, concentrated hilarity.

One day that will be the end of Padolf, won't it?

Perhaps.

He's not right in the head, is he?

He has... a bunch of issues of varying gravity.

Why is it that no matter the government, someone crazy can always end up in charge? Well, except in anarchy, except he could still participate in his own way.

He's probably a wimp, so I doubt he'd get that far in an anarchy.

If is evil looking collar didn't spell out that he was a bad guy, blaming the hero for someone else's actions is.

Evil-looking collar that I'm also wearing myself, I might add.

Also, you skipped the hilariously angry face. Everytime I see him I feel like trying to make the same face, and I can never manage the same amount of pure, yet perfectly composed anger.

Wonder what benefit he gets from Volcens being in charge.

Maybe we'll find out, one day.

Self-Control! It adds a lot to a villain.

Doesn't it? Say what you will about him, but at least Herman didn't run off like a crying baby two minutes into the audience. Unlike some others.

A ridiculous scene that sets up that the people in charge are either crazy, incompetent, have their own agendas, or are actually heroic but have to deal with this crap.

And then there's Volcens, who's all three. The first three. And really, any other negative thing you may think up.

I'll get used to it, but these dialogue scenes updating one at a time while both are on screen has led me to read both of them continuously. Point being I was confused for a short while as to why Reese would go from "Not at all!" to "come again?" before rereading.

Hahahah, I was worried about this, myself.

Not too unusual in real life, even if it tends to backfire at some point.

I hope it does for Volcens.

I'm surprised that you didn't comment on Three Houses regarding corruption in the church.

Probably because I don't really have many problems with it, actually. The church of Serious is a well-portrayed faction and houses some of my favourite characters.

Still, this is a pretty intriguing case of grey morality, and probably one of many throughout this game.

Look forward to the next!

I remember you mentioning that Berwick Saga focuses on how peoples lives are affected by war. Interesting choice not to have the game focus on the "important" battles like many other games do.

It's definitely different, though we won't lose sight of the war as a whole, thankfully.

And if she channels Eugen's wit and snark and weaponizes it, this war would be over before the first chapter ends.

Hah! If only. If only.

This got a huge laugh out of me.

All that's missing is King Arthur.

Hey, let's not go overboard. There are already too many Arthurs as is.

So they're more or less ronin. Or black knights if they painted their armor black.

...ronin?

I keep misreading Luciana as Lucina, and it doesn't help that both of them have longer hair that's blue.

Kaga did it first again!

I take it that the church and religion of this game will be expanded upon later? These are already pretty unique setups regarding the topic matter, at least for SRPG's.

Yes, we'll get more on the church later. Because Kaga does everything first.

What a twist!

But seriously, I'm guessing that some enemy soldiers are attempting to poison an allied army and this ended up being one of the logical though terrible consequences. Especially since you stated earlier this wasn't a bandit chapter.

That could be. Let's find out, shall we?

We don't even know her stats or skills yet and already we know your opinion on her.

Now the question is whether or not she's Saint Rubenio Let's Play "I'll Still Use Them" bad.

Well... we'll see.

Sounds too good to be true. Aside from the "no horse and have to pay" part, Is there a catch somewhere? Or do you love her so much because there is no catch?

Ahahahah... learned to be cautious after Zieg, did you?

Well, there's a bit of a catch, yes. But that's not for a while yet.

Does some offscreen adventurer ever buy what you put in the pawnshop, or do the items remain there permanently?

They never disappear, no.

Makes sense. Trees are mightier than men, but they don't dodge.

Hah, awesome! I hadn't given it much thought, but now that you put it that way...

Then Shadow Dragon came along and allowed you to do it with every weapon!

Then Awakening automatically filled the weapon to full durability even when you didn't want to, Fates used the Shadow Dragon method for staves but everything else didn't break, Shadows of Valentia had competent blacksmiths but no shops, and Three Houses brought repair back. Yay?

What a convoluted story.

I'm kinda curious what Saut! Jed Veal, Orange Rabbit, Chicken Fricass! Je, and Papillote Shrooms are now. Not that I'd like to eat them, mind, but I'm curious what they're made out of.

I'll be forthcoming with you: food is my weakest english. Half of these descriptions look completely alien to me, because I don't know much in the way of food vocabulary. Guess I just never had much use for it.

Kaga Did It First

Another LP's worth of KDiF!

 

22 hours ago, Dayni said:

Most likely cause? James Dean. Look him up, I'd argue it makes total sense.

That person is edgy, but that's implying that Kaga knew who he was. I won't claim to know the man, but he doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd be aware of this dude's existance.

Also as an aside, I'm trying to get TearRing working. So far, my emulator's up and running (So at least I can finish FF7) but I haven't gotten the ROM to yet.

Eyyy! That's awesome! What emulator are you using, by the way? I'm gonna go on a limb and assume ePSXe. I would recommend Mednafen more, with an interface addon (I use Medlaunch), as I feel it's a better emulator by a longshot. It also has throttle, which I highly recommend. TRS can get agonizingly slow at times.

 

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Today's music. Very ominous.

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Already we can see something pretty peculiar about this one: our team is nowhere to be seen. Only two blue units on the map aren't any we have in our army. In any case, I'll pick the three cavs, Axel and Sylvis. Sherlock and Christine may sit this one out, and let Sylvis prove how much better than them she is.

Also, yes, that's exactly what you think it is.

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Fog of War, baby! It's our introduction to Berwick Saga's fog. BWS fog has two perks of interest: first, oftentimes it won't cover the whole map, with different areas being perfectly lit, as you can see here.

Second, and this is the important part. Tell me, how many times have you thought "man, I wish this fog of war BS would affect the enemy! Damn cheaters!"? Well, guess what. Kaga did it first. Indeed, FoW affects the enemy in this game. Same conditions as us; if an enemy comes within an ally's range, they're discovered and can be attacked by anybody. Bumping into unseen enemies leads to an inevitable fight where the enemy gets the first attack.

To be entirely forthcoming with you, since we're often the ones coming at the enemy, not the other way around, this... ends up not mattering all that much. Still, it's a good effort, and we'll be able to set up some mighty delicious ambushes occasionally.

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Our introductory dialogue of the day stars this guy yet again, and...

No... Not garbage man! Anyone but garbage man! Those of you who read my past LP know that there was this one boss, wearing a similar garbage bag'ish cloak, who appeared a whopping four times thoughout the game. Every single time he appeared, something went terribly wrong. I pray that's not the case here...

Anyway, aside from being a garbage man, Disaad and his men are the first Razites we encounter. As such, any troops we capture here can be ransomed back to the Empire for money.

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Wait, but if you want him to cooperate, why are you destroying him? Also, that's clearly not the same person!

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Well, he's nearly dead.

Rsmou4y4 o Filthy vagabond, making me waste my precious time on him...

Copjg1au oMaster Disaad, there seems to be a commotion near the entrance. We may have been discovered.

Rsmou4y4 o Intruders?! Well, no matter who they are, they're no match for my magic! Have someone fetch me my orb!

9qk5ifz8 o Those who have played Thracia and Genealogy may find this situation rather familiar. Disaad is initially unarmed, but soon enough, an enemy will appear with an offensive orb for him.

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9qk5ifz8 oThe rogue wanders into the darkness. Perhaps we may find him later.

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Cy4m1yfp oThese caverns seem to be the most promising places to start searching.

Krsflixo oArthur, look! There's someone here in this cave!

Cy4m1yfp oIs there? It's a bit too dark for me to see all that clearly, but it looks like someone might be there...

Krsflixo oQuick, before he goes further in! Let's grab him and make him talk!

Cy4m1yfp oWe can't! Don't you remember what Lady Tianna said? It's too dangerous by ourselves. We have to wait until the Sinon Knights can come and back us up.

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Lgjkwhcy o Yes! Ruby's right! Except for the part where she trips over a rock and breaks her neck because she intends to go running into the darkness like a headless chicken!

Cy4m1yfp oWait, Ruby! Don't!

Krsflixo oIt's fine! I'm just gonna follow that guy so we don't lose him! You wait here!

Cy4m1yfp oAugh, Ruby...! Wait up, I'm coming with you!

9qk5ifz8 oThey say this, but she doesn't charge in or anything. Their starting positions remain as they are in the prepscreen.

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Gotta do away with the garbage man. Our team is still nowhere to be seen. I suppose we could wait, but like Ruby, I am impatient.

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Speak of Ruby, she's... bleh? Her base stats are comparable to Adel and Leon's, and while she can use swords and spears like Elbert, well... 2 sword skill, 1 spear skill, no shield skill... she's a pretty awful unit at base. Her skill growths are quite high, though, which is a good thing, as she needs to get to 20 in each of them and level 10. Still, she's painfully unimpressive, and her skillset does not improve her situation too much.

- Axebane is like Arrowbane, only for axes. A bit too situational, axes are less prominent than arrows.

- Paragon works only up to level 10 in this game, and only increases EXP by 20%, which is nice but not that much.

Honestly, Ruby's not good by any stretch of the imagination. Heck, the best reason to use her is that both her recruitment and her promotion are necessary to recruit a different unit that just so happens to be one of this game's top combatants. That's kinda sad.

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Arthur is a lot more solid. He's more defensive than anything, with high-ish defense and the ability to use both small and medium shields (though he's a lot better at using small ones). However, he's sword-locked. To promote, he needs 20 sword and s-shield, and 10 m-shield, as well as 10 level. Skillwise, he has the following tools to use:

- Armsthrift is always useful.

- Hurry does exactly that. Useful if we need to get somewhere pronto.

- Desperation! Good to see somebody else with that. Since swords are more accurate than axes, he has an easier time reaching 100 with this.

- Flourish halves Arthur's attack and has a (shorter than average) cooldown, but it increases his injury rate. One of the more reliable ways to set up captures, which is not saying much, to be fair.

All in all, better than Ruby.

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Which is why he'll lead the way! C'mon, somebody bump into us...

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...dangit, I bumped into them instead! That one guy is revealing Arthur, so they can all go after him.

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For all the good it did 'em. He took no damage from that blow! Not that he dealt any in return, mind.

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That's the firebrand, another pitchfork. It's shit except for the 5 fire damage it deals on the side. Might be... okay, if we get Adel one.

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Thankfully, Arthur didn't take the hit. He also failed the counterattack. Again.

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Finally!

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Jeez, look at that! It's a veritable army surrounding him!

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There's an enemy with darkmend. Darkmend is basically physic, only with a higher range (physic has 3 hexes of range in this game, while darkmend has 5). Since it's a dark orb, it's exclusive to the enemy, for the most part. Right now, all it's doing is render Arthur's one success futile.

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Sigh... Let's not do this. I don't want a death this early on. If we could make it past the first chapter without deaths, at least, it'd be sweet.

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So yeah, wait there.

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You, att--

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Ack.

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

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Ruby's first scuffle.

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And the second!

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Yeah, everyone's going after her. Can't blame 'em, she's so much easier than Arthur. Just like him, she only hit one guy. I'm afraid this'll be no more than a repeat of the last turn... when are my units going to arrive?

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Arthur keeps failing to shield himself from attacks. I am very fortunate.

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He completely undid Ruby's pitiful attack. And now she's surrounded. Any time now, guys...!

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It's finally Ruby's move. She whiffs the first strike, but not the second. Also, I'm starting to realize that her spear kinda looks like a huge pencil.

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Well, pencil or not, this is what I like to see!

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Ah, finally! You folks took your sweet time!

Cy4m1yfp oSomeone's at the entrance... Is it the Sinon Knights? Or is it enemy reinforcements?

Krsflixo oOh no, someone's coming... If it's the enemy, our escape route will be cut off...!

9qk5ifz8 oCalm down, you both. It's just the best sniper around, leading the advance.

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Adel, you're up! With our guys here, we get more moves. Notice the yellow faction. More on that in a minute.

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I tried to catch a frame of the spear still in Adel's hand. Instead, I caught a frame where he doesn't have a hand. Of course.

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And now, it's Vantage time! Ahahahah!

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Yes! Yes!! This is great, great! I mean, he's probably not promoting ever, because promoting Adel is near impossible. But good effort still!

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A man appears from the darkness, slowly limping towards us. This is the guy who got wrecked by Disaad's generic. One thing I didn't mention about crippling: when a unit is crippled, there's a chance that they won't be able to walk as far as commanded. More often than not, cripples will stop halfway to rest. Makes it all the more difficult to escape from capture.

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Leon's far away, but I'm being rather lucky today. Well, unless your name is Arthur.

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Elbert draws first blood, four turns into the map.

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Great gains. Elbert's too high for this map...

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Why is everyone going after Adel? They watch their peers throw themselves into his spear, and gleefuly follow suit! What's the big idea?

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Ah! One got through!

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...Oh God, Adel could've died, what was I thinking...

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The charge bonus allows Ruby to kill, but only on the first strike.

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Disappointed!

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Not good enough.

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Oh please... you're SO annoying!

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Leon gets another kill. He keeps getting kills, I really should spare some for Adel.

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Of course, he does things like this and makes me wonder why I'd ever bother with his pal.

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It's time to check out the "best sniper around", and see how the title holds up.

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Exceptionally, as it turns out. I probably should've given her some worse arrows, but what can I say. Even I, certified bad unit user, enjoy dabbling in some wasteful overkill from time to time. And Sylvis is one of my favourite characters and units.

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12 EXP. That's more than what, say, Elbert is getting right now. See what I meant? I really am not sure if she can be considered a prepromote.

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With our final move of the turn, let's capture this poor guy. We could kill him (I think; maybe you can't attack him because he's yellow, I've never tried), but there's no reason to do it.

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Upon capturing him, we get some sedative and experience. The experience text is quite clear, and I totally didn't fail to press F12 in time.

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That's... ominous. Too ominous.

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It's turn five! Things are looking good, so it's time to push forward.

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Reinforcements. Somebody will have to stay behind. Probably.

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Hey, there's a use for the pitchfork. Jeiganing for Ruby!

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Sadly, we don't get to see Adel use a friggin' pitchfork in battle. It looks like any other spear. Disappointing, I know.

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Good shot. I was afraid you'd miss.

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These guys are pathetic, man.

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I like how he keeps getting shield points by failing to shield. There's something truly pathetic about that.

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And then, when he finally blocks something, it's not enough. Amazing.

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Whatever. Ruby, it's killin' time.

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You son of a bitch, why is everyone failing now?

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Hoo boy...

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Thank goodness Sylvis is great.

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Seriously, Sylvis kicks so much butt it's not even funny. Well, actually, that's a lie. This is very fun.

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The reinforcement goes after Leon. Not the best target to pick, man. He's the crit master, second only to Reese!

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Not the best odds, but no counters is good.

7px68ohp oBzklnlhj o

Hey, I thought I was throwing a handaxe, not a bolas!

...by the way, yes, that's the name of a weapon. Bolas is basically a rope or chain with balls on the ends, that you throw at animals (usually) to entangle their legs. It also happens to be spanish for "balls". Because english is a creative language.

Tuc50hqn o

Whatever it was, that hit its mark. Good job, Axel.

W1nrnlmj o

You son of a gun...

Ho4veegx o

Hmmmm... no, I don't think I like this. If he misses, he'll be in extreme danger should somebody else be lurking in the darkness.

G4tihjte o

Therefore, Elbert will first kill the guy Leon wounded.

0eqkqlry oCqwmtdnb o

He missed the first shot, but that may not have been such a bad thing.

Hstsbleh o

Hell yeah, a twofer! That's what I like to see!

Td0jvox0 o

This is me trying to get his experience gains. That actually looks rather cool! Pretty cinematic.

02r9w7bt oRnzkt4hj o

This was only a Deathmatch because I wanted to be sure.

Fwv08z0j o

At this rate he's going to get another level before nearly anyone else!

Tdoox1dc oXomdlz6a o

I don't think I've showed off how skills are activated. Basically, a circle appears around the unit, and a box with the skill's name flashes at the top of the screen. Neat effect, hell to convey in screenshots.

Ypziq6dq o

Oh yeah, Disaad still doesn't have his orb. It'd take an extremely slow player to let him get it, the layabout in question appears really late.

Vyqx4l6e o

An archer this time... someone's definitely sticking to the entrance. Avoid any unpleasant surprises.

Ztb4frva oOfxfrrvq o

But first, Arthur steals Sylvis's vulnerary.

Wr8yzzoe o

Hah! The guy who got healed apparently didn't think it was enough, so he ran to drink his own vulnerary. That's actually nice, means we get to push onwards.

Besxuaj7 o9kqgkdbj o

Lead the way, Adel!

Qhbwu5vl oIt5e6ahb o

This is the darkmend guy. His class is war monk, which wields maces (another mostly enemy-exclusive weapon type) and dark orbs. Obviously he's using the former to whack Adel.

K4uionjs oUgysgamy o

Oh wow, he didn't get Vantaged? That's one fast dude!

Zrkqjgci o

I mean, for all the good it did him.

Ga5vjj3a o1euzxn1n o

He only has one heal left, but that's enough for him to die immediately. By the way, Arrowbane. Yeah, this rando has a skill. Get used to it. Checking enemy inventories isn't the only check you need to do in this game to be safe. You find skills where you least expect them.

Vnewqhbx o

I could risk getting hit, but I don't like risk, as you know.

7zy9tpsk oFatrlltm o

Instead, Axel gets to waste his time and a handaxe.

Uo0dn5rv o

I have decided that Elbert will be the one who'll protect the rear. It was his duty in the first chapter, so I guess it's only natural. Also, he's durable enough that he can fight on his own, no problem.

4slrvfww o

A shame about that accuracy of his.

Vgvgwydk oMg59kcxo o

I love these guys, seriously. They're so weak and pathetic and pitiful... they're great while they last. Trust me, they don't. It won't take long before we're facing the scariest archers imaginable.

Lgg1lp7i o

Let's see what good your Arrowbane does against the goddess of archery!

Nh3hakb1 o

Frankly, this was a bad idea. Most likely it would've resulted in a waste of an arrow, what with Arrowbane and whatnot.

Fjvceew3 oKov0f58f o

Thankfully, Sylvis is determined to prove that I am completely right in saying that she's the perfect woman.

N1sxrwik o

Oh look, a thief.

...AAAAAAAAAAAHHH 3% CRIT! If it deals the maximum extra damage of 20 and 2 on top of that, it'll kill Adel! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

A33wygon o2u99nr21 o

Phew... that wasn't scary at all, but you guys know the kind of odds I've lost units to.

Gkjmykfh o

Hah! Nope. Call me paranoid, but nope.

7xi6hcmm o2ssxdrbm o

Heal up, and let someone else do it next turn.

Q9hhzlt0 o

Oh look, there he is at last.

Qfqhvoa4 oTrgiuebq o

Scylla is the orb he's taking to Disaad. He'll never use it himself, thankfully. It's an interesting weapon, as it adds the enemy's level to the might. In other words, if one attacks a level 4 unit, the orb's might will be 7. As you can imagine, this'll be one hell of a scary weapon in the lategame. It's also one of the very few things that could potentially murder the endgame-ready beard right now. If I could deploy him here, of course.

Pjtg0yfr o

By the way, you can't try to get the orb off his hands. He's a robust boy.

O3adxfqx o2gu4mwup o

Let's wait for the errand boy to come out of the darkness. Adel chucks a spear at the pesky thief from the safety of range 1. Success!

Fbipykqv o

Getting there. Perhaps we could give Adel a level today.

8i3nkdtf o

Oh look, it's almost double the cash we paid Sylvis. Brightbow is right, it really does feel like you're scamming the shit outta her. She's definitely worth a lot more than a mere 575D...

Well, not to worry. Soon as I can, I will reward her with a permanent contract. Or, you know, death. That's also a thing that could happen, given that this is me.

...let me go on record right now and say, this is going to be a difficult ironman. There are so few units that I don't care for in this game... every death will sting like a poorly-handled razor upon a man's chin. Not that I've handled any razors in the past two years. My profile portrait is quite accurate, all things considered. Even if in reality I look more like a bum than a prince.

Jhbynia2 o6byy06ex o

Ah, but let's leave that depressing nonsense aside until it happens. For now, I finally caught a different frame of Adel's dodge!

Laihprbh o

I have to wonder, why does Axel look like Quasimodo in his battle sprites? He doesn't look to be a hunchback in his portrait.

0lh5ca07 o

Sylvis moves upwards. See that? The flags make a return from TRS! These handy little friends will allow me to mark enemy ranges and other useful info. Kaga still refuses to let me keep enemy range on, but oh well. What can you do.

Jrnltmbg oWcfior33 o

Next turn, perhaps we could set up her first overwatch.

Kqkasziz oGmnr3lgq o

On their respective turns, Elbert and the archer attack one another. They both fail miserably.

Jtqxwgiz o

There he is.

Rqg1c467 o

Finally, Ruby succeeded in getting a kill! Took her long enough.

Wou4f2h3 oFycnwiry o

Ahh, now that's a great sight.

Gmyjd7lg o

We're mostly kicking these guys' asses. These hickups won't do much to deter us.

Fiqifsuz o

Wha-- ACK! WHERE'D YOU COME FROM!?

Aomfcrpg o

Hwoooooaaaargh...! Who are you!?

9vtmy7my o

Goodness gracious, that was terrifying... okay, you need to go.

Hjpu8urz oKhoimvvj o

Of course.

Ql5exg6a o

Y'know what? I take it back. These hickups will deter us a bit if they just won't stop happening.

Qcssizet o

Awesome, more lamb chops for Elbert to chew on.

Upym8qo2 o

A shame about the overwatch, but we won't need it to intercept the scylla guy in time, and this one needs to go right this second.

Vqahusla o

Hehehehahahah... you picked the wrong woman to piss off, you imbecile!

K6nau9jf oExmnqdgf o

She does a cool pose whenever she uses a skill. Just because she can.

Cx1ysi3e o

Now, we just need somebody to pick up the slack.

Saqwcypv oJjba2tum o

Oh, fuck you up the ass, seriously...

Gbxz7btl oD5zwcrkp o

Well, on the bright side, since he's wasted his turn and put himself smack in the middle of all our units, we might as well try capturing!

Ejlnzqlx oChsxwicj o

Has Arthur done anything right so far?

Twd1l5fr o

I mean, yeah, he keeps getting shield levels despite not ever using his shield. I guess that counts as a "right" thing?

V92abnb2 o

Oh, get outta here, lame archer. You're not useful, no matter how much you may pretend to be.

Vtyod7yh o

Fine, then. Seeing as you refuse to be crippled, you'll just die instead.

Ywthyr8m oApdew5zd o

Oh wow, random injury out of nowhere? Sure, why not, I'll take it!

Ej0twgdh o

Now he just needs a good blow to the head...

Ycrq0mh3 o

Well, this just so happens to be perfect!

Ivccgmrt o

Heheheheheh... ah-HAH! You will regret trying to smear my beautiful sniper's face!

Wdxezdvi o

...again. It happened again. I do the whole process to capture twice, and it fails twice.

Sigh... O Perceval, where art thou...

Lupxzkqx o

All right, then. Since the game doesn't want me to spare the lives of these mooks, I suppose we'll give them no quarter.

P2voxasm o283owwdi o

I still haven't been able to catch the beginning of his crit animation. He crouches, spins the spear around, and then proceeds to the ridiculous uppercut. It's a fun animation, but it goes so fast that I am unable to react quickly enough to get anything but this.

Also, another crit. I was half-joking before, but now I am almost 100% certain that I've gotten more crits in this one run than in both of my last ones. And it's all been Reese and Leon. What the hell.

Alujofd8 oW4hgcyio o

Elbert's sick of missing. He has decided it's about time he kicked some ass. And so he has!

Rhvhbeau o

Slowly but surely...

8q3picnr o

While the team surrounds the injured guy, Axel moves onto the conspicuous bag that's probably been driving a few of you insane. You don't need Search to look inside bags like this one (notice it says "investigate", not "search"), Axel just happened to be in the right spot to do it.

Ajqpgtoc o

A material. Nifty. This one can be used to craft three excellent orbs. Worth considering, once we get a mage.

8qfz3wkh oBa2rckx9 o

In the following turn, Ruby seals the deal.

Cyyvnwzc o

I've been neglecting this archer so far. Bigger fish to fry. Don't worry, matey. I'll pay attention to you in a moment.

T426jmjx oFptzbnug o

We could try this, but I mean, why.

Also, one-shot. Already. Sylvis, sweetie. I love you, but that just won't do.

D96kmodj o

The crossbow is weaker, so it suits the situation best.

Unjqbh6y o

...she's firing that thing with one hand? She really is Raquel except she can kill!

4qqstwtw o

I am fairly certain that this defies rational understanding, but it doesn't matter, because she's awesome like that.

Wmzo2kmh o

Admittedly, she did miss. Perhaps you could try aiming that thing properly next time, my dear?

Ozqxomkz o

Goddamnit...

Wvus5vse o

Now you've made me angry. Unleash the critmaster!

Kzvgj2qq o

Awesome, he actually let Adel have a kill.

9vcm37me oSlhrpuoz o

Here we go, just enough for a level.

Bmlotuqb o

As far as I'm concerned, this is perfect.

5g4hvq1e oUuqlxwse o

This, too.

Wywwf8ew o

All right, time to lure this guy closer.

Jibjt8w8 o

No dice, eh? Have it your way.

Jomdkuuu oHwbb6c39 o

Too much to ask, I guess.

Mjdnt4zf oJznbihj8 o

Elbert's still doing his thing at the entrance. Meanwhile, Axel is in a pickle.

Bpcoqonh o

Oh goodness... that's just barely not enough to two-shot him!

5m9xru79 o

...eh!?

Lokznbri o

You've got to be kidding me. It's chapter 1! One! Map 3 of 40~!

4vgjasm3 o

Well, to be fair, this is actually an extremely benign introduction to berserk. For one, the game handed us the means to fix this just a few turns ago. Also...

Zeiipdot oCrw0gn7i o

He only had a single use of berserk. Without any skills or other orbs to use against us, Disaad is a sitting duck now.

Pp5kyars o

Still, I need to get Axel out of there urgently. So here's the plan: I could try to kill the archer now, but I won't. He moves before Disaad and his pal, which will give me enough time to have Arthur use the sedative on Axel on our first move of the next turn, and then move him back to safety.

If you're wondering why I'm not curing him right now, well...

Tlg5xqfq o

The answer is that I'm a dumbass, and while wasting moves to bait Disaad into using berserk, I moved Arthur and Ruby. All while forgetting that Elbert was down there and could've waited instead of Arthur. Urgh...

Qoev2cdv oJg0ggs6v oO4ac4tut o

Well, whatever.

Wk9hybil o

I do love when a plan works as intended.

Hgpgpuel o

And now he's off to heal! Probably a waste, but I don't want to take any chances. Not even the ones that don't exist.

V14xhslm oDktb4quz o

Perhaps that monk has been aggroed now. Let's try to lure him closer with Adel.

Sx22vets o

Bitch, come to us! We don't bite!

Jnz5bxy5 o

Ah, it's just as well. Die here or there. You're doomed either way.

Cclq3xjy o

Elbert's spent the entire map on this one archer. Must be quite the frustrating experience for him. But I'll gladly take more chances to get spear level.

6mfpghen o

You're just showing off at this point.

Xqdg61jq o

Come the next turn, guy wounds Leon. Can you imagine how scary this'd be if Disaad was armed? Thank goodness he didn't keep his orb with him. For... some reason. It's not like he was comfortably sitting at home, he was in a dank cave in the middle of Narvia! He could've been discovered at any moment (which is exactly what happened), and yet he didn't keep his orb handy?

Come to think about it, how did these buffoons even make it here? They're in the lion's den! Did they come here by boat, or did they use the warp staff? The warp staff that doesn't exist in the game, mind. Unless these guys hacked it in, but I doubt Generic Garbageman #1 possesses that much power.

Ctduaqsg oG2yijyzh o

That's been that.

Mzzfeauw oUq5vurrs o

Sheesh... all right, then. She'll get Disaad.

Zzxhbo9b oY7mrbmkg o

He's so pathetic, just sitting there twiddling his orbless thumbs. You know what, I think I'll try capturing. Again.

Kltqodvo o

Same boss theme as the twins.

Yybanxll o

Cy4m1yfp oI can't imagine you'd risk poisoning this whole area's water supply if you didn't have an antidote for yourself... So, where is it? Hand it over!

Rsmou4y4 oOh? You're a brave lad, seeking me out yourself... Come, then! Try and take it!

Cy4m1yfp oThen you do have one! Excellent, that makes things easy...

9qk5ifz8 o Is it just me, or does it look like he has a detachable chin? Maybe his chin is actually rounded and perfect, but he felt he didn't look cartoonishly evil enough, so he got a pointy one to wear on his evil expeditions.

Kv1ripkl oJ9ber1vw o

Excellent, that worked out wonderfully.

Toun2gv8 o

As did that. Only thing left to do now is pray for the best.

Mikhnp2l o

...this has to be a joke...

31guwuyc o

Rsmou4y4 oYou shall never see the light of day again.

9qk5ifz8 oIf you're wondering why he's back to full HP, that's because this game seems to have gone the Shadow Dragon route of only playing one battle quote ever. Since I had a save handy, I recorded his other battle quotes.

Ivtagawc oFgabyni0 o

Huh? Maim, really?

8za6naj8 o

......

...this has to be the first time I've ever seen Maim do its job. Hahah, wow! Thanks, Sylvis. Love ya.

Jecx46rz o

Krsflixo oSurrender, fiend, and hand over all of your antidotes!

Rsmou4y4 oWhat in blazes...? Get out of my sight, little girl, before I change my mind!

Krsflixo oNot going to surrender, huh? Then I'll have to use force!

Rsmou4y4 oHah, just try me, girl! You'll regret you ever laid eyes upon me!

Krsflixo oWhy are you trying to intimidate me? You aren't even armed! Just give up, and stop wasting everyone's time!

Rsmou4y4 oHeheheh... that's what you think, but any moment now, that layabout will arrive with my orb, and then your lives will be forfeit! He'll be here any second now! Aaaaaaany second now...

Krsflixo o...Oh, just come here.

Rsmou4y4 oWha-- Oof! What is this?! Unhand me! Let go of me, you insolent prick! Let go I said! Gah!

Rvzuuyjs o

Krsflixo o...There's the antidote! Now, what to do with you... Ah, guess I'll hand you over to the knights. Maybe they'll let you live, or maybe they won't. Whatever the case, know that you've been bested by I, Ruby! Don't you go forgetting my name!

K6a8y571 o...what's that? I seem to recall that it was my perfect marksmanship that sealed the deal! If there's any name he should remember the rest of his life, it's Sylvis!

Krsflixo oOh, yeah? Why don't you try saying that to my face? Or are you too afraid to get close, little archer girl?

K6a8y571 oWhy, you...! As if you could do anything to me with those noodle arms of yours!

Cy4m1yfp oGirls, please! Just because there are no more enemies left doesn't mean we need to start fighting among ourselves!

Krsflixo oShut up, Arthur!

Rsmou4y4 oThis is... so disgraceful! Arrrgh...!

Ochbzkts o

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.

And that's the end! Now that we have the antidote, we're free to return and give it to Luciana. But that'll be next time. For now, it is time for me to say farewell! See you next time, as always!

Death count: --

Capture count: 0

Reset count: 0

 

Current perfect streak: 3 maps

Best perfect streak: 3 maps

 

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21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Cy4m1yfp oThese caverns seem to be the most promising places to start searching.

Oh please. What moron would hide in a lava cave?

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Rsmou4y4 oOh? You're a brave lad, seeking me out yourself... Come, then! Try and take it!

Oh right. The kind of guy who starts boasting while being cornered and unarmed at the edge of a cliff.
Between this guy and the lava, the cave must be filled with a lot of hot air. Probably sucks hanging out here for an extended period of time. Would explain why they can't put up much of a fight.

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

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Poor Ruby seems really neglected in the skill area. Most characters in this game got something interesting to make them fun using. Ruby is one of the few who doesn't really do that... at all. Low bases, no skills. She learns Throw at level 8 at least, for all the difference that makes.

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Rsmou4y4 o Filthy vagabond, making me waste my precious time on him...

"Precious time?" What are you gonna spend your time on while sitting in this cave? Finding good hiding places for your orbs?

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

- Desperation! Good to see somebody else with that. Since swords are more accurate than axes, he has an easier time reaching 100 with this.

Not sure that's necessarily true. I mean, Dean starts out with a lot more Axe rank then Arthur has Sword rank. Dean also grows his weapon rank faster.

As for other differences between the two, there is also that Arthur has more defense to lose if he uses Desperation. He can still block, but shields have weight too, so sometimes it might be better to keep them off to have enough speed for a double attack. And of course Dean hits a lot harder. So less opportunities for Arthur to finish of an opponent before they can counter. And more enemies that can survive getting double attacked.

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

He's more defensive than anything, with high-ish defense and the ability to use both small and medium shields (though he's a lot better at using small ones)

Well, he does have the same growths for both shield categories at least. Both at a whopping 90%. So I wouldn't say he is "Much" better with Smasll shields them. I mean, you've seen how quickly his shield rank rose here. Medium shields can get there before you know it.
 

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Frankly, this was a bad idea. Most likely it would've resulted in a waste of an arrow, what with Arrowbane and whatnot.

Fjvceew3 oKov0f58f o

Thankfully, Sylvis is determined to prove that I am completely right in saying that she's the perfect woman.

Oh wow.
It might be worth reiterating that the bane skills work by rolling twice for a hit with the second one being capped at 33%. So not only do you need to roll a successful hit twice, but the 33% cap ensures that even if you do somehow have 255% hit or whatever, you'd still miss 2 times out of 3.
So yeah, generally not worth it to challenge an enemy's bane skill.

 

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Unjqbh6y o

...she's firing that thing with one hand? She really is Raquel except she can kill!

 

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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She does a cool pose whenever she uses a skill. Just because she can.

Her animations nicely emphasize that she is a complete showoff.
I mean, on the previous map she was taking out a bandit leader just to impress the Sinnon Knights. And her saying "If I wanted to kill you, you'd aleady been long dead." all but states that she had been laying in wait for hours at least, just so she could make a dramatic entrance once the Sinnon Knights showed up. So I'd say that character trait is pretty unambigious.
 

21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...this has to be the first time I've ever seen Maim do its job. Hahah, wow! Thanks, Sylvis. Love ya.

Well, I'll be damned. Most certainly a first for me too.

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42 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

If only it had just been one sniper in my case.

It was the first one in particular that fucked with me.

That's because the game goes "Oh hey, you have two units and there's a fuckton of enemies coming. Good luck for the first few turns."

43 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Thank goodness. If there is one thing that I absolutely, irrationally despise, it's when people use that shitty "BuT IT's YoUr CLasS! It'S Ur DutY TO TeACh ThEm As theIr TeACher! ToTallY JusTIfIed to ScRew YOu oVEr WiTH A mAp lIkE rEUNiON aT DaWN iF YOU DiDn'T UsE tHEM!!!1!" excuse to defend this map. It's a goddamned videogame.

...in all honesty, Three Houses is a game that I merely dislike. The hatred comes purely from the hordes of people worshipping it and pretending that it can do no wrong. I know it's childish and irrational, but I cannot help but be frustrated by it. It's why I can't stand the subreddit anymore. It's all fanart of the same five characters from Three Houses, and the same five discussion threads about the same five topics regarding Three Houses.

That said, one day I randomly found a fanart of friggin' Norton of all people. That made my day, hah.

Hence why I feel the other students should have come in. Would have been a big improvement and really rewarded taking the time to get those units. And considering how Ingrid was busted despite her low strength, I definitely would have wanted her to show up.

44 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Desmume isn't the most efficient of emulators, but I think it might work at least acceptably? Give it a shot, what's the worst that could happen?

Don't even try No$GBA, though. Worst emulator I've seen. Just the other day, I spent over an hour desperately trying to save my friend's The Last Promise savefile. He had been playing on No$GBA because he didn't know any better, and the game crashed at the end of chapter 21, preventing him from proceeding. I had to find a way to make those saves compatible with VBA so he could continue with that one.

I know it's an oddly specific reason to hate an emulator, but yeah.

Of course I know Desmume. Hence why I said better because the hardware's my concern.

On VBA, sadly I've been unable to get it to work for me here. mGBA looks like a good replacement though. Even if I'm definitely not on the most recent release.

44 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hey! That's not true! I like you, man! Even if you're constantly disagreeing with me!

That's not contradictory in fairness.

Some of this ranting has been a lark (See: me overdoing a description of GBA ennui).

45 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh, the uses weren't my issue. My issue was how frequently the game would pull some unpredictable bullshit out of the blue, completely screwing me over, solely so they could get me to waste those uses. It's terrible game design, the kind that'd embarrass even Kaga, and it's all over the place.

......

I'm not so sure I saw it. Gronder in the War phase probably causes hair tearing in maddening, but I never really saw much in the way of BS reinforcements (Not zero. Off the top of my head, chapter 19 has some serious pains in the form of three pagasi and a fling beast right when I was about to call over DK)

46 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Eh, fair enough. Then again, Petrine (who most often brings that theme with her) was never a very serious villain. She's literally "big tiddy goth domina". Pfah!

But considering Daein are the consistent villain army of PoR, I just feel frustrated that's their theme when Ashnard's not around.

47 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Wasn't that guy called Gary?

That's the anime, people tend to keep him at least somewhat separate. Blue actually won the league. Fun fact, in Japan, Red and Blue were also given as optional names Satoshi and Shigeru, Satoshi's the guy who thought of Pokemon's initial concept and Shigeru I think you can guess. Second fact, they also use the colour names in PokeSpe (aka the manga that's been running for all of Pokemon's time and is a wild story).

You could choose Gary as a rival name in Yellow, not helping matters.

49 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hard disagree. You can use your entire team, you can prepare for it, you can cheese it with retreat, you can leave and grind if you so wish, it's optional, and it's far less difficult than Reunion At Dawn, even if it's more tedious. Reunion At Dawn only seems better because on Hard it's easy, just like the rest of the game. But at its core, RaD is just a bad man, through and through, far more malign as a concept than the Abode.

Your entire team can also be utter shit for Nuibaba, cheesing with retreat doesn't make the army around Nuibaba disappear unless you've killed them, grinding is available in 3H (much as it's definitely more limited), I won't argue the optional (because how dare you leave Tatiana behind) and as for difficult, I do have to concede due to some of the limitations.

50 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...who in the world is Skrimir?

Ooohhhh right, Caineghis's son. For some reason, this is one character that can never seem to stay in my mind. I cannot count the amount of times I've looked him up, realized who he is, and promptly forgotten about him again. I don't think there's a single character in the pre-Awakening series that I'm so thoroughly incapable of remembering.

Post-Awakening, well, I keep misremembering Reina as Rinkah. Yeah. By the way, who decided to name her Queen in spanish? Please...

If it weren't for memes, that's be people like Roger, Radd or Wrys (the guy turned into a vulnerary. Saddest shit I've ever seen.). Also poor Casear (aka the guy Radd travels with) and the duo of Glade and Hicks, the OG lowest CYL units.

I sort of forget Conomore, Trude and Fred (poor guy, least he has Olwen to keep him company) while Saleh's left in the dust, Yuimna and Yubello legit don't matter, the Sable knights are also forgotten and does anyone remember Oujay really?

51 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

They weren't bad, but considering they were often just loading two models and a bad JPEG for a background... I can understand the longer loads on the maps themselves, as the useless "zoom in and control the unit manually" gimmick seemed very heavy on the hardware.

I still don't understand why that needed to exist. I mean, neat, I guess, but... why? It's completely useless!

Yes it's dumb. But stuff like the motion and zooming in on the map are actually a bit endearing. Though I have to say zooming in on War for the Weak revealed an unfortunate thing.

53 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...or not what?

She didn't hear it from Valery.

Again, why Valery? Why?

55 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hahahahahahahah... oh, boy. How I look forward to some of this game's stuff.

Out of curiousity, just how far did you get into the game? Finished, halfway...?

I wish.

I need to find it first online. As someone who'd having an unfortunate time with the TearRing iso, Berwick is probably going to be worse to sort out. Partly because I'm still working on Ubuntu on this new machine, though there are emulators.

57 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hahahah... c'mon, give him a chance. I know he has a bad face, but I mean, so do I - heck, I'm using the same oversized collar as him! Does that make me the Gharnef of this forum? Well, does it? Never judge a book by its cover.

Kaga's never been the most subtle on character design.

58 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

C'mon, who do you think he is? IntSys?

Not even Kaga would add a theme calling out feudal hierarchy and governance.

59 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Pfff... that's good, okay.

See? Deadpool's a fun movie.

59 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That happens. Exercise some patience, is all I can say.

No, it's for me trying to link stuff, your posts aren't the issue.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That person is edgy, but that's implying that Kaga knew who he was. I won't claim to know the man, but he doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd be aware of this dude's existance.

James Dean was kind of an iconic name due to the roles he tended to play and the fact that such an icon died so young kind of kept him in the mind for a good while. I'd argue that it's make sense that Kaga would have at least taken it by cultural osmosis.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Eyyy! That's awesome! What emulator are you using, by the way? I'm gonna go on a limb and assume ePSXe. I would recommend Mednafen more, with an interface addon (I use Medlaunch), as I feel it's a better emulator by a longshot. It also has throttle, which I highly recommend. TRS can get agonizingly slow at times.

Mednafen has not been set up just yet and it won't run it because the disk it too big. Currently using PCSXr, trying to figure out if it's a region lock.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Second, and this is the important part. Tell me, how many times have you thought "man, I wish this fog of war BS would affect the enemy! Damn cheaters!"? Well, guess what. Kaga did it first. Indeed, FoW affects the enemy in this game. Same conditions as us; if an enemy comes within an ally's range, they're discovered and can be attacked by anybody. Bumping into unseen enemies leads to an inevitable fight where the enemy gets the first attack.

Only in this and Days of Ruin.

Just, that's disappointing. I want this already.I certainly am not sure about 3H off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure this isn't there either.

Also, this is certainly not your regular darkness.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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There's an enemy with darkmend. Darkmend is basically physic, only with a higher range (physic has 3 hexes of range in this game, while darkmend has 5). Since it's a dark orb, it's exclusive to the enemy, for the most part. Right now, all it's doing is render Arthur's one success futile.

What are your opinions on the game's handling of physic?

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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12 EXP. That's more than what, say, Elbert is getting right now. See what I meant? I really am not sure if she can be considered a prepromote.

But she doesn't.

So, is she like a dancer/freelancer class wise?

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Scylla is the orb he's taking to Disaad. He'll never use it himself, thankfully. It's an interesting weapon, as it adds the enemy's level to the might. In other words, if one attacks a level 4 unit, the orb's might will be 7. As you can imagine, this'll be one hell of a scary weapon in the lategame. It's also one of the very few things that could potentially murder the endgame-ready beard right now. If I could deploy him here, of course.

Okay, that's something interesting.

A tome that actually is relevant all game due to its ability. Cool. Everyone should steal it.

Remember the Glower BS? I'd much rather this BS.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Wha-- ACK! WHERE'D YOU COME FROM!?

5 points to Razenclaw?

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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He only had a single use of berserk. Without any skills or other orbs to use against us, Disaad is a sitting duck now.

Dissad, Alexa play Despacisto

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3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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His son has been imprisoned! Isn't Dis Saad?

These guys must play a lot of FE Heroes, they've got way more orbs than me. 

Speaking of weird weapon durability, does a bow missing in this game cause it to lose durability?

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8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

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This single dialogue made me restart twice because I thought he would try to flee with the contents in the bag, and tried to rush with Arthur and of course every enemy ignored him and went for Ruby instead...

8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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I tried using her because I liked her backstory, but she kept getting killed, so I had to bench her. Although it is a shame I won't be able to recruit that unit... they were insane on chapter 3, pretty much soloed the north-eastern part of the map, even if it was the easiest path of the map.

8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Arthur turned out pretty good, Hurry is a really useful skill especially on a mounted unit. Flourish is good for training other weaker units, didn't have much success with getting injuries with it though. Didn't even remember he had Desperation because of his low speed till he promoted.

He was one of the few who could tank hits reliably, and my first unit to promote, on chapter 6.

9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Wl1btkfg o

There's an enemy with darkmend. Darkmend is basically physic, only with a higher range (physic has 3 hexes of range in this game, while darkmend has 5). Since it's a dark orb, it's exclusive to the enemy, for the most part. Right now, all it's doing is render Arthur's one success futile.

I hate Darkmend, especially on maps with turn limits.

9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Sylvis moves upwards. See that? The flags make a return from TRS! These handy little friends will allow me to mark enemy ranges and other useful info. Kaga still refuses to let me keep enemy range on, but oh well. What can you do.

How do you set flags in this game? I can't seem to find it..

9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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...again. It happened again. I do the whole process to capture twice, and it fails twice.

Sigh... O Perceval, where art thou...

Spoiler

Why that last line though... isn't there a certain unit with the same skill and a much better weapon who appears a lot earlier?

 

9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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You've got to be kidding me. It's chapter 1! One! Map 3 of 40~!

Still better than getting berserked for the first time in a tough map as a beginner.

9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

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Rsmou4y4 oYou shall never see the light of day again.

Really, how? Are you planning to jump off the cliff with her or something?

9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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......

...this has to be the first time I've ever seen Maim do its job. Hahah, wow! Thanks, Sylvis. Love ya.

Same, although I haven't really used her much.

 

This is the first time I am replying in this format, so forgive me if something goes wrong... Still, can't believe I am writing such an lengthy reply, even if I am not that busy due to the current lockdown.

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15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I can imagine. That was so anticlimatic. Of course, his backstory is that he's literally an earlygame brigand, so it's no great wonder that he was unable to stand up to an endgame team.

Which is what appeals to my sense of humour. It was the greatest mismatch of a final boss since the old Hulk game on the Mega Drive (where the final boss is the Leader, whose only power is super intelligence). You can defeat him in one hit (admittedly only if it's an uppercut, or Banner's gun as inexplicably regular punches don't work) because master schemer here literally forgot to plan for what happens if all his tricks, traps and thugs fail... as per usual.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

I love how the backstory in and of itself is convoluted enough to be a believable Sonic OC backstory. All this for a water bottle. Hahahahahah...

That and it makes fun of the need to make every Sonic OC related to a major character/somehow canonically important despite not being in the games or even official. I admit though, the original speech was more verbose, but we are talking something from most of a decade ago, so I've actually forgotten it.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Anything to kill my units. Remember the wyvern lord that randomly was slower than his peers just so that Hugh could double and kill him, sealing his own fate? I remember. I wish I didn't, but I remember.

For all my self-deprecation in the titles, I seriously doubt I'll ever be able to come even close to the FE6 LP. God, what an inmense fucking trainwreck that was.

That was unironically one of the most bullshit things I'd ever seen. What's next? Enemies that use the rescue mechanic to deliberately slow down so they can suicide against you? Even though it wouldn't work strategically, as they'd just block the path with the rescued unit. Damn.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

But... then why were the villagers saying that they'd put up the hit at the guild but there'd been "no takers yet"?

Disorganization among the villagers?

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Ahahahahah... be honest, are you doing this on purpose?

Yes. I like to say things that can be both taken as sick or completely innocent, and then pretend I don't know what people are talking about when they take it I'm being sick. Then I act like I just got it, call them sick, and enjoy the reaction. But I'm also too honest to lie when asked directly if I'm setting people up. Mind you, that Mario one was legitimately me referencing the toxins of Amanita Muscaria making you think you're growing.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

I'll have him hoard all my crap, if only for the joke. We'll see how full his pockets are by the end of the game.

Half a mann, Half a mind, Full pockets.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Is there any other way to look at that? "I married the 1000-year-old little girl that lives in my head" sounds like the start of a friggin' joke. I wonder what the punchline is. Maybe that's the punchline, actually.

Honestly, I'd assume it's the set up to the "do em in your head" joke I always found disturbing. But you know. In this situation, it's literal. So it might be even more disturbing.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Ooohhhh right, Caineghis's son. For some reason, this is one character that can never seem to stay in my mind. I cannot count the amount of times I've looked him up, realized who he is, and promptly forgotten about him again. I don't think there's a single character in the pre-Awakening series that I'm so thoroughly incapable of remembering.

You know, if it makes you feel better, I forgot about him until he came up as well. Mostly because the one time he's off the bench for me is in a literal cinematic where he gets beat by Zelgius. Which I guess isn't the worst way to get beat.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

......

...have you tried to capture a bear with a bow and arrow, The Roger? I thought we agreed that you wouldn't do that unless I died in a car accident!

That was some local cryptid the relative size of a bear. (which is probably a worse idea, on the off chance it exists). Mind I've only ever seen a bear once, and it was a Sun Bear at the zoo. But I do definitely have experience with catching injured birds (and for that matter snakes). It's not particularly easy because you have to be firm enough to actually stop them escaping, but gentle enough not to do harm. In the snake's case you also need to avoid getting bit, but that whole process is made rather easy because generally I just use a lengthy implement such as a stick and a bin to herd them into and shut the lid until release. It's the bird that's harder here because they'll take every trick in the book to get away. Worst case being when a particular parrot I discovered one morning with a broken wing left me with an injury to my middle finger by clamping down hard. Infected and everything. So it's many times tougher to capture someone in non-ideal situations such as war where they're actively trying to kill you rather than flee.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...well either way, I'm not gonna stop hiring Sylvis, so deal with it.

Given the motivations for the original post... that'll be easy. Also a chance for a bad pun will Sylvis wound.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Holy guacamole. Now that is a pitchfork I can get behind.

Well you definitely wouldn't want to be in front of it.

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Sherlock and Christine may sit this one out, and let Sylvis prove how much better than them she is.

Also, yes, that's exactly what you think it is.

Favouritism?

15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

Second, and this is the important part. Tell me, how many times have you thought "man, I wish this fog of war BS would affect the enemy! Damn cheaters!"? Well, guess what. Kaga did it first. Indeed, FoW affects the enemy in this game. Same conditions as us; if an enemy comes within an ally's range, they're discovered and can be attacked by anybody. Bumping into unseen enemies leads to an inevitable fight where the enemy gets the first attack.

So basically like the Hide ability but for everyone? All the same it sounds actually fun as opposed to annoying.

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy o Yes! Ruby's right! Except for the part where she trips over a rock and breaks her neck because she intends to go running into the darkness like a headless chicken!

In the headless chicken's defense, it's already got problems with it's neck. Namely that it's got a gaping wound at the top. Ruby has no such excuse.

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Yes! Yes!! This is great, great! I mean, he's probably not promoting ever, because promoting Adel is near impossible. But good effort still!

Despite deserving it.

 

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Oh yeah, Disaad still doesn't have his orb. It'd take an extremely slow player to let him get it, the layabout in question appears really late.

Man these garbage bags never fail to be idiots.

 

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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I have to wonder, why does Axel look like Quasimodo in his battle sprites? He doesn't look to be a hunchback in his portrait.

Well, he could be deliberately lowering the area he takes up to reduce the enemy hit rate.

 

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Elbert's spent the entire map on this one archer. Must be quite the frustrating experience for him. But I'll gladly take more chances to get spear level.

6mfpghen o

You're just showing off at this point.

Which one of them? I can honestly imagine Elbert using the entire opportunity for snarky remarks.

 

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Rsmou4y4 oOh? You're a brave lad, seeking me out yourself... Come, then! Try and take it!

Cy4m1yfp oThen you do have one! Excellent, that makes things easy...

9qk5ifz8 o Is it just me, or does it look like he has a detachable chin? Maybe his chin is actually rounded and perfect, but he felt he didn't look cartoonishly evil enough, so he got a pointy one to wear on his evil expeditions.

Or he's a patchwork monstrosity sewn together from the dead. Or his chin got cut off before, and has been sewn back on. Or he needed stitches

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Rsmou4y4 oYou shall never see the light of day again.

What a hollow claim from a man with no weapon facing a woman who could almost one shot him.

 

16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Krsflixo oNot going to surrender, huh? Then I'll have to use force!

Rsmou4y4 oHah, just try me, girl! You'll regret you ever laid eyes upon me!

Krsflixo oWhy are you trying to intimidate me? You aren't even armed! Just give up, and stop wasting everyone's time!

Rsmou4y4 oHeheheh... that's what you think, but any moment now, that layabout will arrive with my orb, and then your lives will be forfeit! He'll be here any second now! Aaaaaaany second now...

Krsflixo o...Oh, just come here.

Accurate summary of the battle.

14 hours ago, BrightBow said:

"Precious time?" What are you gonna spend your time on while sitting in this cave? Finding good hiding places for your orbs?

This guy might be dumber than Martel. Unironically. Disaadest excuse for a villain I've ever seen.

13 hours ago, Dayni said:

If it weren't for memes, that's be people like Roger, Radd or Wrys (the guy turned into a vulnerary. Saddest shit I've ever seen.). Also poor Casear (aka the guy Radd travels with) and the duo of Glade and Hicks, the OG lowest CYL units.

I sort of forget Conomore, Trude and Fred (poor guy, least he has Olwen to keep him company) while Saleh's left in the dust, Yuimna and Yubello legit don't matter, the Sable knights are also forgotten and does anyone remember Oujay really?

Ironic. I couldn't forget most of these guys. I mean Oujay literally died twice in Ruben's FE6 Iron Man. How could I forget that?  I do admit I forgot Fred though, but how could one forget Conomoor's mustache? If I were to try and think on the character I forget the most (Skrimir aside) it's probably Say'ri. Because comes in late enough that I kind of have competent units in Awakening, but early enough I have time to forget her... despite relevance to the plot's second arc. The fact she's absent from the first arc and just kind of still there for the third is enough for me to forget her when I'm not actively using her. There's definitely characters from Geneology I forget too. Most of the replacement 2nd Gen characters for example.

10 hours ago, eclipse said:

In a volcano. . .really. . .with those robes. . .

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this guy wasn't the brightest.

Only way he could have been bright is if his robes combusted. But then, it being a garbage bag, we all know plastic just melts into your skin.

7 hours ago, ranger016 said:

Really, how? Are you planning to jump off the cliff with her or something?

I doubt he'd even have the mind to think of that.

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On 3/31/2020 at 1:41 AM, BrightBow said:

Oh please. What moron would hide in a lava cave.

Oh right. The kind of guy who starts boasting while being cornered and unarmed at the edge of a cliff.

Disaad's hilarious.

Between this guy and the lava, the cave must be filled with a lot of hot air. Probably sucks hanging out here for an extended period of time. Would explain why they don't put up much of a fight.

Maybe that's why the layabout took so long to bring him the orb. He had to mentally prepare himself to speak to his boss again.

Poor Ruby seems really neglected in the skill area. Most characters in this game got something interesting to make them fun using. Ruby is one of the few who doesn't really do that... at all. Low bases, no skills. She learns Throw at level 8 at least, for all the difference that makes.

She also seems to get Pursuit way too late. Which is great, but I mean... level 17.

"Precious time?" What are you gonna spend your time on while sitting in this cave? Finding good hiding places for your orbs?

He needed to practice his evil speeches for when he made his triumphant entrance as he invaded Navaron.

No doubt he would've lasted two lines into the speech before Vanmilion wrecked him.

Not sure that's necessarily true. I mean, Dean starts out with a lot more Axe rank then Arthur has Sword rank. Dean also grows his weapon rank faster.

As for other differences between the two, there is also that Arthur has more defense to lose if he uses Desperation. He can still block, but shields have weight too, so sometimes it might be better to keep them off to have enough speed for a double attack. And of course Dean hits a lot harder. So less opportunities for Arthur to finish of an opponent before they can counter. And more enemies that can survive getting double attacked.

That much is true. I was mistaken.

Well, he does have the same growths for both shield categories at least. Both at a whopping 90%. So I wouldn't say he is "Much" better with Smasll shields them. I mean, you've seen how quickly his shield rank rose here. Medium shields can get there before you know it.

Oh I agree, I was talking at base more than anything.
 

Oh wow.
It might be worth reiterating that the bane skills work by rolling twice for a hit with the second one being capped at 33%. So not only do you need to roll a successful hit twice, but the 33% cap ensures that even if you do somehow have 255% hit or whatever, you'd still miss 2 times out of 3.
So yeah, generally not worth it to challenge an enemy's bane skill.

I still can't believe that worked out fine.

Her animations nicely emphasize that she is a complete showoff.
I mean, on the previous map she was taking out a bandit leader just to impress the Sinnon Knights. And her saying "If I wanted to kill you, you'd aleady been long dead." all but states that she had been laying in wait for hours at least, just so she could make a dramatic entrance once the Sinnon Knights showed up. So I'd say that character trait is pretty unambigious.

She's a bit of a dickhead, yeah, but she's so much fun to use that I can forgive her.

Well, I'll be damned. Most certainly a first for me too.

Why do all the weird things happen in my LPs? Not that I'm complaining, in this case, but...

 

On 3/31/2020 at 2:03 AM, Dayni said:

It was the first one in particular that fucked with me.

That's because the game goes "Oh hey, you have two units and there's a fuckton of enemies coming. Good luck for the first few turns."

Yes, even on hard those first turns can get difficult if your lords got RNG-screwed / are underleveled. Which can happen. It's only two units. How ironic that the most foolproof of the routes in this aspect (except CF, which doesn't have this godawful map, thank goodness) is SS, simply because the companion you get is a prepromote that joins in chapter 12.

Hence why I feel the other students should have come in. Would have been a big improvement and really rewarded taking the time to get those units. And considering how Ingrid was busted despite her low strength, I definitely would have wanted her to show up.

Heck, why doesn't the faculty show up? Seteth appears in SS, Gilbert appears in AM, so why not... everyone else? I know there's the whole "oh yeah we made a promise to see each other again!" shenanigan, but that's still no good reason for those eight, and only those eight, to just happen to arrive at the same place at nearly the same time. How did they even know Byleth and their companion were there?

Better yet: why not give the finger to that whole concept and let me have a prepscreen and my team? I suppose it's less "feely" that way... but c'mon, in real life it's been five minutes since the last time we saw those units. There's no emotional investment at all, it's just an annoyance.

Of course I know Desmume. Hence why I said better because the hardware's my concern.

On VBA, sadly I've been unable to get it to work for me here. mGBA looks like a good replacement though. Even if I'm definitely not on the most recent release.

I thought VBA was pretty hard to not get working, but then I read below that you're using ubuntu. Perhaps that'd be a problem, yes...

That's not contradictory in fairness.

Some of this ranting has been a lark (See: me overdoing a description of GBA ennui).

Of course, that's always.

......

I'm not so sure I saw it. Gronder in the War phase probably causes hair tearing in maddening, but I never really saw much in the way of BS reinforcements (Not zero. Off the top of my head, chapter 19 has some serious pains in the form of three pagasi and a fling beast right when I was about to call over DK)

I'll mostly talk about AM since it's the only route I finished. There's the Gronder Field nonsense that was bullshit even on hard (in AM you have Claude flying around with the Failnaught), there's the reinforcement situation in Maddening, there's Reunion at Dawn, there's the fact that attacking any of the units around the Death Knight will prompt him to move for no reason, there's this absolute fuckery that I've never seen anybody else comment on...

Just a few examples. Enough to make me question the ability of the map designers. Enough that, despite the game being quite easy on hard, I couldn't go pulseless because any of these things could happen at any moment.

But considering Daein are the consistent villain army of PoR, I just feel frustrated that's their theme when Ashnard's not around.

I can understand, all right.

That's the anime, people tend to keep him at least somewhat separate. Blue actually won the league. Fun fact, in Japan, Red and Blue were also given as optional names Satoshi and Shigeru, Satoshi's the guy who thought of Pokemon's initial concept and Shigeru I think you can guess. Second fact, they also use the colour names in PokeSpe (aka the manga that's been running for all of Pokemon's time and is a wild story).

You could choose Gary as a rival name in Yellow, not helping matters.

Guess I'll just call him Joe, then.

Your entire team can also be utter shit for Nuibaba, cheesing with retreat doesn't make the army around Nuibaba disappear unless you've killed them, grinding is available in 3H (much as it's definitely more limited), I won't argue the optional (because how dare you leave Tatiana behind) and as for difficult, I do have to concede due to some of the limitations.

Point one: fair enough, but that can happen with RaD, and far more easily at that, since you only have a set team rather than all of it.

Point two: No, but you can charge in recklessly, kill a few enemies and retreat. Is it shit and completely unfun? Yes, but it's better than the absolute nothing you have to prevent a softlock in RaD.

Point three: Not before RaD it isn't. You'd have to go back, waste hours of your life grinding up, play chapter 12 again and take care not to forget to properly prepare for RaD. Seriously inconvenient.

Point four: I'd leave Tatiana behind, considering the Abode literally murdered the entire game for me. Zeke's still waiting for me to come after him to this day.

Point five: Good.

If it weren't for memes, that's be people like Roger, Radd or Wrys (the guy turned into a vulnerary. Saddest shit I've ever seen.). Also poor Casear (aka the guy Radd travels with) and the duo of Glade and Hicks, the OG lowest CYL units.

I sort of forget Conomore, Trude and Fred (poor guy, least he has Olwen to keep him company) while Saleh's left in the dust, Yuimna and Yubello legit don't matter, the Sable knights are also forgotten and does anyone remember Oujay really?

To be fair, Skrimir is in the unfortunate position of being in one of the pre-awakening game that I'm the least familiar with (though I probably know less about Genealogy), and looking like an exact carbon copy of his dad.

Yes it's dumb. But stuff like the motion and zooming in on the map are actually a bit endearing. Though I have to say zooming in on War for the Weak revealed an unfortunate thing.

I do not deny that it's "endearing", but I have to wonder if they had their priorities in order when they focused on "endearing" things over fixing all the issues the game has.

She didn't hear it from Valery.

Again, why Valery? Why?

Valery is the real Gharnef.

I wish.

Hah!

I need to find it first online. As someone who'd having an unfortunate time with the TearRing iso, Berwick is probably going to be worse to sort out. Partly because I'm still working on Ubuntu on this new machine, though there are emulators.

Just give up and get yourself a windows VM, man. There's a single PS2 emulator, and I'm not sure if it's available on Ubuntu.

Kaga's never been the most subtle on character design.

Zieg.

Not even Kaga would add a theme calling out feudal hierarchy and governance.

I mean, I'd argue Volcens is one hell of a call out, but I do suppose they call him out personally more than his position as a whole.

See? Deadpool's a fun movie.

Maybe I'll consider watching it when I feel like watching a movie. Which is almost never.

No, it's for me trying to link stuff, your posts aren't the issue.

Ah, I see. Good, good.

James Dean was kind of an iconic name due to the roles he tended to play and the fact that such an icon died so young kind of kept him in the mind for a good while. I'd argue that it's make sense that Kaga would have at least taken it by cultural osmosis.

That grabbed my attention as well, when I googled him. 24 years old, no? What happened to him?

Mednafen has not been set up just yet and it won't run it because the disk it too big. Currently using PCSXr, trying to figure out if it's a region lock.

Oh boy. Well, good luck.

Only in this and Days of Ruin.

Just, that's disappointing. I want this already.I certainly am not sure about 3H off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure this isn't there either.

Nope, 3H fog is the same as all non-BWS and DoR fog.

Also, this is certainly not your regular darkness.

...but BWS darkness is not Thracia darkness, you can clearly see through it!

What are your opinions on the game's handling of physic?

A lot more limited than in other games. It's... eh, I don't like it, but I don't mind it either.

But she doesn't.

So, is she like a dancer/freelancer class wise?

I have no idea what to call her. Let's leave it at "just Sylvis" and call it a day.

Okay, that's something interesting.

A tome that actually is relevant all game due to its ability. Cool. Everyone should steal it.

Make it happen, IntSys. I imagine they have an entire department dedicated to scouring Kaga's Notes for new ideas. Let's hope they reach scylla soon!

Remember the Glower BS? I'd much rather this BS.

Oh yeah, indeed. Glower was lame. At least if you're talking about FE12 glower, as that's the only one I know.

5 points to Razenclaw?

Reminds me of that one bootleg Harry Potter game that said he was "divided to Grandfando school".

Dissad, Alexa play Despacisto

I was waiting for this.

 

On 3/31/2020 at 2:44 AM, Benice said:

His son has been imprisoned! Isn't Dis Saad?

Ahh, yes...

These guys must play a lot of FE Heroes, they've got way more orbs than me.

Disaad is a whale confirmed.

Speaking of weird weapon durability, does a bow missing in this game cause it to lose durability?

Durability and an arrow.

 

On 3/31/2020 at 5:19 AM, eclipse said:

In a volcano. . .really. . .with those robes. . .

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this guy wasn't the brightest.

They probably sent him on this fool's errand hoping to get rid of him.

 

On 3/31/2020 at 8:41 AM, ranger016 said:

This single dialogue made me restart twice because I thought he would try to flee with the contents in the bag, and tried to rush with Arthur and of course every enemy ignored him and went for Ruby instead...

Jikes...

I tried using her because I liked her backstory, but she kept getting killed, so I had to bench her. Although it is a shame I won't be able to recruit that unit... they were insane on chapter 3, pretty much soloed the north-eastern part of the map, even if it was the easiest path of the map.

Oh yeah, if there ever was a reason to put up with Ruby, it's that person.

Arthur turned out pretty good, Hurry is a really useful skill especially on a mounted unit. Flourish is good for training other weaker units, didn't have much success with getting injuries with it though. Didn't even remember he had Desperation because of his low speed till he promoted.

He was one of the few who could tank hits reliably, and my first unit to promote, on chapter 6.

Arthur's solid, yeah. Perhaps I'll use him, I don't know.

I hate Darkmend, especially on maps with turn limits.

It is the worst.

How do you set flags in this game? I can't seem to find it..

Press start to flag.

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Why that last line though... isn't there a certain unit with the same skill and a much better weapon who appears a lot earlier?

 

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Larentia? Larentia has mercy, yes, but she doesn't have lightning. I am fairly certain that Perceval with lightning & mercy on an injured enemy is one of the very few ways to guarantee a capture. As my LP's proving so far, merely reducing the enemy's HP to 0 does not suffice.

Still better than getting berserked for the first time in a tough map as a beginner.

Indeed, no complaints there.

Really, how? Are you planning to jump off the cliff with her or something?

That was probably his plan, but then she just shot him from range 1.

Same, although I haven't really used her much.

Shame on you! Hahah, just kidding.

This is the first time I am replying in this format, so forgive me if something goes wrong... Still, can't believe I am writing such an lengthy reply, even if I am not that busy due to the current lockdown.

Neither can I! You've been there since the very beginning, and never said much until now. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

 

16 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Which is what appeals to my sense of humour. It was the greatest mismatch of a final boss since the old Hulk game on the Mega Drive (where the final boss is the Leader, whose only power is super intelligence). You can defeat him in one hit (admittedly only if it's an uppercut, or Banner's gun as inexplicably regular punches don't work) because master schemer here literally forgot to plan for what happens if all his tricks, traps and thugs fail... as per usual.

He's a Bond villain. Everyone knows villains can only think up the most convoluted, overly complicated solution to any dumb problem, and then proceed to neglect the most obvious issues, like, for example, the protagonist coming after them.

That and it makes fun of the need to make every Sonic OC related to a major character/somehow canonically important despite not being in the games or even official. I admit though, the original speech was more verbose, but we are talking something from most of a decade ago, so I've actually forgotten it.

I loved it. Tonic for Smash, please. Literally just a water bottle lying there.

That was unironically one of the most bullshit things I'd ever seen.

It's definitely up there. I'd rank it very high, alongside the time I was playing Shadow Dragon and Palla died because she and Catria recruited themselves during the enemy phase. While Marth was helping pin a sniper against the wall. Before the sniper had moved.

But at least that I could've seen coming, as I knew they did that. It was mostly my fault. The Hugh thing was just killing off one of my favourite characters from the game through the dirtiest means possible.

What's next? Enemies that use the rescue mechanic to deliberately slow down so they can suicide against you? Even though it wouldn't work strategically, as they'd just block the path with the rescued unit. Damn.

Take this: enemies deliberately trading heavier weapons from their peers so they're slowed down enough to pull a Hugh on the player.

Disorganization among the villagers?

Tkrusneq oAll right, Graham, did you take the money to the guild?

Irluzysr oI thought Maia was the one in charge of that.

Fkn3oxsy oWhat? Me? Wasn't it old Mordred over there?

Yhifcp21 oPlease, I'm not so old that my memory is failing me. It was Vectar that was supposed to do it.

Tkrusneq o......

Tkrusneq o...oh look, a pair of knights! Let's pretend that we just happen to be discussing the matter of the bandits, and see if they'll take the bait!

Irluzysr oRight, good idea.

Yes. I like to say things that can be both taken as sick or completely innocent, and then pretend I don't know what people are talking about when they take it I'm being sick. Then I act like I just got it, call them sick, and enjoy the reaction. But I'm also too honest to lie when asked directly if I'm setting people up. Mind you, that Mario one was legitimately me referencing the toxins of Amanita Muscaria making you think you're growing.

Hahahahah... in the end, you were much too pure to keep the charade up. Good to know I'm hosting some good folks, though. Unlike Butterman. Whose replies I miss, since he's been silent for a while. B-But it's not like I want him to come back or anything, b-baka... I should probably shut it already.

Half a mann, Half a mind, Full pockets.

That's halfmann for ya. He's a real dick mann.

Honestly, I'd assume it's the set up to the "do em in your head" joke I always found disturbing. But you know. In this situation, it's literal. So it might be even more disturbing.

I'm just wondering what the logistics behind that relationship would be. You know, physically speaking. How would it be feasible to engage in the traditional marital fraternization rituals when one of the parties lacks a corporeal presence?

......

...In other words, how the hell is Byleth supposed to fuck Sothis?

You know, if it makes you feel better, I forgot about him until he came up as well. Mostly because the one time he's off the bench for me is in a literal cinematic where he gets beat by Zelgius. Which I guess isn't the worst way to get beat.

It's like being beaten by Ward. Not much to be ashamed about.

That was some local cryptid the relative size of a bear. (which is probably a worse idea, on the off chance it exists). Mind I've only ever seen a bear once, and it was a Sun Bear at the zoo. But I do definitely have experience with catching injured birds (and for that matter snakes). It's not particularly easy because you have to be firm enough to actually stop them escaping, but gentle enough not to do harm. In the snake's case you also need to avoid getting bit, but that whole process is made rather easy because generally I just use a lengthy implement such as a stick and a bin to herd them into and shut the lid until release. It's the bird that's harder here because they'll take every trick in the book to get away. Worst case being when a particular parrot I discovered one morning with a broken wing left me with an injury to my middle finger by clamping down hard. Infected and everything. So it's many times tougher to capture someone in non-ideal situations such as war where they're actively trying to kill you rather than flee.

Ah, I'd probably suck at saving birds. I instinctively recoil when an animal struggles because I'm terrified of harming them.

Given the motivations for the original post... that'll be easy. Also a chance for a bad pun will Sylvis wound.

...that doesn't even... how does that work? How do you pronounce Sylvis?

Well you definitely wouldn't want to be in front of it.

Hah, that's for sure!

Favouritism?

No, I mean the f--

...shut up. I'm not biased.

So basically like the Hide ability but for everyone? All the same it sounds actually fun as opposed to annoying.

Yeah, that's it, actually! Everyone has hide in the fog.

In the headless chicken's defense, it's already got problems with it's neck. Namely that it's got a gaping wound at the top. Ruby has no such excuse.

Headless chicken >>>>>>> Ruby.

Despite deserving it.

That's the tragedy of poor game design decisions. Which is what this is, there's no two-ways around it. If it was 30 shield, 20 spear it might be a little better for Adel, but as things stand...

Man these garbage bags never fail to be idiots.

They do not disappoint, at least. You know what to expect.

Well, he could be deliberately lowering the area he takes up to reduce the enemy hit rate.

Axel is the greatest tactician.

Which one of them? I can honestly imagine Elbert using the entire opportunity for snarky remarks.

They both did well, Elbert and that generic archer. I'm proud of both. But, alas, the archer couldn't live.

Or he's a patchwork monstrosity sewn together from the dead. Or his chin got cut off before, and has been sewn back on. Or he needed stitches

I still prefer to think that he's got a detachable chin, simply because he didn't feel his was pointy enough.

What a hollow claim from a man with no weapon facing a woman who could almost one shot him.

Disaad probably thought the robes were enough to make him look menacing. Even though they really aren't.

Also, "almost"? That's not right. She could one-shot him. She just elected not to. Which makes all his gloating even sadder.

Accurate summary of the battle.

Thanks!

This guy might be dumber than Martel. Unironically. Disaadest excuse for a villain I've ever seen.

I'd argue Martel's still worse. Say what you will, but at least Disaad wasn't plotting to make the lava rivers overflow to cook us alive.

Ironic. I couldn't forget most of these guys. I mean Oujay literally died twice in Ruben's FE6 Iron Man. How could I forget that? 

Auurghh...

I do admit I forgot Fred though, but how could one forget Conomoor's mustache?

Conomor's cool, yeah. He's in an unfortunate position, but there are worse - and more forgettable - characters in thracia. Fred... yeah, Fred's probably the most forgettable character in Thracia, by virtue of lacking memes (Ronan, Hicks) and being just a notch less forgettable than the champions of forgettableness (Kane, Alba, Robert), which ironically makes him more forgettable than them, as everyone remembers them as the guys nobody would ever remember.

There's a science to being forgettable, is what I'm saying.

If I were to try and think on the character I forget the most (Skrimir aside) it's probably Say'ri.

...who?

Because comes in late enough that I kind of have competent units in Awakening, but early enough I have time to forget her... despite relevance to the plot's second arc. The fact she's absent from the first arc and just kind of still there for the third is enough for me to forget her when I'm not actively using her. There's definitely characters from Geneology I forget too. Most of the replacement 2nd Gen characters for example.

I know most of the 1st Gen characters, but on the 2nd Gen I always draw a huge blank. Seliph, Leif, Oifey, Nanna and Jeanne, Iuchar and Iucharba (and that's only because for the longest time I thought they were Luchar and Lucharba), Hannibal, Cairpre and Sharlow (for some reason this is one of three replacements I know), Altena, Ced and Hawk, and... that's about it. Everyone else I just have no idea. Finn doesn't count because he's in Gen 1.

Only way he could have been bright is if his robes combusted. But then, it being a garbage bag, we all know plastic just melts into your skin.

Oh God, that's a horrible way to die... eaten up by your own garbage bag.

I doubt he'd even have the mind to think of that.

The only thing that isn't sad about Disaad is his name. Very easy to pun.

 

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Last time, we rescued the biggest moron in the Raze empire from his volcano, before he could trip over his evil robes and fall into the lava. Today, cool beverage saves the kids.

Zlonc8lu oThank goodness... Now the children just need to rest and recover their strength.

Ps4nmuuw oIt was the Church of Raze who was responsible for poisoning the river on Neam Mountain.

Nridniys o

Lgjkwhcy o How did the poison only get in the water of the kids, then? Did Disaad pour a single drop of poison into the water and Luciana happened to bottle that drop, or what? Maybe he started laughing evilly and forgot what he was doing. Then proceeded to return to his cave.

Zlonc8lu oI see... Thank you so much for all that you've done for these children.

Ps4nmuuw oYou should be thanking these two. It was thanks to them that we were able to catch the culprits.

Lgjkwhcy oWell, I mean, Arthur... I wish I could say Ruby was the liability, but Arthur was the one who kept on missing all of his swings...

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Lgjkwhcy oNo kidding! You were vastly outnumbered. And you kept missing, which didn't help at all!
 
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Eumingtx oCan you withstand the spirit of one who's life has passed?

Eumingtx oThe weight of the burden of that death?

Eumingtx oWeak souls succumb quickly to a strong spirit...

Eumingtx oStrong ether is like a toxin to thsoe whose bodies and minds are unfamiliar with such overwhelming power...

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Death count: Kain
                        Indiana Jones again
                        Hubert five times
                        Volo
                        Ruben

Capture count: 420

Reset count: 666

 

Current perfect streak: Vanmilion maps

Best perfect streak: I seriouslee love making joke updates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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55 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Heck, why doesn't the faculty show up? Seteth appears in SS, Gilbert appears in AM, so why not... everyone else? I know there's the whole "oh yeah we made a promise to see each other again!" shenanigan, but that's still no good reason for those eight, and only those eight, to just happen to arrive at the same place at nearly the same time. How did they even know Byleth and their companion were there?

I'm fine with the knights not showing up in that moment in story terms. They're still trying to figure out where Rhea is, I can live with them not showing up. Manuela and Hanneman were still professors even as they were working with Byleth, so the promise wouldn't have mattered.

Also, the students would have come to the area because of the promise made during part 1. Probably while they were waiting they heard some fighting and responded "What are the odds?" and easily concluded they were likely there.

53 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I thought VBA was pretty hard to not get working, but then I read below that you're using ubuntu. Perhaps that'd be a problem, yes...

It wasn't a problem before. I seemed to have more trouble running stuff without slowdown in more recent years, could have been due to an ageing device but VBA has been shown to not be quite as good as it was.

mGBA seems to be one to watch, it's still being worked on as well.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

To be fair, Skrimir is in the unfortunate position of being in one of the pre-awakening game that I'm the least familiar with (though I probably know less about Genealogy), and looking like an exact carbon copy of his dad.

Caineghis is his uncle.

He is that forgettable.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Just give up and get yourself a windows VM, man. There's a single PS2 emulator, and I'm not sure if it's available on Ubuntu.

It is available and that would be giving up. I could do the VM route, but I also would like to keep the processors alive. :P

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Zieg.

I suppose..... but I don't think Kaga was ever as invested in a non-lord as he was in Zeig.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That grabbed my attention as well, when I googled him. 24 years old, no? What happened to him?

He died in a car crash.

Very much in character.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh boy. Well, good luck.

It could also have been the patch, I'm trying to figure it out in between a lot of other stuff.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh yeah, indeed. Glower was lame. At least if you're talking about FE12 glower, as that's the only one I know.

Pretty sure that's the only one.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

*sigh

Edge always finds a way.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

                        Hubert five times

Thought it was four in VW.

And he dies at the fourth in VW, I know that much.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Time to guess mystery man?

It's not Pretzel, that's for sure.

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29 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I still can't believe that worked out fine.

To be honest, something had to.

30 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yes, even on hard those first turns can get difficult if your lords got RNG-screwed / are underleveled. Which can happen. It's only two units. How ironic that the most foolproof of the routes in this aspect (except CF, which doesn't have this godawful map, thank goodness) is SS, simply because the companion you get is a prepromote that joins in chapter 12.

I'd argue in a way it can be worse. Because even on hard Seteth will have speed issues at base on the map. I'm afraid to see what maddening does there. Then again, at least he can't be completely screwed unlike anyone else. I've been through the game a number of times, and my Byleth has been screwed to the point of being kind of lacklustre every one. There's been times I'm better off using him to heal than anything else. Which is sad for an avatar. It must be how Pretzel felt.

40 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Why is it a good three of these choices revolve around Petra? I mean, fell her on Gronder field and the hill goes up in flames, she lies about her range in Enbarr, and if you're playing her paralogue the game outright lies to you about the win condition in a way that can amount to same turn reinforcements.

52 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That grabbed my attention as well, when I googled him. 24 years old, no? What happened to him?

His car was cursed, if you go off the history and the legend. https://jalopnik.com/the-curse-of-james-deans-little-bastard-5113390

59 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I loved it. Tonic for Smash, please. Literally just a water bottle lying there.

Bring back event matches so we can have one that's functionally like the one with the Yoshi egg in Melee, where Sonic is trying to protect this water bottle from breaking.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

Take this: enemies deliberately trading heavier weapons from their peers so they're slowed down enough to pull a Hugh on the player.

Sounds about right. Ironically, I've used the rescue slow-down trick a couple times in the GBA games to allow a stronger unit to effectively Jagen an enemy for someone weaker. Because lowering both the crit rate and speed on someone can pull wonders with that. Not really necessary in Binding Blade, but in Sacred Stones it makes Seth do his job instead of killing enemies outright and soloing maps.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Tkrusneq oAll right, Graham, did you take the money to the guild?

Irluzysr oI thought Maia was the one in charge of that.

Fkn3oxsy oWhat? Me? Wasn't it old Mordred over there?

Yhifcp21 oPlease, I'm not so old that my memory is failing me. It was Vectar that was supposed to do it.

Tkrusneq o......

Tkrusneq o...oh look, a pair of knights! Let's pretend that we just happen to be discussing the matter of the bandits, and see if they'll take the bait!

Irluzysr oRight, good idea.

Yep. Pretty much what I imagined.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Unlike Butterman. Whose replies I miss, since he's been silent for a while. B-But it's not like I want him to come back or anything, b-baka... I should probably shut it already.

And here we have the rare case of the double Tsundere, where they both actually insult each other but don't really mean it.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I'm just wondering what the logistics behind that relationship would be. You know, physically speaking. How would it be feasible to engage in the traditional marital fraternization rituals when one of the parties lacks a corporeal presence?

......

...In other words, how the hell is Byleth supposed to fuck Sothis?

It's probably best they don't. I don't want to be on an FBI watchlist for a game I've played. Not that I'm in FBI jurisdiction. But, you know, seeing as I keep telling people who aren't that they've been reported to the FBI, they're kind of my default. Mind if I wanted to be really stupid, I'd start reporting people to the OSS, seeing as they haven't been a thing since the 40s.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

It's like being beaten by Ward. Not much to be ashamed about.

My brother, who spent the last couple years boxing had a hell of a win/lose record. The only time he actually lost (barring an incident involving it going to decision and a referee with bad blood with his coach), or was even knocked down was against a former world champion, albeit in a sparring match. If you have to lose eventually, it pays to pick your losses.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Ah, I'd probably suck at saving birds. I instinctively recoil when an animal struggles because I'm terrified of harming them.

It's really not easy. My record includes at least two different native species of parrot, a crow, a hawk, and a duck. Mind the hawk actually died because it ate a poisoned rat and it proved too little too late, and one of the parrots unfortunately had an incurable disease as opposed to an actual injury. The other 4 were broken wings, so they actually recovered. The hawk and crow were the easiest, as the former trusted me enough to let me hold it (leaving me to wonder if it had been trained), and the crow was evidentally there a bit before I found it, and not very mobile. I'm surprised it survived to be honest.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...that doesn't even... how does that work? How do you pronounce Sylvis?

I did say it was a bad pun. Because anyway you look at it, it's a stretch.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I'd argue Martel's still worse. Say what you will, but at least Disaad wasn't plotting to make the lava rivers overflow to cook us alive.

Martel still had the sense to have a weapon on his person. Though then again, if Martel were the one carrying out this plan, he probably wouldn't have brought an antidote... simultaneously making it harder to fix and dying from his own stupidity. I can't decide whether that's better or worse.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

There's a science to being forgettable, is what I'm saying.

But Robert's my favourite Thracia character. How can my favourite be forgettable?

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...who?

The Swordmaster lady who comes in the second arc of Awakening, has some plot relevance due to Yen'Fay, then is forgotten about after the twist to Yen'Fay is revealed mid-way through the second arc. Once Walhart's defeated she's just kind of in your army. Due to being a character with no unique children and no supports other than Robin, Tiki, and the mandatory Morgan support, she's kind of forgettable. I mean, she doesn't even have supports with the Outrealms version of Yen'fay... despite you know, being a counterpart of his sister. There's less developed characters in the game sure (Priam's only notable trait is his bloodline), but their novelty make them stand out more.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Oh God, that's a horrible way to die... eaten up by your own garbage bag.

Oh, it's a worse way to live. When I was a child, I grabbed a chair leg, unaware it was molten from being a little too close to the fire. The plastic coated my finger-tips and the leg was left with a missing chunk in the shape of my 8 year old fingers. Wasn't the worst case I'd heard of though, as it didn't require special surgery. The groundskeeper at my school on the other hand, made the mistake of stepping in ashes unaware there were live embers while wearing gumboots. They had to be removed surgically with a layer of skin as they melted to his feet.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Last time, we rescued the biggest moron in the Raze empire from his volcano, before he could trip over his evil robes and fall into the lava. Today, cool beverage saves the kids.

Plot twist. The antidote is Tonic.

2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy o How did the poison only get in the water of the kids, then? Did Disaad pour a single drop of poison into the water and Luciana happened to bottle that drop, or what? Maybe he started laughing evilly and forgot what he was doing. Then proceeded to return to his cave.

Maybe, the adults all had a resistance to it because he's pulled this stunt before and they developed an immunity? Either that or he used far too weak a poison to injure anyone who was fully developed.

2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Txzubig9 o Hwahahahahahahah... good joke, girl. vAn million laughs.

Well, she might have if they were  all as smart as Disaad. I mean, then they'd be unarmed.

2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Death count: Kain
                        Indiana Jones again
                        Hubert five times
                        Volo
                        Ruben

Well, that was your worst death rate ever. I mean, you lost five units, one of which died 5 times. You blew through every method of resurrection you had stockpiled, whether the Aum or all three uses of the Dakruon. All to get Hughbert back only for another unit to sacrifice themself on him to allow his death again. You lost Van Million towns to Horsemen, and the only reason you finished the chapter was the boss deciding to suicide on Ward's beard yet again. What a beautiful train wreck. The worst in Reesent memory.

2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Best perfect streak: I seriouslee love making joke updates

Leeving the puns until last are we? DisReesepectful indeed. I can't beLeeve how derailed this update is.

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4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Arthur's solid, yeah. Perhaps I'll use him, I don't know.

Nah, I want you to use Ruby, then it will be a bit different from my run.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Press start to flag.

vanMillion thanks..

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
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Larentia? Larentia has mercy, yes, but she doesn't have lightning. I am fairly certain that Perceval with lightning & mercy on an injured enemy is one of the very few ways to guarantee a capture. As my LP's proving so far, merely reducing the enemy's HP to 0 does not suffice.

 

Ok, will try it then, usually I don't bring him against tough opponents with high hit rates, since his hp is too low. Although he is only lv 7 right now.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Shame on you! Hahah, just kidding.

Will definitely use her in my next playthrough promise. Atleast if I can finish this run in a reasonable amount of time...

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
On 3/31/2020 at 12:11 PM, ranger016 said:

Neither can I! You've been there since the very beginning, and never said much until now. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

 

Haha, will try to be a bit more active since now I have more time. No, I am not just too lazy to write them, what are you talking about...

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Can't believe I fell for it... Disaad.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Death count: Kain
                        Indiana Jones again
                        Hubert five times
                        Volo
                        Ruben

Capture count: 420

Reset count: 666

 

Current perfect streak: Vanmilion maps

Best perfect streak: I seriouslee love making joke updates

How do you guys make so many puns, I can't even make old Lee ones properlee yet...

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8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Durability and an arrow.

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Part 6 - Completely reasonable time limits.

I swear it's for real this time.

 

So I'm ironmanning Thracia on my free time. Yeah, I'm a fucking masochist, I know. I mean, you just have to look at the kind of fictional females I call "perfect waifus".

Ahem. It was going smoothly, no losses except for Dalsin. A shame, kinda wanted to use him, and he took the brave axe with him, but it could've been worse. Then came chapter 9, where I lost Kane and Alba. Okay, they're pretty bad, don't really mind. Afterwards, I got to chapter 10. Made it through half the map, the ballistae were under control, Olwen and Fred left, it was all going just swimmingly. I lost the rescue staff due to a miscalculation, but I can live without it. Still just swimmingly. Juuuust swimmingly.

You know the one bolting bishop in that chapter? He critted Nanna with 44 hit and 19 crit. And then he critted Finn with 36 hit and 20 crit. And then he critted Fergus with 50 hit and 21 crit. All in a row.

And here I thought I'd seen it all. Death by random slower wyvern lord, death by pegasi recruiting themselves in range of a sniper, death by witch that can only be recruited if unit dies, death by being hated by me, death by person that recruits everyone dying early on, death by crits, death by misses, death by horseman that can raid villages.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the newest form of Saint Rubenio misery: death by a fucker with bolting critting three units in three turns.

2gsirpaz o

Only Daddy Hicks can save us now.

 

Also also, I've been having some really bizarre technical problems with this update. For some reason, the site decided that it didn't want to save my progress anymore, unless I first cleared my site cookies, logged back in and copypasted everything. Then it saved that, and only that. If I refreshed the page and tried doing any changes, they wouldn't be saved. I don't get it, but okay. Managed to sort it out, but the replies will look a bit weird as a result.

Hah:

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Last part's replies:

I intended to put them here again, but fuck it. I've had enough of these technical problems. Go check them yourself, it's just up there.

This update's replies:

@Dayni

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I'm fine with the knights not showing up in that moment in story terms. They're still trying to figure out where Rhea is, I can live with them not showing up. Manuela and Hanneman were still professors even as they were working with Byleth, so the promise wouldn't have mattered.

Also, the students would have come to the area because of the promise made during part 1. Probably while they were waiting they heard some fighting and responded "What are the odds?" and easily concluded they were likely there.

I still don't see why not even a single one of the faculty thought to follow this one lead they had on Byleth's whereabouts. Just on the off chance that they actually showed up to the reunion. They'd rather just continue searching all over without leads? After five years of... exactly that? Maybe someone like Seteth would be too busy, but I could totally see the likes of Hanneman and Manuela giving it a shot.

You could argue that the students didn't tell any of the faculty about the promise. All right, sure. But then, what about the other students who joined from other houses? Why were they left out like that, just because they joined later? That's kind of a dickmove by Byleth and their house.

...Really, any excuse is good to have a prepscreen in Reunion at Dawn. I'd take the stupidest explanation IntSys could come up with in exchange for a chapter that doesn't singlehandedly ruin the entire maddening difficulty for me.

It wasn't a problem before. I seemed to have more trouble running stuff without slowdown in more recent years, could have been due to an ageing device but VBA has been shown to not be quite as good as it was.

mGBA seems to be one to watch, it's still being worked on as well.

Meh. I don't know, myself. I've been using the same VBA build for years. Tried to update it once, but it worked worse, so I just went back to the old reliable one. Hasn't given me a single issue ever.

Caineghis is his uncle.

He is that forgettable.

...

Ouch.

It is available and that would be giving up. I could do the VM route, but I also would like to keep the processors alive. 😛

Yes, the physical integrity of the processors should probably be your first priority.

I suppose..... but I don't think Kaga was ever as invested in a non-lord as he was in Zeig.

Up to TearRing, no. In this game he gave a lot of love to nearly all of the secondaries, though.

He died in a car crash.

Very much in character.

Yeouch...

It could also have been the patch, I'm trying to figure it out in between a lot of other stuff.

I hope you can make it work.

Pretty sure that's the only one.

Well, I wouldn't know. I think it is, but again, Fates, Awakening, RD and Genealogy all exist. Could exist there and I'd be none the wiser.

*sigh

Edge always finds a way.

Eheheheheheheh... I am winner.

Thought it was four in VW.

And he dies at the fourth in VW, I know that much.

Either way, five or four is a goddamned travesty. Two is forgivable if used sparingly. The best thing is to just kill people. Ah, but for all of the memes, Hubert really isn't the worst offender.

Tell me, as somebody who likes the game: can you explain to me why the Death Knight needed to live through a whopping EIGHT deaths? Seriously, I just counted them. It depends on the route, of course, but if you go Golden Deer, do Mercedes and Caspar's paralogue and count Cindered Shadows, he can die 8 fucking times. Even in CF (again counting CS) he dies 4 times, enough to match Hubert.

The worst part is that at least Hubert does something in the story, there's at least a reason for his survival. The Death Knight? He does nothing but die, speak menacingly to show how much of a psycho he is, and die! He's completely useless! Are you telling me they kept this buffoon alive solely for the dark seal gimmick? He should've been called the Cat Knight, Jesus!

Time to guess mystery man?

It's not Pretzel, that's for sure.

Ahahahah... you and your crackpot theories.

@The Roger The Paladin

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To be honest, something had to.

That's the spirit, yeah.

I'd argue in a way it can be worse. Because even on hard Seteth will have speed issues at base on the map. I'm afraid to see what maddening does there. Then again, at least he can't be completely screwed unlike anyone else.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. He may not be the best, but I'd take him over the shitty-ass Claude I was shackled with in my Maddening run. RNG-Screwed and underleveled because he couldn't kill shit. He couldn't one-round anything even with the Failnaught. Failnaught my ass! Failall is more like it!

I've been through the game a number of times, and my Byleth has been screwed to the point of being kind of lacklustre every one. There's been times I'm better off using him to heal than anything else. Which is sad for an avatar. It must be how Pretzel felt.

Hahahahah... I mean, Pretzel was worse than Wrys. And the entire army. I picked Tomas over him. That has to sting.

Why is it a good three of these choices revolve around Petra? I mean, fell her on Gronder field and the hill goes up in flames, she lies about her range in Enbarr, and if you're playing her paralogue the game outright lies to you about the win condition in a way that can amount to same turn reinforcements.

Petra is just the worst, isn't she. She even lies about her english. How can a foreigner who supposedly cannot speak english well possibly have such a crystal clear accent? I thought it went proper speech first, accent second!

His car was cursed, if you go off the history and the legend. https://jalopnik.com/the-curse-of-james-deans-little-bastard-5113390

Holy shit, so many coincidences... or at least I hope they are. Goodness.

Bring back event matches so we can have one that's functionally like the one with the Yoshi egg in Melee, where Sonic is trying to protect this water bottle from breaking.

Pfffhahahahah...

Sounds about right. Ironically, I've used the rescue slow-down trick a couple times in the GBA games to allow a stronger unit to effectively Jagen an enemy for someone weaker. Because lowering both the crit rate and speed on someone can pull wonders with that. Not really necessary in Binding Blade, but in Sacred Stones it makes Seth do his job instead of killing enemies outright and soloing maps.

It takes a lot to get Seth to stop killing things. My prefered method is "bench". Though, I've actually got a rom set-up that I've yet to try, where I buffed the enemies and lowered his bases to FE12!Arran levels. Perhaps then he'll actually be decent at jeiganing.

Yep. Pretty much what I imagined.

At least they weren't Disaad.

And here we have the rare case of the double Tsundere, where they both actually insult each other but don't really mean it.

Hahahahah... amazing.

It's probably best they don't. I don't want to be on an FBI watchlist for a game I've played. Not that I'm in FBI jurisdiction. But, you know, seeing as I keep telling people who aren't that they've been reported to the FBI, they're kind of my default. Mind if I wanted to be really stupid, I'd start reporting people to the OSS, seeing as they haven't been a thing since the 40s.

I don't even know what the OSS is. Uhhh... Organization of the Severely Sick?

My brother, who spent the last couple years boxing had a hell of a win/lose record. The only time he actually lost (barring an incident involving it going to decision and a referee with bad blood with his coach), or was even knocked down was against a former world champion, albeit in a sparring match. If you have to lose eventually, it pays to pick your losses.

Yeah, that's the kind of loss that really only makes you look good in retrospect.

It's really not easy. My record includes at least two different native species of parrot, a crow, a hawk, and a duck. Mind the hawk actually died because it ate a poisoned rat and it proved too little too late, and one of the parrots unfortunately had an incurable disease as opposed to an actual injury. The other 4 were broken wings, so they actually recovered. The hawk and crow were the easiest, as the former trusted me enough to let me hold it (leaving me to wonder if it had been trained), and the crow was evidentally there a bit before I found it, and not very mobile. I'm surprised it survived to be honest.

Is this what happens when you actually leave your home occasionally?

I did say it was a bad pun. Because anyway you look at it, it's a stretch.

Ah, yes. My favourite sniper from BWS, Soilvweiss.

Martel still had the sense to have a weapon on his person. Though then again, if Martel were the one carrying out this plan, he probably wouldn't have brought an antidote... simultaneously making it harder to fix and dying from his own stupidity. I can't decide whether that's better or worse.

Get this: a chapter with both Martel and Disaad as bosses, and the leaders of the player army are Merlinus and Pretzel. Shudders...

But Robert's my favourite Thracia character. How can my favourite be forgettable?

Hahahah... Robert's your favourite? Interesting choice. I'm actually using him in this run. Normally I can't be bothered because I love Selphina too much, but this time I'm using them together. He's not that bad, could be a lot worse.

My favourite from Thracia... well there's Xavier, Salem, Selphina herself, Amalda, Olwen (as a character) and Ilios (as a unit), Finn... but I think it has to be Hicks. In my first run, I didn't like his design and didn't intend to use him. I decided to instead use Brighton. But I ended up being more or less forced to use Hicks, as Brighton perished in Manster and Hicks had to tag-team with Dalsin to kill riders in chapter 7.

After pounding the living crap out of everyone and getting a few kickass levels (without scrolls!), I decided to use him. He had capped everything by the end of the game, with minimal help from scrolls.

Now there's a Dad if I've ever seen one. He became the next Matthis in my heart after that run.

The Swordmaster lady who comes in the second arc of Awakening, has some plot relevance due to Yen'Fay, then is forgotten about after the twist to Yen'Fay is revealed mid-way through the second arc. Once Walhart's defeated she's just kind of in your army. Due to being a character with no unique children and no supports other than Robin, Tiki, and the mandatory Morgan support, she's kind of forgettable. I mean, she doesn't even have supports with the Outrealms version of Yen'fay... despite you know, being a counterpart of his sister. There's less developed characters in the game sure (Priam's only notable trait is his bloodline), but their novelty make them stand out more.

...Yen'Fay? Walhart? Morg-- Morgan!? Priam?

...Robin? Tiki!?

Nah, just kidding. I know who Tiki is.

Oh, it's a worse way to live. When I was a child, I grabbed a chair leg, unaware it was molten from being a little too close to the fire. The plastic coated my finger-tips and the leg was left with a missing chunk in the shape of my 8 year old fingers. Wasn't the worst case I'd heard of though, as it didn't require special surgery. The groundskeeper at my school on the other hand, made the mistake of stepping in ashes unaware there were live embers while wearing gumboots. They had to be removed surgically with a layer of skin as they melted to his feet.

Aaaaaaahhhh sorry. I think I just felt that...

Plot twist. The antidote is Tonic.

Oh, please... Disaad excuse for a plottwist shouldn't have left your imagination!

Maybe, the adults all had a resistance to it because he's pulled this stunt before and they developed an immunity? Either that or he used far too weak a poison to injure anyone who was fully developed.

Maybe he poured some of the antidote on the river instead of the poison by accident, and the kids just happened to all be allergic to it.

...on second thought, I pray it's not that, considering we're bringing it back to them.

Well, she might have if they were  all as smart as Disaad. I mean, then they'd be unarmed.

Disaad, the unarmed boss. That's a shitty legacy to leave behind. He didn't even get killed, that's how pathetic he was.

Well, that was your worst death rate ever. I mean, you lost five units, one of which died 5 times. You blew through every method of resurrection you had stockpiled, whether the Aum or all three uses of the Dakruon. All to get Hughbert back only for another unit to sacrifice themself on him to allow his death again.

Hahahahah...

You lost Van Million towns to Horsemen, and the only reason you finished the chapter was the boss deciding to suicide on Ward's beard yet again. What a beautiful train wreck. The worst in Reesent memory.

PFFFFHWAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA! AAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!

Oh God... I legit laughed my ass off with these last lines. "You lost Van Million towns to horsemen"... oh, you absolute genius...

Leeving the puns until last are we? DisReesepectful indeed. I can't beLeeve how derailed this update is.

I'm sorry.

Fun fact: there's an old arcade game called "I'm Sorry". It's a play on the fact that Sōri means "prime minister" in japanese. The entire game revolves around poking fun at an extremely corrupt prime minister of japan, Kakuei Tanaka, who ran from 72 to 74. In the game, you control him and punch the living daylights out of a bunch of other references (like Michael Jackson and Madonna) as you collect gold ingots that you then bring to the bank.

It's, to my knowledge, the first ever game to entirely be satire of a politician, and probably the last until that one game where you protect Trump from assassination attempts was released.

All this, because I wanted to justify that "I'm sorry" is a proper pun, so it's a valid response to your own puns.

The brightest of bows, @BrightBow:

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So Indiana Jones is a Margulite. Who knew?

Margulites... why did it have to be Margulites...

Ah, I'll just introduce them to the Justitia. Most fun axe I've ever had the pleasure to play around with. And its wielder is so h

@ranger016

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Nah, I want you to use Ruby, then it will be a bit different from my run.

All right, I'll see what I can do.

vanMillion thanks..

Pfff... even you...

Ok, will try it then, usually I don't bring him against tough opponents with high hit rates, since his hp is too low. Although he is only lv 7 right now.

Once you've managed to injure the enemy, it's easy to run up with him and use lightning to blast them away, since they lose their weapons. Give it a try!

Will definitely use her in my next playthrough promise. Atleast if I can finish this run in a reasonable amount of time...

Hahah, good luck!

Haha, will try to be a bit more active since now I have more time. No, I am not just too lazy to write them, what are you talking about...

It'd be my pleasure to have you around!

Can't believe I fell for it... Disaad.

Heheheh... Ahahahah! I am a criminal mastermind!

How do you guys make so many puns, I can't even make old Lee ones properlee yet...

It's a talent that you have to hone daily. But once you have it, the feeling is just roswicked!

Mountainman, also known as @Benice:

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How could you misLeed us like this?

It's April Fools. It was my duty.

Wow! Something actually makes sense in a fantasy game!

Amazing! Next thing, people will actually sit down and talk things through instead of fighting!

Also, a question that has spoilers:

The rickroll that I don't wanna copy in case it makes the site go haywire again

You son of a bitch, that's the second time you pull this on me! Don't think I didn't see it! Not only did you steal my intro and my format, you used the latter against me! I demand that you pay me moneys for this transgression of the laws of copyright!

@eclipse

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I see a distinct lack of "Dignity" under "Death Count"!  😛

Why would I put my dignity there? I'm as dign as I can be! I, after all, got all of you last time. Hah! I am winner!

I gotcha last time:

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Last time, we rescued the biggest moron in the Raze empire from his volcano, before he could trip over his evil robes and fall into the lava. Today, cool beverage saves the kids.

Zlonc8lu oThank goodness... Now the children just need to rest and recover their strength.

Ps4nmuuw oIt was the Church of Raze who was responsible for poisoning the river on Neam Mountain. It seems they weren't targeting you in particular. They were trying to contaminate the whole city's water.

Lgjkwhcy o How did the poison only get in the water of the kids, then? Did Disaad pour a single drop of poison into the water and Luciana happened to bottle that drop, or what? Maybe he started laughing evilly and forgot what he was doing. Then proceeded to return to his cave.

Zlonc8lu oI see... Thank you so much for all that you've done for these children.

Ps4nmuuw oYou should be thanking these two. It was thanks to them that we were able to catch the culprits.

Lgjkwhcy oWell, I mean, Arthur... I wish I could say Ruby was the liability, but Arthur was the one who kept on missing all of his swings...

Cy4m1yfp oNo, not at all! We would've died back there if it weren't for the Sinon Knights.

Lgjkwhcy o No kidding! You were vastly outnumbered. And you kept missing, which didn't help at all!
 
Krsflixo oSpeak for yourself! I could've taken them on all by myself, thank you very much.
 
Txzubig9 o Hwahahahahahahah... good joke, girl. vAn million laughs.
 
Zlonc8lu oHee hee... My sincerest gratitude to the both of you, my friends.
 
9qk5ifz8 o Well, in any case, all's well that ends well.

Rejs3ygy o

Eyyyy the music's awesome all of a sudden!

Cy4m1yfp oBut even so, I want to work for someone I can put my trust in. I know I'm still inexperienced, but...

Krsflixo oOh, me too! I'd love to be able to serve under someone like Lord Reese! It's so hard to find someone who wants a spare knight, so I've had to make do with dull work... But if you all hired me, I'd be happy to work for you!

9qk5ifz8 oOh yeah, new recruits! Gimme gimme gi--

Krsflixo oIf you ever need my services, you can find me at the mercenary guild here in town!

Lgjkwhcy oGet the hell outta here, you two!

Ps4nmuuw oI understand. I will speak to Lord Reese on the behalf of both of you. If either of you do fight alongside us in the future, please lend us all the strength you can.

33kmrs6d o

Lgjkwhcy oI have your word, but for a price, of course. You gotta pay for Ruby. Urgh... the lengths I have to go to fulfill my "bad units" quota.

Dmhbgqpj o

Anyway, before we can advance the chapter, we've got red events to take care of. Unlike the sidequests, which are green events, these ones are always just cutscenes. Events of all kinds sometimes revolve around certain characters. In this case, it's Arthur. Let's see what's so dishonorable about him. Probably the fact that he's demanding a fee after his piss-poor performance last time!

Gp6leryk oMjfaqvie o

We open up to two shitty snotnoses bullying a third. Is that Asbel's color palette...?

Sbelswzu o

9qk5ifz8 o Never mind, it's Mark instead. Ever wanted to know what he looked like? There you go. He's Voldemort. Seriously, what's up with their noses?

Licapl8b oYeah, he is! All the grown-ups say so! Your father's a traitor!

Qoyv2mts oTraitor! Dirty backstabber! You're not welcome here!

Aczed7tb o

Can I murder these children yet

Llxb6l1n o9mak8145 o

Thankfully, Arthur is here to save the day.

Licapl8b oIt's the traitor kid's brother! Run!

Qoyv2mts oYou guys better get out of town if you know what's good for you!

Hvuxaoma o

Cy4m1yfp oMark, what happened between you and those other boys?

Nnd6gnyf oThey said... They said Dad was a traitor...!

Cy4m1yfp o......

Nnd6gnyf oArthur... It's not true, right...? Dad's not really a traitor, is he...?

Cy4m1yfp o...Of course not.

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Lgjkwhcy o Oh, boy... the good ol' "when's dad coming back from the store with the milk?" situation.
 
Uedfz3v4 o But at least it isn't the good ol' "little girl is given drugged milk, kidnapped and made to dance in a skimpy dancer outfit for sweaty strangers, and the culprit isn't punished in any way, shape or form after her rescue." Urrrgh...

Cy4m1yfp o......

7prncgie o

The situation with Arthur and his dad is complicated, to say the least. But look, even the event title says Ruby still has her dad! I am certain this'll be less depressing than the last one.

Fuzqgjc5 o

Krsflixo o...What do you mean?

Z5z6uoje oYou'll never be a real knight. I told you to forget about that stupid dream.

Krsflixo oYou have no right... You may not speak to me that way!

Z5z6uoje oI can speak to you in any way that I damn well please! I am your father!

Krsflixo oMaybe it's about time you start acting like a father, then! Instead of... *sniff*

Lgjkwhcy oThis is going to be just as depressing, isn't it...

Z5z6uoje oListen to what I'm telling you, Ruby... It's not your place to be a soldier. Be a good girl and stay safe at home.

Krsflixo oFather, ever since Mother died, you've become a different person... The old you never would've said anything like that!

Z5z6uoje o......

Krsflixo oFather, stop trying to hold me back from my duty! I may look like Mother, but I'm nothing like her... Why can't you see that?!

Z5z6uoje o...Don't talk about things that you could never understand.

Krsflixo oDon't patronize me, Father! And look me in the eyes when you're speaking to me!

Bkgegbxp o

Uedfz3v4 o Oh man.

6qujuxdc o

Uedfz3v4 oOh man, oh God, oh man, oh God oh man oh God oh man oh God oh man oh God!

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Uedfz3v4 o...that was even worse than the Arthur thing! Goodness!

Fbycvm60 oCapnzunv o

Let's go pay Disaad a visit. Weyl has a different line if there are no prisoners, I'll see if I ever remember to show it.

0vkkceip o

Anyway, there's the guy. You can't speak to prisoners, they're just there for the heck of it.

Lgr1w7c2 o

I could keep him captive for life, or I could speak to Tianna.

P3qxgg0u o

Ps4nmuuw oThe enemy army wants to exchange prisoners with yours.

G0pt6jyn o

9qk5ifz8 oSince we've got no prisoners of our own, they're just offering some nice cash. Whoa, 1100? That's quite a bit! They must want Disaad back really badly! No wonder, considering he's one of the brilliantest minds of our generation.

Ps4nmuuw oAs you wish, Lord Reese.

Zxd13tbw o

All right, the time has come.

Ps4nmuuw oUnderstood, Lord Reese. Is there anything you would like to take care of beforehand?

Tavmcp8r o

Ps4nmuuw oLord Reese, do you wish to continue employing any of your mercenaries?

Uay8dene o

Ps4nmuuw oPlease select whom to continue employing.

T4t1pf0v o

We can use this to not have to go running around recruiting everyone again. It'll help when we have more than just three mercs. Selecting any of these units would make "rehire" appear in that empty box between their names and their classes. I'm not gonna do it this time, though. Just feel like going there in person this time, since it's just a couple people. I'll be sure to use this feature when we have a lot more mercs, though.

This helpful setting is disabled by default, making you go digging in the settings menu to find it. Other such settings include attack range, text that moves faster than the speed of molasses, and removing the ugly-as-sin grid.

By the way, note that their prices are main mission prices, and thus double what we paid them last time. That's a more appropriate price for Sylvis's services, I've got to say.

Lpcm7olb o

Let's just go now.

O3hfkayc o

Meoilxpy oHave you found anything?

Ps4nmuuw oAfter investigating, it seems likely that the Neam Bandits are responsible. They're the most daring group of cutthroats and thieves nearby. And what's more, that guard turned out to have made similar deals like this with them in the past.

Lgjkwhcy o And nobody ever caught him? I wish I could blame Volcens for this, but this is more on Roswick and Vanmilion than him! You disappoint me so, grandpa and blondie...

Meoilxpy oHm... It's surprising that we haven't run into them already, then. Tianna, tell me all that you can regarding these Neam Bandits.

A fade to black later...

4iecmmrc o

Ps4nmuuw oTheir hideout is rumored to be near the base of the highest peak, Neam Mountain itself. They sprung up roughly a year ago amidst the turmoil of the Empire's recent invasions. They rob homes, kidnap for ransom, burn down farms... All sorts of awful things. To be quite frank, the fact that they merely stole your horses is quite a mild crime for them.

O1oyurrl o

Ps4nmuuw oJust so, lord Reese. Narvia's knights have been spread thin ever since the loss of Fort Sakiria. An Imperial general named Zephyrus ambushed his Late Majesty's

Lgjkwhcy o...wait, we know this already! Why are they telling us again? Game!?

Ps4nmuuw oarmy and most of Narvia's best knights. Even Lord Carron, in whose home we now stand, was killed in the tragic battles that followed... It's all we can do just to man the city walls and the castle.

Meoilxpy oI understand, but obviously there are many soldiers here besides the Duchy of Narvia's these days.

Ps4nmuuw oYes, like yourself... However, you ultimately answer only to King Volcens, isn't that right? Our Duke Roswick does not have authority to order the armies of the entire Berwick League.

Meoilxpy oThen why does His Majesty not order for the extermination of these Neam Bandits?

Txzubig9 o Hahahahahah! What a stupid question, Reese. I admire your desire to give him the benefit of the doubt, but c'mon, didn't you see him back then? He's a goddamned disgrace, that's why!

S8ozbjnk oU6fjomtu o

Meoilxpy oWhat a bureaucratic nightmare...

9qk5ifz8 oThat would be the mild way to put it, yes.

Meoilxpy oAll right, Tianna, please notify Duke Roswick of our next plan: The Sinon Knights wish to take the initiative and exterminate the Neam Bandits ourselves.

9qk5ifz8 oOh yeah, baby! Bandit map for our next main mission! Don't worry, though. All main missions are thrice as complex as most sidequests, and this one's no exception. Suffice to say, these guys are in a far different league than Griff and Graff.

8high5u2 o

9qk5ifz8 oTianna turns around and is taken aback for a moment. I love all of these nuances of the cutscenes that I cannot show because of the format.

Meoilxpy oYes, that is my intent. I'll still have to get approval, but...

Ps4nmuuw oThank you, milord! As a fellow Narvian, I cannot express my gratitude enough!

Byyyi0jk o

Txzubig9 oBwahahahahahah... now she's talking my language!

6rz3fx7x o

...Oh, no. We have to get Volcens to agree to the plan. Fuck... and Sienna and Quescria aren't here...

Jxbayhit o

Pobpolog oThis gang of bandits has plagued us for many months now, so I wish to see them gone as soon as possible. Your Majesty, I beg of you, please approve Lord Reese's plan. I shall assist him in any way I can.

2xdxkwpj oRoswick, don't let your local citizens cloud your judgment.

Lgjkwhcy o Yeah, why the heck should you listen to the people you're supposed to lead and serve? Volcens is the true politician in this situation! Not even kidding!

2xdxkwpj oEvery day the Empire marches closer. Though it is unfortunate, we simply cannot afford to divert our attention from the greater enemy before us.

Hxq4hdqj oI entirely agree, Your Majesty. All of Narvia's recruits must be sent to reinforce our vulnerable borders.

Jhvoux35 o Duke Roswick, would the suppression of these bandits really call for such extensive measures? I cannot possibly comprehend why a mere gang of thieves would require Sinon's knights, let alone yours.

2pup4bo6 o

Uedfz3v4 o Holy shit...! If you recall, that's like, ten times our cutscene army!

Pobpolog oI worry that Lord Reese's knights alone would be insufficient to wipe them out.

Hxq4hdqj oIf he feels that way, then he can hire some mercenaries to assist him in this extermination.

Pobpolog oSuch fees would be far beyond Sinon's funds... unless you would rather reimburse him yourself?

Txzubig9 o Ergh... yeah, totally! We cannot afford mercenaries at all...! Give us moneys! Sylvis? Who's that? Never hired no Sylvises! Axel? Is that a new type of axe or what?

2xdxkwpj oEnough, all of you. I hereby order Sinon's knights to deal with this matter.

9qk5ifz8 o ...oh, wow. He actually saw reason? Color me flabbergasted.

2xdxkwpj oAlone.

Meoilxpy o...Yes, Your Majesty.

2xdxkwpj oYou will depart at midnight. Kill every single bandit at this base, then return to Navaron.

0dpj3bfr o

Lgjkwhcy o ...of course, it was too good to be true...

Meoilxpy oMy king...?

2xdxkwpj oAlternatively, you may simply abandon this trivial task. What say you, son of Bernstol?

Uedfz3v4 oYou filthy, underhanded, sad, pathetic excuse for a monarch! You can't just brand someone a traitor because he took a day longer than you wanted to do YOUR job for you! Are you seriously trying to blackmail Reese out of doing YOUR work for you, just because you don't like him for God knows what reason?!  And trivial task?! What trivial task!? There's a thousand bandits! They'd probably stand a chance at taking Navarron - you know, the place where you fled with your tail between your legs after getting curbstomped by the Empire! Who let this guy take the throne!?

Qddjt0h9 o

9qk5ifz8 oOf course, Reese is the protagonist, so he isn't about to abandon the people just because Volcens is being an integral idiot. The real question is if this'll be enough for him to finally accept the fact that his liege is an integral idiot.

Hxq4hdqj oOho! What a brave lad you are. Fearless and daring.

Lgjkwhcy oGo fuck yourself, Padolf. Fuck yourself fearlessly and daringly.

Meoilxpy oIf that is all, do excuse me, Your Majesty. I shall go make ready.

Nmspr36m o
 
Giayatxj o

Hxq4hdqj oNo doubt he will come running back here in tatters, my King. And even if they are killed, the loss of a hundred mere savages would be nothing compared to our legions.

Lgjkwhcy oSee the last thing I said?

Jhvoux35 o Or if he decides to run, he will be subject to execution as a deserter.

2xdxkwpj oIf it does come to that, I will leave the matter to you, Herman.

Jhvoux35 o Thank you, Your Majesty.

Pobpolog o......

Islgz1d1 o

No wonder he does! That bastard's so petty that he'd rather let a thousand-strong army of brigands terrorize the city where he's taking refuge than admit he could use some fucking help from the "backwater savages"!

Ps4nmuuw oListen to the people of the city, what they feel, what they need from strong leaders like yourself... Once you understand their hearts, perhaps you will even find a new perspective on your troubles.

0sh5aa5g o

We've got more events. These are the citizen requests for the mission. They're usually simple sidequests where we help the citizens of Navarron with their problems that, conveniently, always involve the place where we're going next.

Qtvxwjnh oEwa2sijt o

Zlagxehg oYou look a bit down, Savat. What's eating you?

N2dit7qa oNo, no... Don't worry about me...

Zlagxehg oCome on, you can tell me. Maybe it's something I can help with.

N2dit7qa oMaybe so... The other day, I bumped into a man on the street downtown. I realized a few seconds too late, but he'd snatched my late wife's ring off of my finger!

Zlagxehg oThat's a real shame...

N2dit7qa oIt was a plain little thing, just a silver band with a beryl set into it, but it was my most prized possession... See, when I proposed to my wife, times were rough, and I barely had anything to my name... But still, I spent every denarius I had to buy that ring for her, and she wore it till the day she died. I don't know how I can face her again knowing that I lost that ring...

9qk5ifz8 oAhhh, don't worry. I'm sure she'll forgive you. Y'know, after you die too.

Zlagxehg oDo you have any idea where this thief ran off to?

N2dit7qa oHe looked like he was running off to the main gate of the city, going southwest...

Ranntezs o

N2dit7qa oThat's right, yeah!

9qk5ifz8 o As I said, mighty convenient for us.

N2dit7qa oYou got any ideas about where they might've gone to in that direction? I put a request in with the guild to go chase after that thief, but I didn't have any leads for them to go on...

Lgjkwhcy o Even if you did, that bastard Valery wouldn't have let anyone know about the request! He's in league with the ruffians, I am sure! No other explanation makes any sense! Somebody needs to arrest him!

N2dit7qa oPlease, if there's anything you can do to help me get that ring back...

Zlagxehg oAs it happens, I've just received orders to assault a bandit hideout based around the Neam Mountains... If I happen to find your ring during our raid, I'll be sure to bring it back to you.

N2dit7qa oOh, thank you so much...! You're a lifesaver, Sir Elbert...

9qk5ifz8 oAll right, first citizen request! Normally, if it involves a secondary character, only that character can do the request, but for this first one anyone will do.

Rrehtbr3 o

Next up is... oh, please...

Pgmc2hkr oZeyfu7ce o

Lie to me one more fucking time, Valery, and you'll wish you'd never been born.

3cxl4xfi oGood day. This is the mercenary guild, yes?

Ons14mdv oIndeed it is! This is your first visit here, correct? Would you like me to give you an introduction to our services here?

3cxl4xfi oBy all means, please do.

Ons14mdv oOur mercenaries usually take contracts for catching criminals that the city's knights can't be bothered with. In addition to sponsoring mercenaries, the guild also serves as a place for citizens to offer bounty rewards.

3cxl4xfi oAre the common citizens really able to offer substantial enough rewards to attract bounty hunters?

Ons14mdv oUsually, groups of citizens will pool their money so that bounty hunters will be willing to take their jobs. Our mercenaries generally take on these bounty hunting jobs when business is slow. But these days, Navaron and the rest of the Duchy are severely lacking in general public safety. With the knights decimated along with His Late Majesty, there simply aren't enough men to stop local crime.

Zzgpwbiz o

Ons14mdv oDue to these tragedies, however, our business is booming. Our mercenaries are ready for hiring!

Lgjkwhcy o You sound a bit too happy about it, Valery. Tell me, is there even a heart hiding underneath those cold, lifeless, corrupt eyes of yours?

Ons14mdv oAlternatively, you could check the list of the current bounties. Anyone's allowed to take them on. So, what'll it be? Looking to hire some extra hands, or trying to earn some extra cash?

3cxl4xfi oWe certainly need all the money we can get our hands on to take care of our war expenses...

Ons14mdv oBounties it is, then. Please note that we only give out prize money for targets approved by the guild.

Lgjkwhcy oIn other words, your "friends" don't get bounty hunters sent after them, isn't that right, Valery?

Ons14mdv oWe try to be reputable here. We can't just give out cash to anyone who walks in with a dead person.

3cxl4xfi oSounds quite reasonable. What sort of scalawags are in your rogues gallery of targets?

Txzubig9 o Pfff... scalawags? Hahahahah, oh, Ward...

Iqhwrjnh o

Ons14mdv oHe's a drunk and a brutal murderer. We know of at least fifty people whom he personally beat to death. Several of our mercenaries tried to claim his head, but no one's come back alive so far... Still, a regiment of knights like yours should hopefully fare better. If you're interested, that is.

3cxl4xfi oI am indeed... At the very least, I'd like to try and bring the townspeople peace of mind.

9qk5ifz8 oAlso the fact that we're already going to kill Valentin and his crew on the King's orders. But that's fine, there's no need to mention that detail to him. Let him hand over the dough first. See, Valery? We can lie, manipulate and conceal the truth too!

Ons14mdv oExcellent! Best of luck out there. If you want to see our full list of bounty targets, feel free to ask me any time. You can also come to me when you capture or kill one of the targets, and I'll get you your reward. In addition, if you manage to bring in the target alive, the guild will match the original reward as a bonus.

Lgjkwhcy oWhat he means by this is that the reward will be doubled if the bounty's captured instead of killed. Which, in turn, means that the guild keeps a whopping half of the bounty. Those are some rates! Valery...!

Ons14mdv oThat should about cover it! Thank you for your service, sir!

Sm2ds5q3 o

The next one looks self-explanatory enough.

Xkfmpifm o

Ps4nmuuw oHello, Sister Maria. Sorry to drop in like this again.

Xkynbhhs oIt's no trouble at all. It's my pleasure to help. Although...

Ps4nmuuw o"Although"...?

Xkynbhhs oWe're getting low on medicinal herbs, what with the recent fever epidemic spreading through town.

Ps4nmuuw oAh, yes, it's turned into quite the problem... Do you have enough left to keep making the antipyretics?

Xkynbhhs oI'm afraid not, as I can't get my hands on the ingredients anymore... The main ingredient I'm lacking is pajuta grass, which grows locally around Neam Mountain. However...

Ps4nmuuw o...the bandits have been an issue, is that correct?

Tsu45iqr o

Lgjkwhcy oHalvan? Really? That was only two games ago, Kaga. For shame.

Xkynbhhs oIt's far too dangerous for anyone to go there anymore.

Ps4nmuuw oSuch a shame... But I agree, I wouldn't want to put you in harm's way like that.

Xkynbhhs oBut people need that medicine! There are so many people that rely on us for treatment. If I don't go there soon to get the pajuta grass, people's lives could be at risk...

Ps4nmuuw oI implore you not to, Sister. If something happened to you, they would be at even greater risk.

Xkynbhhs oBut the way things are going...

Ps4nmuuw oLeave this matter to me. I will inform Lord Reese of this matter, and we will get those herbs. You should stay here and do what you can to treat the patients until we can bring them to you.

Xkynbhhs oVery well... I trust you, Lady Tianna. I am in your debt.

X2mv1qli oGwe7aloa o

All right, there we go! It's important to do these, as the rewards are usually quite good. Also, as you do requests, the town's shops will begin to offer you discounts, as a way to show their gratitude. It's nothing too big, but I appreciate the detail.

Is2x8tan oHjtirbau o

Let's hire these two again, and I think Ruby and Arthur as well. Dean will sit this one out. Perhaps we'll nab him for the secondaries.

J60oi7pv o

Krsflixo oI'm particularly confident in my ability to fight against axemen! You want to hire me? I'd be happy to help out for 560D!

Nwbjhvj8 o

Yeah, c'mon. I'll make a knight out of you yet.

Krsflixo oThanks! I'll do my best!

Oitlnzhk o

As for you... can I ask you not to fail as hard this time?

Cy4m1yfp oThank you! You won't regret this!

Ezrqvjp3 o

All right, Valery, you rascal. Who else is on the list apart from Valentin?

Azedhwpd o

...This cannot be right. So last month there were no bounties, even though there totally were bounties; this month there's only one, which, by the way, makes no sense - the Neam Bandits have two leaders, and yet there's only a bounty for Valentin; and next month like 18 bounties will appear out of nowhere. Mind explaining what the hell is going on, Valery? Did Valentin stop paying the protection racket, is that it?

6ry94go1 oNiyuvign o

Anyway, shopping time. As promised, the shops have some better gear now. It's still nothing too impressive, but it's better than leather.

Ffnyikdy oJxjc6eua o

That said, leather is better than nothing, so here, have these.

Tmlmjodj o

Reese buys a longsword as well. The bastard sword is a blade, so nobody can use it except for Volo right now. And I'm not hiring Volo.

Pbrxh6f6 oEsbzhnv9 o

New set o' weapons for these two. Adel kinda worries me, his spear could break any moment, but sadly, there was only one iron spear for sale.

Eyb4ahvy o6yyusldx o

Axel gets a mighty axe for mightier pulverizations, and Sylvis obtains a better crossbow.

E9ofmfuw o

Last stop, the stables.

K6a8sjoi o

First, a bad horse for Reese. The game asks you for confirmation here. I didn't catch that because I'm bad at this.

Uhesbszy o

Okay okay, I hear you.

Hmmm... we could afford another one if I just sold a couple things...

Halfmann!

E7uawwwj oHpkd9cmp o

Here, have this heap of trash-- I mean, totally functional spear, and this bad crossbow-- I mean, this excellent, totally not obsolete weapon. Aight, byeee~!

Dg2acb3l o

Problem is, nearly everyone could use a horse. Not sure who to give it to. I'll do it next time. That's the best solution I can come up with.

Ttw3w4rn o

Oki-dokie, so the update's over. Next time, we go and beat up some bandits so Volcens doesn't have to. But better hurry, because Volcyboy hates us for no reason at all. So yeah. See ya next time!

Death count: --

Capture count: 0

Reset count: 0

 

Current perfect streak: 3 maps

Best perfect streak: 3 maps

 

 

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It's unfortunate that Iron Spears are so rare. Since they are really the only "common" type of Spear with 60% accuracy. For swords you got more options: The Short Sword, the Long Sword and the Broad Sword all got 60% hit.
Although Iron Spears only have a value of 1000. So it should be possible to fully restore them from red durability with a single charge of the Repair Stone. Probably gonna try this on my next run.

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5 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

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Ouch.

Yeah, I think he might have worse luck than you. I mean, when you consider it, at least people know who you are.

9 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I thought it went proper speech first, accent second!

Unless you're me and you sound different to everyone for no reason at all in your primary language.

11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I don't even know what the OSS is. Uhhh... Organization of the Severely Sick?

Office of Strategic Services. After World War II, they were replaced with the CIA. I only know this because old comic about them. You know... from back when that name meant something to people?

14 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yeah, that's the kind of loss that really only makes you look good in retrospect.

It looked better when it turned out my brother had stomach parasites at the time a couple days later. He got downed by a series of gut punches. Missed half a year boxing while they were getting treated, came back. Everyone expected him to be out of shape. His first match back was supposed to account for that. Poor guy ended up being one punched, because go figure, he still hits with the strength of a silverback.

18 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Is this what happens when you actually leave your home occasionally?

Well, yes and no. See the property is big enough I can get to a point I can't see my own house. Mind that's partially because of foliage, hills, and so forth. But point is there's enough land that most of the incidents have been at home. The crow being the exception because it was at a park, which means I have no idea how long it was there unlike the others, where I can approximately guess.

24 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Ah, yes. My favourite sniper from BWS, Soilvweiss.

I was going for "Salve-this", which is still not really right at all.

24 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Get this: a chapter with both Martel and Disaad as bosses, and the leaders of the player army are Merlinus and Pretzel. Shudders...

I imagine Merlinus would be the only one to come out on top because he'd expect a trap, refuse to get involved, and avoid being involved in the suicidal traps, while Pretzel would inexplicably make things worse.

27 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hahahah... Robert's your favourite? Interesting choice. I'm actually using him in this run. Normally I can't be bothered because I love Selphina too much, but this time I'm using them together. He's not that bad, could be a lot worse.

How many characters grow move? Besides, I tend to prefer to be an oddball in choices. Though, there's a pattern to some of it.

31 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Aaaaaaahhhh sorry. I think I just felt that...

Yeah, I learned a lesson at a young age about plastic and excessive heat.

33 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Maybe he poured some of the antidote on the river instead of the poison by accident, and the kids just happened to all be allergic to it.

...on second thought, I pray it's not that, considering we're bringing it back to them.

That'd be the worst case scenario. Him being competent through being thoroughly incompetent.

34 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

Oh God... I legit laughed my ass off with these last lines. "You lost Van Million towns to horsemen"... oh, you absolute genius...

I knew when we were horsing around was when I'd manage a new pun on that.

36 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

 

Fun fact: there's an old arcade game called "I'm Sorry". It's a play on the fact that Sōri means "prime minister" in japanese. The entire game revolves around poking fun at an extremely corrupt prime minister of japan, Kakuei Tanaka, who ran from 72 to 74. In the game, you control him and punch the living daylights out of a bunch of other references (like Michael Jackson and Madonna) as you collect gold ingots that you then bring to the bank.

That sounds more fun than I imagine actually being a corrupt politician is.

40 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Lgjkwhcy o Oh, boy... the good ol' "when's dad coming back from the store with the milk?" situation.
 
Uedfz3v4 o But at least it isn't the good ol' "little girl is given drugged milk, kidnapped and made to dance in a skimpy dancer outfit for sweaty strangers, and the culprit isn't punished in any way, shape or form after her rescue." Urrrgh...

Why is milk so unwholesome in this series? Can someone find out if Kaga's lactose intolerant.

43 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Nvjhhz7o o

Uedfz3v4 o...that was even worse than the Arthur thing! Goodness!

Yeah. How dysfunctional is this society?

44 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

9qk5ifz8 oSince we've got no prisoners of our own, they're just offering some nice cash. Whoa, 1100? That's quite a bit! They must want Disaad back really badly! No wonder, considering he's one of the brilliantest minds of our generation.

Ps4nmuuw oAs you wish, Lord Reese.

I suppose they realized he's wearing the bag he was given to keep his inventory in, which is why he didn't have room for the orb. Bags are too much of a commodity to go to waste.

47 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Ps4nmuuw oAfter investigating, it seems likely that the Neam Bandits are responsible. They're the most daring group of cutthroats and thieves nearby. And what's more, that guard turned out to have made similar deals like this with them in the past.

Lgjkwhcy o And nobody ever caught him? I wish I could blame Volcens for this, but this is more on Roswick and Vanmilion than him! You disappoint me so, grandpa and blondie...

I think that the reprobates behind this need to be on their guard. After all, selling horses is a cutthroat business model. I hope they're ready for about Van Million years in prison if they get caught alive, because they're about to be on the Reeseving end of a Lot of pain, and they can't hope to Ward it off.

 

53 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Meoilxpy oThen why does His Majesty not order for the extermination of these Neam Bandits?

Txzubig9 o Hahahahahah! What a stupid question, Reese. I admire your desire to give him the benefit of the doubt, but c'mon, didn't you see him back then? He's a goddamned disgrace, that's why!

S8ozbjnk oU6fjomtu o

Meoilxpy oWhat a bureaucratic nightmare...

9qk5ifz8 oThat would be the mild way to put it, yes.

Volcen never fails to disappoint. Seriously, I bet if Reese started expecting man-child-esque hissy fits from him, he'd start being polite and responsible just to ruin Reese's plans.

 

56 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy o Yeah, why the heck should you listen to the people you're supposed to lead and serve? Volcens is the true politician in this situation! Not even kidding!

Considering, that in the event of an emergency with COVID-19, I'm literally on the "let die due to pre-existing medical conditions if they need a ventilator" list, yeah. Funny that.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Uedfz3v4 oYou filthy, underhanded, sad, pathetic excuse for a monarch! You can't just brand someone a traitor because he took a day longer than you wanted to do YOUR job for you! Are you seriously trying to blackmail Reese out of doing YOUR work for you, just because you don't like him for God knows what reason?!  And trivial task?! What trivial task!? There's a thousand bandits! They'd probably stand a chance at taking Navarron - you know, the place where you fled with your tail between your legs after getting curbstomped by the Empire! Who let this guy take the throne!?

I don't know, but it sure does make you question if the other side can still be as bad.

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Lgjkwhcy oWhat he means by this is that the reward will be doubled if the bounty's captured instead of killed. Which, in turn, means that the guild keeps a whopping half of the bounty. Those are some rates! Valery...!

Yep. Every benefit of the doubt given is gone. This man is crooked as Quasimodo's spine.

 

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Azedhwpd o

...This cannot be right. So last month there were no bounties, even though there totally were bounties; this month there's only one, which, by the way, makes no sense - the Neam Bandits have two leaders, and yet there's only a bounty for Valentin; and next month like 18 bounties will appear out of nowhere. Mind explaining what the hell is going on, Valery? Did Valentin stop paying the protection racket, is that it?

He's probably deliberately keeping them hidden in hope that townspeople put two hits on the same person so he can pocket the second lot entirely. Either that or he really is running protection rackets.

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11 minutes ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

Why is milk so unwholesome in this series? Can someone find out if Kaga's lactose intolerant.

In Vestaria Saga a girl is drugged with a non-milk beverage, from what I remember. So... yay?
 

11 minutes ago, The Roger The Paladin said:

I don't know, but it sure does make you question if the other side can still be as bad.

Well, the one time we've seen the "other side" so far, they were poisoning orphans. Unintentionally, sure. But really only in the sense that they wanted to kill EVERYONE living in the city and not just a bunch of kids.

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17 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

Well, the one time we've seen the "other side" so far, they were poisoning orphans. Unintentionally, sure. But really only in the sense that they wanted to kill EVERYONE living in the city and not just a bunch of kids.

It's pretty bad when their best defense for trying to kill orphans is literally "we weren't trying to kill the orphans specifically, they just happened to be in the city that everyone else we were trying to kill lived in". Though if you want to make it better, you could argue "We were specifically aiming for Valery, Volcens, that particular guard who sold your horses, Padolf and Herman", and they'd have a tiny, tiny shred of an argument. Mind you it's a bad one, but it's still better than what they had.

22 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

In Vestaria Saga a girl is drugged with a non-milk beverage, from what I remember. So... yay?

Got it. Kaga just has a problem with drinking... wait. Let me rephrase that. Kaga has a drinking problem. Much less likely to be taken as a reference to alcoholism by mistake.
But seriously, it is funny how every liquid seems to be drugged, poisoned or both.

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On 4/1/2020 at 8:15 AM, Saint Rubenio said:

Unlike Butterman. Whose replies I miss, since he's been silent for a while. B-But it's not like I want him to come back or anything, b-baka... I should probably shut it already.

I'll respond more when, a character that vibes with me shows up, somebody playable dies, or when the “B-plot" kicks in. Rest assured I am, still reading, but since I don't really understand the mechanics of the game, my commentary will be kinda low and infrequent, sorry man. 

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