Hawkwing Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Volcens fits pride like a glove, yes. Valery's greed. Padolf could also be sloth, since all he does is agree with Volcens and Herman so he doesn't have to do anything by himself. There's a certain character that's just perfect for lust. Another one would make a great envy, and I know exactly who wrath would be. So that just leaves gluttony. That one I'm not so sure about. If I remember, I'll point out who these characters are when we meet them. Remember that gluttony doesn't have to mean overeating, but rather an obsession with food, whether it means pickiness without concern of inconveniencing others or pride over "refined" tastes. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Now I'm imagining Garon sending an army of traps (as in, you know, the anime trope) after the Hoshidians. If there is something I will compliment Fates for, I actually do like the Faceless. As dumb as Mikoto's "magic barrier that causes all within it to loose the will to fight" is (though I could see it working if we were given more information about how it works and more of its limitations), summoning creatures that have no will is a logical counter to such a spell. Yet because of said lack of will, it also means that the Faceless aren't picky about their targets, so it is not uncommon for them to turn on the their summoners. It added an interesting dynamic to the war that not every Faceless attack was intended, even if the game didn't take as much advantage of it as it could have. Garon eventually gets around the magic barrier thing with a magic sword (that, again, has no will of its own) that explodes and summons mysterious units, even if it relied on Corrin or someone else bringing the sword close to Hoshido's leader somehow. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You've got some interesting dreams. Meanwhile I dreamt about checking my Serenes notifications, being disappointed that nobody had replied to the thread, and then I woke up and realized I hadn't checked my Serenes notifications yet. I tend to write most of them down. I've actually had the idea of making a webcomic based off of them sometime, but I'd like to sharpen my drawing ability before attempting something like that. I remember the dream that featured Serenes Forest was me yelling "I F*CKING CALLED IT!!!" everywhere I could about predicting how Panne and Selkie would get trampoline gymnastics alts in Fire Emblem Heroes, and my excuse on how I predicted it was memes and having weird dreams. In the middle of a dream. I'm actually concerned how meta some of my dreams can be, even if it is also hilarious. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But is it on the level of TRS's dancer? 'Cause that was another hilarious joke in its own right. I... wonder if Nintendo of America would even allow the localization of that. Heck, I don't even know how the more infamous parts of Genealogy of the Holy War would be handled if the game was remade, even if I know said moments are often blown out of proportion. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Be careful still, damnit. I need your bloothirst unsated when we get to some of the most interesting parts of this game. Fair enough. I'll try to avoid them in the future. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Is there even such a thing as a universally hated FE? I'd say the closest it gets is Birthright, and FE1 is widely considered to be inferior to 11 in every way and not worth playing nowadays, but still... Revelations could also be a contender, given how it shows that having a ton of unique objectives isn't always a good thing, yet that still has some appeal of being the "sandbox" mode of the three routes. Birthright is often called a "better balanced Awakening" and has the best story of the three games, and FE1 still deserves credit for creating the series... Yeah there really isn't a Fire Emblem game that is universally hated. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Also, I like when people claim that the game's four routes give it oh-so-much more replayability than the rest of the series. It's really no more replayability than, say, FE5 and its route split. Sure, FE5 is always the same until you get to the route split, but so is Three Houses, considering the first half of the game is exactly the same, and half the second half is reused throughout all the routes. Yeah, having the first part of the game take up as much time as it does also struck me as odd for a game that you're supposed to replay several times. I kept getting the impression I could have beaten another Fire Emblem game by the time I reached the timeskip, and a solid 2/5ths of that time was spent outside of battle. It would probably bother me less if the monastery stuff and dialogue sequences weren't so damn slow. The slow pace is my biggest criticism of the game, and unfortunately it's a pretty substantial one. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I can't remember if it was already a church in the original, though. Echoes added a lot of things, Gaiden was really held back by the hardware. It's probably why TRS is so similar to it, Kaga wanted to make Gaiden again in sturdier hardware. It's why Eugen wasn't in Gaiden - the NES couldn't handle his awesomeness. The original game stated that Halcyon was once the high priest before Jedah took over, so...maybe. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Eugen v Volcens: Dawn of Badass I'd watch it. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, she's a lass, and she cuts people, so... cutlass! ...Alrighty then. That works. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ergh, hate to break it to ya, but he was called "trespasser". Fairly certain that was not his house. Hence the "kinda". He lost an eye for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but what can you do in a game where capturing relies on an RNG? 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's closer to Lyn than anything else. I guess it... could be worse. I'd honestly say it looks more modest than Lyn's dress. And trust me, it could be a LOT worse. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: There are a few oddball enemies. This one's the first. Oddly tragic death quote, I must say. Yeah, I noticed how you added a tear to the guys portrait. Did you add the smile or was that how the portrait was? 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It may be game over, but Herman'll have to go through Ward to execute Reese. Hah, as if! It would make for an interesting alternative universe, to say the least. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Botained is a totally legit word, c'mon. Is it a word in Hindu? Everything else brings up word scrambles. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Do not presume to boast before His Royal Majesty, Lord Reese. Any servant of the crown would be able to do at least that much! Is that so? Perhaps we should have left the task to you, Minister Padolf. Hah! I didn't think you had this kind of sass in you, Reese. Then again, blond Waluigi overthere is such an easy target... Now if only that ended Padolf's whole career. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That cannot be. Know that speaking lies before His Majesty is a capital offense! Is he trying to make Volcens suspicious of us? 'Cause... it's probably going to work, him being as stupid as he is... This will bite us in the butt later on, won't it? 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You're friends with that rich blond guy I met earlier, right, old-timer? Old-timer?! I'll have you know-- Oh, you're that girl we came across during the battle... Pffffhwahahahahah... I like how he was angry for about two seconds, and then completely forgot about it as soon as he recognized her. If this was Eugen, she wouldn't know the end of it. Then again, maybe he would also have forgiven her, just so he could start hitting on her. And conscript her afterwards. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ward always has good attitude, unless you call him old. Then he reacts even worse than Eugen. I am now curious on seeing how Ward reacts to someone calling him old that isn't one of our own units. 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...how the hell do you know that? Quote Oh, she was hiding under the table. How didn't I notice that before? No joke; I actually scrolled up again to check if she was really hidden there. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'm so glad Kaga decided to let Ward be the second protagonist. Can you imagine how boring these scenes would be with Reese? Ward definitely got the better end of the stick on that front. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahahahahahah! Friggin' Ward, man! What about her even made you come to that conclusion? The fact that she called you "old-timer"? 2 hours ago, The Roger The Paladin said: The fact she mentioned she knows her way around locks is a good hint. Considering there's three types of people who do. Thieves, locksmiths, and people who know the average locksmith is just gonna use a drill and charge you for a replacement lock because it's better money for them to sell you a new lock than to actually just pick it and so have learned lock-picking so as not to fall for that shit. Spoiler, most locksmiths actually skip it in favor of the drill (or whatever passes in the middle ages of anime), and so we can safely assume Czene is a thief. Also, because a innocent home owner isn't going to be under Reese's desk listening in on a conversation for this. What @The Roger The Paladin said. Although: IS did it first, I guess? 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: All right, and with that-- Huh?! Where'd all these come from...? Oh, yeah! As it turns out, I misremembered: the 17 extra posters don't appear next month, they appear as soon as we return with Valentin's corpse. This is almost like a showcase of nearly every bandit design in the series. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sigh... Well, anyway. We'll encounter each of these mofos in future missions, and almost all of them are optional. Some are quite easy to kill, while others will require some more thought. Also, one of them is not like the others. See if you can find the one that stands out. No, it's not the one that shares his name with a female playable unit from the last game. That one's just Kaga being too lazy to use ctr+f on his list of past characters. There's a guy named Pisaro when an early miniboss was Pizarro? Seamus was burnt to death last LP? Gomez is either a playable character or a boss in one of the games, Riddle might be a riddle to fight, and Weiss, sounds kinda familiar and might be an optional recruitable? Maybe? 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I couldn't think of any way to explain this, so I decided to show it. However, the gif was too big for imgbox, so this is the best I can do. Suffice to say, good animations. He's either deep in thought, or drunk. I don't think the two are compatible, so... 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Come on, let's get you on your feet again... Augh, you reek of liquor...! Drunk it is. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No, not exactly. I've seen him around, though. He's always drinking away at Alex's tavern down the road. Apparently, he's a knight. This guy is named after a Roman poet. I wouldn't be surprised if he reappears later. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I cannot understand how Ward's in any way impressed by this sad display, though. I mean, the guy got beaten by some rando who ran from Ward at the first sign of some steel. How good can he be? Maybe Ward can see the guys stats/skills? 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The daily special's literally just a red pepper. Guess that explains why it's cheap. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It grants him a faster recovery from sleep and berserk. A shame we won't face either in this chapter. L stands for Large, these misc food effects can be that or S (Small). And just like that it already surpasses Fates and Three Houses in terms of food granting bonuses. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The bounty on these people's heads is roughly proportional to how many people they've killed. In times like these, it's not unheard of for farmers whose fields were burned to turn to thieving... But those aren't the kind of guys who get put up on our board. These men are all murdering freaks. No need to show them any mercy. Riddle has the highest price on their head right now. I'm taking a guess that they're the kind of serial killer that leaves clues everywhere? To bad this isn't a detective game if that's the case. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Mercenaries are always coming in and out of here looking for bounties. Plus, if they feel they need some extra help on a job, all they need to do is call out to someone here. But when your loyalty relies on who's paying, things can get rough. Someone can be your friend one day and your enemy the next. That's just how it is. That's... ominous. I hope the Raze Empire never hires Sylvis. I would not have the heart... I think Jagged Alliance 2 has the bad guys hire Mike at some point, who is the best mercenary of the first game and is hired armed to the teeth, although his salary is impractically expensive. Your other mercs promptly panic when they hear the news. Makes me curious if this game will ever pull a trick like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 Part 9 - R.I.P. loser. Communicating: Spoiler On 4/8/2020 at 4:22 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: The Thracia 776 growths listed on Serenes Forest, as that's how I checked... so not very far from here. Probably used the repair staff to fix the translation of her name. Saphy, Safy, Safiya, Safie, Spysappin'mahsentry, what the fuck? Second place actually in detections. Mind you, the State of New York alone keeps the US from worrying about losing first place. Seriously, there's more cases in that state than Italy for the moment, and if they get ahead of Spain (which I think is increasingly likely as I've been watching the gap close), they'll be worth more cases bar any country save the one they're contributing to. My heart goes out to all New Yorkers out there. If this keeps going, it's gonna turn into Death Road to Canada real soon. Speaking of, I just bought that one. If anyone's interested I'll share my thoughts. On the bright side, my own region of my country has been struggling to hit double digit new cases the last couple days. Not country wide mind, but seeing as we're closed off from the rest of the Country, it's not spreading very fast here. Other regions are another story, but... I'll live with it. Besides, I never leave home anymore. Not that I could go far if I wanted to (which I don't, I've got a lifetime worth of stuff to do here). The whole Country is quarantined into small regions and venturing outside your own without adequate reason comes with a hefty fine. Same here. Frankly, the worst part is that I usually hang out with my friend every saturday, and we were playing a heavily story-driven game, so I've been waiting like over a month now to see what's next. The game's called Your Turn To Die, if anyone's curious. It's kinda like 999 meets Danganronpa. So far it's been... frightening. Every single one of my favorite characters has died, in order from most to least favorite. Not even kidding. We were up to part 2 of chapter 2 when this whole thing started, and so far I haven't missed a single shot. We even started to call it "Your Turn To Die Ruben's Favorite". Xander's the game's Camus if you're playing Birthright. Except you're more supposed to feel sorry for him because he's Corrin's adoptive brother/recruitable in Conquest rather than because of anything he does. He blindly follows all of Garon's orders to the point of insanity and hypocrisy. His story persona completely contradicts his support conversations. It's like he's two characters. My only explanation is he's an undiagnosed schizophrenic and leaps between two conflicting world views due to a damaged grasp on reality. He's also undeniably a great unit, despite being a total mess as a character. The curse of FE: characters that suck are good. I could tell. What he's done is far too light for a manchild of his caliber. Ohohohohohoh... oh, boy. A Medic main? Well I'll call up Mossad then. They'll be interested in your association with a man who is clearly a leftover from WWII. I mean, look at his lack of adherence to medical convention. Come now. I know he uses bonesaws and syringes as weapons rather than medical equipment, but... Technically just Dragon Quest III. His descendant is the protagonist of Dragon Quest 1 (set 100 years later), and Dragon Quest 2 is about his descendant's descendants (1000 years after 1). Such is the Erdrick trilogy. Then he's not particularly relevant again. Anyway, Dragon Quest 3 has Erdrick (which isn't the name they're born with, but a title they're given at the end of the game) set out to complete the quest his (or her, I guess seeing as you can pick your gender in that one) father Ortega set out on and failed to complete years prior. I'll stop there in case anyone reading this cares about spoilers for a game that's older than I am. All right, cool. It turned out even better than expected when her literal next move was to use Overwatch. Who knew. It's almost as if I did on purpose! I didn't. Seems like it's "Zen" from watching Attila Czene's 1996 Olympic Swimming victory. Could say that was a very Czene question. Mind, this whole thing would have been much easier if I was still talking to my ex, seeing as it's apparently a name in Hungary. That'd take any question out of it. Zen? Jeez, that's so far off from what I thought it was... Then again, I never had much faith in "cehzeene" being it. A puppy with an empty bladder. That is to say a puppy minus the p. Uh, 'kay...? Well it'd explain his grandson (Forrest). I mean, more than already was explained. Have I mentioned before that I fucking hate modern FE character designs? Because I fucking hate modern FE character designs. Not saying they're objectively bad, they're just Rubenically bad. As in, I fucking hate 'em, personally and subjectively. ...And then there's Hanneman. How did that happen? I thought Revelations got more hate than Birthright because it's levels are so gimmicky. I mean you literally have to break up snow in one. Oh yeah, now that you've reminded me that it exists, Revelations is definitely more universally despised than Birthright. I'm pretty partial to Kliff, but only because my first time through was OG Gaiden, which he's actually been NERFED from. But back there, I used him down the soldier/knight/baron path and got a monstrosity with a Baron's defense and enough speed to double anyone. So basically, I'd have Silque warp him to the far end of the map (most maps, not a certain abode, and certainly not the final map), and everyone else would work their way to him while he worked his way back. Most broken mess ever? Yes. Did it break the game in half? Certainly. Hahahaha, oh goodness... Gaiden! Yep. I should know, I've got one. Of-- Of course you have one! You have everything! Always, no less than all medieval weapons! I'd have said Elongated Man or Flexo the Rubber Man to be more obscure. Mind, one was in the Justice League, the other was literally FLEXO THE RUBBER MAN. Flexo the Rubber Man. Hoo boy, comics are so weird... I still remember the day Youtube recommended me a video of Superman with a bad russian accent and a hammer 'n sickle on his chest, murdering motherfuckin' Stalin and then making this face. I know people take comic books real serious, so this'll probably anger a few people out there, but... God, did I ever laugh my ass off that day. It looked like a parody. But it wasn't. Russian Superman killing Stalin to save the proletariat from the gulags is an official Superman story. What drugs were they on? If he tries, he'll end up in the Emergency Ward. There we go. I feel almost sorry for Waluigi being compared to Padolf Shitler over there. He may not be relevant, but at least he's not... Padolf Shitler. The fact she mentioned she knows her way around locks is a good hint. Considering there's three types of people who do. Thieves, locksmiths, and people who know the average locksmith is just gonna use a drill and charge you for a replacement lock because it's better money for them to sell you a new lock than to actually just pick it and so have learned lock-picking so as not to fall for that shit. Spoiler, most locksmiths actually skip it in favor of the drill (or whatever passes in the middle ages of anime), and so we can safely assume Czene is a thief. Well, I'm still not convinced if this is enough to Also, because a innocent home owner isn't going to be under Reese's desk listening in on a conversation for this. Yeah she a thief. Yep. He definitely printed up replacement posters for the ones he hocked. Only plausible explanation, because there's no way 17 people didn't pay him in that time. Maybe those 17 people are actually enemies of Valery's gang. He's using the Sinon knights as his personal army of hitmen by pretending that the common folk put up the hits. Valentin was a test, to see if the idea would work. Valery is the Godfather. I knew Valery was in cahoots with Halfmann. Valery is in cahoots with a lot of people... He's gotta pay off those debts somehow. You know, because his gambling debtors are worse than the actual loan shark around here. Also probably Volcens. Who probably cheats. Or throws fits Porky style when Valery does win by too much. I can totally imagine Volcens going "Bah! Do as you wish! I'm leaving" and just storming off as soon as he loses a game. You know, that almost feels personalized, even if it's general. How'd that work? Because I am a very charismatic and comforting person. What do you mean, no? You wanna die? 'Cause I'll kill you if you disagree with me! I am the one who is always right! Me! No one else! On 4/8/2020 at 4:24 PM, BrightBow said: It's an 8 turn limit, just like every other town before. Son of a bitch... And the game does say that it will take 8 turns for the imperial soldiers to evacuate. The only difference is that at the time it might seem that it would be better to be late for this one. Of course the next turn has another cutscene with the major plotting the assassination of the imperial officer, and at that point it's clear that you do need to make it in 8 turns yet again. I seem to recall that the other towns were a lot more clear about the time limit. Oh, well. Next time, next time. I guess that would make sense. I figured Herman was looking for something specific. But he couldn't possibly expect the Sinnon Knights would spend much time searching the place when that was not part of the mission, considering the time limit and all. He just wanted to cause trouble. The bastard... Well, it's not like Reese could have just ignored him and walked away. But his response was still not very smart. Should have just said they went straight back to the capital once the job was done. Of course on this court everything he says or does will be interpreted as insolence towards his majesty anyway. Yeah, to be fair, there wasn't much of anything Reese could've done there, Volcyboy's default response being "fuck you Reese" and all. Well, you do have a daughter who is probably older then the girl you're speaking to right now. That he does, that he does... The "Watchful" skill maybe. I suppose it does negate the hide effect on houses. Bwahahahahahah... so she has x-ray vision, is that what you're telling me? It's strange that this scene plays now. I mean, this scene really only serves the purpose of introducing Clifford. So you'd think it would occur before that scene with Ruby. It would certainly be a slightly more positive introduction than "Clifford physically assaults his daughter: the scene". On 4/8/2020 at 6:06 PM, Benice said: If we can't accept her culture, does that mean that we're getting Czeneophobic? Oh please... (I could make more jokes, but they'd be obczene.) Damnit! Never underestimate the endgame beard. The motto all enemies of this game should go by. I'm not the only one who only played through the entirety of FE7 because of Canas?! I always modify the ending of FE7 so Canas "Is finally recognized as a true deity by the people of Elibe. Canas transcended the mortal plane, where he lived for all eternity. The St. Elimine church was replaced by the Church of Canas." Canas was definitely my favorite in FE7. The ending is so crap... especially considering FE7 doesn't seem to ever give a damn about FE6 continuity otherwise. I mean, FE7 is kinda not canon, so why not? Yeah, that's it! Athos seals the Forblaze under Arcadia even though he died far away, the Armads curse does not exist, only members of Ostian nobility (not Pheraean) can unlock the Durandal, Rebecca can die even though she's Roy's wet nurse... and yet, Canas surviving is apparently inexcusable. What gives? Wait, hold the phone: Volcens is young? He looks like a elderly/middle aged man to me! It must be his gray hair or something. I never thought he looked old. I'd say 30 years old at most, probably younger. His hair looks naturally silver. I think what might make him look older to you are the eyes. He looks severely sleep-deprived. I dig it. For once, the incompetent, unlikeable monarch is not an old fart. Also, I guess that you'd be satisfied to know that I was inspired by you to play Berwick, and I've loved it so far, (Almost done ch.2's main mission) but the music when you're just vibing in the city is intense! Trying to have a cold one with the cavaliers is kinda unrelaxing because of it. Eyyyyyyyy, I'm glad! Please have fun, and keep us informed! No spoilers, though. Please behave. On 4/8/2020 at 8:06 PM, eclipse said: The "different" bounty? It couldn't possibly be the good-looking guy whose name is "White", is it? Nah, you're wrong. It's, uh... the old guy called Feruz. Yeah. Sorry. ...Kaga: Master of Subtlety... On 4/8/2020 at 8:47 PM, Hawkwing said: Hahaha... sorry, but I'm actually proud of my pace so far. The quarantine helps, of course, but I haven't been this efficient since FE12. Remember that gluttony doesn't have to mean overeating, but rather an obsession with food, whether it means pickiness without concern of inconveniencing others or pride over "refined" tastes. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... If there is something I will compliment Fates for, I actually do like the Faceless. As dumb as Mikoto's "magic barrier that causes all within it to loose the will to fight" is (though I could see it working if we were given more information about how it works and more of its limitations), summoning creatures that have no will is a logical counter to such a spell. Yet because of said lack of will, it also means that the Faceless aren't picky about their targets, so it is not uncommon for them to turn on the their summoners. It added an interesting dynamic to the war that not every Faceless attack was intended, even if the game didn't take as much advantage of it as it could have. Garon eventually gets around the magic barrier thing with a magic sword (that, again, has no will of its own) that explodes and summons mysterious units, even if it relied on Corrin or someone else bringing the sword close to Hoshido's leader somehow. Wait, but if it explodes, why the mysterious units? Ryoma got blown up, that's it, go home everyone! I tend to write most of them down. I've actually had the idea of making a webcomic based off of them sometime, but I'd like to sharpen my drawing ability before attempting something like that. Please, do. I remember the dream that featured Serenes Forest was me yelling "I F*CKING CALLED IT!!!" everywhere I could about predicting how Panne and Selkie would get trampoline gymnastics alts in Fire Emblem Heroes, and my excuse on how I predicted it was memes and having weird dreams. In the middle of a dream. I'm actually concerned how meta some of my dreams can be, even if it is also hilarious. Meanwhile, here I am, the guy who dreams about being unable to sleep. And then a cat with half its head torn off just sitting on my chest. ...I still haven't forgotten that dream. Biggest spook I've had in a long, long time. I... wonder if Nintendo of America would even allow the localization of that. See, that's why fanslations aren't so bad. It allowed us to enjoy Plum and the Slaver in all its glory! That's a good thing, right? Right? Right...? Heck, I don't even know how the more infamous parts of Genealogy of the Holy War would be handled if the game was remade, even if I know said moments are often blown out of proportion. Kaga, man. He's an insane person. And you should see some of the stuff he pulled in Vestaria, the absolute bastard. Fair enough. I'll try to avoid them in the future. 'Kay, good. I still doubt Aethin or anyone else will drop any heavy spoilers, but be wary. Revelations could also be a contender, given how it shows that having a ton of unique objectives isn't always a good thing, yet that still has some appeal of being the "sandbox" mode of the three routes. Birthright is often called a "better balanced Awakening" and has the best story of the three games, and FE1 still deserves credit for creating the series... Yeah there really isn't a Fire Emblem game that is universally hated. Oh yeah FE1 absolutely deserves credit. I was more talking about how FE11 is considered to be plain superior to play nowadays. FE3 book 1 is more problematic, since the UI is nearly as clunky as the NES one, and they removed a bunch of stuff. Like Wrys. You can't just remove Wrys, c'mon. Yeah, having the first part of the game take up as much time as it does also struck me as odd for a game that you're supposed to replay several times. I kept getting the impression I could have beaten another Fire Emblem game by the time I reached the timeskip, and a solid 2/5ths of that time was spent outside of battle. It would probably bother me less if the monastery stuff and dialogue sequences weren't so damn slow. The slow pace is my biggest criticism of the game, and unfortunately it's a pretty substantial one. Agreed. If they wanted to sell the whole "four routes" notion, they should've made the four routes more unique. As it is, they're barely a couple steps above the classic "four chapters" routes that FE has already done a few times. The original game stated that Halcyon was once the high priest before Jedah took over, so...maybe. I loved Halcyon's sprite in the original. It's a hilariously shitty recolor of Nomah. I'd watch it. It wouldn't last more than a minute, though. Eugen would punch Volcens, and that would be the end of it. ...Alrighty then. That works. Haahah, of course it does! Hence the "kinda". He lost an eye for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but what can you do in a game where capturing relies on an RNG? Well, since he's in a house, you couldn't capture him if you wanted to. You could spare him by ensuring that he'd survive the five rounds of combat. Then the fight ends and he'd flee. But I'm not sure if you'd get the flame dust if that happened. I'd honestly say it looks more modest than Lyn's dress. Perhaps a bit. Perhaps a bit. And trust me, it could be a LOT worse. It could be F!Byleth. Pfhah! Everyone was losing their heads over that, but nowadays she's become a waifu as popular as F!Corrin. Me? I'm still elitist scum. I think it's horrendous, like a good bunch of the designs in the game. Seriously, how did Hanneman happen? Yeah, I noticed how you added a tear to the guys portrait. Did you add the smile or was that how the portrait was? This game's death portraits, like all FE death portraits, are exactly the same as the normal ones. He was already grinning, so it was a simple edit to make. It would make for an interesting alternative universe, to say the least. Berwick Saga 2: Warding Reese. Is it a word in Hindu? Everything else brings up word scrambles. Uh... no, it's... a totally legit word I made up! Totally didn't mean to write "obtained", no siree! Now if only that ended Padolf's whole career. I wish. But no. This will bite us in the butt later on, won't it? Perhaps. I am now curious on seeing how Ward reacts to someone calling him old that isn't one of our own units. We'll see if it happens, won't we? No joke; I actually scrolled up again to check if she was really hidden there. Hahahahahah... It was a callback to FE12, actually. On 9/13/2017 at 2:24 AM, Saint Rubenio said: I'm actually glad somebody told her Hardin's last message. How this guy came to know about it is beyond me, though... Oh, of course, he was looking through that window. How come I never noticed that? For all the crap I give the old me, I still remember that joke fondly. God the gore's shitty though... Ward definitely got the better end of the stick on that front. Ward and Tianna both are so much more entertaining than Reese. Reese's got his moments, but he suffers from Kaga's obsession with the Marth kinda lord. What @The Roger The Paladin said. Although: IS did it first, I guess? Grumble grumble I'm sure that was in Kaga's notes grumble grumble... This is almost like a showcase of nearly every bandit design in the series. Ah, yes. I do remember all of the bandits that looked like this. I think one of them was called Gonzales? There's a guy named Pisaro when an early miniboss was Pizarro? Judging by some similar cases that Aethin talked to me about, I wouldn't be surprised if their names were exactly alike in japanese, and Aethin had to scramble to find a variant to tell them apart. Seamus was burnt to death last LP? Still shed manly tears. Gomez is either a playable character or a boss in one of the games, Gomez's the most infamous boss in Thracia. Not much else, really. Riddle might be a riddle to fight, Oh, you... and Weiss, sounds kinda familiar and might be an optional recruitable? Maybe? We shall see. He's either deep in thought, or drunk. I don't think the two are compatible, so... Drunk it is. What kind of person starts stumbling all over the place when they're deep in thought? This guy is named after a Roman poet. I wouldn't be surprised if he reappears later. Could be that he does, yeah. Maybe Ward can see the guys stats/skills? Also probably the fact that the guy's buff as fuck, even if he's too drunk to think straight and fight. Guess that explains why it's cheap. Still, a single red pepper... And just like that it already surpasses Fates and Three Houses in terms of food granting bonuses. See? Berwick Saga is the best. Riddle has the highest price on their head right now. I'm taking a guess that they're the kind of serial killer that leaves clues everywhere? To bad this isn't a detective game if that's the case. I like how you're strategically sidestepping the issue that you can't tell Riddle's gender for sure. I think Jagged Alliance 2 has the bad guys hire Mike at some point, who is the best mercenary of the first game and is hired armed to the teeth, although his salary is impractically expensive. Your other mercs promptly panic when they hear the news. Makes me curious if this game will ever pull a trick like that. I hope not! Letsplaying: Spoiler Today, we're in pursuit of thieves. The theme of the day is this again. To be precise, we're pursuing thieves inside a cave. Not much to say, this might be the easiest map in the entire game. Straight line, one or two weak enemies at a time, no tricks, no traps, no reinforcements, absolutely nothing. I like how they set a nice carpet and a throne in this dank cave. I wonder what kind of person is sitting on it. His teeth could use some fixing. I don't think it's good to have your jaw so dislocated that your lower teeth's default position is... ergh, that. Now that they're gone, we don't have to deal with their crap any longer! From this point on, I'm in charge! And believe you me, things are gonna be different around here! Yes, we've lost a lot of men, too. It's gonna take a lot of work to get back to where we were. For now, go and sell a few of those warhorses we've got. Over my dead body! Those horses are ours! Ours, understand?! That'll cover our expenses for the time being. You got it, boss. They're pretty well-bred, too, so they should fetch a good price. These idiots must think they're so smart, putting a lock on the door. As if that could stop me! Chill out, girl. You can open doors. Big whoop. Czene is the lord of the map! That's right, if she dies, it's over. The icon next to her name is a star, which, as you can see, means she's essential. I forgot to show the team, so here it is. It's the four cavaliers, Sherlock and Faye. One thing I like about this game is, due to the bigger emphasis on skills and equipment over raw stats, focusing on one team is not as much of a necessity. Because of that, I'll make an effort to bring different teams to each map, depending on what kind of units I'll require. Mostly because variety is fun. In this case, since this is the easiest map in the game, I decided not to bring any of my stronger units. I mean, Adel could probably complete the map by himself. By the way, note the battle quote. This guy has nothing special to him, he just talks because he feels like it. Another thing Kaga likes doing sometimes that's pretty cool. The map is easy, but that does not make it any less tedious. Look at that! There's no space for anyone else to attack that guy! I end the turn, and first off, Adel attacks the guy. And then he... misses the Vantage. Okay. You've got to be kidding me... You've got to be kidding meeeeee...! 'Aight, sure. Please crit? Nnnnnnnnnnnnope. The map may be easy, but don't expect a low turncount. LTCers out there may've been semi-proud of me last time, but I'll compensate by making them tear their hair off today. He's something all right. A spineless coward. At least Ben and Val could handle themselves in a fight. Don't say that out loud, man! He's got ears everywhere! Oh, quit your worrying. You just watch for the invaders, and I'll keep an eye here on the loot. All right, thanks for not missing. Who's "buddy"? And how are we lousy? They may be the lousiest among the Sinon Knights, but they're still miles ahead of you! Did you like that whole process? I hope so, 'cause we're going to do it all over again, and that'll be the entire map. Though I'm hoping I can get Ruby ahead so she can train herself up a bit. Adel's hogging the spotlight so far. Not that he doesn't need it, mind. That spear level isn't going to raise itself. Anyway, Vantage, Sherlock shoots from behind, yada yada... And a turn later, Adel gets the chance to... ...disappoint me. Yeah, okay, fine, but where's the spear level you so direly need? Can you believe it's been five turns already? Last map we had done so much in the first five turns... oh, well. Can't all be perfect maps, I guess. At least we're finally making some progress. More shield level. ...you piece of shit, why'd you have to walk next to Adel to attack him? Now I'm going to have to waste two people's turns. Genius move, I must say. I'll still have the last laugh, however! Thanks, Arturo. Yet another turn passes before I can kill this guy. Man, corridors are just the best map design, aren't they? Ruby takes two turns to place herself here. With 34 HP and passive healing, she should be able to choke the point rather reliably. And that means WpSkill points for her. Shield points won't be easy to get, since she's got Axebane and a glorious dodgerate on top of that, but eh, details. A good whack. It's started, folks. You know, you could make an effort not to dodge this one. You'd benefit from getting hit. To speed things up, Sherlock will be helping with his bow. Scratch that, he'll be failing to use his bow, because he's the most inaccurate archer I have ever seen. (Maybe it's about time my pal and I tendered our resignations...) Oh, so this is "buddy"... ergh, hate to break it to ya, man, but your pal's... already tendered his resignation. From life. So this guy has got a battle saw. I like battle saws, they're quite accurate axes. Let's see if I can get this one. I'll send Arthur unarmed to lure him closer. See this? This is the rest of the map. This is going to be a worse update. I'm sorry. Okay, Arthur. Now all you need to do is dodge-- ...or that. That is fine too, I guess. I mean, it isn't, but... I can't really ask much of you, can I, Arturo? Seriously, loving all of these skill gains, but can you guys stop getting them by fucking everything up? While the folks fight (you know, all two of them that are able to do so), Zen opens the door to the treasury. Since the two guards have already waited, it's safe. Oh yeah, that's another thing I never mentioned. To alleviate the difficulty of leveling up thieves, they get some experience from opening stuff. Unlike searching, where Axel has first dibs, there's nobody who can compete for the opening experience but the thieves themselves. And I don't see the point in leveling up the other thief, so Czene is in luck. Adel takes the front, and heals up, just in case. It'd be real embarrassing if someone died here, of all places. The following turn, Arthur attempts to injure the bandit. ...and fails. As usual. His partner in fledgingknights fares better. Adel is shot, but thanks to his newfound shield skill, he is able to employ a new, revolutionary shielding technique: blocking with his chestplate rather than the shield. It conserves shield uses! That's an awful long way of saying, he failed. Uhhhh look! Sherlock's bow is gonna break next shot! Since I know it's coming, I can be prepared to take proper screenshots of it. Could be better, but I think it's easy enough to see what they're doing. I like how the glow breaks apart as well. Whoops. So yeah, Sherlock's first bow broke. That's the second piece of gear we lose, after Ward's shield two updates ago. I think Ward's shield may've still been orange when it buckled? I'm just hoping we don't see anything breaking on green in a long, long time. Something like, I don't know, is 37~ maps without a green break too much to ask? Predictably enough, the bandit guarding the treasury throws himself onto Adel's spear like an idiot. Gotta say, he may be hell to promote, but he's really fun to use, and he doesn't need promoting to use Vantage. And here comes the partner! Oh, Leon... See, was that so hard? Why must everyone always miss first? Do you all just like raising the stakes for no reason? By the way, that's a damn cool hitting frame. Beautiful. While the others assault the treasury, Sherlock is attacked by the archer on Ruby's side. Back to the treasury. This guy's a goner. I'm going to keep missing popups all LP, aren't I... The bandit graciously reminds me that I forgot to re-equip Arthur's shield after he had it whacked off his hands last time. We'll remedy that in a minute. One thing that adds to the confusion, in my format, is that I tend to forget to take shots of the overworld. I don't have the heart to turn off animations, but the downside is that, if I don't remember to take one of these from time to time, you guys can't make heads or tails of what the hell is going on. Anyway, Ruby is finally done slowly cutting this guy to pieces. Ah, the wonders of using a bad unit. This one isn't even the fun bad unit of this game. We'll meet that one soon enough. Aha, a level! Let it be a good one, full of WpSkill and other various stats. Ehhhh not bad! Strength and shield level would be much appreciated, but this is okay too. Aaaaaaaaaaaand it's been 10 turns. 10 turns of nothing. I hope you're loving this Berwick Saga! I know I do. Treasury's all clear, at least. No wonder it fell so fast, it's the only part of the map where we can have more than one unit fight at a time! Yes! Adel! Maybe he has a chance! I... wouldn't count on it, but maybe...! Oh, you bastard... as if this wasn't taking long enough already! Now she can't even counterattack! Couldn't even hit her for shield points. Hmmmph... Since we failed to injure this guy, and I don't feel like waiting for Flourish to recharge, we're just going to kill him. It's all right, we'll get other chances to obtain battle saws. ...like right here, if Arthur takes long enough to finish this asshole off! Let's see how long it takes me to remember to equip Sherlock his other bow. Doggone it...! Okay, thanks. Seriously, I've deployed Arthur twice and both times he's made a fool of himself. What gives? I thought you were a good unit! Ah, finally! Yeah, might as well. That was a nice waste of a skill. We've made progress! Heal up, Arthur. Excelente! And now, for the revenge! That's awesome! What does he have, exactly? Junk. But eh. Might as well give the capture a shot. Farts. Farts! Give me more shield points, woman! Oh look. It's an unbelievable sight: Arthur is doing something right. Since she's finally been hurt, I get to show that Ruby gets healed by her food at the start of each turn. See, she got 2 HP back. Not too much, but in this situation, it should suffice. Desperate, the brigand attempts to attack Ruby once more. It does not go well. Well, look at that. That's convenient. Now, if you could just pull this off, Ruby... Okay, then. She grows her weapon skills real fast. At this rate, it's going to take longer to permanently recruit her than to promote her. The former is, by the way, a requirement for the latter: you cannot promote Ruby unless you first recruit her and get her a level afterwards. It's... well, it makes sense in context, actually. Whoa, Arthur! He took my insults to heart! I'm glad. Keep at it, and it'll all be forgiven! With the guy nearly dead, I believe it's the perfect chance to try and get Czene some kills. Thus, Arthur gets out of the way. She can't kill without a crit, but he'll be ready to die next turn. There we have it. Got 5 HP this time around. It's rather fickle, but it does its job. Okay, that's 1 HP! Is it too much to ask that this works, for once? Nice! I mean, this is a nearly useless capture, but still. Easy experience for Czene. I'll deal with you in a minute, don't worry. ...ahahahahah! Nope. There is risk of death here. I am not trying this. I'm letting him take the initiative. Sherlock, please... You're being bested at your job by some random bandit! 'Kay, Czene. Do a good job, and you shall be rewarded. That's what I like to see! If you're wondering why Czene is running away from the crippled guy, it's because I'm dumb and it didn't occur to me yet that she could take him for experience. Sigh... At least he's trapped. There's nowhere he can go, so she should be able to return in time. Adel? Really? Okay, that's fine by me, I suppose. That's another kill for the Lion of Sinon! Make it a good one. Well... he needs that to promote, I guess. My hunch was correct: this guy can only escape toward the entrance of the cave, so he'll be foolishly walking right into us. Czene will capture him in a second. 15 turns! My tactics are truly being swift and graceful today, aren't they? Oki-dokie. Onward to the, uh, "throne room". The one to watch out for here is this fellow. He's no Zalius, but he's tougher than the other axeman, and Gariad is too lazy to move from his throne. Incidentally, I don't think I've ever mentioned this, and no doubt most of you have already deduced it by now, but better late than never, as they say: When there's a D next to an item, it means that item is dropped on death. Here's Hurry in action. Without it, we'd have to wait yet another turn to bring the enemies closer. However, Arthur can rush right in and... Make himself useful! Uh, sorta. Not bad, Arturo. Not bad, for you. Asshole! Well, you could surrender, you know. I'm not the kind to murder those who won't fight back. Not... not usually, at least. You're going down, though. It's worth a shot. She's got three different animations, for some reason. I've noticed that, sometimes, she does an upward slash. I wonder why that is. Pffft... that's a hilarious frame. That... is not a hilarious frame. All right, Adel. Try again. Nice! I knew you could pull through, Adel. Well, I didn't know, but... you get what I mean. Well, that's why I bought you a second pack, isn't it? Every time an enemy tries attacking Adel, my respect for them goes down. You'd think they'd learn eventually! I could've used Desperation here, but in hindsight, I'm glad I didn't think to do it. If he had missed, it would've been extremely dangerous. The potshot worked, at any rate. Don't worry about your friend. You'll see him again soon enough. Nice! For all the crap I'm giving them, it is true that Arthur and Ruby were my first two promotions in my last run. With their inmense growths, they're pretty easy to get there. Guess what happened here! Ruben's Grandpa Reflexes strike again! You're the only one left, and down you shall go! ...oh God we've already taken longer to do this than the other map. Eh, no big deal. LP canon says that we're doing this to spite Volcyboy and his time limits. That's just the perfect kill for you-know-who. Look, he even brought himself to her! Piss. Balderdash! Well, more hit is always appreciated. And now... Oho! The Critical Saga never stops! Drat... almost! Only one enemy left. Gariad is a weaker Valentin without skills and a worse weapon that doesn't move. He is also extremely easy to capture. Normally I'd savescum it, but I'd like to keep the LP clean for as long as I can, so we only got one shot at this. The usual music. You've seen my face, so you've got to die! I'd like to die after seeing your face, to be honest. But I'm afraid I've more pressing matters to attend to. Anyway, here's the deal: Arthur is going to be flourishing this guy until he's injured. Nobody else will attack him until Arthur succeeds. No dice. We've got 19 more attempts before he gets chipped to death. Do not disappoint me, Arthur. The following turn, he moves away so Gariad does not attack him. He'll be waiting a few turns for Flourish to recharge. Rinse and repeat. Hey Aethin, how much time did you say each turn was, again? 'Cause we're gonna be here a while. Fine by me. Gives Czene enough time to loot the place. A new orb for Izerna, and a most delicious knife for Czene. This little friend is great. Defense, two strikes, extremely accurate, two points of innate might... what's not to love? And since looting gives Czene experience, it's enough for her to reach her first level! It's extremely crappy, but really, as far as I'm concerned, all that matters for her is that the number next to "LV" becomes 10 sooner than later. Next, she opens up the cells and retrieves a horse. Gariad says this when you breach the cells. Buddy, I think you've got bigger things to worry about. As items, horses are oddballs. For starters, you cannot put a horse in a bag. Thankfully, the game doesn't require that you toss an item here. If you've got some free space in your bag, it gives you the option to instead put one of your items in it to make space for the horse. Horses reduce your stats when you've got them. They're also a "limited" item. What that means is that you can only ever have one at any given time. In this case both horses are Sinon stallions, but even if they were different types, Czene would only be able to carry one. You're up, Leon. Go get your horse back. There we go. I haven't been showing it, but keep in mind that this has been happening all the while. And finally, Arthur's done it! Everyone, dogpile him! No, not like that, Faye! That is wrong! Go, go, go! Just like that! See, there's the other animation. Anyway, if that doesn't do it, I don't know what will. C'mon, c'mon, be crippled... ...damnit, nooooo...! My only hope now is that Czene makes it in time and only deals one damage to him. Injuries wear off, though, so I don't think it'll happen... Son of a bitch, he doubled Adel! For the time being, everyone flees. Faye will follow them next turn. Run, girl, ruuun! For fuck's sake! Okay, then. We'll do it the old-fashioned way. Crap! Thank goodness I let him wait before I attacked him... Gosh darn it...! Gah! Hell yeah, 45 turns! Now that's the kind of Saint Rubenio numbers I'm used to! Hahah... if I recall correctly, Aethin said each turn is half an hour in-universe. We've spent nearly a full day in this dank cave. Marvelous. Finally, he's down. Jeez. He may've been a weaker Valentin, but he sure took a lot longer to defeat... It's enemies like Gariad that make the most of Ruby's Paragon. Normally scoundrels yield 65 experience, but instead, she's gotten almost 80. Well, that's incredibly frustrating. Another material for the pile! Nice. Not much of a reason to linger here. In seize maps where Reese isn't present, anybody can seize. Might as well have Faye do it. Oh? Pffft... did she seriously just say that? Not sure what the need for that dialogue was, but I'm glad it exists. "R.I.P. loser"... pfffhahahahahah! In any case, it's all over! Next time, we return to Navaron with our horses in tow. Well, the two that we did manage to recover. We'll see what kind of sidequest comes next. See you then! I hope you'll be all right! See yaaaaaaa~! Death count: -- Capture count: 0 Reset count: 0 Current perfect streak: 5 maps Best perfect streak: 5 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I guess that guy doesn't know who is trespassing. I mean, they were trespassing through Neam Bandits territory just a few days ago. Killed like a thousand of this guy's pals in a day. Not sure why they should feel intimidated now. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: The map is easy, but that does not make it any less tedious. Look at that! There's no space for anyone else to attack that guy! This one's on you for using your first move to block the corridor. You only allowed that bandit to move one single tile towards you. If you had moved your frontliners only like 1-2 tiles ahead, he would have left the corridor and you could have ganged up on him with like 2+ melee units. And the problem with this team is not that it's weak, but that it's lacking in ranged support. I mean, sure you don't need heavy hitters like Dean, Elbert or Volo here. But it would help to have archers with the Aim skill since they wouldn't need to move anyway when you get bottlenecked. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Did you like that whole process? I hope so, 'cause we're going to do it all over again, and that'll be the entire map. I actually just did the map. And that archer didn't move for some reason. Weird. But most certainly lucky since I didn't deploy Arthur. If I had, I could have used Hurry to have him run in front of that brigand so that he can't plug the corridor and cause another bottleneck. So it's good that the archer decided not to make the situation worse for me. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, might as well. One-Two is a great skill. It allows Sherlock to be useless twice in the same turn. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's the Grim Reaper's scythe sliding across the rocks. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Horses reduce your stats when you've got them. They're also a "limited" item. What that means is that you can only ever have one at any given time. In this case both horses are Sinon stallions, but even if they were different types, Czene would only be able to carry one. Of course riders also have their own horses. So they can potentially carry TWO horses around if they dismount. Probably best not to think too much about that. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: And to get all that blood off, I'd wager. Edited April 10, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hawkwing Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My heart goes out to all New Yorkers out there. If this keeps going, it's gonna turn into Death Road to Canada real soon. Speaking of, I just bought that one. If anyone's interested I'll share my thoughts. Why not? I've heard it's like FTL: Faster Than Light in some ways, and that's one of my favorite games of all time. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Flexo the Rubber Man. Hoo boy, comics are so weird... I still remember the day Youtube recommended me a video of Superman with a bad russian accent and a hammer 'n sickle on his chest, murdering motherfuckin' Stalin and then making this face. I know people take comic books real serious, so this'll probably anger a few people out there, but... God, did I ever laugh my ass off that day. It looked like a parody. But it wasn't. Russian Superman killing Stalin to save the proletariat from the gulags is an official Superman story. What drugs were they on? Superman Red Son. I've heard that it's one of the better DC alternative universe stories. And that Lex Luthor is an American President with an impressive introduction and Batman has an awesome hat. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahaha... sorry, but I'm actually proud of my pace so far. The quarantine helps, of course, but I haven't been this efficient since FE12. I too am fine with the pace. Faster than I'd personally like, but I take it as a sign you're enjoying the game, and hey! I actually have some free time to comment. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... The Screwtape Letters is my favorite book. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait, but if it explodes, why the mysterious units? Ryoma got blown up, that's it, go home everyone! Confirming that the explosion actually killed them? More likely, so that Fates can have a cool level. It uses that excuse way to often. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Kaga, man. He's an insane person. And you should see some of the stuff he pulled in Vestaria, the absolute bastard. From what I can tell, he repeated the slaver event with an older woman and you can kill the bastard, someone gets beheaded, it has surprisingly funny dialogue and there are a thousand cliffhangers. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I loved Halcyon's sprite in the original. It's a hilariously shitty recolor of Nomah. There were a ton of recolors in that game. Mostly of Desaix. I'd say it's actually easier to count the sprites that aren't reused. Glad to see what Hidari made of them, considering what he had to work with. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It wouldn't last more than a minute, though. Eugen would punch Volcens, and that would be the end of it. It would still be worth the price of admission. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It could be F!Byleth. Pfhah! Everyone was losing their heads over that, but nowadays she's become a waifu as popular as F!Corrin. Me? I'm still elitist scum. I think it's horrendous, like a good bunch of the designs in the game. Seriously, how did Hanneman happen? F!Byleth outfit is bad enough that its the main reason I don't think I'll play Three Houses as her. Though mostly because of the amount of time you spend outside of battle, and how you have to shell out some money to get her a more modest outfit. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, yes. I do remember all of the bandits that looked like this. I think one of them was called Gonzales? I said "Nearly". 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I like how you're strategically sidestepping the issue that you can't tell Riddle's gender for sure. Actually, that's just a habit of using "they". 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Today, we're in pursuit of thieves. The theme of the day is this again. I forgot to mention last time that I alternated between Rhythm Theif's soundtrack (haven't played the game) and Berwick Sagas when commenting on the previous update, and I have to say, I can see why you're linking as many songs as you can. Spoiler Also, when does "Crusade" play? That one was epic enough I actually stopped writing and checked what the songs name was. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I mean, Adel could probably complete the map by himself. By the way, note the battle quote. This guy has nothing special to him, he just talks because he feels like it. Another thing Kaga likes doing sometimes that's pretty cool. I'm not certain if Fire Emblem ever had generics speak up in battle like this. I know that boss conversations aren't as frequent as they used to be, but yeah I don't even know if the Kaga FE games did this. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He's something all right. A spineless coward. At least Ben and Val could handle themselves in a fight. Don't say that out loud, man! He's got ears everywhere! Oh, quit your worrying. You just watch for the invaders, and I'll keep an eye here on the loot. I see the game does minion misadventures for you. I mean, I knew the game already did, and you still managed to find ways to insert it in, but that sprang to mind when I saw this. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Did you like that whole process? I hope so, 'cause we're going to do it all over again, and that'll be the entire map. Woo boy, one of those updates. It means I'm less likely to spend the day commenting on more stuff than I expected to, but it also means I have to decide what battles are interesting enough to, well, comment upon. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yet another turn passes before I can kill this guy. Man, corridors are just the best map design, aren't they? I actually enjoyed Echoes castle maps, but that's because you had to earn every step into the fortress and they were some of the more difficult battles in the game. Caves aren't quite as exciting. At least, not without some twist. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: (Maybe it's about time my pal and I tendered our resignations...) Oh, so this is "buddy"... ergh, hate to break it to ya, man, but your pal's... already tendered his resignation. From life. How do you tender a registration for a bandit crew? Without joining the protagonists side or running for it the moment the leader is killed? 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: So this guy has got a battle saw. I like battle saws, they're quite accurate axes. Let's see if I can get this one. For some reasons I was expecting a chainsaw axe the first time I saw that, before reminding myself that unlike Three Houses, Berwick Saga doesn't have any secret futuristic technology. Seriously, I'm still disappointed that the game doesn't have any weapons like this: Spoiler From Shadow Warrior 2. And yes, that is a chainsaw katana. It's that kind of game. Real big missed opportunity right there. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh yeah, that's another thing I never mentioned. To alleviate the difficulty of leveling up thieves, they get some experience from opening stuff. Unlike searching, where Axel has first dibs, there's nobody who can compete for the opening experience but the thieves themselves. And I don't see the point in leveling up the other thief, so Czene is in luck. Considering how difficult it is to get experience otherwise, this was a wise design choice. Would probably depend on the game for whether or not this would be practical for Fire Emblem. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Adel is shot, but thanks to his newfound shield skill, he is able to employ a new, revolutionary shielding technique: blocking with his chestplate rather than the shield. It conserves shield uses! That's an awful long way of saying, he failed. Plate armor actually can deflect arrows and crossbow bolts (fight starts at the 6 minute mark if you're interested. It's one of the few fights where armor does its job), although I don't think Adel is wearing plate. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Could be better, but I think it's easy enough to see what they're doing. I like how the glow breaks apart as well. Whoops. Yeah, I think I get an idea of what the effect looks like. Certainly more interesting than "X weapon broke" with sad music (even if it can be hilarious if you get creative with naming forged weapons). 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: See, was that so hard? Why must everyone always miss first? Do you all just like raising the stakes for no reason? By the way, that's a damn cool hitting frame. Beautiful. That is a cool hitting frame, I agree. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The one to watch out for here is this fellow. He's no Zalius, but he's tougher than the other axeman, and Gariad is too lazy to move from his throne. Incidentally, I don't think I've ever mentioned this, and no doubt most of you have already deduced it by now, but better late than never, as they say: When there's a D next to an item, it means that item is dropped on death. I was wondering if that was the case. I ether forgot to comment on it earlier or thought you would explain it later. Probably both. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, you could surrender, you know. I'm not the kind to murder those who won't fight back. Not... not usually, at least. Spoiler I have no qualms about the exceptions. Then he'd end up in a prison cell before you sell him back for some extra cash. Better than dying, but I'm not surprised he decided to fight his way out. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: She's got three different animations, for some reason. I've noticed that, sometimes, she does an upward slash. I wonder why that is. I take it she was popular with the animators? And/Or she was one of the easier sprites to get creative with. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That... is not a hilarious frame. I guess mercenaries in Berwick Saga are also background landscape admirers. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oho! The Critical Saga never stops! Simple yet sweet critical hit. Nice to see the philosophy of spinning weapons to multiply damage still exists in some form in Berwick. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This little friend is great. Defense, two strikes, extremely accurate, two points of innate might... what's not to love? Carnwenhau, or Carnwennan, was the dagger of King Arthur. It was one of three sacred weapons (along with the spear Rhogomiant and sword Caledfwich) supposedly given to him by God, and one of the things Arthur listed that he would not give to his cousin, Culhwch. He also used it to slay the witch Orddu daughter of Orwen by slicing her in half, as and also killed a giant with the dagger. I have no idea why this is in a chest of some bandits. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Horses reduce your stats when you've got them. They're also a "limited" item. What that means is that you can only ever have one at any given time. In this case both horses are Sinon stallions, but even if they were different types, Czene would only be able to carry one. Makes sense. Horses don't just disappear when you get off of them. Outside of hardware/resource limitations, I always did wonder why the games don't show the horse be somewhere when a unit fights dismounted. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hell yeah, 45 turns! Now that's the kind of Saint Rubenio numbers I'm used to! Hahah... if I recall correctly, Aethin said each turn is half an hour in-universe. We've spent nearly a full day in this dank cave. Marvelous. 45?!?! Man, I forgot how much you like to take your time. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh? Pffft... did she seriously just say that? Not sure what the need for that dialogue was, but I'm glad it exists. "R.I.P. loser"... pfffhahahahahah! While I see what you mean by Berwick Saga not having as many laugh-out-loud moments as TearRing Saga, I'm actually kind of surprised it still has moments like these. I wasn't expecting the humor to appear like this. 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ooh, more story! 6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I... uh... kinda lost track of the plot last time, so I'm hoping these are new characters and not just people I forgot. Sprite artwork is good. A different style for sure, but not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My heart goes out to all New Yorkers out there. If this keeps going, it's gonna turn into Death Road to Canada real soon. Speaking of, I just bought that one. If anyone's interested I'll share my thoughts. It reminds me of a Judge Dredd story from a few years ago. Day of Chaos specifically, where a virus called "The Chaos Bug" killed over 87% of the population of Mega City 1 (which is a large city in Dredd's future world that covers much of the Eastern United states and a chunk of what we know as Canada). Mind that's an immense death toll, as the city had been populated by 400 million... and now it was down to 50 million. It was notably the biggest Judge Dredd story of all time in scope, amount of issues, and of course body count. Anyway, while COVID-19 definitely reminds me of it (more so because the first story in Mega City 1 was set in the New York part), I'm more than a little optimistic it won't turn out half as bad. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Of-- Of course you have one! You have everything! Always, no less than all medieval weapons! I don't have a flail or morningstar. Oddly enough they're illegal. Battle axe? Fine. Lance? Fine. Sword? Fine? Crossbow? You need a permit. Morningstar "No fuck off no one's going Simon Belmont lite." 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Flexo the Rubber Man. Hoo boy, comics are so weird... I still remember the day Youtube recommended me a video of Superman with a bad russian accent and a hammer 'n sickle on his chest, murdering motherfuckin' Stalin and then making this face. Flexo the Rubber Man was a robot... with a body primarily composed of rubber. It was remote controlled by two kids to fight crime in a couple 40s comics by the company that would one day become Marvel. It's chest looked like it was made up of red tires. Oddly enough, despite having rights to the character, Marvel refuses to acknowledge it's existence unless they're reprinting full golden age issues (which is rare). As for the Superman that's the Red Son storyline... albeit with a key alteration. Stalin was killed by a traitor using cyanide in the comic.. who was subsequently shot. Superman outright attempted to save him, but you know. He's not exactly a doctor (I literally double checked this because I thought he died in a time skip, but I hadn't read the story in years, I just knew that it definitely was changed from memory). See, in the story the rocket carrying Kal-El to Earth landed 12 hours earlier. Which resulted in it landing in the USSR. Which meant it got brought to the state by the KGB, and Stalin ended up raising the kid as his own. Superman became his successor. The biggest plot twist was it turned out Krypton was never an actual seperate planet, but Earth's distant future, and the rocket wasn't just sent through space, but time. Which is strictly in defiance of main universe DC, but there you go. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What do you mean, no? You wanna die? 'Cause I'll kill you if you disagree with me! I am the one who is always right! Me! No one else! Is that a Volcens quote? 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait, but if it explodes, why the mysterious units? Ryoma got blown up, that's it, go home everyone! Because Slime Garon is such a lousy planner that he still tries to piss Corrin off even if he sides with him. Kind of like Volcens, except you know this guy is literally an evil monster under the control of an insane dragon. Volcens is just a dickhead. Seeing as I screwed up and early posted, I'll do the actual update seperately later... when I have a chance to read it at my Leesure. 15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: These idiots must think they're so smart, putting a lock on the door. As if that could stop me! Chill out, girl. You can open doors. Big whoop. Tell me about it. Locks only keep out the honest... and while picking one may take practice and knowledge, I have always wondered why it's not more common-practice in this series (or others) to simply bust doors and chests open by brute force. I mean, there's breakable walls in the series, and the doors are breakable in Tellius... but not one person can bust open a chest? Ever? 15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Seriously, I've deployed Arthur twice and both times he's made a fool of himself. What gives? I thought you were a good unit! This is a Saint Rubenio LP. Where bad units reign supreme, and good units either die a bullshit death or live long enough to be RNG screwed. 15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: There we have it. Between the after images and her, she almost became a Czenetepide. 15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's what I like to see! For a thief, she's doing a Czenesational job of killing people. 15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: She's got three different animations, for some reason. I've noticed that, sometimes, she does an upward slash. I wonder why that is. Maybe it's a Fayent to throw them offguard? 15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Every time an enemy tries attacking Adel, my respect for them goes down. You'd think they'd learn eventually! Well, it's hard to learn when you're dying. Honestly I'm kind of surprised that a certain Butter lover doesn't like this guy more given green and hard to promote. He's not that far off being a FE3 Book 2/FE12 Abel, or an Arkis in that he's screwed over by the game. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oho! The Critical Saga never stops! A critical hit? That's a death Czenetence. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This little friend is great. Defense, two strikes, extremely accurate, two points of innate might... what's not to love? This is going to be a Czenetrepiece of her arsenal for a while isn't it? 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Horses reduce your stats when you've got them. They're also a "limited" item. What that means is that you can only ever have one at any given time. In this case both horses are Sinon stallions, but even if they were different types, Czene would only be able to carry one. So now that she's on a horse, will that make her a Czenetaur? 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh? Pffft... did she seriously just say that? Besides the puns, I like this girl. She even gave the boss a nice Czened off. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This is going to be weird isn't it? Hopefully this is now the full post so I don't have to do two separate posts. Edited April 11, 2020 by The Roger The Paladin making it a full post because early post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 Part 10 - Eugen would be proud. Ooourgh: Spoiler On 4/11/2020 at 12:28 AM, BrightBow said: I guess that guy doesn't know who is trespassing. I mean, they were trespassing through Neam Bandits territory just a few days ago. Killed like a thousand of this guy's pals in a day. Not sure why they should feel intimidated now.See, we killed everyone just the other day, but these guys are different. They're... they're different, all right. Take them at their word! This one's on you for using your first move to block the corridor. You only allowed that bandit to move one single tile towards you. If you had moved your frontliners only like 1-2 tiles ahead, he would have left the corridor and you could have ganged up on him with like 2+ melee units. And the problem with this team is not that it's weak, but that it's lacking in ranged support. I mean, sure you don't need heavy hitters like Dean, Elbert or Volo here. But it would help to have archers with the Aim skill since they wouldn't need to move anyway when you get bottlenecked.You're completely right, I am entirely to blame. Berwick Saga is still an awesome, flawless experience. Thanks. I actually just did the map. And that archer didn't move for some reason. Weird. But most certainly lucky since I didn't deploy Arthur. If I had, I could have used Hurry to have him run in front of that brigand so that he can't plug the corridor and cause another bottleneck. So it's good that the archer decided not to make the situation worse for me.Frankly, the problem with this map is that there isn't much of an incentive to hurry up. The inmobile bounty target certainly doesn't help, all it does is make you want to spend 40 turns trying to Flourish him. One-Two is a great skill. It allows Sherlock to be useless twice in the same turn.Hahahahahah... that's what it looks like, now, but when he gets some better bows, it's going to be quite the terrifying sight. For the enemy! Heheheh... It's the Grim Reaper's scythe sliding across the rocks.How ironic would that be if I had managed to capture him alive. Of course riders also have their own horses. So they can potentially carry TWO horses around if they dismount. Probably best not to think too much about that.C'mon, man. It's obvious that everybody's equipped with Doraemon's pocket, and that's where they put their extra horses! And to get all that blood off, I'd wager. The blood of all one enemies she's killed. If she needs a bath after that, I don't want to imagine how Ruby's looking right now. On 4/11/2020 at 4:44 AM, eclipse said: Would you rather have easy and tedious, or tough and short? If the entire game was as "easy and tedious" as this map, I wouldn't love it. Case in point, FE9. As much as I'm going to hate losing units to the tougher maps, I'm glad this is the exception, not the rule. On 4/11/2020 at 5:47 AM, Hawkwing said: Why not? I've heard it's like FTL: Faster Than Light in some ways, and that's one of my favorite games of all time. Well, they're both roguelikes with tons of different events that are both positive and negative. Though, this one's more about resource management than FTL. You've got to have enough food for your entire team at all times, enough gas to keep the car going (it's possible to go without a car, but bad events keep happening when you're not in one), medicines and bullets, good weapons for when you go out scavenging... you also need to raise your people's stats (like shooting, so they can shoot better, medical, so they waste less medicine when healing, mechanical, so they can repair the car... that sort of thing) and try to keep them alive through all sorts of bad events. The combat's much more hands-on than FTL. You go to places to explore and scavenge for stuff, and to survive, you whack zombies over the head. It's pretty fun, until you end up in a siege and your AI partner is caught by the swarm and killed. It's also not a serious game. Like, at all. It's pretty hilarious. There's an event where you find a dude in a home who calls you a dink, and you can either try to recruit them or have one of your people kick the door while yelling "I AM NOT A DINK", which reduces their composure stat. One thing I find really funny is that people are... extremely expendable. In most survival games like this, you'd be cherishing your guys, but here? Someone can die and it doesn't matter at all, as long as you've got other people. There's not even a morale reduction. Nobody gives a shit. Even your starting team doesn't matter at all. There are even rescue missions, and when you find the person to rescue, the game outright tells you "they could be useful if you can save them, or a nice distraction if you can't". Superman Red Son. I've heard that it's one of the better DC alternative universe stories. And that Lex Luthor is an American President with an impressive introduction and Batman has an awesome hat. See, this is what I was saying. You guys can look past "russian Superman kills Stalin to save the proletariat from the gulags". I have difficulties doing so. I too am fine with the pace. Faster than I'd personally like, but I take it as a sign you're enjoying the game, and hey! I actually have some free time to comment. Oh yeah, I'm definitely loving the game. As much as I enjoyed FE12, 6 and TRS, this one's on an entirely different level. I mean, in both my first runs, Berwick Saga was all I did in my free time. Normally I try having two or three games at once so I don't get bored, but this one? This one needs no distractions. It's kinda insane how much this game has clicked with me. By a longshot the best strategy game I've ever played. Just saying, in case it wasn't clear enough already. The Screwtape Letters is my favorite book. That's... cryptic. Confirming that the explosion actually killed them? More likely, so that Fates can have a cool level. It uses that excuse way to often. Well, I can get behind that. From what I can tell, he repeated the slaver event with an older woman and you can kill the bastard, someone gets beheaded, it has surprisingly funny dialogue and there are a thousand cliffhangers. Just a few examples. There were a ton of recolors in that game. Mostly of Desaix. I'd say it's actually easier to count the sprites that aren't reused. Yeah, but Halcyon was a bad recolor on top of being a recolor! Glad to see what Hidari made of them, considering what he had to work with. Is Hidari Echoes's artist? If so, they did an excellent job. Echoes has one of the best artstyles in the entire series. Only problem I had with it was that my 3DS's tiny screen hurt my eyes when I tried to appreciate it. If only Three Houses didn't switch to "generic flat isekai"... It would still be worth the price of admission. That much is true. F!Byleth outfit is bad enough that its the main reason I don't think I'll play Three Houses as her. Though mostly because of the amount of time you spend outside of battle, and how you have to shell out some money to get her a more modest outfit. Or a less modest one. Y'know, the Sothis outfit. I still don't understand the point of the outfits. Paid cosmetics in a multiplayer game are already dumb (I say this as someone who's fallen for the trap in the past), but at least other people... see them? There's a point to it, even if it's a really stupid point. In a singleplayer game, paid cosmetics are a goddamned robbery! I said "Nearly". Hahah, all right, all right... Actually, that's just a habit of using "they". I understand. It's okay, "they" is a fun pronoun. I forgot to mention last time that I alternated between Rhythm Theif's soundtrack (haven't played the game) and Berwick Sagas when commenting on the previous update, and I have to say, I can see why you're linking as many songs as you can. Oh yeah, I love this game's soundtrack. Soundtrack, story, gameplay, graphics... this game has it all, goddamnit! Well, not an official english translation, of course, but Aethin's taken care of that marvelously. Reveal hidden contents Also, when does "Crusade" play? That one was epic enough I actually stopped writing and checked what the songs name was. If you go back to the OP, you'll find that it's the music that plays during the opening. It also plays somewhere else, but we'll get to that. And I totally get what you mean. It's one of the game's best themes. I'm not certain if Fire Emblem ever had generics speak up in battle like this. I know that boss conversations aren't as frequent as they used to be, but yeah I don't even know if the Kaga FE games did this. Pretty sure it's a first for everyone. I see the game does minion misadventures for you. I mean, I knew the game already did, and you still managed to find ways to insert it in, but that sprang to mind when I saw this. I'll still do minion misadventures of my own sooner or later. Woo boy, one of those updates. It means I'm less likely to spend the day commenting on more stuff than I expected to, but it also means I have to decide what battles are interesting enough to, well, comment upon. Ah, well. What can you do. I actually enjoyed Echoes castle maps, but that's because you had to earn every step into the fortress and they were some of the more difficult battles in the game. I see. Caves aren't quite as exciting. At least, not without some twist. At least it's not TRS's cave maps. Remember those? Hoo, boy... How do you tender a registration for a bandit crew? Without joining the protagonists side or running for it the moment the leader is killed? Pretty sure he was sarcastically implying that he'd get the fuck out as soon as he could. A shame he made up his mind far too late, when we already were blocking the entrance. For some reasons I was expecting a chainsaw axe the first time I saw that, before reminding myself that unlike Three Houses, Berwick Saga doesn't have any secret futuristic technology. There's a chainsaw axe in The Last Promise. Just... throwing that out there. Seriously, I'm still disappointed that the game doesn't have any weapons like this: Reveal hidden contents From Shadow Warrior 2. And yes, that is a chainsaw katana. It's that kind of game. Real big missed opportunity right there. That would've been cool flair, indeed. Considering how difficult it is to get experience otherwise, this was a wise design choice. Would probably depend on the game for whether or not this would be practical for Fire Emblem. In most FEs I doubt it'd be relevant at all. Thieves aren't worth training in 90% of the cases. None of them get horses like Czene! Until Fates, if I'm not mistaken. Which means that, yes, Kaga Did It First. Plate armor actually can deflect arrows and crossbow bolts (fight starts at the 6 minute mark if you're interested. It's one of the few fights where armor does its job), although I don't think Adel is wearing plate. That's an awful long way to say that he failed. Yeah, I think I get an idea of what the effect looks like. Certainly more interesting than "X weapon broke" with sad music (even if it can be hilarious if you get creative with naming forged weapons). Relevant. That is a cool hitting frame, I agree. I was wondering if that was the case. I ether forgot to comment on it earlier or thought you would explain it later. Probably both. Well, now you've got your answers. Reveal hidden contents I have no qualms about the exceptions. Hahahahahahah... I'll admit, I had a lot fun with that. Then he'd end up in a prison cell before you sell him back for some extra cash. Better than dying, but I'm not surprised he decided to fight his way out. Actually, not in his case. Since he's a mere brigand, he cannot be ransomed back, and doesn't even appear at the dungeon in Navaron. So it's implied that he'd get sent to a higher-security dungeon to rot. I take it she was popular with the animators? And/Or she was one of the easier sprites to get creative with. Well, Aethin did say the three from chapter 2 seemed to be the artist's favorite characters. I guess mercenaries in Berwick Saga are also background landscape admirers. No big wonder, frankly. Simple yet sweet critical hit. Nice to see the philosophy of spinning weapons to multiply damage still exists in some form in Berwick. She didn't just spin her dagger, she tossed it into the air for extra flair points! Carnwenhau, or Carnwennan, was the dagger of King Arthur. It was one of three sacred weapons (along with the spear Rhogomiant and sword Caledfwich) supposedly given to him by God, and one of the things Arthur listed that he would not give to his cousin, Culhwch. He also used it to slay the witch Orddu daughter of Orwen by slicing her in half, as and also killed a giant with the dagger. I have no idea why this is in a chest of some bandits. Culhwch? Orddu? Caledfwich? Goodness... Makes sense. Horses don't just disappear when you get off of them. Outside of hardware/resource limitations, I always did wonder why the games don't show the horse be somewhere when a unit fights dismounted. Probably because it'd be more difficult than it's worth. 45?!?! Man, I forgot how much you like to take your time. Hahahahahahah... well, what can I say. In my defense, a good two thirds of that were spent trying to injure Gariad. I reached him around the 20th turn. Which is still slow as molasses, mind, but... less? While I see what you mean by Berwick Saga not having as many laugh-out-loud moments as TearRing Saga, I'm actually kind of surprised it still has moments like these. I wasn't expecting the humor to appear like this. I mean, there was the time Sienna roasted her brother. That's one of my favorite moments. Ooh, more story! Yeah! It's started. I can only hope I lose myself less this time than... all the other times. I... uh... kinda lost track of the plot last time, so I'm hoping these are new characters and not just people I forgot. Nah, these are brand new. Sprite artwork is good. A different style for sure, but not bad. Thanks! One of these days I'll have to share my spritesheet. When I was bored I went ahead and made GBA-styled sprites. They're not very good, but I'm happy with 'em. Hmmm... maybe if one of these days I get around to completing the Eugen one... On 4/11/2020 at 9:25 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: It reminds me of a Judge Dredd story from a few years ago. Day of Chaos specifically, where a virus called "The Chaos Bug" killed over 87% of the population of Mega City 1 (which is a large city in Dredd's future world that covers much of the Eastern United states and a chunk of what we know as Canada). Mind that's an immense death toll, as the city had been populated by 400 million... and now it was down to 50 million. It was notably the biggest Judge Dredd story of all time in scope, amount of issues, and of course body count. Anyway, while COVID-19 definitely reminds me of it (more so because the first story in Mega City 1 was set in the New York part), I'm more than a little optimistic it won't turn out half as bad. Jeez, that's one successful Plague Inc. run... I don't have a flail or morningstar. Oddly enough they're illegal. Battle axe? Fine. Lance? Fine. Sword? Fine? Crossbow? You need a permit. Morningstar "No fuck off no one's going Simon Belmont lite." Maybe they're just afraid somebody who doesn't know how to use it will whack themselves on the forehead? Flexo the Rubber Man was a robot... with a body primarily composed of rubber. It was remote controlled by two kids to fight crime in a couple 40s comics by the company that would one day become Marvel. It's chest looked like it was made up of red tires. Oddly enough, despite having rights to the character, Marvel refuses to acknowledge it's existence unless they're reprinting full golden age issues (which is rare). No wonder they refuse to acknowledge Flexo the Rubber Man. Goodness... As for the Superman that's the Red Son storyline... albeit with a key alteration. Stalin was killed by a traitor using cyanide in the comic.. who was subsequently shot. Superman outright attempted to save him, but you know. He's not exactly a doctor (I literally double checked this because I thought he died in a time skip, but I hadn't read the story in years, I just knew that it definitely was changed from memory). See, in the story the rocket carrying Kal-El to Earth landed 12 hours earlier. Which resulted in it landing in the USSR. Which meant it got brought to the state by the KGB, and Stalin ended up raising the kid as his own. Superman became his successor. The biggest plot twist was it turned out Krypton was never an actual seperate planet, but Earth's distant future, and the rocket wasn't just sent through space, but time. Which is strictly in defiance of main universe DC, but there you go. So the original was kinda like one of my LP sidestories, in that it's a serious, edgy story with a completely out-of-place OC just fucking about. Meanwhile the film adaptation is the most hilarious thing. Is that a Volcens quote? Nah, it's the Narcian quote I love to repeat so much. ...the real question is, is Narcian Volcens's long-lost brother? Because Slime Garon is such a lousy planner that he still tries to piss Corrin off even if he sides with him. Kind of like Volcens, except you know this guy is literally an evil monster under the control of an insane dragon. Volcens is just a dickhead. We'll see if her remains "just" a dickhead after some of the things he'll do... Seeing as I screwed up and early posted, I'll do the actual update seperately later... when I have a chance to read it at my Leesure. All right, I can be patient. On 4/11/2020 at 9:25 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: Tell me about it. Locks only keep out the honest... and while picking one may take practice and knowledge, I have always wondered why it's not more common-practice in this series (or others) to simply bust doors and chests open by brute force. I mean, there's breakable walls in the series, and the doors are breakable in Tellius... but not one person can bust open a chest? Ever? Game logic. Doors and chests are literally indestructible, but they are all opened by the same, generic key that is sold in stores. This is a Saint Rubenio LP. Where bad units reign supreme, and good units either die a bullshit death or live long enough to be RNG screwed. Bwahahahah... and here I thought it would be difficult for this kind of crap to happen in Berwick Saga! I've got one heck of a talent. Between the after images and her, she almost became a Czenetepide. The senate will decide your fate. I am the czenete! For a thief, she's doing a Czenesational job of killing people. I should not have challenged you. Maybe it's a Fayent to throw them offguard? Could be, could be... makes sense. Well, it's hard to learn when you're dying. Honestly I'm kind of surprised that a certain Butter lover doesn't like this guy more given green and hard to promote. He's not that far off being a FE3 Book 2/FE12 Abel, or an Arkis in that he's screwed over by the game. I think it's the fact that he hasn't gotten to speak yet, whereas by this point Arkis had already gone through five mood swings and asked a blind girl if she had "holes for eyes". Turns out, according to Butterman, "good vibes" means being an absolute cretin. A critical hit? That's a death Czenetence. Indeed, quite! This is going to be a Czenetrepiece of her arsenal for a while isn't it? Probably so. Maybe I'll give it to a certain somebody else. Not sure. So now that she's on a horse, will that make her a Czenetaur? She's not on a horse yet. She'll be when she's promoted. Besides the puns, I like this girl. So do I. She's a fun character and unit. She even gave the boss a nice Czened off. > A nice czened off > R.I.P. loser Right... This is going to be weird isn't it? Isn't it always? Hopefully this is now the full post so I don't have to do two separate posts. It is on my end. Aaaorgh: Spoiler The last time, we spent 45 turns in a generic cave map. Today, we enjoy the West House music while breaking the news to Reese that we only recovered two horses. Were our horses not there? Only a handful of them, unfortunately. The others must have already been sold off to who knows where... That's truly a shame... I'm going to miss those horses. Forgive me, milord... It was my negligence that got us into this predicament in the first place... Don't blame yourself, Ward. You're not the one who stole and sold off our horses. Though we'll likely have to make do with sub-par horses for a while, given our monetary situation... I could write to Father for... No, that's unacceptable. I mustn't trouble Father with trivial issues like this, not in these times. We'll just have to make do. A commendable decision, milord. I shall impress upon the knights our current need for thift. Suddenly, cheery music! As he leaves, Ward finds Czene just hanging out in the corridor. Probably on her way to hide under Reese's desk again. The scalawag...! What a mean thing to say! I'm part of the team now, aren't I? Absolutely not. I specifically told you that you could only come along for the one mission. Hmph! Lord Reese said I could stay! Don't be ridiculous. My liege would never allow it. What, now you're calling your own lord a liar? For shame! Wha-- I just had to make the edit Bwahahahahahahah! She just played Ward like a fiddle, didn't she? It's like reverse Eugen: the cute girl manipulated the bearded badass so she could conscript herself into his army. I'm fine with this. There's a pause while Ward digests the fact that he got played. Ahahahahahahahahah... Don't beat yourself up, Ward. That was masterful. Perhaps Czene is a member of one of Eugen's bastard bloodlines? 'Cause he would've been proud of this. So this Czene's other great advantage: she's about as easy to recruit as Izerna. I suppose Kaga figured a thief is essential enough to give the player one for free. I just have to wonder how Ward justified her presence to Reese... Quote C'mon, you, keep moving! Agh, get your hands off me! I'm a new recruit! Lord Reese said I could stay...! And my name's not "you", it's Czene! Elbert! What is the meaning of this? ... Lord Reese, I caught this girl trying to sneak into the troops' dormitories! No doubt tryin' to clean up our bags! That ain't true! I was gonna settle in, since I'm a new recruit and all! ...... ...isn't that right, General? ...... ...Actually, Lord Reese... she's a, uh, mercenary that I've recruited. She's... proven herself useful. Elbert, please... release her. Is that so? Well, then. I trust your judgment, Ward. Please forgive us. Hmph... poopnose... ...butthead... Thanks for that, gramps! Make no mistake. I truly do think your talents could be useful. You make one misstep, however, and I swear, I'll see you in chains. Whoa, all right, Grumpy! Geez... as if I had any interest in the mere 3000D you have in your vault! ...Czene... how do you... Uh, femenine intuition! 'Kay, see ya 'round! Tee hee... hee... ...Sigh... Okay, Valery. You better not try to screw me over. I've been promised 2600D for Gariad, and I will take no less than just that! Hopefully, this'll give some comfort to the families of his victims. Real nice work out there. Here's your reward of 2600D. Hmmmm... okay, seems legit. Never forget, though: I've got my eye on you, Valery... ...L-Lord Reese, why is your guy looking at me like that...? Ignore him. He's... difficult. D-Difficult?! Reese, can't you see how wicked this guy truly is?! Hey! You got a complaint about my employee, you come to me! So what is it, exactly? ...mmph... I-I don't have any, uh... substantial proof as of yet, but... Then stop pestering him! Please accept my apologies, Mr. Routh... we'll leave at once. It's all right, Lord Reese... really. Come back any time you require our services. ...why, you...! ...you should watch your back, tactician... ...nngh!? Right, back to the office. Nice music! One of these days, we're going to have to fight real Imperial troops. That is true. We need to be stronger, Ward. You also need glasses, Reese. Can't you see who you're talking to? If he were any stronger he'd break the world as he walked! It pains me to say it, but we're not even close to experienced enough. In that case, do you want to hire more mercenaries to supplement our troops' abilities? That won't fix the issue, though. We need them to get some quality, hands-on training against the Empire. I was thinking of organizing a group of soldiers for a special mission. Hopefully, it'll help them get valuable experience for real warfare. A splendid idea, Lord Reese! What sort of mission did you have in mind for this training? It's only a half-day's ride away, and it is apparently poorly guarded at present. I personally asked the Duke to let our soldiers handle the mission of destroying this base. Are you certain you want to entrust this vital mission to our inexperienced knights, milord? The circumstances are not ideal, since His Majesty may also hand down additional orders to us at any time... Didn't seem to trouble you last time, when we spent 24 hours in a dank cave! Then again, maybe that is why you're worried now... And if that happens, we won't be able to fight at full strength so long as our soldiers are away... But still, I doubt we will be getting a better opportunity than this to train our newer knights. Very well. I shall trust your judgment, milord. Thank you. Besides, it'd be hard to back out of this after specifically asking for it... I leave the decision of which knights to send on the mission to you, Ward. Consider it done. Since I am the one who controls who goes on the mission, does that mean I play as Ward in this game? Hell yeah! Jagen, Eugen, Ward... I get to be all the badasses! ...... ...... What? All righty, time to prepare. First off, the horses. Three in total... Elbert, you take one. Just 'cause I like you. If the horse is one of our own, it is brought to the entrance by this new person. And there we go. Up next... Adel could use the speed boost the most, for the Vantaging, and Leon needs to keep up with him for supporting purposes. He'll also make good use of the speed bonus, since deathmatches work like standard FE battles. That's all the Sinon stallions we've got, so Sherlock settles for a thin horse. It's not like he's supposed to get hit, anyway. Let's check out the atelier! I still can't craft anything, but there are two items from Lumiere that I'm going to aim for before all others, so I might as well leave my available materials with her. Fortify is like FE fortify. It only has a range of 3, but due to the hexagons that's more than you'd think, and, well... group heals. That'll be extremely useful in the later stages of the game, and the one healer I've been hyping up can use it at base. Also, it has 30 uses!!!!!! Definitely want this. There we go. I'll be sure to do that, Lumiere. Thanks. The other item I'm eyeing is the liquid magic. It gives a single point of magic. It sounds useless, and it will be for a few chapters, but this is a long-term investment. Trust me on this one. Prepping time. A new iron bow for Sherlock so he can keep doing no damage. Ruby gets the lengsword we got last time. Izerna is still our pack donkey. You get more handaxes. So far you've missed all the ones I've had you toss, but oh well. You, a slim spear for when the iron one breaks. Lastly, Christine gets a stash of vulneraries. This is because I won't bring Izerna to the next map. I want enough healing for everyone. While I'm here, let me show you this. Since the guy we captured last time was a brigand, he doesn't show up here. (Also, Kaga did Meme Husbando first) Hmm... normally I'd leave it there, but if I do that, it's going to be so short... Ah, fuck it. This mission's opening is rather long, so let's do it now. The map's music. This is our first brush with troops from the Raze Empire. Well, technically second, but Disaad and his goons weren't part of the regular army, I'm fairly sure. It'll take me a little while, though. (5 turns) Guess I'll have to wait. I'll keep watch until you finish loading them. Oh, and take good care of this special stone! This rock? What's so special about it? "Alchemy"? Interesting... What does this stone do? It's used to repair things. Seems to be some sort of magical technology they've invented here. Although, who knows how well it actually works... I wanted to try it myself, but that was the only Repairstone I could get my hands on. Hopefully this'll be able to help with the war effort. Incredible... Once we figure out how it works, it'll be an amazing leap forward! I'll make sure it gets to the homeland safely. Thanks. Oh, I should get back to it. Right, right... Sorry for distracting you. No worries. Now, let's get this stuff loaded... So this conversation, mundane as it was, has revealed a few interesting details. For one, Imperials aren't all mustache-twirling villains. Who would've thought? That's because we're out in the middle of nowhere, you dolt. Looks like Berwick Saga did Three Houses's "all the bosses in non-primary maps are generics" thing. KDIF, as always! Even if it's... not such a good one, this time. I'm fine with it because, frankly, I like this game's generics better than Three Houses's, but... yeah. Much like TRS, there's a bunch of unused portraits in the game. If things stopped being quiet, then we'd be in real trouble. Or do you mean to say that you would rather be fighting alongside your brothers at the front line? If you so desire, you may submit a transfer request to the front. N-No thank you, Captain... But regarding our stations, is it wise for us not to be near the bridge? With the drawbridge raised as it is, this road is the only path to camp. Eheheheheh... ah, there's your blunder, Hamilton. As a matter of fact, there is a third path, so long as you have the ability for it. There's no need to have anyone at the drawbridge station if the enemy won't be able to get that far. Anyone who wants to get across the river will have to get through us first. Oh, I see. Understood Captain! We are here! See if you can spot the crippling flaw in Hamilton's strategy. You just had to tempt fate, didn't you? I like this guy. He's very me. Don't just stand there like an idiot! Take up defensive positions! And fetch bolts for the ballista! Hurry, before they make it here! Hwahahahahah... "Get your arse in gear"... this guy's hilarious. You may be slow, but you can at least throw yourself at the enemy to buy the others some time! Thanks for the tutorial on how knights work, Hammy. ...... Thanks for the tutorial on how Navarres work, "armored boy". Those Berwick League bastards... Why would they come here, of all places?! Hell if I know... But we have to fight back, otherwise they'll surely kill us all! That's right we will. You're the bad guys, and we're the good guys, after all! That's how it works, right? It's the Eugen way, at least! On 12/10/2018 at 8:01 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Those who would arm themselves and stand against us cannot be shown mercy, just as we cannot expect mercy from them. That is that. Next time, we assault this supply camp, take everything for ourselves, and murder all the soldiers stationed here, so we can get some "quality, hands-on" training. Wish me luck, and in return, I wish you well! Speaking of well, farewell! 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The Roger The Paladin Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 9 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Maybe they're just afraid somebody who doesn't know how to use it will whack themselves on the forehead? Well, considering nunchuku are also illegal, it'd be surprisingly consistent. 11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Pretty sure it's a first for everyone. First, but I'm gonna point out that one generic in Three Houses who speaks out in Lord Lonato's chapter about his motivations (which got my hopes up for later generics only to have them dashed by them being standard) 14 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: No wonder they refuse to acknowledge Flexo the Rubber Man. Goodness... Thing about the early days of comics (that is pre-Pearl Harbor).. they kind of threw everything out there and just kind of saw what stuck. Post Pearl Harbor, we got a lot of racist caricatures of the Japanese being smacked up by those that did stick, and then post WWII super-heroes went out of fashion and horror comics kind of took over until the comics code was introduced and neutred them (you weren't allowed vampires, zombies or werewolves from the codes inception in 1954 to about 1970). Super-heroes got a resurgence in 1956, and well.... the rest is pretty obvious. 20 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: So the original was kinda like one of my LP sidestories, in that it's a serious, edgy story with a completely out-of-place OC just fucking about. Meanwhile the film adaptation is the most hilarious thing. Well, it's basically an alternate universe where we see the consequences of Superman being Stalin's successor, as the USSR expands to include every country save the US of A. Lex Luthor's motivations as the opposition aren't heroic in the slightest, being the same old "I hate Superman because I used to be a big deal and now I'm not" bit. He goes so far as to create or be involved in most of Superman's traditional foes (Bizarro, the Parasite, Metallo, Braniac who shrinks Stalingrad and leaves it as a bottled city), to try and stop him. Superman's motivations for his rule are legitimately because he believes he can fix the planet's problems using a dictator's approach. So it's a case where you could say no one's truly the "hero" of the piece. A dictatorship made from good motivations, and an opposition made from naught but pride. Also like any given LP you do, we see major characters die, suffer and so forth, because no one's safe in this world. 30 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Nah, it's the Narcian quote I love to repeat so much. ...the real question is, is Narcian Volcens's long-lost brother? Or possibly a stemming from notes that would also lead to Volcens. 31 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: We'll see if her remains "just" a dickhead after some of the things he'll do... Well, "just" might be pushing it. My point was, near as I can tell he has no such excuse. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I should not have challenged you. I think I've just about exhausted the Czene puns at this point. But, it was the obvious chapter to use them on. 34 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: > A nice czened off > R.I.P. loser Right... Maybe not nice for him. But for us. 37 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hmph... poopnose... ...butthead... Poopnose and Butthead, coming soon to MTV. 41 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: D-Difficult?! Reese, can't you see how wicked this guy truly is?! Oh, what a wicked man is Valery. 44 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: So this conversation, mundane as it was, has revealed a few interesting details. For one, Imperials aren't all mustache-twirling villains. Who would've thought? Which only adds to my question of whether Volcens really is better in any manner? 46 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: You just had to tempt fate, didn't you? Yep. This guy's aware. Kind of reminds me of every time a Country says "COVID-19 isn't going to be an issue here".. then it is. Or "Human to human transmission isn't a thing" but it is. 49 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Thanks for the tutorial on how Navarres work, "armored boy". Worst Navarre ever. Has the personality issues and is a knight, and therefore Kaga hates him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger016 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahahahahahah... Don't beat yourself up, Ward. That was masterful. Perhaps Czene is a member of one of Eugen's bastard bloodlines? 'Cause he would've been proud of this. I love all of Ward's monologues, especially the ones with a certain descendant of the Heimer clan. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Fortify is like FE fortify. It only has a range of 3, but due to the hexagons that's more than you'd think, and, well... group heals. That'll be extremely useful in the later stages of the game, and the one healer I've been hyping up can use it at base. Also, it has 30 uses!!!!!! Definitely want this. Yes, Fortify is great, it was really useful in Chapter 9. Finally finished it after a lot of resets and have to say, it was the most difficult map I have ever played in this game so far. And since I haven't permanently recruited my main healer yet, having to rely on Izerna after so long was not very good experience either. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Thanks for the tutorial on how Navarres work, "armored boy". Spoiler This series' worst Navarre to be exact. I am training him up, he doesn't really seem all that bad in the side maps, since they are pretty small in comparison. And his high defense did save me a few times, since I don't bring my stronger units in those maps. Having almost free recruitment price helps as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If things stopped being quiet, then we'd be in real trouble. Or do you mean to say that you would rather be fighting alongside your brothers at the front line? If you so desire, you may submit a transfer request to the front. Honestly, that actually sounds like a good idea. I mean, you guys are far ahead of the front line. You are surrounded by enemies in every direction, so there is no escape once you get discovered. So even if you weren't already discovered and your camp about to be raided as a literal training exercise, I'd say your lives would be very much forfeit. What good is a supply post so close to Navaron anyway? You couldn't possibly expect to stay hidden until your allies reach you, right? Definitely not the most justified side mission, that's for sure. Edited April 12, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 It's time! USE THE MEME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 3 hours ago, BrightBow said: Honestly, that actually sounds like a good idea. I mean, you guys are far ahead of the front line. You are surrounded by enemies in every direction, so there is no escape once you get discovered. So even if you weren't already discovered and your camp about to be raided as a literal training exercise, I'd say your lives would be very much forfeit. What good is a supply post so close to Navaron anyway? You couldn't possibly expect to stay hidden until your allies reach you, right? Definitely not the most justified side mission, that's for sure. The more I think on it, the more convinced I am that this brilliant location for a supply post is the result of Ruben giving them back Disaad, the top tactical genius in the Empire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkwing Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Happy Easter! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, they're both roguelikes with tons of different events that are both positive and negative. Though, this one's more about resource management than FTL. You've got to have enough food for your entire team at all times, enough gas to keep the car going (it's possible to go without a car, but bad events keep happening when you're not in one), medicines and bullets, good weapons for when you go out scavenging... you also need to raise your people's stats (like shooting, so they can shoot better, medical, so they waste less medicine when healing, mechanical, so they can repair the car... that sort of thing) and try to keep them alive through all sorts of bad events. The combat's much more hands-on than FTL. You go to places to explore and scavenge for stuff, and to survive, you whack zombies over the head. It's pretty fun, until you end up in a siege and your AI partner is caught by the swarm and killed. It's also not a serious game. Like, at all. It's pretty hilarious. There's an event where you find a dude in a home who calls you a dink, and you can either try to recruit them or have one of your people kick the door while yelling "I AM NOT A DINK", which reduces their composure stat. One thing I find really funny is that people are... extremely expendable. In most survival games like this, you'd be cherishing your guys, but here? Someone can die and it doesn't matter at all, as long as you've got other people. There's not even a morale reduction. Nobody gives a shit. Even your starting team doesn't matter at all. There are even rescue missions, and when you find the person to rescue, the game outright tells you "they could be useful if you can save them, or a nice distraction if you can't". Definitely sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out sometime. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's... cryptic. The book is public domain by now. Letter 17 talks about gluttony in more detail if you're interested. I recommend the whole book, honestly. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Just a few examples. Hilarious, even if I could have gone without the swearing. Out of question, how seriously does the game take itself? It doesn't come off as an outright parody, but I certainly didn't expect humor in places like the class description. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Is Hidari Echoes's artist? If so, they did an excellent job. Echoes has one of the best artstyles in the entire series. Only problem I had with it was that my 3DS's tiny screen hurt my eyes when I tried to appreciate it. If only Three Houses didn't switch to "generic flat isekai"... Yep. They were actually planning on getting him to work on some of the DLC art for Awakening as well as Cipher, but he was busy both times. They set up a meeting ahead of time for Echoes so that he was able to accept. I hope they hire him again sometime in the future. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I still don't understand the point of the outfits. Paid cosmetics in a multiplayer game are already dumb (I say this as someone who's fallen for the trap in the past), but at least other people... see them? There's a point to it, even if it's a really stupid point. In a singleplayer game, paid cosmetics are a goddamned robbery! If I'm being completely honest, I'm surprised there is costume DLC at all. Awakenings DLC was strong due to its variety. There were grinding maps (with tongue-in-cheek reasons for why you were fighting, such as taking down vegetarian zombies), hard as heck levels, DLC that focused on interactions between characters, two new classes, and a side story that some consider to be better written than the main game, and more. Some DLC changed the outfit of certain classes, sure, but there was no "costume DLC". Fates had a similar model, even if it wasn't executed quite as well, thought in that case there was also the factor of having to account for three different games. Echoes was when it started to stumble, since there was grinding DLC in a game that already allowed for grinding, and several of the overclasses could only practically be used in the postgame. The Rise of the Deliverance also reused maps, even if gave some useful items and from what I could tell the story was solid. Then Three Houses dropped the ball with mostly costume DLC, animal petting, an unremarkable unit with no supports, and a side campaign whose quality I can't comment upon as I haven't played it. This isn't to say I am opposed to costume DLC for Fire Emblem. I can see the appeal of being able to change the class outfits to match those of an older game (and I would have liked to have given certain characters some pants), or having characters wear something goofy/awesome into battle. But new maps, classes, characters, and interactions should be the highlight, not costumes. ...I wrote more there than I intended to, didn't I? Funnily enough, I don't consider it one of the worst examples of single player cosemetic DLC. That would have to go to Daemon X Machina, a game that allows you to buy some more customization options for your character... when there is a mechanic present that robotizes part of their body for upgrades. This includes the face, with the very first head upgrade giving you robotic eyes and the very last one either gives the person a helmet or their entire head has been replaced by mechanical parts. It's... actually kind of creepy, honestly, and I can see why some people refuse to buy any of the body modifications, even if the bonuses are pretty good (though thankfully unnecessary). 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: At least it's not TRS's cave maps. Remember those? Hoo, boy... At least Berwick Saga has animations. Speaking of, does Berwick Saga still have animations play on the map if they're turned off/skipped? 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: There's a chainsaw axe in The Last Promise. Just... throwing that out there. Teenagers may have some dumb ideas, but they also have awesome ones. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Relevant. Heh heh heh, yeah that's one of many examples. I'm actually kind of sad Three Houses removed the ability to name weapons. That was one of the most fun things about forging. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Actually, not in his case. Since he's a mere brigand, he cannot be ransomed back, and doesn't even appear at the dungeon in Navaron. So it's implied that he'd get sent to a higher-security dungeon to rot. I see. Makes even more sense why he'd rather die fighting. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Probably because it'd be more difficult than it's worth. Yeah, that's sadly probably true. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah! It's started. I can only hope I lose myself less this time than... all the other times. I do remember you mentioning in the past that Berwick is story-heavy enough that you had thoughts of dropping the side story this time around. Because of that, I'm curious to see what you have planned this time around. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Nah, these are brand new. Phew 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Though we'll likely have to make do with sub-par horses for a while, given our monetary situation... I could write to Father for... No, that's unacceptable. I mustn't trouble Father with trivial issues like this, not in these times. We'll just have to make do. A commendable decision, milord. I shall impress upon the knights our current need for thift. So the game gives you a taste of the power of horses before taking most of them away from you It's certainly handled better than how other games steal your starting abilities. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahahahahahah... Don't beat yourself up, Ward. That was masterful. Perhaps Czene is a member of one of Eugen's bastard bloodlines? 'Cause he would've been proud of this. With all these jokes about Eugen's bloodline, it makes me curious if any other characters from TRS will be mentioned. I know Holmes is at some point. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Right, back to the office. Combat training? Is this a sidequest from Three Houses? 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: We need to be stronger, Ward. You also need glasses, Reese. Can't you see who you're talking to? If he were any stronger he'd break the world as he walked! And just like Runan's smile, I am now curious to see what Reese with glasses would look like. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That won't fix the issue, though. We need them to get some quality, hands-on training against the Empire. I was thinking of organizing a group of soldiers for a special mission. Hopefully, it'll help them get valuable experience for real warfare. A splendid idea, Lord Reese! What sort of mission did you have in mind for this training? I know that acknowledging the switch from bandits to soldiers isn't new for the series, but given what we've seen so far of Berwicks gameplay-story integration, I'm more excited to see how much stronger the empires troops are compared to what we have seen thus far. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Since I am the one who controls who goes on the mission, does that mean I play as Ward in this game? Hell yeah! Jagen, Eugen, Ward... I get to be all the badasses! ...... ...... What? It's been a while since you've played an action game, hasn't it? 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Adel could use the speed boost the most, for the Vantaging, and Leon needs to keep up with him for supporting purposes. He'll also make good use of the speed bonus, since deathmatches work like standard FE battles. Kinda sucks that there's no unique dialogue for getting a horse, but at the same time I'm not surprised this is the place where they decided to give some more generic quotes. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: (Also, Kaga did Meme Husbando first) As did The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I've actually found charactes named Ashe and Dmitri in the game. Once I find out how to share screenshots on the Switch, I'll post a topic about it. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: So this conversation, mundane as it was, has revealed a few interesting details. For one, Imperials aren't all mustache-twirling villains. Who would've thought? Repairstones are also a thing. Seems interesting that our side has more villainous characters than the enemy at the moment, but you did mention earlier that the Empire has its own issues. It should be interesting to discover what those are. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Imperial 16th. Seems that naming regiments is something Kaga still does. It also makes me want to try Fantasy General again. Grrr, I already have enough games I'm playing at the moment... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: We are here! See if you can spot the crippling flaw in Hamilton's strategy. We have the best swimmer this side of Labarzia! Lambardia Laz- *Checks every page to find a joke that may not have been there* Lazberia. We have the best swimmer this side of Lazberia! I am really bad at remember fictional place names. 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...... It's Derrick! The guy that can be chosen as a member tag for some reason and whose number of dots might mean something in this translation! 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Saint Rubenio Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Part 11 - The good guys. Hicks. That is all. In other news, I have started Mystery of the Emblem! About time, I know. As somebody who considers the DS remakes to be some of FE's best titles, I've always been curious about this game. The interface, the hardware limitations and the fact that, like, 75% of my Archanean favorites are absent from this game always kept me from trying it out, though. Until now, that is. A reasonable person would've jumped right to book 2, but you should know by now that I'm not reasonable. I've started with book 1. As always, I'll probably comment on my experience in these little intros. So far I've played around half of book 1, and I'm enjoying it! It's a chill game. Wouldn't call it my favorite, or better than FE11 for that matter, but there are things that I'm enjoying, and I wish had been kept in 11. Like Wendell being imprisoned in chapter 6. It never made any sense for him to be aiding the bad guys. Also, dragons are so much fun. Bantu's actually good in this game, it's quite the sight to behold. Some of my other best units are Julian, Marth and Roshea. Coming from the remakes, I cannot believe I just said that. By the way! You know that myth that FE6 was the first FE to feature blood? Wrong! It's hidden away in the game's intro and overshadowed by the awful engrish, but Kaga Did It First! Lastly... this might seem like a bit of a cliché, but I'd like to say that my heart goes out to all of you out there in the US. News are that your situation regarding the pandemic is quite dire. Please hang in there, guys. I hope it all ends soon, for all of us. Uh, in a good way, of course. That was poorly phrased, wasn't it... The first thing: Spoiler On 4/12/2020 at 1:28 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: Well, considering nunchuku are also illegal, it'd be surprisingly consistent. That's probably it, yes. They're trying to save dumb people from themselves. A shame they're also holding back the Man Who Has Everything. First, but I'm gonna point out that one generic in Three Houses who speaks out in Lord Lonato's chapter about his motivations (which got my hopes up for later generics only to have them dashed by them being standard) Oh, right! I'd forgotten about that one. Three Houses actually has a couple of generics that speak up! I thought it was neat. It's not nearly to BWS's level, but it's a start. Thing about the early days of comics (that is pre-Pearl Harbor).. they kind of threw everything out there and just kind of saw what stuck. Post Pearl Harbor, we got a lot of racist caricatures of the Japanese being smacked up by those that did stick, and then post WWII super-heroes went out of fashion and horror comics kind of took over until the comics code was introduced and neutred them (you weren't allowed vampires, zombies or werewolves from the codes inception in 1954 to about 1970). Super-heroes got a resurgence in 1956, and well.... the rest is pretty obvious. I see. Quite the story. Well, it's basically an alternate universe where we see the consequences of Superman being Stalin's successor, as the USSR expands to include every country save the US of A. Lex Luthor's motivations as the opposition aren't heroic in the slightest, being the same old "I hate Superman because I used to be a big deal and now I'm not" bit. He goes so far as to create or be involved in most of Superman's traditional foes (Bizarro, the Parasite, Metallo, Braniac who shrinks Stalingrad and leaves it as a bottled city), to try and stop him. Superman's motivations for his rule are legitimately because he believes he can fix the planet's problems using a dictator's approach. So it's a case where you could say no one's truly the "hero" of the piece. A dictatorship made from good motivations, and an opposition made from naught but pride. Also like any given LP you do, we see major characters die, suffer and so forth, because no one's safe in this world. I've seen that Batman wears a funny ushanka. Everything about this universe is funny to me, sorry. Especially Bad Russian Accept Superman lasering Stalin to save the proletariat from the gulags. I'm sorry, it's just... so outlandish! Or possibly a stemming from notes that would also lead to Volcens. Could be, could be. Kaga's Notes are, after all, the answer to all of humanity's questions. Well, "just" might be pushing it. My point was, near as I can tell he has no such excuse. I understand. I think I've just about exhausted the Czene puns at this point. But, it was the obvious chapter to use them on. That much is true. Maybe not nice for him. But for us. Hahahah, oh, I very much agree. Poopnose and Butthead, coming soon to MTV. Hue, uhuehue, hue, uhuehue... Oh, what a wicked man is Valery. The wickedlest Which only adds to my question of whether Volcens really is better in any manner? Heh, well... we'll see. Yep. This guy's aware. Kind of reminds me of every time a Country says "COVID-19 isn't going to be an issue here".. then it is. Or "Human to human transmission isn't a thing" but it is. If Hamilton was the president of real life, this wouldn't be happening. Worst Navarre ever. Has the personality issues and is a knight, and therefore Kaga hates him. Nobody loves ol' Armored Boy. On 4/12/2020 at 2:13 PM, ranger016 said: I love all of Ward's monologues, especially the ones with a certain descendant of the Heimer clan. Ergh... oh dear, here we go with the references I don't get. It's going to be especially embarrassing if it's a reference within this game... Yes, Fortify is great, it was really useful in Chapter 9. Finally finished it after a lot of resets and have to say, it was the most difficult map I have ever played in this game so far. And since I haven't permanently recruited my main healer yet, having to rely on Izerna after so long was not very good experience either. Hoo, boy... I'm so sorry for you. He's always one of the highest-priority hirings for me. If I have to sacrifice somebody to save up money, it's never him. Reveal hidden contents This series' worst Navarre to be exact. I am training him up, he doesn't really seem all that bad in the side maps, since they are pretty small in comparison. And his high defense did save me a few times, since I don't bring my stronger units in those maps. Having almost free recruitment price helps as well. He's amazing. 150.../10 On 4/12/2020 at 6:23 PM, BrightBow said: Honestly, that actually sounds like a good idea. I mean, you guys are far ahead of the front line. You are surrounded by enemies in every direction, so there is no escape once you get discovered. So even if you weren't already discovered and your camp about to be raided as a literal training exercise, I'd say your lives would be very much forfeit. What good is a supply post so close to Navaron anyway? You couldn't possibly expect to stay hidden until your allies reach you, right? Definitely not the most justified side mission, that's for sure. It's... probably best not to think too deeply about it. On 4/12/2020 at 8:34 PM, eclipse said: It's time! USE THE MEME! Well, somebody knows more about BWS than she lets on. As for your request (though, I must say, it comes across as more of a... very aggressive demand), allow me to remind you of the following fact: My name is Saint Rubenio. Let that be my answer. On 4/12/2020 at 9:58 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: The more I think on it, the more convinced I am that this brilliant location for a supply post is the result of Ruben giving them back Disaad, the top tactical genius in the Empire. Bwahahahahahahahaha... "the top tactical genius in the Empire"... glorious. Just glorious. On 4/13/2020 at 1:12 AM, Hawkwing said: Happy Easter! Same! Happy, uh... quarantine easter. Definitely sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out sometime. I just beat it the other day, actually. I'm pretty proud of my run, I managed to keep both of my starting characters alive. I also picked up a pig. That's right, a literal pig that worked as a teammate. He also made it. The bad news? I found myself (that is, the character I made after myself) along the way. And then I died. A pig made it to Canada. But I didn't. Goddamnit... The book is public domain by now. Letter 17 talks about gluttony in more detail if you're interested. I recommend the whole book, honestly. Hmm, all right, duly noted. Hilarious, even if I could have gone without the swearing. That's you answer to everything, isn't it? At least admit that "gravy-givers" is a pretty hilarious way of referring to... well, you know what. Dicks. Out of question, how seriously does the game take itself? It doesn't come off as an outright parody, but I certainly didn't expect humor in places like the class description. It's a serious story, but it has more humor than, say, the prior KagaSagas. Yeah, more than TRS. Yep. They were actually planning on getting him to work on some of the DLC art for Awakening as well as Cipher, but he was busy both times. They set up a meeting ahead of time for Echoes so that he was able to accept. I hope they hire him again sometime in the future. I can only hope so. If I'm being completely honest, I'm surprised there is costume DLC at all. Awakenings DLC was strong due to its variety. There were grinding maps (with tongue-in-cheek reasons for why you were fighting, such as taking down vegetarian zombies), hard as heck levels, DLC that focused on interactions between characters, two new classes, and a side story that some consider to be better written than the main game, and more. Some DLC changed the outfit of certain classes, sure, but there was no "costume DLC". Fates had a similar model, even if it wasn't executed quite as well, thought in that case there was also the factor of having to account for three different games. Echoes was when it started to stumble, since there was grinding DLC in a game that already allowed for grinding, and several of the overclasses could only practically be used in the postgame. The Rise of the Deliverance also reused maps, even if gave some useful items and from what I could tell the story was solid. Then Three Houses dropped the ball with mostly costume DLC, animal petting, an unremarkable unit with no supports, and a side campaign whose quality I can't comment upon as I haven't played it. The side campaign is probably the only worthwhile part of the DLC, if only because it's... more than cosmetics and a unit that is outright worse than the rest of the cast. Hilariously enough, the free DLC was better than the first three waves of paid DLC. The free DLC character should, by all means, have been in the base game, but better late than never, I suppose. This isn't to say I am opposed to costume DLC for Fire Emblem. I can see the appeal of being able to change the class outfits to match those of an older game (and I would have liked to have given certain characters some pants), or having characters wear something goofy/awesome into battle. But new maps, classes, characters, and interactions should be the highlight, not costumes. Indeed, costumes should be bonuses - or free. Not the main selling point of a full wave of the season pass. ...I wrote more there than I intended to, didn't I? Funnily enough, I don't consider it one of the worst examples of single player cosemetic DLC. That would have to go to Daemon X Machina, a game that allows you to buy some more customization options for your character... when there is a mechanic present that robotizes part of their body for upgrades. This includes the face, with the very first head upgrade giving you robotic eyes and the very last one either gives the person a helmet or their entire head has been replaced by mechanical parts. It's... actually kind of creepy, honestly, and I can see why some people refuse to buy any of the body modifications, even if the bonuses are pretty good (though thankfully unnecessary). Honestly, paid cosmetics in general are quite smelly. It just screams low effort in most cases. At least Berwick Saga has animations. Speaking of, does Berwick Saga still have animations play on the map if they're turned off/skipped? It has some animations, yes. They're quite solid as well, for the most part. The only one that I'd say is "bad" is the lance one. You know the awesome charging animation I've shared in the past? With animations off it's... worse. Teenagers may have some dumb ideas, but they also have awesome ones. It's an inaccurate, average-might axe that has like 60 crit. It works best if given to the Berserker that randomly has Lethality. ...it's such a weird game. Almost Kaga'ish in nature. Not that I'm opposed to that, myself! Heh heh heh, yeah that's one of many examples. I'm actually kind of sad Three Houses removed the ability to name weapons. That was one of the most fun things about forging. Oh yeah, it was pretty cool. Allowed for some fun times. I see. Makes even more sense why he'd rather die fighting. Yeah... the sad truth of banditry. Yeah, that's sadly probably true. A shame. I do remember you mentioning in the past that Berwick is story-heavy enough that you had thoughts of dropping the side story this time around. Because of that, I'm curious to see what you have planned this time around. Well, the story is definitely a lot more solid than the other games I've played. It also doesn't have alternate routes at any point, so I won't have to use the side story to justify that. As you said, I considered dropping it, and there definitely will be less of that than in the prior LPs. Howver, I've come up with a couple ideas that will perhaps make for an entertaining little plot. Phew Hahahahah... don't worry, there'll be plenty of time for you to get lost. So the game gives you a taste of the power of horses before taking most of them away from you It's certainly handled better than how other games steal your starting abilities. Kaga is kind of evil. But he's also fair. With all these jokes about Eugen's bloodline, it makes me curious if any other characters from TRS will be mentioned. I know Holmes is at some point. Well, we shall see, shan't we? Combat training? Is this a sidequest from Three Houses? Ahahahahahahahah... naaah, not quite. It's better because this is BWS And just like Runan's smile, I am now curious to see what Reese with glasses would look like. Hmmmm... There. I know that acknowledging the switch from bandits to soldiers isn't new for the series, but given what we've seen so far of Berwicks gameplay-story integration, I'm more excited to see how much stronger the empires troops are compared to what we have seen thus far. Well... more on that in a minute. It's been a while since you've played an action game, hasn't it? The last one I played was Alan Wake. And, well... Alan's not exactly an action hero. Kinda sucks that there's no unique dialogue for getting a horse, but at the same time I'm not surprised this is the place where they decided to give some more generic quotes. They had to save up budget somewhere, didn't they? As did The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I've actually found charactes named Ashe and Dmitri in the game. Once I find out how to share screenshots on the Switch, I'll post a topic about it. How curious. It seems their laziness goes deeper than it initially appears. Repairstones are also a thing. Seems interesting that our side has more villainous characters than the enemy at the moment, but you did mention earlier that the Empire has its own issues. It should be interesting to discover what those are. As always, patience. Imperial 16th. Seems that naming regiments is something Kaga still does. He's been doing it since Thracia! It also makes me want to try Fantasy General again. Grrr, I already have enough games I'm playing at the moment... Add Berwick Saga to the list. I command you! We have the best swimmer this side of Labarzia! Lambardia Laz- *Checks every page to find a joke that may not have been there* Lazberia. We have the best swimmer this side of Lazberia! That we do! Axis, the best swimmer in Lombardy! I am really bad at remember fictional place names. You are really bad at remembering fiction. With love. It's Derrick! The guy that can be chosen as a member tag for some reason and whose number of dots might mean something in this translation! It's him! The second thing: Spoiler So, the training mission. It's an interesting map, actually! The objective is to escape, through the green arrow in the northeast. Just below it, we've got the Imperial supply carrier. It'll be loaded up with weapons before it leaves in turn 5. We want to stop him before then, so we can get our hands on this precious good: This repairs just about anything. Think the hammerne staff, only it's an item instead of a staff. Common weapons require less Repairstone uses than expensive ones. It does not repair orbs or arrow packs, though, which is sad. Most people in this chapter have old imperial gear, which is worse than the regular imperial stuff we'll encounter later on. Still, bad equipment or no, these guys are a step above the rabble we've been fighting so far. Look at that, 17 attack on the crossbowman, and the spearman has the charge bonus. Jesus... Then there's this, atop the hill. Bolts are ballista ammo. The old bolts are a lot weaker than the most standard type of bolt, but they could still put a mean dent on our units if they reach... This. Yeah... turns out the supply carrier isn't the only time limit we'll face. We let this bastard be supplied with ammo, and he'll become the mightiest enemy on the map. Best be quick about it. If I'd lost Axel at some point, this map would've become rather difficult, but since we have him, he can just swim across the river. Although, it looks more like he climbed up the raised bridge half and jumped onto the other one. Either way, Axel is my favorite superhero. See that structure I'm pointing out? You can operate the bridge from there, so next turn, Axel will let Christine, Arthur and Ruby through. The rest will charge forward and meet the enemy head-on. ...Shoot, Leon waited in just the right spot to uncover a hidden enemy! You son of a bitch, you've got to be kidding me... Already!? Good thing he didn't have time to set it up... his arrows are weaker than the other guy's, so this wouldn't have been so bad, but still. Kaga, you evil sonnuva...! Leon wounds the first guy on the arm. This allows Elbert to fail. Already. Losing the charge bonus prevents him from finishing the guy off. Dang it... I take the "dang it" back. Good work, Elbert. Good work. Oh, boy. Derrick is on the move. Hamilton might be the "boss", but this guy's far tougher. He's the first knight we'll encounter, and he serves to teach a very important lesson: knights in this game? Scary stuff, real scary stuff. Look at that. 26 defense, just like that. Even Ward would have an extremely difficult time taking down this guy, let alone the scrubs we've brought along. In the future, it'll be important to resort to mages to bring down knights. In this case, however... I suppose we'll have to rely on him failing to use the shield. ...ah, goddamnit! I missclicked. I meant to attack the other guy. Oh, well. Damage is damage, I suppose. A decent consolation, I guess. Nice, you injured him just as he died. Excellent effort, Adel. Thanks. The divisions have been made. You got your orders, folks. Don't fail me now! That won't work, you asshole. If you're already inside an overwatcher's range, moving won't make them shoot you. The skill triggers when an enemy enters their range, not when they move within it. Also, getting attacked cancels the overwatching, and we just happen to have all the people ready to do it. The stage is set. Even if we cannot kill the porter before turn 5, we can definitely reach and block the escape point in time. I'm more worried about the bolts, to be honest. Time for everyone's favorite part of Berwick Saga: Adel Vantages everything. Oh hey, they're actually being smart enough to attack someone else this time around. These guys truly are a step above the brigands and deserters. I want to deal with the crossbowman before he has the chance to do something bad. Please... Thanks. Might as well have Leon confront the miniboss. As for the other three, they'll deal with the living enemies. Adel, no! Adel yes, kinda? And down he goes. I said just a few sentences back that I'd let Leon confront the miniboss. Instead, I'm giving him the choice to confront any of the three cavaliers. ...by the way, I just realized. Kaga did Frey first. 'Cause that's Frey, c'mon, look. Blue cavalier that's better than the christmas cavaliers and joins alongside them. Totally Frey. As a unit, at least. Anyhow, Sherlock fails as always. Here he comes...! ...oh. He did not attack. All right, whatever. Not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth. As for the eastern team, they've crossed the bridge. I could lift it again to keep any enemies from following them, but there's no need. Ah! Reinforcements! I love how Derrick's inconveniencing them. Thanks, pal. Appreciate it. Please don't attack me. More on this side... again, I could raise the bridge, but I'd actually prefer if they went north. Wouldn't want my other guys getting sandwiched. Arthur, I know we haven't seen eye-to-eye, but I believe you can be reliable if you just put your back to it. Please, take on the porter's bodyguards for us. Ah, there's our answer. Wondering why they decided to build a supply base in the middle of Narvia? There you have it. They weren't expecting to be found before they could set up the ballista. I don't see how a single, rickety old ballista was ever going to stop any army, but perhaps they were operating under the assumption that Volcens. Guess I'd better get a move on. That old piece of junk's even more worthless without these bolts... You son of a... stop it, we haven't gotten close enough to you yet! Now that is a great chance to dodge. Whoa, whoa! What's with the language? We are the good guys, not you! Uh... the good guys that are currently in the process of getting to and murdering an innocent, unarmed supply carrier. So we can get a stone he's holding. ...just die, won't you? Ah! He has summoned the darkness from the deepest pits of Hell! Arthur writhes in despair and agony as he is consumed by the indomitable blackness, his entire body withering away into nothingness and D'oh he missed. I won't lie, pal. You're irrelevant. That crossbow is what truly scares me... Ha! Fat chance. Fat chance you'll succeed, that is. Okay, he's behaving this time around. Thanks, Artie. Ruby, on the other hand... ...is doing fine too. Oh, fuck you. As if that's going to change your fate. Adel! C'mon! For fuck's sake...! When an ally is injured, the text is yellow rather than green. Equip back your stuff and heal. Might seem like a waste, but I do not want to risk him getting crippled. The RNGoddess will get as few chances as I can give her. You hear me!? I ain't losing to you this time around...! Fare better than Adel, Elbert. I knew I could count on you. Baaahhh! These guys always know how to make me forgive 'em. Elbert, on the other hand, needs no such underhanded tricks. He just performs well, and that's all. Ahhhh shoot, that's bad... You're up, Axel. Stop that guy. Well, even if I wanted to raise the bridge on these guys, I couldn't do it anymore. You can't raise the bridge when there's a unit on it. As I said before, the transporter's getting more and more gear each turn. I could try capturing it, but... meh. Can't be arsed. If you can hit this, friend, next turn that'll be it. We are the good guys Very nice guys. The cavaliers are having some trouble. Thankfully, Derrick still doesn't feel like striking. This is why I wanted the reinforcements to go north through the bridge. I fear they would've been too much... Nice! Everyone's feeling those WpSkill levels today. Please keep it up. Another one down. I'm worried about Sherlock, to be honest. He's kind of in a rough spot, since the enemies were smart enough to circle around the wall of flesh. Come the next turn, Axel runs to the balding guy. In my two prior runs of this game, I've never let him reach the ballista. I'll be damned if I start now that deaths cannot be undone. Bitch! Come back here! It'll be quick and painless, I swear! Hoah! Shit, that's one helluva blow... didn't even get shield level, she was in so much of a shock! That guy needs to go sooner than later. ...oh, brother... now they're attacking Axel? You've got nobody but yourself to blame for this. He was going elsewhere, and you just had to go chasing him. Hand over the stone. I need it more. Well, not right now, but believe me, later I'll be burning through Repairstones like they're butter against a 1000 degree knife. Well, what did you expect? You're just some defenseless porter guy, and your bodyguards ran off to attack Axel on the other side of the map. I didn't just miss the Repairstone's popup, I forgot to make a fake one. I'm just... hoo, boy. What a great LPer. The LPerest. Adel, pleaseeeeeeee! Stop this incompetence at once! Your situation is precarious enough! All right... phew. You are facing too much opposition to be able to afford this nonsense. OHHHHHHHHHHH we're promoting Adel folks. Okay, not quite, but... yeah. This is epic. Also, he was injured. Adel, my man, you could not have done any better. Well, perhaps there was a little room for improvement, but... bah, who cares. This is still epic. Oh, God... this is not epic! That one shitty axeman from the southern reinforcements wasn't lured through the bridge, and went to whack Sherlock instead! All right, let's see if I can cripple this guy. ...we may have more pressing matters to attend to, though... Phoo...! Good thing Sherlock's so slippery! Adel was attacked, and his iron spear broke as a result. So long, thing. You did well. Hmmm... well, that's just perfect, isn't it? Scratch that; it would've been perfect, if only Sherlock didn't have the pulse of a 97 year old man. One-two isn't even charged yet. Oh, goddamnit... Get your arse away from there, please. Mmph...! Jesus, can you guys please stop being good? I hate that your numbers match mine! At least your accuracy is still bandit-tier. Phew... That could've been really bad, actually, 'cause then I would've had to pick between risking her or risking Sherlock. While we're here, let's exploit the fact that dismounting is a free option and visit the... uh, weapon shop? Despite the guy's apparent loyalty to the Empire of Raze, we can still waltz right in and buy Imperial gear for ourselves. I wonder how Arthur managed that... ...... I heard some sort of commotion out there... what happened? ...no. Uh... nothing happened. I'll just... load up the rest of the weapons myself, if you don't mind... Well, saves me the trouble! Just as soon as you pay, you may do with 'em as you please! ...... ...excuse me. I... I need to go now. I'll... I'll be back. Sure, man. You shouldn't hold it in. It's not good for the bladder. ...r-right... ...o-oh, Goddess... I thought he'd notice the blood on my shoulder for sure... Every single time, man... these guys don't seem to realize that hitting the enemy ends the battle. They're just as confused by the game's mechanics as you are! At least they're good at recovering. Oh, no... they've got tragic death quotes... Ooohhhh sword level! Ooohhhh sword level! ...and nothing else! This is how things are looking so far. Everybody's got their hands full, essentially. This battle isn't that difficult, but it does show how much more powerful the Empire is than the shitty factions we've been fighting so far. I don't think we've had such an even battle before. I can only pray this training mission does not end in disaster...! By the way, Derrick did not attack. Again. Boy, I sure wonder what's up with this, really weird miniboss! You two have to go. Now. One of these days I'll get the spear while it's on the air. One of these days... ...fffffuaaaack! No, c'mon! That's so close! They both have the same HP and defense, too, so he can't kill either of them! All right, then. We'll settle for this. Things are not improving, guys. Once again, visiting the shop is a free action so long as you don't purchase anything, so Arthur can-- oh, come on... Back to this, are we? Really not getting my money's worth here, Arturo. Turn 5. Okay, I've got a lot of things to do, and only a single move... Let's disable this guy, first. Cripple him, Sherlock! ...HOLMEEEEEEEEE-- I MEAN SHERLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK! Run for your life before I wring your neck myself! Oh, please... this one's a turn away from the ballista already. Urgh... I'm losing control of the situation real fast. Doesn't help that Adel is still unarmed. This is nice, at least. All right, let's begin to gain back our turf. You're the first to go. It's a good thing they're going after Adel and not Leon or Elbert. Dummies... You'll make it no further. I'll solve your receeding hairline problem by taking your head! Or, y'know, I'll miss. That's also within the realm of possibility. Hah! As if Axel could fail me like that. He's awesome! If only Adel had a better spear. Then this'd be a real carnage. Alas... !! Shit! Sherlock, no! Well, at least now I know what my first move is gonna be next turn. He can murder Sherlock. Gotta do something about that. Hmmm... or perhaps... Elbert'd been using his slim spear these past few turns, but no longer. It's time to go all out. Now that is more like it! Maybe I won't have to heal Sherlock so urgently after all. Spear, spear, spear spear level, spear, spear, spear spear level... Hahah yeaaaahh! I mean, would've been nice if you got something else, but that's fine. Your other growths are awesome, I have no doubt that you'll get 'em eventually. Spear level is really all I want you to get every time. So please, keep getting this every time. A coin! Excellent! ...gah! OOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHH! That wouldn't have killed her, but it would have placed me in a downright terrible situation. This dodge might've very well have saved Sherlock and/or Christine's life. She even nailed the bastard in retaliation. How considerate of her. You bastard, you will pay for attempting to be the one to spill the first blood of the LP! Not today, asshole. Not today. Blaaaahh... I wanted bow level... or strength. She could use some strength, actually. Between her low strength and awful bow level, she seems designed to be a crossbow user... except she needs 20 bow level to promote, of course. Another coin, nice! We're on a roll. Derrick has passed up on the opportunity to attack the very vulnerable Sherlock. What gives, miniboss? Why aren't you minibossing? Am I fooling anyone? Is it worth keeping up the charade? Christine may've dodged, but this is still a tricky situation. This asshole is overpowered, and in conjunction with the spearman, he could kill her next turn... and they've got two moves, all they'd need to end her... At the same time, though, Sherlock is in range of a spearman of his own - and he's just far enough that he'd get the full charge bonus. Sherlock'll be killed if I don't heal him ASAP next turn. What this all amounts to is that Arthur needs to use Desperation to double and kill this guy. If he fails, he's dead. ...Oh, goodness, he's going to die, isn't he...? Please, please, please please please don't miss...! Oh, blistering barnacles... if there ever was a time to do well for the first time in your life, Arthur...! Yes! Yes! Okay, now, I just need you to do that one more time... C'moooooooon...! Oh, phewww... thank goodness. No, I am not overreacting, this game uses 1RN. That could've ended in disaster very easily. That went pretty well, all things considered. Arthur's in bad shape, but I double-checked, and this guy cannot kill anyone on his own. Still, I'd rather get him out of the way sooner than later. Clearly Ruby does not agree. This again! Why do they always do that? Almost halfway there. Back down here, the last axeman bites it. The injured guy is still alive and free. To my great chagrin. That one enemy was carrying Sinon steel, which he has dropped. I can show you the rest of the materials next time, if you want. Now, let's try to impair this guy's movement as much as possible. It won't work, because hexes, but that is fine. All right, a new turn! First things first. Sherlock is no longer in danger. ...oh, you have to be... balderdashing fiddlesticks, I let him make it! Finally, that marks the end of Injured Guy. Good riddance. Woulda been better riddance if he had let himself be captured, but oh well. Well, as you can see, the ballista is ready to fire. Thankfully, it just so happens that it cannot reach anyone other than Axel, and he can hide under its range. All things considered, that could've been worse. You bastard! How dare you do your job! I'll tear you apart now that you do not pose the slightest threat to us! Mop up time. Also training time, courtesy of this guy. That was a thorough success. Not even joking. As far as I'm concerned, this is a complete victory. It's official: this guy's not interested in following his orders. Good for him. It means he gets to live. And I get to not have to deal with his 26 defense. Wait, did she just...? ...Well, I just managed to get Ruby's shield level higher than her weapon levels. Pretty sure at this point the only thing that could keep her from promoting is death. But that's not possible, I mean, when has anyone ever died in my LPs? Trying to get some bow training in. It's what we're here for, after all. Axel is being accosted by Hamilton's brigade. Hamilton himself won't move unless I put him in his range, however, which is a relief. Ah, there's the failure I'm used to from you! Thanks for taking the time to not fail just that one time. I give you leave to fail at your leisure until I require you to succeed again. Honestly, though, Axel is completely surrounded. It might be a problem. I've marked the ballista's range with flags. Uhh! That's a new thing. Perhaps it was a good thing I let the ballista be loaded, because now I get to explain how they work. Notice how its sprite has changed slightly? You see, ballistae cover only a limited area in front of them. If they want to fire in any other direction, they've got to spend a turn turning. There's six different positions. For some reason enemy ballistae turn gradually, but it's possible to turn to any position in one turn. Of course, none of this solves the problem that the two hexes closest to the ballista are a blind spot. The thing is a sitting duck right now. Back to the action. Christine tried. You can get out of there, thanks. I'd be more worried about this if Axel wasn't doing such a kickass job of it. And if it comes to that, he has the means to heal himself. That's it for the opposition at the south. We've mostly conquered the map. All that's left is to disable the ballista and take on Hamilton. Ehhhhhhhh, I can get behind this. I wanted spear level, but stats are good for you, 'cause you stand a pretty good chance of never promoting. Not that promoting is such a big deal, mind. Level caps at 30 for everybody, and all Adel gets is some minor statboosts and a weapon type that is better used by somebody else. As far as this game's promotions go, Adel and Leon's isn't that big. Which is weird, considering they're among the most difficult to get. Another coin for the sack. I'll be rich. Ruby and Imperial 15th #15 take turns smacking one another. ...oh, all right. As it turns out, it was now and not before that she got 9 shield level. Oh boy, she's got more shield level than weapons level! Le shocker (again)! It is unbelievable; Arthur has not-failed enough to scrape together the experience for a level. If this was on Elbert or Ruby I'd be so happy, but Arthur's one of the few who doesn't have many difficulties promoting, so... eh. It's good, don't get me wrong, but I would've liked some strength. I know, I contradict myself. Sorry. The point is that I am never happy. Derrick continues his journey to God-knows-where. You know what's hilarious? Axel cannot reach the ballista because this guy's in the way. Sigh... Is it too much to ask that you just get out of the way? Pinky please? ...Huh. Why, thank you! Okay, so let's see... Hamilton's the one I don't want to aggro. He has no skills, but he's decently powerful. Not the greatest boss we've seen, frankly, but I'd much rather Axel didn't take him on alone. Putting Axel in the forest above the ballista looks to be the best course of action. Right on. Your days are numbered, noseman. It's a good thing Axel's doing so well. This could've been scary, if he wasn't so awesome. The porter is trying to escape. Not sure if to let him through or kill him for experience. Hmmm... we'll see. Oh-- Pfffffft! The ballista, trying to reach Axel, turned to point to the north. As a result, it literally has no attack range now. Hah! Hilarious. I considered attacking someone else, but I'd rather be free to move the others forward before I have Axel deal with the opposition. Okay, nearly a level. Awesome. Hah! He robbed the ammunition. Halfmann will like these. The axeman fled to heal with his vulnerary, but the archer decided it was a great idea to attack Axel from up close. Can you guess which skill I'll use next turn? Let's prepare the approach. That's as far as Hamilton's goons can reach. What's this dude doing now? Oh. Well, okay. Bye, miniboss! I'll disarm Leon for now, so Adel has a decent spear to lure Hamilton and company closer. Gah! You dick! For that, you will watch your pal die! Boom! Not bad! Durability and more strength for some mightier pulverizations. Shaky hit, but that can be remedied. Okay, Adel. Don't disappoint me. Hey there, pal! Thanks for getting out of the way earlier so we could undo all your hard work. Unfortunately, we're the good guys, see, and you're the bad guys, so... yeah... Die. Sheesh, that's sad... Here he comes. You know the drill. You warmongering monkeys just can't let us live in peace, can you? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE'S CLOSE TO RETIREMENT! WE'RE THE GOOOOOOOOOOD GUYYYYYYYYYYYYS!! Anyway. "Close to retirement", you say? Mayhap you should've asked to be let off early, 'cause clearly your old age is already showing! Old age-- why, you...?! Insolent buffoon! I'll show you to respect your elders! Hamilton has been successfully lured down. To complete the tactic, Arthur is drawing his goons away from him. Like so. As for you, I commend your prudence in fleeing to heal before confronting Axel again. Alas, you did not take one thing into account: Axel has the power to one-shot everything. Ha! Sorry, Ham-man. But you have fallen for our trap! You know where. It's worth nothing that Elbert's using the harpoon. I'd like to capture Hamilton alive, if at all possible. Bosses net you over 1000D, remember? And besides, he's a cool guy. Keep going. He's still provoked, so I can lure him further away from his friends. Might as well aim for another capture. The more ransom money we can get, the better. Really? That's your best idea? Put yourself next to the girl with Aim? Suit yourself. I don't understand anything. When I really really want to capture someone, there's no way, but then this random mook is crippled with 7 HP left to spare. What's the big idea? Well, whatever. I like the shield, though I might just hand over the spear to Halfmann. This guy's not moving for whatever reason. Let us bring the fight to him. C'mon, Sherlock. You can do it. See? All it took was some kind encouragement. Hamilton's close to death, and he's still not injured... perhaps I could try to get Arthur overthere before Elbert kills him? Heck, if he keeps this performance up, I might not even need to disarm Elbert. Whew... you really do need that retirement... those feeble swings could never scratch my armor. Heck, I doubt you could strike down a toddler like that! Enough words! Fight me with honor, Berwick mongrel! C'mon, almost made it... Keep on tanking 'em, Elbert... Oki-dokie. ...Bitch! Bitch! Hah... that the best you can do? Just surrender, geezer. There's no way you're winning. Heathens... I won't stand down... the torture you'd put me through... I refuse to experience it! I'd rather die than be held captive by the likes of you...! Torture? Who do you think we are? Raze? That's you guys, man. ...GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!! ...Oh whoa, okay, he's starting to scare me. Please...! You were doing so good before! Cool, that's what I was looking for. C'mon, c'mon, don't shield, don't shield... Yes-- No! He wasn't injured...!? Even this has failed!? That's a good consolation. Bastards! All of you! You think I'll roll over for you!? You... the blue-haired dog... must you toy with your prey like this!? You are the greatest monster I have ever seen! Befitting of a Berwick mutt! You damned fool... I'm trying to capture you alive! Can't you see that? Stop this already! You've put up a good fight, everyone's proud of you, now stand down! Never... NEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!! IN THE NAME OF RAZE! !!! ...I am sorry. I got carried away... If only I hadn't gone so far, perhaps you would've... ...damnit... Awesome, a big coin! That almost makes up for the fact that I couldn't capture him, no matter how much I tried. Again, in a normal run I would've savescummed that. But I can't do that here. I'm reserving that privilege for the truly important captures. Since the chapter is just about over, let's take the most injured Sinon stallion (Elbert's), and give it to Christine. Like so. I'll take a shot of its health next chapter and compare it. Now, there's a neat feature in this game. When you kill everything in an escape map, the game gives you the option to evacuate everybody instantly. However, the option's not popping up. I wonder what's up with that... G-Gaaaah! Okay, I see what it is! This guy was hidden in one of the forests to the east of Hamilton's starting position. Since I never went that far, I didn't find him. I discovered this the hard way, as Adel bumped into him and was attacked as a result. I was too surprised to catch a proper screenshot of the ambush. Of course, since he missed, Adel hasn't lost his turn, and since he was moving next to him already, he gets to attack. It looks less confusing in action. Come now. Your leader's dead. Everyone's dead. What do you hope to accomplish on your own? There. Now it's over. There we go. Let's decline for now. We've got some shopping to do before that. Hmm? Ah, Captain Hamilton! Where's the porter? I've been waiting for him to come back for ages! ...(Oh, curse it all, I'm gonna puke)... Captain? A-Ah! Well, y'see, I'm going to retire soon. So I'm going to, uh... pick up all this gear and handle it myself! H-Here's your payment! ...All right. As you say, sir. (Whoa, he really does need to retire...) I pick up one of everything but the sword. Mostly 'cause I ran out of budget, and we've got enough good swords. Okay, that's another one in the bag! So far, so good. Looked like it wasn't gonna be so good for a moment there, but we pulled through. I hope we can keep this up. Next time, we wrap up the chapter, and return to the throne room to see what sort of nonsense Volcens has in store for us for the next main mission. Look forward to it. Or not, I mean, it's Volcens. Either way, please, be well, safe, sane and healthy, all! See ya~! Death count: -- Capture count: 0 Reset count: 0 Current perfect streak: 6 maps Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 54 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hicks. That is all. Saw it last night... assuming it's the video you uploaded of a certain final boss getting wrecked harder than the average Idounn. 56 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Everything about this universe is funny to me, sorry. Especially Bad Russian Accept Superman lasering Stalin to save the proletariat from the gulags. I'm sorry, it's just... so outlandish! Well, considering I've only read the original... and tend towards being a purist with adaptions... that scene just doesn't work for me either. It's literally counter to Superman's actions in the comic. Like 180 degree counter from a failed attempt to fix him after being cyanided. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: If Hamilton was the president of real life, this wouldn't be happening. If Merlinus was president of real life, he would have declared it a trap and sealed all borders before there were 100 cases. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Nobody loves ol' Armored Boy. His name isn't helping me. It reminds me of the single worst person I've had the displeasure of knowing. Not counting fictional characters involved with milk. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Same! Happy, uh... quarantine easter. I feel somewhat guilty that the whole quarantine has been good to me. I mean, it's greatly produced my productivity on weight-lifting. Seems every second day I can increase the weights (which is something considering the days between are breaks). Also, the dogs have benefited from it. The old blind boy is the most active he's been since his brother (not literal) died last year. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: The side campaign is probably the only worthwhile part of the DLC, if only because it's... more than cosmetics and a unit that is outright worse than the rest of the cast. Hilariously enough, the free DLC was better than the first three waves of paid DLC. The free DLC character should, by all means, have been in the base game, but better late than never, I suppose. Sadly enough, I can't even be assed to pay for the side campaign. I mean, I might have at one point. Then I could never get the motivation to go back after that whole "getting Raphael to the point Nemesis does no damage". Which in turn stemmed from a run of Blue Lions where I got Gilbert to the point Hegemon Edelgard and the Death Knight (final encounter) do no damage. Which put me to the thought of "how many final bosses can I do that to in this game?" Turns out just the two, because the way the Immaculate one is set up... well, you'd need the resistance as well as the defense. Which is probably better planning to be honest. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: That we do! Axis, the best swimmer in Lombardy! Axis? When did we side with... wait, Kaga is Japanese... and you're a medic main..... OH DEAR LORD. I've already made this joke, but damn it, that typo forced it again. Damn it. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: This. Yeah... turns out the supply carrier isn't the only time limit we'll face. We let this bastard be supplied with ammo, and he'll become the mightiest enemy on the map. Best be quick about it. That Ballistician looks suspiciously like Valery just started facing forward. Why is that? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wondering why they decided to build a supply base in the middle of Narvia? There you have it. They weren't expecting to be found before they could set up the ballista. I don't see how a single, rickety old ballista was ever going to stop any army, but perhaps they were operating under the assumption that Volcens. Definitely the work of a master tactician. See, Volcens ignored bandits until their number was over 1000. Of course he's going to ignore a base until they've got several ballistae ready. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: You've got nobody but yourself to blame for this. He was going elsewhere, and you just had to go chasing him. Pursuing Axel is apparently like pursuing Ganondorf offstage in Smash Ultimate. If it goes wrong it'll be very painful. Spoiler 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Derrick has passed up on the opportunity to attack the very vulnerable Sherlock. What gives, miniboss? Why aren't you minibossing? Am I fooling anyone? Is it worth keeping up the charade? Not when he's a member tag. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I considered attacking someone else, but I'd rather be free to move the others forward before I have Axel deal with the opposition. If Valery is a fatality of this run for some reason, I dare you to re-use the blood from this. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: "Close to retirement", you say? Mayhap you should've asked to be let off early, 'cause clearly your old age is already showing! Old age-- why, you...?! Insolent buffoon! I'll show you to respect your elders! He really is getting better at this. Bloody Elbert. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Whew... you really do need that retirement... those feeble swings could never scratch my armor. Heck, I doubt you could strike down a toddler like that! Enough words! Fight me with honor, Berwick mongrel! 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah... that the best you can do? Just surrender, geezer. There's no way you're winning. Heathens... I won't stand down... the torture you'd put me through... I refuse to experience it! I'd rather die than be held captive by the likes of you...! Torture? Who do you think we are? Raze? That's you guys, man. ...GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!! Is it sad he mightn't be wrong with Volcens in charge? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...I am sorry. I got carried away... If only I hadn't gone so far, perhaps you would've... ...damnit... Cause I'm going to keep telling myself that Volcens would have put him through worse. It'll makes it feel less... bad. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Come now. Your leader's dead. Everyone's dead. What do you hope to accomplish on your own? Guy should have stayed hidden. As prideful as Hamilton. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hmm? Ah, Captain Hamilton! Where's the porter? I've been waiting for him to come back for ages! ...(Oh, curse it all, I'm gonna puke)... Captain? A-Ah! Well, y'see, I'm going to retire soon. So I'm going to, uh... pick up all this gear and handle it myself! H-Here's your payment! ...All right. As you say, sir. (Whoa, he really does need to retire...) Poor guy. First he's dead, then his helmet is used for a zombie mission. What a terrible curse to have this night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger016 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ergh... oh dear, here we go with the references I don't get. It's going to be especially embarrassing if it's a reference within this game... Spoiler Yes, it is a reference from both TRS and BS, although he is not all that important character so it is possible you just don't remember his name. You do remember the famous Heimer from TRS right... Now there is another one with similar name in Berwick as well, the collector. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hoo, boy... I'm so sorry for you. He's always one of the highest-priority hirings for me. If I have to sacrifice somebody to save up money, it's never him. Spoiler No, I did hire him but I could never end the map before 20 turns. And I wasn't brave enough to try beating the castle part without healer. Especially since three of the cavalier minibosses were still alive by then. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: On 4/12/2020 at 5:43 PM, ranger016 said: He's amazing. 150.../10 Spoiler Lol, I still don't get why he can't be used in the main maps... could be really useful in some of them. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: And you totally could have gotten away with it if not for the green colored edit, didn't even notice anything wrong for a while. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: If I'd lost Axel at some point, this map would've become rather difficult, but since we have him, he can just swim across the river. Although, it looks more like he climbed up the raised bridge half and jumped onto the other one. Either way, Axel is my favorite superhero. Among all the praise of the cavaliers, endgame beard, early bishop and my favorite swordie, Axel is the unsung hero of the army. A lot of situations would have been really difficult without his abilities. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Shoot, Leon waited in just the right spot to uncover a hidden enemy! When I played it, I completed the whole map then had to manually escape my units because the escape all prompt didn't appear. Then he gave me a heart attack when he suddenly ambushed Ruby who was still at a low health... atleast Christine was nereby, otherwise it would have been dangerous. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, there's our answer. Wondering why they decided to build a supply base in the middle of Narvia? There you have it. They weren't expecting to be found before they could set up the ballista. I don't see how a single, rickety old ballista was ever going to stop any army, but perhaps they were operating under the assumption that Volcens. Well, they had Derrick to guard the Ballista. And of course Volcens would probably decide to strengthen his castle's defense instead of fighting them. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah! He has summoned the darkness from the deepest pits of Hell! Arthur writhes in despair and agony as he is consumed by the indomitable blackness, his entire body withering away into nothingness and D'oh he missed. Missing after all that buildup... are we sure he wasn't Arthur's long lost brother? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hand over the stone. I need it more. Well, not right now, but believe me, later I'll be burning through Repairstones like they're butter against a 1000 degree knife. They are really valuable, too bad you can't choose number of charges to use though. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, phewww... thank goodness. No, I am not overreacting, this game uses 1RN. That could've ended in disaster very easily. My run right now is pretty much like you described, my units keeps missing 70+ hitrates while keeps taking hit by 30s... 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE'S CLOSE TO RETIREMENT! WE'RE THE GOOOOOOOOOOD GUYYYYYYYYYYYYS!! Yes, this map really showed that war is the real evil, not the enemy army without saying much. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Since the chapter is just about over, let's take the most injured Sinon stallion (Elbert's), and give it to Christine. Only if I remembered this... then I wouldn't have to sacrifice so many horses... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Had an idea for a song already (well two, but I'm waiting for someone beginning with V to give me more to work with) Spoiler To the tune of "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" from The Great Mouse Detective, I present "The Empire's Greatest Tactical Mind". It's about everyone's favourite garbage bag, Disaad. In case you're wondering, he doesn't realize he's being insulted all song, even in the parts where he insults himself. Which is ridiculous, but... it's a parody."From the brain that brought you the supply post plan, Which put a base in the dumbest position that we can, And sneaky strategies like the lava cave trick, That half-baked endeavor that only left children sick, Now comes Disaad's greatest scheme. Even stupider than you could dream. My earlier plots, May have been worth their shots, But now that I'm at it once more, An even dimmer idea has been simmering, Than I've ever had before." Even dumber, than the number, Of weapons you carry in enemy land, You're so brilliant we can't hope to understand, Oh tactician. Oh tactician. You're one of a kind. Oh tactician. Oh tactician. The Empire's greatest tactical mind. (Spoken segment)"Thank you, thank you. But it hasn't been all dark caves and fake lava. I've had my share of failure, thanks to those miserable knights of Sinon. Ever since they joined the league they've interefered and I've never had a plan succeed. But all that is in the past... next time nothing, not even they will stand in my way, And the league will fall before me" (end spoken segment) Oh Tactician, Oh Tactician, Your plans never fail, Oh Tactician, Oh Tactician,Except when you wind up in jail.(sequence where the guy who sung that line is executed while Disaad insists that being captured was part of his plan)And now, as you were singing? Sharp as a hammer, You master planner, No one can doubt that you've got a double digit IQ. You're about as bright as Martel too. Oh Tactician, Oh Tactician, You're one of a kind. Oh Tactician. Oh Tactician, The Empire's greatest tactical mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 "The enemy army can't scratch me, time to leave!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Well, unlike Ruben, Derrick knows Mercy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 On 4/15/2020 at 8:37 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: To the tune of "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" from The Great Mouse Detective, I present "The Empire's Greatest Tactical Mind". It's about everyone's favourite garbage bag, Disaad. In case you're wondering, he doesn't realize he's being insulted all song, even in the parts where he insults himself. Which is ridiculous, but... it's a parody. The great mouse detective is my childhood; this parody version of the song is sublime. You, sir are a true legend. I am going to be watching closely for this next chapter; I've already done it about 90 times and I'm going to have to do it again, so I want to see if there is actually a feasible way of completing this chapter without abusing save-states until luck shines upon me. Also, actually a question about Czene that sort of maybe has spoilers? It is not a rick roll, cross my heart and hope to die. Spoiler Does Czene actually need to be deployed on Chapter 4's main mission to get Horse and Girl 2? I need to know if I have to restart the whole game over again since I am trying to do it properly with all of the side missions and stuff. Also, there is little more satisfying than ROFLstomping an easy side chapter with all of the prepromotes because you're bored in this game. It cost me a lot, but it was worth it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, Benice said: The great mouse detective is my childhood; this parody version of the song is sublime. You, sir are a true legend. Glad that you liked it. Because, you know, it means I'm not just churning out half-baked parodies in the same manner Disaad (well, as per my characterization) churns out half-baked plots. Mind, I had to settle for my second favourite scene of the movie, given the whole Big Ben sequence at the end is a lot harder to parody in written form seeing as it''s an action sequence... and I specialize in lyrical parody rather than animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 15 minutes ago, The Roger The Paladin said: Glad that you liked it. Because, you know, it means I'm not just churning out half-baked parodies in the same manner Disaad (well, as per my characterization) churns out half-baked plots. Mind, I had to settle for my second favourite scene of the movie, given the whole Big Ben sequence at the end is a lot harder to parody in written form seeing as it''s an action sequence... and I specialize in lyrical parody rather than animation. I liked the one where they are chasing the weird bat guy who is impossible to comprehend through the toy shop, as well as the execution scene. The song that plays there always sticks in my head: (Except for the fact for some reason the title of the video is in spanish even though the song is in english? Perhaps they didn't bother to translate the songs.) Spoiler Back to Berwick, it's too bad that our next named garbage bag isn't as exiting. Also funnily enough, as far as I can tell, Disaad's portrait is the default Razite monk portrait, detachable chin and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 Part 12 - Denarii!??!?!?! If you're looking for answers, this is the right place: Spoiler On 4/15/2020 at 1:12 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: Saw it last night... assuming it's the video you uploaded of a certain final boss getting wrecked harder than the average Idounn. In his defense, he has my favorite final boss theme in the series. And that includes KagaSaga. Seriously, Veld's theme is gorgeous. ...considering I only had to RNG abuse for less than 15 minutes, it astonishes me that the video came out as well as it did. Keep in mind that I'm the guy who defends that Veld isn't the worst final boss in the series, but rather Idoun is. And I stand by my claim: I could never do something nearly as fun as this with Idoun. For better or worse, this has just bumped my opinion of Veld up. 'Cause by God was that absolutely hilarious to make happen. Also, that theme. The theme alone keeps him from being awful. Idoun also has a kickass theme, though... ah, goddamnit. Even the generic dragon has music I like... Fomortiis. Fomortiis is the plain worst final boss in the series. There. The only question that remains now is, who would win in an arm wrestling competition: your Raphael or my Hicks? Well, considering I've only read the original... and tend towards being a purist with adaptions... that scene just doesn't work for me either. It's literally counter to Superman's actions in the comic. Like 180 degree counter from a failed attempt to fix him after being cyanided. I should look up the original scene. If only to see if that one's half as laughable. If Merlinus was president of real life, he would have declared it a trap and sealed all borders before there were 100 cases. The fact that Merlinus would declare the crownvirus "a trap" just made my day. Thanks for being a genius, you genius. His name isn't helping me. It reminds me of the single worst person I've had the displeasure of knowing. Not counting fictional characters involved with milk. Ah... well, I won't pry. Suffice to say, this Derrick is a good person. I feel somewhat guilty that the whole quarantine has been good to me. I mean, it's greatly produced my productivity on weight-lifting. Seems every second day I can increase the weights (which is something considering the days between are breaks). Also, the dogs have benefited from it. The old blind boy is the most active he's been since his brother (not literal) died last year. Don't feel guilty. It's good to make the best of this shitty hand we've been dealt. Would be worse to spend all day wallowing in despair. Sadly enough, I can't even be assed to pay for the side campaign. I mean, I might have at one point. Then I could never get the motivation to go back after that whole "getting Raphael to the point Nemesis does no damage". Which in turn stemmed from a run of Blue Lions where I got Gilbert to the point Hegemon Edelgard and the Death Knight (final encounter) do no damage. Which put me to the thought of "how many final bosses can I do that to in this game?" Turns out just the two, because the way the Immaculate one is set up... well, you'd need the resistance as well as the defense. Which is probably better planning to be honest. Gilbert kicking Edelgard's ass sounds even more fun than Raphael kicking Nemesis's ass, I must say. She went so far to win, and then the old man with crippling emotional issues that everyone despises (because you're only allowed to be depressed if you're a cute anime waifu) runs up and casually demolishes her. Dimitri's lance was a mercy after such humiliation. It's more than Veld got, anyway. Fucker got one-rounded by some guy called Hicks, lifted by a lord infamous for having low con, mugged, and then nonchatantly dropped. That's gotta sting. He didn't even spit out the whole speech he does when he dies, he just went "generic Loptyr priest death quote!" and vanished. ...no, but seriously, can we talk about how there are people out there proudly claiming to have had Annette murder her father? 'Cause I've seen plenty, more than one or two, that's for sure. I know leaving his family was a shitty thing to do, but it's not like he did it out of any evil intent, laziness or hatred for them. Guy was suffering even more than his family, and was clearly not thinking straight. If anything he needed a psychologist and a hug. But, of course, he's not a cute anime waifu, so it's totally justified to have this teenager burn her own father to a crisp - this teenager who doesn't hate her father at all, mind. Her whole goal was to find him and convince him to return, and yet some people out there think it's a good idea to have her kill him. How could anyone possibly come to the conclusion that that would be by any stretch of the imagination a good ending to both their characters? I mean, heck, they're the same people who keep screaming "IF YOU DON'T RECRUIT MARIANNE AND BERNADETTA YOU'RE A MONSTER"! What makes them special that Gilbert doesn't have? The boobs? 'Cause I'm thinking it's the boobs! ...Oh no, oh man of fuck, two paragraphs. I cannot talk about Three Houses, can I... even when I'm defending something about the game, I end up going on an angry rant! Axis? When did we side with... wait, Kaga is Japanese... and you're a medic main..... OH DEAR LORD. I've already made this joke, but damn it, that typo forced it again. Damn it. Scheibe, I have been found out! Achtung, Hans! We have to abort, ze dummkopfs have uncovered ze plot! ...I don't know much more german than that, so the joke will have to end there, I'm afraid. That Ballistician looks suspiciously like Valery just started facing forward. Why is that? Huh... He kinda does, actually. Maybe that's his brother. Valery was originally a Razite, but he sold out his batallion in exchange for being pardoned and becoming a Verian citizen. That's why they're stranded in the middle of Narvia. Valery went on to become the head of the local mafia. Definitely the work of a master tactician. See, Volcens ignored bandits until their number was over 1000. Of course he's going to ignore a base until they've got several ballistae ready. As I said, they're working under the assumption that Volcens. Pursuing Axel is apparently like pursuing Ganondorf offstage in Smash Ultimate. If it goes wrong it'll be very painful. Reveal hidden contents Bwahahahahahahahah... that's pretty good, Bottleman! Not when he's a member tag. Damn you, Serenesforest! You spoiled Berwick Saga! Or... well, I guess I'm not helping, since I have him as my member tag. Kinda hard to miss, after years of it being Hugh. If Valery is a fatality of this run for some reason, I dare you to re-use the blood from this. Unless I make him the LP's decapitation, it shall be done. He really is getting better at this. Bloody Elbert. Soon he'll summon the spirit of Eugen. Is it sad he mightn't be wrong with Volcens in charge? Cause I'm going to keep telling myself that Volcens would have put him through worse. It'll makes it feel less... bad. I know. I, too, need to somehow justify the fact that none of those people we murdered were nearly as bad as the Verian court we answer to. Guy should have stayed hidden. As prideful as Hamilton. In his defense, he tried. Adel ran into him. Poor guy. First he's dead, then his helmet is used for a zombie mission. What a terrible curse to have this night. Meanwhile Disaad is chilling back in the Empire, having survived his cascade of blunders. Life isn't fair. On 4/15/2020 at 1:24 PM, ranger016 said: Reveal hidden contents Yes, it is a reference from both TRS and BS, although he is not all that important character so it is possible you just don't remember his name. You do remember the famous Heimer from TRS right... Now there is another one with similar name in Berwick as well, the collector. ...Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrghhh! Goddamnit, I cannot believe it! How did I not make the connection?! Their names are so obnoxious! I guess I just remember the first half of their names more than the second... Reveal hidden contents No, I did hire him but I could never end the map before 20 turns. And I wasn't brave enough to try beating the castle part without healer. Especially since three of the cavalier minibosses were still alive by then. Oh, I understand. Yeah, that one tidbit can really bite one in the butt. Reveal hidden contents Lol, I still don't get why he can't be used in the main maps... could be really useful in some of them. He's lazy. And you totally could have gotten away with it if not for the green colored edit, didn't even notice anything wrong for a while. Well, I mean... Darn it. Among all the praise of the cavaliers, endgame beard, early bishop and my favorite swordie, Axel is the unsung hero of the army. A lot of situations would have been really difficult without his abilities. Oh yeah, Axel puts in a lot of work. He doesn't get to enjoy the glory of combat as often as the rest, but he does a lot of stuff that's quite essential as well. In other words, Axel is like a game director's team of programmers. Sure, the director came up with the stuff, but they're the ones that made it a reality, and that's just as remarkable. When I played it, I completed the whole map then had to manually escape my units because the escape all prompt didn't appear. Then he gave me a heart attack when he suddenly ambushed Ruby who was still at a low health... atleast Christine was nereby, otherwise it would have been dangerous. Both those crossbowmen are dickheads, honestly. Fight fair, you asshats! Well, they had Derrick to guard the Ballista. And of course Volcens would probably decide to strengthen his castle's defense instead of fighting them. No doubt if Reese hadn't asked to deal with the supply camp, it would've been allowed to exist. Missing after all that buildup... are we sure he wasn't Arthur's long lost brother? Brother against brother... such is the tragedy of war. And also the tragedy of low hitrates, which Arthur seems so fond of. They are really valuable, too bad you can't choose number of charges to use though. That would've been nice. My run right now is pretty much like you described, my units keeps missing 70+ hitrates while keeps taking hit by 30s... "Damnit, why does the RNG hate me in particular?" - Every FE player ever. Yes, this map really showed that war is the real evil, not the enemy army without saying much. Just a few combat lines. Only if I remembered this... then I wouldn't have to sacrifice so many horses... Oh, don't worry, I'll probably forget more often than not. I just happened to remember this time. On 4/15/2020 at 5:37 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: Had an idea for a song already (well two, but I'm waiting for someone beginning with V to give me more to work with) To be entirely forthcoming with you, you'd probably have to make that one the last song of the LP. Or, make multiple ones. The guy never stops giving. Giving shit! Reveal hidden contents To the tune of "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" from The Great Mouse Detective, I present "The Empire's Greatest Tactical Mind". It's about everyone's favourite garbage bag, Disaad. In case you're wondering, he doesn't realize he's being insulted all song, even in the parts where he insults himself. Which is ridiculous, but... it's a parody."From the brain that brought you the supply post plan, Which put a base in the dumbest position that we can, And sneaky strategies like the lava cave trick, That half-baked endeavor that only left children sick, Now comes Disaad's greatest scheme. Even stupider than you could dream. My earlier plots, May have been worth their shots, But now that I'm at it once more, An even dimmer idea has been simmering, Than I've ever had before." Even dumber, than the number, Of weapons you carry in enemy land, You're so brilliant we can't hope to understand, Oh tactician. Oh tactician. You're one of a kind. Oh tactician. Oh tactician. The Empire's greatest tactical mind. (Spoken segment)"Thank you, thank you. But it hasn't been all dark caves and fake lava. I've had my share of failure, thanks to those miserable knights of Sinon. Ever since they joined the league they've interefered and I've never had a plan succeed. But all that is in the past... next time nothing, not even they will stand in my way, And the league will fall before me" (end spoken segment) Oh Tactician, Oh Tactician, Your plans never fail, Oh Tactician, Oh Tactician,Except when you wind up in jail.(sequence where the guy who sung that line is executed while Disaad insists that being captured was part of his plan)And now, as you were singing? Sharp as a hammer, You master planner, No one can doubt that you've got a double digit IQ. You're about as bright as Martel too. Oh Tactician, Oh Tactician, You're one of a kind. Oh Tactician. Oh Tactician, The Empire's greatest tactical mind. Ah, I'm glad to see you haven't lost your touch just yet! Disaad ballad perfectly encapsulates our favorite throwaway's character. On 4/15/2020 at 9:15 PM, eclipse said: "The enemy army can't scratch me, time to leave!" It's a good thing they gave the heavy armor to the traitor. Otherwise I would've had to make everyone flee immediately, 'cause he would've been an unstoppable menace. That would've made for an interesting chapter, actually! Alas, I think I prefer it the way it is. On 4/16/2020 at 5:45 AM, BrightBow said: Well, unlike Ruben, Derrick knows Mercy. Hey! I know mercy, but I require experience. Is that not a valid cause for murder? We're the good guys! On 4/16/2020 at 7:51 PM, Benice said: The great mouse detective is my childhood; this parody version of the song is sublime. You, sir are a true legend. It's his true calling, this is nothing new. I am going to be watching closely for this next chapter; I've already done it about 90 times and I'm going to have to do it again, so I want to see if there is actually a feasible way of completing this chapter without abusing save-states until luck shines upon me. Please don't say things like that. I don't want to start losing people there.. Also, actually a question about Czene that sort of maybe has spoilers? It is not a rick roll, cross my heart and hope to die. Okay, shoot. Hide contents Does Czene actually need to be deployed on Chapter 4's main mission to get Horse and Girl 2? I need to know if I have to restart the whole game over again since I am trying to do it properly with all of the side missions and stuff. Spoiler Chapter 4's main mission? No, wherever did you get that idea? The place where you need to deploy her is the sidequest about the wild horses. You'll know the one when you see it. Other than that, she just needs to exist and be at the right level. Also, there is little more satisfying than ROFLstomping an easy side chapter with all of the prepromotes because you're bored in this game. It cost me a lot, but it was worth it! There is something more satisfying than that: ROLFstomping an easy side chapter with the knight. You know, that knight. On 4/16/2020 at 8:08 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: Glad that you liked it. Because, you know, it means I'm not just churning out half-baked parodies in the same manner Disaad (well, as per my characterization) churns out half-baked plots. Mind, I had to settle for my second favourite scene of the movie, given the whole Big Ben sequence at the end is a lot harder to parody in written form seeing as it''s an action sequence... and I specialize in lyrical parody rather than animation. You always explain everything. You're like Bishop Law and Order, giving exposition about everything. Don't worry, though. I like your style. But, excuse me. I have to man the boat. On 4/16/2020 at 8:27 PM, Benice said: I liked the one where they are chasing the weird bat guy who is impossible to comprehend through the toy shop, as well as the execution scene. The song that plays there always sticks in my head: (Except for the fact for some reason the title of the video is in spanish even though the song is in english? Perhaps they didn't bother to translate the songs.) Reveal hidden contents Ah, old kids movies. In many ways, viable for all ages. A childhood with 'em is a great childhood. Meanwhile here is Saint Rubenio, whose whole childhood was comprised entirely of this. Frankly, it could've been worse. I rewatched it a year ago and loved every second of it like I was 10 years old again. And... I'm about to rewatch it again now. Again, could've been worse. Could've been modern kids shows. Euuurgh... Back to Berwick, it's too bad that our next named garbage bag isn't as exiting. Yeah, sadly that dude isn't as much of a genius as Disaad. Also funnily enough, as far as I can tell, Disaad's portrait is the default Razite monk portrait, detachable chin and all. Oh yeah, the game adores that sprite. You see it just about everywhere. The other thing: Spoiler Last time, we exercised our rights as good guys and murdered a bunch of bad guys. Today, we relay the good news to head good guy Reese. How did it go? Quite well, it seems. Everyone came back in one piece. Thank goodness... I was rather anxious about them. That'll be all for them today. Let them enjoy a well-deserved rest. Very good, milord. I'll let them know. So that was pretty nice, but what if somebody died? Does this scene change? Let's find out. However, I regret to inform you that there were some casualties... ...That'll be all for today. Let those who returned enjoy a well-deserved rest. ...Yes, milord. I'll let them know. ...... Jikes... Doesn't change much, but it does in the places that matter. Good thing that never happened, right? Back to the canon timeline, we sell the one guy we managed to capture for moneys. Less moneys than Hamilton would've been worth, but oh well, that's life. I could really use more money to keep the mercenaries on my payroll... let's see if I've anything valuable to sell. You can order this list by the price of the items, it's pretty handy. Our most valuable thing is, predictably, the Repairstone, but I'm not selling th-- Wait... 2000 DENARII FOR A BAG!?!?!?!? Of all things!? And that's the selling price - these things go for FOUR GRAND when you buy 'em! Jesus! Bagman must be proud of his legacy... he clearly struck gold, back in his day! Anyway. Halfmann! Take these rusty, useless-- I mean, top-notch ballista bolts, and this nigh-broken-- I mean, brand-new shield. Toodles! Moving on. I could rehire one of my mercs, but I think I'll wait till next chapter. Who knows, maybe Volcens will generously donate a sum of money to our coffers. Pfhah. Speak of the devil, chapter 3 opens up with him. Music. As requested, I have delivered the supplies to Myuhen Castle. It seems Reese is keeping himself busy even offscreen. I like it, shows that not all missions are mere excuses to fight off an army three times the size of ours. Your hard work is appreciated, Lord Reese. In addition, I bear a message from Duke Warrenheit of the Lowlands for you, Your Majesty. Oh? Tell me. After fierce attacks by the Empire's main forces, Myuhen Castle will not be able to hold for much longer. He urgently beseeches Your Majesty to send him reinforcements, lest the front line be lost. Ahahah, yes, I am glad to see that you are still Volcens, Volcens. Thanks for the reminder. Y-Your Majesty, if I may interject, if Myuhen were to fall, the Highlands and Lowlands would be overrun... The Empire's primary force would advance to Narvia's doorstep, but we are still woefully unprepared. And now with rumors of strange disturbances arising in Bornia to our south, I fear for the worst... Oh yeah, that's a major plot point they've just casually dropped in this conversation. Don't worry, though - they'll elaborate soon enough. In any case, we simply cannot risk allowing the Empire to advance any further than it already has. That is concerning... Is he seeing reason? Could it be that a miracle has occured? Duke Roswick, ...let's not party just yet... your own daughter is the wife of Duke Warrenheit, is that not so? Are there no lengths to which you will not sink to save your own kin? But... he just explained that, if Warrenheit falls, so does the entire front line! I mean, certainly he wants to help his son-in-law, but are you truly so obsessed with spiting Roswick that you'd let the front line fall if it meant screwing him over? You will all die, you morons! How dare you! Your Majesty, this is preposterous! Truly, it has become so difficult to find competent help in these trying times... It was said that you and Duke Reed of Bornia were the backbone of the Berwick League's forces. But now, you both have revealed your true colors! What colors? What even is he talking about?! We'll find out about Reed in a second, but what has Roswick done, exactly? This is absurd... What's more, scouts are reporting disturbing movements of troops along their border with Narvia. What do you suppose it all could mean, Duke Roswick? After all, the two of you have been quite close friends for many years, is that not the case? ...Duke Reed is not the kind of man who would betray His Majesty. He has my complete confidence. However, the fact that Bornia's troops are moving suspiciously is troubling. I cannot fathom their intent. Can't you? I can think of an explanation. Why must it always lead to these two ganging up on somebody? What a farce of a court... With Bornia, Narvia, and the Lowland Duchies' forces combined, would their power not rival even His Majesty's? Perhaps these duchies have already conspired to defect to the Empire when the time is ripe... Who knows who can really be trusted in this day and age... Don't you agree, Duke Roswick? You...! Okay, so the one decent member of this court has just been accused of high treason. That's real nice. Herman, hold your tongue. Roswick is my most trusted retainer. The idea of him conspiring in such a way is unthinkable. Thank you! Jeez, you know they've going too far when even Volcens realizes that this is ridiculous! And yet, perhaps these times call for anticipating the unthinkable... Roswick, dispatch a messenger to Myuhen at once. NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU BASTARD!! You were so close to being a salvageable ruler for once! The miracle never happen! ...Yes, Your Majesty. Lord Reese, I have no further duties for you at this time. You are dismissed. Oh, and if you are wondering, no. We aren't going to be sent as reinforcements instead. That is not what our main mission of the chapter will be about. Duke Warrenheit's being left for dead alongside his soldiers and the entire front line, and there's nothing we can do to prevent it. Wonderful. Yes, Your Grace. I shall take my leave. He will be waiting for you in his office at the temple. The Archbishop? Very well. I shall pay him a visit. Cozy little place he's got. Quite humble, for the leader of the church. The music sounds very appropriate for this kind of meeting. If it is Your Excellency's command, then I shall of course obey. I am at your service. Oh, God... Reese, can you please stop being like that every time you meet someone important? Like, c'mon. I know he's important, but look at his office! It looks like my living room! And he looks like his clothes are less expensive than yours! No, no, I am in no position to give orders to you, Lord Reese. What I'm asking for is a favor. In fact, I'd even like it to be kept from His Majesty and his advisors. Much like Quescria, it appears Lebough would much rather work around Volcens than waste his time dealing with the circus. I'm guessing he picked Reese because he's already done something similar for Quescria. ...I understand. I will keep this strictly confidential. Good lad. Now then, what do you know of the Temple of the Apostle? I know it is a place for young clerics of the Church to receive training, but nothing beyond that... As you may know, our Apostle is rather different from the Pope of the Church of Raze. She does not hold absolute power, as the archbishops like myself serve alongside her to lead the Church. However, she does control the final vote, and rightfully so, as the Church truly does belong to her. Yes, I recall Apostle Silpha being called the incarnation of the Goddess herself when I was a young child. Ah, that is but a superstition. The Apostle is descended from the bloodline of Saint Aramgraz. In other words, her family is one of the few pure-blooded lineages dating back to the ancient Lazberian Empire. I... see... I'm afraid my studies have covered very little about the Church's history. Why, yes, this is gonna be an exposition dump. BWS isn't nearly as verbose as TRS, thankfully, but we still get the occasional infodump. It's all pretty important stuff, too. It's going to get a little long, so sit tight and play your favorite exposition music. Or, y'know, the game's choice. Over six hundred years ago, most of our ancestors were former slaves from the fallen Lazberian Empire. But soon after the Old Empire fell, the Raze Empire rose from its ashes. To escape the Razite invasion, Saint Aramgraz led the Exodus to the west. Many thousands of people journeyed alongside him into new lands, and they founded the city of Eltana. Oh, that name I have heard before. It's an old name for Valemtine, isn't that right? Indeed, you are correct. After St. Aramgraz's death, Eltana went on to become our kingdom. The teachings of St. Aramgraz were the foundation upon which the holy Church of Veria was built. His granddaughter, St. Valemtia, succeeded him and became known as the first Apostle of Veria. After her death, the city of Eltana was renamed Valemtine in her honor. I know that when my grandfather was a child, Apostle Lily Bronte was renowned for her power. She drove away the forces of Raze and established the Shining Knights to protect the people... Though my father said that throughout the Berwick League, the Apostle was both loved and feared immensely. I suppose it's only natural that such power would inspire that in people... The power of those with Lazberian blood has always been a source of fear and awe. It may very well always be so... Perhaps that is just their lot in life as a people. Regardless, the Apostles' power is a consequence of their bloodline. However, the current Apostle is but a simple, vulnerable girl. Write this incident down somewhere. It's going to be important much later on. Actually, scratch that. Don't write anything down. I'll remind you when the time comes. So the world believes, at least. We have done our best to keep the fact of her survival a secret. But she yet lives, hidden in plain sight among the clerics at the Temple of the Apostle. The Temple itself can be found in Demias Forest, also called the Forest of the Spirits by locals. ...... Her name is Sanacia Phira Bronte. I have taken care of her as best as I could since the death of her mother, the previous Apostle. That's how this entire war with the Raze Empire began... The assassination of Apostle Silpha. Yes, that terrible tragedy of fourteen years ago... Only her newborn child, Sanacia, survived. Over these past years, I have done everything in my power as Archbishop to keep her safe. As the only surviving member of the line of the Apostle, she is the Church's last hope. As such, we have kept her existence hidden from the world at large, lest she be targeted again. I see... Not only that, but Demias Forest has become overrun with a great number of despicable bandits. I promise, this is the last main mission involving bandits. Not that the bandits keep this one from being an extremely interesting mission. You'll see. At the moment, she remains safely in the hands of her personal knight, but the situation is... undesirable. I wish to bring her to the temple here in Navaron, where it will be safer. That seems like a wise decision. I take it that you wish for me to escort the Apostle here, then? Hah! A fair guess, but as convenient as you are for the church, you aren't quite so important as to get that task assigned to you. Instead... For safety purposes, the Apostle only corresponds with certain trusted priests serving under me. Therefore, I will be dispatching three of them to deliver the message. What I am asking you to do, Lord Reese, is escort these three priests to the Temple in Demias Forest. ...we get to escort green units through a bandit map. That could potentially be a pain, but as long as these three dudes are trustworthy and competent... Three messengers? Why not simply send one? They are all high-ranking priests, and they are eager to show each other up at every opportunity. But that means that they'll compete against each other, so they'll see their mission through no matter what. I suppose that's one form of teamwork... One damn stupid form of teamwork. Not gonna lie, Lebough, I don't believe this plan is good. In fact, I think it's outright terrible. Why needlessly complicate everything like this? Surely if they loved each other as brothers they would still see the mission through? In fact, if they truly are so competitive, they might go out of their way to screw with one another - which might compromise the whole mission! Very well, I accept. The Sinon Knights will take care of this request. Thank you, Lord Reese. Just know that these three men are very old and set in their ways. I must apologize in advance for the awful headache they will inevitably cause you. How is this even remotely acceptable?! We aren't escorting them to the grocery store, this is a mission of extreme importance! If something goes wrong, the church and your dear Apostle die with the three of 'em! Lebough, please...! I had you figured for a more reasonable person! I understand. Leave it to me, Your Excellency. Sigh... It does make for a really fun map, don't get me wrong, but... as far as this game's story goes, this is a rather weak moment. Like, there's no reason why Lebough couldn't have sent more reliable people. Unless those three are literally the only people he has serving under him. Which is sad for entirely different reasons. Well, at any rate, we're back. A letter and a package have arrived for you, Lord Reese. I have left them on the desk in your room for you. Uhhh! Lemme see. Special letter number 1! Let's see what this is all about... Letter-reading music. But please, don't worry for my sake. I just want you to know that you are loved, and that your home is eagerly awaiting your return. As such, I write this letter with a smile on my face as I pray for your safety. Sinon has not changed much during your absence. It remains peaceful and calm, and the seasons pass by in the usual fashion. Father has joined with Duke Bernard on the front lines in Serenia, but he writes home often, which helps to ease the pain of his absence. Oh yeah, Reese's dad is alive. I'm reminding you because it's easy to assume he's dead, given Kaga's habits regarding dads. That reminds me, Father has set aside twenty thousand denarii TWENTY THOUSAND DENARII!?!!?!?! for you. I will include it with this letter when I send it to you. He hopes that it will be of use to you as you fight to prove our loyalty to His Majesty. I wish you success in all of your endeavors in the campaign. May Mother Veria bless you in all that you do, that you may come home to me safely. With all of my love, Lynette. ...TWENTY THOUSAND DENARII!!! BERNSTOL, YOU'RE MY NEW FAVORITE CHARACTER IN THE GAME! YES, TWENTY THOUSAND!!! I could buy furniture with that kinda money...! Bernstol is a god. I mean, hell, no wonder - he's the one who assigned the Endgame Beard to us! A man with such a subordinate couldn't possibly be any less than a badass! A generous badass. This is the real reason I didn't fret over who to hire last chapter. Because I can hire 'em all now, no problem. Let's do that. I recorded this at the end of the update (hence why there are no events), but I wanna take a break from all the text, so let's do this now. In the tavern, we can find a new playable unit: it's everyone's second-favorite character in the game, Clifford! ...So here I am. I'll fight for you, if you pay me. My fee's 2800D, TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT HUNDRED DENARII!!??!?! if you care... I'll do what I can to help out. Jesus Christ on a bike, that's over a tenth of Bernstol's gift! What sort of unit could a no-good drunk even be, anyway!? ...oh. That sort. So yeah. Here's Clifford. Also known as the best unit in the game. Let's take this in slowly, shall we? For starters, he matches or even surpasses Ward in every single stat. ...what? Need more than that? Sure, he's got plenty more to offer! Unlike Ward, Clifford can be deployed in secondary missions as well as main ones. We basically get better Ward in all the missions. And then there's his skillset: - Shieldfaire increases Clifford's chance to use his shield. This is excellent in pretty much any situation. - We already know Provoke, but in the hands of someone like Clifford, it's basically 100% safe to use. Heck, we'll probably have to look out for the enemy's safety! - The Lance skill is kinda like Adel's Pitchfork, in that it allows Clifford to use a rare weapon type: lances. Keep in mind, what we usually refer to as "lances" in FE is called "spears" here. Lances are a special type of spear. Think jousting lances. You cannot counterattack with one equipped, and it is impossible to retaliate against them as well. You also cannot use them if you aren't on horseback. This makes them useless to defend. So what's so good about them? Well, you know the charge bonus that most spears have? +1 might per tile traversed? Standard lances have +3. The best one has +5. Mounted Clifford has a maximum movement of 7 hexes. In other words, if Clifford equips a standard lance and uses all of his movement, he'll get a charge bonus of 21. This, on top of his strength and the lance's base might. To give you an idea of how absurdly powerful this is, that amounts to roughly the same power as Pulverize!Axel. Let me say that again: He can reach the same amount of attack power as if he had Pulverize, but without the defense cost and the inability to move. And lances are rather accurate, to boot! We don't have lances yet. But we will, and it'll be so much fun when we do. By the way, you know who else can use lances? Adel and Leon, after they promote. You have to bend over backwards to grind their WpSkills, only for them to become worse Cliffords. Amazing. In summary, Clifford is a unit that is even stronger than the Endgame Beard, can be deployed in any mission, and if normal weapons don't suffice, he has an exclusive weapon type that destroys everything. All of this, from chapter 3 onwards. His downsides? His fee's egregiously high, and in theory, he's probably the most difficult unit in the game to permanently recruit. Whereas most units just need to have high happiness, maybe watch an event or two, Clifford requires that you both recruit AND promote Ruby. Y'know, the unit that's notorious for being awful? ...Of course, since I am already using Ruby because Saint Rubenio, and she's doing excellently, I might just be able to recruit this guy reasonably soon. And then he'll have literally no downsides. Normally this is the kind of unit I'd toss outta the window without thinking twice, but... goddamnit, I love lances so much...! Think of him as the Sierra of this LP. Hilariously broken, for sure, but fuck I cannot resist. I'm gonna use him. Sparingly, but I will use him. Also, there are a couple... uh, let's say "situations" in this mission where I'll need him. Axel, Kramer, Sylvis and Faye, you're up as well. I'll recruit Ruby and Arthur for the secondaries. That was nice, but break time's over. Let's go back to the past, and suddenly, events aplenty! Let'sa go. So depressing... Yeah... Just a little while ago, she was around the Demias neighborhood, and she ran into them... She got away from them eventually, but ever since she got back, she's shut herself up in her room... No doubt it was a dreadful experience for her... I don't want to imagine it, but... Maybe something happened that she can't talk to her father about... I-If something like that ever happened to my little girl, I... I... ...why don't I like where this is headed? Calm yourself, Bluck. There is no need to panic over what may or may not have happened. Maybe she would feel more secure talking to another woman about... what might have happened... Of course. I just finished speaking with your father... I couldn't... I couldn't stop them... You poor thing... It must have been awful... They took it from me... And I'll never get it back... Kaga, I swear to God. Kaga, I swear to God! My mirror... Shh, hush now... It's all going to be-- The music changes to this here. Yes... Cecily and I bought a matching pair of them. I dropped it when I was running away from those bandits... They were meant to be symbols of our eternal friendship, but now... It's gone forever... What will I do...? If Cecily found out that I lost it... I don't want her to hate me... Teresa... The bandits didn't actually manage to catch you? Huh? No, they never caught me. ...all right, Kaga. You cheeky bastard. At least you didn't go through with it, this time... This actually ties in with another one of the chapter's requests. More on that in a minute. What a relief! Thank the Goddess it wasn't anything serious... Wait, what did you think had happened to me...? Let's not answer that question. ...... ...we thought you'd been r And what do you mean, it wasn't serious?! My friendship with Cecily is at stake! Bwahahahahahahah... hoo, boy. She's lucky to be so innocent... I would've gone back looking for it, but it tumbled over the bluffs and into Demias Lake below... It probably got swept away, and I don't know how to swim... *sniff* Teresa, please don't cry... Here, I know what I can do. I will ask Lord Reese if one of his soldiers can search around the lake. You will?! You really mean it? Oh, thank you, Lady Tianna! Sure do! Once more, Axel's abilities prove invaluable. Not sure how he's going to find a mirror in a lake, but... I'm gonna skip over the atelier for now because that isn't exactly a conventional request. Let's instead find out about this "local hunter". In today's edition of "Ruben cannot accept that Spain isn't the center of the world", we have Snows, the craftsman. I'm nitpicking for the sake of it, Nieves is a valid surname. Can't you ask the client to wait for just one extra day? I would, but the client is the duke! I wouldn't dare ask that of a man like him... Roswick is, like, the sweetest grandpa. I doubt he would make much of a fuss over the delay. Sir Ward! Mind lending an ear to my friend about this situation? As it turns out, Ward was hanging out just within earshot. Thank goodness, otherwise we would've missed this chance to be the town's errand boys. Is he having some sort of problem? Sounds like it. I'll let him explain. Sir... My name's Nieves. I'm a fur craftsman. A fur craftsman? Yes, sir. I largely do work for the palace. They hire me to make fur coats, fur trim on dresses, stylish rugs... that sort of thing. Those rich folks at the palace, their favorite is antelope fur. Even His Majesty loves it. That is unsurprising. From what I hear, antelope fur is durable and has a brilliant sheen. You're quite right. However, antelopes are very skittish, and devilishly hard to hunt. I only get the chance to work with antelope fur maybe once or twice a year. I see! Yet another reason why their fur must be quite valuable. The problem is, I just received a rush order from Duke Roswick, and it has to be done with antelope fur... That sounds like short notice for those kinds of materials. You're telling me. I'm in trouble. I called in a favor from a friend of mine, a master hunter. Oh? He promised he'd be able to get me an antelope skin within the month. The problem is, because it's such short notice, he had to go hunting in a pretty dangerous area... Has he found an antelope yet? I have no clue. I haven't heard from him ever since he left for Demias Forest. Demias... and a "local hunter" helped Teresa escape from bandits... I pray he got away too, lest we just find a corpse for Nieves... Demias Forest, you say? That is a dangerous area, I hear... Oh, you know the area? I know it to be poorly defended, and that bandits and thieves are rampant. What!? I cannot make promises, however. I will be going there on a mission. Ergh... Ward, begging your pardon... weren't we supposed to be keeping this confidential? If I can, I will find this hunter Rodin and ask him how the hunt fares. Thank you! And if he has found one, if there is any way you could bring it to me... Certainly, if I can. Rodin is a master hunter, so he'll likely be hiding in the forest on the lookout for game. He may be hard to spot unless you get very close to his position. In other words, he has the Hide skill. Check. Thanks again, and best of luck! Arina, if you don't recall, is the waitress at the Kingfisher Pavilion. That's a cute backdrop. Well, aren't you just the spitting image of a certain somebody. This isn't what Mother would want you to do! If you become a murderer, the Goddess may never forgive you for it! The Goddess?! What has the goddess ever done for us, huh?! If I don't start making money soon, the flies in our latrine are going to start going hungry! When father comes home from his work overseas, I'm sure he'll... Don't kid yourself, Arina! How many years has it been since he went abroad? That bastard's never coming home! The similarities just keep piling up. Was Holmes not enough, Kaga? Did you really need another one? ...Then again, this may make way to a scene where Ward punches the living daylights out of him. Now that would be a sequel I'd pay to see. Esteban...! Oh-- pfffffft... okay, he has the funniest run cycle. It works better when he's holding a bow, lemme tell you that much. As is, it looks like he's crying while running. So depressing 2: electric boogaloo You all right, Arina? Sorry about that, Christine. I'll whip you up something else. Sure, no rush. Arina, is your hand okay? I hope you didn't get burned... Yes, I'm fine. Sorry for disturbing you... Ow! That's a burn, all right... Arina, I'll take care of the spill. You go soak your hand in the well out back, got it? Yes, ma'am... Is something troubling her? It's all her blockhead brother's fault... Arina has a brother? I've never understood why some siblings always fight so much... I hope they make up soon. Little fights break out pretty often among her and her brothers. They're seven kids in all. Seven? That's a large family... They used to be a farming family out in one of the nearby villages. When the war broke out and bandits started moving in, they had to move here to the city. City life may be safer than living out in the country, but it can still be a rough life. How do you mean? Finding a job here ain't easy. Her father went off to find work abroad, but he never came back. Now it's fallen on her oldest kid, Esteban, to support the household. How unfortunate... But sadly common these days... You said it... Arina's a good girl, though. I've got no complaints about the work she puts in here. But that idiot Esteban... Somehow he got it in his head that it'd be better if he left town to find work, too... Oh dear... It's no wonder that Arina looked so out-of-sorts, then. That poor fool Esteban's got to be stopped before he gets himself hurt. Got any ideas how we could help her out, Christine? Miss Christine, please forget about what you just heard... I can handle things myself. I'm going to make sure that everything is taken care of... ...... ...Arina, how exactly are you going to take care of everything without another source of income? ...oh, no... no no no no, stop! Kaga...! You can't mean... Never! I won't let you! Heck yeah! Fuck that! I-I-I mean... d-don't fuck that! I, uh... oh, for Christ's sake, we cannot fail this sidequest... ...... Arina, leave your brother to me. I'll find him and bring him back. So until then, don't do anything hasty, all right? That's right, Arina! Don't even think about it! I'm not letting anything like that happen to you, no way, no how! You can pull through this, I know it! Let Miss Christine help you! We won't let things get any worse! ...... All right... Please, Christine... Please save my brother... Goodness gracious, that escalated fast! Find a mirror to save the little girl's friendship, find a hunter to save the bald man's business, find a brigand to save his sister from selling her body to strangers for money. Erzheimer, hm? I can only hope he's less awful than Lentzenheimer. Not that that's such a difficult thing to accomplish. He only needs to be decent for five minutes and he's beaten his predecessor. ...... Erzheimer keeps looking around frantically. Seems like he's quite the neurotic individual. Also, you can tell he's from BWS because his head and hair are the shape of a hexagon. I know, it's a stretch, but seriously, he looks blocky. Also, he has two mouths. Could it be that you... Just maybe... ...? Ah, do pardon me. I am called Erzheimer. Pleased to meet you! Bwahahahahahahah! Ahahahahahahahahah! That's excellent. Absolutely excellent. No, no, I do not sell... I collect! Hence the event's title. Finding the most exquisite items from across the world is my greatest joy! Ah, I see... A collector... Quite so! And do not be fooled, for my passion for valuable items is no mere hobby! What, you might ask, is it exactly that I have in my collection? Allow me to enlighten you! Hahahahahahahah! That's not even the same people in the background! How long have they been standing there!? ...and in so doing, I earned the trust of the chieftain and his tribe. Thus, I was allowed to keep one of the indigenous salamanders' skins... (Just how long does this man intend to keep talking...?) ...but I had difficulty, for you see, the weather in al-Dimasqi is... (...I cannot endure this any longer!) Mr. Erzheimer, I do not have the free time to chat at the moment. Please excuse me. Just a moment of your time, please! I will get right to the point. But... Come, come, let us discuss this further at my home. Pfff... you're full of shit, Erzie! How's "getting right to the point" involve going all the way to your house? Sir, I really must insist that I... It is not far from here, not at all! Come, yes, come! Quickly, now! ...... Well, there they are. Erzheimer's home. For all his strength and beard, Ward's a big softie deep down. There's no way Eugen would've let himself be dragged here. Indeed! Indeed it is! Take a look at this, for instance... This ceramic pitcher is an artifact of the ancient Paltzian civilization! ...Is it now? Just look at the craftsmanship! The perfect sheen of the glaze... The smooth, erotic curves...! In today's Berwick Saga LP update, man gets turned on by vase. Right... Oh God... Ward's going to get back home the next day at this rate! And look at this ancient sword! I won it from a Silk Road trader when traveling in the Far East. When I grasp it and close my eyes... Yes, it's as if I was truly there! Mr. Erzheimer... ...... Mr. Erzheimer! ...Hm? What is it? I believe you said you were going to get right to the point? Ah, yes, how scatterbrained of me... This guy, man. He came out of nowhere, but I'm so glad it did. As you can plainly see, my collection is vast and exquisite, but it is not even close to complete. I must have more, see more... My collection must be as vast as the heavens themselves, you see? I can tell that you are quite the enthusiastic collector... Yes, and one topic of peculiar interest to me in these recent months has been... the Church of Raze. That shouldn't be so difficult, should it? Just go to the nearest garbage bin, pick up the bag, and there you go. Church of Raze. What I seek after right now is one of their coveted orbs of unholy magic... They call it "Darkmend." How very... unusual... It is precisely because it is unusual that I must have it! The forbidden... The taboo...! The ordinary people of this world could never comprehend the passion that compels me so! ...... A-Ahem. This whole scene, man. Sir Ward... If, perchance, you come by one of the Razite cultists' Darkmend orbs, would you consider letting me have it? And naturally, I would not ask you to do this without sufficient incentive! Let us say... 2200 denarii in exchange for a Darkmend orb? 2200 denarii?! Ward joins me in the fun of screaming numbers. Allow me: 2200 DENARII!?!!? Would that be insufficient...? N-No... One can only wonder... the man doesn't seem to work or own a business or anything, so his riches must've come from an inheritance. (Such a sum of money would certainly be useful for our war funds...) ...I accept. You have a deal, Mr. Erzheimer. Wonderful! Thank you for your time, Sir Ward. See, Ward? And you were trying to get away. Now we've got a chance to make moneys! That scene unlocks the "collector's house" location. This is from later, that's why there are no more events. I'm sorry to keep confusing you so. I love that Ward's the one who goes there. Reese probably doesn't even know this dude exists. Anyway, for the time being, all he does is remind Ward that he really, really, really wants a Darkmend orb. Right now there's nothing more to do here, however... Some of you may've noticed this girl just standing to the side throughout the entire scene at Erzheimer's home. Allow me to introduce her properly to you. With that out of the way... we have three more events. The reason these are separated from the others is that these aren't citizen requests to fulfill during the chapter, but rather character events, kinda like Arthur and Ruby's from the first chapter. Starting with this one. Ah, you saw Lord Reese's letter, did you? I only happened to see her name on the envelope... Is she a family member of his? That is... a difficult question. Should I not have asked? No, no, it's just a delicate matter. Not even Lord Reese knows the whole truth of it. Surely you should not be keeping secrets from your own liege? The truth can be painful, milady, especially when it comes to those close to you. Margrave Bernstol ordered me to keep the full truth of the matter hidden from everyone until the right time. Is it truly such a terrible secret that even Lord Reese must be kept in the dark? Regardless, Lady Lynette is... Not another word, General Ward! I do not want to hear of this! Please, milady, hear me out. I need someone I can talk to regarding this matter. Besides, I've said too much now, so you are already my accomplice in this betrayal of Lord Reese. Why, you...! And if I let slip this dark secret to Lord Reese? What then? As I would not have personally told Lord Reese anything, my promise to Margrave Bernstol would be kept. ...And either way, I would still be your accomplice, is that it? Pffffhwahahahahahahahah! Oh, man. The beard learned from being bamboozled by Czene the other day, didn't he? Hold on... hmm... ...? ...... ...that's it, old-timer! Am I proud of ya! What in the-- Czene! Get out from under there! Jeez, cheer up! I just complimented you! Leave this office at once! Go on, chop-chop! You're no fun at all... ...... Very well, I will listen... But I do not like this! I understand... The truth is, Lady Lynette is the rightful Duchess of Serenia. The Duchess?! Yes, and it is that particular fact that Lord Reese does not know. Lord Reese believes she is a common girl orphaned by the war. Why would Margrave Bernstol keep such a secret from his son? Allow me to explain. Two years ago, Serenia's Duke Louvet was betrayed and murdered. That's a name that'll be relevant much, much later. Don't bother trying to remember it. He ordered the duke's entire family to be executed, but thankfully, Lady Lynette was rescued by her servants. He had her entire family killed...? In order to eliminate any threats to his stolen authority, he wanted to eradicate all legitimate heirs. If he ever learned where Lady Lynette had escaped to, he would certainly send assassins after her. Even so, is it truly necessary to keep this secret from Lord Reese? It's more complicated than that, I fear. After Lady Lynette was rescued, she was brought to Margrave Bernstol. She was in the depths of despair, and he took pity on her, choosing to adopt her as his own daughter. However, as an heiress to one of the ducal houses, Lady Lynette holds a rank even higher than Lord Reese. ...But he was worried that if his son knew of her true parentage, he would have difficulty accepting her as family. Seeing how he reacted to meeting the queen and the archbishop, that's probably true. Guy's stiff as a pole. No, I don't mean in that way. However, as fate would have it, this created yet another problem. ...okay, scratch that - maybe, just maybe, it's in that way too... Perhaps Lord Reese believes it to be mere filial affection, but Lady Lynette is quite enamored with him. Ah, yes. Japan's favorite trope: incest-except-not-because-they're-technically-not-brother-and-sister! We sidestepped it in the last LP by having Shigen hook up with Sierra and Julia with Garo. This time, though? We cannot avoid it. That is complicated... I believe Lord Reese was a valuable emotional crutch for her in the trying time after losing her family. Regardless, they have become quite close, even though Lord Reese does not know the truth... ...... ...I understand. I will help you keep this secret for the time being. However, I want you to do your best to help Lord Reese in this campaign, for Lady Lynette's sake. Gee, as opposed to, y'know, for his own sake? If he dies, he dies, but if Lady Lynette cries it's unacceptable? Besides, you're asking nothing of Ward. He is the Endgame Beard. None could possibly get through him. Of course. I cannot fathom the sorrow she would endure if Lord Reese did not return... Only two more to go. The end is close, so please bear with me. The guy in the white jacket picks up a book and leafs through its pages. This is Almuth, one of my favorite characters in the game. Research, you say? Are you a student at the university here in Navaron? No, I'm from... a small country to the far east. I heard Navaron had an extensive library, so I traveled here. Interesting... How dedicated of you! What topic are you researching, that you'd come all the way here? It's history! I'm told that it's odd, but I find the ancient world much more interesting than the modern day. Hah! What a dork. That is a rather odd thing to say. Do you find the modern world dull? Not dull, exactly, but it's nothing without the history that led to it. Just consider this: The Berwick League has been in on-and-off wars with the Empire for almost five hundred years. This fight has gone on so long, it's just accepted as a fact of life! But why is it even happening? Warped fantasies? You think the Kingdom of Veria is lying to its people? Not lying per se, but repeating tales they don't realize aren't true. Tell me, what do you think of the Raze Empire, as a Verian citizen? We try not to think about it. Those who have been there say it's an awful place with no justice. But if we don't defend ourselves against the Empire, they'll surely kill us all. They fight to protect their families from certain death at the hands of your merciless soldiers. But that's absurd! Didn't seem so "absurd" to Hamilton and his men... all of whom died at the hands of our merciless soldiers, I might add. I agree. It is absurd. But the Berwick League is no better than the Empire in this regard. It would be easy to stop the war. But both sides are so misguided and afraid that they can't even see it. And that's because neither of them understands the full truth of how this conflict even got started. Maybe then, when I've uncovered that ancient history, I'll be able to help the modern world in some way. What a dork. I don't even mean it in a demeaning way. What a goddamned awesome dork. Godspeed, you magnificent, dorky man. How inspiring! May I ask your name, sir? My name is... Almuth. Almuth... I'm glad I was able to meet you and learn a bit about your research. I hope I can learn more from you in the future, Mr. Almuth. Oh no, Almuth is just fine. Pfff, he doesn't like being called "mister". Hahahahaha... this guy's adorable. Or should I say adorkable...? Nah, I shouldn't say that. I am a decent human being. Look, Kaga did Byleth first! And his suit doesn't make me want to pluck my eyes out! I know we can only see his collar, but what a collar it is. And you are, Madam? Ah, forgive me. My name is Tianna. I serve as secretary to Lord Reese of Sinon. In that case, well met, Lady Tianna. Indeed! The same to you, Almuth. Watching this scene makes Almuth appear in the temple's library. This location could be accessed since the beginning, but it was completely empty. Not that Almuth does much of anything right now. We'll return to visit him in the future. The last event of the day is, much like Arthur and Ruby's from the last chapter, centered around one of our units. My favorite one, in fact. It starts simple enough. Until it stops being simple. A-Ah... I'm sorry... I mistook you for somebody else... You smell like the open plains, just like he does... Er... Ah, Lord Reese! How good to see you. Want to have dinner with us? It's my special stew! Sister Maria! You should show Lord Reese respect when you address him! Y-Yes, ma'am! Forgive my rudeness, Lord Reese! Poor Maria. And here she was just trying to find Reese's heart underneath all his proper decorum. ...Ahahahahahahahahahah! Oh, wow! She actually found it! Turns out, the sin of Gluttony was Reese all along. Who would've known? O-Oh, I see... By the way, who is that little girl? She seems to have mistaken me for someone else... Oh, that's little Miss Ciel. As you may have already gathered, she is blind. I thought so... It's so sad, the poor girl... Children her age should be able to run about freely, without care... Two years ago, a local fisherman found her washed up on the shores of the bay. He brought her here and we nursed her back to health as best we could... But her sight never did return. For many weeks after she recovered, she wouldn't speak a word to us. But eventually, she opened up to us. She told us her name and that the ship she was on had been attacked. This "Papa" whom she mentioned before... Is he not her real father? No, she has no living family. That man, Mr. Axel, was found in the same way that she was. We were simply on a walk by the wharf, and we were shocked to find an unconscious man on the beach. But even more shocking was how devotedly Ciel looked after him. She was desperate to ensure that he made a full recovery. Curious, is it not? A blind girl, nursing an unconscious man back to health... What's this? You're just setting the table now? Ciel, I told you to eat dinner by yourself because I'd be late today... I know... I see, you wanted to eat dinner with your Papa, didn't you, Ciel? ...... Ciel, you've got to eat if you want to grow up big and strong. No more skipping meals. Got it? Yes, Papa... He comes to see her nearly every day of the week. They're like a real family... (They're quite the unusual pair. I wonder... Does he work as a mercenary to afford treatment for her eyes?) Few times do I find such a clear-cut favorite as in Axel's case. Considering how many characters I absolutely love in this game, that's saying quite something. Probably helps that I lost him in my first run, so I was doubly invested in his arc the second time around. I hope I get to show it in this LP. ...I swear, I don't care what I have to do. I will keep Axel safe, and I'll see him through his arc. If I lose him, it might very well be the most heartbreaking loss in all of my Ironmanning career for me... It already was, once! Anyhow, here we can see Horselover in action. Notice the health gain? It's not much, but it's the best we'll get, so I'll take it for what it's worth. Prepping time! Ward gets a plain horse. It's a bit better than the thin one. Ward would lose that one in no time. As you can see, the stores' selection has much improved, as always. I get an iron spear for Leon, but there's no need to do much shopping today, since I got all that Imperial gear last time. Imperial gear tends to be more powerful, but less accurate than Verian gear. Arthur gets the medium shield. Ruby gets the Imperial spear. Halfmann gets the old one, the near-broken spear Elbert had, and a dagger. I hope he enjoys them, I truly do. Axel tosses his bad axe (because I can't give it to Halfmann due to it being blue), grabs a francisca and a new iron axe from the store, and hands over the muscle brace to Faye, who needs the strength more. He's been carrying that thing around since chapter 2's main mission. Didn't even equip it. Aren't I just a genius? Imperial bow goes to Sherlock, and the crossbow to Christine. As well, Sherlock gets a pack of bronze arrowsplus (+ arrows have increased accuracy), while Christine... probably will hand over one of her iron arrow packs to him, too. He needs all the help he can get. You can have the Imperial shield. Adel can Vantage to protect himself, but you can't. Lastly, I bought a vulnerary for everyone. While I did that, I noticed this has appeared at Lendel's shop. This item saved my ass once in my first run. Perhaps it'll do it again. I won't buy it just yet, but perhaps I shall in the future. I forgot to show this for the previous two missions, but, as you can see, main missions have descriptions as well. It's all over! Quite the long text update this time, but I'd like to think it's been enjoyable. Mostly 'cause I love this game's text. Anyway, next time, we have to escort green units. They will obey our commands and behave in a way that does not severely inconvenience us. Absolutely nothing will go wrong. Believe it! Till then, as always, you know where to find me for the next update. Fare thee well, readers! 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The Roger The Paladin Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 14 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Fomortiis. Fomortiis is the plain worst final boss in the series. There. Given I've had him one rounded by Garcia of all people (this required a crit of course), it's not that hard to see. That and the fact Lyon (possessed or not) stole the show out from under him. Question is whether or not that counts given it was technically him in control half the time. 16 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: The only question that remains now is, who would win in an arm wrestling competition: your Raphael or my Hicks? Depends how long it goes. With that defense stat, Raphael isn't going to be worn down anytime soon. But if it were won in a burst, I could see him losing due to the fact his strength stat wasn't half as impressive (don't get me wrong, it was still high, it's just while his defense would have let him survive while the elites were boosting Nemesis... he'd have been in a stalemate, unable to do damage to breach the defense boost the villain had from his minions). 22 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Gilbert kicking Edelgard's ass sounds even more fun than Raphael kicking Nemesis's ass, I must say. She went so far to win, and then the old man with crippling emotional issues that everyone despises (because you're only allowed to be depressed if you're a cute anime waifu) runs up and casually demolishes her. Dimitri's lance was a mercy after such humiliation. To be honest, I think I had more fun ruining the Death Knight's box trap with Gilbert being the only one in his range when the mage died. Mostly because he deserved the ultimate "F you" for that. Edelgard's stats post transformation, at least offensively... are surprisingly lacklustre. Guess it's to make up for the range. 25 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: How could anyone possibly come to the conclusion that that would be by any stretch of the imagination a good ending to both their characters? Or... you know, either of them. I mean, Annette literally is relieved that Gilbert survived the Gronder field battle in Verdant Wind, mourns him in Silver Snow, and doesn't want to fight him in Crimson Flower going off the base conversations. Even if Gilbert was just glad his daughter was fine (which wouldn't be a stretch), Annette sure as hell would have PTSD. 29 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: What makes them special that Gilbert doesn't have? The boobs? 'Cause I'm thinking it's the boobs! I thought Bernadetta was pretty flat-chested. Not that it matters... I'm the type who tries to keep everyone alive. Even the ones I openly dislike (looking at Peri in Fates). 31 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Scheibe, I have been found out! Achtung, Hans! We have to abort, ze dummkopfs have uncovered ze plot! ...I don't know much more german than that, so the joke will have to end there, I'm afraid. Well.. it had to end somewhere. Kind of reminds me of all the trouble my grandmother had because of her uncle being named Adolf. Which I guess is better than Padolf, because at least it was obvious it wasn't the infamous one. 35 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Huh... He kinda does, actually. Maybe that's his brother. Valery was originally a Razite, but he sold out his batallion in exchange for being pardoned and becoming a Verian citizen. That's why they're stranded in the middle of Narvia. Valery went on to become the head of the local mafia. Sounds like the kind of bastard-thing he'd do. It'd also mean that Volcens was neglecting dealing with said batallion all that time. Which sounds like the Volcens-thing he'd do. 36 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bwahahahahahahahah... that's pretty good, Bottleman! Really my entire career with Ganondorf is basically "get too close to the edge and you die in a painfully stupid way". Spoiler 47 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: You always explain everything. You're like Bishop Law and Order, giving exposition about everything. Don't worry, though. I like your style. But, excuse me. I have to man the boat. There's some irony to the fact one of my previous songs was "I am the Law" (which parodied the song of the same name). Does feel good to be vindicated given the last time it was pointed out that I explain everything it was assumed I was being condescendiing to the person in question's intelligence because she was a woman.... as opposed to the fact I do long-winded spiels at the best of times. 57 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait... 2000 DENARII FOR A BAG!?!?!?!? Of all things!? And that's the selling price - these things go for FOUR GRAND when you buy 'em! Jesus! Bagman must be proud of his legacy... he clearly struck gold, back in his day! Definitely fits with the theory that's how he was able to supply an infinite amount of money to bet on coin-flips. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, and if you are wondering, no. We aren't going to be sent as reinforcements instead. That is not what our main mission of the chapter will be about. Duke Warrenheit's being left for dead alongside his soldiers and the entire front line, and there's nothing we can do to prevent it. Wonderful. It's almost like Volcens is trying to lose the war. Or at least those two are trying to guide him to it. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes... Cecily and I bought a matching pair of them. I dropped it when I was running away from those bandits... They were meant to be symbols of our eternal friendship, but now... It's gone forever... What will I do...? If Cecily found out that I lost it... I don't want her to hate me... Teresa... The bandits didn't actually manage to catch you? Huh? No, they never caught me. ...all right, Kaga. You cheeky bastard. At least you didn't go through with it, this time... Well, mirrors are more wholesome than milk. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sure do! Once more, Axel's abilities prove invaluable. Not sure how he's going to find a mirror in a lake, but... Honestly, can't be that hard as long as it's intact... and it's not full of crocodiles, bullsharks or hippos. This isn't Africa is it? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My name's Nieves. I'm a fur craftsman. A fur craftsman? Well, it makes sense to work with fur when it Snows. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, sir. I largely do work for the palace. They hire me to make fur coats, fur trim on dresses, stylish rugs... that sort of thing. Those rich folks at the palace, their favorite is antelope fur. Even His Majesty loves it. That is unsurprising. From what I hear, antelope fur is durable and has a brilliant sheen. Volcens loving something that comes from killing an animal? How surprising. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Demias... and a "local hunter" helped Teresa escape from bandits... I pray he got away too, lest we just find a corpse for Nieves... Or that the bandits aren't very picky about their victims. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Don't kid yourself, Arina! How many years has it been since he went abroad? That bastard's never coming home! The similarities just keep piling up. Was Holmes not enough, Kaga? Did you really need another one? ...Then again, this may make way to a scene where Ward punches the living daylights out of him. Now that would be a sequel I'd pay to see. Perhaps it's a bloodline thing... 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Just look at the craftsmanship! The perfect sheen of the glaze... The smooth, erotic curves...! In today's Berwick Saga LP update, man gets turned on by vase. Surely that has to be a mistake. He's got to mean "exotic" doesn't he? Please tell me it's a mistake and we don't have the man who's fetish is pottery. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: As you can plainly see, my collection is vast and exquisite, but it is not even close to complete. I must have more, see more... My collection must be as vast as the heavens themselves, you see? I can tell that you are quite the enthusiastic collector... I may be something of a collector myself... but I'm not half-way to this man's level. I don't nearly have the insanity. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: One can only wonder... the man doesn't seem to work or own a business or anything, so his riches must've come from an inheritance. And so we have the key difference in collection methods. I search until I can find an item I have use for (usually comics or video games) for the lowest price I can get them for. He just throws out a random (high) amount of money and asks some guy to acquire it. For me the fun is the hunt as much as enjoying the spoils. For him... he gets a middleman to do it. I guess that's the difference between being a budget collector and an uber-rich collector who has no other concerns. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, yes. Japan's favorite trope: incest-except-not-because-they're-technically-not-brother-and-sister! We sidestepped it in the last LP by having Shigen hook up with Sierra and Julia with Garo. This time, though? We cannot avoid it. Hell, it happened in Ghost Rider too.. and that was American. Mind, Johnny Blaze was kind of only adopted by Crash Simpson after his parents died and he'd known Roxanne before that... but technically it fits. Sort of. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Didn't seem so "absurd" to Hamilton and his men... all of whom died at the hands of our merciless soldiers, I might add. Not to mention every time I look at Volcens. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Ahahahahahahahahahah! Oh, wow! She actually found it! Turns out, the sin of Gluttony was Reese all along. Who would've known? Of course. What a twist. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: For many weeks after she recovered, she wouldn't speak a word to us. But eventually, she opened up to us. She told us her name and that the ship she was on had been attacked. This "Papa" whom she mentioned before... Is he not her real father? No, she has no living family. That man, Mr. Axel, was found in the same way that she was. We were simply on a walk by the wharf, and we were shocked to find an unconscious man on the beach. But even more shocking was how devotedly Ciel looked after him. She was desperate to ensure that he made a full recovery. Curious, is it not? A blind girl, nursing an unconscious man back to health... Well... that adds new layers to Axel. All of them positive. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Few times do I find such a clear-cut favorite as in Axel's case. Considering how many characters I absolutely love in this game, that's saying quite something. Probably helps that I lost him in my first run, so I was doubly invested in his arc the second time around. I hope I get to show it in this LP. Clear-cut. Was that deliberate? 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Anyhow, here we can see Horselover in action. Notice the health gain? It's not much, but it's the best we'll get, so I'll take it for what it's worth. This reminds me of how Marianne's got the backwards version of this skill where she heals if she's next to a mounted unit. Blue hair too. Could this be Kaga's notes at work? Noting I think the original makes more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Spoiler Chapter 4's main mission? No, wherever did you get that idea? The place where you need to deploy her is the sidequest about the wild horses. You'll know the one when you see it. Other than that, she just needs to exist and be at the right level. Spoiler According to Emblemwiki's promotion requirements: And I didn't recall viewing Girl and Horse No. 2, but I most certainly got 1. Well, she's almost at level 5 for me, so I guess we'll see soon! At least is seems (for now) that I've been spared playing chapter 3 again! Thanks! 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: There is something more satisfying than that: ROLFstomping an easy side chapter with the knight. You know, that knight. Oof. I just used Mr. Bymranger, sword bloke with blue hair who Spoiler saves Faye's arse a million times and Faye, who was at 42 sword skill at level eight. She's been the MVP of my run. I shoulda hired that knight, but I needed to spend a few thousand of giving Adel the best food possible. No I'm not biased towards him what do you mean it's not like I try to give him every kill possible. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's history! I'm told that it's odd, but I find the ancient world much more interesting than the modern day. It's Canas but canon! 4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Few times do I find such a clear-cut favorite as in Axel's case. Considering how many characters I absolutely love in this game, that's saying quite something. Probably helps that I lost him in my first run, so I was doubly invested in his arc the second time around. I hope I get to show it in this LP. ...I swear, I don't care what I have to do. I will keep Axel safe, and I'll see him through his arc. If I lose him, it might very well be the most heartbreaking loss in all of my Ironmanning career for me... It already was, once! Axel's pretty great in every way; he's somehow better than Dean for me, and Dean's been amazing. And he's more interesting thus far. Axel for Prez 2020! He'll keep the FISHY business out of the government! I wonder how many characters are going to have french words for names? So far we've got two, I think. (Lumiere and Ciel, which is Light and Sky.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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