The Impossible Pixel Challenge (Read 1,523 times)

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haha post count is now multiples of 3

ok I shall respond to each post in chronological order and without using the name things for maximum inconvenience to everyone please understand small posting company

yeah you gonn have to grind supports and stock up on killers and shit because lol in this game
people don't buy killers because of their crit
people buy killers because they have better accuracy and weigh less than compared to most other weapons lmao

ch21 and 22 are some actually good shit so overleveling is gonna make those a curbstomp in probably not a good way
also sacae will become babby easy because nobody will be able to damage any of your generals or fae assuming they could in the first place and all the peggies will be promoted by then so they can just outrun unpromoted nomads and it aint pain no more
basically I aint tryin to stop you though is it really worth it? (don't do overleveling kids this is your brain on overleveling (cracks ostrich egg))

on hard mode roy would get even less EXP on account of his already being terrible on normal
even if you got roy to 20/20 (which would never, ever happen due to both how late his promotion is and how not worth wasting your time on he is) he looks like this


he's not a glass cannon he's just a fuckin snowglobe 
absolutely unusable
even with the binding blade and its 16 might he's only doing like 6 damage to any non-manakete enemy and you see a whopping what
like three manaketes from the time of his promotion to ch24 when everyone pulls out their legendary weapons except they melt when mages anyway (tfw sophia takes roy's single niche)
and as I found out after my playthrough you can just whip out the divine weapons anyway because you aint gonna use up all of them in ch24 not even close
maybe you can use him to pwn a couple horsies in the first few chapters but past that he's the meme unit to end all meme units

hey barf what's up
what ya got there
+1 hp level up? +1 hp level up, barf?

woah bath, a +1 in res???? that shit's "poppin", yo! that shit's "burstin"! that shit "clean"!

the ballistas are there initially but there's really no time for you to take out all three of them and shanna won't be able to ORKO probably anyway
also depending on whether the ballista is on a mountain (rider can't get off) or on literally anything else (rider can get off) she could just straight up be killed anyway if no delphi shield since you can't reliably kill them in one round
worked in genealogy because they can't ever get off but here it varies and is usually not worth it in place of just having someone take the hits until ammo is out
also in some chapters ballistas are quite literally unreachable without warp and the riders also have shit like a red gem or orion's bolt on em lol

treck is the worst in the game and noah is decently respectable but worse than the christmas cavvies that you get six chapters earlier
treck is kinda like cecilia with "ass stats and growths but great class which makes them still usable and decent enough"
so he's still a cavalier->paladin but he's the worst one 
if you use him sadly you can't see his gonzales support but you can see his juno support which is a fair trade off
everybody likes treck even though he sucks so if you got a place on your team for him (remember deployment limit typically averages around 15) I'd recommend just because treck

fir funny moments number wan
show up five chapters later than the best swordmaster in all of elibe
namber two
come with a rare sword that benefits said swordmaster immediately and not you for another 15 levels
namber three
accidentally get hit by two (2) pirates and die

ok gud you can see the wendy and oujay support in all its glory

I think turning it to hard mode after sacae literally only will affect ch21 and 23
because 21x is warpskip and in ch22 the difference between normal and hard mode zephiel is quite literally one hp I shit you not it's true
same with idunn I believe
since this game has rerolling three times on growths even niime gets +1 res usually so overleveling will probably result in bad times of monke dying in a single hit 
anyway though I don't actually know for sure now I go see whatever else goin on in this sureddo


epic website comes back from the dead

hello it is me spongellvatro
a man must play uhhhhhhhhhh
ok I do not know

my issue with the awakening sprites is I don't have a mega giga 3ds XXXXXL triple deluxe so I literally can't tell what anything is when zoomed out
ok wait I will go take a picture


ok I guess after like 110 hours of fates I can very vaguely make out what most of this shit is
so some sort of miracle magic is happening~
or perhaps it was due to this but for 10+ hours a day due to awakening chapters taking five goddamn hours a piece
I don't know what fidelity is but I know what a fish filet is
after looking up fidelity yeah each unit does have a unique sprite and it does look nice when I'm actually able to see it but I need that shit zoomed out so an enemy three spaces outside of my sight range doesn't cause me to lose for the eighth time
also I think 3d looks like ass a lot of the time and I really do not see why this series decided to go 3d at all

I don't know what batallions is is it like medallions
is that what they call those potato circle things
if not I don't know what medallions are either
anyway I use rescue and pairup in allllmost the same way
to put two units in one and to move shit all across the map
rescue lowers stats because it can get you out of shit situations and pair up raises stats to allow you to reach certain stat numbers but either way I can slap two units together and make them give who they're holding to another guy and another guy and another guy until I have successfully made deke emulate fe1 marth warping to the boss
none of the gba games appear to have particularly amazing stories though the only one I played I thought was actually anything more than "the thing that makes the game move forward" is genealogy which is the one game where you are directly punished by the story being good by having the maps be pain

honestly that one battle before dawn instance is the only time I have disliked a siege tome
usually it's either too weak to kill anyone but strong enough to give an "oh shit" OR it's strong enough to kill shit but on a nonmoving boss or something and I check all enemy inventories anyway so I aint gonna get surprised
when I got bolting in fe6 and actually got to use that shit that was amazing to get to do what the enemies do all the damn time and just explode some fucker from 20 miles away it was epic

honestly most GBA maps and 3ds maps took not too far from the same amount of time other than the exceptions like awakening's pain or GBA's bigass maps
in 3ds I always play with animations off because the animations are so long and the only good one I remember was shura's spinny shooting and usually those take me an hour a piece which lines up with GBA when animations go off
honestly not really sure why I mentioned length I think I meant the physical size of the maps or something I suppose but I only mentioned the time it usually took so eh I dunno
one difference was having to retry stages in GBA while fates never had me doing that shit probably because I was a normal mode scrub but then again fe7 was my first before I even knew what raising up units was and fe6 is fe6

GBA has patches that let you see the unit ranges in the same way as 3ds apparently
never tried it because never really cared to and it aint part of the official game but someone decided to do that so hey pretty (hourai) neeto

I just say sheeda because when I hear sheeda I think of the tiny little pegasus flappin there and it is very funny otherwise I wouldn't prefer one over the other
when it comes to other official names though you get shit like "draug" instead of doga and "wrys" instead of riff and there's that whole bord cord thing where I don't know which of saji and maji is which 
basically both not liking those names and literally not knowing who is supposed to be who anymore has sent me down this marf path

I have heard tellius done diddly them supports good so I have absolutely no idea why they proceeded to ungood their mechanic but eh whatever man
all I remember about laslow is he sounds english in fates and I literally don't even know where he is in awakening
though that is enough to make him cool he just don't stand out compared to chad odin dank, destroyer of worlds
basilio is cool but 

fuk

if map battles is the grinding then is that why everyone says "awakening is piss easy"
I did not do that until that one chapter that made me permanently prefer tilesets and I did it for three days and three nights until my "team" was untouchable
is male robin also able to do the chrobin
if so then aw shit

hard mode and up awakening has STRs and man they really took a 3x3 tic tac toe board and slapped three STR wyverns on that bitch

henry is certainly on crack I can assure you that much

I still hope for the day I can get paper in fates
I got ink painting which turned out to be actually cool and I also somehow came across four of the bone clubs and stuff like carp fisher and daikon radish and stale bread and whatnot
but one day I will finally see what it looks like to use paper
(I just went on and got another god damn ink painting so I have three now)

what is regalia
is it like oregano
oh it's a dlc that lets you infinitely farm holy weapons
what in the fuck
gen 1 in absolute shambles when sophia gets hold of five forsetis

man I see that merchant's stats
and I don't think even my 3 days grinded up guys can damage that
not 100% sure but I definitely know less than six of my units are able to do anything more than 0 damage to that
I uhhh
pls no

yeah I know I say that 
why they do that
but where does that choice come from don't you gotta play the first six chapters to know which is good and which is bad or was this in ads at the time or wat
I seriously do not know though really what did they want from us what did intelligent systems who created fire emblem fates: birthright and fire emblem fates: conquest want

:( have to read manga god dammit
I dunno what's in there but ehhhhh I'll do it later I'll do it some otha time (manga)

honestly that is one reason I liked genealogy because you can just go fucking crazy with the holy weapons and kill absolutely everyone and everything and break forseti 3 times over and it's actually the intended way of playing the game
in fe6 you get divine weapons with a whopping 20 uses a piece and you have to save all of them for the true ending
then you find out in ch24 you use them like
five times each at most if you're going slow
this is why next time I'm gonna durandal that ch16x guy so bad man he's gonna turn into chicken nuggets

imagine rescueskipping endgame when you can just hire midoriko for 0 dollars and 0 cents!!!!!! (cheating is fun for everyone)
singleplayer game nobody can stop me

lol I just blasted through like 5 chapters a day because conquest normal due in one week
go play tellius I literally can't play that or the third house we gotta have a tellius guy to do the tellius things (I literally don't know enough about it to say anything here I just know ike don't care and oliver is epic)

them asshole did 0 damage and poison can't kill so I literally just like
tried to power my way through and it worked with benny but not GATOR 
infinite reinforcements :( the death of so many awful strategies (see sacae for more)

lol it is weird honestly but you also get shit like uhhh
what was the guy's name
well whoever voiced kanji in p4 also voiced walter from smt4 and vincent from catherine and yusuke from p5 and jotaro in the english dub and probably at least like 5 other characters I know but forgot about
this case is just because cam clarke has that distinct liquid scream and lol after playing mgs1 you gotta know it because of how god damn much it happens
lolman I went to try and find it again
and in this other guy's video it actually is fuckin yosuke
yuri lowenthal the other guy in the snip he's yosuke and this scream is yosuke's scream
honestly I don't know which one would have ruined the already godawful story moment more but god that is good

seven percent crit means it's gonna happen
aint never gonn take no crit chances like that it's like taking an 85% hit you know it aint gonna go well that's the rule
don't you do it don't you not reset the chapter then go to the mess hall to get luck food and use luck tonics and hire a my castle sakura for rally luck 

I gotta take my eight unit loss tis destiny...
they are all dead
no I play on normal because I learned from awakening hard not to do that
honestly with how smoothly this went in general I should have played on hard but eh ch24 did enough for one run

haha I will reclass my swordmaster to grandmaster, master of grand

I was gonna try and rescueskip or something but niles was dead as hell so midoritime
they can break my team in two but they can't break my cheese spirit

probably normal birthrout and normal conquest are pretty similar in how not hard they are I wouldn't be surprised if on hard the differences show very distinctly

I did indeed get the shining bow in revelation
this is a message from lord nergal
I await you on the battle network
(seriously though I spent like 15 hours in rev trying to make the shitters not shit and I have almost achieved that so hopefully battles can happen even though I lose anyway)

very much fun with hana she did exactly what I wish of a shitter which is to be shit until you find out the way for the shitter to not be shit and lol is gud

instead of that I just go to someone else's castle and buy replicate for twenty bucks
and then pair up my units to do 1 damage against their lv999999 unequipped guys and in like half an hour everyone's married
by the way midori can reclass to mechanist because apothecary
I know this because I made my midori a mechanist as a joke
sorry pal but you got japed like
double
double japed

also I do not like how mechanist is just a vehicle (get it) for replicate they made this cool ass class and then it's the only 8-move to not give +1 move on pairup not to mention being thrown aside for any other actually good class because these games just let you gather up skills
make skill unique to each class dammit it aint like this hasn't been done before maybe probably I'm not actually sure huh

is the nohr thing done better than thracia when you scoop up all the manga and stuff in supports and whatnot 
(actually nobody here is able to answer that but eh I leave anyway no backspace button here)

I feel conquest ch19 and on is mostly ass because uhhh
well you know how there's gimmicks like fog of war, uhhhhhh
ok I was thinking of this some three days ago and had WAY better examples
so I guess I'll just use fog of war as a pathetic singular gimmick example
it's a pain in the ass but once you find out how it works it's really not too bad at all (in gba at least)
it works slightly differently in different games and every time you see it there's a new opportunity to learn new shit like how thieves in fe6 can actually see a whopping 10 spaces in every direction and another 4 with a torch or how in fe7 you can actually select a square to use the torch on 
but in conquest it kinda just throws gimmick after gimmick at you and you either barely scrape through or you play the map 5 times, learn the gimmick, and then never see it again outside of like
one bad rev map and the original conquest map
one is "gimmick that you can learn" while the other is "gimmick you must adapt to or tolerate" and generally I aint a fan of the latter but I do understand why someone would be
it's kinda like those games that feel like being thrown into the pool without knowing how to swim
there are some maps I feel just straight up aint good at it thought 
or rather, ONE map
and that's ch19
under no circumstances can I ever see ch19 as anything more than a horrific mess 
it almost reminds me of the damn arena because of how low everyone's hitrates are and how you face one opponent each turn due to the weird ass "nonmoving kitsune" gimmick

my issue with the supports isn't "god damn it there is so many I don't care about this shit" it's that there are too many and I DO actually care but then it makes it like trying to dig out of a concrete prison with your bare hands
so there's too much to actually get to see it all without 333333333 playthroughs or three days of watching utoob uploads 

aint ophelia good though
an actual fast mage (...orochi) who actually does damage (...odin) and isn't ass to train up because she's already decent enough (...nyx)
I dunno though maybe mages aren't actually good at all and it is just my mageness that causes this conundrum

watamote is not funny watamote is pain watamote is like slowly pressing your toe into a wall with a toothpick under the nail

yeah rev is absolute ass I genuinely cannot tolerate it
I completely understand where you're coming from when it comes to the conquest lategame minus kitsune genocide even though I don't care for it myself
but rev is 100% putrid roadkill deer diarrhea 

ok I literally do not know what this next part means so I will uhhh
tiptoe around

and we're at fates skills
honestly yeah fates does skills best because of my castle
I do not want to dishonor mechanist by passing through it like a subway car to pick up replicate or anything else and my castle allows me to just buy the damn skill
probably results in horrific balancing issues if I do it that way but hey it's almost what I wanted
there's a lot of damn skills though shiet
I like it simple but genealogy really fucked the duck with pursuit and pavise so if I have to pick a skills game it'd probably end up fates

woah woah woah 

the GBA archers got their individuality! see?
wolt is the shit one, dorothy is the "wolt but comes later but you don't need a wolt anymore" one, klein is the "holy shit prepromote" one, igrene is the "literally just klein but better" one, sue is the "shin but higher evasion" one, shin is the "you don't need snipers anymore" one
wil is the "absolute unusable garbage" one, rebecca is the "absolute unusable garbage" one, rath is the "lol you thought you needed a sniper" one
see get it? the way to differentiate the units of a class was done very well 
you get "the one that you should never use" and "the one that is inoffensive" and "god"
see is very cool is very epic
(for an actual response when I did a mostly mage run of units in fe6 the stats separated their roles pretty well and gave me a purpose to use each one
lugh doubled shit and hit all the time, ririna nuked, clarine and cecilia did absolutely fuckall but clarine can dodge while cecilia can chip and heal decently, hugh could go against physical attackers somewhat safely, ect. so I was able to use each for a certain niche added onto the general way the class performs and their bases and growths separated their strong points)

ok I do not know what this next part means either so
equips stealth camo

turns out the way my castle works is the last save you updated the castle on is the one that shows up
so I can just show all the castles later so you can see the funny team and the "eh" team and the lolteam

what is choopi choosi
isn't that some crusty lolleypop (I forgot how to spell that shit)

oh my god the filename was "strawberry love assortment" that sounds like it would be the name of a PoDD doujin album or some shit

tileset reminds me of legos kinda where you can just get the tiles of the same type and make a cool ass thing out of them 
I aint 9 anymore but I still feel that way so I fancy em
offensive skills can't be broken if you don't use the sword units wink wink (they did not have 9 move)

a man did not use quan+javelin and take down eldigan's entire army in a single enemy phase
:(
I moved all my guys forward before seizing the old castle while sigurd took a break almost every map but it worked fine for me what happen
the ch2 one was probably the least fine for me but I think either lex or quan just absolutely decimated anything that came at them when I started moving away from the entire ass army and the sleep guy went for alec or sylvia or whoever was up there at the time

never really felt the maps were open either at most I could just split up my party in ch3 to get all the shit before realizing villages are literally just not worth the trouble with their 1/5th of an arena win gold but otherwise it's objective to objective
only reason I think this one has better maps than awakening is because I think both are irredeemable shit but this one is conceptually cool while awakening isn't
gameplay wise though it's the same shit
also I forgot to pass down valkyrie but I don't think anyone even died in gen 2 anyway unless I am forgetting something (probably am)

ok I will go make a funny bandicams of the team

alright when making this I was lazy
and when I say lazy I mean LAZY
I didn't even cut out the damn reset or the opening of ch5 lol
here's the thing though
I only realized after making this that it wasn't my final ch5 team so now I have to record another
you can entirely disregard the second part of this video
ok wait wait wait again
it turns out I apparently never saved a save of the last turn of ch5 
I left the save on the normal game but eventually overwrote it so now the second half of that video just IS my ch5 team then
about half of my units promoted when arenafuckerying around but eh whatever that's the team I guess lol

fe6 does lack some of the stuff that fe7 has but overall I found it better probably just because I like the kind of shit it has not because it's actually a superior game
I may be able to play tellius in like
six months
and if three house emulates decently then I can do that but SMTV emulated like watching TV on a +flip phone so probably that aint happening any time soon
gba and animations off genealogy are cool because it reminds me of action figures as a bab
little representations of what I'd actually expect the full unit to look like and not super battle-realistic not moving back into place whatever I'm trying to say here
what is lonqu
ok I looked it up and he's memedon from awakening
I aint a memedoner I'm a magey so I have probably never seen it
is it like the animations off spinny attacks of swordmasters in genealogy

honestly only bad one is rev everything else is "yeah it's fine" at minimum and only one in that category is awakening
is worth

fe6 is one of two? games where you can buy boots in the secret shop, other being fe1 if it's only two (and remakes if they have it also)
so if you are good with handling money and get all the extra stuff you can literally just nearly max out your entire party's move
sadly I bought a shitton of not boots so I could only max out loy be walkin and milady because lazy as shit
but yeah uhh
loy be walkin
loy got dat "drip"

honestly I have no idea what happened with manga armor knight proportions

murdock's arm is the size of narcian's entire god damn body

final map in binding blade should honestly be ignored because the bad ending's final map is an actual cool good map and ch21 is good shit
after almost every late/endgame being utter shit in these games finding this (and fe1) was a very good moment
DLC can do it well though I have no idea what level anyone should actually be so it also gets kinda weird
by the way fates may be the only game with active online battles
but fe11/12 had online battles too before the nintendo servers or whatever the hell shut down
I don't know how fates plays but the description I've heard of 11/12 it seems exactly what would be expected from an online battle
GBA also had link arena which is...not spectacular
it's basically just 

well it's this

it seems attempts were made to try and have more stuff to do with the lategame teams but it wasn't until fe11 that they actually succeeded

in fe6 you kiiinda get a queue (why does this word exist)
or what I mean by that is C ranks usually happen pretty damn quick so there were a handful of instances where I had multiple C ranks form and realize "oh shit there's a support there" when accidentally pressing "end" instead of "support"
certainly aint no 3ds level but honestly I am glad fe6 has actual achievable supports compared to fe7 (how did they regress after one game)

ok the way three house dealt with it kinda reminds me of persona social links
a select few social links in some instances can change story events (I can only think of one that people hate but I'm almost certain there were like three more) though mainly it's just like
ultimate personas and whatnot
also some are locked behind story progress or your stats specifically in p5 which was such a major pain in my ass when I had to ignore sojiro for half the game because I didn't eat enough hamburgers for high courage or whatever the hell
this is another one of those things that kinda regressed over the games too though so now I've seen multiple examples of the system being capable of working with story but none where it seems to succeed considering everyone says three house has ass story

ok I did forget about the sonic thing I was given a lecture on sonicisms and sonic fanbase and shadow the hedgehog game
though out of the fanbases I would ever touch this gotta be most divided you know because I would rather have my fingers eviscerated than play sonic boom

it seems the games we started with have greatly impacted our preferences but high difficulty seems to be a good thing all throughout (too bad I played normal (nomaru modo?!?!?!) but hard do good)
honestly my main issue with skills is just that for some damn reason they made skills not class specific which makes no sense to me considering every single RPG I've played locks skills to classes to make them more unique
or look at something like pokemon where abilities aren't all specific to one pokemon type but each type of pokemon has a few specific abilities
I like me casts big so I can try out everyone though a small (but not three house small) cast has its shit going on as well
get that stamina shit out of here I get story gameplay integration but god damn it kaga
and pair up from fates?
yes
somehow they managed to unfuck pair up
and now enemies have it to add some "oh shit" moments and it is good but not essential for every single moment ever
also adding shelter allows for lmao

yeah that is one reason I was glad gba good shit because not only are there 69420 mods for every game, there's also 123454321 rom hacks like the epic grug's primitive disadventure
feuniverse.us/t/grugs-primitive-disadventure-by-team-stoned-stoners-version-1-4-completed-supports-wip/9007
no I did not play it but yes I shall play it

>midnight sun
nueeeeeeeeeeeeen


what about persona 5 strikers
there's another one for the shitlist
and the new "fire emblem three copes" as the hip and cool kids call it

reclassing in awakening I feel is ass because there's too damn much
so there's either gonna be a ton of shit there I have to try out or I'm gonna whip out gamefaqs to see which is objectively the best one and never ever touch the others because they can range from bad to downright abominable
compared to fates where if I want mechanist kaze because lolmao I just press the button and know it's not the best one but it'll do

crummy fun but honestly corrin was almost cool shit gameplay wise
because you can pick whatever the hell you want
eeeeeexcept yeah you gonna want that dragonstone and the yato is sword-only and also half of these classes are garbage and you have to use a heartseal to even ever see it
reason I think crummy is funny is because the lord is so god damn useless that all they do is just be shit and get carried to the end but if the lord was actually versatile (not like the tactician in awakening where they are automatically the best) and almost like a pick-your-own-unit that would be very nice

honestly every time I try to think of games with the best ost I just don't
no clue where these would compare to everything I've played especially because fe1 is best ost due to like six musics because it has like ten
all I can do is throw in battle themes or map themes or whatever the hell in the games I've played
so in honor of this thread's original subject
that's right
it's smt1+2 because the only persona games on nintendo systems do not have good OSTs

played like one hour of smt1 and have heard random assorted shit but holy god damn this is an SNES game



even the damn level up theme is cool
theme of leveling up luck (guy in the comments is wrong)


these battle themes are without the "demon appears" talk part at the beginning by the way so the full effect is not present 


probably shouldn't be embedding every single video but eh who cares this thread is already browser-slowing big


ok now after responding to your thing in a completely unrelated way 
wait there's still a few bits left not done yet

yeah fates had like what
two? birthright mages with orochi and hayato (lol) unless we count izana and whatever the hell kids I know nothing about
and three? conquest mages with nyx, odin, leo and without izana and whoever the hell kids
and there is a singular dark magic tome that can't use skills or double or crit and is only usable by two classes or with a skill equipped
as a story thing I see what you mean but one? ONE dark tome?????? fates what the shit man you based an entire class around one single tome and then said "oops uhhh ok let's do that awakening thing again"
actually how many anima tomes does nohr have anyway I just remember some shit named bubble gum or bibimbap or gurpagloopa or whatever and laughing at it then continuing to use lightning
the spirit things in fates are cool (when it's time I want you to see the power of izana) and ink painting is seriously good shit but :( light magic where you go I want my healers that promote into being able to use the worst magic type at low ranks only and to laugh at aureola which absolutely nobody can reasonably use again

ok I will eventually do heirs of fate eventually some day some time 

ok NOW that I have responded to the things I go respond to the new thing 

a man did NOT play gaiden three times no fucking way
it's like soloing the answer without sleeping
or like drinking five monster energies and having ten heart attacks at the same time then coming back to life when monster has replaced blood within the body
or like staring at a wall for forty hours just to prove you can do it to people who don't care
or like eating a mcdonalds breakfast burrito willingly and having your body not immediately reject it because you're fueled by twenty-five hour energy toilet paper vodka shots

fog of war in gba honestly fine after I learned the ways to deal with that shit arcadia is babby easy and battle before dawn is only mostly ass and not fully ass (well I haven't replayed fe7 to see that but I aint doing that shit for a while so I'll just assume)

fe1 cool and fe1 epic marf be walkin and riff be dyin

no no repair is fine for what the game is I'm talking item management as in like
getting a thing onto another unit
like for example trying to move warp from stave user to stave user or trying to move bands
where that shit costs literally two and a half full chapters of arena grinding if you don't sell all your shit or specifically have that one unit go to all the arenas or dew that shit
fe1 only had give but fe4 doesn't give a shit about trade funtimes
god passing around a killing edge to four units in a row is true fun times

consistently good was referring to fe1 I think everyone here agrees that genealogy's maps are like trying to clean spilled honey 

yeah fe1/2/5/11 warp allows you to literally just go wherever the shit you want so you could finish even a genealogy map in like five turns if that game had this type of warp
I miss cheese warp :(
but fe6's warp range is the user's mag stat or some shit like mag/2+5 which is just as good for letting you bypass large portions of the map so is gud for actual play
three house has warp? oh yes
only thing that could make shit better is a bad earlygame healer that promotes into light magic that ends up being the warpy frend (elibe)

honestly if he told you the game is absolute shit I think he is recommending is genuinely
because when it comes to things that are genuinely bad instead of "I don't really like this" tier persona 5 they tend to either be an absolute slog or a genuinely comedic and (dis)pleasurable experience
rev being the former and honestly with how I received fe1 gaiden'll probably be the latter
SoV has full voice acting ewww nasty gross smelly can I turn it off because I'll probably play that eventually too

when each genealogy chapter takes one month off my life it reminded me of playing 10 hours of persona 3 each day where it was quite literally one month off my life every day I played it (get it (calendar system))

ok I still don't know what battallions is but yeah it's strange that the closer the games are the more the people tend to hate each other as opposed to when the games are so different that everyone gets along
look at pokemon for example
sure it's degraded HEAVILY over time but still it's basically the same shit and they would gladly rock slide each other if given the chance
one weird exception would be pikmin where it's the types of pikmin and objectives/time limits that change but everyone gets along because there's only three god damn games and we have been waiting nine years for pikmin 4 (I'm afraid it's been... nine years. joke numero cuatro)

rescue the command not the staff fe6 gives you one (1) rescue staff with three uses and if you use hammerne on that everybody has a laugh as you reset the chapter

chad may not be a chad but he is a pretty cool dude who just tryin to help the children until bern fucked up the orphanage and now he is just your team's 2nd worst thief
he may not be the loudest pisser or whatever the newest "chad" may may is but he is epic


also a lot of the stealer characters in binding blade are like that
where they aint stealing or pillaging because they want to but because they must 
and I think that's pretty neat actually

what did three house take out the fates RN system
the hell are they doing there they removed pair up and halved the already halved cast
they did the route split except apparently somehow the worst this series has ever done it
the animations look like ass now (not a fan of 3ds but after seeing three house animations I appreciate them more) 
uhhh what else
monestary is just god damn persona
ok all I know is I aint looking forward to three house after everything 
this and the what was it 
"30 maps reused throughout all routes"
and the maps aren't even good or anything

oh yeah I think I heard tearring has some really god damn weird random number system too 

came out like a year before sword of seals as well 
weird shit

ok bye best prepare dat fates because I know I didn't prepare mine lol

[Aeon]

tiny screen alright i can see the problemm

although to be honest im usually in one of the two more zoomed in mods but wanting to see whats going on while zoomed out is very understandable



i started writing the entire post under the assumption that you had just played the entire series since your post was lookin a little ridiculous so i just used three houses terminology

battalions are things you can equip and they do an attack that hits multiple spaces at once, sets the mov of anything it hits to zero for a turn, and some other wacky ass stuff



genealogy story yeah i thought was cool but it was simply not feelin like it was worth it so i just took the narration from tsun



gba visible enemy ranges bro thats huge

having to click on em n shit just to have to cross reference the boxes is a massive reason i do not wanna play the older games since everything is just slower

i mean usually they arent really punishing like i can just leave sigurd standing still for three turns but i wanna pretend like im strategizing



laslow (inigo) is olivia's kid in awakening and he very quickly became my favorite unit. mostly because of armsthrift and a solid s support with morgan



male robin cannot chrobin i forgot about that

i mean. he can. just takes a bit of effort



im pretty sure regalia is just the general term for legendary weapons like we got mercurius we got falchion we got excalibur

also there is that map LMAO yeah great stuff for apotheosis



and yeah the merchantboss is insane, some generals and valkyrie on the same map have higher def/res and everybody has dragonskin. its a big ol party. of course you cap your stats, limit break, cap em again, and you're getting close to theirs



i think intelligent systems wanted you to pay twenty dollars for the dlc to fire emblem: fates to unlock more routes



you dont gotta read the manga i was just bringin it up

its cool but you have taken a lotta fates



man even with rescueskipping and a healthy dosage of pass it is pretty damn tight to get to and kill to the boss on conquest 27. just barely makin it with laslow's aether, life and death, and a brave sword



im redownloading tellius now since ive gotta find something original to say after all this



ahh alright you were on normal

i cant really comment on it since its been so long since ive played i just know enemies dont have (good) skills very often and that is part of what makes the game awesome



my mans buying skills!

just kidding i did that a few times too on lunatic. its aaaalmost fair since it costs precious gold but i did try to be fairly balanced with it and only took one replicate and no offensive skills or galeforce

also for some reason when i go to a castle i can never go to it again. it tells me to wait 24 hours but i do and it is never enough. maybe i should fix my clock so it doesnt think its 2005



i dont know anything about thracia manga youre gonna have to ask tsun on that

although yeah a large portion of actual information, if not almost all of it, is in supports



conquest chapter nineteen is neat because you have to employ what is likely a different strategy than what you are equipped for and cannot rush anything so positioning is very important and you gotta mess with your equipment and the awiyfhusnjdfidyshujkmfihujkm

it is a bit painful. i will admit. coulda been handled better and maybe with more units than nothing but kitsune



i see i see yeah there are like a billion supports. id say that which ones you actually get to and unit selection is part of what each run unique because yeah im not gonna go grind supports like ever unless i really need to guys to hook up

i really wouldnt wanna watch em on youtube though because its a bit dense and the textbox is small so its not reaaally like a visual novel so having the gameplay inbetween like 2-4 supports a chapter is good with me



ophelia miight be good but i had some trouble with her

to be honest i barely had any magic-dedicated units during the entirety of my lunatic conquest and mostly used adventurer niles with shining bow when i needed to

i invested a lot into ophelia (sorcerer) and dwyer (grandmaster)

dwyer eventually became a frail little boy who was good at rally and lightning if he needed to be but neither had good speed and while ophelia had better speed and was dealing more damage she was just as fragile and still getting doubled

maybe i should try using an onmyouji once ever because nohrian magic has yet to work out for me terribly well



wata mo te

i dunno i just read it at the library a few times some years ago and thought it was funny

i am sorry



i do not know which parts you are talking about and stealthed but i am sorry again! i say many things not all of them are words



choopi choosi is a very funny man and while i do not agree with him on everything he is incredibly charismatic and well-spoken. simply a based guy [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-9Nvq8DLLTrd2Oz2vaM4Q]



i like me some tilesets and i definately think there could be very nice looking 2d maps in fire emblem ive not been a fan of the ones theyve decided to use in the 2d fire emblem games



i may not have the ire for awakening maps that you do but i gotta say yeah genealogy has more ideas in em just



my friend. i am a big fan of your youtube videos. sbubscriber since year 2022. i would never ask you to do something so artistically corrupt as editing the videos

thank you for the data though i am taking notes



three houses is gonna emulate uh

well for reference my pal just got tsukihime (switch) working on ryujinx and it was getting a clean, clean 30fps ((it is a visual novel))

do your best

although my advice: not the worlds best idea even then

if you want my bigpost on three houses i will provide it but tl;dr it takes a long time to even do one route, the routes share a massive amount of stuff and you get way less time than fates to decide which one you want, rewind is stupid, and i dont even like most of the units! should have been more awesome like popular fire emblem characters "azel", "owain", "ike", "asgore"

tellius though you can emulate easy and contains all of those characters, what a bargain



i am a bit of a memedoner i like my swords i like my astra

i do like mages too

my big preference is that i like the ground guys. maybe one or two horseys total per team but in general not a big fan

anyway yeah theres the spin. genealogy does have some slick animations thats for sure and they work very well with stuff like adept, but i like the chunky stuff



pictured: the average swordmaster



did not know you could buy boots that is awesome i would save money the whole game just for that



the fates online battle mode i got a few decent rounds in some years ago but now its hard to find a guy to play with (omg what if...... :flushed:) and it was faaaairly limited since you can only have like five units and only play on a few maps and the meta was. intense. at the time but its still really cool. i hope somebody makes a more accessible version with more features that lets you import teams from any game for windows sometime soon (mine may not be soon)



i PLAYED THAT dude the link arena

simply,

who needs a map?

but when you take the chess outta anime chess its just anime



i am very likely to believe the social links are cooler than three houses supports especially since the average quality of the presentation is like. not great. i know every other game has like just between 1-5 backgrounds total but man. it feels a lot more scuffed in the weird 3d places with the weird standing animations instead of talksprites

and you never get any ultimate personas! what a ripoff

three houses story is simply so infuriating for different reasons than fates. its TEASING you

part of the problem is byleth themself and 99% of the problem is that edelgard is BASED why does her route have the LEAST EFFORT and is the SHORTEST despite being the HARDEST TO ACCESS and DOES NOT END PROPERLY i do not want to play any other brownnosed bootlicking divine right to rule lookin ass stupid church-based route



skills not being class-specific i am very fine with as long as its not like every single character can get every single skill

its like yeah we have [man] here and man is capable of [this set of things] as long as he does a bit of training in a buncha these styles

so awakening its a bit too free

also. three houses its fouckin dumb theres ten billion skills and almost all of them blow



grugs primative disadventure

that shit looks fire

honestly sick to death of the way nintendo takes stories in general its (vast majority, not all of them) protagonists n shit

like you know what i mean right protagonist-like protagonists

so when i see grug

im ready right

we get a bit funny

not gonna play it though im lookin too far into this



reclassing yeah its a lot in awakening, could stand to be tempered even with the looming threat of apotheosis

i would never say you actually need to use guides and just going with what you think is cool is fine but its still a lot



hey man when i said games with best ost that wasnt even close to the best the best

you think a single man at nintendo can try to touch toby fox and get through the focus groups and corporate? not happenin



although! those links you dropped, pretty damn fire for snes. there are a lotta games i still havent played so im not tryna shit on anything thats been on a nintendo system

also whenever i say "nintendo games" im talkin just about stuff produced by nintendo or their adjacents



nohr does not have many anima tomes but it is more than zero

they have cool names at least

fimbulvetr

ginnungugnagngap

bringing back more differentiated magic and light magic would be pretty cool

although fates did already have a lotta weapon types (daggers are cool) i bet they coulda expanded on magic without bloating it



i now respond to the other part of the response



gaiden three times? i dont think he finished the third run (yet) but yeah. tsun has the patience of a saint. although if i caught mr of nazareth playing gaiden i would tell his dad to buy the poor kid better games. doom or somethin

and he still tells me how much it sucks! it is valid research since it has interesting concepts but tsun i know you deserve better than this



yeah i know what youre talkin about with item management i just never really minded. at least in how far i played it did not bother me that much. now GOLD being unit-locked. that was what got me



three houses warp is not super good

its got mag/4 range which is not enough to get very far

luckily you can have two dancers and one of them can refresh four units at once and theres canto and i uh

well i




surprising that ya dont see touhou guys at eachothers throats about the games

probably since none of (integer >= 6) them are bad! at least everything has some amount of fair challenge and also they arent 60 bucks and take 20+ hours to beat



there is a fire emblem astolfo..........no way.....i will not be commenting on this further



yeah three houses made a lot of regression from the 3ds games, systems and qol-wise

honestly just having one screen insteada two makes things a lot slower and i feel they really coulda had an info panel on the side to compensate instead of making you press a button to bring it up

the animations are not too great, the majority of the time characters dont even hit eachother (melee) or the hurt animation is really awkward and delayed (magic). astra still looks neat at least

monastery is neat just like

could they not have made way more locations instead of making us go here after every single battle. its a bit contrived to use a ruined school everybody knows about as your base of operations for wartime just because it has a minor geographical advantage



okay im playing tellius now SEEYA

EDIT: it did the spacing thing. im sorry maybe ill fix it later

[spongelevator]

oh god not the spacing

I was at one point thinking of completing all sequels to the games I've played and also TMS but then again that shit was taking so long I just dumped the idea or else this post would be on the second anniversary

wait so it's like a ballista except absolutely broken
like a ballista where the fact that it's a ballista isn't enough so they had to combine it with freeze too

yeah I see
though ch5 was pretty godlike it's still one of twelve chapters in a god damn 85 hour long game which is longer than it took to complete persona 4 golden so genealogy is an honorary persona game with its yes story characters god fuck no gameplay

I went and checked
feuniverse.us/t/fe6-fe7-fe8-plus-enhancement-patch/12603
and they fixed a good amount of the problems it seems
every day I am glad GBA has such a big ass modding community going on there
wait I cannot read the ranges thing is only in fe7+8
from my singular page of googel search there is no such patch for fe6
god dammit
tested in fe7 and it's a weird sort of thing where it shows all enemy ranges but only when you're not in the process of moving someone
not really sure how to describe it 
fe8 made it so the enemy ranges stay even when you're moving a unit... except they made the range display with the same color of fog of war? so I don't know if it would even work on fog of war maps assuming there are any in fe8 and also since it's a light white color it aint exactly super easy to see
these patches are fine and if enemy ranges are needed it provides this but it isn't like you can press X and suddenly the floor is hot pink until you manually turn it off either

ok that is weird because olivia was one of maybe four characters who married but I thought her kid was like
some archer girl or something
no idea whose kid that is (or who that is in the first place) but huh it's awakening I guess
only kids I even remember is uhhhhhh
severa because she had galeforce and killed absolutely everything
lucina and morgan because plot
uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ok I don't know what happened
not a kids guy
it was only like a month after I beat awakening and then went back for owain but otherwise I genuinely don't know who else I even had
apparently the archer girl was tharja's kid and named "noire"
I'm looking at her and I genuinely do not recall anything about this character she looks nothing like what I remembered

ok I don't remember mercurius either
apparently est had it and it's a marf only but I'm pretty sure my marf was just loaded up with rapiers because I had ~10 of them
there's no way I didn't use it though because holy shit those stats
oh it had 24 uses
well that's probably what happened unless I had him carrying the starsphere which then good shit time
either way gonna remember that sword (hopefully) for next time
also somehow didn't know excalibur was a legendary weapon at all I thought it was just that thing merric uses to kill bosses

aw fuck man I gotta cap my stats twice for that map shit
can't even hire no midori with 99 in everything
I uhhhh
:(
what 1500 combined hours of competitive pokemon does to a mf

god dammit IS
(repirates your game)

ok I think I'd just have been fucked regardless if that is the case even on nomaru modo
at least we have midori :))))))))))))))) midoriko :))))) luck build

ok tell me about the tellius mages who use one specific type of magic when you get there I want to see if it was done in a cool way or if it was done like shit
it sounds cool at least so it gets a C minimum

I do not recall more than a handful of enemies with skills so I think I accidentally took the easy way out but eh now that I know forging exists I think I will be fiiiine

I was hoping with skills to do something like uhhh
basically doing what would have been like using a heart seal except I just put the heart seals into some random moron's inventory like I go recruit some idiot guy and say "hold all this crap this stuff is illegal to have by the way" and I go buy the skill instead
ok that's literally more work but you know what I mean maybe
actually nah never mind disregard all of this

when you visit a castle you have to do "update data" in like a day to make it let you revisit
orrrrrrrr
you can visit ~30 castles and the old ones start opening up which is what I did during rev grinding
I just realized that's what would happen if you tried to visit all three of my castles because they have the same damn code
so that is no longer as easy as I thought

ok I still barely know what people mean when they say stuff about "positioning" so I cannot really say much about kitsune genocide response

I did not use ophelia in any actual difficult mode also not in conquest because I still had absolutely no idea what was going on with the kid shit so probably your experience is how it is
onmyoji is another one of those just like
just shit classes
I don't think I've ever seen it be the "better" option for a unit
azama's better as a great master because of his strength and also bolt naginata, orochi and whoever the hell else female mages are better off as a witch (unless you count this as not good which then better as a sorcerer), even babby sakura is better as a shining bow priestess if you have access to that
ok well actually that's like three units I can think of and also I'm talking purely based off of normal mode and gamefaqs polls but onmyoji is like a sage if sages were shit
izana being the exception obviously as he is izana


is this end of evan jelly on

ok thank you for being my single subscribber on this garbage channel where every video is unlisted so it is impossible to navigate


cool notes bro!!!!!!!!!!

ok the third house kinda just sounds like shit no matter where I look or who I ask and even when watching gameplay I thought it looked pretty ass
so perhaps I will stick to like
not that

ground'll do because the only peggy trio I gave more than half an ass about was fe6's where the peggy trio is fucking garbage anyway
though shanna is :D and thea is *~* and juno is (fluff)
and the only wyverns I actually ever used were milady (broken) and cherche (only good against peggies)
honse it varies there because on one hand I want my christmas cavvies and my jeigans but on the other hand I genuinely do not care about these people who are these guys who is sully who is rath (I used rath on my team lol but awakening is the only game I don't remember the cast of so I don't want to say like 50 awakening characters)
yeah though ground over mount this aint no LTC no fun zone this is a 1000 turn run
for me it's earlygame healies that never peak above the midgame sage prepromote
also heroes because holy shit

in genealogy all swordmasters are directly aligned with the golden spiral and would make gyro proud


in dondon LTC run he saves money for the entire playthrough indeed

hoo boy
after this they ALL be walkin

yeah we fite or else all my grinding goes into the gutter I got many units with major inconsistency in viability over my three saves so it will be gud
also that sounds pretty much exactly how fe11/12's mode and meta sounded in that you can only bring 5 units and everyone could buy shit from the online shops and create gods

lol I have seen some three house stuff and god damn the backgrounds is just a png
like it's a png and you can TELL it's one not only because of the quality but also because the characters don't align and the proportions do not compare

chad yu "souji "chad" seta" narukami maxes brosuke for the ultimate levitating clownman while virgin "corn" corrin S-ranks meidosan and gets some damn kid who is a directly worse version of him in every way

I do not know what that means but I have seen how a single mention of the edelgard will apparently piss off an entire room of these people
and that one person who held up a sign saying "edelgard sucks" at some sports or something and people got genuinely angry about it

fates does skills well enough though I suppose my issue is having to find out what that set of skills is assuming we're not talking friendship seals and whatever the hell and stopping at lover seal
probably will never need to do that which is why fates actually did it well but eh 

you get the protagonist-like protagonists and then grug learning the types of weed from his support with srek
opened the game again to check if it has modern mods applied and god damn it sounds like shit lol good
I made a save to see what it has and I'm pretty sure it had a 2hu noise for the save sound effect
ok ch1 theme is just god damn shanghai teahouse there is no doubt it was that
oh god it keeps getting louder shit

sadly no select to see enemy ranges but I will certainly be doing this in a while

ok I do not think SMT1+2 counts as a nintender because it was also on psx and some sega cd shit I only heard of one other time 
all I've got is pikmin with its "very nice for the game but why listen when not in the game" ost so you win this time fire emblem fates: conquest for the nintendo 3ds, 2ds, new 3ds, new 2ds, and citra
most epic though goes to binding blade for directly stealing from lunar sea without even trying to hide it though that is good shit
you get eastern strange discourse that sounds very similar to rydeen for like 15 seconds and then you get in the name of bern where the entire god damn track is lifted no shame
just another reason fe6 best game

wait counting jape weapons hoshido has 15 scrolls
and counting jape weapons nohr has 19 tomes




it is said that if you play gaiden nine times in a row you unlock the secret valentia sequel 
beat that, and you promote into a great sage

yes tsun I am using this image for the fifth time tsun

yeah that gold shit combined with the garbage they threw at us in the arena like volcanal baron that activates pavise every time or silver sword swordmaster that literally nobody can get above 80% hit on
just absolutely awful
stack three ass mechanics on top of each other and your reward for conquering them is a slightly easier time on the next map that plays as fun as peeling potatoes

ok first
mag/4 warp
look how they massacred my boy...

and now
two dancers
what?
are they able to dance each other
no, right?
because if so that shit aint right
there's a reason xane can't copy dancers what the hell they doin

also 3-5 range bow
absolutely disgustan

honestly I think tohos has enough people arguing about fanon over canon that the people who play the games are doing it to escape from that crap
and so if they were to argue there too the only escape would be going to gensokyo
otherwise no way they wouldn't be arguing about uhhhh
I do not know because I can't beat them

ok I think I said earlier but three house just sounds like utter ass
golden deer normal mode curbstomp and that's all I'll ever do 
will join the tellius train in many months hopefully dolphin doesn't make everything run at 10fps this time



ok on a compleeeeeeetely unrelated note
I looked at all the maps again because there's no way peggies can be entirely turned to shit that easily I suddenly thought
ilia is mostly fine for peggies because there ARE ballistas but other than ch19a and 20a they do just fine
19a has a whopping five ballistas in fog of war so you can't check their ranges and 20a is a castle map with one ballista reachable only by flier and two only by warp (though you need either shanna, thea, or zealot to recruit juno here so you'd be bringing a peggy anyway)
for other maps where I could see them maybe having trouble, 11b due to two ballistas at the very beginning, 17b because fog of war ballistas so you can't check their range, likely 18b but I'm not really sure, possibly 19b but not always becuase the map isn't 100% filled with nomads, and maybe 23 because of three ballistas on the island
that's only seven maps out of the what, 39 the game offers total? and it's not like the ballistas can't be dealt with but more that I dunno how to do that properly I assume it would take either delphi shield or a wyvern
I benched shanna because of them ballistas and because milady did her job but better in most ways other than aid for rescue though likely with delphi shield you can make it work better than I expected

[Aeon]

its kinda like ballista except it can kill! and also cant hurt your units, gives massive buffs when equipped, and can also contain lunge or shove in addition to freeze
some of them are support and do stupid things like give counterattack from any range buff to a bunch of your guys or mov +5

i think we talked about that patch in the call but damn! real shit goin on there huh. maybe i redownload seven for mobile gaming again
even though its a bit binted thats still pretty neat

noire
thats one of those weirdos huh
morgan though
morgan.......
i said inigo was the best unit ive ever had but a fair chunk of that is due to s support with morgan (the second best unit ive ever had)
grandmaster at its best

oh yeah lmao you need a couple stats
it doesnt take too long to get it since theres a place or two thats basically made for prepping for the big bad (not the supposed exp farming map, that one blows)

the difficulty doesnt actually change anything in apotheosis, luckily. dude have those hawkeye and pavise+ skills no matter what you do. big party

i am disregarding as you request especially since i do not get what is going on there

i tried putting in your castles code but it said you did not exist! we are incapable of pirating skills from eachother
although maybe i can get there easily now that we got the friend thing, checking right now
oh hey yeah it works
no it doesnt: "an error has occured"
i can connect to other castles though, and it looks like my infinite wait time to go to places i've been before is over. bit late

thank you for the info on onmyouji i will continue to laugh at the meek little magic men

i like having a dragon guy or two because defensive flight and maybe a luuuunge or something is nice to have

its only 4k gold for boots my guy?? insane
we ALL be walkin

we have fought it went well i made a massive misplay and lost to vantage
this is what i get for using all the quirky swordmasters like great lord and lodestar instead of actually gettin my ass through and earning vantage/astra. of course its hard to regret when you see an astra proc
otsukaresamadeshita, hana-san

edelgard is simply the catalyst for basedness and you can take the red pill or the blue (or yellow or white) pill if you cannot handle the truth. everybody else is a churchcel theocracycore chump while edelgard is a political komaeda and guillotinepilled.
sorry. for that

anyway weed restores 15 hp
funny funny mod. i know a couple funny mods with a spriteedit with sunglasses that includes weed as a helpful item

the funny three houses things:
mag/4 is still pretty daaamn good considering warp is magic
and magic's durability refreshes every single map

the two dancers: are not true
the one that can dance four at once is a battalion and it can only be used once (usually) per map. for me who is clearing every map in one turn: basically means two dancers
and yeah, they can dance eachother for the one use that it has

the 3-5 range is actually kinda misleading. it actually means +1-3 range. you can combine that with the +2 bowrange to get [bow range] + 1-5 range, and then you can have your bow be 2-3 to begin with, and there it is:
3-8 range. truly illegal (you lose ten hit for every tile away from like 3 or 4 but its still insane)

7/39 maps that aint eeeeven that bad
from what im hearin from tsun, thracia is hittin with a lot more than that

[spongelevator]

man three house balancing is sounding more and more like a 2010 GBA romhack every day
back in my day (fifty days ago) a ballista was just a bow armor that shoots stones and fire arrows and thunder arrows and explodey arrows (now that I think of it those ballisticians were awesome)

very nice I encourage you to use serra to the end to make up for my mistakes of the past
I can say she definitely WILL perform about the same as elen and she WILL be pretty mediocre and get replaced by a godly mid-lategame prepromote and she WILL not really be worth it so I implore you, bring serra along with you (but leave erk behind)
-sent from erk's blackberry


lol I do not think a single kid ever reached above C support with anyone else for me
actually probably severa got B with donny but that's it
maybe one day in 1,000 years I will awaken once more and play the game while actually knowing what the shit these newfangled "support" thingamajigs are
and then owain can be more than the lv10 "went back to get him after already finished" memedon

ok which map is it becuase the exp farming map in awakening is actually good unlike fates so if there's somehow a better one there is a 5% chance that one day I might perhaps consider doing it
cannot believe fate's exp dlc is so damn bad that I had to just redo the same challenge map fifteen times until everyone promoted

ok at least pavise+ is not pavise (4) and if hawkeye exists (the skill not the guy) then I don't gotta worry about whether the enemies are all gonna get their 40% hits and what to do there
I like hawkeye the guy better

I think there is some parley thing and then you can just get the calling card and be able to look at the castle whenever the hell
I could offer my cheese skills so you can also get a taste of justice though I will have to get rid of the dark dragon (the thing not the guy or the game or the archetype) and make my guys stay put so I will do it latre

ok gud remember only good onmyoji is izana and otherwise reclass sakura to priestess (did you know it is sakura birthday right now that means for this day if your 3ds isn't set nine years in the past she will get stat bonuses(ok I also realized I had four shining bows in rev but somehow never put one on sakura to battle so there must be a round 2 some time))

speaking of wyverns
I checked PoR's cast and lol there is one singular wyvern rider who apparently can leave if you don't have her A support the girl from the prologue or something like that
and if she leaves you lose access to the one singular wyvern lord who comes like 5 chapters before the end of the game
but then I realized this (without the leaving part) is how like every single game does wyverns
why they do that (ok actually I know why they do that never mind)
at least we got miledy to curbstomp the entire latter half of the game :))))))))

slap on that silver card and you can get for 4k a pop but since for some reason the game only has two (2) secret shops you can sell the member card for 1/2 a boots 
so everybody be walkin except for one guy who can only afford the theoretical half pair of boots that cannot exist within reality

hana moment
be shit throughout the entire singleplayer campaign and then be a hidden god with 105 avoid in the multiplayer nobody touches
funnily enough hana is the only one I didn't load up on cheese skills like arthur who has more crit than hit or odin dank who loves his 17 damage 80% crit hits all she needs is mistletoe and she becomes a god

you can take the red pill for crimson flower and play as the villain who is "based and redpilled"
or you can take the yellow pill for golden deer and ingest 56mg of MDMA
your choice, bub

pass on the MLGmods I will put them all on my 2ds

wait so magic is no longer books and instead inherently learned
and it restores every map meaning there is zero reason to ever conserve it
from what I am seeing multiple characters inherently come with nosferatu
and it is possible to learn bolting and meteor
staves including silence and rescue are also included in this
what is going on 
is everything just broken in the game or are the enemies equally as horrendous to make up for it

ok so on three house's massive 4x4 maps they let you dancer diamond one per map allowing a potential five refreshes
this is included with regenerating warps and siege tomes and supercanto and 3-8 range bows
is there anything else I need to know
is there perhaps some unholy shit that is even more overpowered than these


I have no idea where I got the extra chapter from game has 38
coincidentally 7/38 is also how many shit gaidens there are in this game (all of them)
thankfully the ballistas outside of those 7 not-all-gaiden chapters tend to be shitty and ploopy and can be laughed at (unless you use wolt which then you can have him use the singular ballista ammo remaining when you get to it and miss)
at least peggy has potential now though






empty space empty space where does this space come from nobody knooooooooowws

[TSUN]

okay its been a hot minute

time for a game of catch up

"i really like the feel of the gba games but they have never seemed interesting enough to be worth enduring an entire game for"

yeah thats why i wasn't gonna play any of them until spongey-chan talked about binding blade

and also why im doing a low-tier unit run on my first playthrough

though binding blade might be a palate cleanser after the weirdness of thracia

"nobody uses the official names around here"

for me its usually a matter of whatever translation patch im using, but i'll use the official names if they sound better to me
like how Machuya (official name) is cooler than Macha (name in the translation im using)

but also Leaf is way epicker than Leif

Chiki is way kyuter than Tiki

Marich is way nicer than Merric

Scathach is way more rad than Ulster (THERE ALREADY IS A CITY NAMED ULSTER IN THE VERY SAME GAME THIS GUY IS IN, WHYYYYYYYY ARE YOU OFFICIALLY CALLING HIM THAT)

"caeda is way cooler"

>:[

okay i will agree that if you pronounce it correctly (which i dont) then Caeda is probably cooler than Sheeda

though they both have a little less bite than Shiida

you talking about the awesome hidden worldbuilding potential of fates's plot reminds me of kaga

this from a FAQ by Kaga, about a character that says 3 lines during recruitment and never speaks again

"How did Castor end up becoming a swindler?"
"Castor is about three years older than Shiida. He has seven younger brothers and sisters. After his mother gave birth to her ninth child, she fell dangerously ill. Their father had left for Gallder and they hadn’t heard from him for a long time. So Castor had to leave to support his ill mother and his younger siblings. After the War of Shadows, Castor quickly rushed to buy the clothes he promised as a present to his younger sister, Leen. However he was too late. While he was away, Leen sold herself to a slave merchant to earn gold for the family. Eventually he found her at a sleazy bar at Warren, where her cold and dying body lay. Around the time of War of Heroes, Castor made himself known as a swindler, but he only did it to earn gold for his family, so as to prevent Leen’s tragedy from repeating."

(also frickin back in my day he was called Kashim, what the frick is this "castor" bull doohickey)

[also also isn't Leen a character in Genealogy?]

"EXP OR GOLD MAPS???"

MY DUDE

YOU SAID ALL THE DLC WAS JUST SIDEGRADES

so even the most epick hardcore game in the series becomes way easier if you pay extra money? thats kinda beans

"(in Genealogy) environments are all the same tileset"

honestly im completely okay with that

i already said it in DMs but spongey chan has not seen DMs so
uhh i think genealogy differentiates each country even with the lack of variation in the tiles themselves, because the placement of the tiles makes them vary on a macro level
Grannvale is your grassland with lots of variation in elevation, and lots of cities
Verdane is mostly flat with tons of forests (not a very developed nation)
Augustria's royalty and knights and stuff live in plains along the edges, while most of its civilian population lives either in a huge forest in the south or near the ocean in the north
Silesse is split in half by forests and huge mountains (this is why they have pegasusses)
Isaach is mostly dry canyons in the north, but more grassy in the south
Thracia is full of rich land in the north, but the south has tons of super tall cliffs and pretty much no trees (this is why they have wyverns)
it's not mindblowing, but i think they did a good job

oh also each country has its own most common hair color
Isaach is black
Silesse is green
Grannvale's mostly depends on the city (Chalphy is blue, Velthomer is red, Freige is white)
Verdane is uhh
Augustria is blonde
Thracia is brown

"men can become pegasus knights"

this is quite dumb and unrelated but years ago after i played dark dragon, i thought up this idea of a fire emblem game

even at like 12 years old i was tired of main characters being princes with swords, so i thought up 3 main "lord" characters (none of them are royalty and none of them use sword)

they were an archer, a dark mage that'd be like Lilina gameplay-wise, and a male pegasus knight

you made me look back at that loy be walkin image and now the madness of it has truly sunk in

HOLY SHIT

LOY BE WALKIN

"hey at least he didna play gaiden three times like you did"

EXCUSE ME

I HAVE ONLY PLAYED GAIDEN 1.5 TIMES

also i was going to respond multiple days ago but then i read that and was like "ha ha! i probably couldn't stomach thirty minutes of gaiden after playing the epic masterpiece that is thracia! lemme prove it!"

and then i played gaiden for three hours

whoops

the good news is that with stuff like

EZ MODO

WARP ABUSE

AND LOWMANNING

it went a lot faster

the stuff i did in those 3 hours would've taken 10 in my first playthrough

also spongey-chan uhh yeah you are right on why im recommending gayden to you

honestly i'd say it's kind of a coin flip on if you'll have a funny time with gaiden

at least try it out

also you should probably not replay it ever because wow

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

one of people's biggest criticisms of Echoes is the lack of replay value

because after you've beaten it once, you've basically seen all the cool stuff the game has to offer

the charm and surprise factor all wear off and any subsequent playthroughs are gonna be a slog where you just go through the motions like a zombie

..................and even still i am replaying the crusty NES version

basically please do not become a masochistic wretch like yours truly

"kinda crazy considering how similar fire emblem games actually are
mechanically it barely changes throughout the entire series"

yeah, that's kinda why i dont plan on playing many of the games after thracia (binding blade, tellius, maybe conquest someday)
the Kaga Saga games look cool, but other than that uuuhhhh
7 and 8 seems like more of the same thing as binding blade; i'd only do them if there was a funny challenge run gimmick
11 and 12 and 13 and birthright and revelation and echoes and three houses? eeeeehhhh

it seems like after Kaga left, the series lost some of its experimental edge in favor of a more consistent quality

but i'd rather play a broken unfair piece of garbo that introduces a bunch of weirdass stupid janky mechanics than a high-quality entry in the hit franchise that follows the tried and true series formula

also i'd rather play a game that's designed around permadeath but that's neither here nor there

also yeah spongey-chan im with you on three houses
when the game first came out it seemed like WOAH THIS IS AMAZING HOLEY SHIET!! EVERYTHING IS SO AWESOME AND COOL AND EPIC!!!!! THIS IS THE TRUE EVOLUTION OF FIRE EMBLEM

and then every single time i hear something new about the game, it sounds more and more like the exact opposite of what i want out of fire emblem

OKAY NOW SPONGEY CHAN'S POST

hmm

yeah probably should change it to hard mode before sacae

if hardmode sacae is a pain in the ass with super epic awesome units, imagine what it'll be like with the worst guys in the game

oooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr there could be like two separate teams to counteract the overlevelling

one team goes to Ilia, the other goes to Sacae

Roy can go to both because he'll still suck anyways

maybe one team would have thany, the other would have tite

yay for trek

21X IS WARPSKIP‽‽‽ JUST WHAT KIND OF CHEATER DO YOU THINK I AM??!!

hey

hey spongey-chan

spell "draug" backwards

pretty clever innit?

watamote's opening is rad and that is all i know

okay at the present moment what im looking for in FE is uh
- tension and consequences for your actions

- units with a lot of non-combat utility

- skills being simple and mostly personal or class-based

- being totally outclassed by the enemy and having to do some tricky guerilla warfare tactics

- a middle ground between the kaga games "2hulike" characterization and the modern games "too much to actually get to see it all without 333333333 playthroughs or three days of watching utoob uploads" supports

- using a lot of units instead of bulldozing through the game with the same 5 guys

- utilizing permadeath for interactive storytelling

- CBT

also fatigue is super blunt, but it gets you to switch out members of your army each chapter, and i love switching out members of my army each chapter

and honestly in thracia you're not really forced to use guys you dislike

theres around 20 units in it that i use pretty regularly and with a couple exceptions i like all of them as characters
well at least the ones who have character to them

one of the best units on my team says 3 lines in the beginning of a chapter and never speaks again, but i still love her because she looks cool and has carried my team through some real tough shit

but even with fatigue, you're not gonna see me using fuggin.... robert, or alba, or troude, or ralph, or callion, or glade, or whatever other boring ass nobody

okay honestly? i kinda like fog of war

at least the Thracia style in a 3/4-ass ironman playthrough

in that scenario it's so evil that it loops back around to being fun

the game just shits in your face and flips you the bird, and you're just stumbling around in the dark waiting for some asshole to ruin your day

and honestly i love that feeling

but in GBA style, or if you reset for deaths, it seems like an awkward middle ground that's just frustrating and wastes your time without the total helplessness that makes Thracia fog of war interesting

my only exposure to this "astolfo" guy is this video

and i have no desire to delve any deeper

"i dont know anything about thracia manga"
AFAIK theres a serious manga adaptation, a light novel, and a 4koma
if you dont wanna play the game then just read the 4koma

"mercurious sword"
ooooohh you mean the Miracle sword?
wow transliterations are weird

every day is christmas so you can use that santa image to your hearts content
actually is that from a hack
please tell me it's from a hack

okay byebye for now

also
spell "doga" backwards

[spongelevator]

eh honestly the only uninteresting game I've played was awakening because it feels like it somehow both played it super safe and brought in too much new shit without actually making any of it work super well
I have no idea how to explain this as usual but everything in awakening feels like tuesday
it's not even bad but it reeeally just feels like "medieval RPG" except it's like a thousand years after fe1 and akaneia is still a god damn medieval continent what

ok I looked at the scathach smt page and there was this

so then why is chulainn gen 1

sheeda>shiida because it looks more like "cheese" and that's probably another reason I think sheeda is the funniest version of this name


ah kashim, the guy who is better than gordin and then gets benched for wolf
the wonders of kaga saga

is conquest even considered the most hardcore by any means I thought it was just like
I dunno 4th in the top 5 hardest on lunatic or something like that
any non-exp or gold maps in conquest definitely only give items but lol I guess for some reason they let you do those two grind ones
too lazy to test that shit because I have two functioning team members but I believe it

in genealogy I kinda just remember gen 1 having different environments and each chapter felt like an actual new place
and then gen 2 was either mountains or grass and that's it
probably also why I have a difficult time differentiating chapters uhhh
6, 7, and 8
ok yeah looking at those again it's literally only ch10 that feels anything more than "grass and/or mountains"
chances are just like with fates there is a bunch of shit I am missing by not reading the manga (manga) but eh I'll do it later (kinda want to see it)

I guess we got holmes and micaiah but male peggy is a fates-only thing because pegasi don't let men ride them and fates had to make an exception
and I bet you that three house regressed and now this is once again not a thing
gonna have to settle for male wyvern (actually why can I only think of two male wyvern riders across every game I played what)
gotta find a romhack that slaps all these elements together to create a beast

yeah that's right man loy be walkin
about that ch21x warpskip thing I could probably just beat in two turns because loy be walkin mega and loy did not skip leg day

what 1.5 times
as in like
one full and one half
or three half
or two three-fourth
either way, wap

do not worry for half the time if I replay a game that means it has been at least five years since I've done it
so I will forget all the fire emblem two: gaiden shit that happened and then it'll be a whole new experience again

6/7 definitely didn't feel like the same thing to me and on hard modes they seem to play very differently because of the enemy quality
8 apparently has weird shit like eyeball monsters and ogres and zombie wyverns and branching promotions and super trainees (epic) and grinding and route splits that actually matter
honestly I feel past GBA even though the series feels less "fire emblem" it's still all the same shit as it's been just with more modern anime tropes and stories and whatnot 
out of what I've played the only deviation from the standard was genealogy

when it comes to games designed around permadeath everything I played seems completable with it but only fe1 and 6 and maybe 7 feel like you're actually supposed to do that
fe1 is obvious and 6 has a bigass cast as well but certain deaths lock you out of the true ending
also if lilina dies it's like if sheeda dies where you're gonna miss out on 1/3 of the recruitments past that point
7 has a bunch of prepromotes that are honestly better than if you raised up units of the same class though in that way I could see it being a good game for not giving enough a rat's ass to reset for kent

why every game series be regressin these days what's goin on with nittendo swtich
even rereleases and remakes seem to be ass 

probably splitting the teams somehow would work best assuming it's not lowmanning
game is pretty generous with the prepromotes and you'd have like eight of them if you went to both western isles routes by the time the route split shows up so a team could be made of them though their viability is also very inconsistent so it'll work well enough with the spirit of the run
hard mode sacae with overleveling would basically be like
well imagine you're behind a wall trying to hit a guy with a stick while he throws pebbles at you from 20 meters away
that's sacae on hard with overleveling

ok gud is treck time



wait what happened to the spell doga backwards part where did it go
I was too fast for my own good...
also it took me some two minutes to realize draug backwards was guard and not gourd and I kept thinking "what about gourds is it because he looks like a pumpkin with all that armor"

nothing about watamote is rad or good watamote is like getting stuck in a hydraulic press and slowly being pressed into the shape of a pickle (haha funny laugh)

I do not really know what tension and consequences for your actions means unless you just mean like
"guy who dies actually dies"

for non-combat utility uhhhhh
other than thieves and clerics and staves and shit which, out of the games I played, was done best in fe6, all I really remember is daggers/shurikens from fates which debuff enemies
if you get draconic hex or seal (stat) skills or the mighty pebble you can debuff the shit out of stuff and lol it is pretty good

as far as I know no game past 12 is light on skills unless you reeeeally want to acknowledge 15 but nobody does
I looked a bit into PoR's skills and it has some strange system where you have 20 points and each skill has a different point value
like some mage kid who I'm absolutely not gonna bother using has a skill which is basically boots and it costs 10 points to equip so he has enough room for 1-2 other skills
seems fair enough and I don't believe the game has any reclassing or whatever so it's all personal or class-based

if you want outclassed by the enemy uhhh
binding blade hard mode
new mystery h4
apparently h5 shadow dragon ds
lunatic awakening for the first hour and lunatic+ for the entire game but in a way no human would ever accept
apparently lunatic conquest
I think that's it
haven't heard of any others everything else is called piss easy with enemies either being weak or not enough of them

middleground there is only GBA and apparently tellius because otherwise 


using a lot of units is probably like
everything other than awakening
unless by a lot you mean more than ~15 which then I can count the games that you can do that in on one hand

permadeath for interactive storytelling as in like
quan
or perhaps like kaze (lololol)
well I dunno aeon said tellius changes events when characters die sometimes I think and that's the only time I've heard of a game actually changing there
oh in fe7 there is like
one or two occasions where a character's death changes a scene
I think same goes for fe6 
otherwise I dunno what mean

cbt can take many forms
some may like gaiden, others thracia, and true demons, rev...

oh I just remembered there is a romhack called iron emblem where all of your units are generics and basically matched up with the enemies
feuniverse.us/t/fe8-complete-iron-emblem-v1-2-full-length-brand-new-hard-mode/12539
made specifically for ironmanning and also probably you will develop attachments to your random guys without names
doesn't fulfill all the requirements but I always thought it sounded interesting I'll get to it eventually

oh if by using many units you mean switching out each chapter
if you are a god you can do that in any game but within reason I think only tellius and any game like fe6/7 with a good amount of prepromotes is viable for having a bigger working team of units where not everyone is deployed
I kinda had it going on in fe6 being some ehhh 5? units over the usual deployment limit but then shanna got benched and yoder got benched and I didn't have an orion's bolt for shin and douglas got benched and I didn't really need juno or zealot or marcus's rescue shenanigans so lol that unhappened

>if you don't want to play the game just read the 4koma

wanna hear a joke, wade?

mercurius is the sword from fe1
miracle sword is the lady sword from fe4
I think I now remember using that shit but not wanting it to break so after getting starlight it went into the convoy, never to be used again
convoy guy probably fuckin pawned it off as a sushi knife or something

yeah he is from "the heroes we deserve"
all I know about the hack is santa himself and also there's god damn solid snake

so this is what happened to merry gear solid 3, huh...

ok there's the doga thing there it is
ok I will do it
agod







ok I just remembered that if you take A route then elphin does the "check rank" thing and if you take A lalum does that
I have no idea what would happen there because that's more than a difference in units or items

[TSUN]

okay yeah sheeda is fun
kinda homely

yyeeeah good point on the gen 1 vs gen 2 thing
the only interesting thing about gen 2's environments was the contrast between chapter 8 and 9
everything else uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh

the genealogy mango is cool but AFAIK neither kaga nor anyone else at IS had anything to do with it

the author liked the game and was like "hey kaga can i make a mango of this" and kaga was like "sure go nuts"

essentially it's official fanfiction

its got 16 volumes and has 13 of them translated
pretty sure some guys are still working on the translation
it seems very cool but personally imma wait until its finished

1.5 times as in i'm in the middle of my second playthrough
but also im only playing the game once every 2-3 months because every time i play it i remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and stop playing
and then 2-3 months pass and i think "it wasnt THAT bad, right?" and play it and remember why its bad and BOOM YA BEAT THE GAME

"tension and consequences"
uhhh
well some of it is just 'guy who dies actually dies'
but there's also other things like uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh
okay most of it is just 'guy who dies actually dies'
mainly its just the feeling that your decisions matter, and failure can screw you up without directly saying GAME OVER
theres also stuff like route splits, or the whole Arran and Samson archetype

yeah by "using a lot of units" i mean switching some out every chapter or two
i've seriously used more than 25 units in my thracia playthrough, partially due to the fatigue system and partially because some of them died

wow that PoR skill system sounds really cool

permadeath being used for narrative uhhhh

like imagine if two characters have an A support and one of them dies

if the other character is close by, they have some line that goes "oh no! my buddy is dead!"

and after the chapter is over you get a little cutscene of them grieving

or like for some examples in the games:

in the prologue of genealogy, alvis tells sigurd "hey dude keep my bro safe" and sigurd's like "gotcha". but if Azel dies beforehand, sigurd says "actually uhh azel's dead" and alvis goes all "well shit"

the dialogue itself is minimal but it's a nice touch anyway

or uhhh
theres a character in thracia that you can only recruit if a specific other unit of yours has died
which seems kinda funny
though i wouldnt know, cuz he's in the A route and i picked the B route

or like in chapter 3 when you fought eldigan's guys
imagine if lachesis had died in chapter 2 or 3, and sigurd tells eldigan that she was killed by agustria's army, and eldigan goes "what the shit? okay i was on the fence about chagall, but his troops killed my sister? screw that, im joining you guys"
obvs that would totally change the course of the game's story
but an important character dying should mean you get a different story
as the games are now, usually an important character dying means you get *less* story, and that kinda sucks

okay yeah youre outclassed in those and that seems very cool but i mean like uhhhh
ya know
youre still doing like straightforward combat
seems like fire emblem games either have "kill everyone with big sticks" or "run/fly/warp past everyone" as the only ways to get around most problems
what abuot laying traps? like ya know, arrow pressure plate stuff or ropes or mines, and leading the enemy into stepping on one
heck, picking up a rock off the ground and throwing it at the enemy's head. it does no damage, but reduces their attack speed by *just* a little bit-- enough so your guys won't get doubled by their super strong attacks.
or hey, how about utility for black magic? like if an enemy is using a tree/bush for avoid bonuses, using Fire magic against them would burn down the bush and remove those bonuses. or being able to supercharge an ally's weapon with Lightning magic, making it do more damage for a turn or two. or Wind magic having an ability to push enemies back a few tiles, which could place them right over a trap you set five turns ago.
or a chapter in a forest where you sneak up on a group of ridiculously strong soldiers that don't see you, and ambush them from the trees to gain the upper hand.
or a castle map where the powerhouses in your team (cavs and heroes and fliers) storms through the front door, and a second squad (theives and myrmidons and mages) takes an underground passageway into the back. the big battle in front is more about surviving than defeating the endless waves of tough guys. but most of the enemy soldiers are busy fighting that battle, so there's less opposition as the second squad infiltrates the halls and kills the boss. in essence, you're playing both a defense chapter *and* a seize chapter at the same time. heck, maybe after you've defeated the boss, you have to quickly find a way to let the enemy soldiers know that their leader is dead.

things like that definitely happen in the games
for example sword of raging fire has mines and that seems cool
but like i want a game that totally revolves around that sort of thing

and uuuuuuuhhhhhhh yes i am sorta talking about a fire emblem stealth game
you were all like "stealth in a strategy game is like mayonnaise on pizza" and that hurt my soul
sure, FE mechanics as they currently are don't lend themselves well to stealth, but if the game was built around it then i can imagine it being the coolest thing ever
though also it'd be horrendous if done wrong

thracia does a little bit of these things
capturing, escape chapters, staves like Steal and Sleep and Silence
they're cool and i really want more stuff in that vein

okay that iron emblem hack sounds pretty awesome
reminds me of XCOM
in those games everyone is a generic, ironman is the default mode, and it's considered a common thing for your entire squad to be wiped out in the same map. usually you can hire new guys to replace them, but it's a hassle.

what the frick is that solid snake

hey im a faily now

cool

[spongelevator]

ok I am just gonna respond immediately because lolwatever
apparently immediately is 44 minutes later

starting halfway through the post that is
ok wait were you talking about wanting a game like that which already exists or was this theoretical from the beginning
because if it was theoretical I entirely misunderstood
ok yeah I am pretty sure it was entirely theoretical
ok none of this past this point is gonna make like any sense
eh whatever post is already written I post now

if guy who dies actually dies then pretty much every non-fates does that I suppose
oh yeah in fe7 there's one thing
if you kill vaida when she first appears as a boss you can't recruit her later
similar thing to douglas/hannibal except there is no way in hell you are actually gonna defeat her unless you reeeeeally want to and also she isn't unwillingly an enemy or anything
it's only like douglas/hannibal in the "keep boss alive to recruit later" way not in the story way
fates can be said to be a bigass route split but uhhhh I honestly do not think they did it well because christ what did they do
otherwise the route splits I know are the two in fe6, technically fe7 even though lol doing anything other than shr3ktor mode unless new savefile, and fe8
no clue if anything post GBA has arran vs samson type stuff
ok I went and checked the crusty wikia and this archetype pretty much died at PoR
fe6/7 have a handful within them and in fe6 it's dependent on the route chosen

ok 25+ I don't think any game other than maybe tellius would allow for such a thing and I don't know how the uhhh
the weird tellius exp system where units not in a chapter can still get exp actually works so it's possible tellius wouldn't really work with that either
even genealogy doesn't allow for that because it only has 24 characters in gen 1 (didn't bother counting gen 2 maybe there's more there)
it would result in low EXP in most games and probably only be fit for stuff like fe7 with weaker enemies

ok that azel dies thing that's pretty much what I recall the handful of GBA scenes looking like
probably there's not a ton of them but there definitely are a few

dunno how important characters should be handled really
fe1 literally doesn't care
uhhh I do know in fe4 if everyone dies then seliph just becomes ruler of every damn country in jugdral but otherwise I dunno there
fe6 and 7 just make most characters barely important in the cast so if they die you'll get at most a scene or two different and otherwise it doesn't matter again
and then I'm pretty sure in awakening and fates they just "retreat" if important and die if not
a game would probably have to really slim down the number of important characters for that I'd think though conceptually it would be an interesting thing

I guess traps to a very very very minimal extent exist in fates on a handful of specific occasions through dragon veins
like there is one that reduces all enemy HP to one in a castle and there's some in percy's paralogue where you lure enemies onto the space and they leave the map and give gold
but in general aint really nothing like those
I can barely think of any more but I feel there's a couple more they get the job done I suppose
pebble is like throwing a rock at someone's head for the debuffs because speed-4 means they are far less likely to reach the doubling threshold on a unit
shove exists to push back allies and enemies one space in PoR (I know shove exists as a skill in fates but I don't know if it works the exact same way) but otherwise the only way to move em more than one space is fuga's wild ride

that last description is a way some levels can be played but I don't know of any that inherently do that
like fe6 ch19b has a city where you can go in through the front door after a certain number of turns but you can also break in through one of the sides
so you could probably use most of your army as a diversion and then go defeat the boss and seize but not do the spreading the news thing
can't really think of a whole lot more than that one and most people don't bother waiting for the front door to open regardless though

the mine in fe7 is pretty much exclusively for the mine glitch
if any enemy steps on the mine they take like what 10 damage
any unit that places the mine could do more by just attacking normally and if not they're either a healer or belong on the bench
light rune allows for a tad bit japery but it's more impeding movement than doing a small amount of damage and it's also not useful outside of like two spots in the entire game
probably it could be improved in some way but the entire game would have to be changed around the concepts or else it'd just be something that nobody does

by "stealth in a strategy game" I'm referring to the way it was done in rev chapter 24
basically imagine mgs1 (or metal gear 1 or metaru gia tsu: sorrido suneku or whichever one you got to) except turn-based
it's just something that doesn't work and it's either you have boots and win or you don't have boots and it's a rout map because the only reason metal gear 1+2+solid 1+solid 2 work is because they're in real-time
thing you're talking about is a little like mgs3 with its camo and using terrain as cover, laying down claymores or c4 for traps, and the occasional using explosives to mislead enemies and whatever the hell
if we're talking diversions and using terrain to hide that's an entirely different thing because that kind of war tactics soundin stuff actually belongs in a strategy game
of course no idea how it'd actually be done but I wouldn't be surprised if a game of that sort already exists out there

everyone seems to say thracia is pretty much the exception in this series in most of what it has and does though so honestly I wouldn't expect much from newer games
there's capturing in fates but it doesn't work the same way as you said and we got like two escape chapters in fates (though one is a glorified rout unless you're lazy which then it's "walk to the right" and the other one is stairway to heaven) and we got good staves in GBA and fates like whatever silence sleep berserk freeze entrap enfeeble but most of that just isn't really a thing outside of fe5

when it comes to those types of mechanics fates is probably the closest you're gonna get 
entire weapon type and class exists pretty much entirely for debuffs or utility (lockpicking, poison damage for percentage chipping, uhhh forgot what else)
staves are nice and there's new ones
tonics/meals/pairup allow for what is essentially powering up a unit for one map/instance
uhhhhhhh
capturing allows you to use enemy units and there's some fancy famers like rallyman and haitaka
dragon veins very rarely can work as traps but usually aren't suuuuuuper worth trying to get working as traps I don't think
ok well that's the closest I can think of and it is definitely not the same thing but it's got the idea kinda
issue is you get like 28? units in all of conquest if we exclude all non-kana kids so there definitely will never be the option to cycle through ~20-25 units
also a whopping one is a ninja which is the aforementioned utility class and if he has a kid you get midoriko who can be a mechanist which is like a ninja except not good
other classes can use daggers but you probably won't have access to the full shuriken selection for widest range of weird shit
also conquest has 28-6 maps, birthright seems to be very easy and not entertaining on higher difficulties compared to conquest, and rev is thoroughly rotten to the bone so there's not a ton to work with
it's probably the best at doing those things but none of the games I've played do those things to more than a minimal extent really

oh yeah fates and awakening have the whole layers thing
where there can be a top and bottom of stairs 
it wasn't really used in any interesting way outside of maybe one occasion 
I could imagine capture working in a way where the enemy can get away with your units and then on the next castle map you'd have to deploy thieves to go to the basement and slip past the critzerker god guards to free your imprisoned guys then escape
it would be a nice change from the classic vs casual thing where you'd lose your unit for a decent amount of time and have to put in effort to get them back but they aint gone forever


I had one of them xcoms downloaded on the playstation vita apparatus though I did not touch it because the vita has like six hours of battery life when on sleep mode
probably will try some iron emblems first eventually and report back with results

yeah that is soriddo suneku from metaru gia soriddo tsu: sons of liberty
sword loses to lance loses to axe loses to sword loses to RGB6

[TSUN]

yar most of this is entirely theoretical

"this archetype pretty much died at PoR"
:[
not to say i was super fond of its first incarnation
in Dark Dragon you know nothing about these guys so your choice of who to use is so uninformed it's barely a choice at all
but if they were both NPCs that you see several times through the game before choosing, both in story and in battles, then it'd be very cool (this is how Thracia does it)

yeah 25+ units only works in Thracia because the enemies are super weak and you get tons of prepromotes and scrolls
also huh thats funny to hear that, cuz i was planning on doing that sort of thing in the binding blade bad girls run
theres currently 24 units on this theoretical team of mine, and i wanna use all of them and switch between them every chapter or two
there'll probably be a few mainstays but yeah
guess that's gonna just make it harder for me?

by "important characters" i mean like
maybe 5 or 6 non-lord characters
ya know, your Finns and your Lewyns; characters that technically arent 100% required for the main plot but are still considered super important
so killing them would change things a bit
and kinda your Sheedas and Lilinas and Azels and Lachesises; characters that might not have a direct impact on the plot, but should probably chip in from time to time because they have stakes in the events
for those guys you dont need much except a few lines down the road
and for the characters that HAVE to be alive, "retreating" when they die is really really stupid
i'd rather Quan/Ethlyn/Dierdre/Julia just trigger a game over if they're so important

daggers and shove all sound very cool

going off metal gear 1 developed and published by konami for the msx2 computer system
uuhh yeah eughbwah
honestly i dont like that style of stealth gameplay even in real-time, let alone turn-based
that in fire emblem's engine is more like pineapple on pizza

the fe6 style of route splits is my favorite in concept; multiple relatively minor ones, and the second one depends on which units you've been using more
though it seems that you don't get a direct choice which is kinda ehhh

actually what happens if shin and sue and thany and tite are all dead? do you just go to chapter 21 immediately?

also shoutouts to the thracia route split

the A route has two straightforward-yet-challenging chapters and you can recruit 4 awesome prepromotes (including a guy who can use warp immediately)

and the B route has two miserable chapters full of forests and ballistae and WARP TILES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and you are rewarded with the two worst units in the entire game

i picked the B route

going from like 10+ escape chapters to just two per game? tragic

okay the idea you had about capture is almost exactly how thracia does it
your units can get captured by enemies and taken away, and chapter 21x is about breaking them out of prison
it's really cool
the main problem is that if they're captured in early/midgame then gameplay-wise they might as well be dead, cuz they're missing like 10+ chapters and by the time you get them back they're SUPER underleveled
but the only way i can think of remedying that would be to have multiple prison break chapters and the game's story doesn't really have room for that

layers thing sounds cool
personally i would be totally down for 3d if they really utilized it for gameplay
otherwise it's cool, but having it doesn't really do much for me
also bad 3d (e.g. what i've seen of awakenings maps) is much worse than even NES tilesets

but fates and tellius look awesome so what do i know

this post in a nutshell:

"most of that just isn't really a thing outside of fe5"

[spongelevator]

ok I shall detail all the arran vs samsons in fe6/7 because I forgot why

in fe6 echidna vs bartre and lalum vs elphin is pretty much entirely uninformed
juno and dayan are both mentioned multiple times beforehand (I think) and you know where they are (ilia/sacae)
the second one doesn't allow a direct choice but my assumption is that they purposely did this
for the true ending requirements you need shanna/thea alive if you go to ilia and shin/sue alive if you go to sacae
so if one of them dies you're a lot more likely to not end up on that route and you won't get screwed out of the true ending
ok wait I checked again and apparently it's juno/zealot for ch20ax and shin/sue/dayan for 20bx???
so in this case it's more "keep shanna or thea alive so you can recruit juno without having to bring a jeigan with stats lower than roy" and sacae works as I thought I guess lol
if they're all dead and none of them ever got any EXP (a complete tie) you end up in ilia by default
this is why feWOD calling ilia the B route and sacae the A route is dumb dumb stoopid

in fe7 you've got wallace vs geitz and karel vs harken
unlike the ones in fe6 uhhh well
I don't really know how the original arran vs samson went because I just went to whichever village was closer and then boxed whichever one of the two it was because I don't need him
but in fe7 these choices are both imbalanced as all hell and depend on other weird ass dumb factors
first one though
this one is weird because if you played lyn mode you know damn well who wallace is and he starts as a promoted general
but if you didn't play lyn mode you don't know who the hell this bald knight guy running around is
whether he's better immediately promoted in lyn mode to be actually usable or better as a knight so you can level him to 20 before promoting for oswin jr, god knows, but his competition is geitz
standard prepromote in fe7: better than any of the shit you raised up
geitz is the only warrior that doesn't suck in fe7 and he does that shit good
here's the thing though: the split is determined by the combined levels of your lords???
if the combined levels of your lords are below 50, you get sent to a fog of war map where lv10 knight wallace will probably suicide into some enemy like a moron
and if it's above 50, you are rewarded with a not-fog-of-war map with a great prepromote
people don't typically get lord levels that high especially without lyn in lyn mode so lol what the hell is this choice

and then karel vs harken
if you played fe6 you probably know who karel is but if you didn't he's just this edgemaster running around saying his sword thirsts for blood or whatever (not mystletainn) and he killed his entire god damn family so nobody else would know the sword secrets (real)
and then your other choice is harken who is one of the best prepromotes in the game but he's just some guy
the way you "choose" is determined by two things
first, the version of the chapter you're on
you end up on one version if your mages are higher level and the other if your uhhh
physical attackers of a very specific list are at a higher level
to get karel you have to kill three certain promoted enemies by turn 10 on the first route (this probably will happen), or open four or more doors by turn 10 on the second route (this probably won't happen)
to get harken, you just have to like
not do either of those things
what this results in
if you want karel, you pretty much have to go the first route
if you want harken, you just gotta kinda wait around because he spawns in the middle of the map
and also harken is 100% better than karel and everybody knows this so almost nobody will ever bother getting karel
these ones are both ass
if they kept doin it like this maybe the archetype was best off dead

it kinda depends on who's there out of that 24 members
this game is light in promotion items so unless a good portion are prepromotes you're gonna end up light on money
and also you'd probably end up light on EXP
if the mainstays aren't the shitter squad they'd probably end up entirely useless compared to whatever else
the enemies in this game for me weren't fe7 weak until around ilia? maybe after arcadia? and then they stopped being like that after ilia lol
so I suppose it could work because enemies wouldn't be one-rounded until around that point anyway
only on normal though

I think fe4 was the only game I played with actually plot-important playable characters and more than uhh
1-2 semi-important non-lord characters
after ch8 in fe6 ririna is like sheeda in that she recruits things and does not have any lines unless she's marrying roy
fe7 had nils/ninian and matthew who are pretty important or at least relevant and there is one scene that can change if one of em dies but otherwise aint none
honestly when it comes to having characters that "retreat" turning into a game over
it gets kinda like in fe7 where it's "why would I ever bring the characters that make me get a game over if the game doesn't make me" though then again that is the game where 2/3 of those game over condition characters suck ass and if you bring them you get what you get
also I know deirdre/julia just retreat and reappear at the castle next chapter but does quan/finn/ethlyn also do that or do they just piss off forever if die




this is all the escape chapters in the series
basically yeah again only thracia does that shit
no clue what thracia escapes is like but in conquest it's "reach this area at the end of the map"
ch15 is that glorified rout and I have no idea how ch12 and stairway to heaven compare to thracia escapes

oh I always thought captured units in thracia just die at the end of the map if you don't save em because people would say "if leaf escapes first lol you're fucked"
I was thinking something like a castle map every ~5 chapters getting your guys back so your captured units would definitely end up with less levels and lose all their shit as a suitable punishment but still not be entirely useless for the rest of the game
less a specific prison break and more a "throw him in the dungeon!" type castle break because man in this series I have seen my fair share of guys thrown into the dungeon but they never make it into an actual gameplay thing you just seize the castle instead

layers is the only instance I can think of 3d actually being used well really
or rather stairs because stuff like the one awakening map with the doors is just a 2d map put into 3d
only a handful of chapters actually used stairs (for some reason I only remember one but there are certainly more) and after fates it seems the series regressed so I guess we're gonna have to hope for fates mods

yeah nothing thracia does happens in the rest of the games forward or backward pretty much
wasn't it just kaga's final "lmao" to IS before pissing off and making his own stuff
maybe his own games have more of that stuff but all I know is tearring has capture and stuff like personal skills before FE did that and whatever other kaga things so until I bother using the ps vita again I will not know

[Aeon]

spongelevator

the best exp map, as far as i can tell, is rogues and redeemers 3. buncha high level enemies, they come at you so you can just kinda end turn once youre strong enough, and clearing it gives you a copy of the very useful limit break skill scroll

by the way, in almost every dlc map every single character has a couple lines of dialogue the first time they get in battle, so it isn't all boring. map might pose a threat the first few times you do it too

to mix it up maybe toss in an infinite regalia which is a fair bit less exp but much more controlled, and more importantly, snags you three legendary weapons. legendary weapons are the stock stuff when it comes to apotheosis, so pretty helpful. you might also get a bolt axe, but pretty good odds to get something great



thats true if these bitches had genealogy pavise there would be no hope

not all enemies have the same busted skills, they come in groups based on their class, and all enemies in the group have the same skillset (aside from their presumed leader who is just a bit better in every way)



do not worry about the dark dragon i can handle it

if i gotta beatcha to get a skill then thats what i gotta do. the ai are not as smart as you, and without the handicap the level gap plays much to my favor



thanks for the info on the wyvern rider. thats messed up

although fliers arent as good without pairup so i woulda been fine, i do like getting all the units



i am sorry i was talking about mods for other games not fire emblem. i could make one though



magic yeah its all learned

i do like the idea of differentiating magic so that its more than just "uses the magic stat" but it does kinda take out the durability issue

of course you can repair and craft weapons in three houses so it wouldnt be much of a difference even if it were truly consumable



any other three houses op stuff? well my friend have you heard about "divine pulse"

that example is just about as busted as it gets though, aside from some dumb boss only skills and the fact that the game topples like a cardboard stand with basic planning (i have not played maddening)

one more thing about the dancer though its really interesting

you can actually choose to make any one of your units (excluding byleth) dancers. you cant chance it once you do it but pretty nice to not have to lug around someone annoying and also i made edelgard the dancer. my loadout was insane. literally demented. this choice happens like 40% of the way through the game so you may think what if i want lategame unit as a dancer instead

>new units in three houses

simply doesnt happen

awesome gif by the way



TSUN

the exp or gold maps

i thought i toldja about em

yeah nintendo really doesnt want you to softlock yourself

once you have a modded 3ds though choosing to not use the exp/gold maps is basically the same as choosing to not edit your save directly. as long as you got the sense to not to that its fiiiiiine just ignoooore em

everything else is basically a sidegrade/minor help though



did not notice the bit with the hair color

the fact that there is a normative hair color speaks to the very isolationist attitudes of the administration of each country and that despite the ease of travel and relations with neighboring nations they remain ethnically centralized and detached

damn. reminds me of that weird island country that makes a bunch of cartoons



my man said im going to play only a few fire emblem games and then picked. those ones. shouldna burned yourself out on the shitmoders!

although there are a lot of them and you dont exactly see me goin out and downloading everything in the series.

i would say they should make a new one with more edge but they should make a new one for 3ds or computer and thats not gonna happen



from where im standing, the games youve been playin (bar thracia) are the formulaic ones. maybe we oughta give eachother's libraries more credit, yeah?



you wanna play a game with permadeath? well, ya see, [REDACTED]



but we're probably all in agreement that three houses isnt the hypest thing in the world. it got super favorable reviews, so they're probably gonna stick with the same style for the next game, if not even the same protags.

cmon guys i only ask for a bit of pixelart just on the map i just wanna be able to tell what class a unit is at a glance is that so much to ask



watamote's opening IS rad i never watched the anime but that was one of my earliest maps in stepmania. a 12 at 200 is pretty rare and its got juuust the right amount of burst and mines to make it manageable to a chump who was used to 10s



cool that you dont gotta use all of your units because yeah some will invariably be annoying



look at that astolfo video huh. that channel is kinda crazy. questionable? perhaps. but very funny

you dont wanna know anything about astolfo? astolfo? the rider class servant first debuting in fate/apocrypha, the very same astolfo based off of a minor character in classic french mythology, in which he is venerated as a hero of countless battles? astolfo, whose abashedly feminine appearance in the fate series has left a permanent mark on the internet's perception of anime characters as one-note oversexualized gimmicks? he aint actually that bad. funny guy. grand order made it worse, just like everything else



mercurius as miracle? nah, i think that's a different one. mercurius has always been a plain, high mt, whackin blade



spongelevator

sacred stones does have some weird stuff. slightly awakening-like with the map movement but im pretty sure you cant get free exp. i picked ephraim's route and did not get very far! but it mostly just felt like the other ones with some conveniences



i skip a few things



tellius has weighted skills, yeah. on average tellius skills are stronger than 3ds skills but more reasonable than genealogy skills, and there are a lot of them. i think it is a pretty good system and i don't terribly mind having less total slots when its not terribly hard to get skill scrolls for cool ass stuff like counter



you have already explained mercurius. oops



TSUN again hi

traps. great stuff. my pal used to have me do recreations of the vietnam war in garrys mod. he had traps. i know what it is like

i feel like that kind of thing is a lot more fluid and natural in a realtime game like you drop your stickybombs and turret in tf2 or your land mine/fire hydrant in smash

especially once you know how the ai works you will be able to jape them always and forever

omg pebble frmo fire emblem fates that reduces stats by one! classic

weapon map utility and general map manipulation though cool stuff we ahve tyalked about it before at length but i am in support of your cool ideas and will be sure to allocate functionality for them in my engine whenever i feel like and am able to finishing it



one thing i just thought of that might be cool is a threat stat. high threat means enemies are less likely to target you and eventually maybe even run away. wopuld be good maybe you seperate some goons from their boss without even wasting a turn you just take a general with armads and say hi

this mechanic brought to you by payday 2 by the way



spongelevator you know the drill

the weird tellius exp thing is that you get some stuff called bonus exp after every chapter depending on how well you did, kinda like if rank from fe4 was useful, and then you can allocate it however you want between chapters



shove in tellius is something you can do to anyone as long as you have higher con than them (i think), no skill required



i never realized it but yeah you are kinda right fates has a lotta those weird thracia mechanics. just got so used to capture it feels weird that it is not there

ive seen dudes play with all generics and it looks pretty neat. have not messed with the eirnijnrerhjar much

dragon veins yeah are situational even when they are useful but im pretty fine with that. noty a big fan of having to rely on the royalbloods just for their royalty



TSUN damn im slow you guys make like five posts

i have nothing to say actually

hi jpeg curly brace



edit: i was SNIPED because i left this page open for a while and then decided to respond oops

spongelevator the secret snipe post

true endings huh. bit of a trouble there

dont get me wrong im a big fan of em, massive fan, but in fire emblem, does not seem to be handled the best

biggest part being that you have to replay a multi dozen hour rpg to change route, and also because from what ive heard you basically need a guide to get stuff to happen



like

"combined levels of lords below fifty"

cmon whats goin on there



most of what you are sayin i have no idea whats goin on with but i will try to remember it thank you for the information



they made almost all your units appear in every cutscene in three houses! they are all special little boys

of course. there are not many of them

not that it matters though the game is built to prevent any of them from running out of hp, and i'm pretty sure none of your units die die if they did somehow hit zero



kaga may have thought he had the last laugh but now he works by himself using rtp in srpg maker. not terribly glamorous

although im sure the console stuff he made has something neat

edit two: the spacing bug happened again. lmao

[spongelevator]

ok I looked at rogues and redeemers 3 and man they got like 1/8th of the characters in the series up to that point in there what the hell
anyway though I shall remember this for the later times

very well but I cannot guarantee there isn't accidentally midori in that cast with her 8 move and 80+ in every stat so it'll be like running from the ultimate chimera in the lab

ok I found out the wyvern rider only does that if you try to have her fight her dad so uhhh never mind about that
I suppose this is one of them "do not do that" story moments
aint fliers always good
in fe1 you can give sheeda silver lance and also minerva (other than this I know literally zero ways that fliers are good in fe1)
fe4 your flier can go around fucking stuff up when you dump all the rings and magic swords and brave lance on em and is pretty much the only way I was able to finish gen 2 in like half the time of gen 1
fe6/7 you got rescue and your flier doesn't actually need to see combat (this is why juno isn't 100% unusable just like 80%) and I actually use this in a pretty similar way to pairup except somewhat less good
fe9 has the same except rescue is even better because for some reason mounted units have the mount included in their con and rescue works as rescuer con>rescued con by at least 2 so fliers would probably be able to rescue anything that isn't mounted (mounted units can't be rescued in PoR pretty sure)
it doesn't match up to reclassing gunter into a wyvern rider then flying over with GATOR and switching to do pair up+gunter bonuses damage but it's quite good
honestly sad that they fuckin nuked pair up off the face of the earth it got to be cool for like one game

despite mages being cool shit always I don't think I've ever seen magic done as anything more than a bunch of books where each new one does more damage until you finally replace your entire collection with just forseti/aircalibur/nosferatu/luna/lightning(not the light magic version)/whatever
I like what kiiiinda happened in fe4 and what apparently happened more in tellius where you get mages that do one specific type of magic and also the magic weapon triangle
but then apparently in all of these games those mages are just utter shit always
though it would potentially just end up feeling like the 1-2 range version of physical weapons so I dunno what to do with it honestly

I know about divine pulse but good thing I still barely know what basic planning is so it will topple like a stack of cardboard boxes instead
wait so is the dancer also still a combat unit
is it like those people who reclass olivia 90909090909090 times in awakening to get a galeforce astra vantage dancer except in reverse

ok I will hope DEERly that I can find a single one of these three houses tolerable for a 50 hour long shitshow

you all got too narrow scopes you gotta be like ol spangolabrodor and spend real human money on TMS to give every game its fair chance (do not actually do this)

honestly all the shit here's formulatic though innit
well with the exception of genealogy (kinda) and probably thracia I did not play it I dunno
go through ~25 chapters with gaidens on a fake medieval and/or european continent getting units along the way with a mostly minimal story typically involving an evil organization or country and/or dark dragon
archetypes spread throughout too
it's both good and bad but I don't really care
if the game plays like something I want to play I'll note the shit points but it's not like birthright flops over and dies just because it has shitty deaths and a dumb camus and final boss is a dark dragon
I dunno if this is the formulatic meant but if so I just use the select button on round 2

it seems a lot of new stuff that seems not as good as the old stuff gets the 10/10s just because it came out on nintender switch
not that I've played most of them but it seems we are the crusty old gamefaqs users of the middle 2010s left in the dust when our style went out of style
blyat

I almost encourage watching watamote just to see if I am the only one who sees it how it is which is as something that should not be seen
just one teeny tiny taste
the temptation of the devil

what did sacred stones not have some like uhhh
some uhhh
training tower thing filled with skeletons funny and zombies
or was it just "you may visit once a chapter but you are forbidden from bullying the skeletons all the time"

ok I understand now then when people say "tellius has the best skill system in the series"
finally, pavasta

I was thinkin vietnam war with the "they're hidin' in the trees and shit!!!" but I was not there so I do not know
I thought it sounds like something that would work well turn-based because you gotta control like fifteen guys
learning how the AI works seems to crush every fire emblem game though so I have no idea if it would work for an entire game
in fact I'm not even entirely sure how traps could work with AI I still haven't had a normal experience with that
in mgsv if you set down explosive mines (pretty much this game's only traps other than sleep mine or vehicle net) and go hide the game just says "fuck you asshole" and it sends the enemies directly to the place you're hiding after the mine goes off
they have no actual way to know this but they just telepathically detect you're there and they go right there
I had an almost cool strategy for one mission but this made that not so cool anymore
anyway that has absolutely nothing to do with anything so uhhh
stickybombs in tf2 and whatever traps in the smashed bro seem to work because it's PvP and ok I only just now understood why you brought up AI

threat stat/enemies not attacking and/or running away from your guys that destroy them is something I see in a good amount of RPGs
earthbound and mother 3 did it, persona 3 and 4 did it, but there is one very important game that did that
and that's conquest
you know like when the enemies won't target units they can do barely any damage/no damage to
there was something else similar I saw just a couple of days ago about conquest's AI I thought was very neat but I have absolutely zero recollection of what this was
it aint the exact same thing but it's close and I still wonder to this day why they put that AI in just conquest and absolutely nowhere else ever

yeah that stuff bonus exp
I see
it shall be very good for saving up for way too long and then dumping all into one shitty mid-lategame unit so they can be my 2nd worst unit instead of 1st worst
actually if it's a flat amount and not a percentage I can just slap that shit on titania I usin her for entire game anyway so that low exp from kills won't matter

yeah shove is doable by anyone not on a horse or flying horse or flying green horse
it was if shover's con is 2 higher than shovee's con
I went through all the tutorials like god nintended and learned all about the new shits

weird ass dialogue in there
tutorials are good enough and definitely 2nd best but lyn mode actually has you do these things yourself so no strange anna dialogue is gonna be able to match up to that


honestly I found it weird to see capture existed so long ago and yet exists in a whopping two games and is completely different in each
in thracia I see it mainly used to steal weapons or to have an enemy capture your unit so it's easier to kill said enemy
while in fates you gotta capture a guy and then talk to him fifteen times over the span of a week until he finally realizes his eternal fate has been decided without his input and decides to join you out of sheer despair
if you snag a rallyguy though he can make your stats higher so it's easier to kill an enemy so there is your singular similarity 

I forgot dragon veins needing royalty kinda severely limits their usefulness yeah
you could have xander kill like six ninjas or you can have him move a rock into a spot without a rock
take your pick

I forgot if anything other than binding blade has a true ending (unless you count rev which is a 30 hour long training session in oblivion) but the one in binding blade is honestly far less bad than people say it is
it's basically just "don't get a bunch of people killed", "don't use the legendary forblaze on a lv3 troubadour", and then a select few chapters have turn limits that generally shouldn't be hard to get under if you know they're there (this is the guide part)
oh yeah also not killing douglas that is a verrrry guide guide part
otherwise I could see myself getting it by just playing the game and the main asspain is suffering through five shit gaidens, one warpskip gaiden, and then a crummy semifinal and final map

combined level of lords below fifty is for the arran vs samson and luckily fe7 lacks a "true ending" so it's just a one map difference
wallace is funny so I am fine with it honestly (though it definitely is not a good thing)

basically what I sayin here is "fe7 did route splits like fe4 did maps"

haha funny three house turned it into pehsona four!!!!

no clue about the quality of vestaria but it seems tearring is uhhh
well people said there's story and characterization but also it has 
ok I actually don't remember what part made me think "wat" but there's something in there
and berwick seems to have a small but dedicated group of fans where the first thing they say is "play berwick saga"
sounds quality but 
ohhhhh shit I realoaded the page I saw you deposit your three thousand and seventy-eight dollars and fifty four cents into the bank I saw that
we may look like we have rags and no riches but I know what's goin on

[hex]

first time Fire Emblem post

did try to get into fire emblem with the first game

did not go well



once upon a time, humans and dragons lived peacefully, but one day humans forgot their chill pill kicked the dragons ass, in shame they ran away and in turn we went and conquer more like americans.



Fire Emblem on the GBA.



I'll be a girl because that's totally a cis guy thing to do ;')


THere's astrology in the game, guess being born in July meant I burned to a crisp which is accurate.

Ew is this a visual novel


Much better.

What is a ger? A word that doesn't exist probably except if we speak about this beautiful commune in France populated only of 807 inhabitants in the region of Normandie.

No parents, no need for permission B)

B skips text like start, okay then, thanks game now i have to restart now (<- Noob)

so this is, escort mission : the game; let's go

we're going to beat you up


Holy shit, the master sword is being stolen! Wanna go ask villagers about fighting tactics before.
pretty much what cops does actually

this game would make a great remake on pc, i wonder if that's a thing, it's another comfort to play a strategy game with a mouse.

okay time to kick ass of crystal pepsi......
wait shit i forgot the spear

okay i got it, wait what i can't use it
well uh, here get your spear back Kent (god i must look like an idiot)

Want to give up?

who the fuck is this and no, i want Sain to get off Kent- that sounds gay

Shinji Ikari be like

This is enough!

I have nothing special!

god I don't like when the character turn to talk to me, i feel so out of placeee.
Lord Lungren really gives me vibe:

that's all i played for now, neat game, dunno if i'd said great but it's a really fun tactical RPG thus far and I'll play some more.

[spongelevator]

based fe7 enjoyer (best game to start)

lyn mode (this first part, ~10? chapters) must be savoured because after playing like four more fire emblem games it feels like waiting at the doctor's office for three hours BUT for a first time it is very gud

do not worry it's not a visual novel yet it will be in like 5 years though after third house gets a racing and fighting game spinoff and eventually fire emblem becomes a full-fledged visual novel dating sim (this is what the people want)


there is an option to turn off the tactician so lyn won't talk to the player but I think it's only on a cleared save and I don't recall it happening much past lyn mode

anyway yes is good it gets better after uhhh chapter 10 or whenever when they stop putting the tutorials and do not worry for serra will be here shortly keep goin