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Fire Emblem: Different Dimensions: Ostian Princess (also known as Fire Emblem: Ostian Princess) is a Game Mod of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade made by a Brazilian romhacker that goes by the name "Mig64". Ostian Princess is an alternate history rom hack, in which the player controls the titular Ostian Princess, Lilian.

The rom hack is notable for being So Bad, It's Good. Among other things, the hack gives you units with insane inventories (for example, in the first chapter, there is a player unit who has a Brave Sword, a Light Brand and a Silver Sword on chapter 1!) and some weird design choices. You can check out Endorphy's LP of this trainwreck if you want to amuse yourself. There was also a reimagination of sorts, Fire Emblem: Reborn Dimensions: Olethian Princess (or FERDOP) by Random Wizard, which take the base concepts from the game's plot, sets it in an unrelated universe with new characters (most sharing names or similar from FEDDOP's characters, and prexisting FE characters replaced with original characters, for example, Uther is now Uphric), in an attempt to make an actually competent hack.


This game has examples of:

  • Aerith and Bob: You meet people such as Sephyz, Marf, Holy and then you meet people like Zack and Diego.
  • Accidental Pervert: Some of the dialogue of the game was left unchanged which led to some... weird exchanges. Sain flirting with Lyn made him come across as a fairly standard Casanova Wannabe in FE7 because the two are both adults — Axel and Lilian having the exact same conversation at ten years old is a lot sillier.
  • Author Avatar: The default tactician name is Mig, same as the romhacker's handle.
  • Bad Boss: Queen Hellene to her subordinate, Murdock:
    Hellene: "Fail, Murdock. Fail and die."
  • Boss in Mook Clothing: In Chapter 2, where Lilian gets the Mani Katti, the romhacker added an Assassin replacing one of the fighter mooks. The problem? It's an assassin, meaning that if he reaches someone, he has a chance to activate the Silencer/Lethality skill, which kills anyone in one hit. He is harder than the boss from the episode itself!
  • Can't Catch Up: Kin. Combining terrible stats and low movement doesn't do much for him.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: Pick up your killer axe... and kill!
  • Disconnected Side Area: In Chapter 3, there is a house on the north that gives 2000 gold if the player visits it. In the original game, the player had to use the Pegasus Knight to reach it but since Florina, the pegasus knight was replaced by Sephyz, the nearby fighter is nigh-guaranteed to destroy it before you can get there.
  • Disc-One Nuke: Every single character's starting inventory contains equipment far more powerful than is justified for the chapter they join in. Lilian starts with her custom Bolt book with a Brave effect and for some reason a +HP effect, as well as a Guiding Ring. Axel starts with the high-level light magic Divine. Holy has a pair of Boots, which traditionally there is one of in an entire game.
  • Expy: Sephyz, with her long grey hair, sword skills, and suspiciously similar name, seems to be a genderswapped copy of Sephiroth.
  • Glass Cannon: Zack. He starts off with three amazing weapons (Brave Sword, Light Brand and Silver Sword), has good strength and skill... but he has no defense! and he also has no constitution!, that means, everyone will hit him twice and every weapon that he uses will slow him down!
  • Game-Breaking Bug:
    • The game had a tendency to randomly lock up during certain cutscenes, with the starting cutscene of Chapter 4 being a notable offender.
    • Promoting Serra causes the game to glitch out wildly, which usually leads to freezing.
    • The hacker did an incomplete job of removing the Forced Tutorial elements from Lyn Normal Mode. There are many signs of this, but one of the more unexpected ones is that on turns which would have had a forced move, the End Turn command is unavailable.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: Ju, an archer appears in one chapter and suddenly leaves on the next one.
  • The Load: Your Transporter unit in this game is Natalie, who was a Damsel in Distress in her one appearance in The Blazing Blade. Since her stats are unchanged from that appearance, she's incredibly frail and can't defend herself. However, the hacker didn't remove the "game over on unit death" flag from her, so if she dies, you automatically lose the chapter. This means that, even more so than Merlinus, you must babysit her through every level.
  • Manchild: Kin's dialogue is largely recycled from Nils, who is an actual child, but his appearance is a Palette Swap of the very definitely adult man Harken. Nils's dialogue in FE7 was fairly eloquent for a child, but seeing it come out of Kin's mouth gives a very different impression.
  • Mighty Glacier: Holy has every stat capped except for luck, yet only has 2 movement meaning that he will not be going anywhere anytime soon.
  • Previous Player-Character Cameo: ...Sort of. Previous playable units appears as bosses in this game for... some reason. Examples includes Oswin and Legault. Hector also appears, but his cameo appearance is the same as the one in vanilla game.
  • Series Continuity Error: Because the romhacker apparently didn't realize that The Blazing Blade is a prequel despite coming later, some of the returning characters appear to be as their younger selves despite significant time has passed after its sequel The Binding Blade (Lilina is old enough to have a daughter to be the protagonist for one). Even the choices of characters and their new roles makes little sense, such as Hector is slowly poisoned by Uther (who should be dead by the end of The Blazing Blade) instead of being killed during the invasion of Bern, Serra and Matthew serving different Houses, Oswin and Legault acting like lowly bandits, Zephiel appears as his teenage self and lamenting how he wouldn't appear in The Binding Blade when he is defeated...

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