Fire Emblem

Something baffling is that Rennac doesn't get any ending with L'arachel.

They dance in the middle of the battlefield, open to each other, and in the end, Rennac realizes that serving her is the happiest he's ever been.

No need for a romantic ending, just some A support ending would have worked.

Man, that reminds me how welcome a change Awakenings whole "supports don't take place on the battlefield" thing was.

Because Gerik and Tethys having sex in the middle of a battle was all kinds of awkward.

Technically, it was PoR that made that change, but yeah.

I still have yet to play Path of Radiance. Sorry.

Rennac's solo ending is pretty much a paired ending since he doesn't have a paired ending with anyone and L'Arachel is a plot-important character so she can't die and gets featured in his ending (as well as Dozla's Solo ending). So Dozla's the only character to get 2 'paired' endings with the same character.

edited 14th Apr '14 11:12:50 PM by RangerJackWalker

All the more Rennac deserves one. Freaking Dozla got a paired ending with her (Even if his base ending was basically a paired ending as well), so Rennac could have gotten a slightly tweaked ending as well.

Funny how both cases are developed by the same company.◊

Sometimes a person (or company, in this case) wants to do something different. Like how Urobuchi Gen made Madoka Magica, I suppose.

So hey, in Harvest Scramble, the conversations are between same-sex Support partners, right? And Tharja only has Nowi for that? Because I can't get her to talk with anybody else. (Though that conversation is worth it.) Also, which partners get convos in the other Scrambles?

Harvest Scramble is between same-sex friends, minus Robin who supports with everyone. Beach one is between people who don't have a support within first gen such as Chrom and Ricken while Robin gets to talk to all of the winners of the popularity contest in Japan which is Chrom, Gaius, Tharja and Cordelia, with unique converstations is married to one of them. Hot Spring is same as the above only with second gen characters and the popularity contest winners are Lucina, Owain, Inigo and Severa. And the Streetpass characters.

I'm trying to think of who would win in a Western popularity contest. The only ones I think might change are Gaius and Severa over here.

But they're awesome! Might have to add Gregor in there, though.

I like this person's logic. (Even though I ship Lissa/Frederick)

...So, Magikarp shipping?

... But Donnel actually fizzles out a bit by the endgame, and Fredrick is one of the better first gen units due to his skill list being excellent and levels being infinite.

/readingtoodeep

Yeah, Donnel's got kind of a bell curve of usefulness.

to be fair, even when donnel fizzles out he's still 1-shotting every enemy on the map without taking a single hit (and even if it did hit, it would do either 0 or 1 damage) so its not like that really matters much outside of the dlc maps.

It is ultimately highly dependant on how you play the game. Yes, Frederick have good skills infinite levels, while Donnel have inferior stats cap. But you don't actually need to grind that much to beat the game even on hard. If you don't actually maximize everyone in everything, Frederick is kind of terrible, while Donnel is great.

Uhg. What's wrong with me? Paralogue 2 is kicking my ass in my no grinding run. Seriously, I'm on my third attempt of the damn thing.

Tarsen: It depends on the difficulty. The higher it gets, the more apparent his weakness becomes. Avatar actually suffers from the same problem in that they both have good skills that make them very powerful units by virtue of simply having better stats (whether by buffed growth rates or more raw levels). However, Avatar runs into far fewer problems because he/she has better caps, plus access to almost all classes and skills with which to cover up that issue.

Fred's problem is that snails lap the rate at which he gains EXP.

Paralogues 2 and 3 are weirdly hard.

The first time I ran it, everything went horribly and it ended with Anna dying and then Sully died so I reset. The second time, everything was going really well and I tried a new strategy for the boss and his posse. Sully died (again) but she's been a little lack luster this go around so I was just going to take the loss and continue. Then Robin decided to go and get himself killed. What I hate about that one is that, if I had just a little more foresight, this wouldn't have happened.

I'm also taking this chance to use characters I normally don't and I'm contemplating having Maribell replace Lissa as my primary healer since she's been doing really good. Lissa hasn't been bad, either, though so I might just keep both.

Paralogue 2 isn't tough if the goal is just to survive and soak up some extra EXP. Saving the Physic Staff is another ball game, though (doesn't matter if Anna dies in the end, since she doesn't actually die and it doesn't affect Paralogue 4 recruitment). Gotta be pretty aggressive: having Sumia cart a heavy hitter up north ASAP is generally the most reliable way I've found to do it. The Barbarians on the bigger island will ignore everyone else until the village is either destroyed or visited.

Paralogue 3 has the issue of the villagers being wussy and suicidal. This is especially apparent on Lunatic where unless the player has overwhelming offensive power (or a ton of long range Rescue), two of the villagers will likely be dead by end of the second enemy phase. Luckily, only the one is needed for the Seraph Robe, making it not too bad so long as the army has nominal offense and it pretty aggressive with it.

Thing is, my run is pretty restrictive.

I'm only doing the standard Chapters as well as Paralogues 1-4 and 17 (the ones that could be justified as gaiden chapters in any other FE game, basically), I'm not doing any Risen battles or StreetPass battles, I'm not using the Pair Up system since that breaks the game, and I'm not touching Second Seals.

Really, I'm not having any real trouble with a majority of this Paralogue (aside from the RNG screwing Anna over that one time) and have always saved Anna and the village the past eight or so times I played the game. My biggest problem is that I'm just being impatient and charging the boss instead of letting him come to me.

Basically, I just need to stop playing like it's Fire Emblem Awakening and play like it's any other Fire Emblem.

The lack of pair up is probably what make it so hard. I don't grind much myself, about one or two battle between chapters and I train literally every of my characters. I would think that, if you limit yourself to a single main "team", the game would be quite easy (specially since it is usually the Risen that are the bigger challenge to me).

Also, you don't need to save Anna to recruit her.

edited 19th Apr '14 8:42:37 PM by Heatth

I know, but I like keeping the number of casualties for allied units to a minimum. Although, for Paralogue 3, I may just learn which one gives me the Angelic Robe and just ignore the rest.