Fire Emblem

I know for a fact it does, so it's either a difficulty thing, or you're misremembering.

Impending "Who?" jokes.

edited 24th Jun '16 1:04:25 PM by Ekimmak

Still on Awakening, so Happy Birthday Kellam.

• Surge of Def and Str.

• 29 exp.

• Innes Bow.

Edit: Damn. I may have to go back to stat and money grinding people for Apotheosis.

I died multiple times on the first part of the secret path, and then managed to get to the third part today before my team started getting slaughtered. I'm clearly not ready yet.

I just want to finish it you know. So the idea of having to do more is making it hard, but I clearly still suck at it.

edited 24th Jun '16 2:17:05 PM by HandsomeRob

Resetless Loony Plus.

It must be a difficulty thing, i went through the chapter today and that didn't happen.

Damn suicidal villagers still got me on Sophie's chapter. In this case i sent too few people up to Sophie's side and all of the paladins managed to sweep wide enough that it was impossible to block them from the villagers.

I'm playing Fates: Conquest for the first time. I got to the part where you have to choose which nation you support, and... one of them is a DLC? What the hell? Is that really what's happening here, or am I missing something? It makes no sense for them to give you a choice and make one of them something you have to pay for with real money.

Excepting the now-rare special edition cartridge, each cart only has one path on it. You have to buy both of the other two.

The scenarios and maps are almost entirely different between the three, so I'm not exactly offended. The "choice" is more of a framing device than a real honest-to-goodness choice- Corrin is basically a fixed character whose appearance you can customize, not an avatar for the player.

edited 24th Jun '16 11:30:21 PM by Pulse

~Discar, choose Nohr. No hassle with the DLC stuff that way since it's the Conquest route.

Also, good to see you here.

edited 24th Jun '16 11:51:01 PM by Karxrida

I actually sent the bulk of my forces through the fortresses on the centre island, while having just a few units go north to recruit and protect her. The villagers can't get past if an enemy unit is standing right next to an ally unit, so they'll try to go the long way around instead.

If you're wondering why that's there even though you already chose Conquest, it's because theoretically you could have bought the other two campaigns so it still has to give you the choice even if you only have Birthright or Conquest.

Blazing Sword Final Chapter: Light

As the Final Chapter, this certainly lived up to that in terms of difficulty. It was essentially a Boss Rush, with some really tough bosses. It took me three tries to complete it. Thankfully, I had some Legendary Weapons courtesy of Athos, along with Athos himself joining the group. As for the try that succeeded, Marcus and Louise died in the first part. The Druid with the Berserk staff next to Nergal was also a pain when he hit Renault with it and I had the rest of my units scrambling to get away from him until it wore off. Athos did most of the work of taking out Nergal with the Aureola tome, while Hector got the final blow. A "miscalculation", indeed. But it wasn't over yet. We now had a dragon to slay. Canas fell against it, but once again, Athos and Hector did most of the damage to it.

As for the ending, there was so much reference to the game it was a prequel of. It seems all that dysfunction in the Bern royal family did take its toll on Zephiel after all...

New Party Members: Athos (Archsage)

Casualties: Marcus, Louise, Canas

So ends my Blazing Sword playthrough. Now I can join the cool kids on Fates: Birthright and finally begin to understand what everyone here's talking about.

edited 25th Jun '16 9:07:43 AM by Lightblade

I've now begun my first playthough of Birthright. This will be a casual mode run on normal difficulty. My avatar has a boon of "Clever", a bane of "Slow", and a talent of "Mage". I'm not sure what this will translate to in terms of how my character performs, but I tired to create an avatar similar to myself. I also wonder if my birthday will have any effect on him like the minor boost to units that shared my affinity in Blazing Sword. I would have liked to have seen descriptions of the talents before choosing one, though. Some of them aren't very straightforwardly named.

Anyway, on to the actual game. I've played the Prologue and Chapter 1. There's not much to say about my performance, sine it's still teaching me the basics. We had a prologue where a whole bunch of characters I'm not familiar with are fighting each other. I'm sure I'll get to know them better as the game goes on, though.

Birthright Chapter 1: Nohr

Not much to say about this chapter, since the object was just to whittle Xander's heath down while he just takes in, with him not attacking on his own turn and having a Healtile to go to between attacks. I also got to know my avatar's adopted family. There's Xander, who I fought in this chapter. Leo, who's a somewhat snarky mage (at least I'm assuming so). The maids who woke me up with their ice magic. Camilla and her Cleavage Window.

And then after the training session ends, I get good news. I'll finally be able to leave the fortress. How generous of them...

edited 26th Jun '16 8:44:59 AM by Lightblade

Slow is a horrible bane.

Birthday doesn't mess with your stats, just gives you bonuses on the day.

Boon of clever means you'll have higher Mag growth, bane of slow means you'll have lower Speed growth (Not a good choice), and talent of Mage means your alternate class option is the Dark Mage line.

edited 26th Jun '16 9:42:13 AM by Anomalocaris20

Talent affects what your heart seal class will be. When you reach A rank with a same-gendered ally, you can use a friendship seal to change into their class (everybody else needs to reach A+ rank), and when you S-rank someone, you can use a partner seal to change into their class. Additionally, whoever you S-rank with will use their partner seal to change into your talent class (because Nohrian Prince/Princess is character locked).

Because of this, it's recommended that you pick a talent that you wouldn't be getting on your run normally. I think Apocatherapy is one that even a revelations male avatar can't get, which is why I picked that.

Boon and Bane and basically the stat changers of Robin, only now they aren't flat out saying "Strength" and "Magic".

edited 26th Jun '16 9:42:48 AM by Ekimmak

Male avatars cannot get Apothecary or Oni Savage without either choosing it as their talent or marrying Midori or Rinkah respectively.

Female avatars can get every class via friendship seals on Revelation, I believe.

I think they went overboard with making reperations to female gamers for screwing them over in Awakening.

In Awakening, if a female avatar didn't marry Chrom, you'd only have one Robin clone instead of two.

In Fates, if a male avatar marries anybody who isn't a corrinsexual or a child, then you lose a child unit. In addition, the only way to have a sibling for Kana is to marry Azura, who is most defininitely not Corrinsexual, so it's just as well the avatar's genes aren't as overpowered as they used to be.

There's also , which is a really dickish move.

edited 26th Jun '16 10:21:02 AM by Ekimmak

Eh? I only ever had one Robinspawn because I married child characters. Since the class system is less tilted in the Avatar's favor, a third-gen Kana is probably a better deal qnyway.

Perhaps.

But there's something very uncomfortable about marrying someone else's child, probably worse than Awakening was, because they aren't just an alternate universe version, they literally are the same character.

That relationship stuff sounds complicated. I'll probably understand it better as the game goes on, though.

Anyway...

Birthright Chapter 2: Gift of Ganglari

So, I finally meet my father. And after giving me the sword the chapter's named after, orders me, along with Gunther the Paladin and Felicia the Maid to execute some prisoners with it. As for the battle itself, this was basically stand on the healtiles and let them come to us. I'm finding daggers to be an interesting weapon type, with them debuffing as well as damaging.

Gunter's a Great Knight, not a Paladin.

Oops. I've got some adjusting to do, it seems...

For the sake of clarity, Great Knights are a class that is both mounted and armored and can use all three standard points on the weapon triangle. They typically have heavily lopsided stats, with particularly poor Skill but good Strength and Defense..

More blind Fates DLC, which, since I'm done with Truths and Heirs, means all the miscellaneous other maps.

Forrest's paralogue was also much easier. Part of it was merely knowing what i'm doing, but i think that whole stat inflation thing with Revelations cuts both ways, as i'm really just steamrolling over everyone except Velouria's paralogue this time. Even that crazy boss of Forrest's paralogue wasn't too hard.

Then chapter 19, which is like Conquest 15 but with an all-royal rumble instead of a badly diminished team. I didn't clear the chapter with the replicants all the way, i just killed the enemies that held money drops, and all the enemies that stood before them, which should at last solve my money woes (which were already much-alleviated from being through the gauntlet of Master Seals).

On that note, if you have an Entrap staff, you can use that to pick off the guy they send to kill Forrest when you engage them in battle, and then you can basically take your time with the map.