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montagohalcyon2011-07-12 22:45:19

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The Unimaginatively-Titled: Introduction

Well, if you've been looking at the liveblog section recently, you've probably noticed a surplus of Fire Emblem blogging taking place. Presumably you chose this one to take a look at, or you're one of my friendly competitors. If you belong to the latter group, feel free to skip the rest of this section.

A major caveat: As the fifth person to make a liveblog of his exploits, and considering the limitations of a draft run, I'm not planning on going into any (well, maybe a little) detail on the storyline, characters, or mechanics of Fire Emblem in general or Blazing Sword in specific (despite how much I love this game), so here's some recommendations you might try:

If you've never played the series or this particular game, the LP I shamelessly stole the title of for this blog is pretty good: Tanto's Let's Play Fire Emblem! There's another completed one on the same forum of the previous game, Sword of Seals, which takes place in the same universe, and an in-progress one of the next, Sacred Stones, which is a standalone.

If you know the gist of what's going on in Elibe but haven't fully explored the story, Barrylocke, the guy who started this, is running through Hector Mode for the first time to kill two birds with one stone. Seven Characters? Amazing Axes? A First time for Everything?! Barrylocke Drafts Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword He's also got links to the rules we're using.

Finally, if you just want to know who's doing the best, that would currently be Jonnas N. Ein Draft von Feuer Emblem. Jonnas is also playing in German to brush up on his language skills, which obviously makes everything infinitely more cool.

Comments

Alfric Since: Dec, 1969
Jul 26th 2011 at 9:27:28 AM
Holy crap dude, that was fun to read! You got so detailed with everything that happened, and you're quite good at describing action sequences. Great job!
montagohalcyon Since: Dec, 1969
Jul 26th 2011 at 10:54:43 AM
That's a relief; I felt like I went a bit overboard.

I quoted the bit at the end because Lyn (and Guy, but his route up north got clogged with nomads) both get interesting boss conversations with Uhai that I didn't discover for a long time; figured others might not know either.

This chapter was just so frustrating...you never understand why people find fog-of-war so frustrating until you try to play one with only four combat units and your thief isn't one of them.

I actually thought about leaving Fiora neutral for a while so she could fight for me, but I can't bear to sacrifice even undrafted units and it would've ended that way.
Alfric Since: Dec, 1969
Jul 26th 2011 at 4:57:51 PM
I liked reading the quoted bit, especially in conjunction with the parts preceding and following it. It fit in quite well, and I actually hope you do it with the other important high tier special boss conversations.

And I agree with the Fog of war comment. Those chapters are generally well made, but they can be a pain to fight in, since you need to worry about enemies coming out of the shadows and are completely unaware of what they're capable of. It only gets worse in Jaffars chapter, when you have to worry about Ursula sniping you from the shadows with Bolting spells, alongside everything else.
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