Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

[solar harbor]

I just feel bad because he’s the only that’s died

[half sigil]

I am sure it is an honour for him to sacrifice in battle .

[stray cedar]

And you can’t finish this game this month? You have to be close

[half sigil]

You crazy I’m at chapter 13.

[stray cedar]

You promote at what level?

[half sigil]

10

[stray cedar]

Why?

[half sigil]

I have the feeling that my units won’t reach max level anyway . I’m not doing any tower or encounter

I Hope i won’t regret this too much lol

[stray cedar]

I have no other questions

[half sigil]

On a scale of 1 to 10 how stupid am I?

[solar harbor]

I’m pretty sure there are going to be a few “honorable sacrofices” towards the final chapters

[stray cedar]

IDK just it was put out to wait for a while

[gilded field]

The guy who heals?

This guy?

That's your man?

[hexed oxide]

I mean, have you seen that stache?

[narrow swallow]

Bishop Zu!

[tribal umbra]

The alternate promo is what I run with, so much res it's nuts

Put a fili shield on them and baby, you got an anti-magic Apache

[gilded field]

My Miyoo Mini keeps crashing mid skirmish.

[stray cedar]

So 20 goes straight into 21.

[hushed hinge]

Just learned this today. Glad I had two saves running. I can go back to 18 and save Garcia in my off time

[narrow swallow]

Finish it!

[narrow swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/mando-way-mandalorian-star-wars-this-is-the-way-gif-18467372

[stray cedar]

Happy

[narrow swallow]

Grats my dude

[stray cedar]

Last Battle is 3 Battle in one. Be ready

[gilded field]

Me: Recruits Amelia* “i wonder what her best class is. Let me go look it up
Every online source: Amelia sucks butt and is ugly and has bad breath and is a freak

[bright merlin]

Don't believe them. It's what you make of them, as with all characters

[half sigil]

She’s actually the one I am trying to boost right now lol

[tribal umbra]

Man, if Eirika knew what was good for her and the country she'd start a war of succession and take her rightful place on the throne.

Monarchies are fucked

[gusty torrent]

Amelia is the main cause of my save state usage. I'll start a turn and a demon will fly out of nowhere and one shot her

Just got her to level 10 but she still melts

[worldly badger]

Never had a bad Amelia tbh

You just need to immediately take her to the tower and feed her kills until she's up to the same mean level as your team

I don't use Ewan as much because I usually already have a solid Mage by then

[dusky mantle]

Amelia made it to Paladin before Kyle or Franz for me

[tired timber]

More like two and half battles. The last one is a joke

[half sigil]

I’m actually trying to level up both Amelia and Ewan . Without going to the tower . Probably a bad strategy lol

[worldly badger]

Without going to the tower . ~~Probably ~~a bad strategy lol

[stray cedar]

Why are you scared of the tower is the real question

I only lost one character the whole game. It was Seth on the last battle. Oh well

[stiff crescent]

I put Ewan in a skirmish for his first fight and he got killed. Eh well. Ross died in the Ch. 14 throne room 😭 .

[worldly badger]

https://tenor.com/view/omg-shocked-fall-woman-collapse-gif-5259717

[stiff crescent]

Chapter 14 was the worst part of this game so far. I couldn't do that again.

[dusky mantle]

I felt like 15 was arguably worse than 14

But 14 was definitely some fuckery

[stiff crescent]

I beat most of 15 but then lost Eirika, so I have to do it again. But it feels like a lot less BS and more of a balanced fight. On 14 I breezed through the map and ||then the boss was basically unkillable||.

[stray cedar]

I like the towers so much better than any of the chapters.

[stiff crescent]

I agree, I like the towers and the skirmishes the most.

[tired mason]

I wasn’t a fan of the fog of war though. Especially since it didn’t seem to apply for the enemies. They could still move and attack the same turn with it.

[half sigil]

Coming from more hardcore fire emblems , going somewhere just to boost your stats does not seem right . For me fire emblem is not like that lol.

[half sigil]

Good place to die tbh

[half sigil]

Yeah that’s something that I always liked about fire emblem : having a character who acts like the king of a chess game .

[gilded field]

I wish I could go back to the arena.

Turn by turn leveling up really is truely the way to go for me to feel super beefy super fast

(He says, as arena grinding took over 3 hours)

But I also make 100k so.

[dusky mantle]

Yeah the arena was nice, but I was running out of heals because I didn't prep for it

Was good exp for Moulder

[tired mason]

There's also a shop on the same level (at least the first one), so you can farm indefinitely, if you want.

[half sigil]

Wait how can a healer win an arena fight ?

[dusky mantle]

No, healing the fighters

[stray cedar]

I don't understand what you are saying?

[tired mason]

In the other, more difficult fire emblems, there is no way to grind. You have your units and the set encounters in the game and that is it. You can't level up weaker characters in a way that doesn't progress the story, thereby also increasing difficulty.

[half sigil]

I could not explain better than liquid !

[stray cedar]

I still don't understand why you wouldn't use it. If you know all this why do you promote at level 10?

[tired mason]

I'm assuming it feels like cheating to him. shouldn't be a thing.

[gilded field]

I was using Natasha to run to the vendor and the armory while other characters leveled up. If it was a round with a high price to enter, I'd pass to not risk death. But Natash ended the level with like 13 or 14. It was wild.

[gilded field]

I feel like if that was the case, I'd use only 3-4 units to actually fight, and stick with my "make enemies come to me strategy" to power level and create a line of defense on those I wasn't using

That way I'd still power level the ones who hit hard, and not worry about anyone else

(and nothing would change since I basically EXLUSIVELY use Seth and hes always on the other side of the map fighting 10 units by himself and taking no damage)

[tired mason]

I think there are less characters that can just roll everything like this one too, so that would probably be a losing strat, honestly.

[gilded field]

[gilded field]

I'd find a way to make it work

There's always a way to do Solo Runs

[tired mason]

https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Murphy's_Laws_(X-COM)#Battlescape_.28UFO_Defense.29

[gilded field]

Nah, I'm sure i'd be fine

What are they going to do, stab me?

[half sigil]

Yeah as Liquid said . It’s like smith who decided to do pistol start in doom to have a more authentic experience . For me a real fire emblem = no grinding on the side. It’s just too easy to max out everyone lol

[stray cedar]

It is part of the game.

[gilded field]

Im glad this is my first FE because that means grinding IS real fire emblem to me

[stray cedar]

guess he wasn't bluffing

[half sigil]

That’s why I used doom as an example. As part of the game you can keep your weapons from previous stages but some people prefer to pistol start every stage because the game is designed to be doable by pistol starting every level . A lot of other examples come to my mind. Like in new super Mario bros. , you can turn into a bubble at any time as part of the game but some people feel it makes the game too easy and don’t use the bubble, to play like a classic Mario bros . I’m sure it happened to you in some games : even when something is part of the game sometimes you don’t want to use it .

[stray cedar]

So you say you're bad at games and you like to make them harder for yourself?

[gilded field]

I've been looking into it, and seems like FE has had grinding in different forms since FE2. But its been polarizing by the looks of it

[stray cedar]

I am just not a sadist I guess. I play game for fun to have a good time.

[half sigil]

Oh you remember that I said I am bad at games ? I don’t think it’s the case . I’m very decent but compared to other people here I’m bad , that’s probably what I said . But compared to normal people I’m very good lol. I have succeeded some really hard challenges like beating Mike Tyson in punch out . So yeah what I like about games is the challenge.

[gilded field]

I think thats fair.

[stray cedar]

If someone dies do you go back in the game save or do you just start the whole game over?

[half sigil]

For me powering through the game with maxed out units is not fun . To each their own quest . It’s what I like about this kind of threads : seeing how other people play the games .

[gilded field]

I just find it interesting that Grinding doesn't exist in FE 1 (but does in the remake on GBA)
Was in FE2
Wasn't in Fe3
was in Fe 4 in the way of re-enforcements
Wasn't in Fe 5. Its like they couldn't decide if they liked grinding or not

[stray cedar]

Wait so you're not bad at games?

[gilded field]

Seth literally holding all enemy units in this hallway so my archer can just pick them off

[half sigil]

Starting the whole game over ???? Definitely not . I don’t want to lose my time neither lol. Never using saves is way above my level . That’s for gaming gods like Liquid .

[half sigil]

Very interesting . Do you have the list of games that have grinding by any chance ?

[half sigil]

I’m definitely above average . But I play games slowly that’s for sure .

I like to read the text , explore , look up the options , Trying out stuff.

What about you ? Bad player ? Average ? Good? Great? Liquid level?

[waxen mountain]

Chapter 14 was more annoying than hard, too much moving around in corridors.

[half sigil]

You just finished it ?

[waxen mountain]

Yeah

[solar harbor]

For me chapter 15 was pretty difficult. Let me know how it goes for you

[waxen mountain]

On hard, right?

46 enemies??

[solar harbor]

On normal…

[solar harbor]

Yep

It’s not to difficult really. But I kept getting unlucky and misreading the map

[gilded field]

Those were the ones I found. Seems like ALL the GBA games have some form of Arena (to grind in) as well.
And then obviously Awakening and beyond has grinding as well (as those are the ones designed for a wider audience in terms of mechanics from what I'm reading)

Just found another arena, so I'm pushing Ross to 20 since hes only three away. Probably will grind out Natasha, and my Archer so to 20 as well just so I can get her a horse

[waxen mountain]

Frick, I lost my dancer.

Saleh too, this sucks

[half sigil]

Oh that’s some big losses , especially the dancer .

[waxen mountain]

Yeah that was the hardest level so far for sure

[half sigil]

That means we are starting level 15 at the same time !

[waxen mountain]

You mean 16?

[solar harbor]

I lost Forde. And in a pretty dumb way. Not the biggest loss but it still hurts me

[tribal umbra]

Innes sleeps with the fishes, but I got a FalcoKnight out of it, so... eh

[hushed hinge]

Just finished. I think I was about 31 hours in

Still more leveling that could be done and other characters to recruit. Only lost Garcia. Hopefully, if FE wins GOTY, I can get a playthrough with everyone surviving

[dusky mantle]

So far at Ch 16 with no perma-deaths, but that has been by the grace of save states

So technically a lot of perma-deaths

Like most of my important characters if I never restarted chapters or reloaded states. Ross, Garcia, Vanessa, Franz, Colm, Neimi, Joshua, Moulder, Artur, Lute

All of them are necromanced

[half sigil]

No 15. I misunderstood .

[stiff crescent]

Finished 15 last night. It was a cinch compared to 14. Bosses were a joke compared to Wind Man. To find treasure in the desert ||are you supposed to just wander around and wait on every square||?

[hushed hinge]

I didn't lose Garcia until chapter 19 I think. It was definitely preventable, I just pushed it b/c I needed to finish the game

Joshua of course crits the final boss and beats him lol

[half sigil]

Garcia was too old anyway. Time for Ross to take his legacy .

[half sigil]

It was your stronger character ?

[stiff crescent]

Joshua promoted to Swordmaster seems pretty unstoppable

[hushed hinge]

Nope, that would likely be Seth, Kyle, or Ephraim

Kyle ended the game with almost 70 health I think and became better than Seth

[worldly badger]

I finessed Myrrh and had her leveled up with like 6 uses of her dragonstone left

I had her ||kill her zombie dad|| and then the pentultimate boss

[hushed hinge]

ngl I kinda forgot she was even a playable character lol.

[dusky mantle]

Kinda but no? A thief or rogue would have been your best bet for collecting them

[stiff crescent]

I read that after the fact. I don't have a thief or rogue anyway so whatever. I randomly found some boots so I guess I had a little luck.

[dusky mantle]

You what? Did you lose Colm and Rennac? 👀

[stiff crescent]

I promoted Colm to Assassin and I didn't have enough to pay off Rennac so I fed him to the Wyvern.

[dusky mantle]

Coulda got him for free with L'Arachel, that's what I did

[stiff crescent]

Yep, I didn't know that was an option until after the chapter when I read the chapter guide. I've never put her in my lineup.

[dusky mantle]

Ah

[hexed oxide]

Overestimated last 4 chapters mob strength. It's a slaughter

These guys were in that tower for like 3 DBZ seasons worth of the hyperbolic time chamber.

[tired timber]

It's funny to see how the fire emblem thread started slow but ended up being the one with most talking of the three

[stray cedar]

Almost like there is more to talk about in a longer game. Who would of thought?

[small vine]

GOTY!
GOTY!
GOTY!

Lots of meat on deez bones

[hushed hinge]

Easily GOTY for me at this point

I feel like there’s a lot of content left to be discovered.
Need to do Eirika’s run and switch up the units, promotions, etc. I’d love to max level on a second playthrough

[worldly badger]

plus the bonus tower content

you can unlock enemy bosses to use on your team

[hushed hinge]

Saw that. I’m gonna be too busy this weekend to try for more content, so I had to finish it last night

[half sigil]

What really ? I thought of bringing her to talk to him but she was so far away in the castle that I let it go . A 10,000 $ mistake lol

[dusky mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/costly-mistake-lady-decade-expensive-mistake-huge-mistake-gif-26194442

[half sigil]

So far it’s probably on the bottom of my top 5. But I’m just beginning chapter 15 so it could get better .

[hushed hinge]

I haven’t been super plugged in on GOTM this year, but nothing comes to mind I’ve enjoyed more than this one

[half sigil]

For me in order : rondo of blood , turtles in time, Mario and Luigi superstar saga , Popful mail and fire emblem sacred stones .

[bright merlin]

Ridge Racer 4

[hushed hinge]

Interesting, Rondo was pretty fun, but imo TMNT hasn’t aged gracefully

R4 and Goemon would be up there for me

[bright merlin]

Ridge Racer and Harmful Park, but those three games are so different that I don't want to rank them.

[hushed hinge]

R4 and FE have enough content and were fun enough, that I feel a need to return to them.

After beating Rondo and Goemon or Harmful Park, I didn’t feel the need to revisit them

[bright merlin]

I play a bit of Harmful Park during lunch breaks. Perfect time for shmups.

But yeah, I'll definitely play Fire Emblem again.

[stiff crescent]

This is the kind of game that should be GOTY. Something you can play again and have it feel different.

[gilded field]

Seth is now level 20.
Natasha is promoted and already level 5
Ross is now a Berserker
Erika is Level 20 and I'm not sure how to promote. I assume its a story thing. (Would love to find another rapier but I'm betting one doesn't exist)
Neimi is also promoted and now has a horse

This chapter where you get the Dancer has been very fruitful.

I was basically going
Heal with Natasha, person on the arena goes in, fights, Dancer replenishes their turn, fight again.
Rinse.
Repeat.

And if I felt extra spicy, "rescuing" the person after their second fight in the arena, and then moving someone new in to get 3 arena fights in a single turn

[hushed hinge]

Eirika’s promotion is a story beat

[worldly badger]

she also eventually gets a baller weapon

most of the royals do

[half sigil]

I don’t know how goty work . Do we vote for the best game or for the one that we would like to revisit because it has a lot of content ? That’s two very different things .

[hushed hinge]

It depends. Last year we had different categories we could vote on. For example, best soundtrack, best art style, etc.

I think the categories are pinned in the #🎊│gotm-winners-circle

So there’s just a GOTY overall and then subcategory winners

[half sigil]

Yeah I know but according to that , we should vote for the best games in said category . But people seem to say that they vote for the game with the most content so they have a whole year to play it .

[hushed hinge]

It’s subjective

There isn’t an objective standard by which a game is qualified

[half sigil]

Oh I see thanks .

So that means that golden sun is probably not the best game of last year but mostly just the longest lol.

[hushed hinge]

For some, maybe that is the amount of content. I think for me it’s a combination of a bunch of factors, replayability being an important one

[hushed hinge]

No not that lol. A long game doesn’t win GOTY just because it’s long

[half sigil]

Well if there are no objective criteria and a lot of people take into consideration the length of the game, it favors longer games for sure

Like if the game that was the most enjoyed was turtles in time don’t think it’s the case ) it definitely won’t win anyway

Because people will say : there is no more content to discover

[hushed hinge]

Maybe, just depends on the person. I think Symphony of the Night was close to winning the main category

[half sigil]

Yeah another long game with a lot of end-game content . People probably wanted to go for 100% completion

[hushed hinge]

It’s probably part of the consideration, sure. But idk if I’d say GOTY has to be a long game or a long game would win by default.

I mean it’s not like Golden Sun is bursting with non-linear story progression. It’s a pretty locked in JRPG, but it does it very well

[half sigil]

You’re right . Just a (big) factor . The results would be different if we voted in a different context .

[half sigil]

I think goty might actually be minish cap I’m not sure sorry lol

[hushed hinge]

Minish Cap won in one of the sub categories

Best Art Direction. Golden Sun is clearly listed as the GOTY

[small vine]

Golden Sun got overall, everything else was a subcategory winner.

[dusky mantle]

Jesus Christ, I now understand why you called her that

She got herself a regular set of hodonkerdoos

And the outfit doesn't help hide em

[worldly badger]

https://tenor.com/view/tits-fuzz-hotfuzz-gif-7810279

[stiff crescent]

Is that Genshin Impact?

[dusky mantle]

Fire Emblem Engage

Gettin Switch emulation runnin on my new toy

[tired timber]

I think that you're confusing quality over quantity

[half sigil]

You remember when you said that there was not much discussion in the threads ? This month there are already 4000 posts in total !!!

[half sigil]

I think it’s a mix . If the game is not good it won’t get talked much I agree . But even if a game is great it won’t have that much conversation if it’s very short . Like in the wild guns thread , most people said it was great but there was not much to say.

No. Just moving the conversation elsewhere . I wanted you to say something like : yeah it’s awesome I’m happy that the threads are on fire !

What are you talking about lol?

[tired timber]

I believe that a game must not be measured by hours, but by its content

Again. Quantity over quality. Even if the game has more content, that does not mean that said content is good

I'm afraid that those things that you said are just assumptions and nothing else.

What I meant was that people should criticize the game over its content. I can agree that having a short or a long game can be a decision factor for some people, but it's unfair to say if it's good or bad just by those numbers.

Long game ≠ good game

More content ≠ quality content

[tired timber]

And isn't that always the case? I always see the same group of people talking here and it's rare that a different name appears in the conversation. 90% of those who participate / vote do not speak(or at least on the gotx channel). Last month we had almost 50 votes for Mischief Makers. Legend of the river King had almost 40. Vagrant story had 53. However, if you go to the conversations, you will always see the same group of people talking about the games.

Whether people vote because they want to play the game or because they want to see the game winning, I don't know, but I know that everything else you read here is just a sample of what gotx's tastes and preferences really are.

[waxen mountain]

Wow it took a long time but Eirika finally got her own horse

[stray cedar]

Moving along nicely. Game felt like it really picked up from there.

[waxen mountain]

It certainly feels almost over...

[narrow swallow]

This is what I questioned from the first time I joined, lol. But I kinda accept reality of what it is.

[worldly badger]

It bothers some of the old timers because there used to be more of a direct correlation

37 people voted for something, roughly 27-32 people were in the game's thread

Now it seems like we have a game with 45-50 votes and 25 people in the thread

[waxen mountain]

I wouldn't be against requiring voters to have played a GOTM in the previous 3 or so months, but I feel like that would complicate things substantially for Rapid.

[worldly badger]

Yeah

There's not an easy way to police it

It's just weird that there are people who vote and then never play the games or talk about them

Which is kind of a big part of the game of the month discussion group

[tired timber]

Meanwhile I see people in the #1102540186790928415 with completed games that never speak as well

There are some eternal champions who never spoke a word here

[worldly badger]

Book-It people who are just in it for the free pizza hut

Or are using it as a way to fight decision fatigue/over-abundance paralysis

[tired timber]

Well I don't blame those. They're enjoying the server in their own way.

[worldly badger]

Ehhhhh... at least drop a line and let us know if you liked the plot

[stray cedar]

It’s fine. I gone against my own policies and start to block people who lie.

[gilded field]

I got a red eye across the country tonight

Sounds like 7 hours of FE time to me

[gilded field]

Seth solo’d Chapter 13.

https://tenor.com/view/ron-swanson-parks-and-rec-its-so-beautiful-gif-15644547

He was hit a single time. And only lost 3 HP

[olive folio]

Seth is the goat.

[gilded field]

I love him so much. If he somehow dies Im going to be crushed

[worldly badger]

[gilded field]

I really wanted to murder ||Reccan|| or whatever his name was and I came close but I decided he at least wont die by my hand and recruited him. Now to figure out who can use this ||item restoring weapon||

[waxen mountain]

wtf is this gorgon enemy
oneshot Gilliam from 20 tiles away, very cool

[stiff crescent]

Heading into ch 20. Lost a few friends along the way, but had to move on in the name of finishing. Sending 18 units out should be cool. I have no idea what to do with the baby yoda girl we picked up.

[gilded field]

Can someone explain why I cant use the weapon ||joshua’s mom gave to joshua||?
From what I searched online he SHOULD be able to wield it

Also my current killsquads are:

Gilliam 🤝 Ross
Joshua 🤝 Neimi
Seth 🤝 Seth

[hexed oxide]

I had 0 support talks, they dragged themselves through that battlefield not knowing whom they were fighting next to

[tired mason]

For those weapons, you need to have a high enough rank in that weapon category to use it. || you’ll need swords at S rank for Joshua to use it, I believe. ||

[gilded field]

This makes sense. I just finished chapter 15. I must be close because i thought 15 was the end lol

Maybe ill just send him Natasha and Neimi to wipe out a few skirmishes

[hexed oxide]

Compartmentalization is key

[half sigil]

Yeah support talks are hard to get as fuck

[half sigil]

Yeah the story made it look like killing valter would be a big deal . But it was so underwhelming. The story is just going elsewhere . Tbh the story is very lame in this game .

[gilded field]

Oh.
Im liking the story.

I also had Joshua face off against caellach alone so that was a tense and fun few turns. Got some interesting dialogue. And did the same with Valter and Seth. Had Eirika go in, almost die in one hit and then sent Seth in to save the day.

[half sigil]

Oh i forgot that Joshua was the one having a story with caellach. I tried interacting with him with different people but Joshua was on the other side of the map .

Seth was the one supposed to interact with valter ? I know he killed someone’s brother but I forgot who it was .

I have a hard time remembering the characters’ story because it’s so forgettable .

[waxen mountain]

Chapter 19 is kicking my ass

[gilded field]

Damn. Just had my first casualty. Franz didn’t survive the crazy half screen wizard attacks that came out of nowhere back to back

[worldly badger]

Siege tomes are super low hit rate, but when they connect it's a huge pain in the ass

[gilded field]

Im defo sad but not heartbroken. His last words were sad though because it was him seth and Kyle charging forward together

And he was one level from retirement (promotion)

[stray cedar]

Just wait until after the credits roll.

[gilded field]

The whole ending is based on support levels and stuff right?

[waxen mountain]

Anyone else ||expected L'arachel to stab Eirika in the back for most of the plot until they reached her country?|| I must have trust issues.

Anyway I got to what I think is the last chapter but only have 11 units

[tribal umbra]

Eirika WILL awaken her latent LGBT powers and become L'arachel's Queen. I demand it

[half sigil]

No it’s almost the only one that I fully trusted .

[tribal umbra]

Why are you booing, you know I'm right. L'arachel is hot for teacher

[waxen mountain]

She's down bad for Eirika yeah

[sinful meadow]

Fire Emblem: Awakening

[tribal umbra]

Perfection

[dusky mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/we-have-so-many-degenerates-here-incredible-you-know-we-have-so-many-degenerates-here-incredible-you-know-degenerates-degenerate-gif-15576648

[tired timber]

Yup. That pijamas party wasn't a naive invitation

[rain charm]

man i fucked up big time picking this of all three games, on the month where i was also moving house and getting my odin 2 delivered..

its a fun game but i'm not very good with tactics rpgs, and i feel like this is the sort of game that i should really take my time with and learn properly rather than just rushing through lol

i'm probably gonna swap over to doom instead just so i can get something finished this month

[worldly badger]

you do you bb

but vote this as a GOTY category so you can finish or I'll magically target the weak point of your handhelds

ask Jaylash about his Flip

[stray cedar]

I was playing this game when that happened also.

[rain charm]

thats the neat part about the odin 2 - there are no weak points :^)

[worldly badger]

https://tenor.com/view/stfu-stupid-idiot-moron-thatsnice-gif-5806258

[half sigil]

Finishing doom in 2 days ? Good luck !

[urban jackal]

This game is awesome but it legitimately took the whole month for me. Now I just have to beat ||Fomortiis|| to get my little gotm point and keep my streak alive.

[hexed oxide]

Agreed, took me a while but was dam worth it. Was playing Doom on and off in between. Don't think there's any way to get RE done before Tuesday night

[waxen mountain]

it's a great game to pick up and play some 30 minutes on the mini+

[worldly badger]

Tactics Ogre for GBA is my 35xx go-to

[dusky mantle]

I'm at Chapter 17, I gotta summon the willpower to grind through four chapters by tomorrow

[stiff crescent]

I'm at the final boss (I presume). 17-end went fast in my experience. 14 & 15 have been the longest/toughest.

[dusky mantle]

I went into 16 with all twelve of my units promoted except Eirika (who is now promoted) so I felt pretty functionally invincible

[stiff crescent]

That's how I'm mostly feeling now too. My folks dodge almost every enemy attack. My Hero Gerrik is an absolute murder machine.

[dusky mantle]

I went Hero Garcia instead, felt wrong to dump him for Gerrik after such a long tenure

[stiff crescent]

I went Warrior Garcia. Dude looks like a 90's tag-team wrestler (the Road Warriors for those in the know).

[dusky mantle]

Ross Zerker
Garcia Hero
Tana & Vanessa Wyvern Knights
Artur Bishop
Lute Mage Knight
Amelia, Kyle, Franz, Seth Paladins
Marisa Swordmaster

And then a Colm Rogue to sub for one of the Paladins on a chests map

[stiff crescent]

Crap I don't even know who Marisa is. Looking forward to replays of this one 😂

[dusky mantle]

Haha

She appeared in the same map you got Gerrik

Had to have him talk to her

[stiff crescent]

Ohhh, yeah I didn't make that connection. Joshua is my Swordmaster. He's another fierce killer.

[dusky mantle]

Yeah Joshua didn't quite have a stat growth I was happy with, I was powerlevelling him and Marisa at the same time to decide who would get my last Hero Crest

[hexed oxide]

So many brave sacrifices soldiers gave their souls in the final fight. They did not get an ending credit card

As long as it's not the siblings 🤞

[waxen mountain]

As long as it's not Seth

[dusky mantle]

I feel like it's fitting for the invincible Seth to finally meet his end facing the ultimate evil

[hexed oxide]

He wasnt even in top 12 for final fight

[hexed oxide]

Live by the sword....

[urban jackal]

Final boss is a beast if you haven’t been grinding, even with the sacred twin weapons. Unless you don’t care if your units die, then it’s just “throw as many guys at it as possible until it’s dead”

[hexed oxide]

And the day was saved...

[urban jackal]

Haha wait if I kill off all my units during the final boss fight do I get to sit through less “and so-and-so went home to wherever, where they lived out their days as a hero” screens at the end?

[hexed oxide]

Yes

at least the ones that died for me didn't get them

[urban jackal]

Awwww yeah

[stray cedar]

One more day for those late bloomers

[waxen mountain]

I imagine this would have been a much easier fight with more than 5 units...

(I actually have 11 but half of them are useless)

Oh jesus this last battle...

[gilded field]

A survive mission. FUN

[sage ravine]

Sad I won't be able to finish this one in time. Will probably still finish it over the next week or so just for fun though.

I've played a lot of Fire Emblem games but have never beaten one. 😳

[half sigil]

I won’t finish it neither until next week. I think we should open a thread in flashback to keep talking about it

[sage ravine]

Yeah, I'll kick one off tomorrow after the next month of games officially starts.

[half sigil]

What chapter are you at ? I just finished 16

[sage ravine]

Not sure what number off the top of my head, but the first one after you pick which route you wanna take. About half way through the battle at the port.

[half sigil]

11 I think

[worldly badger]

you could blow through that in 6 hours if you ignored all other responsibilities

come on man

[sage ravine]

lol, I'll give it a go tonight, but I actually have stuff I have to do for work today.

[worldly badger]

GOTX is your job now

[small vine]

If it wins GOTY, we'll all have plenty of time to play it

[tribal umbra]

Ephraim might actually get a look in

[bright merlin]

Since R4 is my sound goty, this right here will be my overall goty. The next two games can't be that good.

[half sigil]

This fire emblem is great but it’s not goty material for me .

[worldly badger]

https://tenor.com/view/blasphemy-lies-gif-21274018

[olive folio]

Definitely won't be finishing this game today, but I'm at chapter 17 now, so I'll be finishing it sometime in the next week or two. Then I'll have to go back and play through Ephraim's path. Great game overall, I've really enjoyed it.

[stray cedar]

You did beat all The Nonary Games in a month. I have faith

[dusky mantle]

That's a couple people now who are at chapter 17 (where I am) and figure it'll take em an extra week or so. Now I'm a little worried I won't actually be able to finish this today 😅

[stray cedar]

You can. Last 3 chapaters are really one long chapater.

[hexed oxide]

They must all (besides the siblings) be sacrificed. It will give the end more weight if you lose 90% of your units on the last few fights

[dusky mantle]

Gah, I can't believe that despite being so careful to get everyone, I carelessly missed Cormag by finishing that fight too early

I was wondering why I'm now getting the last character on the roster when I knew I was supposed to get a Wyvern Rider

[stray cedar]

The FE expert let us down without giving much info out.

[gilded field]

So I had Josh and Natasha fall in love but they didnt have anything together in the epilogue?
What gives?

[small vine]

To be fair, I mentioned earlier that Cormag was recruitable #1158014875180740680 message

If they have a PFP, and aren't the boss, they're likely recruitable.

[stray cedar]

I just tying to poke Zu about it.

[olive folio]

Slowish day at work, so I might be able to make some progress. It would be nice to be able to finish this today.

[half sigil]

So archers, dancers, recruits and pupils can only get promotion through a master seal?

[gilded field]

I only lost Franz the entire game. Everyone else lived and was beefy

[olive folio]

F for Franz. He's one of my main units.

[gilded field]

He was but he got an unfortunate critcal against him and couldnt dodge the remaining two units moving in either

Seth carried my entire playthrough. If theres 1 seth fan, its me. If there are 0 seth fans, Im dead

[olive folio]

Seth is the goat.

[hushed hinge]

I used a master seal to promote Ross from pirate to berserker

[half sigil]

Oh yeah pirate also

That means that we can’t promote everyone right ?

[olive folio]

Only losses for me are Moulder and Kroll (lost Kroll when Ephraim and Eirika finally reunited and I had no attachment to Kroll, so didn't feel bad).

[half sigil]

So you can’t use black magic ?

[hushed hinge]

You can promote Ewan into black magic

[olive folio]

I haven't felt anything missing not having black magic, honestly.

[hushed hinge]

Yeah, I ended up being fine just using Lute for offensive magic

[olive folio]

I've got Lute and Saleh and they both seem to work just fine for me.

[worldly badger]

I don't know how many times I could have posted serenesforest.net links

[half sigil]

Ok so fuck knoll . Thanks for the tip !

[half sigil]

Against anima magic it’s better to use black magic

[stray cedar]

Outscoring great.

[olive folio]

Oh yea, I always forget there's a magic triangle.

Chapter 17 done. I might actually manage to finish this.

[stray cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/the-woobles-woobles-pierre-penguin-cheerleader-gif-12509240942260499237

[olive folio]

Duessel looks like Pierce Brosnan.

[hexed oxide]

Agreed. Duessel, Gerik & Dozla were my favorites.

[worldly badger]

I just want to play Awakening now

[hexed oxide]

Who was the dragon girl? I skipped a few story beats. I know she's important because every cutscenes towards the end she was there.

She was never used

[hushed hinge]

I’ve played a little of Awakening, but not much

[worldly badger]

Myrrh

[hushed hinge]

I never used her either

[stiff crescent]

I also didn't use Myrrh. When I had a chance to deploy her she had 15 HP and seemed pointless.

[worldly badger]

She levels up every time she kills something, and she has really good growth, so if you grind her and leave maybe 15 uses of her Dragonstone, you've got 15 tactical nukes to use in the last battle or two. But once that Dragonstone breaks you're screwed

[hexed oxide]

O dam she's a picky eater huh

[stiff crescent]

There are several chars I never used that I want to try our on another playthrough. Myrrh, L'arachel, the dancer...

[waxen mountain]

Myrrh is crazy powerful. I was also afraid of using her at the start but you can do with no worry

she turns into a dragon if someone attacks her and takes 0 damage

[hexed oxide]

I compensated with the lives of my units

[stray cedar]

The dancer gets killed to easy. She helps give extra turn but no real offence or defense. I just use rather use a move versatile character instead.

[olive folio]

Same. I think I tried to use her once, but learned quickly she wasn't really worth one of the limited unit slots.

[stray cedar]

If I could roll with 12 untis the whole game maybe. She worked well in the tower when I was trying to level up new characters. Becasue this game likes adding character at level one when your 2/3 of the way done with the game (very annoying flaw of the game).

[olive folio]

I agree. My main group is so powerful, there's no reason to use newer units.

[waxen mountain]

My final chapter party...
(yes, that's all of them)

L'Arachel died ||but apparently she can't actually die||

[stray cedar]

Seth died on the final boss for me. He got Crit by the last boss. Only unit I lost all game.

[hexed oxide]

You got this!

[waxen mountain]

I already did it!

Was a tough battle

[hexed oxide]

Noice!

[half sigil]

A good strategy might be to refill her weapon with a stalve before it breaks .

[half sigil]

For me she dodges almost everything .

[worldly badger]

I don't think Hammerne works on the Dragonstone

[half sigil]

Thanks a lot for mentioning it, I will change my strategy then lol

[hexed oxide]

Or just ignore her like the chirp of the smoke detector when it needs batteries

[olive folio]

.... Eirika is not the brightest.

[half sigil]

Oh you’re at the famous chapter 18!!

[olive folio]

18 was so easy and those eggs gave some really nice xp.

[vocal stag]

I can see the charm in this, but don't think I'm going to finish this one either. See yall in the goty thread

Just got up to the split point.

[half sigil]

Axryn said that he was going to open a thread in flashback tomorrow !

Quite a few people including me are going to keep playing in November

[small vine]

If GOTM voting closes with the current winners, we're looking at 11 hours of games. Plenty of time to get in more Fire Emblem!

[dusky mantle]

Just beat Ch 17, my whole party just in full beast mode at this point. Ross soloing like twenty of those flyin dudes without taking a scratch, Nessa and Tana swoopin around ganking mages, and Lute up here soloing toe to toe with Lyon

And then just the invincible foursome of Paladins, Seth, Amelia, Franz, and Kyle, take no damage from nobody

[hexed oxide]

Seth at the end of my run when he wasn't in the starting lineup:

[hexed oxide]

Nice man, you're so close, you can do it. Especially with your cadre of mutant atomic Supermen(and women)

[olive folio]

I just rushed chapter 19 to get the achievement for it and lost Vanessa, Cormag, Tana and Natasha. Glad I had a save state right before the battle.

Now I get to do it again and keep everyone alive this time.

[hexed oxide]

Leave them in the digital after life

[stray cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/go-planet-of-the-apes-जा-gif-4833567

[olive folio]

I've lost count of how many enemies have killed themselves on Ephraim in this mission. It's at least 7 now.

[stray cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/jacksonville-jaguars-touchdown-blake-football-gif-7746909

[olive folio]

19 done. 2 to go.

rip Natasha

[stray cedar]

I never used her no big lost.

[olive folio]

I only started using her because I lost Moulder.

I'm apparently not good with healers.

[stray cedar]

Promote you Mages and you don't need healers.

[gilded field]

So i didnt use her for two missions and then did and went “oh. Im stupid”

[gilded field]

What DOES it work on? I cant find an answer for who could use it

[half sigil]

I used it on a silver sword .

[worldly badger]

works on most weapons

repairs their durability loss

[gilded field]

None if my characters could use it when I put it on them

It was always greyed out

[worldly badger]

you need to check your staff people and look at their weapon proficiency

I don't have the game in front of me, but I think it's A or S

[gilded field]

Ahh. I tried Natasha and Larchel

I ended up just saving all the good weapons for the last two chapters

Also never figured out how to promote vanessa so she was just transport duty for the final four missions

Or she would snatch my front lines back after a deep strike mission

[dusky mantle]

This was L'Arachel's big moment to call Eirika a stupid bitch, or for Ephraim to chastise her as a foolish child, but instead L'Arachel is just like ||"well we still have hope as long as there's one left that your stupid ass didn't literally give away to the enemy."|| And we're off to Rausten like we're just following the plan

I'd gladly have dumped Eirika in the fire and continued on after that

[hexed oxide]

|| Lyon after talking to Eirika ||

[olive folio]

Alright, let's get 20 started. Got a few more hours to get it done.

[stray cedar]

I think you have until the new games post.

[olive folio]

Well, looks like I have to wait a little bit longer anyway since my rg353ps battery is low.

[stray cedar]

353ps baller handheld

[olive folio]

Agreed. It's my favorite handheld that I've played on (which isn't a long list since it just the 353ps and the 405m).

[stray cedar]

Wish they remake it with the 4 inch screen. The Arc looks like it might be that.

[olive folio]

I've been thinking about getting the Arc just for that reason. The larger screen is nice. It's also much easier to play Sega games on with the extra buttons.

[dusky mantle]

I been playin on this really obscure handheld

[stray cedar]

I thought you were using your mini ?

[dusky mantle]

Oh this save file has been on more devices than any other GOTM I've ever played. Was on my Win Max 2, my Odin, my Miyoo, even my laptop for a while, and now on the 3DS

[stray cedar]

You spent more time moving save files than playing the game.

[dusky mantle]

Actually I think I started it on my RP3+ too

It takes like ten seconds to move the save

[stray cedar]

I start on the KTR1, then to my RPflip, then to the 405v

[dusky mantle]

See you know what it's like

[hexed oxide]

Aye! I was off and on from G cloud to PC & RP Flip

[stray cedar]

I would of finished on the Flip if Zu didn't break mine.

[stiff crescent]

X55 -> PC -> 353p -> Steam Deck for me

[stray cedar]

Still looked the best on the KTR1. That thing is made for GBA

[hexed oxide]

I quite enjoyed playing it on the Flip, it has become my office drawer handheld

[hexed oxide]

KTR1 a keeper for you?

[stray cedar]

I like it. Not the best. Way better than anything powkiddy made ever.

I sent my off to a "reviewer" for a little bit. It will be home soon.

[dusky mantle]

Holy shit. I had to reload the save state just to capture this moment. 4th turn Chapter 19, Lute just fucking epic one-shots this old creepy fuck.

[bright merlin]

Lute is awesome, just facts

[stray cedar]

Lute is so under rated

[dusky mantle]

Lute has been in contention for my favorite character since the beginning, and this just cemented it. Ross and Tana can fight for second place, but nobody has pulled more nth level epic saves than Lute has, even last time in Chapter 18 she pulled an epic dodge off on the boss lady

[stray cedar]

Had to do some reading up on her becasue you know the FE guy told us, nothing.

[dusky mantle]

You really wanna bait Zu 😅

[stray cedar]

His favorite series he outsourced to a website. Shame

[hushed hinge]

This was my Joshua basically. Final boss fight, Ephraim attacks first, Joshua runs in and gets a crit KO right off the bat.

[dusky mantle]

We'll see how I do, only two chapters away now

[stray cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-the-agents-know-dont-gif-18536773

[urban jackal]

Lot of people shitting on Lute in the gamefaqs board I went to for info, she ended up being my most used character by the end. Versatile af

[stiff crescent]

Lute is my favorite too. I wonder why anyone would shit on her?

[stray cedar]

I spent extra time on Lute after sleeping on her until chapter 16.

[dusky mantle]

Whew, final chapter

That ||creepy dead dragon|| was no match for a heaping helping of Ross wielding Garm

[worldly badger]

https://tenor.com/view/smg4-smg4skill-issue-skill-issue-smg4mario-smg4skill-gif-26104493

[stray cedar]

It's all about this now

[worldly badger]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-i-dont-even-know-who-you-are-marvel-gif-15769006

[stray cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/tropic-thunder-dude-disguised-rdj-gif-11366561

[half sigil]

Maybe because she is too cocky .

[dusky mantle]

Well despite the Lute love, Ross ended up being the major league MVP. RossZerker+Garm was the secret sauce that made a practical cakewalk out of all three final bosses. He just walks up, spins that axe all cool, and WHAM-O YOU DEAD SON. Garcia should be proud.

[olive folio]

Final chapter. Rushing boss. Gotta get this done. I don't care who dies.

[dusky mantle]

It took a frankly absurd amount of "Dormammu I've come to bargain" style time shenanigans through the whole run, but in the end nobody is dead

[olive folio]

Seth made it to the boss and left it with only 9hp. Not sure I can get anyone else in there to finish it.

[hexed oxide]

The siblings

With those weapons

[worldly badger]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-emblem-gba-seth-nintendo-ame-boy-advance-gif-22533419

[olive folio]

Well, the second form got me. I can't beat him in the time alloted with the units I have left at the end. I tried to get it done, but it's just not possible right now. I'll come back and beat the game later this week.

I've noted the game immensely. It was my first Fire Emblem game and now I'll definitely be checking out others in the series as well.

[stray cedar]

What you get from the FE expert

[half sigil]

You almost made it Nice job

[olive folio]

I'm happy I was able to get as far as I did today since I was at chapter 15 when I woke up. I just ran out of time this month to get it done.

[half sigil]

I am still not sure who the zombies are in this game . Is it the “remnants”?

[stiff crescent]

Have you noticed the way they shamble? Total zombies.

[small vine]

Is the KTR1 worth it for GBA? I keep hunting for that "perfect" GBA device, as the RG351P has been the closest, but I don't wanna deal with the KTR1 if it's truly garbage.

[stray cedar]

For RPGs yes

For anything like SMW. No

I played to chapter 16 on one charge. That screen is just as good as the 552

[small vine]

That, and the literal ||necromancy|| that starts this whole show.

[small vine]

552 battery has killed it for me, otherwise it's gorgeous.

[stray cedar]

Why I am holding on to the KTR1. Maybe next summer there will be new buttons and dpad

The one in market place. I am sure you could pick up for 160 if you offered. They want 175 right now

[small vine]

I thought about it

[stray cedar]

Something I don’t see many people doing either that helps a lot. Is switching out the membranes for that ones that come in the box. The stock ones are trash but they come with ones that looked like anbernic made them are better

[dusky mantle]

Zu is happy the fighting is over

[small vine]

Zu is just happy we played Fire Emblem. So am I!

[stray cedar]

All you late bloomers need to give rapid a tip for the extra work he has to do to give you points

[small vine]

Ko-fi for the Rapid guy!

[dusky mantle]

26 hours on my completed save

[small vine]

Respect the nub mod, did that for all of my 3DS models.

[dusky mantle]

It came this way when I bought it from round2

I wasn't sold at first, but I tried out a bit of Majora's Mask with it since I knew that game has c-stick support and it works quite well

[stray cedar]

Oh so you picked that one up

[dusky mantle]

Yeah this is my "beater" 3DS, I leave my blue shelf queen safely on her stand

Has a top IPS and a USB C mod as well, so quite a nice carry device

[small vine]

Same. My Galaxy 3DS with the slightly fucked up top IPS is my beater, all my others are shelf babies.

[hexed oxide]

Nothing better than a handheld that has legitimate mileage (game wise)

[tribal umbra]

Same. My head Canon is that he flew into a rage ||at the death of his brother|| and just flew in a random direction, never to return

[tribal umbra]

Weird way to spell Metal Gear Solid

[gilded field]

This man never experienced a single fight. This man is a phony

[narrow swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/shame-on-you-gif-25797108

[narrow swallow]

My top five would be:

1. Seth
2. Franz
3. Ross
4. Vanessa
5. Zu

[half sigil]

That’s why it’s so interesting to compare . None of those 5 guys were in my final 12!!

So many different approaches to this game .

Like I rock swords and for you it’s axe . But we both use lance .

[narrow swallow]

Already build my Franz to Seth tier

Nothing can harm him

[half sigil]

What do you mean Frank to Seth ?

Looks like a fusion lol

[narrow swallow]

Seth tier

Franz already become Seth at that stage, lol

[half sigil]

Oh i see

[solar harbor]

1)Seth
2)Dozla
3)Gilliam
4)Duessel
5)L’Arachel

[half sigil]

Damn you guys like Seth . Maybe I should have give him a chance .

[solar harbor]

He’s op from the start and I relied to much on him. Thus towards the end almost everyone was underleveled and he was killing everything

[dusky mantle]

1- Lute
2- Ross
3- Tana
4- Seth
5- Kyle Vanessa

[half sigil]

I would thought that raven mage would use more mages !!

[rain charm]

maybe its just a skill issue that i didnt use her a lot earlier, but Vanessa was always a glass cannon without the cannon for me

as soon as i could get her off the field i pretty much did

she was useful for rescuing units but not much more

[half sigil]

Yeah I didn’t really use Vanessa neither . My wyverns were Cormak, Tana and Syrene .

[glad sable]

Started this up last night as its a good excuse to finish it. Had the GBA cart as a kiddo but could never beat it (along with FE 7) finally finished "Fire Emblem" (Blazing Blade) a little over a year ago so this has been on my short list.

Always could use some more FE in my life

[stray cedar]

Maybe the easist FE ever. But, I get it. Want the west to be happy with it