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Well, as I stated in a different thread, Fire Emblem is my current game of play, and I'm really enjoying it 3 chapters in.
I've loved the conversation between the main and Virion, where you basically play chess with him to develope strategies, and the high and might noble apperently plays dirty as smurf.
It was a great scene. :p
Combat is pretty bitchin' too!
Try not to spoil anything, and let us revive the discussion!
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Then there's nothing to discuss but how awesome stahl is!
What about Virion? I'm really like that guy and Fredrick!
I think I'll have to raise their affinity soon.
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I didn't use Virion.
Usually I like to use an archer but I skipped out on him.
Plus archers' skills don't look very useful for their class. They should already have high skill and hit, they need countering moves for when they're attacked......
And didn't train frederick since he was already promoted :)
He doesn't play dirty, he plays ruthlessly. He understands the objective of the game, to capture the enemy general, and he works solely towards that goal. Sacrificing over half his pieces to do so. While the Avatar takes it more as an actual battle, and works to preserve his own units and win a victory according to the terms of battle, but not the terms of the game.Quote:
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A standard, non-spoiler word of advice, Neo: Play it safe with your Supports. Each character can only get an S-Rank Support with one other character, and you want to think those out very carefully, because there is some min-maxing to them. So keep a save file before you start triggering S-Ranks, because you might want to revert once you understand the systems better (or just start a new file, that's an option too).
Unfortunately, a lot of the awesomeness of this game is very, very spoileriffic. The story is great and has some great twists. Characters are amazing, but since you haven't met most of them, that's spoiler territory.
Well, the mechanics of the game are absolutely phenomenal. It really is the best version of a Fire Emblem game I've ever played. A number of the more annoying features have been streamlined out (Weapon Weight, I'm looking at you), and what remains is a core gameplay experience that is extremely simple to pick up, yet has the depth to keep you interested and tweaking it throughout multiple games and save files.
I love having a turn-based game offer such a sound challenge. Beating Castle Apotheosis on Lunatic was an intense hour and a half affair that had me biting my nails down to the knuckle, and I still have the hard mode and Lunatic+ to go.
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Poor Nino, Serra, and Lyn :(
Cleared out Chapter 3 and now have me Pegasus Knight, and god she is awesome. Gained her two levels in that fight, though I had to be careful of the Archers.
And it's good to know I can only S rank once with a character. That I did not realize.
Edit: Also I've got both Roy's Sword and Sigmunds Lance, the latter seems to require a B rank in a skill just to use.
Oh, so you started getting the different character conversations and scenes? Fun. Wait till you get to build up relationships a bit more. Now THAT is fun. Tedious, but fun. MU + Tharja ftw.
So, about the upcoming twist...
(SPOILER)I suspected it from Marths first appearance, if only for identical hair style, but Marth is Krom, isn't he? :p
Edit: Just got Donnel, the farmer kid. One guy made off with a Killer Lance, but I got the other treasure, a Rescue, and got Donnel up to level four in that one map, the last level he got finishing off the bandit leader. :p
I loving having Fredrick to set to support weak guys like him. :p
Edit2:....And I'm already starting to get bored of it. :cry:
You're getting bored, really? Huh. Is it a lack of challenge, or the fact that the story really hasn't started yet?
As for the twist... Ha ha. No. Way more awesome than that. But the first major twist does indeed involve Marth's identity.
Yeah. The Marth thing should be cleared up not too long from now. You may be getting bored because Fredrick is a bit overpowered for the beginning of the game. I'd say it'd be better to not use him at all, tends to lend to more exciting fights not being egregiously overpowered.
I've put in more time in this game than the most of the games I have played. Only to get the support conversations, right after I finished the story.
It's very well done, and my favorite character would have to be Tharja, for reasons.
The challange is fair enough playing through on hard, so it's not that. The gameplay itself just isn't doing a whole lot for me. I'll still probably play for a bit longer, but this happened last time I played a Fire Emblem game. :p
I don't really like the Rock/Paper/Siscors style combat, and outside of what kind of weapon works well on who, there doesn't' really feel like that big of a difference between weapon types. I'll still give it some time before dropping it though, I"m only on chapter 5/6 at the moment. :p
I actually felt the same way when I first played fire emblem...you just move the characters around, you don't control your units during battles.Quote:
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Also, I think as the games go by you notice the weapon triangle less as even enemies with axes get higher hits against swords (axe users usually have lower speed), you do notice changes if you use someone that can use a couple different weapons though.
I can understand that. The combat doesn't have the variety of a game like FFT or Shining Force, it's more like Chess or XCOM. Movement, tactics, and knowing the strength of your units and the enemy.Quote:
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But you should keep going. The story is awesome, and well worth the trouble. Just finish it once. Please? :)