Quote Originally Posted by NeoCracker View Post
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.

Combat is pretty bitchin' too!

Try not to spoil anything, and let us revive the discussion!
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.

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.