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fire emblem: waifu roulette

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fire emblem: fates except with even more weird gimmicks

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fire emblem: who even knows

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[JoshuaFH]

I'm on chapter 26, and ran into A BIT OF A SNAG:

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Turns out my plan to make my entire team awesome by making them into Great Knights has backfired into my face SPECTACULARLY, as I'm on Chapter 26, and the penultimate room before the boss is literally just jam packed to bursting with dudes with hammers and beastslayers, both of which hit Great Knights (armored and on horseback), I sincerely didn't think the devs would have anticipated my greedy-as-hell strategy, but no fam they got dis.

I think it goes without saying, I'm very salty right now.

[SOLDIER First]

Crippling Overspecialization kills, kids.
And kills kids.
_{and it's your fault for trying to game the system}

[Reudh]

Wooo, finally we get a release date! It's... May 21st. Christ, Nintendo, what's the deal with the staggered release? X and Y were released worldwide at the same time, same with ORAS.

[Sirus]

Hope you saved enough money for some Heart Seals, Josh

[JoshuaFH]

I have enough money... for one heart seal... MC, it's up to you now!

[Tawa]

You'll be OK. [The final two levels after that are predominantly populated by units with traditional weapons. I'd overspecialized even worse and was eventually forced to go through Endgame by having an uberpowered Xander team up with Corrin and just pull Elixirs out of hammerspace when his HP dropped, but he was fine because his mad defense made it so the Faceless reinforcements couldn't touch him.]

So, I'm working through Birthright now, five chapters in. Honestly, parts of this feel more like, say, FE7 or 9 than Conquest, mostly because the gimmick levels in Conquest were waaaay more gimmicky than the older games' gimmick levels. Or maybe it's just that the gimmick levels usually got reused? Conquest doesn't even have the Obligatory Desert Chapter, or Obligatory Damage Tiles/Volcano Chapter, although [Conquest Chapter 24 comes close to the former.]

Also, having Cain and Abel be ninjas in this game had to have been the coolest decision ever.

[JoshuaFH]

I finally beat ch26. Jesus that was a hassle. I lost Kaze to an hour+ long attempt, and had to restart, but that loss gave me inspiration! I figured out how to cheese the enemies through the wall, and I just had MC whip the majority of foes through the wall with an Umbrella. Honestly, she probs ate too many kills there, but nearly my whole team is at max level anyhow.

Spy's Shurikem best item ever btw. Both bosses didn't even get a chance to fight back

[JoshuaFH]

Anyway, I've noticed something very peculiar. While I'm married to Jakob, and I get the little heart meter that fills up when I bond with him, the very same heart meter shows up when I invite Mozu over, which isn't true for any other character I invite over. What the hell is happening? Is that a glitch? Am I inviting Mozu over for... very risque, Fates!

[Sirus]

I dunno, I saw that same heart meter pop up for one of my characters as well. Odin, maybe? Can't remember who it was but it was before I married Beruka.

[Nighthawk]

I have my MU married to Sakura, and I keep getting the heart meter on Azura, too.

Maybe certain characters have special bond interactions regardless of whether you're married to them or not?

[JoshuaFH]

Conquest classic hard mode, complete! Only 4 deaths: Odin, Niles, then Effie and Silas during the endgame chapter due to a single misclick, and I would have restarted but it would seem mostly pointless in the ultimate fight... plus the ultimate and penultimate fights have to be done in one take with no saving inbetween, and I didn't want to use up more time when I was already so near the end. Time to stomp Birthright classic hard mode for my victory lap before Revelations.

[Nighthawk]

Conquest classic hard mode, complete! Only 4 deaths: Odin, Niles, then Effie and Silas during the endgame chapter due to a single misclick, and I would have restarted but it would seem mostly pointless in the ultimate fight... plus the ultimate and penultimate fights have to be done in one take with no saving inbetween, and I didn't want to use up more time when I was already so near the end. Time to stomp Birthright classic hard mode for my victory lap before Revelations.

Heh... good luck.

I'm not quite all the way through it yet, mainly because midterms ate up my time last week, but from the 20+ chapters I've played, Hard mode Birthright ain't a cakewalk.

Yeah, grinding and all that, but it'll only do so much for you. The enemy placement is positively diabolical in some spots.

[JoshuaFH]

Conquest classic hard mode, complete! Only 4 deaths: Odin, Niles, then Effie and Silas during the endgame chapter due to a single misclick, and I would have restarted but it would seem mostly pointless in the ultimate fight... plus the ultimate and penultimate fights have to be done in one take with no saving inbetween, and I didn't want to use up more time when I was already so near the end. Time to stomp Birthright classic hard mode for my victory lap before Revelations.

Heh... good luck.

I'm not quite all the way through it yet, mainly because midterms ate up my time last week, but from the 20+ chapters I've played, Hard mode Birthright ain't a cakewalk.

Yeah, grinding and all that, but it'll only do so much for you. The enemy placement is positively diabolical in some spots.

The game is pretty excellently balanced from my first impressions of it, so it just makes sense that if you get a mode that allows grinding, the game is going to be balanced under the assumption that you're grinding.

Honestly, I'm disappointed Conquest ended when it did, I wanted to spend more time with my peeps and trick them out with even more skills, fine tune those stats, git sum mo' of those support conversations, make mo' babies, just enjoy the adventure some more. Honestly the best part of the ending was that the credits revealed the fight count and kill count of every character, RIP Effie with your 130~ kills you still didn't get an aftergame biographical 

I believe it was FE8: Sacred Stones that gave you a post-game super dungeon to fight in after the story was wrapped up proper, that'd have been cool. I actually never completed that dungeon iirc, but the thought is what counts.

[Tawa]

On Birthright chapter 11.

Where, exactly, should I turtle? I get killed at the end every time because -every- enemy left converges on me.

[Twinwolf]

I'm still stuck on that one, and would like the answer too.