I keep killing them :/
RIP caspar RIP hubert RIP mercedes
I wanna run 2 u
― im led by donky (||||||||), Monday, 29 July 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
tbf killing them is very wonka-esque
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 July 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
doesn't this one have a rewind ability so you can avoid killing them even on classic mode
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 July 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
awakening was funny when it would drop like a level 1 teenage girl in my squad at the start of a mission and i would immediately accidentally get her one-shot killed
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 July 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
it does but who can be bothered
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 06:06 (four years ago) link
am I supposed to rewind to just before the strike that kills in the hope they whiff next time to or do I have to rewind all the way back to the last move taken with that character and not place them in such peril next time?
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
the latter would be how you would use rewind to save them
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
RIP
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
I would rewind to your own birth and lay a better fire emblem foundation with your life.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
you are all dead to me (like many of the recruits of the black eagles who have unfortunately perished at the hands of my complacency and all-round bad play)
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
|||||||| do you use multiple save files? rewinding is an option, after losing someone mid-battle, but if you run out of rewinds or just forget, you can always just load the save file before the battle and try again.
i haven't played a fire emblem before, but i would guess that by mid-end game it'll start to get really difficult if you've lost someone like Hubert who has strong batallion skills
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
hubert is dead* let it go move on
*I swear he turned up in a cut scene last night
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
(no multiple saves, no rewinds. normal/classic. )
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Hubert has passed away to another dimension
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
i saw Hubert at Trader Vic's
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
usually on normal your guys that don't die eventually outpace the enemies in strength by enough that it becomes less perilous
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
RIP dorothea
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
omg
who is still alive? your house is turning into the alamo
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
new dn is ||||||||..._____|||...________
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
edgelard and professor trashcan
sylvain and some other no marks
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
i refuse to talk to sylvain due to his tendency to objectify the women in his life
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
normal/casual is the way to go, blow thru the battles so u have more time to return lost items to the irresponsible inhabitants of garreg mach
― adam, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
this one definitely looks like it's designed such that fewer of the chars are throwaway-able, the older games always shower you with a bunch of paper-thin minor characters outside of the core cast that you don't really feel bad about sacrificing for your cause, whereas this one actually asks you to spend time getting to know everyone before shit goes down
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
do you get a notification when you have maxed out a class for a certain character ? all the guides say don’t reclass until you have maxed out the current class
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
OK... I think I’m staring to get the hang of it. 10 hours in. steep learning curve with lots to learn
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
no one has died in a while
― im led by donky (||||||||), Saturday, 3 August 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
because they're all dead, aren't they
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 3 August 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
RIP hanneman. it was him or felix, and so...
― im led by donky (||||||||), Sunday, 4 August 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
back on my bullshit
RIP flayn. heaven needed another ineffectual green haired lady on a horse
― im led by donky (||||||||), Sunday, 4 August 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
now flayn i can get into
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 August 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Black Eagles: our leader is a fascistBlue Lions: we are all depressedGolden Deer: pic.twitter.com/v926kcEjeH— di!!en (@dillexe) August 2, 2019
― im led by donky (||||||||), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
this game is too long!
― adam, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
so i just started this and i really want to love it but i'm nervous bc there are all these choices to make immediately about who i want to dine with and send flowers to and who i should pair with another classmate to do some menial labor and who i should i instruct and in what etc. and i feel totally lost in making these decisions so i don't understand enough about the systems or the characters i control to figure out what to do. does the game open itself up more or how does one navigate this
― Mordy, Friday, 17 January 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
the game is easy enough that you can't really screw yourself out of being strong even on hard mode, so just do what you feel like and focus on the characters you like and you can automate the instructing stuff if you don't want to do specific builds and just want a default setup for your characters
― ciderpress, Friday, 17 January 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
just bought this, let's see.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Just dived into Three Houses last night. Mordy's right, the beginning is a bit intimidating, but so far kinda loving this Anime Hogwarts vibe. Great presentation all around, and I love that each school already has a VN's worth of characters to delve into. Assuming that's for three separate playthroughs...I went with Hard/Classic, guess I'll see if I regret it!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
Three Houses is one of the easier Fire Emblems thanks to the Divine Pulse do-over feature and just based off the fact that most of your students are powerhouses when properly equipped and trained/promoted into advanced classes. Unlike older games in the series where large chunks of the rosters of recruitable characters are one dimensional healers and thieves archetypes that typically die in a single round of combat and finding the select handful of units that were actually worth using in comparison was a challenge in itself.
For what its worth as someone who isn't big on platformers and wasn't very enamored with BoTW like seemingly every other soul on earth this was my GOTY for 2019 and is the honestly just the best overall Switch console exclusive in my not so popular opinion. If you dig the VN/Persona inspired social aspects on top of the actual tactical RPG part of the gameplay it's impossible not to fall in love with, and will keep you occupied for literal hundreds of hours if you decide to go through all 4 (not just 3 despite the game's title to the contrary) story routes. And then there's DLC on top of that too, but I heard its underwhelming for the cost so I never indulged outside of the free packs and patches they released.
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
I started with Normal/Classic and after ten hours of play realized i had made a terrible mistake. Just entirely too easy. Restarted (with EdgeLard, which i kinda regret, so dour) and am now finally in new territory. It's likely to hold me till the end of the year.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
Heh, Edelgard seemed up my alley, went with her too. Looking forward to her blue-blooded prissy fascism. If I like this enough I'll go with Yellow Weirdos next time.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
yellow weirdos were my normal/classic playthrough and i miss them dearly. starting to pull characters from other houses and focused on them.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
Ok a few game days and battles in and I'm feeling it a lot more. There is really IS a lot of overwhelming information/choices at the beginning.Should I go ahead and just recruit some other kids from the other houses? It looks like I have 1 extra slot for that purpose. Though I suppose that might be what the "Mission Assistance" option is for...
Love those little cutscenes showing the student bonding btw
― Nhex, Friday, 23 October 2020 08:29 (three years ago) link
Mission assistance is the extra slot thing yea. Students recruited that way don't level up and are temporary additions for that month only. You can permanently recruit basically everyone from the rival houses sans the leaders and their personal retainers if you meet certain stat requirements or have high enough support rank with them. Sylvain will also ditch his house for you no questions asked if you're playing female Byleth lol.
On the topic of Fire Emblem in general apparently Nintendo is releasing the original Famicom one, Shadow Dragon, outside of japan for the first time ever on Switch in December. The old FE 1-4s are fairly rough to play now but interesting nonetheless.
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Friday, 23 October 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
i got distracted and exhausted with this; should likely go back as i've already invested 25 hours and wasn't really tired of the battle system or the story. The tedium of dicking around the monastery is starting to get to me tho'.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
i also got exhausted by the monastery and quit around 25-30 hours in. it takes so loooooong to walk around the monastery and find all the things! it really is exhausting.
sorry to talk about hades in this thread, but i was surprised to find that its story and characters were much more fun and engaging than fire emblem's, especially because we already know most of the characters in hades (persephone, orpheus, hermes, etc). but the story is integrated into the game in a much more satisfying and addicting way. the hub area in hades is much, much smaller than fire emblem, and it's amazing how much that changes things. if you need to talk to Achilles, for example, you just walk 4 seconds to the left and talk to him. he's almost always in the same place.
hades!
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 October 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
can't you just skip the monastery if you don't want to play it? or is there a lot of required stuff beyond the beginning
― Nhex, Friday, 23 October 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
yeh you can skip a lot of the monastery stuff if you just want to get through the storyinterested to know if the translation for the very first FE is a recent thing or if they've had it lying around for 30 years like Mother
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 23 October 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
OCD and the many benefits of the monastery grind (especially on hard/classic) makes it feel much more necessary, but no more enjoyable.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 23 October 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
I would like to say though that first battle where all your students are Lvl 1, definitely not so easy to get through completely unscathed! I'm guessing it gets a lot easier as your tots rank up and get classes
Said this in the Switch thread but I may get the FE ROM port just to support more such projects, even if them making it available on sale for only 3 months is pretty obnoxious. Re: the translation, maybe they were able to reuse the scripts from the DS Shadow Dragon, which of course goes for crazy money on eBay now.
― Nhex, Friday, 23 October 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Had a great weekend playing this. Once classes open up and your students can actually do their jobs (that is, Frontline vs. Support vs. Heal/Magic) it's pretty awesome.
One annoying thing: got to the first "real" mission against the Death Knight (the one with all the Warp tiles). He is virtually unbeatable, and I had to find out online that you're supposed to eliminate everyone else but him to end it, so I gotta get through it all again... at least I know I'll try to Steal the Dark Seal before finishing up.
― Nhex, Monday, 26 October 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah, they like to throw curveballs like this at you to make sure you're listening to the dialogue.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
yup. you want to only teach the ones with a full motivation bar to maximize your teacher point usagethen refill the bars on monastery days with meals/gifts/activities
― Nhex, Thursday, 26 November 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Just finished chapter 11(?) and OMG WTF Edie, so furious at you rn, if I had you in fantasy, I'd cut you from my team, I also had another game-related question but I can't remember it now either.
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
Heh. So what did you choose?
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
I sided with her thinking maybe that was the de-escalation route, and when creepy Hubert magicked me away, I reset the game immediately. I'll be picking Rhea's side in all likelihood, but I'll keep the save right before the choice is presented.
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I did. (There is no de-escalation route. FIRE EMBLEM! *jazz hands*) No regrets, though - I bonded with that crew so i was happy to play it out. I'm saving the other choice for my final fourth playthrough, someday.
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
Part 2 makeovers: Pretty tragic all around. Dorothea at least got rid of that stupid hat, and that gown is nice except for the backlessness. Ferd needs a haircut BADLY. I wish Ferd's voice actor was better; he's so often my MVP that I feel a little bad skipping his dialogue so often. Bernie's haircut IDK what is going on, but I love her all the same (and just recently made her a paladin after letting her toil as an archer all this time, which I think may have been an enormous opportunity cost in pwnage). I didn't think that I'd get much use out of the latecomers, but Seteth and Flayn have been great; I benched Lin in favor of green haired anime girl because her white magic is so much more usable than his, and I get the sense that any flying unit borders on OP.
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Sunday, 20 December 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
What class path did you go with Ferdinand? He was garbage all the way through my run, hated him. And yes, the flying units are generally pretty awesome; didn't figure that out until playthrough #2.
― Nhex, Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link
Cavalier > Paladin, with the latter being where he really took off. (I'm currently still leveling him into a Great Knight.)
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
Hitting me hard with the emotions now! RIP Edie, and Ashe and the other students I've now killed because they were all too damned picky about my stats to transfer to my class, and, after the Shambhala mission, maybe Rhea (but I suspect she'll pull through). Speaking of, that mission spikes the difficulty up -- nothing unmanageable, and honestly a welcome change of pace, but clearly it offers much less room for screwing around. I still deliberately delayed finishing off the boss so that I could get my Assassin (Petra) to mop up all the chests -- I'd actually just promoted her to Falcon Knight, but reclassed her down to Assassin again solely for Locktouch. In hindsight, I missed her expanded movement range, and I wish I'd been grooming Ignatz as my backup Assassin instead of letting him languish on the bench, which is where Linhardt deserves to be -- he's too damn squishy to be anything but a healer, and even then, he still has to be in the thick of the action to heal, when someone else like Flayn has Fortify and Dorothea has the adjacent autoheal + much better reason spells.
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
Having just beaten the game, one of my predictions in the previous post is obviously, hilariously wrong.
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Sunday, 27 December 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
I needed a palate cleanser from Bloodborne frustrations and started my NG+ last night. Aside from the interminably slow beginning, I'm looking forward to knowing just what I'm doing in the early stages of the game; I also picked up on a lot of plot details this time around.
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Monday, 4 January 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
So I couldn't get out of the first Garrag Mach mock battle (5v5v5)! The strategy on Normal difficulty of sending Byleth headlong into a bunch of enemies doesn't seem to work anymore. Any suggestions?
― Phänomenologie des Poultrygeistes (Leee), Friday, 8 January 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
creep, overuse the R2 button all the time so you don't move your units within enemy attack range and move your guys slowly. i actually barely used it until my second playthrough...
― Nhex, Saturday, 9 January 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link
Three Houses is really addicting isn't it? I sat down to play it last night and suddenly it was 2am. 😬
― aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, 16 December 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/fire-emblem-engage-nintendo-switch-trailer-direct-1849529563
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Thursday, 15 September 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
Feel like there's no way this could reach the euphoric highs of Three Houses/Three Hopes but I'm still in
― Nhex, Thursday, 15 September 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
My first replay of Three Houses really stalled out because I just couldn't summon the energy to deal with the life sim grind, so with that in mind, should I grab Awakening? I thought the tactical side of 3H was good but shallow/easy.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 19 March 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
I just couldn't summon the energy to deal with the life sim grind
― circa1916, Sunday, 19 March 2023 05:46 (one year ago) link
3H is supposedly toned down, "hard" is old-school FE normal, "normal" is easy.
the monastery is a complete slog, i've never played any of the older games but i hope the unit management is 100% done with menus instead of wasting time walking from place to place and skipping dialogue boxes
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 19 March 2023 10:33 (one year ago) link