FE4/5, Continued
Jun. 12th, 2012 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelAfter completing the Prologue, I have only this to say:
<3 <3 Azel <3 <3
He does get some crap level-ups, though.
As for Sigurd... holy cow. It's like having Seth as your main character. If he can't literally ride farther, hit harder, and kill stuff better than every other unit, it sure seems like it. No wonder he thought he could rescue Adean (Aideen?) single-handedly. I did manage to get him killed in Verdane, though.Dammit, Ayra. I was beginning to think he was immune to everything except the plot.
So far I quite like the gameplay... the huge maps and masses of enemies would make this infuriating without the save function, but there is something very engaging so far in dealing with the character skill sets when it comes to fending off those masses of enemies.
As for FE5... dammit, how on earth does that Chapter 2 boss die? He's as annoying as Hyman in FE11, except with no convenient save point to make resetting easier. Do I have to give Evayle her Fire Sword back and let her handle him? I don't want to. :(
Leaf is probably going to eclipse Marth for "Number of Times I Have Seen the Game Over Screen." I can feel it.
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Things that are not Fire Emblem: reading The Blind Assassin. Excellent book. It took a while to get my head around the story-within-a-story, but once I got into that, all was well. Very Canadian, but I'm into that sort of thing.
Also, Radiohead played the Detroit area last night for the first time since 1997. In other words, back when OK Computer was their hot new album, which really came home as they were doing "Karma Police" during the second encore. It was a brilliant, brilliant show, with both encores entirely deserved, spoiled only by the usual sort of shitty "fan" the Palace of Auburn Hills attracts. I hate that venue.
-x-
Playing games works its way into my dreams like few other forms of media. The night before last I dreamed about, of all things, Lex and Azel. Just... whatever.
<3 <3 Azel <3 <3
He does get some crap level-ups, though.
As for Sigurd... holy cow. It's like having Seth as your main character. If he can't literally ride farther, hit harder, and kill stuff better than every other unit, it sure seems like it. No wonder he thought he could rescue Adean (Aideen?) single-handedly. I did manage to get him killed in Verdane, though.
So far I quite like the gameplay... the huge maps and masses of enemies would make this infuriating without the save function, but there is something very engaging so far in dealing with the character skill sets when it comes to fending off those masses of enemies.
As for FE5... dammit, how on earth does that Chapter 2 boss die? He's as annoying as Hyman in FE11, except with no convenient save point to make resetting easier. Do I have to give Evayle her Fire Sword back and let her handle him? I don't want to. :(
Leaf is probably going to eclipse Marth for "Number of Times I Have Seen the Game Over Screen." I can feel it.
-x-
Things that are not Fire Emblem: reading The Blind Assassin. Excellent book. It took a while to get my head around the story-within-a-story, but once I got into that, all was well. Very Canadian, but I'm into that sort of thing.
Also, Radiohead played the Detroit area last night for the first time since 1997. In other words, back when OK Computer was their hot new album, which really came home as they were doing "Karma Police" during the second encore. It was a brilliant, brilliant show, with both encores entirely deserved, spoiled only by the usual sort of shitty "fan" the Palace of Auburn Hills attracts. I hate that venue.
-x-
Playing games works its way into my dreams like few other forms of media. The night before last I dreamed about, of all things, Lex and Azel. Just... whatever.
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Date: 2012-06-13 01:31 am (UTC)Banditos: *grinning, sharpening axes*
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Date: 2012-06-13 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-14 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-14 12:41 am (UTC)See, the issue with Los Banditos in FE5 is I have to strategically target them to mug the ones with the best stuff. And if they're left with 1 HP instead and die on the counter in the enemy phase, my plans are already damaged on, like, Turn 2.
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Date: 2012-06-13 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-13 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-13 09:09 pm (UTC)(Also, somehow I just now noticed that you mentioned Dry brand sodas in a recent post. :-P There's a restaurant my boyfriend and I have recently fallen in love with that carries them. I had the cucumber flavor just last week, and the lavender not long before that. I thought they were both awesome too! If I get to try the juniper berry or one of the other flavors anytime soon - which is a distinct possibility, given how much I've been craving that particular restaurant's food lately - I'll let you know how they are. :3)
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Date: 2012-06-13 11:48 pm (UTC)They played a new song, "Full Stop," that had been debuted at the previous show. It was good, but it's so hard to take stock of something on the first listen. The light show was amazing for it... amazing in general.
I think my magic moment for the night was when they did "Reckoner," as that's my favorite song off In Rainbows.
Those sodas were really revelatory. I'd sure like to know how the other flavors were. Soda is not my beverage of choice, but those were goooood.
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Date: 2012-06-14 01:08 pm (UTC)I had a couple of friends who went, and they also said it was great. Glad you enjoyed it.
Seems like everyone's playing FE4/5 lately. Azel is just wonderful.