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Gaming Day
Jun. 9th, 2012 07:07 pmWell, I intended to play FE6, but I got distracted by the SNES emulator and ended up playing the Prologue of FE4 and Chapters 1 & 2 of FE5 instead. Both the Prologue and Ch 2 are restart situations because of key losses but oh well. I was playing FE4 "blind" and didn't know how some things worked... and on FE5 I was playing with only one eye on the FAQ and didn't know about the third wave of reinforcements coming out of the sea.
FE5 to this point feels like a pretty "normal" FE game aside from the capture mechanic (said mechanic is awesome). The enemies go down pretty easily, and there aren't too many of those until the reinforcements start pouring in, and the starting party gets pretty sizable pretty fast. But the pain will begin shortly, so I'm not really expecting to beat this game. I'm just having fun beating up pirates, stealing their shit, and leaving 'em for dead. Seriously, I "freed" one captured mook by dropping him straight off a bridge and into the river. It was great.
One quibble-- why are there shops when I have no money and the shopkeeper is speaking gibberish at me and won't buy anything I'm trying to sell him?
As for FE4, well... those are some big maps. Poor Azel is stumbling along in his little mage-robes shouting "Wait for me!" as the mounted units leave him behind in the dust. He's a great little unit, though, despite some shitty level-ups (but hey, it'll be a restart anyway). Sigurd completely lives up to his "solo the field" reputation... it's kind of sick, actually. And when he's not slaughtering enemies, he leaves them with 2 HP so I can feed kills to my Level 1 kiddies. Cuan would be as overpowered as Sigurd or worse except that he can't double, which acts as a considerable limiting factor. Right now Alec is turning in a better performance 'cause he can double.
Oh, and Finn was awesome. And that's not just bias speaking because he kills things reliably despite the whole "bringing a lance to an axe party" business, plus he got three solid level-ups. I'm sorry to delete those.
And this is the point where you say, "But Mark, this is FE4. The game where you can save every turn. Why are you reloading anything because someone died?" Well, I haven't figured out how the savestate thing works yet and the game gives me error messages when I load it, warning me that the files won't save correctly.
Now assuming I get that small detail worked out, I need to decide whether I'm doing run-of-the-mill "canon blessed" pairings or just doing a "pair 'em because they're cute together" kind of run like a novice would do. The only thing I'm set on is Levin/Fury, and anything else is negotiable unless it involves Ardan. Suggestions welcome.
FE5 to this point feels like a pretty "normal" FE game aside from the capture mechanic (said mechanic is awesome). The enemies go down pretty easily, and there aren't too many of those until the reinforcements start pouring in, and the starting party gets pretty sizable pretty fast. But the pain will begin shortly, so I'm not really expecting to beat this game. I'm just having fun beating up pirates, stealing their shit, and leaving 'em for dead. Seriously, I "freed" one captured mook by dropping him straight off a bridge and into the river. It was great.
One quibble-- why are there shops when I have no money and the shopkeeper is speaking gibberish at me and won't buy anything I'm trying to sell him?
As for FE4, well... those are some big maps. Poor Azel is stumbling along in his little mage-robes shouting "Wait for me!" as the mounted units leave him behind in the dust. He's a great little unit, though, despite some shitty level-ups (but hey, it'll be a restart anyway). Sigurd completely lives up to his "solo the field" reputation... it's kind of sick, actually. And when he's not slaughtering enemies, he leaves them with 2 HP so I can feed kills to my Level 1 kiddies. Cuan would be as overpowered as Sigurd or worse except that he can't double, which acts as a considerable limiting factor. Right now Alec is turning in a better performance 'cause he can double.
Oh, and Finn was awesome. And that's not just bias speaking because he kills things reliably despite the whole "bringing a lance to an axe party" business, plus he got three solid level-ups. I'm sorry to delete those.
And this is the point where you say, "But Mark, this is FE4. The game where you can save every turn. Why are you reloading anything because someone died?" Well, I haven't figured out how the savestate thing works yet and the game gives me error messages when I load it, warning me that the files won't save correctly.
Now assuming I get that small detail worked out, I need to decide whether I'm doing run-of-the-mill "canon blessed" pairings or just doing a "pair 'em because they're cute together" kind of run like a novice would do. The only thing I'm set on is Levin/Fury, and anything else is negotiable unless it involves Ardan. Suggestions welcome.
