|||||||| 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
The first time you see him, Edelgard does tell you to avoid him (a few chapters ago). This time though there's a whole cinematic where he goes up to you and says "only one of us will survive" or something to that effect, so I assumed we would actually fight!
― Nhex, Monday, 26 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Played it again and dammit, you were right - it DID say the win conditions upon starting the battle
Certain classes can/can't do magic, yes? My Byleth is developing Faith but can't cast Heal because he's a Thief, I think...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
yes, that's right. you can change classes at any time as long as you meet the conditions, can even go back to older classes
death knight is beatable in all showings if you know the game systems well enough. i did what the game told me and avoided them but even if i had attempted a kill i'd have failed horribly
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
Beat the game, loved it. Hungry to do it again, and re-recruit my sleepy favorite Linhardt so he can actually survive the final battle.
Does the BIG CHOICE that happens in Chapter 10 only seem to happen in the Edelgard/Black Eagle route? Definitely chuckled when the game came to a halt twice and explicitly said "THIS WILL DRASTICALLY CHANGE THE STORY OF THE GAME", followed by an excellently Feel-Bad route of heroically killing all your former classmates.I looked it up and it seems like it won't happen in the Yellow/Blue routes, making this... four playthroughs. Yowza. Thank goodness there's New Game+.
I both like and dislike the fact that there's still so many mysteries about Byleth, Rhea, etc. even after 50 hours but it's also spurring me to play again, so mission accomplished, Intelligent Systems.
― Nhex, Thursday, 5 November 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
Is this as hard as, say, Wargroove?
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Thursday, 5 November 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Haven't played Wargroove but I wouldn't call this very hard. Nowhere near XCOM level, but like that game, massively satisfying once your little army become godlike warriors. Also there's a time-rewind mechanic that you can buff up throughout the game, and I greatly find this preferable to the infinite-save/reload paradigm for these games.
Most reviews pegged Normal difficulty as being too easy, so I played on and Hard found it all right, though the beginning could be a bit rough. Some of that is due to obscurity, like, the game is not incredibly clear about what weapons/units have advantage over others, and some of the class system is hidden for a while. But this game seems designed for NG+ since you have to play it at least 3 times to get all the story, so I wonder if it's even easier on the second goes. Still, RIP Linhardt.
― Nhex, Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
Around chapter 8 in my second playthrough. NG+ almost feels like cheating, especially since I lost patience and bought my professor level back. That means you can more easily regain student motivation, do three battles per weekend, etc. Also went with "Casual" this time and boy, the game feels very different when you're not in panic rewind mode trying to save every student.
Still love it though. Recruited Catherine, Shamir, Sylvain (lol female Byleth can recruit him immediately with no requirements because he's thirsty as hell) and Ingrid to my Alliance faction. I admit though I still feel more attached to my Black Eagle students and I'll go back for some if I make it to playthroughs 3 and 4.
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
$35 at Best Buy and Amazon, so I'll be picking it up today.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Friday, 13 November 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
I'm confused so far!
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Saturday, 14 November 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
get used to it
― redalph, lord xyzzzz__ (||||||||), Saturday, 14 November 2020 19:59 (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