Fire Emblem - Page 150

That may be because I was very skimpy with trying to recruit people-I only recruited Bernadette and the green haired "siblings." It does result in some pretty funny cameos of generic knight NPCs in important cutscenes, though.

none of their characters really figure into any of the part 1 main missions, while there are two that very clearly relate to specific characters in the other houses. Unless I'm forgetting something.

I completely agree with this. Like now I am very curious as to how one of the other routes plays out due to their direct involvement in what happens at the end of part 1.

It honestly didn't get much better. I'm glad I played this campaign first, though, because it really acts more like a teaser for the other campaigns than anything else. Special shoutout to Dimitri for running in and killing himself on my literal goddess even though I had already beaten Edelgard and all her units, and Dedue for disappearing after I killed Edelgard before him.

I will say I was half thinking Claude was the Flame Emperor, just because he was "conveniently offscreen" every time FE showed up, so I was legitimately surprised it was Edelgard. Now I wonder how the heck she would end up with the Monastery as her base of operations in her route, and whether Dimitri is such a psycho in his own route. Damn the replayability!

The only thing that is forcibly carried over is your monastery statue levels you purchased with Renown (which, admittedly, kind of turbolevel your units). I do not believe they can be deactivated, unless I misread the NG+ tutorial. Everything else (professor levels, support levels, skills (!) on all characters you recruited, class mastery bonuses) has to be purchased by you each playthrough so it's a choice whether you add difficulty in a given play. I think it's a total of 3K Renown to max your professor level back to A+ if you really want.

You do get like 3K Renown for the final battle on Normal as well.

and kind of if you do, *cough* Flayn and Seteth never talking to MC about "the truth" *cough*

Yeah, the 2nd half was a little slow paced in terms of monastery stuff (how did it not get completely demo'd between the 5 year time split? I figured Edelgard would have demolished all of it. But I am way curious to how your route goes with Edelgard since she is the Flame Emperor. Like some of the final maps in part 1 I can't think of how it plays out if you choose her, so it definitely will be good to replay her route.

Map design seemed shrug, there was no map that really stood out to me as 'hey this is super unique'. But the map aesthetics were really good, and none of them felt like giant slogs to go through, so I don't think any of my turn counts in part 1 or 2 exceeded 10 turns (with exception to like 1, or 2 maps total).

So overall my characters were pretty pumping by the end of the game. Byleth was not even my best character by a long shot because getting her to a master class was really hard (having less than 1/3 monastery training time compared to your students really hampers weapon skill growth). Like she hit A rank in 1 thing, where as I had students who hit 3x A/A+ and some even S rank in things.

Top characters: Leonie and Lysithea. These 2 were just power houses, Lysithea after her warlock certification just turned into an offensive monster. Her crest item is +2 magic spell range, so 4 range with 50+ magic in part 2, and she is just 1 shotting anything she attacks, including bosses with Luna (hello 60+ damage luna).

Leonie on the other hand as a bow knight, reached crazy defensive capability without losing any offense. In the final chapters she regularly had 50+ crit on top of 30-40 attack from 1-4 range with a bow. Even the final boss she only took 20 damage from, where as most enemies did 10 or less, if they could even hit her.

Claude and Hilda definitely next 2 in my list of doing damage. Both were my Wyvern Lords, and they did a lot of work. Claude a little less with mostly bows, but Hilda doing 60 damage with an axe is pretty hilarious. If they had higher resistance I would have ranked them higher, but I can't complain with how well they did.

Byleth and Catherine rank here. Byleth not getting a master class is really rough. Her unique promotion is decent, but still only on part with an advanced class. Catherine I went with Mortal Savant and she was good all part 2, but not as broken as the 4 above.

My support team of Dorothea and Marianne were good. They had enough magic by late game to physic like 30+ tiles, so thats kinda busted. I never really used Flayn for rescue since her movement was so weak, but with enough levels she was able to at least rescue like 8-9 tiles.

Rest of my team was pretty average. Shamir, Raphael, Seteth, Ignatz, Lorenz were all basically sidelined/back up to pick off weak enemies. None stood out to do anything, but Shamir and Raphael at least were usable in last chapter.

Overall I was happy with the amount of people I had on my team (last chapter 12 deployed + 3 adjutant). In future playthroughs I absolutely will be recruiting more people in part 1, if only to have more people to talk to in the monastery in part 2 for story stuff.

The fact that this was revealed in a support I felt was pretty crazy. This talking point is pretty major for who they are and how they fit into the story, so pretty wild that they never really expand on it. But who knows, maybe it will give us another game regarding their entire backstory.

I feel like it MUST come up on the other routes. Or maybe Seteth/Flayn spill the beans in their S rank with the respective opposite sex? It's pretty funny because 3/4 of their supports with other characters are just hanging a lampshade on it (Seteth/Bernadetta and Flayn/Ignatz were my favorite). That or they really struggled to place it considering I assume they can be killed for real.

I fully supported everyone on Golden Deer, no one comes close to getting their identities outside of Claude/Flayn A rank, but he is never confirmed on his suspicions.

I started a Dimitri playthrough which will take me longer since I won't be marathon running it, so maybe will get more out of supports on this side.