Fire Emblem - Page 168

On February 03 2023 23:10 Archeon wrote:
Are the switch games good enough to get a switch for?

I loved FE7 (just titled Fire emblem here, blazing blade in JP), liked 8 (sacred stones), didn't care that much for path of radiance and the remake of the original. I've been considering getting a switch for a while, but tbh I'm not sure which games other than Zelda and maybe Pokémon I'd buy.

I've been craving for a good tactical rpg in the vein of FE or FFT for a while, sadly there don't seem to be a lot on PC.

On February 03 2023 23:36 Southlight wrote:
I'm on chapter 17 (which I hear is a huge wall) and this is heavily dependent on whether or not you have DLC, and this is on Lunatic, but

S: Ryul, Dancer, Kagetsu, Hortensia, Ivy, Panetta - Ryul has ridiculous stats particularly when paired with Tiki, Kagetsu is just flat-out broken stats, dancer gonna dancer, flying casters have always been ridiculous, and Panetta is the absolute ideal all-ranged physical damage dealer when switched to warrior
A: Anna, Chloe, Yunaca/Shadowman, Merin - mageknight Anna also ends up with some silly stats to go with additional income, Chloe has pretty good dodgetank stats though offensively she can be a bit hit or miss, and the three default dagger-users have all the sillyness that comes with daggers (both thief and wolfknight) along with some busted passives. Merin in particular with her +5 acc/dod for women is pretty whack.
B: Goldmarie, Etie - purely off stats, Goldmarie is a solid brave hero (one of the better all-around classes) while Etie is an ideal backup warrior for ranged hits, just happens to be strictly worse than Panetta.
C: Everyone else - just not statistically standout and their passives not strong enough to make up for the difference, particularly given the distance to Starsphere. Mystera has ok stats and comes with Starsphere SP but I don't believe in single-weapon-type melee characters with non-special stats... you can change her to brave hero or something but she's just strictly worse than Kagetsu and Goldmarie in that role.
D: Louis, Jade, starting trio - raw tanks just aren't very valuable particularly due to Ike, and the starting trio just have some truly scuffed stats



I use my Switch for a lot of things like Splatoon... I believe it has a good amount of SRPGs like Triangle Strategy and Tactics Ogre Reborn (though I believe both are available for PC), while it doesn't have access to games like Battletech (PC), SRW (PS/PC), and shares access to stuff like Symphony of War, so do keep that in mind.

Contrary to the above, I loved 3H - I only play on Lunatic so the first run was brutal (particularly as I usually play these games with a blind first run) but hilarious dealing with instant-move reinforcements and the ridiculous firepower almost all enemies have (second chapter onward your squishies basically get one-shot). If you like building up units this was IMO the best game in the franchise, because no other game has given as much raw flexibility in building up characters from a skills and stats perspective. I still need to clear the 4th route and I'm looking forward to going back to it after Engage to finish it off. I also felt like while the story had its usual JRPG jank moments, overall it was a pretty well-built world/setting with decent characters and a good-enough plot. If anything I felt like there could have been more of certain interactions (ie. Mercedes and another character). However, if you prefer a raw strategy game like TriStrat vs. games like SRW the ability to break things may not be up your alley.

So far about 1/3 through Engage, I find the story and characters absolute garbage - it's very clearly just a glorified advertisement for older FE games and a way to add/introduce 3 dozen characters for FE Heroes. However from a system perspective this is it - the Engage mechanic adds a very cool strategic twist (despite using older characters as Jojo stands...) and the core system comes with a combination of cool older mechanics like Chain Attacks. I will say the UI has been incredibly frustrating though, from having Engage as the first option instead of Attack (why??), not displaying levels (what the fuck??), and being incredibly slippery (how and why??) such that I would hit down arrow and it jumps two menu slots. All that said, this is a game where I've ignored the godawful writing and the UI hijinks because the gameplay has just been that good (on Lunatic). When I look at (JP) twitter and the like this seems the sentiment all around, as I've basically only seeing some rabid skewering of the writing. You could go ahead and just skip all the dialogue and story because it's just that bad.

On February 04 2023 00:08 Southlight wrote:
Chloe's major issue is that she's a flying melee character, and the bow vs. flying hardcounter is well and truly brutal this game such that I think any flying unit comes with a default viability hit. That plus the distance she has to achieve Starsphere means she's statistically arguably worse than many other characters. Her staying that high on the list is a testament to how bonkers her base stat gains are, because she is one of the best mage assassins in the game. Will have to really think about what ring to stick on her though, because while I have Lucina on her for the silly Dual Assist distance I think her viability really goes down without mini-Canto... and she just doesn't have enough SP to get there yet. There are a lot of characters/classes that are IMO simply not particularly viable because of the copious amounts of longbows and Elthunder/Tron in the game.



Yeah I just adore the unit-building that it allows, particularly because you can pseudo-carry-over the building from run to run (via using carry-over points on ability scores) and create some truly monstrous things. I finished Emerald Wind last month and I had this hilarious triumvirate of Sword Falcon Knight (with Dancer +20 Sword Dodge) Ingrid, maxed-abilities Dark Pegasus Lysethia, and the usual 1vX Byleth shenanigans to go with a horde of siege tanks (Constanze, Dorothea, Bernie, and eventually Claude). I still had to wrack my head against certain things and make sure I didn't use rewind too much, but creating those monstrosities has been enjoyable and rewarding, even if it obviously lowered the overall difficulty of the game. Last run I'll probably go back to Fist Byleth because that was too broken to pass up (went with Falcon Knight Axe Byleth this time and it was fine but just strictly worse) - should be able to speed run it for the most part with a busted Byleth, Lysethia, and Ingrid again. Byleth soloing Emerald Wind's final boss was a truly cursed sight to behold.

On February 06 2023 22:08 Kipsate wrote:
Did something change about Master sealing? Do I just send it at level 10 now? i used to greed as much as possible (altho maddening made that hard) but I heard thats not neccesary

On February 06 2023 17:32 Laurens wrote:
Is Lunatic the same as Maddening on the english version? Or does the JP version have an extra difficulty again?