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Also, one thing that has gotten REALLY annoying, is the comments characters make.
"IT'S NOT GOING DOWN!" "I COULDN'T DO IT!"
No fucking shit!? It's a boss with several thousand fucking life and you do like... 80 fucking damage a hit! NO SHIT IT ISN'T GOING DOWN IT'S ONLY AT 80% LIFE.
I've been running around using Yosuke, Yukiko and Kanji.
I myself have been using the Shiisaa Persona because of its good strength and magic.
...I don't see myself upgrading persona's anytime soon <_<
Because that fucker has been super powered with cards from the strip club dungeon.
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Yes, it is.
omfg this is the most op skill in the game.
Yes, it is.
Say'ri
I'll talk about this character later because I have words about this character, but for now I'll just say that if you care about boss convos, leveling up Say'ri is kinda important for Valm chapters. Luckily she can pull her weight. Sometimes. Kinda.
like this is Ephraim 2.0 where i have to believe it's literally chrom's group trying to solo valm.
I think in some senses that's true, but it might not be quite as apparent now as it will be later. [/spoiler]
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[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 18, click to show]i feel like fighting a battle on a volcano while a cool idea, is a distinctly dangerous idea. like, so many things could go wrong.
I have Say'ri tag along even though it seems unlikely we'll be able to recruit Yen'fay. Recruiting the boss not a very common thing. I pair her up with Chrom but she's really only here to see if she can talk to Yen'fay. Anyway, this is also fairly straightforward, even with the map collapsing all around us. I'm advancing at a decent pace so I never take hazard damage and end up with all the chests. Say'ri can't recruit Yen'fay and I would have let her fight him, but then I noticed in theory if Yen'fay triggered Astra, he'd kill her and that would just totally be what happens to me if I tried, so Chrom fights him instead and triggers Aether so he doesn't even get to take an action.
Then Excellus pops up and tells us Yen'fay was a good guy all along.
shocking
Then we all decide it's time to fight Walhart.
man this arc coming to a close fast
*spends like five chapters fighting against valm's invasion/scrub forces*
"they have three main divisions"
...are we really gonna finish this in 3 chapters, one for each?
Oh, right, Flavia shows up, tells us Basilio died and gives us the gem. dammit it was Ferox's gem. why the hell would basilio hold onto that and bring it to a doomed mission against walhart. secret villain basilio confirmed. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Paralogue 17, click to show]No, because more paralogues. Oh boy another really-a-defend-chapter. oh god it's a defend-an-npc chapter.
I take a look at this map and go, "Well, this looks alarmingly easy. I just send three teams out to intercept the fliers and they'll never even get close to Tiki, and as long as I don't have miserable luck, I won't even be in danger.
Then Enemy Phase 1 happened.
AND THEY IGNORED ME
this is the most pro enemy force i've ever seen. they know the objective of the map and they give zero ****s about me getting in the way.
I'm forced to restart because I simply don't have the units to play offense given they ignore me on enemy phase. Predictably though, their AI switches to paying attention to me in the special case I block access to Tiki, and with 7 units (6 pairs + 1 odd unit out) I can do just that, so it comes down to "Can Olivia and Lissa dodge enough times when they're targetted to live?" The answer is yes, thanks to them not focusing on either exclusively. Bit of an aside but I've been relying on potions to heal for a while now since after second sealing Lissa I've had no staff users. Nowi of all people is likely to be my next one once she promotes to Sage, but uh... doubt that healing will be her priority. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 19, click to show]Cervantes is alive? what the hell. ignoring this for now.
I played this map more cautiously than I liked because as I've said, archers and wind magic send me on high alert, and so there being 16 forts positioned in a way that hypothetical bow knight/wind magic horses reinforcements could wreck me causes me to largely huddle my fliers in the center when I suspected reinforcements with Cordelia, Avatar, Chrom, and Nowi doing most fighting before retreating back to form a perimeter. Naturually, with this kind of strategy, things go well. Walhart is mobile and wields a sword that is literally amed Sol. What a beast. I draw him out and let Chrom (unpaired) take a shot at him for battle conversation.
And realize immediately that if there was an option to defect to Walhart's army I'd take it.
Seriously, timeout. Why aren't we teaming up with this guy?
Based on his dialogue with Chrom he largely has the same goal as us. He is trying to tell destiny to go **** itself, which is Lucina's personal mission that we've adopted as our own. Hell, Walhart goes even farther and wants to take down the gods too. Presumably he means Grima and Naga, who I think are the only ones who qualify in this setting. I can see why the group might balk at Naga, but again, Grima is something the group would be all for in theory, and indeed, seems to be accruing weapons to do so as a contingency.
But even beyond that, Lucina seems to be pretty big on back-up plans and trying to account for failures on our end (admittedly a large part of this is based on her B-Support with Cynthia, but still) Lucina seems to describe her future as a place where humanity is on the ropes against a world ruled by Risen and Grima. Well, Walhart is stated to have over a million soldiers, and he's clearly one of the strongest characters in-universe. By shredding Valm like we're doing, we're leaving humanity in a bad spot should we fail to stop Grima. I imagine Walhart and his army would be really damn useful in that case.
The only reason Lucina would have to veto this plan was if she knew Walhart won in her future but then turned around and got wrecked by Grima, but I don't think that's true. For what I've put together, we're mostly on track for Lucina's future and with the possible exception of Basilio getting the gem to us, we've really only post-poned some events here and there, and it all goes down whenever we catch up to the events of Premonition. Well, we haven't yet, and so I imagine in Lucina's future the campaign against Valm happened and Team Chrom won. Unless Walhart manages to hang around long enough to survive Premonition, but I think we're after him for real now, so I doubt it. So, we're just throwing away a massive army with a strong leader so if we end up losing, we're totally ****ed. Good job, guys! It also seems like most of the worst stuff Valm did was Excellus anyway. Walhart just gives zero ****s, I totally bet he'd let us team up, we might just have to pretend to be his second-in-commands, but if we're fighting for the future here that sounds worth it! He seems to respect Avatar if nothing else, given how he just trashes Excellus to his face in comparison to Avatar.
I kind of wonder if Walhart knows what's going on or if it's just coincidental that he's trying to unite humanity together and the fact that the world is on the verge of a Risen apocalypse where a united humanity would be really useful. I mean, the guy is taking our main objective to the next level.
And his battle theme is ****ing amazing. Technically Gangrel had it too, but Gangrel is a scrub who didn't deserve it.
wish we could join team walhart.
Lucina and Avatar finish him off but it looks like we have Round 2 coming up. [/spoiler]
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Then Excellus pops up and tells us Yen'fay was a good guy all along.
I'm not sure if he'll actually kill her or just grievously wound her for life, but either way.
fucking yen'fay
literally the worst
AND THEY IGNORED ME
this is the most pro enemy force i've ever seen. they know the objective of the map and they give zero ****s about me getting in the way.
And then you realize that this AI quirk means that if they can freely move towards Tiki, even if they can't reach her, they won't attack you. And then you start exploiting that all the time. <_<
Seriously, timeout. Why aren't we teaming up with this guy?
Because he values human life based on strength rather than any other merits. His military's probably awesome but I can't really imagine him having a functional economy, you know? plus the moral implications. though that exact same thing is literally kjelle's shtick too and chrom recruits her so who knows.
There may be something to the Lucina thing. Forget if it's been explained already, will be eventually, or is just something I imagined. >_> [/spoiler]
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?
WHY IN THE UNHOLY FUCK WOULD YOU MAKE THE MAIN CHARACTER SUSCEPTIBLE TO INSTANT DEATH ATTACKS IN A GAME WHERE IF THE MAIN CHARACTER DIES IT'S FUCKING GAME OVER?
And fucking seriously. The bosses in this game aren't fun. PERIOD. They're a fucking CHORE to do. Life that is literally in the thousands, while my characters do fucking 60-130 damage each hit. THAT ISN'T FUN. IT'S A FUCKING CHORE.
If you can't tell from my anger
MITSUO'S SHADOW WAS DOWN TO 10% FUCKING LIFE AFTER LIKE AN HOUR OF FUCKING FIGHTING THAT STUPID ASS ROBOT SHELL MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES AND THEN HE USED THAT FUCKING AILMENT ATTACK AND THEN FOLLOWED UP WITH AN INSTANT FUCKING DEATH ATTACK THAT KILLED THE MAIN FUCKING CHARACTER
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I CAN'T BREATHE SOMEONE CALL 911
Kanji: HOLY SHIT THE WARDROBE MALFUNCTION WAS MINE!
XD
I LAUGHED UNTIL I CRIED
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guarding against hama/mudo should always be your top priority.
fear -> ghastly wail a more rare situation but also terrifying.
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 20, click to show]Hahaha, Walhart still giving zero ****s. don't know what excellus was thinking trying to talk back to him.
Anyway, as usual split the team into three groups. Enemy pretty stupid here, they passed up a weapon triangle advantage on a 2 HP Severa to attack Morgan at one point. Severa was only in that position because I had Morgan bail on her to try and chase the Thief who... behaved quite bizarrely. It opened one chest and then just... tried to bail or something. It could have drived me insane if it opened a second chest, but it... didn't. I don't know if it was trying to get to the other treasure room, or trying to escape the map, or if its AI just went haywire because Morgan had arrived in its range that turn, but crisis averted there.
As for Walhart, I called everyone off and let Chrom fight him. Both of them in basically the same class (since Conquerer seems like a renamed Great Knight.) Chrom won.
I did like that Chrom was like, "we can join together" and Walhart was like "lmfao." Yeah, Chrom there was a reason my plan had us joining up as his sub-ordinates.
Anyway we get the 4th gemstone and just bail on Valm.
Assuming this is the end of Walhart (and Valm) then I really feel like they wasted a lot of potential here. That's... unfortunate. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 21, click to show]Hey, Plegia, what's up? Naturally they have the 5th Gemstone (I feel like we should have known this, but maybe I just assumed it was super obvious and we weren't actually told before) so we decide to visit them. Well, Validar invites us but everyone is like "yeah that's shady as hell."
Validar chats with us, yells at Lucina because he apparently knows she's a time traveller and ruining things and demands we turn over the Fire Emblem. Well, sorry pal, that's not how things are done around here. You have to defeat us in honorable combat first.
well what passes for honorable combat in this world
it's really not that honorable since i have a bunch of game mechanics no one else in the world has
Well, in theory this is a map we should rush on because a bunch of guys with Mire are spawning, but they suck at hitting things so I basically ignore them. Got to get that treasure! So this was a really easy map since the Mire gimmick can't really affect me (it hit like three times the entire map, which given the sheer number of attempts is pretty pathetic. Hit Gaius once when he was out to open stuff and he takes like 20 damage so that was almost scary, but the other times Nowi was out and it does like 4 damage to her so lol.
Anyway, we win and I automatically think we might be at Premonition. I don't think it is, though, but at the time I was like "oh boy." Validar teleports in and Chrom jobs to him somehow. Lucina what are you doing this is your big shot, get him get him get him. Instead, she just observes as Validar mind controls Avatar and has him steal the Fire Emblem and give it over. Lucina why didn't you stop him, you're right there! Validar is all, "lolz bye now" and he leaves. Avatar tells everyone to leave him behind he can't be trusted. Chrom tells him to stfu they can still fix things. Hell, even Frederick is like, "yo avatar it's cool we got this." And Lucina is just "......"
After we leave the castle, Lucina walks up to Avatar and wants to talk, so he basically goes, "Sure thing." Hahahahaha Lucina figuring out that Avatar kills Chrom (or maybe she always knew, I felt like the dialogue here could support that she either hadn't known who at first but correctly concluded that it had to be Avatar or she always knew it was him, but withheld that while she tried to figure out how that was possible) and has decided to go next-level pro and eliminate him. You know, I actually respect that decision. The army would probably be pretty helpless without Avatar, but at least she's trying to keep an eye on the bigger picture here and "sealed evil god resurfaces to destroy humanity" is the kind of thing that you really should be taking all measures to prevent. I had Avatar make the same argument to Chrom over Emmeryn on far more hypothetical grounds, so Lucina just returning the favor!
I have Avatar accept her judgment because to the extent I've RP'd here it felt correct and oh my god DESPAIR LUCINA DESPAIR. Lucina starts breaking when she realizes Avatar is going to die for her and is thinking about her first the whole time and ultimately can't bring herself to do it and instead ends up a wreck and apologizing. At this point Chrom walks in, "Are you done, Lucina?" hahahahaha. Oh man, if Chrom didn't know about Avatar and Lucina this had to be one of the most awkward ways for him to discover it.
Anyway, Chrom tells Lucina that he overheard everything (awwwwwwwkward) and not to worry, destiny can go **** itself, they got this, and Lucina says she'll trust them (although it was just established she can't bring herself to kill Avatar so she doesn't really have a choice. >_>)
I'm assuming that in cases where Avatar isn't married to Lucina (or presumably her mother if you pick Female Avatar and marry Chrom) that this plays out differently and Lucina doesn't go into a breakdown at the prospect of killing Avatar and... I guess Chrom has to stop her? I actually think it'd be cool if picking "Yes" to accepting her judgment in such a case led to a Game Over, but I can't imagine these choices actually having impacts like that.
I checked out the dialogue for not accepting Lucina's judgment there by reloading the save and I really wish I could combine different parts of the conversation there. But again, to what extent I've been RP'ing, I think Avatar would accept it there. Not like it matters though. >_> [/spoiler]
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...I still think that Adachi is the real killer <_< [/spoiler]
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Knew he wa actually a she. <_<
ALSO THE NURSE AT THE HOSPITAL IS EITHER A SERIAL KILLER OR A RAPIST [/spoiler]
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Dunno about Momatar, but the regular convo is just like:
Lucina: I have to kill you FOR THE FUTURE
Avatar: you know that actually makes sense
Lucina: cool thanks
Chrom: NO STOP DAMMIT LUCINA
Or:
Lucina: I have to kill you FOR THE FUTURE
Avatar: um no let's not
Lucina: Then we duel!
Avatar: lmfao pretty sure i got this
Chrom: NO STOP DAMMIT YOU GUYS [/spoiler]
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[Spoiler for FE13, click to show]Dunno about Momatar, but the regular convo is just like:
Lucina: I have to kill you FOR THE FUTURE
Avatar: you know that actually makes sense
Lucina: cool thanks
Chrom: NO STOP DAMMIT LUCINA
Or:
Lucina: I have to kill you FOR THE FUTURE
Avatar: um no let's not
Lucina: Then we duel!
Avatar: lmfao pretty sure i got this
Chrom: NO STOP DAMMIT YOU GUYS
oh
that sounds boring unless that's a summary.
avatar/lucina sounding like the superior choice then. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 22, click to show]So, now that we've gotten all that squared away we chase Validar. But before we can fight him, we have to fight Aversa and 12 named Risen she brought with her. Joke chapter pretty much. Aversa somehow survives but leaves. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 23, click to show]Okay, NOW we've reached Premonition. Avatar tells Chrom he better ****ing mercy kill him if he gets possessed, and Chrom... sort of agrees but spends more time telling Avatar to cut it out. Chrom/Avatar/Validar argue some more and here we go. Chrom/Avatar are in their Premonition locations, while the rest of the army is on the other side of the barrier. Validar makes a comment that leads me to think the barrier can go down during the chapter. I run with this thinking, "What if Chrom/Avatar couldn't win this fight because you ignored them" forgetting you can just... leave the chapter.
So, I figure, "Bet if I clear the other side of the map..." and only fight over there. I clear the map, and indeed could have achieved total rout, before reinforcements ever arrived (maybe even before they were called for.) Once it's down to Validar and the reinforcements stop, I realize if the barrier can be dropped it isn't from that side so I have Avatar destroy Validar. Which triggers a cutscene and yes premonition happening.
Lucina loses it, since we've had a total mission failure but then Basilio comes back.
this is bull****. dammit game.
Anyway, Basilio tells Validar, "lol i played dead after Walhart beat me" and I'm like "..." Basilio then reveals he swapped the gemstones out so Validar has fakes. Validar starts losing it but claims he still wins because he killed Chrom. Wait, what? Even if that were true, he can't think he's going to beat Lucina, Basilio, and the rest of the army to get the gemstones-oh god Basilio probably had them on him maybe he could. Anyway, Chrom gets up at this point and reveals Avatar held back and everyone's fine. Validar ragequits at this point and warps to the other side of the map and the barrier lowers and things continue. I'm assuming now that this plays out the moment you kill Validar and the rest of the map would be preserved because everyone was where I left them +Basilio/Flavia joining. I send Lucina/Avatar after the higher stat Validar (how'd he power up anyway?) and he goes down. Also, did Validar seriously tell Lucina she never changed the future in that boss fight? was he even paying attention just now?
Also... timeeeeeeeeeeeeee outtttttttttttttttt.
So, Avatar set this plan up a long time ago. Possibly as far back as when they met Tiki, but certainly by the time Lucina decided to kill him. Why did no one tell Lucina? Why would Avatar even humor letting Lucina kill him when they had a plan? They could have avoided that if they just told her at any point!
Then the Avatar's clone pops up and reminds everyone he's still an unanswered plot element. He also reveals he's Future!Avatar and also Grima. We knew Avatar was the vessel for Grima, but this is still kinda awkward. Also, continues to make Avatar/Lucina even more awkward. Also, I'm a bit unclear here if he really is Grima or just Evil!Avatar. I mean, what then, is the giant dragon in Lucina's flashbacks? Form change? Anyway, Grima (we're calling him Grima now because it's shorter) trolls the group and can summon Grima by himself... apparently not requiring the real gemstones at all. What bull****.
So Grima is here, BAD END achieved.
oh i guess not we're going to go perform the awakening.
Still also not clear if Present!Grima or Future!Grima is the one here now. Or if there's even a difference. Whatever. [/spoiler]
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THE CROSS-DRESSING BEAUTY PAGENT XD
KANJI AS MARILYN MONROE XD
Yosuke, the MC or Teddie didn't make me laugh as hard. But seeing Kanji show up, jesus christ.
That JUST barely beat out the beach scene. XD
"HOLY SHIT, THE WARDROBE MALFUNCTION WAS MINE!" has nothing on Kanji as marilyn monroe XD [/spoiler]
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Text message from Rise
Senpaaaaaaaaaaai <3
i herd yu liek movies, rite?
i wana c "Roman Paid Holiday!"
it jst cam out!
i <3 the original so i was rlly lookn 4ward 2 this remake
so... i'm inviting u to invite me on a date to c it! so ask me out! (^3^)
Some random things:
At first, I thought the social links system was fucking dumb. But they're actually pretty interesting. I couldn't WAIT to finish Nanako's and Dojima's social links.
Dojima, Nanako and Fellow Athletes are the only ones I've maxed out so far. I've been working on the fox one mostly.
Incidentally, where do Yukiko and Rise usually hang out so I can increase their social links?
When your social skills (Understanding, etc) are glowing, does that mean they're maxed out?
The nurse is definitely a serial rapist.
I still suspect Adachi is the killer despite that cutscene <_<
Mr Hosoi is definitely a South Park reference <_< (Mr Garrison and Mr Hat)
I still don't like Rise as a battle announcer..[/spoiler]
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Fun fact: those guys appear in FE4 and have a larger role in FE5 as well. In the Japanese games, they're named after German numbers - Eins, Zwei, etc. In English, they're named after the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.
So, I figure, "Bet if I clear the other side of the map..." and only fight over there. I clear the map, and indeed could have achieved total rout, before reinforcements ever arrived (maybe even before they were called for.) Once it's down to Validar and the reinforcements stop, I realize if the barrier can be dropped it isn't from that side so I have Avatar destroy Validar. Which triggers a cutscene and yes premonition happening.
Fun fact: I thought this chapter would end when Validar died, so I only deployed Chrom and Avatar. whoops. That was a reset that was entirely preventable!
Still also not clear if Present!Grima or Future!Grima is the one here now. Or if there's even a difference. Whatever.
I interpreted it as Evil Future Avatar traveling back in time the same way Lucina did, and summoning Grima in the present. [/spoiler]
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YOU BASTARD. HOW DARE YOU TAKE HER.
Okay, MAYBE it wasn't Adachi <_<
...Ehhh... No, wait, fuck that. I STILL THINK ADACHI DID IT. <_<
...
Now that I think of it... What is the "best" persona?
So far I've been using Shiisaa since like... Level 23, because of its decent (At the time) stats (Which are still pretty awesome because of the shitload of Shuffle stat cards I got...), the fact it could take THREE elemental skills (Ice, Fire, Lightning) which made (And still makes it) handy to quickly dispatch stuff at the start of a battle.
Right now I'm level 55 on the MC. [/spoiler]
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First floor of the school if it's a school day. Shopping district if it isn't.
When your social skills (Understanding, etc) are glowing, does that mean they're maxed out?
Not sure. I don't think they glowed in the PS2 Version, so I don't know how Golden does it.
Now that I think of it... What is the "best" persona?
In the PS2 version it was probably Yoshitune, which is a high level Tower one. It still very well may be, because the unique physical skill it has is crazy. You can definitely do better at your level though. You "should" be fusing as often as possible to get new Personae, but if things are working for you, then I certainly wouldn't tell you to do it for the heck of it. I just fused and made sure I could cover every element on MC if I switched plus healing. I also tended to make Light and Dark immunity a priority because Hama and Mudo can just ruin your day. Black Frost is widely regarded as a great Persona around the time you reach Mitsuo's dungeon, but by the time Nanako's been taken you should be well past Black Frost in level too. I'd just experiment and see what you think looks good. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE13, click to show]Fun fact: I thought this chapter would end when Validar died, so I only deployed Chrom and Avatar. whoops. That was a reset that was entirely preventable!
Pretty sure the map says rout if you look at it on "View Map." >_>
I interpreted it as Evil Future Avatar traveling back in time the same way Lucina did, and summoning Grima in the present.
I think this is what is intended, but... Evil!Avatar definitely traveled back like Lucina, but he makes a point of saying that he's interchangeable with Grima. Furthermore, it's just total bull**** that he could summon Grima and bypass the whole ritual thing, so it's a bit more satisfactory to me if he just powered himself up with the sacrifice Validar assembled since he's already Grima and obviously already summoned (albeit in a different timeline.)
But yeah. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 24, click to show]We're fighting Risen how exciting. Actually, it's not very exciting at all. Then we meet Naga and she's like "I'm actually a lot less helpful than you think." But she powers up Chrom's Falchion so it wasn't a total waste of time. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Chapter 25, click to show]Naga continues to explain that all she (and by extension Chrom) can do is seal Grima. Avatar goes, "New plan, because you and Chrom are scrubs, let me do it." Naga is forced to admit that Avatar is a much stronger unit than Chrom and this will work, but it will kill Avatar too. Chrom tells us to promise not to do it, but someone has to tell Chrom to focus on the big picture here. Would have been nice if Lucina and/or Morgan interjected here. Might have made it a bit harder!
Anyway, Aversa is still alive and wants to fight again. I stall around to fight more reinforcements, which actually costs me on my first attempt and almost costs me on the second, but I manage. Aversa is such a non-threat at this point. Oh yeah, forgot to mention it in Chapter 23 but it seems like they're time travellers too. They never really outright state it, but the way they phrase things regarding the future indicates they're from Lucina's future too.
The next chapter is called Endgame, but 6 more Paralogues just opened up, the ones I unlocked from Spotpass back on Day 1. So sidequests here we come! [/spoiler]
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[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Paralogue 18, click to show]So we're fighting a bunch of pirates... and Gangrel? what is he doing here. and as practically a normal enemy. The team smashes through the enemy here while Chrom talks to Gangrel. Making fall jokes already? why is gangrel recruitable? why. This chapter is a joke. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Paralogue 19, click to show]Oh my god, Walhart. Neither he nor Gangrel should be here or recruitable but oh my god. This chapter is a bit more difficult but still it was mostly BS. Just as I stepped into Gangrel's range, 10 Risen spawn out of nowhere, including a guy with Rexcalibur who one-shots Cynthia. After accounting for that, Chrom is allowed to have his duel with Walhart (one of the few times I don't interfere with Lucina/Avatar or something else has been Chrom v Walhart all 3 times) and Chrom wins it. Rest of the army just mops up the reinforcements. Walhart still rocking Mastermind as his battle theme too, what a pro. Gangrel just had the normal map music like a scrub. But Walhart? This guy is just the best.
and now
the man, the myth, the legend WALHART has joined my team.
yesssssssssssssssssss
Also, I'm assuming based off Walhart's dialogue they're actually dead and risen somehow. Gangrel hinted at it too, but he seems so OoC with his atoner stuff I couldn't tell if he was being metaphorical or not. Walhart hasn't changed a bit though so I trust whatever he's saying. If I look past Walhart being the best these chapters probably should not be happening. what in the world are these two doing alive and recruitable. mostly gangrel though. [/spoiler]
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Oh wait, the girl in the Velvet Room?
I didn't know she had a social link <_< [/spoiler]
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...I like grinding in games, but only when it isn't FORCED really.. <_<
At first, I didn't really care about the story. But that changed. Now I care WAY more about the story than I do about the battle system.
I'm honestly not really having any fun at all. From what I've read, the recommended level to defeat [Spoiler for , click to show]Nanako's [/spoiler] boss is over 85.
I'm only 57 right now and its BORING AS FUCK leveling because of the piss poor amount of exp that enemy groups are giving out.
I mean, 800-1000 exp per battle when each level needs over 20k+ to level? That's boring as shit.
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there is no way the recommended level for that boss is 85.
The boss itself, according to a PS2 FAQ I pulled up is Level 65. I'm sure you could take it earlier than that, and my understanding is that Golden is notably easier than the PS2 P4 is.
Like, I bet you could beat the boss right now with the right strategies. It might take a while, but even at -8 levels I'd be pretty shocked if it were just impossible to win. Levels would help, but uh...
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[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Paralogue 20, click to show]Emmeryn? Man, this game just rolling back all the consequences of the story now, isn't it? The only trouble I had here was when I got cute and sent Walhart at a fight he clearly couldn't win because too many magic users. Otherwise, easy chapter. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Paralogue 21, click to show]Yen'fay, and this time instead of Risen/whatever Emmeryn surviving was, this Yen'fay is just from another timeline... that's... an improvement, I guess? This is also an extremely easy fight and the only scary part was Turn 1 when an injured Yen'fay went on the offensive. At which point I went, "Nope" pulled him back with Rescue and recruited him with Say'ri. Otherwise, this was probably the easiest Paralogue of this batch so far. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Paralogue 22, click to show]Aversa? what is this. This chapter, I remember you, Kenri told me about you long ago! If I were on Casual I think I'd have a lot of fun here. But Classic mode and an NPC Aversa who apparently hates life? Oh no. no no nononono. I end up deploying Lucina, Avatar, Chrom, Morgan, and Walhart and then a bunch of scrubs to try and balance it out without totally cheapening the chapter, and things go smoothly. Not too pleased about this, but whatever. Biggest argument for Casual Mode right here, IMO. [/spoiler]
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Kodan then proceeds to fast forward through every story segement
(Best feature ever fyi)
Well, maybe not the story, but the social links. Most times I just went straight home to the Dojima residence and went to sleep.
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what in the HELL is this
nerf priam
i don't actually buy this as a real chapter. if this were real, lucina's future couldn't happen because priam and his army would just curbstomp grima if/when it came to it. this guy. this guy commands the most powerful army in the game.
not even i can beat him.
We're gonna have to come back here, as much as I'm unhappy about it, I don't think I can win at my current strength/class selections/etc. And since I don't want to grind/DLC until after Endgame, I don't really have a choice here.
unfortunate.
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nerf priam [/spoiler]
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Anyway, this was an easy chapter. I split up into a lot of teams, and Lucina/Avatar basically solo'd Grima. Grima had crazy high defense so he wasn't actually taking much damage from me, but he somehow never hit anyone. Despite having hit rates in the 45-60 range and proc'ing Ignis all the damn time when that should have been a high 30s chance.
Actually, I played through the chapter twice after the first time I realized it didn't "count" so I could easily see what happened if I picked the other choices.
that sure ended abruptly. no matter what you pick basically everyone gives a single line and that's it. what a letdown.
At least in the, "Chrom seals Grima" ending, Lucina and Morgan appeared to have unique dialogue with Avatar. But the "Avatar kills Grima" ending felt more right, but was a lot more unsatisfying in that regard, because I don't think they did that time.
man i'm more letdown about this than i'm letting on. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Champions of Yore 1, click to show]At first I was thinking I'd summon all the spotpass teams but then I realized I'd probably run out of money first because you don't get any drops from that but you still have weapon uses. and there are a lot of teams. So I went to DLC first. In the future I might lump a lot of these together for write-ups because based on this one where I just annihilated a bunch of low-level units there's not really anything to say. Pr. Marth recruited though, I guess. [/spoiler]
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Gotta say I'm liking it. It's good.
So far my team consists of
Adell
Fighter (Sword)
Heavy Knight (Sword)
FemaleFighter (Spear)
One of those catgirl monsters
Rozalin
Tink
Red Skull
2 Healers
I've been actually considering replacing my other Fighter and FemaleFighter with another 2 Catgirl's because the Catgirls attack power is incredible and so is their counter rate.
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[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Golden Pack, click to show]So first we go to the Gold map. lmao. You get like 70k gold here, that's ridiculous. The EXP map I'm actually so powerful that I barely get EXP here outside a few characters. As for Infinite Regalia, I actually died here because the enemies are finally of a decent strength and perhaps more importantly, are all loaded with legendary weapons and I was still treating it like a joke map. Probably could have if I didn't get hit by effective weapon damage which ruined everything. Aside from this place having legendary weapons, you get a character and most importantly the Silver Card. So between the comical amount of gold I now had and the Silver Card I went crazy at shops and basically upgraded everyone from Steel Weapons to Brave/Silver Weapons and also upgraded Tomes from C-rank ones to B-rank. [/spoiler]
[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Lost Bloodlines 1-3, click to show]I think this focused on FE1/3 and FE4. Maybe. Marth and Sigurd were around for these, and that's all I have. Enemies were a little stronger, but only the reclassed Myrmidion Olivia was in any danger at all, and even she never died. Scary moment when she got hit by Luna, but it all worked out. Got more characters, a Dread Scroll (lets you reclass to Dread Warrior, a male class that has... Sword/Axe/Tome, IIRC. With a RES + 10 skill and a skill that gives you ATK + 10 if you initiate the attack. Also got Paragon. dat 2x EXP. [/spoiler]
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[Spoiler for FE: Awakening Rogues and Redeemers 1 and 2, click to show]Uh oh, things just started getting difficult. All enemies are Level 20 promoted and have very high stats. Rogues and Redeemers 1 is particularly annoying. You're fighting in what is the FE9 Chapter 8 map which was a defend map there (at least I'm pretty sure it was Defend) and you're holed up in the fort thing and completely surrounded. Jaffar is also here with Lethality and this caused a reset for me at one point. lethality the worst. Rogues and Redeemers 2 was a lot easier because map positions switched so the enemy had the fort and you are now the one attacking it. Rogues and Redeemers 3 is probably going to come to map position. There's been a pattern to these maps. 1 and 2 of a series have had me facing 30 enemies, with 10 deployments + 10 allies. 3 gives me about 15 deployments and no allies against 50 enemies. If it puts me back inside the fort I may have to pass/grind to win. If I'm outside, I think I have a chance.
I'll probably have to grind after this though. Next up, chronologically would be the Challenge DLC which is ranked over Rogues and Redeemers 1 and 2 in terms of difficulty stars, and actually the only remaining DLC outside the Scramble Pack are equal to or higher in difficulty stars than Rogues and Redeemers 1-2. These maps seem pretty similar to Paralogue 23 so in theory I might be able to tackle that now, or at least consider it, but we'll see. Haven't thought about the order I want to do this in. [/spoiler]
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You know, I would enjoy Disgaea 2 A LOT more if it wasn't for those dumbass geosymbols.
They're a pain in the ass.
...That tournament fight against the Prinnies and the inaccessible Geosymbol that boosts their stats by 3x for 90% of the fight was god damn annoying.
XD
PRISM RANGERS
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