Massive spoilers for the entire series here, needless to say
Previous topic is here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/59937990
At least until it purges.
Let's do a little recap in case anyone new is joining the party. I have embarked on a playthrough of most of the Fire Emblem series (1, 2, and 9 are excluded), in order partially deciding by request, partially by me feeling like something was a good choice to do at the time. Here's what's come before.
First off, I played FE8, AKA The Sacred Stones. In this run, we discovered that I am not very good at playing efficiently, that Seth is God and Duessel is his prophet, that the Demon King is forever a joke, and that the Warp staff makes several chapters very trivial. Also we discovered that Ephraim's route is a step up in difficulty over the rest of the game, and that the Phantom Ship is rather troublesome when your units are underleveled due to the low turn count. And that immediately promoting Knoll for fun with summoning is surprisingly handy. In the end, Ephraim almost solo'd the final boss (with dance support of course), needing only a smack from Seth to set him up for the kill.
After that, I moved on to FE10, AKA Radiant Dawn. Edward decided to actually not suck this time around, the various overpowered units thrown at you throughout the game showed off their stuff, and I laughed at how easy the game is for Ike's group. Everything was perfectly happy except for the part where I decided that that ****ing bridge chapter with its ****ing pitfalls is a ****ing annoying ****ing piece of ****ing **** that can ****ing burn in ****ing hell. When I sleep, I have nightmares of the word BRIDGE floating through my mind, taunting me with the idea that I might have to actually play it again some day in the future.
From there, FE7, AKA...Fire Emblem. Blazing Sword is the subtitle translated from Japanese, but that's not seen on English versions because...? Anyway, the run got a bit bogged down in the middle here, but eventually it all worked out. I discovered the game is way too obsessed with fog of war in the middle section, the prepromote quartet of Hawkeye, Pent, Harken and Vaida are incredible, and Hector is a badass who tanks crits from Final chapter Lloyd and makes the other two Lords jealous of just how much better than them he is. Sadly did not manage a Luna crit on the dragon though :(
And now, we've moved on to FE4, AKA Genealogy of the Holy War, the first Japan-only game of these topics, and also my favourite game in the series. We just finished off the first generation, and I'll be starting off on chapter 6 shortly after posting this. We've seen our army build itself up from small fish in a big sea to seemingly invincible, only to have it all torn away as most of them die, including main character Sigurd, at the hands of Alvis in one of the biggest "holy ****" moments in gaming. Now it's been seventeen years, and after most of that time was peaceful, things have been getting worse and worse under his rule, and conditions in the areas outside his direct control have gotten even nastier than they already were. Why has a guy who was talking about creating an empire free of prejudice seemingly become a tyrant? What was the plan of Manfloy and the Lopt Sect? Did they succeed in resurrecting their god, Loputouso? I guess we'll just have to find these things out soon!
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