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Mar. 29th, 2020 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
not getting a lot of drawing / replying done 'cause i started a new beagles: empire route and cindered shadows as a treat : D
- HUBERT OH GOD I'M BACK and apparently i didn't even get his best class the first playthrough 'cause you need two dark seals?!!!
- one of my twists to this playthrough is i'm not using any end class I've used before, so that basically forces me into all of the DLC final classes (dark flier, war monk, trickster, great knight, etc) and/or a few I hadn't done in base game. focusing a lot on snagging those mad attributes (wrath+vantage combo like old times, lifetaker+aegis+pavise on mages so they're fuckin' killing machines, lmao. makes hard seems like easy.)
- yuri totally reminds me of Legault. kind of vaguely older shady purple haired laid back thief with some major bi vibes that's sleezy but with a heart of gold. i likey. not sure if i likey enough to not romance either manuela/jietz/hubert, but i likey.
- I also weirdly like constance a hell of a lot - she's theatrically derpy enough with her sunlight gimmick being actually kind of funny, but still has enough of a personality outside of it that it's believable?
- team'll probably shake out to be f!byleth / doreatha / eddie / hubert / yuri / constance / jietzra / bernadette. debating on hapi but that team's bigger than my usual already ...
- to which - wowowow doreatha and manuela are Gay As Fuck and i love it. might do some spicy artwork of 'em. definitely a hard OTP.
- pleasantly surprised with the characters / cast of CS! I lol'd out loud at Lindt noping out of the whole deal in the first conversation - it really reminded me of the surprising humor that I enjoyed in the first playthrough. (and that to me, has been lost in every part of the War phase.)
- more to come since i'm on the ... third? (fighting the bots protecting the chalice?) mission of CS, and right after flayn got kidnapped in base game.
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Date: 2020-03-30 08:50 pm (UTC)YE
FIRE EMBLEM
excited to see how you like the rest of Cindred Shadows. ch4 iirc wrecked me a couple times :P
and <3<3<3 dorothea/manuela
(and i wish i could remember who else i saw complaining about the humorlessness of the war phase—i think they were comparing to Awakening, which, while it's a more forgettable game imho, it did have a really big sense of FUN and that. that's important! really buoys your story and lets you paper over a lot of problems!)
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Date: 2020-04-14 11:57 pm (UTC)- Constance is my forever fav from the DLC omg. love how interestingly un-feminine she is in a way that bucks all archetypes and yet makes her feel well realized instead of gimmicky... just straight up loud and brash and does not give a single fuck about most other things. like, i could see the character being slightly neutered with the underlying reason of why she wants her House restored because She Feels Loneleh And Needs A Man! sort of vibe but no she WANTS THE GODDAMN HOUSE RESTORED bitch! 'cause she's the overlord!!! BOW BEFORE YOUR NEW GENIUS MASTER! etc lol. i also love how the game respected her enough to be genuinely shrewd enough to see through Yuri's schemes, like A+ non-lords bein' sneaky there.
- you are the only person that would get this but it's a little amusing how much i keep double-taking at Yuri thinking he's Zihark ahahaaa; the color palette is ever so close enough what with that light purple and white design, and them both being slim swordsies, and he's got that vaguely sarcastic side behind the "niceness" which i use in quotes for a reason, hah. There's other things but ALSO OTHER THINGS MATTER lol.
- i was both impressed and surprised how yandere they took with Alfric(?) - like wow, FE doesn't typically go into slightly uncomfortably real 'stalker goes on a rampage 'cause he got pissy from an unloved boner and Jelly', but boy howdy they sure did there. Added a sense of much-needed realness and urgency that other tropes wouldn't, tbh.
- loved Alfric turning into the dragon monster thing, brought back the "horror" aspect that i think would've fixed a lot in the second half of this game that the first half had in boatloads - as you said once in a different post, that whole body horror that the Crests were capable of? The whole draining-the-blood-of-the-Wolves things was nuts too (also wrow fuck that chapter).
- indiana jones scheme of stealing the Chalice was totally unexpected but was strangely endeared by it; made that whole world suddenly more tangible when they actually were shown along the Abyss/trench under the bridge. Wish the main game had more of those, mm... "smaller?" moments?
tell me whatchu liked about CS! >:D
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Date: 2020-04-19 11:29 am (UTC)and yes, constance is indeed delightful. her supports are like... i kinda like how i can never tell what the hell she's gonna seize on next as her next weird scheme, elaborate plan, etc, she keeps you ON YOUR TOES
and hmm, ok, i really should've taken notes when playing CS because my memory's a sieve these days, thoughts thoughts...
i mean mostly i was just so pleased with the gameplay. it's amazing how much more they could tune the maps/difficulty/etc by fixing everyone's class/gambits/etc, and i'd be delighted if they made more small FE maps like this in general. more paralogues is like, sure fine, but specific "here's your dudes and here's your equipment" just sounds... so nice. so streamlined. (less faffing about the monastery :P)
oh i do have a minor gripe. on the chalice map, right, where there's the three things you can try? and if you pick the wrong one it like debuffs fuckin' everybody in an n-block radius (hagielhazlign3wa?!?!). i was so delighted with that at first, because i was like—oh shit, it's going to be the last one i try, it'll be such a fuckin strategy challenge to recover from these two debuffs and get the real thing...
...then i lost a lot, checked the internet, and nope, there's just A Correct Answer. pick the correct one, not the wrong one. felt like all my elaborate strategizin had been a waste :P (but i had SO MUCH FUN so, eh). that and the "escape super fast through the gates" map were both highlights.
i can't get over how good the soundtrack was. i was listening to "The Shackled Wolves" and "At What Cost?" for like. weeks.
i remain infinitely amused that the Edelgard and Claude respectively hauled their laziest p.o.s. housemates into the mess (Linhardt and Hilda) :P GOD LAZY FOLK JUST CAN'T GET A BREAK. (also Hilda got to be. extra little sister, with Balthus around, and I was pretty amused.)
i really like Hapi's design and think her character's neat, it's just... ok if you have a sort of quiet/sarcastic/deadpan-type, you need someone to play them off of, right? just because otherwise it doesn't bring out the cool elements of their character & they end up coming across as kinda flat. so i don't think she pairs particularly well with Yuri; she needs someone a little more extravagant to play against, someone more like...
...like Constance, actually. I AM GOING TO GO LOOK UP THEIR SUPPORTS, maybe this is the content i am looking for, haha :P
fin
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Date: 2021-12-24 07:55 pm (UTC)Agreed with the maps being way more unexpectly fun than imo 3H as a whole; the return to very ... neat/clean maps almost felt more like FE9's gameplay vibe? Not to make the whole series about that one game LMAO, but one of the things I loved about the gameplay even if it was "too easy" was there was like a very ... deliberate goal? rather than 'route all of the enemies in slightly various ways'. eg the chapter you meet Muarim you actually got BEXP rewards for the less laguz you killed so there was a sense of that weighing with mucking around with finding treasure. Cool shit, I wish the series did that more. iirc heard that Fates did a lot of that?
Agreeeed with Hapi's characterization - loved Constance, but Hapi's the one I wish we saw more off. ;a; Man, imagine her and Lorenz, I feel like his personality would be ballers with her as well. :D