kradeelav: Zihark, FE10 (fe)
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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)
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From: [personal profile] queenlua
AWW

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: 2020-04-19 11:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] queenlua
DUDE I HAD THE SAME THOUGHT RE: ZIHARK AND YURI. fuckin' similar-ass color schemes THREW me, lmao.

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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