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If we're talking theoreticals then how about making Micaiah likeable.

Alright that's not happening without writing a completely different character, so instead I wanted to ask about something completely different when it comes to egotistical commanders.
I think Andaron Saga's Anniversary Patch or something hits late this year, doesn't it? I didn't beat it, but for sort of an autistic reason. See, I've seen streams of lunatic ironman runs of it, seen advice saying that Andaron's lunatic mode is made for people autistic about Fire Emblem. But I wanted to sign up for a rough time so I went in dry with Lunatic, with the caveat of not ironmanning it because I'm not familiar with the game doing its funny tricks based off of knowing how it works.
It's pretty satisfying to break through, but I sort of hit a wall with chapter 14. Not actually getting through it, the Mage Knights with Dire Thunder launching out of the darkness to kick you right in the cock are certainly fucks but it's still something else.

In the river crossing chapter. I managed to put the pedal to the medal harder than I ever have in a fire emblem game to seize the Galewind, and that was pretty satisfying. The CG afterwards honestly makes me think that's how it's really supposed to happen, combined with Liam being a big enough pussy that he can get bitchslapped with hunting bows.

I tried to get the Ashcleaver, but I couldn't grind up or boost Ariel enough to make taking it practical, especially since you're drowning in shit by the end of that level too. But I had a fixation ever since Chapter 9. To use my Fantastic Fred to mount Alexander's head on a pike and seize the Gladiolus, since doing that in Lunatic 8 seems like it's actually fucking impossible.

All that preamble for the actual question- is it even practical to try and early-kill Alexander in Lunatic? Because while I can try, and it seems possible if I get extremely lucky, it seems like you're really, really not meant to be able to facecheck the death pincer in Lunatic Saga, since Sol proccing means you lose all progress in killing him and he's really likely to get it. Also I want to know if there's any shame in going down to Hard instead of Lunatic because all the ball busting gets pretty exhausting, I do restart chapters since you can do that in GBA but I don't save state every turn since that's cheating. Even though you can do that on DS.
 
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Freezard said:
All that preamble for the actual question- is it even practical to try and early-kill Alexander in Lunatic? Because while I can try, and it seems possible if I get extremely lucky, it seems like you're really, really not meant to be able to facecheck the death pincer in Lunatic Saga, since Sol proccing means you lose all progress in killing him and he's really likely to get it. Also I want to know if there's any shame in going down to Hard instead of Lunatic because all the ball busting gets pretty exhausting, I do restart chapters since you can do that in GBA but I don't save state every turn since that's cheating. Even though you can do rhat on DS.
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Something I've seen outlined is that Shom and Shay can deal insane damage if they proc glacies and fish for a crit with the shamshier. The problem is that this is still chance dependant and Alexander will absolutely kill them in return if they don't get it.
I don't think its worth it for how unlikely it is and how much can go wrong with it.
Going down from lunatic to hard should be no big deal unless you care about one unlockable final non-story chapter which I think is locked to lunatic only, but the thing is I've heard that this chapter is a battle against self inserts of the devs which is riddled with cringe in-jokes to the point that the dev team regrets it and wants it to change for the re-release.
 
The Great Ape Escape said:
It felt like RD hard would've been worse with WT while I was playing it.
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The hardest part of RD is definitely part 1 i'd say and Edward and Nolan, your two only competent units besides Soren, really would benefit from the WT.

Its a strange thing to remove regardless.


PersonThatLikesFireEmblem said:
I just found out theres an FE thread here I wanna know what your guys opinion on Tiki is (not the fake Awakening one)
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Not really much to say about her is there?

I guess she does get some character development from getting broken out of the mind control and befriending Marth.

Thats more than can be said about every other recruitable Archanea/Book 1 unit.

She's fun to use in every game she's in though.
 
Quartermaster said:
The hardest part of RD is definitely part 1 i'd say and Edward and Nolan, your two only competent units besides Soren, really would benefit from the WT.

Its a strange thing to remove regardless.



Not really much to say about her is there?

I guess she does get some character development from getting broken out of the mind control and befriending Marth.

Thats more than can be said about every other recruitable Archanea/Book 1 unit.

She's fun to use in every game she's in though.
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Gameplay is mainly what I care about, though I do like her characterization in the Archanea saga and is one of the reasons I dislike her in Awakening. I'm a big fan of manaketes in general, they're my favorite unit type.
 

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Quartermaster said:
The hardest part of RD is definitely part 1 i'd say and Edward and Nolan, your two only competent units besides Soren, really would benefit from the WT.

Its a strange thing to remove regardless.
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No doubt the first 4 chapters are the most annoying by a mile, especially 1-3. Feels like they disable it to encourage you to use good units and ditch the fodder, but that obviously strains the early game.
 
Freezard said:
All that preamble for the actual question- is it even practical to try and early-kill Alexander in Lunatic?
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Chapter 9 Alexander is never going to be consistent. 14 is more doable though, especially if you manage to 20/1 Fred and have him fight Leonora and her wyvern death squad in chapter 7. That probably sounds stupid, but there are several abusable sources of fixed EXP and stat boosters in the early game that get pretty funny when they're all dumped into one unit. Fred's a good candidate for it too since he'll get reduced exp gains against trash mobs, therefore being less likely to get random +HP level ups and disable perfectionist, and he's in a game where flame lances are good so he likes every stat.
 
GigantorUnitron said:
whats wrong with her in awakening
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Because her mission borks my emulator and the whole background of the map becomes pitch black.

I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with her, but I feel like Tiki just feels like a random nostalgia bait character getting thrown into your team, and they don't really do much with her.

I'm sure some "people" are bothered by the fact that the unironic child character who is actually a 1,000 year old dragon is finally grown up were bothered, but I'm loathe to think that any decent person had a problem with that.
 
A Very Big Fish said:
Because her mission borks my emulator and the whole background of the map becomes pitch black.

I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with her, but I feel like Tiki just feels like a random nostalgia bait character getting thrown into your team, and they don't really do much with her.

I'm sure some "people" are bothered by the fact that the unironic child character who is actually a 1,000 year old dragon is finally grown up were bothered, but I'm loathe to think that any decent person had a problem with that.
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Honestly, I actually like seeing "immortal lolis" grow up, and Tiki is at the forefront of that sentiment. The game is set in a future version of Archanea and the two main Lords are direct descendants of Marth, it feels almost right to bring Tiki back knowing that she could/would still be alive during that time period.
 
Flaming Insignias said:
Honestly, I actually like seeing "immortal lolis" grow up, and Tiki is at the forefront of that sentiment. The game is set in a future version of Archanea and the two main Lords are direct descendants of Marth, it feels almost right to bring Tiki back knowing that she could/would still be alive during that time period.
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I just don't think they did enough with her as a character. I'd rather you just swap out Nowi with her. That way you can do more with a (I assume) fan favorite character, and you can get rid of the gross loli appeal character in the same move.
 
PersonThatLikesFireEmblem said:
how is she better other than you feel you're allowed to ethically jerk off to her
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Tiki in the Archanaea games is one of the few characters to have any character, and that's not saying much. Tiki in Awakening might be horribly underused, but what she does have took most of what made her stand out in the Archanaea games and built on it in a believable way. She still has some of her personality from the Archanaea games but balances that with the melancholy and level-headedness you'd expect out of someone her age, and it makes her stand out as a middle ground amongst the manaketes when all the other ones only fit into one extreme or the other. Her character seems more interesting for that aspect alone. Even without the (admittedly shallow) worldbuilding implications of Robin s-supporting her, her convos with Nah are also one of the only decent bits of worldbuilding that Awakening contributed to FE as a whole.

Given your pfp and the fact you're bringing up jerking off apropos I'm going to assume the worst.
 
Computer God Autism said:
Tiki in the Archanaea games is one of the few characters to have any character, and that's not saying much. Tiki in Awakening might be horribly underused, but what she does have took most of what made her stand out in the Archanaea games and built on it in a believable way. She still has some of her personality from the Archanaea games but balances that with the melancholy and level-headedness you'd expect out of someone her age, and it makes her stand out as a middle ground amongst the manaketes when all the other ones only fit into one extreme or the other. Her character seems more interesting for that aspect alone. Even without the (admittedly shallow) worldbuilding implications of Robin s-supporting her, her convos with Nah are also one of the only decent bits of worldbuilding that Awakening contributed to FE as a whole.

Given your pfp and the fact you're bringing up jerking off apropos I'm going to assume the worst.
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I really dislike her characterization in Awakening, it feels like a regression to me rather than maturity. She feels too closed off, and reminds me more of Nagi from the DS games rather than Tiki. I think a grown up manakete can work but I don't think they did Tiki particularly well.
 
Computer God Autism said:
Tiki in the Archanaea games is one of the few characters to have any character, and that's not saying much. Tiki in Awakening might be horribly underused, but what she does have took most of what made her stand out in the Archanaea games and built on it in a believable way. She still has some of her personality from the Archanaea games but balances that with the melancholy and level-headedness you'd expect out of someone her age, and it makes her stand out as a middle ground amongst the manaketes when all the other ones only fit into one extreme or the other. Her character seems more interesting for that aspect alone. Even without the (admittedly shallow) worldbuilding implications of Robin s-supporting her, her convos with Nah are also one of the only decent bits of worldbuilding that Awakening contributed to FE as a whole.

Given your pfp and the fact you're bringing up jerking off apropos I'm going to assume the worst.
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I remember her support with Say'ri as a highlight of Adult Tiki, with Tiki showing her more casual side and being a general troll to get Say'ri to loosen up. It is kind of cute to see the supposedly wise and mature Voice of the Divine Dragon blowing raspberries and shoving apples in people's faces.
 
The idea of Tiki being shoehorned into Awakening for no reason has got to be the dumbest opinion about Awakening I’ve ever heard. The whole fucking point of that game was to be the series finale. Not only is it in the same world as the original series but it also includes a bunch of characters and references from the rest of the series as a whole. Tiki is literally par of the glue that pieces everything together, along with Falchion, the Fire Emblem, and all the spot pass content.

‘But she just shows up!’ Well of course, retard. How else is she supposed to be in the game? There’s already a billion characters, we don’t need to spend eight chapters foreshadowing her appearance. It’s not fucking important. Do you also complain about the Fire Emblem and the orbs getting pulled out of everyone’s ass?

And her chapter is fine because she was fucking asleep or whatever. It’s not like she’s a retard just sitting there unable to defend herself.
 
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