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Fire Emblem 4 status:


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that was HARROWING

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I'm on map 3

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a nightmare with no escape

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what do you mean, Jamke never died

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I managed to save all but one of the villages (the one that had the best item but Oh Well)

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I might have given up on the run if Lex hadn't killed a level 20 boss with a 28% chance axe hit

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Beowulf's AI was completely insane and came one die roll short of killing Ethlyn before I could recruit him

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Resets today: 6

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I feel like the extremely long and winding emotional journey you took here is one of the best illustrations I've ever seen of my pet theory about game design

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which is that sometimes

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if you've captured the right magic

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one of the more memorable map themes imo

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a game just unironically benefits from having things significantly wrong with it

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it's THRILLING

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old testament game design at its finest

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where things just go wrong constantly and leave you scrambling to survive

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you never feel safe

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modern Fire Emblem games and their indie clones try hard to sand off the edges, and like, that's probably smart

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these are jagged ass rusty edges that will give you tetanus

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but also

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there's a type of experience that you CANNOT recapture that way

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and it has value

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yes

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some fun suffering

mask of pride 🌸
quinn i am so glad you're having a good time


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I AM

moontouched
it's the Grit

moontouched
the Friction

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the feeling when Voltz sidled up to my army and just vaporized Noish in one turn

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and I reset and am just pouring over my entire army trying to find ANYONE who can survive one round of combat with him

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and just. there's no longer a safe strategy

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you HAVE to take insane risks

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oh right the other joke I was gonna make

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I dunno I trust cloaky