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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
oh i'm scary
which is that sometimes
oh i'm scary
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
oh i'm scary
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
❆ despairmas
quinn i am so glad you're having a good time
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