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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
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
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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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eggnogflavored
I dunno I trust cloaky