History is not as it is written. Experience and alter a retelling of a great battle between the Empire and Secco’s ragtag of friends.
As the story unfolds, you will uncover tragedy, betrayal, death, and hardship from the Emperor, Estragon’s, unrelenting force!
And make the decisive blow.
Screenshots
Link
An Informed Second Look - Dropbox
Credits
- Music:
- Kuroiuta/Black Song Drakengard 3 midi - MidiOrch
- Fire Emblem Gaiden Boss Battle - hypergammaspaces
- Fire Emblem Gaiden Land of Sorrow - hypergammaspaces
- Oracle of seasons/ages midis - found on KHInsider
- Phantom Hourglass and TRS midis - Made with VGMTrans and fine tuned through hard work and effort
- Tilesets:
- FE8 - Fields - Remaster - Super Fields (Night) - WAve, RandomWizard, Beast
- Battle Animations:
- War Cleric - SkidMarc25
- [Custom Halb] Halberdier +Axes [M] - TBA (TheBlindArcher), Spud, MeatOfJustice
- [Custom Halb] Halberdier Gwendolyn [F] - UltraFenix, TBA, Rexacuse, Spud, MeatOfJustice
- [T3 Necromancer-Variant] Noble Lyon [M] - Aruka, Kenpuhu, N426
- Bald Bishop - Booster_Seat87 (Hey that’s me!)
- Halberdier Moving and Standing Map Sprites [M] 2.0 - TBA
- War Cleric Moving and Standing Map sprites - SkidMarc25
- Halberdier Class Card [M] - TBA
- War Cleric Class Card - SkidMarc25
- Patches:
- 16_tracks_12_sounds - Agro/Brendor
- 256 Color Title Background - Leonarth
- AoE Area of Effect - Vesly
- AutoGenLeftOAM Reduce capacity by dynamically creating LeftToRightOAM - 7743
- Fix CG Fade Glitch - 7743
- Change Battle BGM By Chapter - 7743
- Convert Chapter Titles to Text - circleseverywhere
- Continue Battle BGM Between Map and Combat 20220321 - 7743
- CritCap. Fixed critcal from appearing in excess of 100% - Contro
- Draw attack effect on map animation when battle animation off - Vesly
- Drumfix - circleseverywhere
- Switch Portrait images by class, flag. 20231104 - Scraiza
- Remove Enemy Control Glitch - 7743
- Display Escape menu - 7743
- AddEvent: Get Unit Status - 7743
- AddEvent: Set Unit Status - 7743
- Add Event: Lose Item(unit) - 7743
- Add Event: Death to Player Unit - 7743
- ExModularSave with Supply 200 ver20220401 - Stan
- FE8-Battle Stats with Anims Off ver2 - Vesly
- Attack and capture enemies with reduced speed like FE5(Tequila Version) - Tquila
- Rogue Robbery - Tequila
- Add Event: Set Unit State Conditions (UNCM) - Tequila
- Using 256, 224 color BG(256ColCG) - Huichelaar
- 01command_hack - Hextator, 7743
- 48command_hack - Hextator, 7743
- Anti-Huffman - Hextator, 7743
- FillAIDangerMap Efficiency Fix 20220712 - 7743, HyperGammaSpaces
- fix_lz77decompress: Tequila
- Use HandAxs motion as generic motion for throwing axes - 7743
- HPBars_with_warnings Cache - Circles, Tequila
- HPBars_simple - Circles, Zane
- m4a hq mixer - Patix, 7743
- Magic Sword Rework - Sme
- Set multiple Staff BGMs - 7743
- NarrowFont - Scraiza
- Switch the death Quote for each unit who is killer - 7743
- Prevent exchange of valuables ListVersion - Vesly
- Add Event: ShootArrow - Vesly
- DurabilityBasedItemEvent - ???
- Skill SkillSystems 20220703 - Circleseverywhere
- Monkeybard & Black Mage for most of the skill icons; Blaze for Stances skill icons
- Tequila, Rossendale, StanH, Leonarth, Teraspark, sd9k, Kao, blademaster, Snakey1 for skills
- Primefusion for the test map
- Skip the event using the opening world map - ???
- SOUND_NIMAP2(Native Instrument Map) - Alusq
- Stairs 20191031 - Snakey1
- UnitActionRework - Stan
- Anything not mentioned was made by me (although if you made something that was not properly credited by me, please let me know! Very possible I missed something).
I hope you enjoy!
Edit:
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING!!! There is a pink flash when booting up the title screen on version 4.0 and earlier, It is fixed in 5.0 please proceed at your own discretion!!!
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Update:
Made a new Version.
Mainly bugfixes and balance adjustments (main difference is Estragon and the dragon are now significantly stronger, yay!)
Also added some missing credits, my bad!
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My thoughts on Version 1.0
Ok, Random FEU guy, not an actual judge, I am just trying using the rubric of the Event:
Gameplay: The hack is pretty fun your first time around, the second time feels a little lacking, but you’ll know what to do so it’s not hard it just takes time. The gimmick of changing map areas and units is pretty surprising but can keep you on your toes, but doesn’t really change so it has more of a one trick pony to it. (I suppose it makes it easier to find out the truth later on) The map has enough enemies and things to worry about to not feel bored but isn’t immune to turtling, but that still gives you a little time to assess and approach your next move cautiously as things can change for worse or for better. Some items do not feel like they can be utilized as much such as the silence staff and maybe the Javelin (that might be because of me), Your units feel very powerful but can still be focus fired to death and it doesn’t mean you can just turn your brain off.
Skills don’t matter as much but can still do something at points (They serve more of a narrative function I think). Also the final boss can be a bit easy and that might not be it’s intention but is still challenging enough
Presentation: The presentation utilizes it’s character design to great effect and ties in well with the plot of the hack, the use of the two different styles to show the whitewashing of events and the reality of what happened is well utilized (Falsehood-FE Splices, Reality-Dev’s Artstyle) The setting of a Dark and Stormy night is a classic and helps bolster the myth presented. The OST is a good selection, no notes on that (Gaiden Truther you are). The splices in the hack are well done and Joelius having hair that more goes to the sides of the head rather than just flush on the back is a great choice IMO.
Story: The Story is a well told piece about the biases of history and the cruelty of truth, and appearances not being what they seem. As the hack want you to “find the truth” while editing a piece of propaganda, the Story of Secco, a Warrior raider who raised villages and stole the emperor’s sword. As events unfold you learn that Secco’s whole story is a falsehood. Secco never existed. The Story of Secco was used by the Empire to cover it’s crimes and maintain it’s authority. As Secco’s real story is of that of Person named Orr who was betrayed by her friends and had her sight, sword and life stolen from her. The use of portrait splices help reinforced this idealized, more palatable version of events (especially for the typical Rom-hack playerbase), and when the truth is revealed the characters in the story it shows more of Dev’s Art (which is less conventional for the audience), Orr was the one who tasked you on the editor’s assignment and it is a great twist in retrospect and you can pick up more on your “Fire Emblem An Informed Second Look” through, A little more info can be found out in the game’s Hard Mode.
My personal Score
Gameplay: 7 (Good)
Presentation: 5
Story: 5
Total: 17
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Updates
3.0 Visual and gameplay changes (mainly removed an event as it did not work properly and made things more confusing than necessary)
4.0 Very minor visual changes (I am pretty happy with how things are)
This will likely be the final version, at least before the deadline for LEAF. The only thing that may be added in the future is custom menu graphics once I figure out what I want to go for with my main project, but for now this is it! Please enjoy!
