Introduction
Welcome! Fire Emblem – Blight of Acrova is a full-length hack based around a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I DM’ed. It features four acts, zero lords, three promotion tiers, and an abundance of weird maps. Due to being somewhat true to DnD most items and classes work a bit differently than classic fire emblem, and there are several quality of life patches, although it does not use SkillSystems. Supports function like in Path of Radiance, almost all the music is arrangements of fire emblem tunes done by me, and the unit count comes to a bit less than Binding Blade’s. All this being said, this is a solo project, so keep your expectations moderated. Specifically, you will not find: Good artwork, or original splices at all. Finely tuned difficulty settings. Any resemblance of a cohesive plot. I do think the game is pretty fun though, so let’s get the download links.
Download
There are three ups patches you can choose, the regular game, reverse recruitment (extremely unbalanced experience but also hilarious), and 0% growths (unknown if this is beatable). The base game for the patches is Sacred Stones (U).
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vVJ_09Hnv8qbU3F0UHOVo8fCkKHqipj5?usp=sharing
Getting Started
There are three difficulty settings: easy, normal, and hard. The entire game is designed around the normal difficulty, which I consider about as difficult as Binding Blade hard mode, but for different reasons. The other two settings just have stat differences, easy mode is for newcomers or Dungeons and Dragons people, and hard mode is for those people that like suffering. I played it, and I didn’t like it very much, which I consider a success.
After entering the first map, I recommend viewing the credits by opening the guide and pressing ‘A’ a few times, and you can view the list of known bugs in the same place. I do want to bring attention to one thing here though – I highly recommend using Savestates and avoiding the in-game saves. The 200-item convoy breaks if you use in-game saves, letting you only keep 100 items if you turn off the game, and there are a few other minor bugs related to saves.
External Links
If you don’t care about some degree of spoilers, feel free to check out this character introduction video
And here is the documentation for the game. The first page is less-spoilery but the rest goes in-depth on the characters, items, and chapters. Also there’s a tier list here which you can laugh at after playing.
Contact
If you have any bug reports, suggestions, or complaints with the game, or anything else to say, you can place them in the comments section. You can also DM me on discord I guess if you know who I am there. Don’t expect a particularly timely response, since everything that gets changed in the game I will be changing myself, and there are only so many hours in the day.
Asset Usage
Most of the aspects of the game that were not created by someone else (check the credits) are free to use. The exception is characters, since most of those are actual people’s player characters. If there’s a character you want to use and you’re not sure if it’s an NPC you can ask me. But everything else – music, map design, plot (I don’t know why you would take anything from that pile of spaghetti) are all cool.
Anyways, thank you for checking out the hack and I hope you enjoy Blight of Acrova!
