[FE8] [COMPLETE] FE: Dream of Five - Definitive Edition

Muscle Mommy is in both routes, thats all info i need for my next run!! :star_struck:

Beat the game, it was a too hard for me so save states were basically the only way I surivived. Not a fan of the only one A rank, didn’t figure that out until the very last map wondering why I couldn’t progress my last few supports. I enjoyed the game overall even if I found a lot frustrating. It was an interesting story, I liked Rena’s growth and I enjoyed a lot of the characters. I struggled with the games economy. Especially since I was attempting to mostly just use women and aim for paired endings [managed 4] meant I was overloaded with sword units which made it an even bigger struggle. The temporary 2nd forced deploy lord was frustrating and then when he was no longer forced I was so relived [only for him to have one more forced map which was a bit of a struggle].

Regardless no regrets in playing, the art is great, spirits are great, things are cool, lots of fun to be had even if there was plenty of moments where I had my pain points.

The party

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Rena felt pretty weak for a lot of the game but I like having a flying lord so I take that, I am a flier enjoyer. Near end game she finally felt like a more useful unit and it was nice for her to start kicking ass.

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Sheila is lovely, I was really hoping to get her paired ending but didn’t. I really liked her connection to her fellow peg knights and her PRF was very useful. She was a really nice addition to the plot, I really like the role she had with both her relationship to the queen and to her fellow knights.

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Cathale was a major MVP for me, a lot of times, I had to use her as a choke point in order to stand a chance on these maps. I really loved her support with Cothiva.

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Annelise is so cute, she probably felt like the least strong of my Peg Knights a lot of the time but I really liked. I got her A rank with her sister so I didn’t get to see if she has a paired end with Rozelle T_T. I really enoyed her character though and I gave her magic swords to help her deal with issues.

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Cothiva was my biggest damge dealer for most the game, she really just fucked people up and i loved it for her. I enjoyed both supports of hers I watched and I enjoyed her part of the story. Part of me thought she might be part of recruiting Sorcha which further pushed me to use her but no regrets for sure.

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Rozelle is really cool, love having a fat character in the crew. Her promo sprit is stunning and she really put in a ton of work in killing key units with her PRF and in support once she promoed.

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The first peg knight so I obviously invested a lot into her, I love peg knights a ton and while she struggled a little bit with kills I really loved using her anyway. Her little story bits were always nice to see too, I liked her role with the Quivery Quil and everything.

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Bellodana was amazing, what a lovely character, on the route I was on I got her late so I had to really work to make her good but it was well worth it for her support with Liz. I really loved seeing their story and she felt like a fairly solid unit despite needing a little more attention at first.

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Liz was my main healer, she was pretty much always focused on support almost never using the light tomes she unlocked. She was very busy trying to fix everyone’s wounds. She’s a great character and I was always happy to see her show up.

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From the second I got Franseza and Seren with their auto A support and their canon being girlfriends from go meant I had to use them. Luckily, Franseza was my only bow unit and hard carried, she did so much work. Bows getting 3 range so easily and with so much power in this game makes them really strong [and annoying on the enemy side] so she really carried hard. I love her so much and love her design a lot.

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While not as strong as her wife Seren was really good and came in handy a lot. She was my primary lance user most the game and did a ton of work especially as she leveled.

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Adalheid had to join my team the second i saw her and Lyn’s messy ex plot, I was enraptured and then she was also needed to recruit her sister so like, no shot no matter how strong she was. Her PRF was very solid even if she was a little weak and she still put in some good work for her few maps. I really enjoyed her supports with Lyn and with Rena along with her story with her sister.

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Speaking of Lyn, she did not feel strong even when I recruited her and she was a prepromote and stuff. I didn’t use a ton of her at first, she was gonna be benched really but then the ex plot showed up and well, I put everything I could into her to make her do better and she did do some big work with the wyrm slayer against the dragons and some clutch brave sword moves. Her sister was originally going to replace her but I am very happy with Lyn and her plot and her character and every moment she was on screen was great.

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I mostly used Amaryl her because I thought she might have a paired support with Rena but she did not in fact have one. I did enjoy her part in the plot and her supports though so regardless I was happy with her. Might have used a different unit if I had know but I enjoyed her contributions to the final maps anyway.

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Claudiya had to join my team when I saw her canon amazing wife Tamara. She was necessary but also really strong, an amazing late game join who out preformed Ameila who she replaced. I loved her so much.

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For like a pretty hyped up unit she really did not preform that well, I really like her character though so I wanted to bring her into end game. I replaced Thyra for the last map with her, which was good because i honestly needed the extra staffer and she did get some kills for me. Her PRF is cool, she is neat, I wish she was a little stronger for where she shows up in game.

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Thyra had the best animations in the game, her design is so good, she’s so hot, I love her so much, she’s amazing. Had to bench her on end game but she was deployed basically every other map she could be and I really enjoyed her story and her place in the games world.

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Since you played all-female musain the 4 paired endings you got are all the ones possible for your configuration, so you didn’t miss out.

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Been playing this for the last 2 days, got a question here. Am I missing something in Chapter 19 Softly Softly, where there is a locked door behind one of the priests, or is there really supposed to be nothing but a trolling moment? I dont wanna restart the chapter to use every single character and see if that is a recruitment spot for a specific character hahahahaha. Just tell me if there is something important there or simply not pleaaase.

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Unless there’s something to suggest a given character would see something different in that garden, characters reporting there’s nothing of interest probably means there’s nothing of interest. Anything requiring a specific character will be telegraphed accordingly.

Quiet little update. Another one where there’s no real pressing need to update, on the player end. There’s a reason this stuff hasn’t been caught until now, but it’s another step closer to true completion. I’ve done my two key checks (‘warding weapons don’t have +400 statboosts’, ‘C25 doesn’t hang’) but as ever, if something does unexpectedly shatter, the stable v 1.7.2 is still available in Old Patches.

Excitingly, this is just a few days out from FEE3 starting! I aim to celebrate by falling ‘mysteriously’ ‘ill’ in lieu of attending work. Look forward to seeing the trailer for a game you’re presumably already playing or have already played, and probably more importantly in your case, trailers and showcases for dozens of other projects across the community!

v. 1.7.3 Patchnotes
  • Mug fixes
  • Fixed darkest skin tone on Brill palette
  • C15: Southmost warlock now weaker (can be reliably one-shot by Mioritza)
  • C25: Fixed flag overlap issue where certain battle quotes would not play (or might trigger premature map end)
  • C26: Fixed error where Rout counter wasn’t displayed
  • Finale: Fixed AP error; re-ordered minibosses; ensured correct enemy colouration in first frame
  • Fixed issue where “Hearty Hello” used arrow animation
  • Wight: 26 → 28 Str cap
  • Bow Wight: 27 → 29 Str cap
  • Renamed ‘Kris’ to ‘Lightning Kris’
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No casual mode, no resource spoilers document, no options to be noob friendly :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob:

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Correct!

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you can turn on turn saves in the options menu, which placed an autosave at the start of every turn that you can load with resume chapter

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my friend, I use save states on every way possible, I’m very bad in strategy RPGs, so I need to exploit all the way I can.

“But why do you play games like these then?” - Because I like the setting, story, and the gameplay mechanics (but I’m bad as hell), specially in the romhacks, where there is a lot of love put in the projects, like this one for example, the writing is amazing, much better than the main FE games in the franchise, but we need more noob friendly options, for acessibility to guys like me :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob:

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I feel that some of the experience has to come from gameplay-story integration, which can feel lost if the game is too easy. Other times, the point of the game is the mechanics and difficulty themselves, like Dark Souls. I, for one, think that Parrhesia did a fantastic job integrating the story and gameplay with the only difficulty being the one that he intended for.

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Why MGBA?

It’s what it was playtested on. Other emulators, particularly more obscure ones, can have issues.

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Hey loving the hack, im on ch23x, and didn’t understand the secret shop hint, can anyone help me find it? :innocent:

The road forms a giant arrow pointing to a discoloured tile. That’s the shop.

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Hey Parr or Lumi, I was wondering how you two got the chance to remake Do5? I was just curious, and thanks for a great game!

What do you mean by ‘got the chance’? We just… did.

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Oh that’s cool! I just figured there was a cool fun fact or story behind the development of the new version. That’s all :slight_smile:

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It’s pretty much just that we both stewed on it after the project stalled in 2014 (and the planned 2016 revival fell apart before starting) through us all basically kickstarting our adult lives, then I made DoW, we both had some time on our hands, I’d half-joked that if I could get in touch with Astra to secure permissions we could revive it, she got in touch with Astra (who not only gave his blessing but had a ZIP ready with basically every asset that had ever been even discussed in relation with the project), and here we are.

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Ohhhh now i see it hahaha thank you for the tip! :exploding_head: