Very fun one chapter hack! I really like the gimmicks of units, as they have various roles (area damage, debuff, taunting, etc) to help tackle what at first looked like an unwinnable situation.
Scariest moment was I didn’t pay much attention and Village Elder survived at 1 HP in enemy phase lol.
I’ve also played Closing Act (which was great) but I like having OP units so I enjoyed playing this a bit more. Guess I have to check out Cerulean Crescent.
Just played it as well - it was really awesome! I really enjoyed the premise & writing here, it was hilarious. The core mechanic was very cool too, I love transforming units.
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Hero was definitely the highlight for me, with all forms (except War Monk) having cool weapons + Relocate + Dark Wrap. The child units were also pretty fun, Berserking a dragon to take most of the High Priest’s health without taking counter damage was fun. Warrior did feel a bit underwhelming though, due to a mix of low mov, only one action (aside from Smite which is, uh, pretty useless) and focusing on enemy phase when I think I only had a single EP combat through the entire hack (and it wasn’t even with Warrior).
The bosses were cool too & it was fun to play around their gimmick. But as a Fire Emblem player, I cannot read, and thus lost Hero’s Hero form to the Chancellor’s vantage, leading me to being exactly 1 HP short of defeating the final boss. That’s on me though, and things went much more smoothly once I… didn’t do that.
Two minor bugs: for some reason, Healer’s dragon form started with 6 HP. It wasn’t too bad & I managed to play around it though. Also, one time I berserked a single Gore and a whole bunch of enemies started attacking each other for no apparent reason - it was hilarious though.
Thanks as well!
1 HP off is absolutely unfortunate for the first run.
I’m kinda impressed you didn’t even need Warrior on EP to clear the chapter. All my attempts involved him clearing like 12 guys for one turn (and then being useless for every other turn).
The 6 Hp bug I’ve seen pop up infrequently and I have… Absolutely no idea!
The berserk bug is due to group AI freaking out, which… I also have absolutely no idea how to fix.
Yeah, not the greatest hacker around.
To be fair, I played on the normal patch, not agony mode - maybe that’s why I didn’t need Warrior. Also, on my very first attempt I tried enemy phasing with him turn 1 and he immediately died, so I didn’t try that again.
And no need to be hard on yourself, these bugs were really quite minor & the hack was awesome regardless!
Cool hack, Riv. For a SHitPost Contest entry it was a bit lacking in sh*tposting, but as a standalone thing it’s pretty sick to solve and more people should try it. Pretty sure 2 is the turnfloor, but if someone found a 1-turn I wouldn’t be that surprised.
Shoutouts to Pass from Hero’s lancer form still working if you don’t back out from the action menu after switching from it to one of the others lol. If only Zububai was this cool in actual CC.
Continuing my quest to document the CC expanded universe, have a text archive. The writing was very funny, so I made sure to document as much as I could find.
This was fun, though the lack of UI indicators for which forms you’ve used already made me lose track of things sometimes. (Good on you for fixing that in Settled by Sunrise.) I lost the Demon Lord because I forgot Renewal activates before poison, but still managed to pull out a win in the nick of time.
