I just finished this amazing hack and all I have to say is holy shit. This is honestly the best hack I have played out of all of them (which is extremely high praise because I’ve played both Vision Quest and Eligor’s Spear). I am going to talk about what I loved below, so be aware for some spoilers
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Wow Vorgus. I’m going to start with the characters. I loved the beginning 3 of Edric, Shorn, and Miley. Edric is such an extremely well protagonist, he’s truly a good hearted person seeking justice and good will for the world, which his ending makes a lot of sense (or is it his ending?). Shorn is my favorite character hands down. His mysterious aura and motives are insane and he was an absolutely busted unit. When I hit lvl 10 with Shorn on his promo and he got the ability to have 2 turns it was wraps, I would send him off by himself to take on 6 units at a time and he would dodge every attack and crit back. Miley is a caring character with a lot of love to give and she was an A+ unit. She was getting critical hits with just an iron bow and when I got the Kiss of Death, it was uphill from there.
Characters I would like to note:
Galen: OP ass unit, top 3 in the game imo. He has insane strength and defense and when I promoted him to a shadow knight it was even better. I was so mad that he originally sided with the traitor blades but his arc went crazy. His relationship with Miley was def a core part to this story
Tancred: such a mysterious fella, but he is exactly what I wound image somebody w his life story to be. He was always willing to put himself first. He was extremely OP, especially when I got that Cataclysm tome, he one shot everything in the final chapter
Donnal: I love how he went from somebody who was only drawn to money to becoming a person that helps people. He was so OP, I swore that guy could move anywhere on the map. When I paired him with a longbow and killer bow, he was one shotting left and right, amazing unit.
Gareth: his support convos went so hard. I kept him in my team just because I wanted him to get revenge on Zeddard so badly. Amazing backstory with this character.
Dwalt: Dwalt was a goofy character, and I was rooting for him to end up with Rivkah. But he was great unit wise, great for crits and when I promoted him I gave him the killer bow and it was wraps. Also he was unstoppable with Woundmaker.
Rowan: probably the funniest written character in the game. He is always late to everything but he hits like a freight train. I used him everywhere and gave him the holy axe for the last 3 chapters and he was a machine. He also was extremely tanky.
Alexias: he would have been a much better unit if introduced earlier in the game (you recruit him with like 13 chapters left lol) but when he’s a sage he’s crazy. I also love his interest for poetry and wine and how that’s included in his endgame bio.
Griss: although I didn’t use him much, who doesn’t love a good ol unc. His love for the battle was my favorite part about him.
Harlan: his character development from a rag tag thief to a knight was awesome. I loved how his love for Julia was what caused him to switch to the right side and fight against Fenix. He was also insane with Shadowbane
Julia: the most selfless character ever. Great person with great motives and her ending is quite sad but her selflessness is what moved her to do that.
Hadrian: I really liked this guy, although he joins very late his S rank in light magic came in clutch, and I was sad to see how his story ended.
Elyse: She was OP. She could use any type of magic and shred through anyone after her promo.
Fenix: I didn’t like Fenix character wise, but he was a damn great unit. I ended up giving him Kingslayer for a chapter and he was sick with it. (I ended up giving it to shorn for the last Chapter lmao)
And I gotta say that Chapter 9 and Chapter 18 (I might have those wrong but I’m referring to the escape chapters) are the best in the game. I loved how you split the teams to make it more difficult and it was easier to train various characters. My favorite part tho was how you chose megolovania as the music. That shit had me bumping.
That one chapter where you go to Sophia’s flashback and you play as Zeddard, Forness, Royce, Braggo, Young Tancred, Young Sophia, Tordred, etc. was fire as well. It was a unique spin to traditional fire emblem and I loved being able to play as more characters.
One more thing I would like to highlight is the new classes. Galen’s Shadow Knight and Hadrian’s Light Knight was a crazy good concept and made those two extremely overpowered. I loved seeing another spin to the cavalier promotion instead of just promo to Paladin or Great Knight. I also loved how Edric could use swords and bows, made him dangerous from range. I forgot the name of Rowan’s promoted class, but he was OP. Defense, and a crazy crit rate made him unstoppable. Also, Nayda’s class as a Pegasus mage is a concept that should be used in vanilla FE. Such a good idea for a class. Elyse as a witch is a better twist than a sage, Elyse was an essential character so it makes sense as to why she got a unique class, but I would love to see more of that. I also love how you expanded on the dancer class and gave Elenora the ability to heal and fight, it really expanded on the use of her class. And I love how you nerfed the great knight class just a little, and took away their ability to use swords. Their weapon triangle usage was too OP in vanilla FE8 so I love how you balanced the game out.
Overall, an A+ fire emblem game. Better than Nintendo can do in my opinion. And the plot twist at the very end was absolutely insane, I really hope we can see a sequel some day. Thank you Vorgus for this amazing experience.
… I’have promoted Shorn and Miley … not Galen …
