[FE8] Fire Emblem - The Last Dragon

I wasn’t able to reproduce the glitch, so I would assume it’s a one time thing or maybe some emulator issue.

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Okay I finally beat the game and here are my thoughts!

Summary

-Boss avo seems a little high feel and they have high hit and equally high avo. So it’s not a slug fest it’s they dodging and hitting us. Typically bosses don’t usually have higher luck unless it’s rare and they are meant to be dodge tanks without a ton a strength. But it seems like all them on forts and thrones with high avo and your hit chance is like 50 or less with weapon advantage. This is on easy so I can only imagine how much more tedious they are on higher difficulty

-The narrative wasn’t anything overly complicated. It’s short, sweet and to the point. I personally don’t mind that in some hacks, like not all have to be like this grandiose thing, it feels like a nice homage to sacred stones.

-Is the low Unit fielding for a reason? By chapter 16 the most you still can field is 12 which typically by now you usually are getting 14-16 people out per chapter on average with 12 being for certain chapters meant for less units. I personally think kr should be increased to 14 at least by chapter 14. Especially later chapters like 12 units for the final chapters is just very very different

-I really like the characters. They are the type of characters you actually wanna get to know. And the supports do a great job of letting you know more about them and answer burning questions you may have about them. Like I never would have gotten Rina is a little promiscuous from her chapter or recruit, I only learned that from her conversation w Lucas. Or that Aversa is like a sibling to Coulson. Which some people may not like but I enjoy the fact that, I get to learn about who their true selves are through supports. Though I’m biased cuz I love supports. I thought the one between Eloah & Trevor was lowkey hilarious once I realized what was going on. My favorites from this playthrough were Dom & Aversa (beautiful and sad) and Lucas & Rina.

-chapter 18 it feels like there may have been burnout. Though the hack as a whole offers a simplistic experience which I like, this one felt especially bare, that may have been the idea since it’s like the calm before the storm. But for such a late game map it was just lacking any oomph for me personally. It felt like it was just there in comparison to the rest of the chapters. The boss couldn’t even counter close combat. I do think it would be nice to have a boss quote with Aurora and even Nana. Like they have this established beef already with him trying to kill Aurora then he got away and now he running into both these girls again.

-On the subject of Chapter 18, I think the fact that we had the world map after every chapter and then suddenly don’t go back to the world map after this chapter which means you can’t go back and actually prepare for the final chapters. So I didn’t shop and was completely unprepared for the following 3 chapters without prep . If you’re going to do this, then it should be made abundantly clear this is last chance we get to shop. I mean I was in 19xxx with iron weapons and e rank tomes and no ranged weapons.

-19xxx I believe the knight guarding the door to the throne should have a door key if you’re going to have the door here. If you don’t bring your only thief, lockpicks or have someone with unlock staffs then you would kinda be outta luck and just stuck.

-20 to me was my fave map. It was just a good map, I think Nick again avo was waaay to high I mean I had overleveled people from the forest with like 20% hit chance, crazy. I think it’s a little weird he doesn’t have a boss conversation with Tas when they clearly had created a bond. Same with Than & Azra

-Lastly, touching on Nana as a lord. She seems completely overshadowed in comparison to her counterpart Dom. Even when they lead the attack on the tower, though I picked her route Dom still was the one who like gave the rousing final speech and then is the one who has a moment with King Zefyr (awesome animation btw) at the end. She doesn’t feel like an important figure of the army just kinda there to be a second lord. This was with me playing her route

Please don’t take anything I said personally just my honest thoughts. I still very much had fun and am literally starting my second playthrough! :grin: excited to see what the future holds for this