Fire Emblem: Dark Stone - FE8, but you play as the bad guys! [Overhaul with a new story]

… glass cannon? Isn’t one of Riev’s defining aspects his bulk?

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not mine

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Well, that adds up. Riev is the cutest character in the game!

Hi everyone,

I really liked this hack, one of the best from my pov. However, since i’m playing on an handled console with Retroarch, there is one annoying thing for me → I don’t have any cool cover to display on my game list.

So i made one that i’d like to share with you. Hope you’ll enjoy it !

Note : I’m not a designer so i made it with my poor skills

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Here is another version with logo background from Sacred Stones and stylised Dark stone banner

And another with esrb

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Really cool! Did you make the art yourself or did you get it from somewhere?

Found the original image on Reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/11fil0h/sacred_stones_art_shined_up_a_bit/

Then I used AI to generate the top of the art as it was in landscape mode. And to finish i merged every single part together

So you’re right, i forgot to credit L498 work.

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E for everyone indeed
Don’t mind the child soldier

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omg!!

Possible spoiler

I just cleared chapter 16 and my heart told me “see if tiffani and Ewan have a battle quote” boy was I right. My imagination huge o i made myself cry lol. I been having fun with the carnage so far but that chapter broke my heart.

I am so enjoying this from this side. I love the banter between Glenn and Callech such an odd pair that just works. Somehow this game makes me like Callech and that is dangerous because I thought he was scuuuuum in Sacred Stones.

Also…

Love this

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The only piece of criticism I would give is that Vigarde (I assume it’s Vigarde) looks a little off compared to his sprite. Aside from that though, really cool !

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Can you pls make the cover the other fire emblem hack such as Dream of Five, Terror of Forest… and more

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Well, agreed but original FE8 is also rated E while Amelia has around 15yo :slight_smile:
Even in France (I’m french) the game is rated 7+ which is supposed to be suittable for young players

Anyway i prefer the cover without rating icon

Thank you !

Vigarde looks weird, i suppose because he’s dead at this moment :slight_smile:

Well to be honest i don’t think i’ll do it, at least for now.

For Dark Stone it was “easy” because there was an existing cool / perfect artwork to illustrate and i didn’t play the other hacks yet. Maybe one day.

But if you want i can share each assets i used to make this one

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Touché

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I liked seeing everyone’s pre-battle quotes in this scene. Poor Bone, at least the usual “random thief who is way out of their depth” in these games happened to end up on the good guys’ side.

What’s this?

Lieselotte capped Strength and continues to tear through enemies. I was pretty amused watching her ORKO the Generals on this map while having weapon triangle disadvantage.

I talked to Ismaire with Caellach and got jumpscared by her moving; I get the impression that I was supposed to finish her off with Carlyle or Caellach or simply seize with her alive or something to that effect but this wasn’t particularly feasible so I ended up just killing her with my other units. Assuming she’s recruitable I’ll save her for another run along with the rest of the sword infantry. Beyond that, it’s nice to finally have money and good items again. I have been completely broke the past few chapters.

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Male valkyrie.

About that...

Yeah you have to lure her out of the throne and seize without killing her, but that can be a bit tricky, she’s rather powerful.

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I also had that problem, but came up with a solution

Rescue drop caellach after he talks to ismaire, lure her out with someone tanky, and seize with lyon (recomended using deni to refresh lyon so he can safely seize the next turn while being outside ismaire’s range)

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A couple turns into this chapter I noticed this “phantom Myrmidon” had spawned inside a wall.

He exhibited many other irregular properties, which I have documented in this video. After I killed the skeleton adjacent to him he simply vanished into the aether. Even more peculiar, upon rewatching the aforementioned footage I noticed that the skeleton he was bound to was actually a Revenant wielding a Sharp Claw, and he was merely disguised as a skeleton on his battle sprite.

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Well that’s certainly very odd. No myrmidons are supposed to appear on that side of the map. Huh. It might be an issue with map sprites - I’ve received reports of such things happening before. I should look into fixing the monster map sprites.

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