Hello! I’ve been dipping my toes into the self-randomizers made by Vesly, and I was just messing around and sending the silliness to my friends when I remembered I could share the silliness HERE. So!
Here’s the randomizer, for those not aware, and let’s start a new file and see who we’re dealing with, shall we?
Now, I’m not randomizing any of the actual enemies we’ll be going up against, but their stats I believe will be affected just because of the way things work, and because this is FE8 and a lot of the bosses are technically playable, we’ll be seeing them swapped around too. I’m also swapping items around just because that’s fun, but I’m keeping it to only items originally found in FE8. I will be including all the fun new classes and characters from every game, though. Oh, and this is going to be on Normal, because I’m actually not very good at FE. I’m going to be resetting a bajillion times probably. Wish me luck! Lol
So! Let’s meet the princess of Renais, shall we?
Okay I don’t know this person. I think the king is a lategame character from Fates but my memory is SO bad and I don’t know MOST FE casts so this is how I’m going to be learning a lot of them lol
Her name is Katarina! Interesting
And here’s our Seth, Louis, who I also don’t know. They also say the name of whoever replaces Ephraim but I have already forgotten it lol I’ll tell y’all when it comes up again
Now to just skip this scene right quick and find out who our Franz is… oh, okay, Ephraim is someone named “Largo” who sounds vaguely familiar
And here’s our Franz!
Her name is Daisy and I caught sight of her sprite and she might be a whole manakete so that could be fun! I set basic weapons to not break because weapon durability proved to be such a genuine obstacle in my first couple seeds of the FE7 randomizer and without the ability to buy weapons it can be genuinely iffy but I don’t actually know if the supply convoy armory is affected by the random item thing so it might not have been as big of a deal in this game. Still, if she is in fact a manakete the dragonstone being breakable is a whole Thing™ I’d love to avoid lol
Oh no I was wrong, it’s Louis who’s the Manakete, interesting!
Meanwhile, here’s Valter, who is randomized because he’s technically playable which threw me off the first time I tried to rando this lol. He’s another character I don’t know off the top of my head but his portrait looks like it’s actually from a GBA game so I’m assuming he’s from FE6, which I’ve only ever started and never gotten super far in.
His name is Astolfo? … interesting. Anyway, Louis isn’t a Manakete he’s an entire ANGEL?? or something?? Def looks like he’s still a promoted class, anyway, so that’s going to be nice, since the game very much expects you to have and use Seth early on.
Alright, stats time! I have things set to give an extra 10% growths because once again I am not actually very good at FE and I want things to be generally feasible for my poor self even if I get some characters with 0 base stats which I have had a few times while doing this lol
Katarina… looks fantastic, actually, damn
She has a trusty Hatchet, a weapon I trust innately because my Ross in my actual FE8 playthrough that started me down this rabbit hole was a monster with that thing and it’s just so nice to have an axe that almost always hits lol. She’s also made of PAPER but that’s been a consistent theme with all of my rando attempts I’ve tried so far lol. At least she’ll have plenty of HP to make up for it
Now for Louis… Jesus Christ, alright
Good to know I do in fact have a hard carry this time; in my other FE8 rando file Seth got replaced by a character who was a Thief with no stats besides speed albeit decent growths. He’s got a Horseslayer and a Beacon Bow, which are both totally solid since the bow won’t break, thank god. Time to pick off all these nerds with indirect combat hell yeah
Okay, no problems, solid level for Katarina, good good. Probably best to call this post there and make each chapter a different one for the sake of, like, idk. Organization? Post visual length? Idk it just feels right but I’m going to keep playing regardless lol
