I need to figure out how to recruit Telemus on my next run, I found the house where the woman begged me not to kill him but the game wouldn’t let me talk to him or anything… The beard is magnificent, the Leadership star is nice and it means I can drop Soter earlier.
You can go to the bottom of the map and Escape / leave him alone and he’ll join later. He doesn’t join until early 16 so don’t worry, in my case it’s just that my Soter’s stats were 18/13/18/11/8/19/11 so I was like “huh, guess I got a good deal from the insurance company for once.”
Did you figure out if Child Dolus was recruitable? They talk about needing to have gotten there faster to save him but I don’t know how fast I’d need to be, or if that’s just flavor. Surely this recruitment isn’t stricter than a Binding Blade Gaiden chapter?
I left off on ch 18 so I’ll have to leave this one up to someone else if they know, sorry.
Dolus V is not recruitable in the main campaign (he joins as a postgame recruit)
His death is kinda necessary for the plot since old fart Dolus is literally dying and needs the younger Dolus’ life force anyway
Main Story completed! Now I’m very curious to see what details a second playthrough changes. I’ll go through the postgame first, though.
Elias had more Death Flags than a wife in a bad action movie, but good lord :c I was thinking either he or Dolus V would of given their life force to save the other, but what happened was pretty much the worst case scenario. Seeing the characters you can get in the postgame, I missed getting Lorenzo too. That whole plot arc had a sad ending, and I enjoyed every bit of it.
Special Thanks to Sandy for being absolutely awful, indeed.
…the key to beating the last boss was a broken wall. This romhack does a lot of really fun subversions on the Fire Emblem formula, but the big thing that takes down the bad guy being a broken wall and physics, rather than A cool sword or spell taking down a A Giant Evil Demon Dragon is just one of those small details that makes me like the Hack even more.
She reminds me of Dark Stone Riev a lot. Since he was my favorite character in that hack, this is a good thing.
He’s long surpassed her stat wise, but not having Powerstaff holds him back just a little bit. The Scroll I have him let him have a 5 percent skill growth and it procced thrice. Character wise, I liked him a lot.
Like Melina before her, was the one to put down her own daughter.
All and all, I had a really fun time and the story had me hooked really quickly. Amazing soundtrack choices too, “For the Savior” is my favorite Lufia 2 track and it makes a good recruitment theme.
Dropping by for some Hag in White memes dump. But wow, I continue to be impressed by everything! It’s insane the amount of things I’ve missed after talking to another Hag in White’er but it just makes me look forward to another run. And I just love the base camp interactions, especially the conversations between Kyra and Hestia.
Telemus is a good replecement for Soter, though I was expecting to use 3 generals between Soter, Alonso and Telemus, now i only get to use two of them and my Soter was the bulkier one with 44 hp, 21 def and 13 res, he also had good offensives with 15 magic and 13 speed (16 atk but who cares about atk on generals? Flux goes brrrr) he also had S rank anima magic, I guess now Alonso will have to carry the team.
If anybody remembers, my Soter died to a wall in chapter 4, So I’ll need one of them generals.
I am having some trouble with Chapter 22. I can’t trigger the event that lowers the bridge. I’ve rescue-dropped the bridgekeeper onto the red house near the bridge (which was highlighted briefly after talking to her) which I assume is what should trigger the event but nothing is happening.
You need to visit the house while holding onto the green unit then she does her thing iirc @IcicleDisaster
Thank you for sharing your impressions!
Sadly, Elias and Dolus V both do end up saving someone at the end of their lives, but of course it’s not one another. The change of heart Lorenzo undergoes thanks to Elias potentially leads to Kyra giving him a second chance, provided you figure out how to keep him from throwing his life away. It’s too bad, but hey, there’s always next run.
Glad you enjoyed the grand finale! I have to partially credit playtester Pengaius there. Originally the sequence was a more heavily scripted “beat the boss 5 times and then they fall”, he suggested making the player break the wall themselves to add an extra bit of unique interactivity to the encounter.
Of course, the argument can be made that there was a legendary spell that was the big thing that took the bad guy down. It’s just, it wasn’t the heroes wielding it, it was the villain.
Thank you for sharing your team as well! Some popular picks, a few less popular picks, that’s nice to see-- Pluto AND Plato?!
That’s fucking awesome.
It’s funny you mention that one. I haven’t played Lufia 2 in my life. I just stumbled into that track on youtube reccs and then when I was making Hag I suddenly remembered it and thought it’d sounded pretty recruitmentish lol
You know, I think I was a happier man before seeing this.
Anyway, Word of God says canon.
Enjoying my time so far, on ch4 right now!
Minor non-gamebreaking bug: I think that the L button battle skip does not work on any battle involving Soldiers?
That doesn’t make much sense. Are you perhaps trying it on the boss of chapter 4? Because boss animations cannot be skipped, period.
That’s what I thought…but the soldier recruit you get from the same chapter also couldn’t be skipped? Maybe it’s just this chapter - will test!
Oof, didn’t realize that. Rip bozo 
Sucks that we don’t get Soter back postgame
Yeah that’s fine, don’t worry about it. Boss version has hard mode bonuses.
Uhhh, look, I kinda appreciate the gesture but
That’s AI art isn’t it? Kind of getting those vibes from the fact that neither of those characters look anything like the characters from the hack. I’m sorry but Kyra being built like a generic anime girl and the hag with a kindly face and white hair is just incorrect.
