#fire emblem 11

[bomb0some0dodongos]

Finally finished my FE1 playthrough! I enjoyed it thoroughly to the end. I'll always understand why it's not for everyone, but old school strategy/ RPG game clunk is my jam.

And now it's time to give the animations some major credit in this game - the GBA FE games get all the animation spotlight, but FE1 set the foundation that led to them in the first place!

The sprite art team did not have to go this hard for a Famicom game, but they sure did. Some of them are a little derpy - Marth's standard attack animation is him slowly walking up to the enemy, lightly whacking them, then walking back into position - but most of them are really dynamic for 8-bit!

Marth ends up redeeming himself with Falchion's unique animation, anyway. The backflip is one for legends.

And Medeus? You know how he's an earth dragon? So of COURSE he comes crawling out of the ground! I don't know how... the final battle map is in a castle... but the final boss doesn't need logic, okay?

Link to FE1 Marth vs. Medeus fight on YouTube

And then... one day in 2008, FE11 happened. I still love playing this game too, and defend it a lot. ...I just wish I could know what happened during development, that made it the game where animation goes to die, when it's a remake of THE FE1.

Link to FE11 Marth vs. Medeus fight on YouTube

[nightzap]

I completed my first FE Ironman today

I finished Shadow Dragon on Hard 2, not resetting to undo deaths and restarting the run from Chapter 1 if Marth dies. On the third attempt, today I incinerated Medeus with Tiki’s divine dragonbreath, and it was exilerating.

My first attempt had ended early. I was rusty in playing FE, so I lost a few strong units like Caeda and Abel in the first two chapters, and in chapter 4 I misplaced Marth and he facetanked one more spear than he could. The second run went much better... until I all the overlapping ballista ranges in chapter 13 made my brain sizzle through and Marth once again took too much damage, especially since I had previously lost Midia, meaning I had to fight Astram instead of being able to recruit him.

But the third attempt went amazingly. I barely lost anyone I was actively using, at least until the lategame when the difficulty started to dial up.

My MVP of the run was Barst. Look at this absolute unit:

From early on, his strength and speed allowed him to reliable kill enemies without the aid of forged effective weapons, which is what most of my army used. Once I promoted him and changed his class to hero, giving him massive stat boosts at the cost of one point of strength, he went into overdrive, being tanky enough to duel most foes and counterkill with a hand axe. He finished the campaign with 73 kills under his belt

The other in the top 5 of best fighters where Marth (62 kills), Cain and Wolf (58 kills each), and Caeda (54 kills). The Wing Spear is not nicknamed the Win Spear for nothing!

That’s not to say my run went perfectly of course. I had a full three deaths in the final chapter alone. Wendell, serving as a staffbot with low HP, got killed by a ballista right at the start. Then I forgot to move Boa, my other staffboat, and he became wyvern food. Finally, during the final struggle against Medeus, Cain got caught and doubled by a Mage Dragon, these bastards are crazy fast.

My most embarassing death happened in Chapter 23. I was using the Geosphere to suss out the real Gharnef and kill a few of his mooks, and didn’t realize that the fortify staff doesn’t heal it’s user, causing me to accidentally kill Lena through repeated earthquakes. That was really dumb.

I haven’t played FE in forever, and it’s good to be back. Next I will do an Ironman of Sacred Stones, which is going to be fun because I played it exactly once, years ago, when I first got into FE. Very fun.

[evostrashbin]

weird thoughts

[wild-moss-art]

“Can I bum one? It’s my birthday!”

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

why was marth running around with no pants on in the early games

he did they're just so short his top covers them

[dotted-clouds]

pocky... and an attempt...

[feshippingpolls]

It's absolutely criminal that you haven't run the og yet

Marth and Caeda

FE: Should they kiss?

Marth x Caeda

[bearofohu]

happy mothers day camilla fire emblem the best there ever was

[zefirart]

NEL I NEED YOU TO COME HOME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!! I LOVE OYOUUYUYUYUY

[mirensiart]

Ok fine, I'll change my icon and banner to zelda/lu related stuff, u win hyperfixation, u win

[bomb0some0dodongos]

When I took my main blog's new cover photo, I also snapped this one for fun!

Translated vs in progress vs untranslated FE novels, as of 2024!

Translated pile:

FE2 Gaiden - Book 1

FE4 Genealogy of the Holy War - Suzuki novelization

FE4 - original short stories

FE5 Thracia 776 - Umemura novelization

FE7 The Blazing Blade

FE8 The Sacred Stones

In progress:

FE2 Gaiden - Book 2

FE6 The Binding Blade

Untranslated:

FE1 Shadow Dragon - Yamaguchi novelization

FE1 Shadow Dragon - Shinosaki novelization

FE1 Shadow Dragon - game book (choose-your-own-adventure)

FE3 Mystery of the Emblem - Shinosaki novelization

FE3 Mystery of the Emblem - Takayashiki novelization

FE3 Mystery of the Emblem - game book (choose-your-own-adventure)

FE4 Genealogy of the Holy War - Takeda novelization

FE4 Genealogy of the Holy War - game book (choose-your-own-adventure)

FE5 Thracia 776 - Shinosaki novelization

Tearring Saga

Berwick Saga

[theblindarcher]

Time to mix drinks and change lives.

An anonymous portrait order of Jill Stingray from VA-11_Hall-A.

[pencilsquiggles]

just finished fire emblem awakening

[sharenaweek]

Sharena Week 2024 Day 1: Past and Future

And so it starts! Go forth, valiant heroes, and don't forget to have a Sharetastic day!

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

hi im back sorry i accidentally ate two full bottles of melatonin gummies but besides that, wrys fire emblem, you agree. i wanna gently kiss him, like a sort of gentle and soft kiss only reserved for lovers. hes the loml im gonna explod e

- 🪻 anon :3

YOU WHAT

[fore-seer]