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I believe I'm just about to start the final dungeon. Saved the queen, fought off some silver haired guy in a mask, and now the super secret ancient machiny place is all that's left I'd guess.

Oh nice, I went through a whole bunch of indie pokemon knock offs a while back, and cassette beasts was definitely one of the better ones. I ended up getting really absorbed in bootleg (a.k.a shiny) hunting in that game for whatever reason. Maybe because bootlegs give an actual in game benefit?

I can see that, but after Unicorn Overlords rather basic plot I'm in the mood for something a bit more narrative driven (even if it is really cliche at times lol).

It's always tough to gauge how well kickstarter projects will actually turn out, but at the very least, at this point I imagine Suikoden fans deserve a W more than most.

So, any plans on what your moving onto next? As you might've guessed, I bought a copy of trails in the sky a while ago and have finally got around to giving it a go.

Nice, it really was a pretty damn good game. I wish there was a bit more of a post game, or some sort of new game + so you could get more use out those really late game classes, like I really wanted to use Nigel more than just the final fight.

There is one really big postgame mission where you get to unlock a bunch of unrecruitable characters (like your mom, or the boss only classes you fought throughout the game) but once your done that the only real thing left you can do is grind through random arena fights.

The lion guy is just a berseker for sure, but the rest of the beasts have their own perks. The owls especially are really freaking good supports, even if I did cut her lol.

I cut the old armor knight for the rock rats guy immediately and never looked back. Didn't end up using any of Alain's mom's old retainers somehow.

Yeah, the meteorite weapons are solid, but there are definitely better weapons. Gave one to virginia to keep her tanky, and gave one to Celeste to raise her HP. Had her abuse that attack that deals damage equal to half your HP.

Yeah, the owl milf seems to have attracted some sort of internet following, I guess unsurprisingly lol.

Any standouts so far? Still aiming for that Virginia pairing? Any classes you've ditched entirely?

At this point in the game I was using most of the classes. The only exceptions were Joseph's paladin class, all the cavaliers, that axe horse guy (i really didn't use much cavalry for some reason), beserker, and I ended up not using any of the furry classes other than a bear. On the flipside, I doubled up on a couple classes, with Fran and Celeste, Primm and Sharon, Monica and Miriam, and Nina and... wing haired Hammer girl from the knights of the rose. I did use Berenice for a long time alongside Magellan, but I eventually cut her in the Angel kingdom.

Sorry, I meant how many different squads in total are you planning on using? Because you can have 10 different squads each consisting of 5 characters. I was just wondering because I imagine upgrading all 10 of them to 5 units would take a really long time.

Funnily enough I ended up having Melisandre as my only swordsmaster. They are really cool, but the amount of times I watched that super duper 10 hit combo bounce harmlessly off an armor knight, was kinda frustrating. I ended up having to throw a pair of innitiative lowering swords on her so that I could have my heavy hitters move first.

Gryphon was one of the few classes I doubled up on, so I used both fran and celeste. Celeste was part of my no healing, all damage Berengaria squad, while Fran I had in a team with Lex, Chloe, Rosalinde, and Monica.

The only way to grind Honor really is to redo those "shadow army" battles that Selvie has you do. Aside from that, just deliveries in towns and any support convo you find. How many teams are you planning on using, the full 10? I ended up capping it a 7 teams, and found it to provide a pretty nice balance of easy to keep on par with the enemy level, while still having a diversity of comps.

Aww, poor Gammel, I kicked Travis to the curb the moment I got Gammel. For some reason I just really wanted to use him lol. I also used Magellan alongside his sister, and he did pretty okay. As for Gilbert, I didn't end up using him either, mostly just because I found him kinda boring.

The only elves I ended up using all the way through were the half elf archer, the main dark elf girl (your profile pic), and the dark elf warrior lady with the giant uhh... "personality"

It's weird how they just kinda throw 3 of those Hammer guys really close together huh? And yeah, I'm pretty sure theres no downside to promoting as quick as you can. Although it does cost quite a lot of honor if you end up promoting as many people as I did.

As for Selvie, she was possibly my favourite class by the end. Early on I abused her attack lowering effect alongside a pair of mercenaries and that crossbow girl (do you have her yet?) Not only did it make the mercenaries really tanky, it also let them spam the heck out of their counter attack, with the crossbow girl healing off any chip damage. Later on, when I got 5 units unlocked, I swapped her to a unit with Berengaria, and a bunch of fast offensive units like a gryphon and some elven units, and used her ability to inflict guard seal and lower defence to basically crush everything before it had a chance to respond.

So have you managed to form a couple core groups that your gonna try to stick with? Or are there any characters that you've essentially permabenched at this point?

For me, the characters I for sure dropped at that point in time were Adel, Leah, Mordon, Tatiana (it was sort of a coin flip between her and primm), and Josef because fire emblem has poisoned me against old people. That being said I probably should have used him, I thought he was just what radiant knights promote into but it turns out he's sort of a unique class.

Of course it's Melisandre. She literally defects to your side because Alain is too hot, that's too funny not to marry. My final lineup for Alains group was a Melisandre Alain frontline, with Sharon, Aubin and an ice archer you won't get for a while in the back. Worked pretty well, Aubin weakened their defence, Alain was the muscle, and Melisandre picked off any squishy target she looked at. Was kinda weak against a lot of flyers but probably ended up being one of my better lineups (though that might just be because by endgame Alain is absolutely cracked).

Did you end up recruiting Auch? (the whiny guy mage whos just north of your starting town). I somehow put him off for a really long time, so by the time I got to him, his fight was waaay underleveled. I did end up using him though

Haha I see I see. Looks like you did end up just going straight into the dragon empire, so you may not find the girl I chose for a while then. You get her in a optional fight in Cornia that's avaliable after you save scarlett. I basically liberated all the areas of Cornia I could before moving on, so it took me a while before I got Virginia.

I believe, if I'm not mistaken, Alain can sort of marry ANY character.

Okay so the actual "marriage" is like a post credits scene and only female characters can get that, but in game, theres like a special ceremony where you give someone a ring, and then that person gets a unique ending and unique final boss fight along side you, and THAT can be with anyone. Just with the guys, your post credit scene is less romance and more bromance. Which is kinda lame, since the game does let you marry your cousin but not a dude, but I guess its a step.

Speaking of though, you're probably getting pretty close to recruiting the character I decided to marry Alain off to. Are you gonna finish up as much of the unicorn region as you can first, or you gonna head straight for the next kingdom? Also are you planning on Dragon or Elf next?

I didn't end up using the beserker guy, though I do think the class can be very good (that self heal can be kinda ridiculous at times). It just didn't really mesh with any of the strats my teams were going with.

Ahh yes sparing the thief and the archer. I will say, you can eventually recruit the Angel, and if you had killed the archer you would have been able to unlock her a lot sooner (found that out after I beat the game). Course there are still benefits to sparing the archer so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorta, I'm playing the 3DS ace attorneys which are definitely the two I played the least. Just threw on the apollo justice music because I like it.

Yeah rapport is basically supports. Like in FE10 you can have rapport with anyone, but unlike 10 you also get a few actual dialogue moments between specific characters. Except for the main character who can talk with literally everyone for presumably marriage reasons. I don't think theres any actual in game benefit to hanging out specifically with people you can have a conversation with, other than that you get a small amount of honour though.

Early on most combinations work pretty well. Lex can block arrows which makes him a great partner for either flyers or thieves, Hodrick obviously always works great with squishier backline units, and Alain can pretty much go with anyone. I kept Alain and Aubin together for the entire game and it seemed to work out pretty well. I know Scarlett is probably kidnapped at this point, but once you get her back, her an Alain are pretty much built to work well together as well.