TanTanTantrum

I know it's been a few months since this thread last updated but I wanted to let UG11 know how much I've been enjoying this let's play! Although I'm too much of a scaredy-cat to get into the world of hard-ass mods, I absolutely loved the commentary, the fascinating array of characters, the great tactics, and the awesome community chatter in this thread. Thanks for all you've done, UG11!

Looking forward to the new updates when it comes!

Hehe... come summer and the end of the school year, I may just be PMing you for a ay to play this game after all! I was incredibly intimidated by the complex mechanisms (seriously, the money system alone...) but if I can cheese this game, I will!

Hmmm... so is the AI of this game usually incompetent enough so that a player can get by on mediocre and dubious skill -- if said player isn't setting forward crazy challenges for herself? Perhaps I should pick up a bootleg copy of this game after all...

Oooh, thanks for clarifying. It's nice to see that the game isn't as unforgiving as it could be... although some sadistic part of me wants to see what this game would be like on Lunatic+ difficulty. Then again, I suppose trying to Max-Rank this game is a sort of self-imposed Lunatic+ difficulty mode, isn't it? After all, it's clear that a player needs to know this game inside-out to be able to achieve that goal! (And it's entertaining as hell to see someone do it, of course!) Also, I meant to ask... does this chapter make the Thracia spin-off non-canon? After all, in this chapter, Leif is supposed to have had his army slaughtered... but in Thracia's epilogue, most of the survivors had happy endings. Are we supposed to believe his army really died... or that they're just hiding out somewhere... or what?

Awesome to see an update of this LP. Thanks for your hard work! Oy, the stuff Leen has to go through is rather harrowing, even if they're only lightly alluding to the... particulars. Geeze, though, Intelligent Systems was not afraid to get into the much with this game, were they? First it was incest babies who turn into the anti-Christ and now a 14 (?) year old girl being molested by an evil grown-ass man... I can imagine how these plot elements would get cleaned up if this game ever did get remade! (Seriously though... how they're going to keep the incest thing alone makes me scratch my head. It's so integral to the part... yet so gross. Anyone got a hypothetical work-around). Interesting... is it possible to actually play this chapter (or really, any other chapter in this game) so that at a certain point, the chapter becomes unbeatable from the last in-chapter save and you MUST reset the whole chapter? If so, that's a very unforgiving system... but then, this is a very unforgiving game in many ways! Then again, I suppose that suits the story-line of this game, which revolves so much around the impact of poorly-thought out decisions, which range from trying to save one's friends by accidentally conquering much of the world to trying to woo a woman who has an eerie resemblance to your long-lost mother. There's no coming back from certain mistakes, apparently.

Hey, I only praise as I see fit. Keep up the great work! And yes, I'm hoping and praying upon the gods of IS to remake this series eventually. Trying to find a working emulator version of this game has been impossible... although I admit I didn't try hard due to being intimidated by the crazy money system. I'm too much of a filthy casual for such an intricate system, to be honest!

Thank you for the fun LP! It's nice to pick up on the little technical details that make this game such a challenge.

I know it’s been a while since you updated this LP but I just wanted to let you know how much I’m enjoying it! I’ve been reading it over the last few days and was excited about each update! Out of all the LPs I’ve ever read, I think you’ve done one of the best jobs I’ve seen of merging together technical details with story-telling facility and a keen critique of both the pathos and craziness within this game. Even though I’ve never played this FE game (so far, anyway), you’ve made me deeply appreciate it… and made me wish more FEs would have stories that approach this game’s level of epic tragedy and heroism! Honestly, you’ve made me really wish I could find a remake of this game (one with a better trading/money system, since that’s the one major thing turning me off from playing the original). Do you think we’ll ever get that? Or is this a game just consigned to the dust-bin of FE history? Also, this game has made me wish that newer FE games would be more willing to get knee-deep intro tragedy, instead of hand-waving away the reality of death and loss during war. FE Awakening had some good nods to tragedy with its depictions of the shattered/alternate future… but that said, it missed out on a feeling of tragedy due to the actual controllable cast making out just fine by the end. It definitely doesn’t punch the player in the gut as much as watching the people they *actually* controlled get slaughtered mercilessly in an ambush. And let’s not even go into the silliness of FE Fates’ “pocket dimension” nonsense… blech....

Lovely to see another update! And yes, I'm hoping for great things for the black magician girl you picked up. Always had a soft spot for those units and hope you get the chance to train her well!

Saw this over at reddit but this is still one of my favorite LPs ever so I thought I should give another digital thumbs-up for it. Please do another LP at some point!

I just wanted to let you know that I have really been enjoying all of your LPs. Your witty commentary and exploration of the wonderful, weird world of mods has been so fun to read! Thank you for taking the time to do these old-school screenshot LPs... I know they're incredibly time-consuming but they're enjoyable as all hell for readers like me.