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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones – Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack (www.youtube.com)
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The kingdom of Renais lies shattered by a sudden invasion! Use cunning strategy to guide the royal heirs Eirika and Ephraim on their twin quest to rebuild Renais. Take advantage of your strengths and exploit your enemy's weaknesses, but be careful: if a soldier perishes on the battlefield, they're gone forever!

In a world of dragons and magic, you must always be ready for battle. Take advantage of the terrain and the weapon in your hand, and attack enemies either from afar using magic or up close with your sword. Each weapon has its own strength and weakness, so choose wisely when attacking your opponent, because you don't want to be caught off guard.

Build the perfect army. Do you want a pegasus rider or a wyvern rider? An assassin or a rogue? Upgrade your troops to different classes, each with their own skills and weapons, and save the land from the forces of darkness!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I struggled to get into this. I felt I was just pressing A the whole time and there was 0 difficulty or actual strategy. You could “Twitch Plays Sacred Stones” this to victory in a day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Definitely one of the easier FE games. I had fun with it, but then again I don't play "optimally." Nobody is allowed to die. Prepromotes get benched regardless of tier until the rest of the army catches up. Trainees get babied until they can hold their own. Everyone gets fielded at some point. Individual unit level needs to stay about even with the average army level. Lords are held back if they start to outpace the army level. That kind of thing.

These are self-imposed limitations, but they make the series more engaging for me. Can Seth solo this map? Yeah, mostly. Am I going to let him? Nope, gimme your weapons and go be a meat shield for a ranged unit. Can spreading EXP too thin make the late game brutal? Of course. That's part of the puzzle. (And SS has grinding if things get too bad. Again, it's one of the easier ones.)

Over multiple playthroughs, this gives lower-tier units the chance to shine. Getting a blessed L'Arachel who could reliably Res/Dodge tank (and kill on the counter) one run was just a joy.

Yeah, I'm weird. I'm okay with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I play FE not as a strategy game but as kind of a relaxing beat-'em-up. Get mad over leveled (via arena abuse, monster maps, whatever) and then enjoy the steamroll.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'll do that too. I think my second Binding Blade playthrough was an intentional cheese fest, abusing the hell out of save states and RNG manipulation to get better arena matchups/level ups. It's a whole different game that way lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's for sure the easiest Fire Emblem. I like it a lot because of the characters and it was my second one, played it a lot as child. But it's not hard. Just make it a bit hard for yourself not using Seth or other broken characters.