3DS FE Fates: Revelation, starring you! Episode 12: People Die When They Are Killed

[lordofthekevins]

Previous Episodes:
1: Prologue to Corrintastrophe
2: The Clone Wars Begin
3: Corrin's Mystery Dungeon
4: Big Trouble in Little Birthright
5: In Search Of Plot
6: God Help Us
7: The Lunatic Proposal
8: Surf N' Turf
9: The Odd Couple(s)
10 I'll have to give myself a Prrrrrrromotion!
11 The Final(s) Week

The Year is 2015.
Awakening has sold gangbusters.
Paper Mario Sticker Star has crashed and burned.
Somehow, both games are getting a sequel.
Fire Emblem Fates is that sequel. With more involved mechanics, map exclusive mechanics, removed cheese, refined difficulty, Bad Writing, and 3 whole games of content; almost double the number of total chapters, Fates is-

Broadly considered one of the most widely disliked FE games.

For reasons that are not unwarranted, yes, but come along with me and you'll understand that this game has more to offer to a dedicated player than a casual fan, paradoxically. For all of the beamoaning how the series was now "Too anime" and "Infested By CASUALS", Fates arguably gives the real Hard Mode Gaming fans what they want over the 3ds noobs, to an extent only somewhat matched by future entries. Fates is a game of experimentation, vastly increasing the scope of combat by including more moving variables from combat to combat, more control over how units grow and change class, and also Gay Marriage! Gay marriage is suboptimal for mixed attacker builds but that's besides the point.

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Streetpass! Fates has an integrated streetpass system for distributing your customizable main character Corrin (You're probably familiar with them as the girl from smash bros with her feet out a chainsaw sword, but corrin is a lot more than that. Corrins can be deployed in all missions, and despite not having support conversations, they are fully featured insofar as having the exact stats and growths as the genuine article. Now, while streetpass and the Suprisingly Robust Online System have been down for some time now, through the power of hacking we can add and modify these Corrin Clones into the game, fully customizable in terms of giving them an appearance, a Pokemon-Nature esque Boon/Bane, and just about any class in the game and custom skill sets to make up for their lack of post-generation reclassing

Using the below google form, you can, without ever having had even played the game, or really understanding a ton about it, give me a corrin to use in my playthrough!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sEJyHNjt909XaAd4pA7ndXIXbAHKv4qQmqbNYcTdlOE/viewform

However, all corrins must know that they're fighting for their lives. in this Playthrough of Revelation Hard/Classic, permadeath is ENABLED. Your corrins CAN and perhaps WILL die. I, personally, have never played through Rev before in its entirety despite owning all 3 routes since launch, and although since I'm playing on the middle difficulty and have a lot of experience with the game's mechanics, I do NOT know everything.


anyway, we just finished up chapter 15

we just went up that mountain and didn't find shit

ohohohohoho the classic Rainbow Sage jape, haven't pulled off one of those in 20 years

ah dammit we got japed

yeah how do we deal with the invisible other who pulls the string on the unjust war

That's actually quite simple: here, let me use my pride parade powers one sec

RAINBOW SAGE

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAST

dude that gay old man is dying what do we do

we must prepare a vessel before his heart sinks into darkness...

A most blessed sage of the path of the Rainbow lover has granted us his power... how effervescent

why is the sword glowing i was born 3 chapters ago

Sage! Do not despair... the demonic powers vested in me will wield this blade with utmost responsibility.
aw shucks guys its always so nice to see such a nice young bisexual polycule be there for you in your dying moments

I don't think that's really what we ar-

*beebeedeebeep boop* heyyyyyy Kamui how is the rainbow sage doing

im dying from the Yato power uppage garon

lovely lovely lovely I love it when people die and/or are killed. Keep it up Kamui this old man is dead because of your innate lust for power and to overthrow the path of the world. Please get so mad it irrecoverably changes the path of your life

dad I thought I blocked your number please go away

Kind of homophobic, don't you think son. why do you think he's called the Rainbow sage. Just thought that was interesting

(... i thought we were bisexual..)

(just as light exists within darkness, gay people have the power of homophobia inside them)

all of you shut up. shut up shut up shut up you're all so annoying. I have answers on my sword can we please just go fight the invisible enemy now

Kamui you're such a rude and probably homophobic young man I'm sending my gayest generals to fight you. xoxo talk to you soon

....how did it end up like this...?




CHAPTER 16: 2 HOT 2 HANDLE

 

[pannekook]

THE GAYEST GENERALS?? love wins

 

[lordofthekevins]

Anyway what's important is that our sword is now like 10 times better

Meanwhile, a battle rages!

Yukimura me and my new bisexual girlfriend have to go help Kamui. I heard his awesome song that ruled

Sadly, As yukimura isn't a real character, he cannot respond to this information and will instead do nothing

The bottomless canyon is a lot more, on fire, than it was when we were last here huh

We were going there anyway I don't think we needed his help

waaaoooww girl so pretty <3 let's fight in a war

First up, housekeeping. PDG now has a very good weapon on her, with gives free stats, extra avoid, and has a nice crit boost. This will go far.

I had an extra heart seal laying around, and while I could sell it, now that we can just grab the Hoshido noble skills we might as well. It's only one level of xp for something that like probably going to be somewhat helpful, right?

Ryoma Thundercock and his cabal have joined us. Ryoma is probably still stronger than any of our corrins and has the weapon that can cut god in half

Scarlet, who we fought in chapter 12, is also here and she's great too. I don't have any wyverns myself so having one that I can keep handy for even just this mission is very nice, her strength and def are both great

Hey guys I'm also here! I haven't been in the game since like chapter 4 isn't it cool that I'm back?

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Anyway, Ryoma is more than capable, even against promoted enemies, This sorc isn't worth shit. Raijinto does a lot for his combat, but even without it he's still amazing.

(he's so cool <3)

Back down in our corner of the map, Kamui gets a nice crit. Getting the rest of our unpromoted crew some levels is going to be really helpful coming up

The alpha yato is damn good, but as naizou is showing, sometimes you can't beat a weapon with 1-2 range...

The terrain gimmick of this map are these crevasses. The dragon vein can toggle on and off the fire, which makes them go from impenetrable to traversable. Keep in mind that these "off" crevasses can be moved through but never stood on

These Enemies are decently strong, including some adventurers, who I'd really rather not engage at range. Only Kamui himself can change the veins, so we're just going to have to grin and bear it

Dentist is happy to take a chunk out of this adventurer,

and Luna ends up taking the kill.

These mages have little enough HP that we can one shot with the javelin. Thanks Naizou!

Moving Kamui in, we just need to get him one level by the end of this map, that's it. Bee is a very nice support partner for him, because if there's anything Kamui is lacking in right now, it's speed

I tell ya, bee, these unpromoted goons aren't worth my time. If i need to fix my bad stats, it's gonna be the promoted ones who'll get me there

True, true. Our other promoted units aren't here right now, so it's up to you to handle the big guys.

Nort has the power of god on his side as he tanks this mage's attack