3DS FE Fates: Revelation, starring you! Episode 13: Floating islands, Stimulus checks, and ArmorMyrm shipping

[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
12: People Die When They Are Killed

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.

But Kevins, what does this have to do with *Me????*​

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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 the finer points about the back half of Rev. So uh sorry Bee



anyway I had a great time playing Metaphor Refantazio and Deltarune and also like all of fe7 but fuck all that it's corrins time

CHAPTER 18: MENTAL BLINDSPOTS

We've got a job to do: go kick the shit out of the vallites

Our plan has started swimmingly

Eyo kamui before we hop in have a puff of my certified Chevois cheddar. this shit is gonna have you seeing the invisible kingdom

duuuuuuuuuuude i'm in

FOOLISH DRAGONSPAWN. I LACED YO SHIIIIIIIT
oh christ

no..... Scarlet!!! You said those were mids!
I'm sorry lord Kamui... I... got crossfaded off the Bottomless Boof....

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway we have a chapter to play. All* enemies** from this point on are promoted so we do have to lock in on positioning and matchups

But before that, we have some reclassing to do.

Vesthal gets a massive stat boost off the witch promo. Thanks dlc! She's pretty much going to be same as usual ability wise though, just much faster

Meanwhile, Luna is going to be getting more movement, bulk, and also E rank swords. Man it'd be nice if that was extremely relevant Right Now.

 

[Leguminoso]

This reminds me of those old Let's play at lparchive. Keep it up,

 

[lordofthekevins]

next up to bat is Naizou, who's getting spear master. It doesnt really do a ton interesting in particular but +3 strength and an extra point of move is well enough

(remember here that lancefaire gives him an effective 23 strength)

Last up, Dentist is getting promoted to Onmyoji at long last. Finally, she can start to use staves. Onmyoji doesn't have very amazing stats either but magic is good enough that it's not going to be a big deal

our team is almost all promoted now, too.

Anyway let's talk about the new items we have on deck from last chapter(s). Brynhildr is an E rank tome that any of our corrins can use that has great damage output and also the Aegis effect... sometimes. Kamui is broadly going to be using this as his magic dps because his magic is still kind of really low. Kamui is in what we in the buisness like to call "E Rank hell" where using an arms scroll would solve all my problems but using an arms scroll to go from E to D sucks in comparison to going from D to C, so I'm too stubborn to use one now when I could technically I think get more out of using one after I slap like 30 enemies with a bronze lance.

Anyway in hindsight going in on Basara was a bad idea. My plan was to give Kamui Rend Heaven, a skill that I didn't fully understand how it worked. It's very very bad in a way I had never realized because I as a Conquest Enjoyer had such low exposure to. Combine that with some pretty rancid pair up bonuses (Luck and Res) and to be completely honest, Kamui sucks. He's just not good! he does like no damage and can't double. feels bad. At least Brynhildr can carry him for the next couple chapters

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Meanwhile, Seigfried and Raijinto are just really good. Their base power is excellent, they have great hit rates, 1-2 range with no drawbacks, and free stat boosts. Raijinto bumps up strength by 4 as long as its in the inventory and Seig does the same but for defense. best part? they're both considered E rank so even Luna can use them right out the gate. Both of these are extremely good weapons that are going to make this upcoming level way easier... which is intended, because this is the part of Rev it becomes the Xander and Ryoma show anyway

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enough preamble let's get moving. Draconic hex is the best thing Kamui can do right now, even if he can't kill consistently.

Man, these enemies are tough... The twins are having a bit of trouble hitting this guy (albeit he is on a fort)...

Actually they aren't shit check this out. Raijinto is cracked

Carrying on, all damage you can get in is good damage. Oni Cheiftans are a sleeper hit in terms of being really dangerous enemies

These master of arms are kind of bums but W E C A N T D O U B L E T H E M

Honestly I might have to have Kamui go all in on a forged Mjolnir at some point because his high skill is the only thing he really has going for him right now

no magic no speed cool cool nice awesome

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Hitting 35's in GBA fire emblem: Doable, amicable, somewhat consistent
Hitting 35's in 3DS fire emblem: impossible I guess

anyway enough of that Anya is also in E rank hell and will remain there for some time. My plan is to get her Bolt naginata and also the ability to use some decent tomes but ehhhh

The math DOES support what I'm doing but also the math sucks so I wish I just hadn't bothered honestly.

I use the swap command here that's cool right. Really, gets the people going huh

These merchants are bulkier than youd expect from the class name, not even Yousef can one round them

more crappy trades with the twins. this could be dicey but dw she lives both hits

thankfully enough, she dodges both

 

[Leguminoso]

"Pointy choke".

I'm dead.

 

[lordofthekevins]

Did I mention the alpha yato yet? Honestly I kind of forget. Anyway we have it and despite being not 1-2 range like the other relic weapons it gives a full stat boost to the holder and it has excellent base parameters. I don't feel like checking.

How can yousef keep getting these dog ass levels and still be one of my best units

Wompus is doing fine for himself, but the fact he's not quite able to double is annoying, although he IS against some decently fast enemies. Spear master getting an innate crit boost kind of rules tbh I dont think I mentioned that before

Korny is putting in work as usual and gets the worlds most normal level for her efforts

Going up the left here we actually have quite a few different enemy types, most being ranged attackers. Working around the attack ranges on this tight bridge is a pain, and we have to take care of these forts to complete the level objective

Disrobing gale is great for taking care of fast enemies because it boosts your AS

More anya tome grinding. This was probably not worth leaning so far into in hindsight

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

For all the shit I give kamui he can at least trigger his attack skills pretty often

Yousef is still scared of magic no matter what we do so I have Korny no-sell this sage

Cleaning up, vesthal hits so hard with magic esp with the Witch pair up. Mag/Speed pair up bonos are crazy

Thanks I guess

this combo of siegfried and alpha on yousef gives her some insane enemy phasing potential. check those stats

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anyway i should probably like talk about the level gimmick? these forts all have dragon veins for us to deal with and kamui has to run his ass around and hit all of them because cheating in the dragon vein items is annoying and I had forgotten to actually do it

This bum can do nothing to Yousef

They can do things to samus though, who sadly is kind of falling off in terms of usefulness. Knives are always good inherently due to their debuff effects but her damage output and bulk has been so Eh for so long that i'd like to get her levels where she can

sigh

anyway enough of that the REAL protagonist has arrived: that's right baby its PDG ready to secure her title for MVP of this run. Not even gonna lie the relic swords are all amazing and she can use all of them. at once. which will come up.

Dentist is here too and i'd like to get her XP she has serious potential thats hard to tap into when I instincivly hit rally spectrum every turn

Gotta go fast. Kitsune might be a weak class in the grand scheme of things but +5 speed pair up is irreplaceable

Anya! I demand you aura farm on this man


Naizou takes this guy out. Also, I called you wompus on accident like 20 images ago im sorry. I wouldn't wish that on anyone

I have like mayble 30 PDG crit moments coming up that will be in this thread so i've decided that whenever one happens I literally won't comment on it or we'll be here all day

This is a pretty whatever level but i'll take all the crit I can get

Luna got a much more compelling level than her sister. did you know that dark knight has the same base strength as paladin? yeah she can use those fancy swords if need be and actually do a good job

the left side of the map is pretty slow moving but at least yousef can Stifle the Flow leading to the Objective position

?!

 

[pannekook]

wooo fire emblem

 

[lordofthekevins]

ah damn we got a sniper reinforcement whatever shall I do

owned

Luna's lack of accuracy is lowkey really annoying here but what am i supposed to do forge her up like a +4 rat spirit? just gotta play what you're given

etc etc

Excellent level that will go a long way

anyway thats enough PDG aura farming, we have yousef aura farming to get to

how does she keep doing it

Samus is able to take down this sage but dammmmnnn I need to pump her up a bit her low HP is really starting to become an issue huh

missed a 74. this cannot be.

who needs res when you can shatter nerd's skulls?

Korin does great for herself when going up against these lower-defense enemies like swordmasters and sages. good for her, IMO nine-tails is possibly the weakest promoted class all things considered so her being able to put in work is great

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awesome Kamui! nail that adventurer for a hot 12 damage crit. Love you my dogshit baby son

The samus arc will come someday. Good lord I need to pump this poor woman up a bit

Yousef obliteration arc continues

Anya E rank hell continues. These adventurers have so much res its insane

Samus. Babygirl. Darling. we cannot be moving like this

bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam ba bam
i wanna be yousefated

PDG doesnt even need pair up she can just handle situations

as Korny breaches into her 20's she has... truly eclipsed Samus, huh. both fill the knives role but korn has like 5 more strength and defense, and also being pretty much immune to magic. We'll make it work, though.

Luna is doing good too even tho she isnt really the strongest in any one area

YOusef blast

YOUSEF

BLAAAAST
luna [the skill not the girl] is kind of mid as hell tho

In case you havent noticed PDG and yousef are duking it out for being the MVP of this run

strength/speed will always be good

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thank you girl for critting this big large dude

Ok so i didnt take many screenshots of this but. Kamui is our only dragon vein guy (you're supposed to have like 10 by this point) so im bumming this man around and it kind of makes me hate him more than I usually do. This bum is so ass. One minute I have to run in a big circle around the entire map

uugggggghhhhhh there

Kill

Alpha yato with the GK animations looks slick as hell

go girl we have to break apart this enemy cluster

Aw yeah. Dentist in the building. Good for her she hasn't had much of a spotlight recently

Fucking Bum Numero Uno continues to dissappoint

Girlieeeee Please fire this man

Korin gets in on the fun too. I guess. This level was really long to play and I just wanted it to be over

Actually pretty great korin level

 

[lordofthekevins]

Worlds least interesting Naizou level

you already get it etc etc

dude who could this possibly be could it possibly be someone we already know who it is at the beginning of the route?? who knows

bah

the back half of that level was so boring let's please leave

"Scarlet... no... she shared her weed with me... the world is too sad"




ok dont care anymore let's go to more floating islands




CHAPTER 19: THE GERBER GROW UP PLAN

Oh hey its the chapter that made me stop playing Rev since [checks notes] May 16th. jesus man this was a while back

anyway before we get going: Bolt Naginata time. This is THE weapon for anya, its so strong, decently accurate, and also a blue weapon which is pretty decent tbh

also, between levels, I picked up anna. nothing else interesting happened

dude. I love statues

statues are cool. almost as cool as small children characters

good enough reason as any to start a fight

Alright so these enemy's stats are starting to get absolutely ridiculous, but get this - they're LOADED. every enemy on this map drops something and they're all worth getting. The ghosts of the nohrian winter brigade are back with a vengeance, huh

We also just can't bring many units to this level, for reasons that will be obvious soon. I pick all our best units and roll with it

 

[lordofthekevins]

alright so this one is on a time limit. we have 20 turns to secure the bag with our diminished team. luckily 20 turns is probably more than enough but if we fuck up we do get an actual game over. we COULD get to the escape point but thats quitter talk

oh wow these guys are actually going to be a pain huh. one rounding is a luxury

uh oh my GOOD untis are also going to be having trouble here huh. this will get real hairy real fast if we give any of the enemies a chance

Chip is chip I guess

Naizou comes in clutch with powerful, accurate spears. Thank you naizou

Kamui can wither away this guy's bones but can't get anywhere near a kill

Luckily, anya can pick up the slack

Girlies!!! Please strike down this dastard!!!

ty

ok this first group of dudes is an ISSUE. we don't really have anybody who can take down both a general and a sorcerer so we're cramped for options

I need you to kill this guy unaided because if we don't have superior action economy we're screwed

:/

yousef has a BAD matchup here

PDG is better I suppose but getting hit would suck ass. I schmoove kamui up here to have an extra body on board

What I settle on is passing pdg onto Korny here, so that I can retain both PDG and kamui's actions

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The common kamui crit here is appreciated but unnesccesary. This dual strike will free us up some space

she. can't kill. huh.

let's just hand her a Starsphere shard for a second here....

much better!

finally we can take down this squad classic style

give that back, also

its over

level thanks

Ok its vein time baby

we got clones, they share a healthbar and inventory

money money money

using our upper team for healing is going to be really important because our lower team needs to be all guns blazing to get through in time against such powerful enemies

good ellipse level

we;re surrounded but its ntohing we cant handle

 

[lordofthekevins]

getting this down, Korny's amazing strength and res profile makes these sorcerers absolutely cake for her

meanwhile, pdg can handle this adventurer easily

Guard nag still On Top

I wonder whats gonna happen to these fine gentlemen

how unexpected!

awesome pdg level too

problematic speed gap yuri?!

Enemy phasing is great but itd be nice if we had a 1-2 range doubling naginata

... like what pdg is able to do

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Sadly, Luna [the skill] is kind of mid

its extra damage equal to half the targets defense, whichc is probably going to be like 10 at most against the majority of enemies. Far far less than a crit. at least it activates relatively often?

enemy phasing here is a little scary due to all this bows but dw dw its fine

Dragon fang is carrying his damage output, so its nice that he's triggering it so much I suppose

bonk

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Rend heaven is an odd duck.

If i'm using a physical weapon, it increases MY damage based off of THE ENEMY's strength. If i'm using magic, it boosts based off their magic.

do you see the problem?
It boosts my damage if i'm using magic against magic users... which sucks, because you want to use physical weapons against magic users. because enemy mages have high Resistance and low Defense. Vice versa, I need to be using a physical weapon against a physical unit to get the damage bonus. There will be multiple times in the future where kamui is shooting magic at a general or berserker (which have Zero magic) and then triggers rend heaven only to do no additional damage. I built this character under the assumption that this worked more favorably.

It's not TERRIBLE, it triggers often and as soon as I get kamui better weapons/stats it'll help out much more because going for the same-axis attacks will become more viable, but for now it kinda stinks.

Also it cant trigger off bolt naginata FML

PDG please remedy my mental wounds

I really don't have time in this mission to let anyone other than my best units bear the brunt of battle honestly

THERES STILL SO MANY OF THEMMMM
AND THEYRE MOVING

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Korny is so unbelievably strong against anything magical... and anything else I guess, too.

Awesome level

BOLT AXE DETECTED

PDG.... choke... point...?

Kamui could NEVER

Bolt axe will be really cool once I roll a oni or a malig. some day....

Hammer, also, is pretty nice. they arent all that expensive but getting one for free is awesome too

just.... so much pdg damage

the cavalry is here

but up top, this is a pretty standard lure-and-pop situation

Alpha yato gives even Yousef some pretty amazing numbers against berserkers. she was lancelocked until only a little bit ago

ty girl for sweepong up this one-round

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alright, we got some incoming assholes lets just pass a turn here

ok much better we can take out these goons without alerting the massive swarm up top

Mooooore tome rank. while her mag is only a little higher than kamui she has like double the AS so it's great

wait a minute these enemies are all really hard shiiiiiiit

kamui has dual guard, can we do something with that?

Let's use a fujin to pop this hero. getting Korny in place too will help

Vesthal I need you to not miss this if you miss you will actually die

good good good

This crit actually simplified a like 10 step plan to take out these enemies. So it made it so i don't have to bother writing it all out

Boom boom boom boom

Everything is so easy

I'm da king of da highway baby

aura farmed too hard her level was just okay

well that was anticlimactic let's just have some LADIES lure out the cavalry squad.
how beautiful 2 lilies standing side by side are!

anyway lets just rally up because I love luck

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Our top island team also nominally exists. they're really not doing much of anything

girlllllllllie level

boom

boom

boom

vesthal Skill/Speed moment

boom

There are so many of them that this isnt fun to commentate i'm just mulching dudes with good action economy

Yknow if you give pdg the seigfried her bulk is pretty unreal huh. Especially against mages?? her res is so high

this isnt even enough to kill

this is

WE
ARE
NOT
DONE
YET

Im gonnna be real I took way too many screenshots for this level. at least Yousef is having fun

 

[lordofthekevins]

kamui gets his kamui level. 35 is maxxed skill so when I'm able to get him a mjolnir it'll give him some truly fearsome crit rates. Basara isn't exactly the best overall class to be crit stacking on due to the fact that it doesn't give any inherent invisible crit bonus but its still nice to have dual weapon types.

0 0 0

PDG's incredible res growth she has for some reason is on display. this will continue to come up over time

honestly they just keep attacking into her instead of anything else which is fine by me. Over the halfway point through the time limit is a little scary but this is nothing we can't handle, esp since we have all our actions up top that can give us all the healing we need

thank you girlie

this big block of enemies is a pain but its nothing we can't dissassemble if we spend like 10 minutes checking everyones damage calcs against everything. Sigh lets get on with it

badda swooce

the generals here DO have enough strength to really fuck someone up if theyre not at full HP so we do have to get creative with our sequencing

thank god for fast bolt naginata

more speed is nice I guess

brass katana for guaranteed hit, since I just don't want to factor in trading aroun everything I need

more

guys

awesome Kamui. doing absolutely incredible against heavy armor units. awesome. great job dude.

vesthal gets all the riches under the heavens for exploding a general

 

[lordofthekevins]

Cleaning up the last of these enemies will be no sweat

etc etc

all thats left to do is give everyone their XP

also, we can loop around to get a very good weapon drop

fun fact, this weapon's name is somewhat mistranslated. its jp name is the Iai Katana, with Iai meaning "Swordfighting Technique". So its not Practice as in "this is a training sword you'd use for kendo", but practice as in "disciplinary art". Hope someone got fired for that blunder.

magic

Somewhere along the way kamui got his mantle knocked off. looks cool in just his undershirt.

YES

normal level

aaaand thats it

Good level. Bolt naginata is nice to have too

That wraps up what was probably our longest level yet.




NEXT TIME ON CORRINQUEST: Unforced errors

 

[starseeker300]

We're really in story mode now!