Just finished this masterpiece on the GAMECUBE. Amazing how much it holds up despite being two decades old by this point.Almost every aspect of the game is great except its SLOW AF. I had to turn animations off 1/3rd of the way through because otherwise the game becomes slow as molasses.What did /vr/ think of it?
>>12066972Favorite game from when I was 15I was very attached to the characters and keeping them alive and developing them meant a lot to me
>>12066972it's one of my favorite FEs. it does a lot of things right that i feel have not been done as good since. it is a bit slow but i started appreciating the attack animations more when i realized they're mostly 3d recreations of the snes game animations. which gives them a bit of awkwardness, but i like it. nephenee best girl.
>remove the entire mercenary class because only Ike can be a mercenary nowfuck you man
>>12066972Everything is great but the battle animations. Seeing the jerky and twitchy attacks felt like I was playing a N64 game rather than a Gamecube game. You're on better hardware IS, make the combat a spectacle damn it!Replaying this after RD uncovers some cool foreshadowing plots like Sephirian being found randomly wasn't an accident and Greil's encounter with the Black Knight wasn't by chance either.Tellius saga is probably the best in the series. Things I would fix is >make the attack animations on par with RD. A neat little detail was that when mounted units initiated combat they charged into battle>give RD proper support conversations. Having everyone support with everyone with little blurbs sucks.
>>12066972It's my favorite game on Gamecube. I got it on release. I was a bit disappointed the graphics and animation wasn't as amazing as FE8, but otherwise it's better for me. The bonus XP system is genius, makes unnatural grinding unnecessary.I think I liked Radiant Dawn even more. Really, really good scenarios, and challenge. And the music.
>>12066972I thought it was pretty cool when I played it a long time ago. I don't like anine shit and it was like just in the edge where I wouldncallnit gay as far as story goes butnnever crossed it. Was slow af though, like you'd already have decided your next moves before the movement animation of the computer finished type of slow.
Nooo you can't like a gamecube game! kiddy !
>>12067049Its the only planned two part game within the series which is where the neat foreshadowing stuff comes from. I remember people figuring out the identities of Bertram & the Black Knight before Radiant Dawn was announced because they saw the stats were identical to the unused Renning & Zelgius units & realized the portraits matched. Though Bertram had a bit more foreshadowing & was something you could figure out through deduction if you'd been paying attention.
>>12067440Those reveals caught me off guard.Overall I kinda treated the story as just some anime slop, up until Radiant Dawn where I couldn't help but be impressed by the complexity of the themes portrayed. Daein not being wholly evil, laguz not being wholly noble and wise, Elincia losing political power to internal scheming, and all that. Surprisingly good.
Was there day 1 back in the day. Never got to play RD unfortunately.
>>12067463you do get daein not being totally evil in PoR too. ashnard himself seems like a complete psycho but one of your own daien-born characters mentions how ashnard allowed commoners to get into positions of power as long as they had the skills to do so. actually kind of funny ike has the same world view as ashnard. ashnard is just more extreme about it. there's also the whole jill situation too. on the subject of RD though, i'm surprised to see someone praise aspects of its story for once and not just rag on it because of the blood pact thing. good post.
>>12069267>ashnard allowed commoners to get into positions of power as long as they had the skillsOh yeah that was a good bit. There were Daein recruits in PoR, I think I just liked getting the perspective of a faction that got fucked over by the first game's hero's actions and has to rebuild their home continent. It takes a bit of balls to attempt that, knowing the audience likely has loyalty left on the other sides.On the blood pact, I just figured it was a kid friendly, fantasy portrayal of political epstein style blackmail or something.
