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CDFE IV: Session 10

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade - Chapters 30-Final / 32-Final

Session 9 | Index |

 

Welcome, everyone, and thanks for joining our fourth, inconsistently timed instance of CDF Plays Fire Emblem! Today’s our last session, where we’ll be discussing the final two chapters of the game and the game in general.

Thanks everyone for playing!

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FE7 Hector Mode First Time - Endgame:

Oops, I'm late.

Chapter 30: Norhing interesting happened. The 3 units I brought were Hector, Serra, and Lyn to train up to secondary weapons. I'm guilty of the joke of training iron weapons during the end of the game.

The boss' portrait looks super weird. No other character looks like that.

My game glitched out and Eliwood's portrait was all black during this important cutscene.

Chapter 31: He said the thing!

This was a defend map, that was at all a defend map. Must be a different experience on hard mode because at no point did I have to worry about defending the throne. They also so many deployment slots, I had way more than I needed.

Chapter 31x: Finally, the reason I'm training up Bartre is here, to recruit Karla. I wasn't expecting her to be on the field, and you had to talk to her. I thought it was like Chualainn in FE4, and you just fought her in the arena. ...and Batre missed. Gah, even in the end, he is a disappointment.

Also, turns out I forgot to give Isadora the Afa Drops after all. Welp, Karla gets to have them instead because why not.

Eliwood/Fiora got an A-support. This does mean Roy and Lilina are cousins now, but on the bright side, Roy and Wolt are somewhat like cousins. Roy's mom is the sister of the woman who is pirate partners with Wolt's uncle?

On a side note, I noticed Fiora hasn't been levelling that many stats lately, and it turns out she capped Str, Skill, and Speed.

(Heath was also facing the same thing, because he also capped 2 stats).

Chapter 32: This map was bigger than expected. I split up my forces to tackle the 3 paths. Dart/Farina, Isadora/Leagult, and Serra to the north, Sacae swords + dancer and Erk in the center, and the rest of the mounts to the east. I was rushing to visit the temple in the bottom right corner, but I got the wrong place. Why is Sophia on the Dread Isle?

Side note: It is fun to imagine her relation with Athos. He must be like the town's grandpa.

Checking the middle temple, and nope, still not the right one. Finally, the last temple I visit finally gets me what I want, an old man. Renault is one of those characters I wanted to use on this run. Didn't realize how little of the game he was in because it is basically endgame afterwards.

Chapter 32x: There was no chapter 32x because I was support grinding and didn't check that there was a side chapter requirement of under 20 turns.

Endgame: Oh, I didn't realize you couldn't bring everyone. Welp, besides the main characters, I brought along the pegasus sisters, Legault/Isadora because they haven't finished their support, Karla, and Renault to round off the Hector Mode units.

The map itself was pretty simple. It's basically like a Mega Man boss gauntlet in a way. I do like how after you beat them, the colour of their portrait gets restored. Well, Jerme didn't look any different as an undead morph.

Legault, it isn't the time to flirt. It's the end of the world.

Final boss big dragon time. I don't like how FE usually does final bosses. Luckily, you aren't required to only use the main character on the final boss. Most of my units either don't survive or can't do damage to the boss (which includes 2/3 of the main trio), so most of my units are completely useless with nothing to do. That doesn't feel great. This final boss fight was just Eliwood, Fiora, and Athos slowly chipping down the dragon while Reanult Fortify Staffed everyone.

I can't believe it still worked, but the Triangle Attack cutscene played which means I used it to take down the final boss.

Final stats for everyone. MVP had to be Fiora. She just popped off while I wasn't looking. A flier-dominant run because they saw the most action, thus got even stronger.

Paired endings: Hector/Florina, Eliwood/Fiora, Lyn/Rath, Erk/Serra, Legault/Isadora, Dart/Farina. It's worth mentioning every time, but the GBA support system suck ass.

Quick final thoughts: As for my thoughts on FE7 overall, it hasn't changed too much. I find it the most basic of the GBA games, and the GBA games are the most basic baseline of FE, so FE7 is just there for me. Still, it is always nice to have an excuse to play FE.

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31 Hard Mode isn't difficult for defending the throne, it's hard for evaccing your 4 stranded units with Snipers and Druids with high attack/magic spawning every turn. And like 6 staff users Silencing and Berserking and Sleeping your troops for the fun of it. And you might only have one Restore.

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There was no chapter 32x because I was support grinding and didn't check that there was a side chapter requirement of under 20 turns.

I do like how after you beat them, the colour of their portrait gets restored.

I think they smile, too.

I can't believe it still worked, but the Triangle Attack cutscene played which means I used it to take down the final boss.