I’m glad that in the Black Eagle campaign You got the option to spare Claude.
I’ve had a slow start since the whole instructor part of the game seemed pretty daunting, but now I’ve got a good idea of it. It’s a good UI detail to let you view the class list in the tutoring and goal-setting menus, that helped me get a better idea of how I should build the characters.
Also the rewind strikes a much better balance of tension in Classic, since I tend to make a lot of tactical blunders, but I also don’t find the Casual mode very engaging in these games.
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I really wish I could set this to Hard. Not because I want any of my Anime Babies to die, but the rewind feature and the enemy targeting feature make battles in a way a lot more trivial - I don’t even make the mistakes that require rewind, I’ve only had to use them when surprise ambushes put my army in really bad spots.
Just maybe Mages shouldn’t be able to fight on the front lines as easily as they do in Normal.
Yeah, it seems odd that you can move the difficulty down but not up. I’ve been playing on hard and it feels good. I think in past games hard has meant getting less experience, but I have yet to run into an issue where I feel underpowered.
In general characters seem to be able to take a hit better than in older games, so I don’t run into issues where Lorenz is only good for finishing off enemies cause he dies in one hit.
I have noticed this as well which is great because the hit rates in the game have been wild. I had enemies manage to hit my characters when the hit rate was under 50% often enough that I am taking note of it and I have missed some attacks when I had a 90% chance of hitting. Either I have had some remarkable RNG or the old calculating system has been scrapped.
Well Lysithea is now a mortal savant and is now a rolling ball of destruction. I like it.
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Aw crap, that’s even better than the Levin Sword or however it’s spell that I got from the bottom chest >____< Too late now…
I think it’s randomised, at least somewhat, because I’m pretty sure I got my March Ring later on. I think the top chest for me had a Killer Lance or something? I didn’t get the lower one. I remember also being frustrated that I accidentally ended the battle, and not being able to rewind because I’d won.
EDIT: Also, I’d have taken a Levin Sword over the March Ring. It’s good, but a sword that strikes with magic, from range, seems like exactly what I wanted for Lysithea earlier on. Of course, saying that, I would have ended up not using it “just in case”, but still.
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This game rules. Can’t stop playing. I like FE in general, but the life-sim stuff was a really smart way of varying the gameplay so it’s not just fight-cutscene-repeat, and the character-building stuff has me way more attached to all my units than I am in most games. I love my bunch of Black Eagle edgelord dweebs.
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Woah. I just finished the battle, and I did NOT get that option. Maybe it’s because I killed him with a crit? Was there a peaceful way to end that fight? Is it based on your relationships with people from that house? I wanted to spare him so bad but post-battle there was only a discussion about how it was necessary. I decided to side with Edelgard, but my friend did the same thing and had the option to save him 
I have former Golden Deer with me, but none in the battle. Maybe taking the gates to the city could affect it. I also noticed that throughout the first act I would occasionally get the alert that my relationship with Claude and the Blue Lion leader went up after certain responses or after having tea on their birthdays. Maybe there’s a hidden score that could affect it.
Maybe this is a really dumb question but does Byleth ever have any meaningful dialogue? I am playing with a male Byleth so did that dialogue get removed because of the voice actor or is the character always silent? I get that recording every single possible line he can say may have been demanding but it is getting to a point where it is just uncanny how silent he is compared to every other player (especially because he seems to have three motions that he runs through).
In 50 hours I have never heard F Byleth’s voice outside of generic battle lines.
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Yeah, it stays like that. It’s super weird and immersion-breaking, and I wish they had just voiced the dialog lines (especially since they have dialog in battle??). Characters occasionally reference being weirdly stoic and quiet, but that’s not much of an excuse.
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Moving from Byleth’s silence to another light gripe I have with the game: can Manuela get a friggin’ break?!
On the upside, I am now at a point where every professors seems like they want to join my team so I am gonna let them do that.
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I’m at the final battle of Black Eagles C. Pretty contrived fight from a story persepective, but it looks super fun tactics wise. What a wild ride, this next fight is going to put me at around 45-ish hours, which in a week and a half is honestly way too much time playing video games, but due to a death in my family i ended up have several days of free time, and it was easy to play this game to take my mind off of it.
I really want to just immidiatly jump into another route, but i’m still thinking about how i want to do it. I want to play one Hard/Classic route, whether that is the GD or the BL, but i don’t know if i want to start that now, or wait til the end. I know that i’m going to try and do the other half of the BE in between the other two houses, and will probably just bump it down to casual and turn off animations so as to just easily run through and catch the story/supports for it.
They also present you with a lot of dialogue choices that mean the same thing
Over-the-shoulder battle cam is weird and fun.
I will say (major Black Eagle spoilers) Every character having their own clear personality, interests back story, family connections in the Empire, etc. Makes it really silly to me that they all just join up with you no matter which route you choose at the Edelgard / Church split. It didn’t bother me at all on the first run through with Edie but now with the Church every one is just as happy. It’s like “Yeah my Dad is an important minister in the Empire and really supports Edie but… you were my teacher for a year five years ago so I will do whatever you want me to do!” The nature of everything revolving around Byleth, and people losing their way if they don’t have Byleth with them just seems to make it so no matter what side you choose, you’re always going to come away feeling like it was the right side
Also I sided with Edie and then in a map had to fight Ashe because he was against her. Side with the Church, have a map where I have to fight Ashe because he’s with Edie. Stuff like that seems a bit silly.
Also I wish they removed the gender locked classes because I don’t know why that’s still a thing
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(Black Eagles end of Part 1 spoilers) Choosing whether or not to support Edelgard was tougher than choosing a house. I was curious about the “fourth route” people had talked about and looked it up, so I knew that I would have to make the decision, but I had fully intended on joining her until it really came down to it. I’m no fan of Rhea, nor do I have any love for the church as an institution, but I just could not get down with how she was doing business. So now I’m the head of a church that I do not trust, in order to stop the imperialism of one of my favourite students. I love it.
A month and a half into Part 2, I’m really liking the timeskip and am only now fully realizing how much I like the support conversations. Like, at points they’re still extremely heteronormative, but in the past few days I’ve said, out loud, “Aww, I love my students,” which fills me with warmth.
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