Corpse Run 397: Crits all around
LIVESTREAM UPDATE:
The next livestream will be this Friday, March 14th at 7pm est! We finished up the Eternal Darkness run last time, so there will be a new game to play. What it is, however… I don’t know yet.
MYSTERY!
See you then!
END LIVESTREM UPDATE!
After a bit of a hiatus, I finally finished up my first playthrough of Fire Emblem: Awakening. Normally, when I beat a game, I move away from it for a while, but FE:A was so super fun that it warranted an immediate second run.
On “lunatic” mode.
How hard could it be?
Incredibly hard. Actually, borderline palpably unfair hard.
In lunatic mode, any character not named Frederick is a strong candidate to get one-shotted by an enemy. Additionally, any character not named Frederick is about as strong as a vanilla wafer.
This poses some serious problems. If either Chrom or the Main Unit dies, it’s game over. If Frederick dies, you have absolutely no chance of winning. If Lissa dies, you might be able to deal with it (if you aren’t playing on classic mode).
I’ve been told that the first five levels of lunatic mode are super difficult to get through, but things level out afterwards.
My current opinion regarding that fact: I have no idea. Despite my best efforts I’ve only managed to make it to chapter three at the time of this writing. Also, Frederick’s silver spear/lance/whatever broke… which was the only quality weapon we had.
Difficulty aside, the most important thing is the game’s enjoyability. Is lunatic mode fun?
I… I’m not sure. I think I’m having fun.
Then again, I spend more time yelling at my 3DS and angrily rolling my eyes than actually playing the game.
So… maybe?
I’m having a similar feeling with the Tales of Symphonia re-release on the PS3 right now. I’m doing a Hard run without New Game + bonuses (being my first run on this system and all). So far, it’s all been pretty OK, and I expect that, seeing as I’ve beaten this game 14+ times. Then I get to Kvar… And Sylph. Am I still having fun? I’m not really sure anymore. One thing’s for sure, though, I haven’t been this infuriated with a game in a long time.
Ah, another TOS fanatic. I just got through my first run on hard, (I am doing an easy run right now so I can get a few titles, next is a mania run) I forgot how difficult this game could be with a lack of resources, there are a handful of battles that are just plain insane. Sylph was always a difficult match but I never had trouble taking on Pronyma (the second time) and a handful of other bosses. They really upped the difficulty this time around but I am actually happy about that, I like that the game isn’t a walk in the park for me anymore, bring on some new challenges! The downside is that I can’t play as sheena and deal enough damage to get through as of now.
Even though I did a Symphonia run on the stream a few months ago, you two have me hankering for another playthrough of ToS!
You can never play that game enough. It de-stressed me through most of high school.
I have a hard enough time on hard mode. I’d be slaughtered in Lunatic!
Uggg, I’m now at chapter 5, and every time I reach a new level I promptly get my butt kicked.
Each lunatic stage feels impossible, but with some persistence and bit of luck, they can be beat!
So far, anyway…
a 3DS? Man I didn’t know people played antiques like those. Funny to think that such an old system would still work. Nintendo was known for its reliability.
Hey guys, sorry I couldn’t make it to the last one. I had some plans come up and the same will be for this Friday as well. Sorry!
It’s all good! Have an awesome weekend!
I think or from what I’m told is you access chapter five, then spam street pass and low level custom teams and DLC missions until you can actually survive. Tried the game on lunatic and only got to use Fredrick and was like…yeah no, GL to you though.
Yep! You are correct! Once I got to chapter 5, grinding was possible and the game got… kind of boring, actually. Nuts!
Got to go, what you got to do right?