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@@dobrinhristov3940 scary trees :)

Yeah, a few commenters suggested that earlier! I completely missed this strategy while playing, and it would have definitely been a way to clear that final hurdle! :D

@@redwings13400 love all your Warcraft series. Nice ending to this one.

@ Aw, thank you! Glad you’ve enjoyed it! :D

It's the benny hill theme. I actually know nothing about the show beyond that, haha, only that it's a pretty famous theme that's used to convey a series of comedic errors.

@@KoonSeckMaw hehe it’s a good show

Yep! You've been able to repair transports in this game the entire time! :D

@@SCARaw aw, thank you! Glad you’ve enjoyed my videos! :)

“Yeahhh, that sounds convincing… right?”

@@taramaforhaikido7272 hehe yeah I usually have a low tolerance for boredom, unless something hooks me in so hard that it earns the boredom as a necessary expense to become something awesome.

@@ccondelli :D you’re the best!

hehe thank you! I had fun with it xD

Yeah, I've heard leadership stars are slightly better explained in 17A, but like... don't choose an optional chapter to explain a central game mechanic, haha! I was so confused before I learned about it! I'm pretty sure Saias didn't put anything in my convoy. I didn't have a light tome after he left, and Safiya really could have used one, haha. Thanks for the comments! I'm glad you enjoyed the series!

The forest is the worsttttttt! Definitely one of my most stressful and probably most entertaining levels though haha

Haha yeah, I agree. Everyone can play optimally with a guide, but nobody can replicate a blind experience. Each one is unique xD

Oh, my bad. I really should have learned Japanese and bought an original copy before playing this game, just so I could read a manual xD. Oof, Linoan's promo was in the chapter 21 church? I visited that church but not with Linoan. Was there any dialogue that would have let me know that? That's fair about chapter 22. I think the idea was a good one, but the execution was really bad. Even if they had explained leadership stars, I think it's a pretty genuinely terrible mechanic the way it's implemented. Just making the enemy have high avoid stats inherently makes maps a lot more unpredictable and harder to control, which I think is something that should be used sparingly in general. That's one of my biggest issues with the forest chapter too, it's like that fog route in pokemon dpp where you just really have no control over whether things work or not. I think I would have liked leadership stars a lot better if they had just boosted more stats by less, instead of just focusing on hit rate and avoid. I'm fine with difficult chapters, I enjoyed Thracia after all and I'm one of the few who really likes Three Houses Maddening mode, but difficulty through everything having high avoid isn't the way to do it. I died to Canis a lot, haha. I eventually found that attacking her with Orsin was a terrible idea, but that Orsin was pretty consistent at winning the fight if he let Canis attack him instead while he was at full hp. That guaranteed crit on counterattack was so broken. I honestly forget whether I had warps and rewarps left when I reached Veld. Either way my savestate was after I had already committed to sacrificing my entire army, so by the time I realized I would need to do something different, it was too late. I think by balancing, I don't necessarily mean how difficult the game is, but instead just... everything in Thracia felt either broken or useless. Like, staffs were so absurdly overpowered, they were fun, but there's a reason why no other fire emblem game makes them this utterly insane. Characters with personal weapons were so much better than characters without personal weapons, and some units were blatantly insanely op, and some felt completely useless. The difficulty curve in this game was all over the place, some chapters being pretty easy and others being complete nightmares. Scrolls are a way to further the imbalance between units, since having one of these essentially lets you ignore a core mechanic of the game. Basically Thracia just throws most conventional game design wisdom out of the window in order to give you an emotionally authentic portrayal of the story. Things like Xavier's recruitment is completely and utterly ridiculous. I don't even think this is inherently a bad thing, and Thracia makes it work, but it really feels so different from any other fire emblem games I've ever played, or really any other game I've ever played before. Basically, my view of Thracia is that it only works because the devs went all out on making sure the game design supported the story, and didn't let conventional gaming wisdom stop them from making any of their bizarre decisions. In a vaccum, most of Thracia's decisions are not decisions I think other fire emblem games should follow (capturing being an exception, that mechanic is actually genius and should return at some point). They only work because the game establishes that atmosphere so well to the point that it's consistent with itself, and that offers a gameplay experience unlike anything else. Thracia is so much fun because of all these decisions. It shouldn't work, but it does. Thanks for watching this series! I'm glad you enjoyed, and I appreciate your comments! I have no idea what I'm going to do next on this channel, but I will try to make it entertaining regardless of where I go! :D

@redwings13400 No, there's no way to know about Linoan's promo lmao. The priest there just says something about imperials having powerful magic and gives you a Pure Water. The other churches in the game are not a hint either, Leif has to visit one in 15 to make the route choice, in 17A Sara is recruited in a random church on top of a peak with a squad of dark mages near it... Maybe they were her escorts? 🤔 And that's it. Sara is in the same base class as Linoan, but that's not a hint towards anything by any stretch. I mean, you can control leadership stars by deploying as many of your own units with them as possible, plus that's what makes Saias the better recruitment option in an optimal run, his +6 hit/avoid over Ced is just worth it, unless you're in dire need of a powerful combat unit. It's a genuine reward for recruiting Xavier, in addition to him being a good endgame filler with the Brave Bow and gives you reason to deploy someone like Glade from time to time as well. In 22 the game gives you a Warp staff in the house closer to the ballista squad, and along with Cohen's comments on how Saias must keep himself alive and away from the brunt of the fight at the beginning of the map, plus Kempf the boss of his map escaping, I think there're enough hints on how Saias can be get ridden of. And even in the worst case scenario, he'll leave after 40 turns, which is a good enough failsafe imo. Orsin when he uses Wrath: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Orsin when Wrath is used against him: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. Tbh, the more games I play the less interested I am in "conventional game design" and the more I care about funni. Tbh, the most broken combat prf in the game is Grafcalibur and Asbel being available so early and easily snowballed into a bosskiller is probably the biggest balancing issue about the game I have. But that is also a major issue with a lot of FE games, frankly, Asbel at least relies both on Life Rings, hitting his growths and being trained to promotion (which, again, is unfortunately very easy). Orsin, for example, is frankly not that comparatively reliable when it comes to breaking the game entirely, due to throne bonuses and his incredibly heavy reliance on his prf (hand axes suck and Master Axes have pretty poor Hit) the Repair uses of which can go to any other weapon or staff. Fergus without a prf is probably a strictly better unit than him, because if you know his deal, he's much more useful in Munster, which is also way more important and irreplaceable than whatever Orsin can provide. Especially in the 8x skip era, which was Orsin's best map. Although I'm heavily in favour of even more prfs for all sorts of characters. As for staves, there's a reason fatigue exists and it's a major part of planning out runs and why most staffers have pretty low HP. Each rank gives +1 fatigue cost to a staff use, up to 5 with (Re)Warps, Berserk and prfs, so it's a major thing to consider. To get S drinks, you either need to play 14x or sell a bunch of stuff to buy them (or arena with save states I guess). I guess scrolls are an imbalance, but purely in the player's and their favourite blorbo's favour, be it to stack growths or not die to random chance, but it's also a strategic resource you have to manage depending on your bias towards a unit and having as many be safe from crits as possible. Also, can be reverse stolen onto enemy bosses, Ch 8 boss capture for 8x becomes very easy that way. Oh, and by no means am I trying to say Thracia is a perfect flawless masterpiece btw, ballista spam, B route and ambush spawns being some of my least favourite things about the game. I just find the fundamental design to be very interesting and fun, even if it breaks at times. Anyway, I think FE5 works, specifically because it throws caution to the wind and just makes the player go through an experience unique to its vision. There's a genuine strength to Kaga's vibes based design when there's a strong direction to back it up imo, even if it won't be for everyone. There's a reason there are people who only like FE4, but not FE5 and vice versa, or like Berwick but despise Tear Ring, or even like all of them. Although Berwick Saga is actually pretty meticulously designed and playtested, but it's also got a lot of quirks that feel like they're there to invoke certain vibes lol. Anyway, wall of text finally over. This was a very fun small series! Really enjoyed it!

@@DangitronepasVI9 haha yeah, I was so confused by it in the moment, and wanted to represent that confusion in the video, but I did eventually figure it out. Whatevs did an amazing job helping me understand what I needed to know to get through without giving me any spoilers, and I’m really thankful for the way she did that. Glad you enjoyed the play through! Thracia is such an adventure! I didn’t expect to make a three part video on it when I started this game, but there was just so much to talk about!

Hehe thank you! I played through half the game a second time off camera with a guide, but didn't finish it. The game just wasn't as interesting for me with a guide, and I found myself not enjoying the experience as much the second time through. I might finish it at some point, though this video series is over, I'm pretty happy with the way this run ended :) Also, oof, there are always things that I miss in the script. RIP accurate chapter numbers.

hehe pretty much. I have no issues with the game giving me an E, it would be challenging to run through the game struggling more than I did.

Aw, thanks! Games like this are definitely a matter of personal taste, I don't think Thracia is for everyone. I find the overall experience is just worth the frustrating moments, and in the end, I really enjoyed the game, but I can definitely see how others might find the game more frustrating than fun. There are definitely blatantly unfair moments in this game that you really can't play around without knowing they're coming. I find that I can be extremely persistent in a game, if the game earns it. If the puzzle is fun enough to figure out, if the game locks my brain in to thinking about how to get around the roadblock, if my mind becomes addicted enough to want to solve it, I'm much more likely to continue trying. Thracia earned that addiction from me, but man it was close for that final level haha.

@@gyppygirl2021 Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed! I have a theory that people think endgame fire emblem is easy, not because it actually is easy, but because they play the early and mid game in a way that makes it easy. If you reset every time you lose a unit, you are inherently playing in a way that makes early chapters much harder (not losing a unit in any chapter is hard, especially in a blind run), and you’re also playing in a way that inherently makes the later chapters much easier (having all your units for late chapters makes them a whole lot easier). Early fire emblem wasn’t designed thinking that players would reset every time they lost a unit, so there’s a disconnect between the way the devs perceived the difficulty and the way players end up experiencing the difficulty. Late game fire emblem is actually really hard… if you play it as the devs envisioned you’d play it. The way most people play it though, late game fire emblem is actually pretty easy, but that’s only because of a choice players make that the devs didn’t expect when designing the game.

@@redwings13400 That is probably the case, yes. The aforementioned Idunn instance is a borderline exception because you're basically handed the tools to deal with her before you ever get to that map, but there's still the issue of resource management and not letting the Binding Blade break before you reach her. They probably worked around the idea of you losing units until at least the 3DS era. lol

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! :D

@@kanbarusuruga2358 aw, thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it! :D

@@Multifire thanks! Yeah, the blood elves are pretty cool, they impressed me here. Glad you enjoyed! :)

Good theory. If you add in part 3... uh... maybe...

@@redwings13400 i watched this video while doing some pc troubleshooting Everytime i looked back you werent doing too hot lol

@@JanJansen985 Haha yeahhh, apparently rebelling against a giant empire is pretty difficult xD

All I needed to do to recruit Sara was to just speak to her with Leif? Hahaha, oh man, I had no idea, I figured she was recruitable somehow but didn't actually know how. Either way I was so focused on restore that I just did not see her as a human in that moment, just as a way to avoid losing my entire army. Haha, yeah, the forest was definitely the wrong decision. Definitely an entertaining level from your perspective though, it was probably the most scrappy, on edge level of the entire run, between the poison chipping my units down, having limited heals at the time, and the forest making it very hard to position my army. I wanted to get out of there from the moment I entered. As much as I hated the level, I gotta admit the way I played through it really fit the narrative and story of the game. In retrospect, I probably should have given Leif a scroll, but in the semi-ironman ruleset, losing someone like Orsin is actually much worse than getting a game over. So Leif died a couple times as a result of my decision to give other units scrolls over him. Aww, thanks, I'm glad you liked the singing! I absolutely loved that little easter egg in the game. This was a later addition to my script, originally I was just going to keep the original audio/video in there, but then I asked my friend if she wanted to sing it for me, and she agreed to. She did such a good job and I'm really happy with the way it came out! I'm also glad that there's a Fire Emblem TCG with shockingly incredible artwork, because otherwise I'm not sure how I would have edited that section. Ooh, I forgot that Finn had miracle, that makes a lot of sense! As this was happening I was amazed he lasted so long. Soft ironman rulesets are interesting because they're usually self-balancing. If you're in a terrible situation, you get a lot of game overs and can learn the level. If you're in a good situation, you usually beat the level but might play poorly and lose a couple units in the process. It's not perfect, but I really like this method for playing blind runs (or playing FE in general), it makes the game super intense all the way through because of that inherent balancing factor. Thanks for leaving such a detailed comment, I loved reading through it! Part 3 comes out next Saturday, which will be the last part of this series. I'm glad you're enjoying my misfortune! :D

@@gyppygirl2021 there’s a reason I called it semi-Ironman. It’s definitely not a true Ironman, because otherwise I would have died on chapter 5 and the video would have been much more shorter.

hehe yep. The game is out there trying its best to take pity on me xD

@@KoonSeckMaw Druid? Not sure what you mean by that

@@redwings13400 by Druid of the claw and talon of course dryad

@@KoonSeckMaw As far as I'm aware, I've never talked about or thought about doing any druid centric wc3 runs. Sorry to disappoint, but that's never really crossed my mind, and I have no plans on that.

@@redwings13400 ok and do you play anime games?

@@KoonSeckMaw Depends what you mean by that. I've played various fire emblem games before and enjoy them a lot, but I've generally not played games because anime.

Oh, huh. You know, I didn't even realize I got them mixed up! I usually am hyper-aware of my mistakes during recording and they bother me every time I watch myself, but I actually didn't notice I got those two confused until you pointed it out! I have no idea how that happened, haha! So... Um... Sara... Lets see... How do I break this to you... She... doesn't die horribly? Yeahhhhhhh... That's a positive way to spin it, I think... (you might be a little disappointed when I release part 2)

@@redwings13400 Seems like I'll have to wait for Final to see how much trouble she causes you 😈 Still gonna be very sad, I can barely handle seeing that portrait of hers. That's why I hoard both Life Rings and scroll stack her to 85% HP and 55% Def growths 😭 Gonna assume her fate has something to do with the words "forest" and "capture".

@@TechnoFall42 I will neither confirm nor deny that hypothesis. I'm going to be releasing Part 2 on the 20th, and part 3 the 27th, so you won't have to wait long to find out! I'm glad you're enjoying my scuffed run. These are my favorite types of runs too, just because they're so memorable. Thracia really stuck with me in a way not many games do, and it's largely because of that tension where I was never quite sure if I had enough to beat the next mission or the rest of the game.

xD I was wondering if anyone would notice me slipping that in. Also, you've seen nothing yet. Part 2 gets worse. Much worse. I'm glad you enjoyed!

@@redwings13400 Aw, now you've gone and made me excited. :p

Nice :) These series has definitely made the footman my favorite unit in Warcraft. That's a new development though, before I played these challenge runs the knight/paladin was definitely up there for me too.

@@redwings13400 yeah lol I got back into Warcraft stuff recently and started playing the trilogy for the first time. Warcraft 2 was really fun!

haha yeah. I did not expect the enemy to have a massive army behind that door, and also didn't read carefully enough so I thought the civilians were going a different way than they actually went. No regrets though, my tactical blunders definitely made the level way more entertaining for all of you!

Believe it or not you can lure the entire army from all the way up to down and ignore them by running a couple tiles in front of them and once they are at the bottom you just run full speed. Not really worth doing altough.

Not everything goes wrong. Just like... 90% of things go wrong xD

Hehe thanks! Hope you enjoy! Parts 2 and 3 will be coming out the next two Saturdays, which is why I've been so silent for a while. :)

:) Hope you enjoy!