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RolStoppable said:
BengaBenga said:
Is anyone doing the Gaiden playthrough? I wonder how people did it. Simply letting characters die on the battlefield?

I have already done it. I killed units instead of recruiting them and sacrificed characters I didn't need on the battlefield in the chapter they joined. The stupid thing about this game is that the game automatically gives you noname units at the start of a new chapter if your total number of units is below the number of units you can use in said chapter.

The four Gaiden chapters which require you to have 15 units or less are nothing special, the fifth and last one can be entered if you didn't fulfill certain requirements to obtain the Falchion and/or haven't recruited a certain character. You'll get a weaker version of the Falchion at the end of this Gaiden chapter.

So basically it's not worth it to play any of the Gaiden chapters. The only use I can see in them is to make the highest difficulty settings easier by getting the additional EXP from these chapters. Then again this requires you to let some of your characters die and one of the most satisfying accomplishments in Fire Emblem is to beat the hardest setting with all characters recruited and alive.

 

Finished hard ***** already? Wow, you truely are a gaming god, mr. Top 10 F-Zero!

Please tell me that the story will get better in the 2nd half of the game. I'm completely underwhelmed by the lack of deep conversations between the characters, something that was so awesome in the previous ones. It's really like: battle - mr. councellor tells you "hey let's go here"' - ok, battle.

Oh and why for ^%#* sake does my character sometimes gets killed if I use the devil's axe? Can't recall that ever happening before. 

Oh last rant: Please tell me Bantu gets better. What a waste. He's not even strong and has terrible EXP gain. Really a shame, cause the character is awesome.

Edit: aside from this I really having tons of fun with the game btw.