I finally got to play with Elincia earlier. You guys were right, she's damn powerful. I had to take away her mercy skill first though. She gained 9 levels on the first time I could use her in Part 4. I look forward to playing with her later some more!

Just read all the posts. I didn't want to get spoiled, but now I have finished the game (on Normal) so there aren't that many spoilers left.

The game was awesome! Who was the character you guys had with most kills? Mine was Tibarn with 144 in front of Rolf with 124 in front of Micaiah is 114 tied with Ike on 114. Then Leonardo, Nailah and Edward all had above 100. Skrimir finished at 99

Favourite characters: Tibarn. Ike, Rolf and Micaiah are also awesome, but they get hard competition from Skrimir. Those are my top 5.

Don't remember.  Why Tibarn though?  Sure he's strong, but all using him that much does is suck experience away from units that actually need it.

@WoW

I managed to have 5 players only on Tibarns team in Chapter 4 (accidentaly mis-pressed)

Therefore he was pretty much alone in fighting, the others on the team tried to kill themselves more than helping.

He probably got around 100 kills from those 2 missions, maybe even more.

I am still on my first play through and as it's the first fire Emblem game I am playing easy, I can't wait to finish and try Normal, but am I the only person who never restarts if I lose a character I carry on. Yes I am a bit short now I am reaching the last levels but it's great fun. I plan to do the same on normal & hard if I have to restart the game from scratch I'd rather do that than keep loading levels.

Once I have finished I will do all the levels without restarting due to main character loss as well. That will be a challenge as it can some times happen.

Because of my limited choice I get to see some unusual characters at higher levels some how Meg is still alive and on every mission her team is involved with :)

Ouch.  You should have reloaded an old save.  That would be painful.

Easy and Normal are made much simpler thanks to battle saves but expect Hard mode to take a lot more time that way.

I forgot to mention I am not using battle save unless I have to stop playing for any resson but never to save characters items or unfortunate events 

I just started the end game last night and I feel it could become challenging now because of some of the choices I made. We shall see, this game is awesome, I can't wait to play it through again knowing what I do about the game now..  

Okay guys I finally finished Hard Mode. Here are the last of the changes on your second playthrough while obtaining the hidden characters.

*SPOILERS REGARDING SECOND PLAYTHROUGH*

After you beat the Black Knight in the second part of Endgame you trigger an extra memory sceen in which Griel has just killed his wife and Sephiran (lehran) and Zelgius come across their bodies. Griel is exhausted and passed out on the ground. It is shown that Ike actually saw him father murder his mother and Sephiran feels sorry for him and uses some sort of spell to wipe that from his memory. Zelgius then carries Griel inside. Mist grabs the Fire Emblem before Sephiran has a chance to grab it and they find out for the first time that Mist is apparently immune to its effects so they decide to leave it with her for the time being.

After you defeat Sephiran in Endgame Part 4 he still dies but Yune asks Micaiah to revive him. After bringing him back Ike gives him an ultimatum: fight with us or sit back and do nothing. Before he gets a chance to answer your whole team runs in to face Ashera. After you start the battle Sephiran runs in from the left side and tells the goddess she cant do this anymore. She replies to him that his mind is swayed much to easily. He has a staff that heals your entire team fully (its only got three uses) which helped make the final battle super easy.

After you've finished the game and its going through all of the characters lives post-game there is a cut scene where Sephiran has returned somewhere to meet a girl. She says she is very happy to have him home and cant wait to here his beautifful voice sing again. He replies that he doesnt sing anymore so she pressures him and he agrees to sing with her at least.

*END SPOILERS*

So thats the it. Nothing to huge but it was pretty cool anyway. Nolan had maxxed out his stats by level 17 so the last three levels he grew he didnt gain any stats and I thought it was hilarious. Micaiah surprisingly maxxed out on everything too.

Anyway the Endgame was actually very simple this time through, Even on Hard Mode, because I was much more prepared for it this time. The only hard part was Dighensia. Hes a beast and you had to have Nihil equiped or he'd hit you with Ire which would pretty much mean that character was dead.

For my Hard mode playthrough the top 5 were something like

1. - Nephenee

2. - Shinnon

3. - Soren

4. - Edward

5. - Ike

I dont remember their exact number of kills but Nephenee's was a bit over two hundred and the rest were pretty close around 160 except for Ike was a bit lower even around 130 probably. On my first playthrough Tibarn was number one aswell. He was just so cheap near the end of the game I totally took advantage of that. The missions you were just talking about where you split up with Tibarns team I almost did solo with Nephenee for the same reason which is why her kills where so huge.