Hey, just wanted to say that the game is really cool! I'm a huge fan of Fire Emblem and was waiting for someone to make a game like this. It seems to be a bit of an untapped gold mine. I do have a bit of feedback, though.
Though the Marth fight was designed to be unbeatable, it seems as though there's a pretty simple method to beat it, even simpler than the one posted earlier.
All you have to do is position Camus and Hardin in a manner that blocks either entrance of the long pillars and shove Nyna in the middle so she can run back and forth healing the two while Marth's damage can effectively be mitigated by how durable Camus is, especially with his Vulnerary and Nyna's staff. It doesn't really require you to break Marth's Rapier, and can even net you a couple level ups (Cavs are always blessed) before Marth finally dies. To make it even easier, Marth even moves off of his throne around turn 3 or 4, leaving him wide open, though I will admit it took a few attempts to come up with this strategy, and the jumpscare section was pretty scary (though the real jumpscare was the ending after beating him, as well as phase 2 of the boss fight.
I will say though that there might be an issue with some of the tiles being labelled as Plains even though I believe in the original game there was Ocean tiles, such as on the first map.
A bit of a thing I might recommend adding (if you do update the game at any point, if not, feel free to disregard) is a bit of dialogue if you enter a House or the Castle on the 2nd map, maybe something about how nobody's in there or something. As redundant as it might sound, it might add to the ambience the game brings out. Oh, and one final recommendation- perhaps a bit of dialogue if you manage to get Caeda killed in Chapter 1? Dunno, just a thought.
Overall, great game! I'm hoping more people make stuff like this in the future.
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Oh, a couple things I figured out:
-Cavaliers and Caeda can walk on the water in the first map. You can have them go for a swim before they get removed from existence.
-You can undeploy Marth in the unit menu before chapter 1, thus creating a paradox where Marth can't do his thing, resulting in a game over.
Yes, these mostly came about from the process of being rushed. Little things slipped through the cracks because I worked on this for like an hour or two a day for 2 months total before releasing. The Marth bossfight is still effectively unbeatable if you don't know what's coming, which is the important part. But yeah, I just tested the method that made the most sense to do and that worked as unbeatable so I left it at that and I got hit with a wake-up call from people who tried to make a strategy in a strategy game.
I really appreciate the feedback. I wasn't planning on doing another update but fixing things you mentioned and a couple other things like the music if I can would probably be worth it, especially with the surprise attention this game got. And I need to make marth force-deployed. Luigikid undeployed him on accident and now most people's introduction to the game includes a weird softlock that I didn't even think of lmao.
Either way, thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback, it's really valuable when making games and the fact that you enjoyed it enough to comment this is also really cool.
Hey, thanks again for your feedback. I just put out an update covering most of this stuff. Now you can go into houses, music loops properly, Marth is force deployed, etc. It's all in the changelog in the "final fixes update" on this page if you want to see that, or even if you want to play through it again.