Stream of consciousness thoughts:
- cool font
- cool ost
- playing on normal i guess, readme didn't say which was intended but it said the end was imbalanced so I assume that means I should err on the side of easy
- the opening cutscene is thoroughly bizarre but I like that ness was happy to see paula. feel like "ugh fun ruined" was a low hanging joke, glad you didn't go for it
- "celice" but not "zigludo" smh
- funny premise too. "train" (armor knight) can't stop, have to clear the way ahead of it. cool setup
- canto+ on everybody sick
- kaiba's description is pretty fucked up (visually)
- lots of shadow tiles are misplaced in the roads and grass
- animations seem pretty standard so I'm turning em off. the no-animation combat stats are in here so that's nice!
- honestly the obsession over the train details, even having version numbers and stuff, is funnier than the cameos and jokes. random characters constantly sharing the history of and their opinions on trains, circles around to being unironically funny. this is great
- there's a sage at the top that just has a steel axe...?
- gave the energy ring to kain just because he was there
- i assume the near victory theme uses the same channels as the cursor sfx because moving units totally fucks up the song lol
- map was routed just as the armor passed the halfway point. getting the feeling i was supposed to play this on hardmode. enemy units were completely unable to threaten mine in any way. all just got doubled and 2hko'd
I gave it another shot on HM:
- noticing on my second run this has the hold L to toggle animations thing, very nice :)
- enemies used a silence staff and a sleep staff that I never even saw on NM. not like peach was contributing much anyway but 4 turns of giga-uselessness is fun
- I had to be a little more careful with kaiba around the archers but otherwise nah this is about the same difficulty as the first run
- paula is too good at killing things to waste her time using barrier. honestly trading her and Ness' staves was the play
- is the tyrfing a swordslayer...? I saw it do 56 to a hero and 61 to a swordmaster
- oh TWO sleep staves wow. interesting to have these without a restore when there's a time limit. cool icon for sleep though, looks more like Freeze. Tbf you have so many juggernaut units it's not the worst thing for a couple to be frozen/silenced
- I routed the map with the train at exactly the same point he was at when I finished the NM run. So I didn't miss out much by going Normal.
- forgot about the energy ring until after the map was routed so i gave it to rosa
Closing thoughts:
I love escort missions like this. It's not very hard, but its interesting to have a team full of canto+ users so that every action makes progress forward. This kind of shitposty cameo humor isn't really my jam, esp since I don't really know some of the characters, and honestly there weren't a lot of jokes as much as situational comedy. I can tell the creator loves trains, which I think is cool and got some smiles out of me. Didn't have anything to do with the theme, but I love romhacks and gbafe, so this was fun :) I mean I played through it twice!