I am most likely going to be playing Borderlands 2 for a pretty long period of time tonight, so I may not get another chance to post this entry! I really need to get back to Front Mission 3 before I lose motivation, but there'll be plenty of time for that over the next week. I don't really like how my schedule is laid out because I'm working every other day. This means I frequently have days off but they're never consecutive. It's a very disorienting and uncomfortable schedule, but I guess it'll still leave me with plenty of time to make progress. Until then, I'm going to try to sync up with my friend who has a busier schedule than me and try to make as much progress on Borderlands 2 as possible.
I'm also trying to inch my way through New Mystery of the Emblem on lunch breaks at work, but the amount of preparation required to advance is pretty insane. I should have known it would be like this if I went with hard mode because I do have a lot of experience with the series. Every movement must be painstakingly calculated. To be honest, I could make things a lot easier if I was more restrictive with my character choices, but I want to buff up some of my weaker characters just because I really like them. That's half of the fun of a Fire Emblem game--babysitting your weaker characters until they turn into unstoppable monsters. I'm hoping this will be the case with some of my lower leveled characters like Norne the archer and Cecile the cavalier.
Some of my characters are already monstrous either due to their natural stat growths or a considerable amount of luck on my part. Palla the pegasus knight, for instance, has a whopping 17 strength at level 17 unpromoted. This is insane for a pegasus knight because they generally are a lot weaker to compensate for their sky high speed and mobility--and the fact that they use spears which have high damage and accuracy. She is by far my strongest character, but Marth is progressing quite well also. Fire Emblem protagonists can sometimes be very weak. I'm thinking of characters like Roy and Eliwood in particular. I'll admit I don't really remember how strong he was in Shadow Dragon, but it looks like his stats are going to end up being really solid here, even though I doubt he'll be anywhere near as strong as Ike from Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn.
My avatar character (whom I've named Brea) is a myrmidon and the only sword user in my current roster aside from Marth himself and Cecile the cavalier who more commonly uses lances. Her skill and speed are monstrously high but her strength is really lagging behind. This is really common for the class but I'd feel a lot better if it was a few points higher. I think of classic Fire Emblem myrmidon/swordmasters like Guy, Rutger, and Joshua and I feel like their strength was generally quite a bit higher than that. If anything, her growths remind me a lot of Mia from Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn. I did like her a lot, but her strength was lacking. I'm hoping I'll get a pretty nice bonus to her strength when she promotes--and a passive bonus to crit would be great too. I know Swordmasters get that in later games but I'm not sure about New Mystery of the Emblem.
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