Current Events > Doing an Iron Man run of Fire Emblem 7 is not that bad.

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Doing in as a preparation for Hector Hard Mode Iron Man run, I'm currently doing an Iron Man Eliwood Hard Mode at this moment.

An Iron Man run (no, it does not mean you have a super smart and good looking guy doing you the carry) is a type of run in Fire Emblem, in which you play the game, and any unit that dies stays dead for good. Yeah, the good old reset button is there, but for Iron Man runs...it's not working!! Impossible, so the units that die, stay dead?! Yes.

And what if the main Lord dies?! Fire Emblem 7 has not 1, not 2...but 3 Lords!! What then? If at any moment the Game Over screen appears, it's done. It's time to re-do everything, if you really want to, of course. You could twist some rules here and there, but honestly, I like that. Game Over is done.

So far, I'm about to start Chapter 14, which is where some challenge starts. Now, don't get me wrong. Eliwood Hard Mode has nothing on Hector Hard Mode. Enemies are still somewhat of a joke in here. I'm just doing this run to prepare for that Hector Hard Mode. I have NEVER cleared HHM at all, so I'm going to be trying it with some extra challenge here and there. So far, none of my units has died (that said, Dorcas, Lowen, Serra and Eliwood have stayed on Death's Door for a little too long). Will be updating this topic as I progress in the game.

Edit: Also, it's far from now, but I'm also planning to do an Iron Man FE6 run. Now that's a ruthless one. Chapter 3, 4 and 7 are enough to (potentially) kill your runs if you make 1 missplay.

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Does that game have good-ass music like Sacred Stones does?

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tehzeldafanboy posted...

Does that game have good-ass music like Sacred Stones does?

It's better than sacred stones on every level

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tehzeldafanboy posted...

Does that game have good-ass music like Sacred Stones does?

I like the music, but if we are going for music in the GBA games, I do think that FE7 is the least favorite for me. Not to say it's terrible, they have Attack! (the standard player phase attack music), Softly with Grace (high command units boss theme), Raid! (sometimes used for enemy phases, while they move their units), Campaing of Fire (Final Boss theme), Everything into the Dark (Pre-Final Boss theme), which are really cool, even more so with the setting they are played with.

They don't beat The Battle Must be Won! or Powerful Foe from FE8, nor has the incredibly good map themes from FE6 (nor In the Name of Bern, which it's in FE7, but I like the FE6 version more). For other FE songs, I do not know that much, but between the GBA ones, for me, the music goes: FE8 > FE6 > FE7.

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I don't have ironmans in me. I get super attached to characters and like using my favorites, so I always restart if I lose a unit. Kudos to those who do them, though.

Speaking of FE, I just finally got around to starting my first run of FE5 tonight. It seems really good thus far. I liked FE4 a lot in spite of it being sort of dated, and this seems to take a lot of what FE4 did right while improving upon it.

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It's the first time I've done an Iron Man myself, I know I'm going to make it one day, but doing one for FE8 could be troublesome for me, there's quite the bit of units I like there (Natasha, Joshua, Gerik). FE8 is not FE6/7 Hard Mode difficulty or anything, but things can still happen.

Anyway, I've completed Chapter 14 without too much issues, Matthew and Guy got hit by some unlucky below 20% hit rates, but nothing Priscilla and Serra couldn't handle. Going to Chapter 15, where we get Lyn, Florina, Sain, Kent and Wil. I don't have nothing against them, but without Lyn Mode (first time actually also NOT doing Lyn Mode) I fear for the Cavs and Flier.

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Lagfile posted...

I like the music, but if we are going for music in the GBA games, I do think that FE7 is the least favorite for me. Not to say it's terrible, they have Attack! (the standard player phase attack music), Softly with Grace (high command units boss theme), Raid! (sometimes used for enemy phases, while they move their units), Campaing of Fire (Final Boss theme), Everything into the Dark (Pre-Final Boss theme), which are really cool, even more so with the setting they are played with.

They don't beat The Battle Must be Won! or Powerful Foe from FE8, nor has the incredibly good map themes from FE6 (nor In the Name of Bern, which it's in FE7, but I like the FE6 version more). For other FE songs, I do not know that much, but between the GBA ones, for me, the music goes: FE8 > FE6 > FE7.

FE7 has coherent musical themes which should give it an auto-win against FE8.

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I dont even get that attached to the characters. This just irks my OCD unless Im doing a speed run (which these kind of runs are good for)
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On the setting of music, as I have always thought, it's more of a personal preference (on most cases, of course. There is bound to be music that is simply not done proper). I like the FE7 OST, I just like more FE8 battle themes, and FE6 Map themes. For me, all 3 are great.

As for the characters, at least for me, it's for how much I have used the character in my previous runs. For example, this is perhaps the first serious run I'm actually using Dorcas and Erk. I'm also MAYBE not using Lucius, but we'll see in this upcoming episode. Also, if Priscilla dies, FeelsBadMan. I really like Priscilla as a unit, and this next Chapter I'll have to be even more careful with her. Previous (Chapter 15) she went with 0 damage done to her, so hopefully I'll keep it that way. I'm more than likely going to be using Raven.

That said, this is the episode where finally I get a Knight's AND a Hero Crest. Knight's Crest is going into Lowen 100%. He hasn't gotten the best levels, but he is quite dependable. HP: 29 (2 below avg), 9 Str (Avg), 8 Skl (1 above avg), 8 Spe (1 below avg), 7 Lck (Avg), 11 Def (1 above avg) and 0 Res (2 below avg). Also B support with Marcus, because I'll need all the horses I can get.

Hero Crest, I'll see who will have it. Competition so far is Dorcas, Bartre and Guy, and hopefull soon Raven, but none of them are in the level needed yet, and they are no Dieck, Rutger or Gerik, so I'll see what happens.

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I only ever attempted an Iron Man once. it was on the first XCOM remake. They have an Iron Man mode built into the game. so I played that, and I actually almost beat the game but in one of the final missions i got into a glitch that fucked up my save. during an alien turn, the aliens wouldn't move. and if i tried to reload it always loaded up back during that same alien turn. and they still would not move. and there was nothing I could do. when that game first came out on steam, it had lots of bugs..... but that was the worst one I encountered. it's probably fixed now but I never went back to it

I think I recall seeing that glitch in XCOM one time or another. Either way, sucks for a run to go like that. Maybe the game said "This player is really good, I'll do a play not even his tactics can win!" and there's that.

Outside of stupid comments from my part, got Raven. Priscilla is gaining 1 stat per level up. Lowen is a Paladin, and nobody has died so far, but it's hard to lose someone on Eliwood Hard Mode, honest.

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Got past Fargus' Pirate and Luna for the time being. Seriously, this tome is busted in this game. Ignores Resistance, Accurate AND has Crit chance? Good thing Eliwood + Hector could deal with him.

Anyway, Canas just got his promotion to Druid (and a VERY much needed +3 Speed for him) and Raven and Priscilla are close for Promotion. Going to be getting Dart and (hopefully) Fiora this episode, but scared of the Nomads and Uhai.

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