March 22, 2014 Dream

(Mid-day). Playing yet another version of Fire Emblem, this time Sacred Stones. Well, actually, my younger bro is playing it. He's in a level that has a mountain through the middle, where the characters start up on the top left-ish area, the boss is on the bottom left of the map. At the top, there's a bridge and river thing that they have to go through to get to the left side. Otherwise, the map is green with the darker green patches and whatnot. My bro has a Game Over on the first time through, so I glance over and ask if I can help. I don't recognize the map at first, and then I realize he's playing Eirika's side of the story, not Ephraim's (like I'm used to). The map doesn't actually exist in the game, by the way. My bro also notes that he's trying to train Ewan, who he just got and is in his pupil stage. I move over the characters over to his character (this level allows a LOT of characters on the blue side) and ask him if he wants to do the Ewan kill everyone strategy. Bro says he doesn't mind, just wants to train him. Have someone in front of Ewan at the small river-bridge area (I think Innes, or some archer/sniper/someone who can only do far distance). First opponent is the eye bad guy, who attacks far distance. I first don't think this is too much of a problem–but it really would be if I actually played the game in real life haha–and then eventually realize it might turn out to be a problem when I realize that 1. The eyes can fly, so they can go around the Innes character and attack Ewan straight up and 2. They do doubles, with exactly half the HP of Ewan's health. (I think it was either 7x7 or 9x9, though 18 HP for a pupil is somewhat high, his base stats in the real game has him have 15HP). First time attacking the eye, Ewan is lucky, the dude misses him the second hit. Move Ewan back (dunno how he was able to move twice since there wasn't a dancer in my team as far as I remember) to heal him. And then I think of the best way to train him and have him survive because on the island-like river thing, there are still 2 eyes remaining and another foot bad guy (only close distance attacks).