I've only played sacred stones which according to someone before me isn't a good game compared to others. I played it about 6 months ago an put 95 hours into it. I've just started it again before I get awakening on Wednesday. I got to chapter 20 on hard but it was impossible to win with my team so I'm trying again. On c5.

I don't know how this game differs from the previous ones, but in those there's never been a need to level up all the characters. They're more built around selecting a good group from among the recruits and concentrating on making them as strong as possible, while leaving the rest to sit it out. If you try and level up everyone then nobody becomes really strong. On second and third playthroughs you then choose different characters and experience them all that way. Obviously, if you're willing to put in hours of grinding then it's doable, but I'm not sure there's any real reward for it.

mk64 wrote:

And I don't think you can grind in this version?

I've been trying to level em all up, but you can grind with reeking boxes. May change strategy, but then again I'm enjoying it

Need to start playing less Picross and more of this.

Grinding - I wouldn't waste your money on the boxes, go to wireless and recruit a team from the bonus box, there's plenty of teams with at different levels to suit your needs and you can do it repeatedly. I managed to master seal Donnel by fighting Mathew and Florina's team over and over again.

@MK I really enjoyed Sacred Stones, not as good as the previous GBA one, but better than the home console ones (which were pretty rubbish) and the DS one. Out of all those I've played this is the best though.

Honestly this game is so deep,
Knowing this now and how effective second sealing is I'd probably do the first half of the game differently, I'd of done Fredrick at level 10 for instance and maybe took Chrom and the tactician up a different route to begin with.

Been doing the same mission (side mission 2), happily, for hours now. Just got to perfect it so everyone survives.

Now this game is invading my sleep. Only got five hours last night thanks to my brain running through unit positioning.

Ouch. I'm going to try a hard mode run after finishing the story. I expect humiliation.

I think the tip I've found is to be like Johnny Cage in the mortal Kombat movie. In and out. And if all else fails, retreat to a group stronghold.

Yep. Often in AWDS I would cram a choke point with expendable but time consuming to kill grunts to sacrifice. Three or four days of hanging on for grim death later, I would finally have enough cash for a mega tank, then romp home.

Unfortunately in fire emblem, you cant make more Fredericks.

He is an invincible mounted BOSS.

I can send him solo into enemy lines across the entire map and he'll come back with all his health, having annihilated everyone.

Heh yeah man. I tried the 'Wireless' mode, good grief there's a lot of stuff in there. Like free items, perfect battles for grinding. This game is a chocolate box of delights, and I'm rummaging through it good.

Can someone explain to me how the street pass thingy for FE works please?

Can you buy them at some of the shops? I think you can also pick some up in various maps but I dont know exactly where, to be honest.

edit: Gamefaqs tells me you can buy one at the store at a level called sea port.

In tonights progress, I figured out the benefit of getting S rank relationships with character pairs.

optimark_prime wrote:

Apologies if this has already been discussed, or is blatantly obvious to anybody with an IQ higher than a plant pot, but I haven't been reading this thread as I've been discovering the joys of Fire Emblem without reading much about it. Panne's Beaststone has 'broken', and I can't work out how to replace/repair it. I'd be most grateful if somebody could help me, please.

Had exactly the same happen to Nowi then I got the Hammermere staff afterwards!! Bugger. Also think the staff is a one use job

I checked my game clock today, seems to have hit 24 hours on my save file.

Activity log on the 3DS says 32 hours, giving me 8 hours of lost progress via restarts when someone dies. Most of those are a few missions that give me grief very early on, but a few of those hours would be down to lost progress last night midway through mission 19.

And I dont regret a second of it.

I feel like Im barely scratching the surface of this game.