thesiaoz | FE: The Dragon Herald - Chapter 6 @thesiaoz | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
I think this romhack isn't just a "trial & error" kind, where you have to play it until you know everything in advance, but this is also a "one-method only" kind, where you can only follow whatever solution is intended, otherwise you will get punished, either now or later on.
Take the chest items for example, either the players take a risk with looting the treasures, or take the easy way out without getting them, that's the choice players normally have. However, we don't have much of a choice here, as we need items because they are scarce, and getting them require fighting lots of enemies, and doing so use up the items, so the snowball effect ends up generally only one solution for this romhack, even boss rushing isn't an optimal choice because you will miss out on both items & EXP, which will become a main issue later on when reinforcements of higher stats appear and you units are under-leveled from constant boss-rushing. Promotion is another thing, you are basically forced to early promote, but I'm not gonna delve into this but you should be able to see the same snowball effect with regards to the item scarcity in this romhack.
Back to topic, the chapter itself starts off like in the prologue, where Taiga and You are surrounded by enemies with the rest of the party starts somewhere else. Since I'm going for all the items, I went the other way. Nothing much to take note of other than Mute appears slightly later, so try to have some units stay at the left side to bait them away from Shouzou's group. For Shouzou, actually the middle room can help by separating the enemies using a different bait. So before they get to the entrance, you have already dealt with some of them and this will be much easier than what I did here. Playing for the first time is especially disadvantageous here, every bit of information is crucial for this romhack. Like when the reinforcements appear, or when the enemy boss starts to move, etc.
I think this romhack isn't just a "trial & error" kind, where you have to play it until you know everything in advance, but this is also a "one-method only" kind, where you can only follow whatever solution is intended, otherwise you will get punished, either now or later on.
Take the chest items for example, either the players take a risk with looting the treasures, or take the easy way out without getting them, that's the choice players normally have. However, we don't have much of a choice here, as we need items because they are scarce, and getting them require fighting lots of enemies, and doing so use up the items, so the snowball effect ends up generally only one solution for this romhack, even boss rushing isn't an optimal choice because you will miss out on both items & EXP, which will become a main issue later on when reinforcements of higher stats appear and you units are under-leveled from constant boss-rushing. Promotion is another thing, you are basically forced to early promote, but I'm not gonna delve into this but you should be able to see the same snowball effect with regards to the item scarcity in this romhack.
Back to topic, the chapter itself starts off like in the prologue, where Taiga and You are surrounded by enemies with the rest of the party starts somewhere else. Since I'm going for all the items, I went the other way. Nothing much to take note of other than Mute appears slightly later, so try to have some units stay at the left side to bait them away from Shouzou's group. For Shouzou, actually the middle room can help by separating the enemies using a different bait. So before they get to the entrance, you have already dealt with some of them and this will be much easier than what I did here. Playing for the first time is especially disadvantageous here, every bit of information is crucial for this romhack. Like when the reinforcements appear, or when the enemy boss starts to move, etc.
