Hey all! As mallowgeno lays out in this thread, this will be a "Twitch-plays-Pokémon"-style playthrough of the
Fire Emblem
series' easiest entry for the GameBoy Advance: Sacred Stones
other
games...) Sacred Stones
should be a fun, relatively painless way to jump in for anybody who's not familiar with Fire Emblem
and its conventions or with the "Twitch-plays"-style of gaming. If you already know the basics of that style and are familiar with the Fire Emblem
games, skip ahead to the TL;DR Rules
.Basically, you'll make posts with commands for specific characters which I'll feed into an emulator on my computer which is running the game. You can do it in any format, but the style we ended up liking and using in the old thread was N/S/E/W for the cardinal directions and either post "Colm - SSSWWW" or "Colm - S3W3", or something similar. (Those examples will both be taken to mean "Colm goes South 3 then West 3" as shown in the images below.) If you are familiar with the
Fire Emblem
games, skip ahead to the TL;DR Rules
.
For those who don't know, in
Fire Emblem
you control members of a small militia or army under the command of a Lord (or a group of Lords) and you direct all of these characters around the battlefield to kill (or bargain with) enemies, to protect neutral third parties, and complete specific objectives like capture a castle gate or throne room. Sacred Stones
begins with Princess Eirika
and Prince Ephraim
of Renais
on the run after their kingdom falls overnight to a massive surprise invasion from a former ally - the Grado Empire
. "Guide the royal heirs, Eirika and Ephraim, on their twin quest to rebuild Renais and discover the dark secret behind the war that has torn their homeland apart."TO PLAYERS FROM THE OLD THREAD
:Some things may be different; I wasn't able to use the same save file, as you know. Nobody died, and I'm fairly certain I got everything that needed getting - it was only 3 chapters after all. Shouldn't be a big deal.
TL;DR RULES FROM MY FINAL POST IN THE OLD THREAD
:- There is a 6-hour waiting period before moving another character if you just moved one.
- There is a 12-hour waiting period before I start moving character(s) on my own if nobody else does. I'll only do this 4 times, after which point I'll put this on pause and take stock of interest.
- I'll update the character stat spoilers in the next post at the end of every chapter, or after a character levels up / obtains a new item AND a poster asks for it to be updated. I'll always give small updates in posts if requested.
- There is a 12-hour window during which you may post about World Map / Battle Preparations stuff before I move on to the next Chapter.
