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Blackscreen is famous for a reason. To my knowledge, know one has dealt with it.

The bottom line is that stat caps of FE5 SUCK. It also throws much more at you and gives you substantially less incredibly-broken stuff. And scroll abuse really ought not be assumed to take place in copious amounts. The weapon triangle is also actually worth something in FE4 and easier to exploit.

Yes, LevinxTiltyu produces all sorts of rape. And Sety is still fabulous, exactly.

Never cared to get into that series, but enjoy.

Yup. Tellius and Judgral have all sorts of things in common in general.

I don't recall Sigurd being a descendant of Heim. He's just a descendant of Baldo, isn't he?

Well you can always look up the scripts that happen after the screen of death. There's a link to them from Serenes's Forums.

FE4 gives you a lot of broken characters really quickly, lets you basically pass around skill rings and stat boosting rings as you like, lets you repair every item so you never have to worry about them breaking, lets you make skill combinations for the second generation however you like (and things like Wrath+Ambush actually work), has a built in arena that doesn't slow down turn completions, lets Dancers refresh up to four units, lets you use all your characters at any time and has no fatigue system, and virtually none of the good units require babying. FE5 has stuff that's broken, too, but not like FE4. Think about it: FE4 gives you a mounted Prepromote Lord with good stats that can use two types of weapons immediately… compare that with how Leaf starts. It gives you Shanan with immediate access to Balmung as soon as the second chapter of the second generation starts which, even if your pairings completely sucked provides you with an insta-win button (combined with Aless, Celice, and Leaf, you can completely ruin your pairings and still sail through without major problems). Not even Othin or Sety or anyone else can compete with that level of brokenness. Mega-tanky mounts with Elite, a multiplicity of ways to abuse Holsety, a final boss that can be defeated in one turn, etc… FE5 has Fatigue, weapons that actually break, various situations that can cause literally endless reinforcements, caps that are much more difficult to make broken (a Speed Ring lets you surpass your speed cap by 5 in FE4, it just helps you get to 20 in FE5), gives you access to skills you didn't originally have but only to one person (FE4's Elite Ring>>>>>>>FE5's Elite Manual, for example), has bitchy things to work around (Fog-of-War: potentially enjoyable, sure, but a pain in the a** that you don't deal with in FE4) etc… Opponents in FE4 are more likely to have skills, that's true, but the amount of powerful resources you're provided with in FE4 makes that negligible. FE4 isn't necessarily easy, but FE5 is rightly credited as the most difficult game in the series. I'll put it like this: I'm pretty sure everyone in FEF is capable of completing FE4. NOT everyone in FEF is capable of completing FE5 - even on Elite Mode.

If Baldo and Heim are both crusaders, how would Baldo be Heim's descendent? Aida's both Alvis's tactician and his mistress. So yeah, they had an affair.

Yeah, I was quite disappointed about the screen, but the scripts are better than nothing.

Perhaps you simply enjoy FE5 so much it seems easier to you. And they're not active at the moment (and one person's been banned), but I know there are other people who I believe either were going to play FE5 or have played it. But yeah, I do wish more people were familiar with it.

It's my understanding that Narga=Heim. It's called Narga in FE4 and Heim in FE5, but I think both words are referring to the same person. Note that the key on that chart has Narga and Heim with the same symbol. Not sure why that's the case though. As for Alvis, I could be wrong, but I never thought he loved Deidre - he knew she was Sigurd's wife, after all, and married her for entirely political reasons (and blackmail reasons).