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On Ch 22, so starting the last leg of Birthright.

The last few chapters have been throwing things at me, but it's just been tedious, not difficult. The faceless don't scratch s**t and chapters where they're the most common enemy feel like a waste of a chapter. That includes 18 which I was REALLY hoping/expecting to deliver the way fighting the Hoshido siblings did in Conquest. Similarly, 20 was insultingly easy for being that far into the game.

That lava chapter? It's not hard when you have multiple units that literally take no damage from the Stoneborn. It's just extremely tedious and needlessly time-consuming when an area floods with lava and you're stuck waiting around for another Dragon Vein to show up.

Gonna do the Paralogues for a bunch of the kids which I'd been neglecting before moving on with the last few chapters. Perhaps those will be interesting.

Rinkah has been surprisingly excellent. I was initially expecting her to be rather lopsided, situational, and mostly valuable as a support unit for MU to make him a tank, but on the contrary, she's faaaar tankier than he is, can hit well on both sides of the spectrum thanks to the Bolt Axe (she ORKOs Stoneborn with it), and crits like crazy now that she has the level 5 Oni Chieftan skill.

Sakura has also been interesting in contrast to having Elise around. Whereas Elise grew like a weed with fantastic Magic/Speed/Resistance, Sakura has much more well-rounded stats across the board. Substantially lower in the stats Elise excelled in, but faaar better Defense, and now that she hit D-Rank in tomes and can carry the Horse Scroll, she's can comfortably take even physical hits. And since I have waaay more staff users in Birthright than Conquest (MU/Sakura/Orochi/Subaki/Hinoka/Izana and soon Shigure) I'm happy to use her as an attacker much more frequently.

I greatly miss having the horse Elise did, but gave Sakura Kaze for a husband to boost her movement.

Aaaaaand finished.

-Pretty much every single story death besides the final villain was stupid/needless, which has turned me off quite a bit from the Birthright story.
-I like how Azura is handled in Birthright more than in Conquest.
-Sadly, the game never really challenges you. The closest moment is in 23 where the boss can make it rain down fire. But the enemies are too few and far between for it to be serious.
-I'm surprised that none of my units hit 20/20 by the end of the game (although a few did hit 20/19), whereas many of them did in Conquest. Probably because the last few chapters in Birthright are super easy and done in a turn or two, Endgame included, while Conquest's last few chapters require much more combat.
-Endgame is done in a single turn. Eh.
-I like that the growths and skills Corrin gets from Hoshido Noble and Nohr Noble are definitely different. My Nohr MU was much more magically competent, while Hoshido MU was far more physical.

I feel like I'm going to have a legitimately difficult time switching to Conquest after this because my castle is just so ******** pretty and also because I'm such a ******** weeb ugh

I looked at Chapter 19 and... Are you sure you have the correct chapter? sweatdrop

Because this chapter is really characters testing their strength to see if they're worthy or not. I believe that would be Chapter 20 you're talking about. sweatdrop

Takumi is the best. I knew I loved that guy the moment I first saw the trailer for Fates.

How can one archer be such a badass but also so adorable at the same time??

Get yourself a man who can shoot arrows through people's skulls but get back home in time for a three sum of cuddles with slippers (because apparently he likes that according to my friends file)

Right? He has the cutest smile!!!! After I finished birthright I drew Takumi all over my math journal. He and Ryoma are my top two for Fates characters.