In Progress Lets play Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena

[Saark]

Bump.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Update time!

Spoiler

Since Esgares is spread thin as fuck and has like just 20 monsters between the two castles bordering here, and our troops are OP, we're gonna split this group and take two at once.

Fato is first.

Ah, the twins. The get dialogue because they're both deployed together.

Clearly these evil people must be destroyed.

Also, they have fucking Esclados here and way more monsters than I thought they would. Was not supposed to be this way.

Twins are considered a bad omen by people in this game. Zemeckis took them in though. D'awww.

Not only do they have 3 units, their monstes are mostly heavy expensive shit like dragons. Fuck.

We're gonna try this shit anyways though.

She's gotta attack us now, she's in line of fire for a breath weapon.

Argh, careful whore!

And golgepap takes the first hit of our battle, and it's a crit. Not a good sign.

Well, at least he returned it in kind.

If we can take out Millet here early, the enemy will be back down to 2 knights, and might even retreat.

We got some good mobility and strong units, so it might work.

Getting there...

Here we have a double elemental bonus, she's black and blue while Jarlfrank is white and red.

Shit.

We can't get anyone else in range to finish her, so we'll work on Esclados next.

God he hits hard.

And golgepap will wait instead of eating counter attack damage. I just want him here so they can't get 4 guys around cleve.

This might suck. Or she might just flee since she has 18 hp and no way to heal.

Oh boy.

Nice!

And a critical counter. Keep this up and we can win for sure.

Fucking all the way man!

Cool.

Aw fuck.

And what will samurai dude do?

OW.

Well, this is interesting.

First thing's first.

No, magic is firey orbs of death.

Well, maybe you can win when we conquer Esgares if you join us.

Oh man, we're getting so close.

You can do it Cleve!

Fuck him up : x

I believe I may have made a miscalculation.

This is... not good.

Shit, and I forgot she had a white elemental weapon.

Not easy to evade a lancer, they're pretty fucking agile.

Shit. Hopefully he retreats right away, or wastes his attacks.

Well, we can probably dodge this at least.

Ok. This would fucking hurt.

But you can dodge this shit right man? Fucking 88 agi! It's jsut a dragon.

And this douche slinks away with 10 hp left. to fallen hero golgepapaz, who bought us a victory in this 1v3 fight.

Cleve gets 20 out of the fighting as well.

Not letting this bitch escape too.

Damn fucking right we did! What a fucking price to pay though.

Gah. Well, at least this was the hard part. The other group is much better off with 2 knights.

Time for Logres.

Since we have so few troops, instead of the usual plan of forming a line and waiting for them, I'm going to try and lure them out to hit a guy then bring him back to the woods, so we can use the terrain advantage and make them spread out even more.

Unfortunately, they're not taking the bait.

We move in closer and form the usual wall with a dragon at the end.

And they finally make their move.

Ulster enjoying a light lunch of barbed arrows.

Overall though, this is looking good. We got a couple healers in our knights, and a ton of high hp units, so we should be able to win a war of attrition if we take down the angel.

This shit is getting annoying though.

Saark score a crit to fuck up the hydra. Not too shabby.

We got Cassidy fucking shit up for us too.

Nice damage AND some poison.

Remember, Ulster is a mastered bishop, so he can use area heal and divine ray. We'll probably be using that area heal in fact.

We might use this as well. The second tier dragons and wyverns have it available, but I generally never use it since it has friendly fire like meteor doom. And unlike meteor doom, it's centered on the caster. But maybe we can use it to do some serious damage and then area heal back up.

Or maybe not. That is a much shittier range than I remembered.

Ulster will stick with the mundane single target heal for now.

And Obama-

-will fuck up these fucking snakes.

OUCH.

We both got crits here, but to be honest this doesn't really favour the war of attrition I wanted. We need things to go slower so I can heal it up.

Fucking ninja magic.

I didn't know this had an animation. I thought it was like silence. I haven't played with battle animations on in quite some time.

Trollolol.

They got some other small tricks too, but I'm not worried about this stuff.

Mostly I'm worried about this shit.

Oh come ON.

We're actually in pretty rough shape. Not as easy as I was expecting.

That isn't going to help.

Gah.

At least Ulster isn't hurt too bad.

Johannes is fucked up though.

Obama too.

Well, I guess on the bright side he went for him instead of Obama, who he probably could have killed and took way more xp.

Oh. Right. Hydras can breath. And they do blue elemental. And I have a red elemental guy there. And another.

Well, there goes our chances of winning this fight.

At least obama survived.

Fucking cunts even silence Schutleis.

Really? FFS. Obama goes down too.

Time to abort.

:shame:

So many fucking crits and shit. Argh. This is what I get for trying to rush things and end the game faster.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I have no idea why the extra spoilers are in there. There's only one set of tags.

 

[golgepapaz]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

this LP is dead to me now

 

[lightbane]

So much rape... Awesome

 

[Saark]

This actually makes it way more interesting. Since I was still alive when Ulster got defeated, did they fuck me in the ass right after and left me for dead, or am I now fighting for the randomluck-cocksuck empire? If so, please make it so that I may die by our glorious leaders sword or at least contribute to spekkios lategame cheese.

 

[Damned Registrations]

You went along with Ulster back to the capital... except we don't have the capital, so he's chilling in some other random castle instead. You're still on team Codexia though.

 

[Azira]

Wow.

 

[procrastinator]

to our fallen comrades.

 

[Saark]

You went along with Ulster back to the capital... except we don't have the capital, so he's chilling in some other random castle instead. You're still on team Codexia though.

That's great. So how exactly does the "capture enemy unit" thingy work again? It's been quite a while since I last played the game but as far as I remember it had something to do with the hero being defeated, and then a chance based on how far the unit was away from the rune-knight and it's current hp, so I naturally assumed I was gone since both factors were met to a certain degree - or am I remembering it wrong?

 

[Damned Registrations]

I'm not sure if current hp factors in. I think the biggest factors are if the monster is in the rune area, if the knight had to do a forced retreat instead of a regular one, and if the monster has any status effects (especially charm).

 

[Saark]

I remember reading about the HP thingy a while back, something like "below 20% HP" increasing the chance of capture. Though all I could say at the end of my game back then was that there's no reliable way to capture enemy units.

I still thought I was gone though, glad I'm still alive. Hoping to avenge that fallen doggy and the niggerest of presidents.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Update Time!

Spoiler

Good, Norgard needs more territory so we can finish them off instead of some other country.

Some costly victory for them too it seems.

Well, we got battles to fight elsewhere.

Unlike Ulster, Camden can take a punch to the face like.

Errr.

That is not a fist.

High level swordsmanship here.

Look at that stance. He has no openings at all!

Power level... over...

200 I guess. Probably arround 250 attack power? We're fine.

Angels moving in to attack. They will surely target the most vile and evil monster among our group, anethema to all natural life.

Yep.

It even scores a critical hit. Must be a blessed weapon.

Alas, the forces of light cannot stand against such pure villainy.

This fucking cunt is getting ANOTHER crit!

Spekkio is fine though.

We'll throw a protect spell on Camden after healing him up.

Lightbane moves in to finish what procrastinator didn't feel like doing.

: x

Replacement Fenrir on it's way.

Meanwhile, more swordsman performing overly elaborate attacks.

Pfft. Fail.

Let the pony show you how it's done.

Only 3 MP? Seriously? Ugh.

Terrifying. Now that powered up dragon can inflict serious damage to the surrounding empty plains.

Their fractactical genius gets another turn.

Brilliant move sir.

Way to beat up that old man in a dress sir.

You definitely beat him by nearly a one third margin.

There's no way he'll want to fuck with us now. Camden will probably retreat and--

He seems to be cheating sir. He somehow hit you without using a stick of any kind.

He's even burning our women! What if he rapes our churches next?!?

Oh, thank god, this holy angel will surely save us from the cruel man!

Or maybe just wipe us off the map.

Oh man, I totally should have cast Halo before that.

anyways though.

And we're not done yet.

React: most balanced spell ever.

Azira gets to spar a bit wih another giant bro, but no claims to fame this time.

Farewell inferior wizardling.

Excellent. Now he'll be even more effective at occupying space on the map.

More

Korgan will be in for an upgrade soon as well.

Bilcock discovered an old castle in the course of the voyage.

Since the sun was about to set, Bilcock decided to stay overnight in the castle. It was so quiet inside the castle with no signs of life. Bilcock fell asleep...

Bilcock woke up to the sound of voices in the middle of the night. What Bilcock saw was an incredible sight. A number of Knights had gathered around a table and started talking. However, they were transparent. They were ghosts.

The Vailent's Wing was placed on the table. They seemed to be arguing over who was going to own the Vailent's Wing. With time, their conversation became a quarrel and then a fight began. Bilcock started to laugh because it seemed funny.

Bilcock: Chuckle...

The ghosts looked at Bilcock all at once.

Bilcock: They found me!

The ghosts that had been fighting with each other a little while ago were now united and started to attack Bilcock. However, as the ghosts almost came within reach of Bilcock, the sun started to rise. The ghosts started to disappear as sunlight entered the room. As Bilcock looked at the table, the Vailent's Wing was left behind.

Nice loot for a change.

More!

Congrats bro.

Also, these boots are fucking awesome. Too awesome for Dryst to wear apparently.

We'll give them to Hyude for now. Note his move range is between 4 and 7?

Not any more!

I've also been neglecting summoning replacement fodder for a long time.

I'm too lazy to bother with a variety so I just grab a pile of dragons and fairies.

And rearrange a bunch of shit.

Strong monsters with weak knights to balance things out a bit.

We still got more work to do.

 

[procrastinator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujzp9ffPwPM

 

[Monocause]

Played some of it and while the game is fun, it lacks much polish. Alicesoft should do a remake. Throw a Rance in there to pick a side and do his thing with all of the female cast.

 

[Damned Registrations]

They actually did do a remake, but it never got translated. It included multiplayer, equippable monsters, more upgrade paths and better balance. Also more storyline.

 

[lightbane]

 

[Monocause]

They actually did do a remake, but it never got translated. It included multiplayer, equippable monsters, more upgrade paths and better balance. Also more storyline.

Yeah, and it's a shame it's not available.

My main gripe with the game, I think, is how every single battle starts with you wasting your time on three-four turns just to approach the enemy. Would've been tons better if you could just deploy your units fairly close to the enemy aka Panzer/Fantasy general. I've been thinking about using auto and setting the FPS limit to 100 instead of 60 in the emulator to speed things up but unfortunately it also makes all the sounds increase in pitch, and that's just unbearable. Overdriving the FPS limit also makes scrolling wonky.

BTW, can you stand all the combat/summon/class anims? Turning them off was the first thing I did as soon as I've seen that there's a toggle for that.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I turn them off myself too tbh. But if I'm taking screenshots of units hitting each other, they may as well be 3D ones.

Oh, and you know about holding R1 + X (confirm by default) to skip movement animations right? Helps speed auto up.

 

[Helly]

Well technically, Brigandine: Grand Edition (the enhanced version) is "available" on the internet and has had the fans looking into it, but even to this day it still lacks a full-fledged translation. Current v5 english patch seems to have anything but the story translated; I'll try it up to see if it's playable.

 

[procrastinator]

where is trent oster when we need him

 

[Monocause]

I turn them off myself too tbh. But if I'm taking screenshots of units hitting each other, they may as well be 3D ones.

Oh, and you know about holding R1 + X (confirm by default) to skip movement animations right? Helps speed auto up.

I turned the move anims off too Still, it takes too long. The camera autocenters on the next unit and again you have to use the cumbersome controller/keyboard just to move the cursor around - and also, while when you're still far away the enemy autoends with the whole group when you get closer you have to watch each and every of his units END individually instead.

The Japanese always had a place in their hearts for TBS (and still do) and I wonder why such a limited number of their games gets ported to the PC and why the PS mouse and keyboard which provide much easier control in such games haven't gained much popularity.

 

[Saark]

So... ETA on the next update?

 

[good little toastboy]

I would like to see this one continued.

 

[procrastinator]

Yeah, DR, what's up with all this sudden optimism?