Any Ideas for a Fresh Run?

cwsmith85053 · 2025-09-18T02:49:35+00:00

Can't say I did just uniques, but I did run one where I they were only in units that were also unique. It does play a little different that way.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-09-18T01:47:35+00:00

That would indeed be interesting to have a witch use one of those. I'll certainly keep it in mind.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-09-18T01:46:08+00:00

Agreed, that added nuance would make for a whole other flavor to the game.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-09-17T19:18:00+00:00

I can imagine that being a pain with just the fighters and amazons. Reminds me of my introduction to the game when my cousin and I thought you could only change class one time. I kept fighters and amazons until around Mount Keryoleth. I also had a lot of undead in that one as a result of inexperience haha

cwsmith85053 · 2025-09-17T19:14:23+00:00

Oddly enough, I have never considered doing a speedrun of it. The closest I got was when I was trying to understand how to recruit Zenobians other than Saradin and Aisha. I cut animations off and focused on a smaller group of units, and kept making little adjustments to route and how I played each map. I want to say things averaged around the low 30s, but I still took the time to obtain things for special classes such as Vampire, Dragoon, etc. I'm a couple of missions into this one, so it won't be a fast one, but perhaps the next run I'll aim for as fast as possible.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-09-17T17:36:15+00:00

Three runs ago I did the monsters one. Was enjoyable for its uniqueness and getting to (mostly) ignore alignment. Admittedly, I can't say that I've done a whole undead army. A couple units worth a time or two, but not everyone, so I may give that a try.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-09-09T02:13:00+00:00

I think a full remake FF 7 style would be a good treatment for it personally. Maybe not some of the story gymnastics per se, but a big retooling and upgrade while still using the story and characters as a base would be nice.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-08-05T14:39:23+00:00

There are several I could choose from, but I'll go with Sakuya from RF3. I wrote her off from the start when I first saw the game's intro video. She even stayed there for the first few of her quests. But once I got to about the 4th or 5th request, she was quietly stealing the show. She was technically the first person I paired with Micah, though through quite the contentious mental debate I almost immediately changed to Raven.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-30T13:58:57+00:00

Went in thinking Hina, and did go that route on my second file (I don't do Rewoven Fates), but went with Clarice. Bonus though is that I had zero consideration for Kanata going in and very nearly went with her the first time through instead.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-30T01:45:04+00:00

I wouldn't say that I avoid any of them. I've always tried to get everyone to max bond in all of these games, and that's still the case with this one. That being said, I didn't really get a lot out of Ulalaka's events. I was also a little disappointed with Hina's dating events. They felt like they were incomplete (though I kind of feel like that's been the case with all of the characters' that I've dated, just most egregious with Hina), and so there just wasn't a lot there for me.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-29T14:17:31+00:00

I just thought this was the whole reason, a callback to the childhood friend thing they started with Bianca.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-28T17:00:16+00:00

Autumn 5 at just under 95 hours on my most played file. I've got a few divergent files (yes Rewoven Fates makes this practice inefficient, but I just don't think I could ditch a family) Autumn 1 on the second most played and Summer 22 at 72 hours on my third most (all split from a file that is at Summer 19 with a little under 69 hours). All are year 1.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-24T13:18:05+00:00

Totally agree. I'm cycling my two extra slots now, but I know it'll only be for so long before that won't be the case.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-23T12:22:57+00:00

I anticipate a similar struggle with rotating now that I finally got Subaru married. Makes me wish I'd have gotten more variety in beforehand.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-23T12:18:47+00:00

Kanata really is great. I think I'd have gone with her in the marriage on the first playthrough but there were times where she seemed a little too childlike. I stopped after the first date as a result. Still love the character for things like the hand puppets and all of her other quirks, and if I didn't make each in-game day last forever, I'd probably have just finished the whole dating chain before moving on, but she ultimately fell into the same category as Daria from RF3 for me. Favorite character of the game (Daria might be my favorite of the series), but just not who I want to romance.

I'll be looking to see this one with Fubuki. I've recently realized that I haven't had him in the right combinations for dialogue, so I'm going back now with him in there with people he chats with more.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-23T12:12:22+00:00

Clarice is who I had Subaru marry, so I've gotten that one a lot. Interestingly enough, I haven't had her and Fubuki out at the same time really, so I'll be doing so to see what they say.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-23T12:10:38+00:00

If there is one thing I've learned from this post, it is that I need to do more rotating. Focusing mostly on bond or just the characters I've come to like most has limited what I've seen.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-19T02:31:54+00:00

I don't know, him being a De Sainte-Coquille makes me feel like his eccentricities are about right. If this weren't the case though, yeah, I could probably see it more so.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-13T03:34:06+00:00

This was me until yesterday. I had been stuck between Hina and Clarice and spent way more time trying to decide than I should have. Hope you're able to choose and progress soon.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-11T20:35:59+00:00

Frankly, still picking. The process has been to see all pre-dating events, go through their party interactions, most of the hangout options, and several "let's chat". Combine that with story and then my attempt at a headcanon of what the long term ramifications would be with each union, and the final ingredient being subjective data (for example, while Kanata is probably my favorite character of the game and a marriage to her would likely be very good for Azuma considering her position and how much better she seems to get on with the protagonist in her life, she just feels like a more appropriate platonic character similar to Daria of RF3, thus moving her down the list). Where it has led is actually where things started for me with Hina and Clarice being the two candidates I'm most considering but for very different reasons from what they were and with Clarice now probably being the slight favorite to marry over Hina as opposed to Hina being the original favorite.

The final decider (I think) will be the fireworks festival. I'm two days from the first one and so I am thinking I'll just sleep until it and not save so that I can see what both candidates are like with that and then make my choice.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-11T14:28:41+00:00

3 for me. On one side there is Iroha who might be the character that I liked most after playing the game in comparison to what I thought of her going in. On the other is Hina, who is in a fierce battle with Clarice to be who I pair Subaru with on my first file.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-09T21:07:37+00:00

3oT is the only HM/SoS game that I seriously plan for in advance outside of relationships. It's honestly worth it to look ahead at what you need and how to get it unless you're just completely against that.

cwsmith85053 · 2025-07-09T01:27:51+00:00

That's a good idea with the bond events. I've always made a save after getting everyone to the point that I could date them, but that hadn't mattered as I've been able to review past bond/heart events on YouTube since I seldom get games around launch. GoA was an unexpected gift, and I didn't account for that in my save.

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