Fire Emblem Sacred Stones: An Adequately Explained Ironman

Today, I'll be only vaguely explaining my first challenge run on one of my favorite games. If you don't know this game, prepare to be vaguely educated. If you do, then prepare to vaguely understand what I'm trying to reference in the story. Indeed, the original and never before done format of "talk about a thing but show off your weird sense of humor with it".
Sections of this video were individually shown throughout Season 11 of All Systems Go (A show about nerd culture run in association with Kent State's TV2 Program), but this includes about 10 minutes of random garbage that had to be cut from ASG due to the time constraints of the show, but on KZbin, I'm not held down by the shackles of scheduling.
I tried to make this to be enjoyable for both old fans and newcomers, and being entertaining while also being informative, and honestly, I think I've outdone myself. Hope you all enjoy!
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[@trikkinikki6843]

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[@Raethrean]

orson's betrayal actually surprised me as a kid. on all subsequent playthroughs though i stole all of his items immediately and used him as bait throughout the mission to conserve healing items as much as possible

[@quinnlee-miller9792]

The only way to use Orson

[@weirdlypicturedbeing2122]

It's kinda ironic how in any timeline where he wouldn't betray you, such treatment might just lead him to betray you. Theoretically speaking anyway. Kinda like a self-fulfilling prophecy

[@tyler3661]

Few fun facts for ya: In an efficient playthrough Vanessa is undoubtedly one of the single best units in the game next to Seth and Moulder (pretty much every early pegasus riders in GBAFE is that way actually). Joshua doesn't actually attack Natasha in Ch 5 which makes his recruitment much easier. There's a Torch staff in the shop in Ch 5 which moulder can use at base if you want to invalidate fog in Ch 6. Cormag is actually much better in Ephraims route because of his earlier recruitment. Phantoms actually upgrade their weapons based on the summoner's level all the way up to killer axes. In Ch 19 you can rescue Mansel and box yourself into the chest room on the left side to basically win the map for free if you are having trouble defending the various chokepoints. Lyon in Ch 21 can actually be one shot with I think a base Vanessa promoted to wyvern rider getting both a Crit & Luna proc one of which can be guarantee with triangle attack.

[@callanharvey6264]

tbh you didn't even have to specify GBAFE, an early joining Pegasus knight is usually one of the best units in their respective games, only exclusions I can think of are snes fe and fates Great comment tho

[@OneColdRepublican]

Thanks for these tips, I'll use that during my next run(did not know Joshua spares Natasha, really cute detail).

[@blackchibisan8116]

SOMEONE COULD HAVE TOLD ME HE DOESNT ATTACK NATASHA YEARS AGO! I’ve been accepting that some runs just don’t get to have Gilliam for years.

[@mrbagel6715]

Phantoms can actually get tomahawks

[@tyler3661]

@mr bagel Yep. Also, since the ai prioritizes kills whenever it can, you can use phantoms to manipulate it given you don't have another unit that can be killed in range. More fun facts: Torches actually just give a flat increase in vision range in GBAFE, so give them to your thieves for a massive amount of fog clearing. There is exactly 1 house in the whole game that gives an item, and it's the red roofed one in eirika's route on the chapter you recruit Ewan- gives a barrier staff. You never have to fight a single monster battle in the whole game just going chapter to chapter because the game actually ensures you always have access to the next one without needing to do one. In hard mode, the number of reinforcement waves in Ch20 is massively increased for some reason, but it's zone based so you can skip them if you're careful. There exists a way to take control of the enemies using lava tiles, or any sort of tile that causes an update in damage without needing combat in GFAFE, that means you can trade away monster weapons and give any unit a dark magic rank. There is an obtainable berserk staff in the game, though it requires a very, very specific kind of setup to get it because the guy that drops it usually uses it all before you can get to him.

[@xuanathan]

The Pegasus knight slander hurts my soul :( They're a little tricky to use and 90% worse than Wyverns but the fact you always have like 2-3 of them and their low con (Higher aid) lets them ferry low movement units to tricky to reach spots and immediately take/drop. They can also just go and reach villages while combat units fight and do their thing. Also the Wyvern Knight promo is not to be slept on, early promoting Vanessa nets you a super useful earlygame flier that can one round a shocking amount of enemies.

[@dmas7749]

mine as well and i'm a casual that always gets them killed

[@MudFan]

This video fills the KZbin archetype of being awesome

[@kevinmorris9362]

Another note: you don't have to bait Joshua out. You just have to remove the enemies near him. He will never attack Natasha, so she can just walk right up to him.

[@jacksmith3148]

Unbelievably good video for 1.2k views and so few subs. Real production value in the mic quality, your skill at scriptreading, etc. I look forward to more content! Super fun video, happily shared it with my friends. I look forward to bragging that I knew you back when you had 80 subs.

[@Eddman368]

I probably remembering it wrong but I recall Myrhh being an actual child not 100's of years old her support conversations with Dussel reveal it's her father that is the actual Great Dragon, but the villagers started worshiping her as the great dragon cause their dragon form are identical and her father never interacted with humans outside his dragon form.

[@kimitohanahala8674]

Just a tidbit of information if anyone wants to go crazy next time in their playthrough of sacred stones: though Vanessa is an easily disposable early game unit she can play a major role in one map alone (or probably two). With her base stat you could use her in victims of war chapter, she could protect the entrapped family and stall the spider while she's rescuing the child, with vulneraries and antitoxin she could provide you enough time to race through the family and save them. At best Seth could deal with the charging enemy cavalries from the blindspot for a few turns and catch up with Eirika and the gang to get them to safety.

[@thefrenchbastard1646]

vanessa is amazing and shud not be underestimated train her in the early game and you can get a promoted flyer earlier that is going to outclass other flyers until the end game

[@a_mujiburrahman3638]

love your videos! beautiful edit and voice-acting. Your description about how the game went is great with the slip-on comedy

[@zeoxyman]

This is really well edited, and I love the tongue-in-cheek archetype jokes. Also great music choices. Definitely subbed.

[@criticalblaster458]

This is the exactly the kind of video I've been searching for. I LOVE THIS.

[@averageman7769]

Something funny about Erika’s route: I recently did a minimum recruitment run where I recruited as few characters as possible, and this involves getting Innes and larchal killed. (Side-note, but it is genuinely difficult to get strong units like dozla and Innes killed, even on hard mode). However, because Erika’s route story assumes they survive they simply refuse to die, and participate in the story as normal even if you never recruited them. Pretty strange, especially in Innes case where his survival has story importance.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

if Seth "dies" he's now just the group tactitian, if any of the units "die" during the assault with Ephriam the first time you play as him, they're just put on the back burner. there's quite a bit of plot armor for most characters in terms of not actually dying, but you can't use them anymore. unless it's the eiphriam bit.

[@juanpabloarcostejeda7599]

"I don't pick fights I can't win" Ephraim (2023)

[@lolthisshowisamazin6409]

I love your style of comedy! keep up the great work!

[@keldeo05]

25:10 killing riev is actually way easier than it looks because all most of those enemies are reinforcements, so if you get there fast enough he'll be mostly alone and can be 1 rounded by a strong unit with a legendary weapon

[@PaulieHo]

Great playthrough, subbed. Can't believe you have less than 500 subs, absolutely underrated.

[@shincadad7622]

This video is really fucking good man, the script doesn’t have a joke that doesn’t land and your voice is pretty damn nice to listen to

[@TiberianusLP]

Thank you for the fun ride. Good memorys and laughs.

[@Last4xis]

This was a fun watch! Glad the algorithm suggested this to me.

[@Ostro87]

Great video! My first ironman was fe8 too, so seeing your run brought back lots of memories. Also, nice to see a fellow based fma 2003 enjoyer 👍

[@MoonStaysServing]

I remember really enjoying using Moulder in bishop emblem, but the death at the end reminded me of all the times he'd get bodied on my playthroughs by random crits because of his garbage luck stat, and how weird his stats are despite how good he is after promotion Excellent video btw, subbed

[@quinnlee-miller9792]

Selling Goddess Icons pitfall

[@irbest6148]

In randomizer runs on Ephraim's route, Cormag is always a rough unit because he gets stuck on that island and won't move 🤦

[@alexpowell1184]

Some randomisers have protection for this and make him always a flying class

[@quinnlee-miller9792]

Vanessa is pretty good, she has great utility. I level her up so she can support whatever unit she is helping across the map, or attacking unreachable foes.

[@mirageowl]

imagine missing Javelins on a unit you have weapon triangle disadvantage on, what a crime 😂

[@completelynormalmoulder1220]

dude you need more subscribers this is really good

[@bobross3773]

I loved this commentary! Hope to see another video like it!

[@AzemSP]

Bro great vid it was super fun to watch.

[@gurucheeks4510]

this is actually really well made, i'm suprised how it has only 29 views

[@trikkinikki6843]

Thanks! I've shared it just about everywhere I could think to put it so more people can see it, but it's also not the most important thing in the world to me. There's only so much shameless advertising I can do until it gets annoying lol.

[@gurucheeks4510]

@@trikkinikki6843 yeah, i'm afraid to self advertise anywhere because I don't want people to find me annoying. This is very good though

[@glen1742]

I really love the necromancer class. Phantoms r so useful and can fly. Bosses would always attack them.

[@hive2444]

I really liked this video's editing and writing. Was surprised when I saw how little views/subscribers you have.

[@raulinhentchel1237]

We stan trans Eirika

[@thebluelightmemory4355]

Bro talking down to my pegasus girls all playthrough! Very fitting that Cormag had to pay the price lol.

[@TheNavandal]

Amazing Script, great delivery and a really really good video overall!

[@matthijscalje4143]

Great editing and jokes. Reminds me a bit of Maxors delivery. New sub

[@EviIM0nk3y]

ike ain't gay he just really really fights for his friends

[@GigaSiphon03]

this was a super cool video and reminded me of pokemon nuzlockes, i'd love to see more adequately explained ironmans!

[@francovenica1531]

This is really well edited for a channel with 500 subs. This video also seems to have win the algorithm lotery, so hopefully you get a good bump in subs

[@tatianatothe]

Such a fun playthrough and video for my first FE game! Thank you.

[@TheDodgingDusk]

First video, 8 minutes in, and I'm subbing. I don't typically comment on videos, but I noticed you have less than 200 subs and I really think you deserve so many more; your audio quality, jokes, and edits are all great.

[@benortiz8702]

Not even 30 seconds in and you already got me to sub

[@nigini6092]

This is really well edited and scripted! Amazing job!

[@t43nt]

Loved watching this !

[@Oddity_]

Lyon admits his love for Ephraim in the Japanese version of FE8 but they changed it to friend in English

[@_Hamler]

You're kidding, right?

[@majormajor180]

The colm lockpicking and breathing got me good. Mostly becuase I wasn't expecting it and also becuase it's very true.

[@nonevahed5559]

great playthrough!

[@9adamlevin]

i was brought here by the algorithms and i think i'll stay, this video was amazing and i hope it reaches more people.

[@samiuhl9255]

9:05 "And just NO" Man I feel your pain

[@LadyB_20]

Lucious and Raven from FE 7 has the sweetest support for me 😂

[@kevinmorris9362]

Two quick notes: 1) Vanessa is one of Sacred Stones' best units along with Seth and Franz. Early availability, excellent utility, and the Elysian Whip in chapter 8 allows early Wyvern Knight promotion. She can actually be one of your best combat units, as long as you're a little cautious with her, since she has enough speed in the early game to offset her lower strength and con. 2) Seth has better growths than any other mounted unit. He's a strong as the strong cav, as skilled as the skill cav, almost as fast as the fast cav, and has better HP and Res growths than any of the others. He's one of the best units in FE history, behind Sigurd and Seliph from FE4. And maybe the My Unit from New Mystery of the Emblem.

[@Bert439]

Eph is one of those Lords who just does not need to be babied he just wreaks from the start!

[@cosmiccappuccino7661]

Wait what the fuck, your editing and comedy is unbelievably hilarious. Funny Fire Emblem youtubers are my jam, you're are amazing at that. I hope your channel grows a ton, your quality is far beyond the size of your channel rn. subbing and sure to keep up for future videos! 👍 Seth gaming

[@glen1742]

For 25:50 instead of the 2 lords I put Duessel and a general Gilliam at the entrance since they have pretty good defence.

[@bunk-o2495]

This was great!

[@DenniselAzul]

Great video! (Yes, I didn't finished when I commented before) I should check more from you.

[@thefrenchbastard1646]

I never understood why Ike exiled himself to the desert wen i was a kid this explains quite a bit hopefully Soren managed to catch up with him

[@sigmundschwartz6434]

9:06 Ah yes, the moment where people said: OH FUCK THIS IS GAIDEN 2

[@ricoardian3235]

Finally found some nice fe content, instant sub!

[@PorcoAka]

Such a good video!!

[@criticalblaster458]

Joshua won't attack Natasha in his joining chapter.

[@DaniDoyle]

Pegasus Slander Detected. Good.

[@lordscorch3167]

fire emblem needs more videos like this, you have done naga's work. you earned a subbie-wubbie daddy.

[@evanedwards4598]

This was my first ironman too. Did it on difficult and Erika's route. Not super taxing, but definitely not easy for someone new to it.

[@yaboiskittlez7943]

Innis, who fills the archetype of Seto Kaiba. Would have been the best line in this video if it was in this video

[@slammurai6492]

Banger video

[@danross1038]

This deserves more views. Your writing and editing is great.

[@juicyjuustar121]

Says Ross is good if you train him yet says Pegasus Knights are bad. Yeah that checks out. Persobal jabs aside, good video

[@Huh_What_Who]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought in order to get the Guiding Ring in Chapter Five, you had to rescue all the villages and Natasha must be alive upon completion of the chapter?

[@lneri7152]

at 21:07, is that camel's lunar sea recreated with the gbafe soundfont? lol

[@The_PolterGhost]

Yes, it's I think Zephiel's boss theme from Binding Blade, because decades of video game song composition always comes back to "man, I love [insert band here], let's make a tribute to them."

[@LUIGI4480]

This video is unbelievably well made for how little amount of views it has, I was thoroughly entertained, very well done!

[@Delby5]

Hey man this was awesome can you do some of the other games in the franchise?

[@trikkinikki6843]

That is my plan, have some other project ideas and been busy with last semester of college but I wanna play around with this format more for sure.

[@Delby5]

@@trikkinikki6843 hell yeah we’ll keep up the good work either way.

[@SerotoninRat]

Ross: His Father's Son

[@corjade9217]

Bro this video is so good its so polished and i love your presentation style though seeing you trash on vannessa is hilarious considering she's in the top 3 units of the game her durability and damage issues are barely there once you get a good couple of levels compounded with her good speed making her dogy and she could promote into a wyvern straight up the best unit in my sethless run. Keep up the awsome vids

[@tatlxtael2303]

Man this makes me wish I had the stones (heh) to do a real iron man playthrough. I usually start off saying I will then sack the main Lord and say “ooos guess I gotta restart the chapter” when a unit I liked dies

[@samborton6613]

What is the song that plays after ~13:34? It sounds like it's from Kirby?

[@trikkinikki6843]

That should be Verdane Army from Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War, was on the SNES so maybe it used some of the same midi instruments as Super Star or something like that.

[@FrozenHelm]

9:53 I mean, maybe it’s because weapon triangle disadvantage, plus sea tiles give +10 avo for some stupid reason. But yeah I can see why it’s frustrating because FE has trained us to believe that bandits are cannon fodder that suck lmao

[@iliaia7048]

Fun fact ! Lyon does actually confess his love to Ephraim in his route, in the original script. The English version took it out is all :(

[@John3_16-17]

I remember once Fomortiis killed L'Rachel so I had Myrrh one shot him with a lucky crit. That's when i knew he was far too easy

[@boxxx903]

Great video.

[@dr00skee47]

erika is good because she is good when you invest but pegasus knights are bad because you don’t want to invest in them. OK ur brain

[@beetogarcia9983]

What’s the song at 8:10? It sounds so familiar yet I forgot

[@trikkinikki6843]

The ally recruitment theme from FE:Genealogy of the Holy War! One of my favorites tracks in that game.

[@beetogarcia9983]

@@trikkinikki6843 thank you! I remember hearing it in smash too I think. I think that’s what threw me off lol

[@weepingdalek2568]

Did you know that in Chapter 10 Eirika, Tana can recruit Innes?

[@Z_Cerulean]

"pegasus knights are bad" he says fighting an enemy with triangle disadvantage with terrain evo buffs

[@wolfherojohnson2766]

4:22 Actually you can use Natasha because Joshua won’t attack her

[@Treasure_hunter_21]

Dude, your Lute I so speed screwed.

[@oomsou5018]

It’s always interesting seeing people try out challenges for a FE game. Sacred Stones being one of the easier games I would have assumed you were gonna use hard mode but fair enough explanation. Personally would have turned Lute into a mage knight or whatever the horse mage is called in this one but hey preferences. Good job Side note, if you really wanna make things spicy and potentially challenging for Sacred Stones, a randomizer can REALLY make things stupid in the best and worst way possible.

[@CogDisso]

Which is the track playing at 27:50?

[@FreyOdyssey]

I usually get Eirika or Ephraim killed by chapter 16 or sooner at every Ironman I tried so far....

[@reubenbailey7491]

The payoff of the Fullmetal Alchemist jokes was perfection.

[@bluntlyhonest6803]

First time i played fire emblem it was fire emblem 6. I didnt know you could reset maps so i unknowingly played my first run ironman. Believe it or not i won in the end, had a handful of units remaining in the end due to the second-to-last map swarming with wyverns. But i pulled through. It was a trial by fire...

[@corjade9217]

Bro I'm impressed you survived blind chapter 7 and 14 how I used so many save states when I played it blind Not to mentioned the sheer amount of scary reinforcement that will jumpscare you if you don't know they are coming

[@felikatze]

finally someone else who hates pegasus knights

[@andreijoaquin7342]

I think the reason erika dodged alot in the first chapter is because she was in a forest tile give her some avoid

[@kylenirs3181]

I like it, and I want to see more old FE game bc I can't it myself.

[@cialee5999]

Ah yes, seth forgot about the second part lol. (cough cough jagen)

[@glen1742]

Great vid! Please make more fire emblem vids. I started playing fe6 and really starting appreciating the Pegasus knights. Maps are big but they also have a pretty good resistance which is handy because a lot of my other units have a resistance of 0 or 1. With promotion they can also use swords which is more reliable than axes or lances since hit rate is low in fe6. At 28:10 I had a few pegasus/Falco knights fly west and take out riev. On that map I also used Mir as bait for the eye ball monsters and lead them over the water to a trap of light magic users.

[@trikkinikki6843]

I think most of me disliking PKs is just having terrible terrible luck with them more than anything else. But glad you liked it! I'm not certain I'll do more videos in this style or when, but I do plan to make a review of Engage and maybe something talking about Romhacks.

[@nen3kmu]

wow such a cool video!!!

[@knightofarnor2552]

"We stabbed an incel, two psychopaths, and an anime fan, which are all typical for the series."

[@binhomeless1790]

Bro you need more subs

[@professorizzy1235]

30:50 , dam, called tf out

[@SittinGamer]

Aside from the early game Peg slander I echo everyone else saying this is weirdly good and put together and reminds me of the Nuzlocke craze. Would love to see something like this for FE6 or 10, but I can see longer FE games not really working for a video with this snappy pace

[@reimumario4733]

Pegasus knights are real good, but you have to be careful when using them as they tend to be squishy. Idk why you were trying to kill a pirate with tana and Vanessa with those hit rates + weapon disadvantage. Regardless, good video