How to beat Fire Emblem 5 in the most deranged way possible

The definitive version of my Fire Emblem 5: Thracia 776 Ironman. Hope you all enjoy it.
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Ruleset:
Ironman: No resetting/reloading, and deaths are permanent. Game over means starting from the beginning
No Paragon mode
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Step 1
00:02:11 Step 2
00:04:06 Step 2x
00:05:42 Step 3
00:07:35 Step 4
00:09:10 Step 5
00:11:30 Step 6
00:13:14 Step 7
00:14:54 Step 8
00:17:10 Step 9
00:19:17 Step 10
00:20:56 Step 11
00:22:08 Step 11x
00:23:32 Step 12
00:26:06 Step 12x
00:28:04 Step 13
00:30:13 Step 14
00:32:14 Step 15
00:33:27 Step 16B
00:35:48 Step 17B
00:37:43 Step 18
00:42:04 Step 19
00:43:24 Step 20
00:44:37 Step 21
00:46:37 Step 21x
00:49:40 Step 22
00:53:02 Step 23
00:55:12 Step 24
00:57:50 Step 24x
01:01:42 Endgame
01:09:45 Postmortem
01:12:14 Tier List

[@Erikuzuma]

"High magic growth, which in this game also serves as your resistance" Ah yes, the classic Gen I Special stat.

[@rdrrr]

Pure Water my beloved

[@aabrightlove]

I love that he chapters these as "step x-xx" as though this is a guide which a player might consciously decide to follow

[@eldritch-rage]

It is a guide on how to beat the game in the worst way possible (as established back in fe11/12)

[@aabrightlove]

@eldritchKitsune well yeah, but I see humor in that. Surely this will not become a popular run, right?

[@kingofthering24]

Tbf I have adapted some of his degenerate grinding techniques

[@EdwardoFE]

a documentary on how losing access to Asvel will drive a man to madness.

[@lapogne36]

Still can't believe he made it to the end with everything that happened.

[@alandtic4616]

I know watching each part I was like ok when is he gonna lose and do the next run

[@kyokonull]

in one attempt as well! i think it's safe to say excelblem is a good player even if his methods are unorthodox

[@MrUnmake]

Spoilers

[@kyokonull]

@@MrUnmake don't look at comments before you finish a video :)

[@MrUnmake]

@@kyokonull it was the top comment so it showed instantly on mobile :( I stood no chance

[@nefalissys9630]

Thracia has to be one of the most Excelblem FE Games ever because of how scuffed, gimmicky and exploitable it is. He even gets to kill his own Berserked units.

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

Excelblem when he can finally kill his units without suiciding them intentionally 😈

[@bobbafett5175]

The fact this run was almost as scuffed as his ridiculous challenge runs of Sacred Stones, while still being just a vanilla run says so much.

[@daosxion776]

"a kill chamber with no exit" I see Kaga had a kaizo phase.

[@soapsatellite]

Kaga is the Kaizo phase

[@66Rokers]

I have no idea if watching this run makes me want to play the game myself or never touch it in my life.

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

Play it, you will hate yourself and it’s great

[@66Rokers]

I've been playing Genealogy right now and I have just finished Chapter 5 (I've also been reading the manga on the side), I can definitely feel the jank from the age of the game, Playing without save states would be a nightmare. I'll consider Thracia if the 2nd generation really captivate me.

[@fakesmile172]

@@66Rokers Genealogy lets you save at the start of every turn for a reason

[@66Rokers]

@@fakesmile172 yeah I abused the hell out of them with the emulator save states for mid turn stuff. I only realized that there's no "restart chapter button" on chapter 5 so I had to pull off an insane plan to save Byron on turn 2. (I did something really dumb, forgetting that Green units move on your turn.) I also had some insane amounts of save state abuse for getting the bargain ring, because trying to proc Lewyn's adept is funny.

[@lightbrand_]

⁠​⁠i think you would be doing yourself a disservice by using savestates for thracia. The game becomes much more fulfilling and immersive when your mistakes actually matter and you’re forced to think your moves through instead of praying for the rng to be favorable to you. This game is not nearly as janky or mean as some would make you want to believe, it’s in fact a very refined game and the tomfoolery shown in this playthrough is moreso a showcase of how much emergent gameplay comes from the many intertwining mechanics.

[@ProbablyEmo]

The fact you were able to salvage a run like this is truly impressive, hats off to you I would have called it joever at chapter 9

[@notZabami]

"There are many enemy sorcerers, who will avoid you to prioritize grabbing children." -Excelblem 2023 Timestamp: 55:30

[@Macer84]

Me when I enter the vatican

[@yousquiddingme]

Me when I am a teacher

[@BoltTheEmolga]

Just like in real life

[@maxmaxsx]

the most interesting thing abt this run is learning all the weird unknown variables thracia has. chapter 6 magi squad, hannibal ally save, special leif dialogue for the early eyvel petrification. it’s so crazy how much random shit there is in this game that most people will never find out about

[@rayquazathenoodledragon9630]

is a really interesting experience to see Lara as one of the strongest units your army considering that she is often used just for dancing and not fighting

[@leargamma4912]

She's the best unit in the game so.... Tons of ways to use her

[@trevorgerstin2490]

Brighton and Macha had the pro gamer strat of being captured early so they could avoid the initial bloodbath and being rescued late so they were too useless for the final maps. Galaxy brain play from them.

[@zone0ftruth]

the game giveth degenerate level up strategies, the game taketh away warp staff strats. inspiring levels of scuff to overcome, brings a tear to the eye

[@superbad8008]

I find it hilarious that some games won’t let you kill certain characters to keep the plot intact, while this game lets anyone die and will lock you out of important side quests eagerly.

[@arclight3213]

This game somehow manages to do both, actually. Kind of astonishing how clear the hand of the author is.

[@lspuria8440]

This was a rollercoaster of emotions. Can't wait to see if he can outscuff this playthrough

[@KFP_ES2]

Seeing this as part of a whole, cinematic narrative really makes you feel for Dalsin. At least he will be remembered as one of the brave few Dalsins to ever be used in any meaningful capacity.

[@orangeball8872]

Indoor lance power

[@Cherryblossoms110]

I have to say, it's amazing how the game looks for something that was created before I was born.

[@peculiaroreo]

Game graphics hit like a peak before they started thinking 3d models would look better for a while there LMAO

[@migu6528]

imo fe4 and fe5 look much better then the gba games

[@axelblz8876]

Many SNES games have really good graphics; I don't mean good even for their time, I see sprites of games like Demon Crest, FF6 and BoF2 and I still think that they look great

[@GoodTato]

Thank god Street Fighter 3 didn't fall for "3d is the future" @@peculiaroreo

[@leaffinite2001]

​@@migu6528 i think they look pretty similar in terms of quality, just different styles

[@cullenhutchison6528]

This guy managed to kill Ced before endgame. I'm impressed.

[@ZeroRanger423]

I agree completely with you on final bosses, and it's why I love Octopath Traveler so much. It gives you a lot of tools that can completely break the game, except for the postgame boss. In order to beat it, you are basically *required* to use all of those tools, and it still poses a really fun challenge. You start on the back foot and often only barely hold on, but slowly gain ground until you finally manage to get into position and win. If you haven't played it, I highly recommend it.

[@VanguardCommanderAC]

What a ride it this game was.

[@GeoSage1137]

I think my favorite part of this game is how you can just yeet enemies into the water and watch them drown

[@silverroy121]

Trying to see all these maps from Leif's POV, it's darkly hilarious how much pain and suffering he has to overcome for his army and friends... Yet meanwhile Seliph's like "Haha Mystletainn, Balmung & Tyrfing go brrr!"

[@avinadadmendez4019]

Seliph had it easy

[@xacmashe3852]

​@@avinadadmendez4019that's why Leif is stated to have a legend bigger than Seliph's.

[@Timmio.]

Someone make timestamps for every "looks like a joke, but is actually a game mechanic" please

[@auraguard0212]

"In Chapter 15 of Thracia 776, there are four choices for how to end the map. Two are strictly worse than the others, because they don't give you your first Restore staff, right before maps where you'll need to juice the Restore Staff for all it's worth just to finish the next chapter. On top of that, one of the Staff-choices is extra-better than its non-Staff alternative, because it locks you out of a Staff-user and a Crusader Scroll. Lastly, two of the choices (one with a Staff and one Staff-less alternative) are commonly considered worse than the other two, because they lead to a route with FE5's Nino instead of that previously-mentioned route with a Staff-user, not to mention a fourth Flier and a pre-promote version of Nanna. You might think this is a joke, but it's an actual design choice."

[@soapsatellite]

This reads like WoD strategy blurb

[@paladinslash4721]

Thracia is like the original Ninja Gaiden in that it wants to kill you. Not kill your character, kill you. And they both hide their true intentions for you until it’s too late, 3-2 for Ninja Gaiden and Chapter 5 for Thracia.

[@sagegang6957]

Half the shit in ninja gaiden is way more messed up than chapter 5 of thracia 💀

[@paladinslash4721]

@@sagegang6957 You misunderstood what I said. Ch 5 is when Thracia turns sadistic, just like 3-2 in Ninja Gaiden.

[@sagegang6957]

@@paladinslash4721 chapter 4 is honestly a better example than ch5 blind, considering how awful the top half of the map is with all the reinforcements

[@paladinslash4721]

@@sagegang6957 yeah you’re probably right, the end of that map is hell. I mostly remember 5 because of that mage squad

[@peste4592]

​@@paladinslash4721kid named asbel

[@auraguard0212]

14/54 ain't bad, by Sacred Stones with Zero Strength Standards.

[@davialmeida4442]

Thracia's eternal scuffness blessed both Excelblem and the enemy, and they proceded to use every last bit of it, trying to come on top. Excelblem won, but at what cost?

[@poyopoyowanya]

This series confirms my belief that Excelblem is a master tactician! Scuffed but you cleared the game in one try and you’ve changed how I look at my own runs on FE. Great work man

[@drewwitte8473]

This FE5 no somniel/no emblems/single crusader scroll/no staff users/any% run really went well, huh?

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

I wanted to explain one more mechanic in this game since I don’t think it was mentioned; crits in this game don’t triple damage done, they triple attack. With this you can deal 0 damage to an enemy, but if you crit you can deal decent damage. I love this game so freaking much. I still can’t believe you didn’t die in this or get softlocked tbh

[@williamdittmann9281]

iirc a lot of older FEs work like this, and I kinda wish they kept it so Lyn could occasionally actually do something

[@niceping7898]

Attack is doubled for crits in FE5, not tripled. If it was tripled, crits would be stupidly broken (and they kind of are, already), but doubled attack still makes it possible (if unlikely) for whoever got crit to survive.

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

@@niceping7898 oh oops ty 💀

[@athath2010]

*double

[@lightbrand_]

@@williamdittmann9281if by a lot you mean just fe4 and 5 then yeah sure, there are no other mainline FE games with that crit formula

[@jueymiah1810]

this was hilarious to watch just solely from how scuffed it was

[@leargamma4912]

Scuffed?

[@cgk1276]

Never even seen someone do the Ced spawn after missing 4x before, very cool.

[@gallusgallusdomesticus281]

The absolute pinnacle of human achievement.

[@VanessaVersus]

Truly incredible job salvaging this nightmare run throwing reinhardt in the ocean "like osama bin laden" is going to send me for the next week

[@meterothecrow6270]

11:20 equivalent exchange while awaken plays. Now that's what I call a jojo reference

[@NintendoMasterNo1]

This game is peak

[@demidemi2589]

The Excel Ethics can only fully be replicated with this game

[@MooglesandNoponForever]

I remember having to kill a berserked Fergus with Mareeta on my last playthrough to save the run lol. Not as funny as Leif killing Dalsin though.

[@navarre2142]

Now this? This is peak Fire Emblem content

[@rugvedkulkarni1593]

5:30 "I think it's more fun to intentionally make bad decisions" The true essence of fire emblem

[@maltheopia]

Hot take: most strategy games like Advance Wars (and similar games, like Wargroove and Battle for Wesnoth) kind of mid for a Let's Play, NGL. Of course, I feel that way about most strategy games. Either they're like Advance Wars and the gameplay is too on rails thanks to lack of unit differentiation for any creativity, or they're like Final Fantasy Tactics/Der Langrisser and the game becomes more about how big your number penis can get than your strategy. Fire Emblem hits that right mixture of unit differentiation and grand strategy to make it interesting to watch.

[@lspuria8440]

I've only played a bit of advance wars, but I'm picking up what your laying down. Those games are built around multi-player and they really have to think of balancing for both sides. A game like Thracia is so fun because it is unbalanced and allows for outside the box and ridiculous strategies.

[@maltheopia]

@@lspuria8440It's not just that, though. Even strategy games that don't really care about single-player balance, like Heroes of Might and Magic or Battle for Wesnoth, are kind of dull to watch once you're familiar with them because the gameplay is just too on-rails. Fire Emblem is magical because I can still watch new LPers try their hands at it and have a different experience, or come up with weird shit I wouldn't expect.

[@robertharris6092]

Supreme commanders pretty fun to watch.

[@soapsatellite]

Fire Emblem's beauty comes from how scuffed it js

[@radiantherooftellius1138]

Thracia the king of scuffness

[@colewatson4830]

52:46 *"Then fly back over the water to throw his (Reinhardt) ass into the ocean like Osama Bin Laden."* Okay, that joke was comedy gold. >D

[@Franys470]

oh yes another amazing excelfilm to watch

[@YouCanCallMeIz]

Finally, the compilation! I've been waiting for this.

[@mjbrownii]

1:06:11 was that hmm in the original or was that the voice over. It would be hilarious if that was the original stream

[@feri7mble]

Fantastic playthrough, both funny and enthralling.

[@humanbeing44]

Im pretty much sure excel cannot play a fire emblem game without abusing anything he can

[@corporal_q9606]

Trained Carrion on my first play through of this game, bro was a beast though it’s because I stacked the deck in his favor lol

[@implord4197]

Same thing applies for every unit in the game tbh That's the Magic of FE5. When nobody is good, everyone is.

[@isadoraximenes9430]

Good content. I've played Thracia a few times before. I almost had an aneurysm halfway through.

[@ichi_san]

this was AWESOME

[@DuinHark]

The sound effects are hilarious hahaha

[@kwagar9810]

exactly as kaga envisioned.

[@Quarataia]

A 72 minute video? Awesome.

[@Padingo]

this is the greatest fire emblem ever

[@TeitokuTTK]

Fascinating playthrough

[@lottery5795]

Yep, Thracia is absolutely busted, I can’t wait to try it for myself. This ironman was really tense - so many points where I thought it’d be over. Also, does anyone know the song playing over Chapter 12? It sounds really cool.

[@Baiswith]

All I can say is, if your axe doesn't have a blade you're doing it wrong.

[@enymetouche2558]

We love Thracia.

[@efrenarevalo2025]

I never completed(no one died) this game on the original SNES. Only in an emulator with the help of save state did I manage to save everyone.

[@BBHood217]

Playthroughs like this are only possible because Kaga willed it.

[@flyinyoku3543]

I have a whole new perspective on Thracia after this, Kaga is truly insane

[@samushunter242]

This was an amazing playthrough of Fire Emblem (trust no one) Thracia 776

[@jordandaigle6227]

It was fun

[@tewmplatinum7837]

Excellent

[@gavi888]

more advance wars or riot

[@gligurr]

Need to see him dominate the awbw leaderboards

[@Flutterdark_]

Listening to the end of the video again i fully get the sentiment. becuase persona 3 reload has so many hp gates that it doenst matter if i build top tier personas. it doesnt matter cuase of all the hp gates. i want my big numbers to matter. knowing a game system well and optimizing to high heavens should be rewarded.

[@KevinSpartanYT]

I was never able to complete the game because i never found a rom in ther internet who is in english or playable at all. There is so many that for some reason every letter is blank or whatever i capture someone the game softlock

[@mr1sign925]

I'm pretty sure that thracia 776 is impossible to beat 100% reliably EDIT: I guess you could use RNG abuse but without it the game could screw you over

[@fakesmile172]

Do a Tear Ring Saga ironman sometime!

[@lspuria8440]

Lmao that's the best worst idea I've seen

[@maltheopia]

Watch Billford either get like 12 MOV or procs MOV only once, on his first level. With no in-between.

[@fakesmile172]

@@maltheopia Either way, Excel will probably grind him to max level.

[@maltheopia]

@@fakesmile172The one Fire Emblem game where you don't have to grind, because PRFs and skills are way more important than stats... so, naturally, Excelblem is going to pointlessly grind. What's hilarious is that while TRS introduces a character who can theoretically punish you for grinding excessively, but then the game gives you a character who can nuke him at base even if you max out said character's stats. No one said that Kaga was any good at game balance.

[@fakesmile172]

@@maltheopia I think I beat him with Holmes + Power Staff + Chu-ko-nu, just like every lategame boss lol

[@julianchrobak-prince1915]

This was seriously painful to watch. Kudos.

[@HopeP0H]

Get rid of your dancer for a bootleg mareeta W

[@andrewturk500]

What's the song that plays during chapter 7???

[@MooglesandNoponForever]

Wheeling Corby from Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn. It's Naesala's theme.

[@andrewturk500]

@@MooglesandNoponForever my hero ❤️❤️❤️

[@chevy3876]

Okay 2nd map x i was hoping like if you play this game you know the map or something like that, this guy just said f that use the online map dont be cringe.

[@Lmaxter500]

i cant tell if hes good or bad at fire emblem.

[@eldritch-rage]

Obviously he is a degenerative genius

[@versebuchanan512]

I mean, yes. Of course you can. People have been iron-man-ing this game since before Ironman was a thing.

[@GribbleGob]

if you think the cringe littlekuriboh reference and "stupid bitch" are bad, there's an underrated SNES rpg with a bad fantranslation that utterly and shamelessly added in a bunch of lines to sexualize a female main character. not even just extra dialogue, it replaces ACTUAL dialogue because the lead translator was a creep.

[@faultyvideos2215]

What's the name of it?

[@GribbleGob]

@@faultyvideos2215 I think it was Treasure of Rudras, but i'm not sure. its been a while.

[@drmedicechsrick8702]

as far i can tell, this game hates you

[@jadethena]

does anyone know the songs he used in this video? mainly the first two!

[@dribble909]

The first one is the trial theme for Leif from Engage. Not sure what the second one is called but it sounds like Fates music

[@jadethena]

@@dribble909 thanks!

[@k8eee]

the second song (starting at 2x) is Duty from Awakening

[@golemgolden4670]

I would recommend turning down the music volume and speaking a tad slower in future videos. Both of them combined make for a worse watching experience.

[@YellowTwerker]

I recommend using your ears for once

[@gigglez3036]

776 sounds like a bad rom hack