The Presidents try a Fire Emblem clone

[@HanakkoLove]

Hope mekkah one day finally plays this to "support the community" :)

[@heiss9971]

why won't he play it

[@InternetMonster1]

The Emblems in Engage are gambits from 3 Houses but if the levels were designed around using them. They even provide stats and abilities in similar ways.

[@Poopique]

Oh yeah, they're nice! Gotta hate getting rattled by enemy 30% gambits tho, that shit made me lose my mind at times lmao

[@hustlevania3318]

That screen after push ups in the somniel where it asks if you want to go again for no bonuses every single time is the devs mocking the player for taking the stat boost in the first place.

[@turoskensei13]

Nice that you did this as a Break game! Consider my interest peaked for more of this too.

[@Afoulger13]

Was disappointed when I saw it wasn’t a hector hard mode this week but after seeing Obama play this for a couple of chapters I’ll admit I was pleasantly surprised. Will probably end up giving it a go myself.

[@Poopique]

I actually recommend it, the game's pretty fun so far!

[@halifaxsteppenwulf7980]

If you like GBA FE, you'll probably enjoy it. It's very much a love letter to them.

[@zeroescape]

The steam reviews are pretty damning tho, tbh. Seems like it's a pretty unbalanced mess with some fucky mechanics like a passive debuff to avoid as you level. It just seems jank I'd rather play a hack than spend money on this

[@fernandodonoso1585]

I played Dark Deity last year and really enjoyed it! There's a lot of characters, classes and strategies. Nice video!

[@grundypeebo]

GET OUT OF MY WALLS! I literally started playing this after FE engage and I'm having a blast. Tryin to get used to the armor weaknesses though

[@Poopique]

Yeah it's a different mechanic but I'm liking it so far!

[@grundypeebo]

@@Poopique the spear guy (i forget his name) is by far one of my best units, he just keeps getting crits even when i'm not using the higher crit chance weapon

[@Poopique]

@@grundypeebo That's nice! I thought he was good for tanking only because his speed is a bit lacking from what I've seen so far

[@chronicnuisance9576]

Cool to see you branching out! I played this game last year and I had pretty good time with it!

[@coldcallerloopy]

This was cool. I've never heard of Dark Deity (most 'cause I hover around the outskirts of the FE community lol) but it was fun to watch, would love to see more of this.

[@Poopique]

I heard of it somewhat recently as well, it's actually funny that the FE community doesn't talk more about it Also, thank you!

[@6dm978]

@@Poopiquethe community WAS talking about it at the time. It just kinda fell very short of expectations and wasn’t really interesting enough for people to keep talking about it

[@Poopique]

@@6dm978 oh I see...

[@n.mightslapallama1874]

You should play 'Symphony of War - The Nephilim Saga' because it's got hands down the best balance of RNG and careful strategizing. The sheer breadth of options is almost paralyzing.

[@Reruro]

Seconded, the story is kind of garbage but, it's absolutely worth checking out for the Squadron system alone.

[@n.mightslapallama1874]

@@Reruro Eh, the story is serviceable, I'd say. It can even be charming at points, but also painfully cliched at others. Honestly, though, the gameplay and challenges and the amount of ways you can overcome those challenges is too good.

[@Poopique]

I have it too LOL and in fact, I learned about Dark Deity through Symphony of War

[@redmuffin6872]

I really like how each president has their own opinions, none of them feel like the "main" one, except for the one playing the game.

[@deathstar1443]

Seeing Obama playing this, I might have to put this on my wish list. I was quite surprised seeing this game being played. Game look cool though from what I've seen

[@Reruro]

I've actually been super curious about Dark Deity anyways so, this feels like a win-win. Fun video and I get to learn about the game!

[@jamesscarbough9827]

Love the new stuff, would love more of this or any of your other content, since always top tier

[@SpartanMK5]

This is a good game. Can't wait to see the series :)

[@JobyPlays]

I bought this game on launch and wanted to like it but christ almighty does the Accuracy/evasion skewing hit super goddamn hard later on.

[@Poopique]

oof that's sad At least there's a way to customize difficulty, maybe the game could be rebalanced with that?

[@Vassilinia]

"super easy", "easy" and "lunatic" Yup, sounds right lmao

[@mrblue5831]

This is FE Awakening difficulty in a nutshell.

[@Battagang]

Yea, I think Im adding this to ye old steam wishlist. Thanks for giving me the motivation to try something new Obama.❤

[@apexreactions4231]

Bro you should definitely do a series on the sequel Symphony of War, the customization is so much better than everything else in this genre

[@Poopique]

I actually have that one too! In fact, I discovered Symphony of War first lmao

[@michaelberger2637]

I cant believe i got such a good game recommendation while making stool

[@LewisCho]

I wasn't too sure about the AI presidents trend, but I like this video.

[@kingyoshikage5117]

I’m digging this

[@maxmeyers771]

Have you thought of doing this type of thing for a heros of might and magic esq game like heros of might and magic 3 or songs of conquest?

[@Poopique]

Would you believe that I've actually never played one of those? lol I'm down to try it, tho

[@gilles4prezudent650]

The music in this game is still the most uncanny shit I ever heard.

[@Poopique]

The menu music is cool tho

[@complexityinc.5167]

Read about this one, (steam) reviews seemed nice on it, the common point was to play this if ya wanted to play another fire emblem, but finished all the fire emblems

[@Poopique]

Yeah, that seems fair imo!

[@coldeed]

Loving supportive Trump with real medieval interests. Him being supportive to Obama is lovely. Short fuse but nice friendo energy.

[@Poopique]

They're becoming true homies now

[@7th-Garaad]

A somewhat positive Dark Deity video in 2023?!?

[@Poopique]

Times change!

[@SantosOverlord]

the weapons durability on this game is only realistic if the fight takes a comicly large amount of time otherwise they always do maintenence on them....

[@Poopique]

ikr? It honestly is just some boring micromanagement, I'm no fan of it like Trump lol

[@SantosOverlord]

@@Poopique true that, while i dislike it i can understand on games like Darksouls and the Witcher but on this kind of games is just extra padding and artificial dificulty

[@Poopique]

@@SantosOverlord Exactly!

[@le_cheese4220]

Trump describes the different difficulties very accurately

[@RogueMaksym]

I forgot I have this game

[@Poopique]

Poor game :'(

[@RogueMaksym]

@@Poopique It was good, it was just that time where I was too lazy to boot pc to play games, so I only played gba fire emblem on my phone

[@Poopique]

@@RogueMaksym lol understandable

[@Rhystiik]

Dark Deity has its flaws, but I think it gets too much hate. Game tried to innovate and is a fun 100%

[@TheBullDog7]

I liked this!

[@MintyMit]

Oooo exciting

[@jacobsmith8286]

I wanted to like this game but late game chapters are just enemies with 5-15% hit chances to do 40-50 damage with 20-35%crit chance.

[@Poopique]

oof and it seems that this game uses 1RN, right? Eating those 5%ers will prolly not be as rare as in FE7

[@vehrnwing8016]

So whats your initial thought on it so far?

[@Poopique]

It's pretty fun! Has some different mechanics like the damage type vs armor thing (which is an interesting change of pace imo) but in overall it's the experience you'd expect from an FE-like game. The plot so far is a bit too simplistic tho but who knows, maybe it'll ramp up later on? And well, maybe it'll be like Engage with lackluster story but with a gameplay that compensates it

[@jacobsmith8286]

Can't wait for you to notice how busted Alden is lol

[@Poopique]

lmao that kid got MVP both times already, even though Garrick is the top damage dealer so far

[@jacobsmith8286]

@@Poopique Well his special talent means he starts auto leveling his low growth stats after the main ones max.

[@Poopique]

@@jacobsmith8286 LOL so he'll dominate late game too then

[@ashren5879]

menu music is way too loud, the game sounds should always be lower than the volume of the AI voices.

[@Poopique]

And that's because I had to lower the music volume by quite a lot in some parts lol I left it a bit more audible than normal because of the context, tho

[@MMAA-39]

Wait so there's no story?

[@nightcloud2014]

Yes there's story. You're all graduating the academy. Bandits attacked a bar. You're at war, don't remember the rest.

[@Poopique]

I didn't show the plot to not spend screen time with it but it does have one

[@thoalis4325]

Yo what is this?!

[@nightcloud2014]

Came out back in 2021, had a lot of hype behind it but quickly died out when Fire emblem tubers said they didn't like it.