Fire Emblem 8 - The Sacred Stones [Hard Mode/Difficult] Chapter 16 (Ephraim) - Ruled by Madness

► Playlist with playthrough: https://goo.gl/q89YTx Chapter starts at 06:35 This is one of the few chapters with REALLY big changes between both routes... The first and most noticeable is the fact it starts the entire team at northwest rather than northeast which incites you to move in that narrow passage... Something I like to thoroughly tell to go suck a fat bag of you-know-what. The second is the fact a lot of enemies here have their types changed, instead of magic enemies you face physical enemies and so on. Orson's throne guards are another big change here. Instead of Heroes you have much more dangerous Swordmasters and those two guys alone are the reason you simply don't rush that place without a really good plan or ready to tank a critical or two. The south reinforcements are Cavaliers when you get close to the Mages in the east wing, but once you approach the hallway leading to Orson be ready for Rangers and Valkyrie reinforcements as well. Still on reinforcements WATCH OUT for Purge Sages. These assholes killed Ephraim and Colm on other runs since Purge is so damn accurate and those Sages have enough Mag to make that shit painful. I'm aware I wasted 2 uses of Dragonstone on purpose on a Purge Sage, but that's because I have a particular brand of venomous HATRED for those guys. Watching Colm doing a Silencer on the second asshole was also very satisfying. Orson in this route packs a Runesword and a Silver Lance. He's still Fire Emblem AI and will use his Silver Lance to deal damage and go for a kill and Runesword in any other case to keep himself healed. He's fairly dangerous but nothing truly scary. Amelia became a Great Knight because no fucking way I'm letting that EXCELLENT Def go to waste. Seeing Amelia turn into such fearsome beast makes me so damn proud. And oh, among my BRILLIANT decisions I decided to make Colm an Assassin but forgot to buy a new set of Lockpicks for him and... Yeah. Criticals: 16:53 - Amelia (Javelin) 23:53 - Eirika 26:31 - Ross 33:40 - Myrrh 36:52 - Myrrh 37:21 - Colm (Silencer) 42:27 - Tana 48:48 - Colm (Silencer) 51:23 - Tana