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Fire Emblem: The Second Scouring is a hack of Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade which continues Roy’s story right where it left off. It contains challenging gameplay, new playable characters with newly written support conversations, brand new and familiar levels and, above all, a storyline with emphasis on keeping the player engaged while also staying true to the established lore.
Version 3.0 is the accumulated result of over one year of further development since 1.0 originally released. Though new elements have been added with each update, the hack primarily utilises the original game’s assets in an effort to preserve the feel of an officially released title.
Compared to 2.0, this version features various visual improvements, including new weapon icons for the newly introduced weapons, new and improved palettes for various characters, improved details on several maps, and characters being more expressive as they move during cutscenes. Under the hood there has also been several balancing improvements and debugging efforts made, many of which aided by RHDN user MageBoy. The perhaps most noticeable update of all is the new inclusion of character portraits in the chapter narrations, further reducing the perceived gap between this hack and an official game.
It is the author’s wish that you enjoy the hack just as much as they have enjoyed making it!
