Permadeath?

[PermaDeath Man]

Is there permadeath in this game?
If so, how does that work? thank!

[upuaut2]

yes but only for the players. you would normally die from massive heartattack so a painless death at least. no funeral services included though

[優月妃]

I hope there is a mode with Permadeath. But maybe there isnt because of story? Seems like you fight some kind of undeads, so maybe you also cant die for storyreasons. Granted, i have no idea of the story and im just theorizing. Would love a permamode tho, maybe there is one since the director did some Fire Emblem games in the past.

[Azshric]

The IGN preview from a few weeks ago said no permadeath but it's IGN so it wouldn't shock me if they were wrong.

[Fenrir]

Yeah, you might have to unlock it after clearing. A lot of modern games don't just give you permadeath in normal stuff any more. That's more of an old school thing. They want you to get familiar with the game before giving you access to something like that nowadays, lol.

If IGN said there's no permadeath, it probably means:

A. They didn't get far enough to clear the game and find out.
B. They were playing a dev build which only allowed them access up to a certain point.

[優月妃]

Or it means that there is no permadeath because we just dont get many playable characters.

[Fenrir]

Originally posted by ヒナちゃん:

Or it means that there is no permadeath because we just dont get many playable characters.

The enemy doesn't get many units either, so there's that. Like I said, if there IS a permadeath feature, it's probably only unlocked AFTER you clear the game since most games don't give that feature to players right off the bat any more. Plus, it's not as if permadeath has ever stopped games from screwing you out of clears before in the past, lol.

It's not their fault if you went into the campaign with 12 and now you're down to 5. Guess you're sh*t out of luck and you'll have to restart or keep pushing with what you have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have no idea how the difficulty is for this game though, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

EDIT: It's not gonna make or break the game for me though. Just throwing that out there. I'm still excited to try it out and play it for a bit before Octopath Traveler 2 drops 2 days later.

[優月妃]

Originally posted by Fenrir:

Originally posted by ヒナちゃん:

Or it means that there is no permadeath because we just dont get many playable characters.

The enemy doesn't get many units either, so there's that. Like I said, if there IS a permadeath feature, it's probably only unlocked AFTER you clear the game since most games don't give that feature to players right off the bat any more. Plus, it's not as if permadeath has ever stopped games from screwing you out of clears before in the past, lol.

It's not their fault if you went into the campaign with 12 and now you're down to 5. Guess you're sh*t out of luck and you'll have to restart or keep pushing with what you have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have no idea how the difficulty is for this game though, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

EDIT: It's not gonna make or break the game for me though. Just throwing that out there. I'm still excited to try it out and play it for a bit before Octopath Traveler 2 drops 2 days later.

It seems that youre missing something. Its completely normal for people to wonder if it has permadeath as an option right from the start, though. The director of this game is well-known since he made some Fire Emblem games. And Fire Emblem never stopped giving you that option from the beginning.

[Azshric]

Originally posted by Fenrir:

Originally posted by ヒナちゃん:

Or it means that there is no permadeath because we just dont get many playable characters.

The enemy doesn't get many units either, so there's that. Like I said, if there IS a permadeath feature, it's probably only unlocked AFTER you clear the game since most games don't give that feature to players right off the bat any more. Plus, it's not as if permadeath has ever stopped games from screwing you out of clears before in the past, lol.

It's not their fault if you went into the campaign with 12 and now you're down to 5. Guess you're sh*t out of luck and you'll have to restart or keep pushing with what you have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have no idea how the difficulty is for this game though, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

EDIT: It's not gonna make or break the game for me though. Just throwing that out there. I'm still excited to try it out and play it for a bit before Octopath Traveler 2 drops 2 days later.

Actually I think he has a point. The game seems to have only 10 characters. Which is WAY less then in a typical FE. And I think that's rather important because in a FE even if a few of your characters die there's still generally plenty that you can replace them with as your run goes on. But with only 10 characters your run would likely become unfinishable rather quickly in a permadeath mode.

[Hadoki]

The price in this game is a permadeath!