I should probably start working on some of the guys’ portraits...

More like, how do I unit balance.

Nureha, replacing Natasha, is a Shamaness instead of a Cleric. Serara, replacing Amelia, is now a Cleric. In the chapter after that (in Eirika/Raynesia’s route) Maryelle, replacing Tethys, is currently a Bishop (who can use staves). And then in the chapter after that, Coppelia can be recruited, and she’s a Troubador. And unless I change either the Druid or Sage classes, Shiroe (replacing Sage Saleh) is going to be yet another stave user.

Three stave users in a row. That’s... really redundant. And currently, the only solution I see around this is by making some characters only recruitable on a certain route until Chapter 15, when the two armies meet up (i.e. I make Serara, Kanami, and Coppelia Krusty route-exclusive until the two routes meet up, while Naotsugu, Maryelle, and Akatsuki Raynesia route-exclusive).

That might work, since I plan on making Misa/Rieze/Kushi go with Krusty and Elissa with Rayneshia regardless of the route taken, which means that Raynesia won’t get them until Chapter 15 and Krusty won’t have Elissa. That means that I can give Raynesia more exclusive recruitables, like Naotsugu/Maryelle/Akatsuki/Minori/Tetra. (William and Shiroe are already Raynesia-exclusive, while Nyanta/Duessel are Krusty-exclusive. I won’t count Quon/Knoll as Krusty-exclusive because Quon only joins starting in Chapter 15 on either route.)

LHxFE8 status: script-writing. Updated Isuzu’s portrait instead of making new ones... whoops. Still haven’t decided whether I want to include easy mode or not. I probably should, to figure out whether I can use that space for other dialogue.

Who am I kidding? I haven’t worked on it at all. I have absolutely no time to dedicate to working on it at the moment.

I haven’t forgotten about it, though. I’ve been debating on some changes (they mostly depend on the first change):

Replace Nyanta with Elissa as Seth’s replacement (might need to make a custom class for her, though)

Replace Michitaka with Nyanta as Duessel’s replacement, Nyanta will be a Paladin

Change Roreil’s class from Paladin to either General or Halberdier (custom class from serenesforest.net)

Use Blade Lord Lyn as the battle sprite for the Female Assassin (Akatsuki and Kurinon are the only ones with this class; in vanilla FE8, female assassins still use the male sprite, I believe)

Replace Ephraim’s battle sprite with Hector’s, because Krusty’s an axe lord.

Change Odiso’s class from Archer to Monk. Odiso’s a magic user in LH, so why not here?

Change William’s class from Sniper to Archer. Because I can.

Akatsuki’s portrait is up and working. (And it’s my current icon.) Working on Naotsugu’s and Maryelle’s so that chapter 10′s recruitable characters (aside from William) have finished portrait sprites.

Trying to replace minor villains with bad guys from Log Horizon. Except that I can probably count the number of named villains in the series on my hands, and then a number of them (COUGHHAMELINCOUGH) barely have any distinct features thanks to those stupid red mask things they wear over their faces. Not very useful.

I realized that Shaman!Rieze wouldn’t properly promote to Summoner!Rieze (she wouldn’t be able to summon, that’s an ability hardcoded to three characters, and I’m not going to dabble much into ASM for this reskin).

Ways around this:

Hope that everyone just promotes her to Druid instead

Have a summon-less Summoner (I don’t know what actually happens if someone not named Ewan/Knoll/Lyon AKA Minori/Quon/Eins is made a Summoner)

Give Rieze another class

I was also hoping to change healing staff EXP gain so that it won’t take so ridiculously long to train up healers, but that seems to be difficult for FE8 hacking if I don’t want to just raise the price for it by a lot. Then again, I am basically throwing money at the player right off the bat (Raynesia starts with a Blue Gem, worth 5000 gold IIRC, for reasons explained later in-game, Henrietta gives 5000G, and Roreil gives the Red Gem worth 2500G), so people could probably afford it even if I upped the price.

Some recoloring was done. And Odin’s portrait sprite has been made, but the blinking animation is borked so I have to go back into that. It’s hard to notice, but Kanami’s eyes, eyebrow, and mouth were also edited to look less like the gentler Eirika who was the base for Kanami’s portrait, and more like ... Kanami.