History YMMV / FireEmblemCodeOfTheBlackKnights

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** The 1.04 version update brought a lot of QOL changes to the game, including:
*** Fixing up various typos in the game. This is important, since Mycahel, the hack's creator, is mostly a Spanish-speaking person, and sometimes has trouble with English at times, so it doesn't hurt for someone to help him with English.
*** Nerfed the boss of Chapter 11 to be slightly easier (less HP, Luck and Magic), meaning that {{Mage Killer}}s such as Hall have an easier time defeating it.
*** Made Chapter 14 smaller, to make it less tedious to navigate around the map, especially when going for a PacifistRun.
** Version 1.1 also brought some QOL changes:
*** Prior to Isaac's introduction, the only playables Mages were Sally and Jin, both of whom were MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers to Hall and Rose, respectively. However, Jin has a somewhat wonky skill in Fury, in which he gains stat boosts in exchange for an HP reduction after attacking, and both Sally and Jin were mutually exclusive, so if the Black Knights took Hall, they can't get Sally, and if the Black Knights also took Rose, it's highly possible for Anima Tomes to be completely unusable for a while. The introduction of Isaac alleviated this, as while he is a Mage focused on Light Magic, he can also equally use Anima tomes well, allowing the Black Knights to choose Rose and Hall without having to risk permanently losing an early Anima user. [[spoiler:Even when he became mutually exclusive with Abraham, Abraham has a decent rank in Anima Tomes, allowing him to be switched out in favor of him if his performance wasn't satisfactory or if one is in additional need of a unit with a leadership star.]]
*** The game's smaller cast compared to ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'', even though it encouraged Ironman runs with additional dialogue if certain characters died, meant that it was poorly optimized with the design, thus making it slightly harder to perform an Ironman run. The additions of 5 playable characters mitigated this problem, making it easier to perform an Ironman without pulling your teeth easily.

*** The game's smaller cast compared to ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'', even though it encouraged Ironman runs with additional dialogue if certain characters died, meant that it was poorly optimized with the design, thus making it slightly harder to perform an Ironman run. The additions of 5 playable characters migated this problem, making it easier to perform an Ironman without pulling your teeth easily.

*** Prior to Isaac's introduction, the only playables Mages were Sally and Jin, both who were MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers to Hall and Rose, respectively. However, Jin has a somewhat wonky skill in Fury, in which he gains stat boosts in exchange for an HP reduction after attacking, and both Sally and Jin were mutually exclusive, so if the Black Knights took Hall, they can't get Sally, and if the Black Knights also took Rose, it's highly possible for Anima Tomes to be completely unusable for a while. The introduction of Isaac alleviated this, as while he is a Mage focused on Light Magic, he can also equally use Anima tomes well, allowing the Black Knights to choose Rose and Hall without having to risk permanently losing an early Anima user. [[spoiler:Even when he became mutually exclusive with Abraham, Abraham has a decent rank in Anima Tomes, allowing him to be switched out in favor of him if his performance wasn't satisfactory or if one is in additional need of a unit with a leadership star.]]

** Chapter 7 (Either version) include multiple ways of obtaining infinite money. Both of them were later patched out in an emergency release relating to Endgame C being UnwinnableByMistake.

*** Prior to Isaac's introduction, the only playables Mages were Sally and Jin, both who were MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers to Hall and Rose, respectively. However, Jin has a somewhat wonky skill in Fury, in which he gains stat boosts in exchange for an HP reduction after attacking, and both Sally and Jin were mutually exclusive, so if the Black Knights took Hall, they can't get Sally, and if the Black Knights also took Rose, it's highly possible for Anima Tomes to be completely unusable for a while. The introduction of Issac alleviated this, as while he is a Mage focused on Light Magic, he can also equally use Anima tomes well, allowing the Black Knights to choose Rose and Hall without having to risk permanently losing an early Anima user. [[spoiler:Even when he became mutually exclusive with Abraham, Abraham has a decent rank in Anima Tomes, allowing him to be switched out in favor of him if his performance wasn't satisfactory or if one is in additional need of a unit with a leadership star.]]

*** Made Chapter 14 smaller, to made it less tedious to navigate around the map, especially when going for a PacifistRun.

** Apocalypse Riders, aside from having Luna to pierce the enemies' Defense stat, exchange Canto for Galeforce, which allows them to take an ExtraTurn if they manage to defeat a unit. Combined with Luna's Defense-piercing attack, this can result in the class practically overshadowing Dragonheart in every way, meaning that most units are more intended to go for Apocalypse Riders aside from [[spoiler:Lowell]], who can transfer his Crit+15 to the class, resulting in a flying Berserker unit.

** Summoners/Necromancers have the ability to summon Phantoms, and much like ''Sacred Stones'', are easily able to exploit the enemy A.I. to target them, even if they happen to be near a GlassCannon or a SquishyWizard, which can heavily make a difference in tight scenarios. There's a good reason you only can potentially get 2 in the game: Sei, who just happens to be two levels away from obtaining her Level 15 skill and then promoting, and [[spoiler:Kayleth, who is basically a Summoner Sei on steroids. Then again, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential why would you even use Annabel as a meat shield]]?]]

** Chapter 7 (Either version) include multiple ways of obtaining infinite money. Both of them were later patched out in an emergency release relating to Endgame D being UnwinnableByMistake.

*** Prior to Isaac's introduction, the only playables Mages were Sally and Jin, both who were MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers to Hall and Rose, respectively. However, Jin has a somewhat wonky skill in Fury, in which he gains stat boosts in exchange for an HP reduction after attacking, and both Sally and Jin were mutually exclusive, so if the Black Knights took Hall, they can't get Sally, and if the Black Knights also took Rose, it's highly possible for Anima Tomes to be completely unusable for a while. The introduction of Issac alleviated this, as while he is a Mage focused on Light Magic, he can also equally use Anima tomes well, allowing the Black Knights to choose Rose and Hall without having to risk permanently losing an early Anima user.

** Summoners/Necromancers have the ability to summon Phantoms, and much like ''Sacred Stones'', are easily able to exploit the enemy A.I. to target them, even they happen to be near a GlassCannon or a SquishyWizard, which can heavily make a difference in tight scenarios. There's a good reason you only can potentially get 2 in the game: Sei, who just happens to be two levels away from obtaining her Level 15 skill and then promoting, and [[spoiler:Kayleth, who is basically a Summoner Sei on steroids. Then again, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential why would you even use Annabel as a meat shield]]?]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The 1.04 version update brought a lot of QOL changes to the game, including:
** Fixing up various typos in the game. This is important, since Mycahel, the hack's creator, is mostly a Spanish-speaking person, and sometimes has trouble with English at times, so it doesn't hurt for someone to help him with English.
** Nerfed the boss of Chapter 11 to be slightly easier (less HP, Luck and Magic), meaning that {{Mage Killer}}s such as Hall have an easier time defeating it.
** Made Chapter 14 smaller, to made it less tedious to navigate around the map, especially when going for a PacifistRun.

* ThatOneLevel: Chapter 7: The Holy Knights' March is a brutal wake-up call, especially if you're recruiting Sally. For starters, you're routing enemies in a ''very'' cramped area, with dangerous [[LongRangeFighters Spellslingers]] throwing out [[ShockAndAwe Boltings]], [[KillItWithIce Blizzards]], and [[DeathFromAbove Meteors]] respetively. One wrong move and you can easily use a unit. Furthermore, while you can temporarily disable the Spellslingers with Magic Seals or Silence, the former ''also'' nullifies your magic users including healers, making it that everyone is forced to use vulneraries or elixirs to heal and waste a turn in the process, and the latter, thanks to a change that was meant to fix a infinite money bug, makes it only that Mithra can use it, so if you've haven't deployed her, enjoy an additional spike of difficulty! (Though, thankfully, you can trade it around once you've deployed her). While Chapter 7: The Black Knights' March is easier compared to the former, while including a somewhat tricky stealth mission that can easily be circumvented and has a significantly better reward in the form of free Experience if a successful StealthRun was completed, also downright removes an Anima magic user (though to compensate, Hall, a Pegasus Knight has surprisingly good stats and growths all-around), and depending if Jin was recruited in Chapter 11, can potentially make Anima tomes completely unusable for a long time.

** [[spoiler:Blaise joining your party in spite of saying otherwise (either, failing a PacifistRun that chapter, or failing to convince him) can be downright hilarious, as this makes his statements look hypocritical.]]

** Chapter 7 (Either version) include multiple ways of obtaining infinite money.

*** Chapter 7: The Black Knights' Rise has Schwarze able to visit his village for infinite money and Elysian Whips by simply visiting it again. That being said, this is impractical to do, as eventually the guards WILL figure out that one of prisoners have escaped, thus denying you the rewards for escaping without being noticed. This was later patched out in an emergency release relating to Endgame D being UnwinnableByMistake.

** Noir. What makes her good is of extremely versatile she is: Aside from having the constitution and stats to wield Dark Tomes properly, her statline, which is supposed to make her a JackOfAllStats, in practice makes her a MasterOfAll, which can make her class choices equally powerful: As a Grandmaster and later Queen, she is the second best SupportPartyMember aside from Subaru, due to having Rally Spectrum and White Pool, while having her promote into Spectre allows her to learn Ignis to use both of her Strength and Magic to great levels, upon promoting into Naga's Fang, she not only can ignore terrain penalties due to being a flying unit, this makes her fearsome to defeat when giving a Fili Shield, which negates her flying weakness. Finally, her personal weapons are great, as Gawain effectively makes her a tank against physical weapons and deals effective damage to armored and horseback units, and Avalon is basically a souped-up version of Gawain, making it the best Dark Tome weapon aside from the Lucifer Comet, and unlike the latter, Avalon is impossible to lose due to being a required drop. There's a good reason the game subtly nudges you to level up Noir to 14 before the end of Chapter 8.

*** Chapter 7: The Black Knights' Rise has Schwarze able to visit his village for infinite money and Elysian Whips by simply visiting it again. That being said, this is impractical to do, as eventually the guards WILL figure out that one of prisoners have escaped, thus denying you the rewards for escaping without being noticed.

*** [[spoiler:Using her as a loophole to obtain both Mithra and Lucifer's Comet, even after Allister is dead. Cue [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing rejoicing from players who just wanted to see him dead after what he did to Drew and countless other children]].]]

*** Chapter 7: The Black Knights' Rise has Schwarze able to visit his village for infinite money and Elysian Whips by simply visiting it again. That being said, this is impractical to do, as eventually the guards WILL figure out that one of prisoners escape, thus denying you the rewards for escaping without being noticed.