“The Princess’s Lament” is an ambitious and intricately designed hack of the popular game Fire Emblem 8. This hack presents a complete overhaul of the original game, introducing a brand new story, fresh maps, and a host of other exciting features that dramatically enhance the gameplay experience. Made by SaintRubenio. Features Overhauled maps, with changes that range from the small to the dramatic. Almost every map has seen at least some slight changes. Four brand-new chapters, two missable sidequests and two mandatory lategame maps. Improved enemies. They now have far greater offense than in vanilla, but only slightly higher defense. I can only hope this will make the game feel more challenging than the original, but fair. Overhauled cast. I’ve tried my best to make everyone have something that makes them viable and fun to use. In some cases I just reworked units entirely. Some changes are more unusual than others. Story rewrites. Make no mistake, I did not set out to “fix” Sacred Stones’s story or anything like that. Think of it as just a sort of “what if?” fanfic I wrote for fun and to accommodate some of the gameplay stuff I wanted to do. The overall plot is the same, but lots of different things happen in it, to varying degrees of importance. Main story changes begin in chapter 8. Route split is gone! You will play through both twins’ stories. Eirika keeps her army, while Ephraim’s offscreen army of Frelian knights get faces and names. Speaking of, between these and certain old foes and allies turning playable, it all amounts to 27 new playable characters, plus a secret easter egg character. I… may have gotten a bit carried away, I won’t lie. Added music. Primarily from other GBAFE games, plus a certain custom track I imported and tweaked myself. I pray it’s not too janky for your liking! Optional conversations that raise stats. Like in the Kaga games! No fog. Screw fog. QoL patches. Danger display, growth display, stationary enemies have no movement, hold L to skip animations, etc.