This Game is MADE for Challenge Runs 

Abso-friggin-lutely.

Este es un canal en inglés así que será divertido que el primer comentario sea una avalancha sin sentido de balbuceos en español a ver quien me entiende jajajajaja ahora procederé a dejar la letra ñ por aqui ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑññññññññññññÑñññññÑÑÑÑÑñññññ

Even speedrunning is really cool, the game can be beaten in like 33 minutes.

How about a male only run? I 've a female only video that was pretty cool even if the game doesn't let you get through Aubin without the use if at least Travis and you can't get the good ending without Alain. But male only would be quite challenging without flying but possible, maybe lol

Reminds me of Breath of the Wild and all the different challenge runs around that game. 👍

Im doing a No Horses run, and that has been tough. Another one you can do is a Story Run, where you only use characters who have story associations. So Sharon and Ochlys go together. Josef, Chloe, Lex are together. Virginia and the Knights of the Rose together. The Tricorns (Berengaria, Travis, and Bruno) That one could be really fun. 👍👍

Challenge Idea - Item Skills only ( When Possible, obviously Early on you might be limited) aka Build a Bear! xD

I saw someone make a "Women only" run here in yt. Its a little cheaty cause she needed to make Travid an honorary girl on the first few levels just so she could win a mission, but it was still fun to watch

Honestly. I just hope they'll add so challenge run sliders in an update. like you can set "x" gain or use to 0 or unlimited or randomize enemy squads or even level scaling

I think you can get to Albion after having done Elfheim. There is a ship that goes to there. I don't know if you'll be able to do much from that direction though.

So true. The game is so deep ! It's possible to spend a ridiculous amount of time in it !

Two elf sisters on the thumbnail is always the best idea. And yes this game is best played with various extra rules in my opinion

The reverse zone idea is interesting, but as you said Drakenhold and Elheim would be hours on autopilot

I don't think I'm daring enough for mono-class, but was considering mount-only run. Promote Alain as soon as possible, only use him, Josef, Knights, Riders, etc.

I've done a lot of challenge runs in FF/FE so when I started UO I was seeing it's potential right away. I like to do female/male only runs or Alliance runs (like you do with your Holy Crusaders) so I'll go for that on my next run

There's even a pretty tough challenge mode built right into the game. It's the Bad Ending route. It requires you to beat the game without rescuing Scarlett, which severely limits your endgame options.

Here’s an idea: “Every Squad Needs *One* Generic At All Times” Run. Starting after you get Aubin, you must have enough generics to put no more and no less than one in every Unit; you can change them to whatever as long as this remains consistent. Which would also mean you’re immediately *not* going to have all your canon characters available; even if you’re expanding Units you’d probably have to bench them. And yes, you can Permadeath if you wish. I literally formed this right now, although it was simmering as I wondered how I could use Claudia in my own thing while not having to not use the original characters… and then thought, “Why not have full Units with one generic each?” And this solidified that even at 2 characters per Unit you’re not allowed to not have a generic (or more than just one…)

I am nearly finished with a named character-only no-grinding Expert run, but now i really really want to do the opposite (kinda): minimum-recruit, as much grinding as i want, make squads as broken as possible using combos i've never felt able to before because i've felt like i need to max rapport synergy etc. really looking forward to the Dark Alain run tbh (TZ ofc)

Great vid and I agree it as well but I don't think I will doing any challenge run in the near future as I still have a lot of backlog games to clear. Some have been sitting for 1 to 2 years now.

A cool challenge run idea that I might wanna try after I complete my second run to replace the first one I accidentally saved over is to build units entirely in a way that everyone has rapport with at least 2 other characters in the unit. It means you need to think more about how you build your units and often change things around as your units grow in size. Probably not the hardest challenge run but could be interesting. It'd also put a premium on characters like Alain and Scarlett that have a huge list of supports and make certain other really strong characters difficult to use well and is functionally a no generics playthrough

Uniques only with permadeath could get pretty limiting

I just did one I call Shifting Sands First where you do that as your first stage 11 level. So no detour for Rosalinde, no Cornix blade and you don't get Renault. It turned out a lot easier than I thought. Next I'm going to do Cornaria and then go to Elheim skipping Drakenhold. I'm interested to see if you can go to Bastorias by way of Cornaria then use the boat to try and backdoor Soldraga.

that poison immune really saved you 🤣

Im just trying to unlock those Norbel voice lines

Hardest challenge run. Use Lex

UM AKCHUALLY ☝🤓You Start in Albion on an island in the tutorial, so doing a reverse order would still *technically* be possible, since you *started* in Albion at the very beginning :V

Imma simp for rosalinde