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i was so excited by Act I of fire emblem fortune's weave that i have forgotten every modern fire emblem's last act sucks, because its the moment the game goes from character-focused to plot-focused and it SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS

fire emblem: what if we made you fall in love with these characters and their feelings and goals and dreams me: omg yes fire emblem: ok youre halfway through the game. what if we forgot about all that because theoretically speaking half of them could be dead. so we cant have them be important. yknow

My hot take is: they should be okay with removing permadeath entirely if they aren't writing the game around those permutations I'm not NOT a fan of permadeath generally but I actually do not think it's super interesting mechanically in FE, it just makes you feel more risk averse overall

I really really want to like it in FE, I just always find myself playing in safe boring ways to keep em alive because I like the specific characters so much. When I turned it off, I realized I was making high risk moves that resulted in cooler organic moments during battles