I think people put too much emphasis on story for a FE game I don't think the story is more generic than Three House, 3H's story is super generic and "anime" it just gets more of a praise because it gets it tropes from melodramatic anime. lets not pretend like 3H doesn't have characters with one trait too. So long as the characters are fun and aren't annoying they are fine for a FE game and the characters are mostly fun even but some are forced (rosado). The important thing is that the maps and gameplay are fun and well design, they are engaging(:3)). The Maddening difficult is the first super hard mode that is well balanced It's a bit crazy but I don't think the overly bloated enemy's with infinite skills was fun in the previous games and unlike the other recent games the increase difficult doesn't make the game's faults apparent. The game also made the time in the hub area less tedious and take less time I swear I spent more time in the school of 3H more than playing the game I'm glad they fixed that. If they keep this amount of consistently fun gameplay I think a remake of 4 will be the next best FE. I played on Hard mode and I'm currently doing a lesbians only maddening run.