This was by far the most challenging Fire Emblem experience I've had to deal with so far. I started this game on lunatic out of pride and oh boy did this game make me realise how much I suck at strategy games. I did manage to get through nonetheless through countless attempts and many sacrifices on endgame but it was all worth the satisfaction it provided. The intricacies of the combat system in this game and the design of the maps was so refreshing compared to other fire emblem games, there was something new to discover on every chapter of this game. I also really liked the characters, their designs and all the support conversations they had between each other. While all of what I said so far was sweet, the game does have very noticeable flaws. The plot is basically non-existent, there are plotholes all over the place and it makes no sense. And the other beef I have with this game that I can think of right now is the late game. Some of the decisions that were taken to make the maps difficult at the end were just down right vile. Who thought it was ok to have the debuffs of maids and ninjas stack ? As if ninjas weren't hard enough to deal with when they couldn't stack debuffs on you. The debuff stacking isn't the only problem with maids though, why the hell were they allowed to have an infinite amount of staff use ? The whole point of status staves is to make you consider each and every step you make so that you don't fall in a situation where you're too weak to fight the enemy, but instead you have to go for the kill on them asap and hope to survive the hordes of enemies that are around them on enemy phase to not get hexing rod spammed (which should have never existed tbh). All of this kind of forces reckless play on the final map if you don't have specific characters or ones that just aren't good enough to one round/two round enemies. This all leads to having to rely on rescue cheesing through endgame if you don't wanna retry the last map + chapter 27 for god knows how long. Some may compare having to do chapter 27 again to the endgame of fe6 and fe7, but they just aren't the same situation at all. The final bosses of fe6 and fe7 are total pushovers so having to do the earlier part of them again is never a factor. In this game you have to go through the easy chapter 27 again and again then have to do the actual hard part. Both are bad design philosophies imo, if you're gonna design a hard final chapter, make it so we can save before it and that's that.
Well anyway, that's all I have to say about this game, it was quite a unique experience to go through it and I will remember it for a long long time, Idk if I can claim that I will replay it in the future right now because endgame caused a mental trauma for me.