Beat this game without many preconceptions about it besides knowing it was divisive among hardcores and it was the origin of FE "Child Mechanics".
As the earliest entry I've played I was genuinely shocked at the QOL the series had on the SNES, and was shocked again when the immediate tedium of running across the prologue chapter kinda gave way into a type of trace-like hyperfixation on the game. I didn't expect to love the music so much, to like so many of the characters, or to be so on board for Gen 2's straightforward redemption story where the context of Gen 1 gave it so much more texture. Even if some of the mechanics are kinda odd, you can at least understand the reasoning behind why they're like that.
Shoutout to my homie on Discord for telling me about the secret events in the first few chapters though, definitely made Gen 1 a lot less of a grueling push. Also, if I replay this I am definitely trying that mod that gives foot units extra Move (even if I used them here despite it).
Also Noish!Fee with the Leg Ring goes hard.
As the earliest entry I've played I was genuinely shocked at the QOL the series had on the SNES, and was shocked again when the immediate tedium of running across the prologue chapter kinda gave way into a type of trace-like hyperfixation on the game. I didn't expect to love the music so much, to like so many of the characters, or to be so on board for Gen 2's straightforward redemption story where the context of Gen 1 gave it so much more texture. Even if some of the mechanics are kinda odd, you can at least understand the reasoning behind why they're like that.
Shoutout to my homie on Discord for telling me about the secret events in the first few chapters though, definitely made Gen 1 a lot less of a grueling push. Also, if I replay this I am definitely trying that mod that gives foot units extra Move (even if I used them here despite it).
Also Noish!Fee with the Leg Ring goes hard.