It’s my first FE, so there’s nostalgia there, but due to how many times I played it in 2015/2016, I revisit sparingly nowadays, but make sure to pump my files of all their content I can. I have my litanies of critiques with the story (namely pacing), and some with mechanics, but it’s so fun to approach as a sandbox if you do engage with the grind, just to turn your brain to slop and tackle it with the most broken builds and child units ever. Also, the production value remains excellent. The amount of dialogue permutations, particularly if you marry characters like Chrom as I did this run, are amazing. When the game wants to hit emotionally, it bares its fangs quite well, and does fanservice better than Engage did, if I’m honest. Dialogue and localization are fantastic, and the graphics are still quite good to look at even now, barring the models’ lack of feet. Cutscenes and their shot composition are fantastic as well. I think the game does have its share of flaws, be they pacing or the orientalist designs Plegia is plagued with, with all the Plegian antagonists being dark-skinned when those who join you aren’t, and it is not necessarily the FE I play the series for, but it is a comfort food to me, and it’s important to realize things that bring us nostalgia can still hit today. I appreciate it for rewarding players who engage in the absurdities of its grind, whilst also having a fun challenge in higher difficulties.