One of my favorite Fire Emblem games, which is a "midquel/what if" of the previous one, Genealogy of the Holy War.
I played it after having played almost all of them (FE1-2 and 3H), so coming back to an "older" game with such an infamous reputation like Thracia 776 didn't give me much hope of enjoying it, but I was wrong.
One of the best gameplay of the series, with an actually good story and great relevant characters (generics only have like 3 lines of dialogue, and there are a LOT of generic characters here).
Leif is one of my favorite lords because of everything he went through before and during the game, and the gameplay also influences this by making the player feel like they're the underdogs of the story, by giving you very little advantage over the enemy, like struggling with gold, having subpar units to replace your fallen allies, letting you steal weaponry from the enemy by capturing them, and also giving you plenty of tools to "trivialize" certain chapters with ingenious strategies that wouldn't really be needed if you had a strong army like other Fire Emblem games.
However, as much as I like this game, it is VERY hard if you're going fully blind (like you should, honestly), and a lot of mechanics aren't really explained due to the lack of tutorials and how guides were relevant back when it came out.
I still would really recommend any Fire Emblem player that has played other games to give this one a try, to leave all the bad rep this game has and to try it for themselves.
WAY better than FE6 though, a game that tried really hard to mimic what this one accomplished.
I played it after having played almost all of them (FE1-2 and 3H), so coming back to an "older" game with such an infamous reputation like Thracia 776 didn't give me much hope of enjoying it, but I was wrong.
One of the best gameplay of the series, with an actually good story and great relevant characters (generics only have like 3 lines of dialogue, and there are a LOT of generic characters here).
Leif is one of my favorite lords because of everything he went through before and during the game, and the gameplay also influences this by making the player feel like they're the underdogs of the story, by giving you very little advantage over the enemy, like struggling with gold, having subpar units to replace your fallen allies, letting you steal weaponry from the enemy by capturing them, and also giving you plenty of tools to "trivialize" certain chapters with ingenious strategies that wouldn't really be needed if you had a strong army like other Fire Emblem games.
However, as much as I like this game, it is VERY hard if you're going fully blind (like you should, honestly), and a lot of mechanics aren't really explained due to the lack of tutorials and how guides were relevant back when it came out.
I still would really recommend any Fire Emblem player that has played other games to give this one a try, to leave all the bad rep this game has and to try it for themselves.
WAY better than FE6 though, a game that tried really hard to mimic what this one accomplished.