gave the game another go and while it's not as bad as i remember and there was a lot of parts i thought were good, the game itself is just super boring. most of the characters are too one note for me to care beyond "their personality trait is annoying" or "i like their personality trait" and the story itself is incredibly uninteresting, even compared to some of the weaker fire emblem titles. it's a shame that the series went the direction it did since awakening as a launching point had a lot of good ideas and potential but i guess we had to run with mostly the bad ones for fates and just throw shit at the wall until it sticks after