i respect the writers for taking the risks and trying something new but it was still horribly flawed.

edelgard and dimitri are pretty bad protagonists that sacrifice any semblance of character development or a satisfying standalone story arc in favor of the gimmick of seeing a morally grey war play out from multiple different sides.

i swear i tried to hold back and exhibit some kind of self-control.

the second generation are also just an incredible group of characters, something about seeing their personalities so heavily driven by coping mechanisms for growing up in an apocalypse that manifest themselves in such a huge variety of ways just makes them so tragically charming.

i also think the gameplay's pretty underrated with lunatic mode being an extremely engaging experience that's much more balanced than people seem to expect, and the paralogue chapters do a great job with map objective variety despite always seeming to get overlooked. i could write for way too long about how brilliantly written chrom and robin are as protagonists (so i'm saving myself the trouble by linking posts from others) with rock solid character development as well as gangrel and walhart as villains, and while i think the ball was dropped pretty hard on lucina and validar/grima the story keeps the focus away from them enough that it doesn't really detract much from the experience. it's not the only game in the series i like but no others have really been able to live up to the standard it set for me. after robin was revealed for Smash a lot of the internet's followup discussion of the game intrigued me (i'm a huge shipping nerd from spending too many of my highschool years on tumblr) and i decided to go for it, and it ended up as my second favorite video game of all time after Explorers of Sky, and its main character (two main protagonists since Ultimate) have somehow overtaken my beloved Kirby series as my permanent Smash mains and gotten me heavily involved in a lot of communities that i would have otherwise never found.

my brother always bugged me to play awakening when it was new and i didn't listen.

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