This is probably my second or third favorite game of all time, I’ve played this more times than I can count over the past decade and a half or so. My last playthrough was in college 5 years ago so I decided to give it another go for old time’s sake when I saw it was on the Switch’s virtual console. I forgot how annoying replaying Lyn Mode is because you can’t skip it the first time around but thankfully you can clear that whole thing in like 45 minutes if you’re a long time player. I’m almost definitely biased but this will always be the quintessential Fire Emblem experience for me, and I would recommend it to beginning players before anything except maybe Three Houses. Your first playthrough is a good beginner’s experience to break into the strategy genre, and the subsequent re-plays add much needed difficulty and layers to the story and series lore. Most people are going to be emulating this obviously, but there are few experiences in gaming like playing Hector Hard Mode on the original cartridge as a kid, painstakingly trying to keep all your units alive and knowing any tactical error or bad luck will be a reset. And throw in a gorgeous musical score for good measure.