did a HHM playthrough for old time's sake, forgot how much love i had for this game on so many levels. think this is going to usurp 9 as my favorite in the series once again. i love the main trio and the supporting cast is diverse enough to catch a wide array of viewpoints and backgrounds in ways that i think later FE games lost. i don't even like 6 but i adore how it gives this game such a tragic feeling. all this triumph and overcoming of the odds just for, well, most of the characters to be dead or missing (read: probably dead) by the next chronological entry. what can i say, i love a sad ending.

my least favorite genre of human being is "reddit tryhard who talks about how 7 is overrated". shut up nerd, there's a reason people still talk about this game two decades later.