I had heard a ton of hype ab the new Fire Emblem game so I decided to go back and play the first North American port of the series (which is the 7th game in the series technically I guess? But it was released as just "Fire Emblem"). I like the formula and the classic fantasy style, but the story was bone-dry a lot of the time, and the perma-death combined with this being my first real tactical RPG made this ridiculously tedious at times. If I had to play this without the rewind feature built into the Switch 2 GBA emulator this might have been impossible for me. Still I can't deny when I did have a good strategy going and I was able to recruit some of the more interesting characters in the story and get them rolling I felt like a god. Also I played as Roy's dad. Roy from Smash. Now I officially know about Fire Emblem from Smash.