Shadow Dragon isn't exactly wonky at all <_< There's no Lockpicks to keep track of, no rescuing, an armory in the pre-battle menu (while FE7 is actually in the minority for not doing that in some way), no wacky requirements for important side quests (instead it has stupid requirements for unimportant ones), no fog, etc. Aside from reclassing and forging it's pretty much as basic as you can get for the series short of going back to the original two NES games.
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