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Congrats on finishing those, enjoyed all the writeups!

Way too much to respond to everything, so some thoughts:

(Like the writeups I spoil some 3H plot points in this post, so be warned!)

-Dimitri is great (like you, he's now a candidate for my favourite character in the series) and so is Azure Moon. I actually disagree a bit about his route having the least closure about the dark darkdudes; Verdant Wind and Silver Snow seemingly forget that one of them is in charge of a country! AM is actually the only route to deal with all the major slitherer characters on-screen.

-If anything, my main complaint about AM is instead that it provides no closure for Rhea, who is arguably the most important character in the game next to Edelgard. It's forgivable in the sense that AM really is Dimitri's story, but it still feels weird to me.

-I think the four routes the game has are very ambitious but I don't feel they did enough to differentiate the non-Crimson Flower routes, and in particular I do feel like VW and SS are both inferior knockoffs of Azure Moon. Verdant Wind I will forgive because it turns out that Claude is in fact an engaging enough character to carry a route for me. Silver Snow is trash and doesn't know what it wants to be about.

-Your thoughts on the monastery segment mirror mine pretty closely. It's enjoyable enough but I do wish there were a better way to streamline it. I think motivation is the real problem here; maybe if Rest maxed everyone's motivation instead of 50% recovery I'd be happy with it. As is you are forced to explore just to have everyone keep pace in terms of skill growth, and the balloons playtime considerably.

-While a minor point, it's interesting that you get the impression everyone loves Raphael, he's consistently one of the lowest-ranked students in popularity polls! (I don't like him much either. I do like Felix a lot, though; he's a jerk, but his takedowns of his country's culture are on point.)

-I obviously have less to say about Genealogy; it's not a game I care for much but I respect putting it at #1 anyway. The one thing I really disagree with you about is I think its inventory system is terrible. Nothing feels worse than picking up an item with someone who is a bad fit to use it and needing to pay a fortune just to give it to someone else. Personal money also tends to just result in a lot of arena grinding which isn't what I'm playing Fire Emblem for. It does make sense that these problems would be reduced the more times you play the game, of course.

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