LogFAQs > #904660006

Skill is only +1 hit per point in this game, so it's a very impotent stat; you can mostly ignore it. (I mean, skill is always a bad stat, but it's worse in this game than usual!).

Grand Kirby posted...

If you want to see every chapter for completionists sake then it's pretty bad.

The way I look at it is that it's meant to be a balancing act for people who suck too much. So if you lose too many characters can you unlock an extra chapter that gives you more powerful characters to make up for it. That's the best way to justify it. I always just ignore them, they weren't in the original game anyway

My problem with that is that the side chapters (like Horace's in particular) have some of the only remotely interesting writing in the game (probably because whoever wrote the original FE1 was incompetent). But yeah if you just care about gameplay you can probably just ignore them. (The units you get are often pretty solid, but hardly essential or the best.)
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