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KamikazePotato posted...

I disagree. No games that are as long as typical FE games are run to replay numerous times. Three Houses maybe has it worse there with the monastery pacing, but the vast majority of people weren't going for their 6th (?!) replay regardless. You only need one to create a memorable experience. That's the most important thing for me, and for most others, I think.

The average Fire Emblem game isn't particularly long, though. Like, they average below 30 hours which sure, is a good bit longer than your average character action game or survival horror (which I view as the most replayable games out there personally,) but replayability is absolutely a huge and fun draw for longtime series fans.

Three Houses and Radiant Dawn are notable outliers on length and are unsurprisingly seen as the worst games in the series for replays (though both also have additional problems that make them unfun in that aspect - tedium for 3H and runs being too samey for RD.) You're definitely right in saying that for a lot - probably most - people all you need is to make the initial impression a good one, and I think 3H is proof that this approach definitely works with tons of people. I just think it's a bit of a bummer that most of the rest of the series gets better the more you sink your teeth into them and really lose yourself in their intricacies whereas with 3H you only see more cracks in the veneer for trying to doing so.