#and you couldnt reclass in that

[misty-missdee]

reclassing Shadowheart into a cleric again, but healing domain instead was the best choice I've made in baldys.

[agoddamn]

i dont know why but i cant play through echoes in one go at all like i did with awakening and fates, like the first few days i played for hours straight but once i put it down i just. couldnt be bothered anymore... why is this???

I think Echoes is a lot more like a traditional JRPG than most recent FE games--player choice is pretty immaterial in character class and supports, and particularly in supports there’s so few of them that it’s hard to get sucked in to the characters. IMO part of the success of Awakening and Fates is that the games sucked you in by letting you do more; from reclassing to supports, you could unlock tangible content in just one more map. Echoes doesn’t really have that.

I’ve seen a lot of Reddit threads like “ugh these newfags only played FE to ship and they’re crying that they don’t have their dating sim any more” but those posters are wildly missing the point that stuff like the player crafting the story they want to read via supports is, you know, fun. It’s engaging. It’s nice that Echoes has more supports than Gaiden itself (as in, more than zero) but it’s really not enough to fill the void when it comes to interactivity and especially replayability.