#but still. I don't think I can see an SOV FE8 ever happening.

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I will say that to those who say 'an SOV version of FE8 could work'- remmeber that Gaiden already had separate casts for the separate characters, and aside from giving them more than one line of dialogue, the base game added two more playable characters of... dubious quality. (I'm not going to go off on my side tangent of 'why does it seem like everyone makes faye hate celica when they literally do not seem to hate each other at all' that can be saved for another time. And that other time is never). Counting the DLCs, that's 7, plus at least 2 enemiy/npc characters (berkut and rinea).

Of which a hypothetical FE8 remake would need so many more and I honestly cannot see IS doing that.

Cormag can be moved over to Eirika's side pretty easily, as he isn't recruited until midgame, though the problem of keeping Joshua eirika-exclusive is, well, that. A problem. Joshua is a favourite, people have probably used him a lot by this point, it's like the scrapped enemy dialogue lines for Annette and Felix in Azure Moon it's like "we can't take away a unit the player has trained as much", unlike Eirika. Because with Eirika it makes sense and unfortunately to most people Ephraim is objectively better.

Generally though I do not and cannot see an SOV-Style FE8 working because FE8 was never built for that like Gaiden's intertwined yet separate casts and plotlines paved out what SOV became.

yeah I'm gonna put this in here because this one take I saw on Reddit pissed me off:

A HYPOTHETICAL FE8 REMAKE DOES NOT NEED TO BE SOV 2.

Gaiden was built with Alm and Celica having separate casts in mind. SOV simply expanded on that. FE8 is not built like that.

Certain characters, like Cormag and Joshua, have very one-sided development and honestly should stick with eirika even if that means losing your myrmidon, but there was never a need for a whole separate cast.

Also why is it that it's only Eirika that the whole new cast is suggested for and never Ephraim? 🤨

reddit isnt real <3 people like that don't exist <3