Fire Emblem Birthright(Spoiler Free)

Hello everyone. Jelly here.

I am not going to talk about much this week. Personally, I am in a really dark place right now.

I can tell you what I have been up to, though. I have been playing a lot of Fire Emblem: Birthright on my 3DS.  I had to start over since I am playing it on a new system, the last one broke in half, and I couldn't transfer the data. Well, I wouldn't be able to transfer the DLC, since I had the cartridge. It's fine, I would have restarted anyway. I am still enjoying myself. I had to re-purchase the DLC, though.

I am enjoying the game just as much as I first time. I have some friends that can't find it in themselves to play this game. They say it is because of the perma-death game mechanics, which they added the Phoenix play-style in Fates to fix. But they don't want to play that either because it isn't the true experience. They think of it as mocking the player for not being able to handle the game for how it originally was.

Personally, I don't care. I don't like the pressure of losing my characters in game. That is why I play on the phoenix mode. Am I mad that I can't handle the main way to play? No, it's just a game. I have more important things to get offended about.

I think, however, that people forget that middle mode that exists. Yes, there is classic mode, that features the perma -death. There is the phoenix mode where they come back in the middle of battle. But there is also casual mode, where they come back at the end of the chapter.

Some people just don't play it because the main mode is called Classic mode. It makes them feel mocked for not playing it the way it has been played in previous iterations. Sucks for them, getting offended by some text. They miss out on a experience that I believe to be quite enjoyable.

Anyway, I have been letting myself disappear into this game's world since I don't like the real world that I live in right now. I took a break because I was getting too depressed to play, and realized that I forgot to write yesterday. For that, I apologize.

I hope you all had a great weekend and enjoy your week going forward. Until next week!