AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I ended up going with the pairings I felt were obvious in my first playthrough (Chrom and Sumia, Rikken and Maribelle and things like that). Reading their interactions to get an idea for how they felt for each other. Some are a little too... adversarial to be marriage options sometimes. Although I was still endlessly amused by Vaike and Tharja. So.

I'm getting this game shortly, and would you recommend playing it on easy if it's your first time? I don't want to just rush through it but idk if normal will be tricky, and i think i won't be playing the classic mode where it's permadeath

You really don need to play on easy.

If you're really concerned about difficulty, then play on standard mode, but choose the option that lets any defeated units return at the end of battle. Most of the "stress" of the game comes not from how hard it is (not until higher difficulties, anyway), but from worry that you're going to lose someone you care about.

You could play Classic where units die, but if you are like anyone who plays these games, you will end up resetting a lot. If that sounds like something you don't want to do, then do Casual mode.

Standard + Casual is a solid difficulty choice. Difficult but not frustrating.

ah ok thank you!

So I'm playing Genealogy of the Holy War and it makes me wish it were remade and officially released stateside.

Seriously, I'm loving these massive chapters. I wish Intelligent Systems would use it again in a future title sometime.

I must just be really bad at it then. @-@ I'm playing casual on Hard for my second run through and keep getting flattened by the board enemies that pop up. Not doing spectacularly better on the actual levels....

Ah, I see now. I've never had characters die/retreat since I always play with permadeath on, so I didn't know this was a thing that could happen.

That actually makes it a little worse in my opinion. At least with Maiden, there's a reason Chrom won't let her fight... it's because she can't fight. At all. But saying the same thing to Sully, or any of the other capable PCs, really, really sucks. TAKE THIS BABY, WIFE.

Maybe it's supposed to imply that whoever it is suffered a crippling injury, and while they are alive, they really can't fight. Sully is bull-headed enough to protest, as are a few of the others, but from Chrom's point of view, they're more a liability than anything. Like, they can hold a sword, but maybe their leg is injured so they can't walk or ride a mount properly. That's my logic for making the situation sound better on paper, anyway.

what am i doing

Drugs.

Creating the greatest Fire Emblem epic the world has ever seen.
That, or as Misterme said,

I had my friend play the demo.

She named herself Batman.

not gonna lie nicki minaj slays
also there's so many characters to choose from, should i worry about building relationships early in the game? i always seem to have a near all female team woops