I think I've mentioned before that I prefer FE6 to FE7 - partly because I like Etruria and its characters, partly because it has a grim undertone I think is lacking in seven. Many of the support conversations in FE6 detail personal losses due to the war that brings out the horror of Bern's invasion on both individual and national levels, whereas FE7 focuses more strictly on the individual, and characters are interrelated with each other, but not necessarily what's going on in the world.
Now, that's just my impression, as I haven't gotten all of the supports in either game, nor have I read every single one of the scripts. This is just my pathetic attempt to explain the mystical "feeling" I have that six is a darker game. Alas, I'm not so dedicated to my LJ posts that I'm going to do research for one. That said, I think individual focus is FE7's strength, and I'm not bashing it. For some reason - maybe it's because talk of pairing wars involved a lot of mentions of Lyn - I remembered a thought I had a while ago, which I think came up in an AIM conversation rather than on LJ:
Blazing Sword gives Lyn the shaft. The designers shove her aside as soon as they can to get to the "real" heroes.
( More on that. It got too long not to cut. )
So yeah, I'm dissatisfied with the way the game handles her. I should probably finish it before I bitch about it, but by chapter twenty-six, it doesn't look like Lyn's situation is going to change.
For the record, I'm not trying to say the game destroys her character - just that it ignores her potential. And, let's be honest - there aren't many female protagonists in Japanese RPGs. They had an opportunity here and threw it away. Micaiah (FE10) resulted in a similar farce. Sure, she heads the Dawn Brigade and forces you to use her wimpy friends during her chapters, but by the end of the game Ike is the real hero, because he's big and buff and manly, I guess, never mind that Micaiah is in a better position storyline-wise to deal the final blow at the end. Who needs logic?
EDIT: this was not meant to be friends-locked. Whoops.
Now, that's just my impression, as I haven't gotten all of the supports in either game, nor have I read every single one of the scripts. This is just my pathetic attempt to explain the mystical "feeling" I have that six is a darker game. Alas, I'm not so dedicated to my LJ posts that I'm going to do research for one. That said, I think individual focus is FE7's strength, and I'm not bashing it. For some reason - maybe it's because talk of pairing wars involved a lot of mentions of Lyn - I remembered a thought I had a while ago, which I think came up in an AIM conversation rather than on LJ:
Blazing Sword gives Lyn the shaft. The designers shove her aside as soon as they can to get to the "real" heroes.
( More on that. It got too long not to cut. )
So yeah, I'm dissatisfied with the way the game handles her. I should probably finish it before I bitch about it, but by chapter twenty-six, it doesn't look like Lyn's situation is going to change.
For the record, I'm not trying to say the game destroys her character - just that it ignores her potential. And, let's be honest - there aren't many female protagonists in Japanese RPGs. They had an opportunity here and threw it away. Micaiah (FE10) resulted in a similar farce. Sure, she heads the Dawn Brigade and forces you to use her wimpy friends during her chapters, but by the end of the game Ike is the real hero, because he's big and buff and manly, I guess, never mind that Micaiah is in a better position storyline-wise to deal the final blow at the end. Who needs logic?
EDIT: this was not meant to be friends-locked. Whoops.
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