Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Reached chapter 8. kinda funny how the title of the chapter completely gives away whatever twist the game wanted to throw at me with Orson.
OK gotta say I love the variety in mission objectives, map gimmicks and enemies in this game compared to Awakening. In Awakening it was just Rout the Enemy or Defeat Commander which, looking back, was kinda repetitive. However, if it weren't for Awakening then I probably wouldn't enjoy gimmicks like eyeball monsters, skeletons with swords, giant spiders, fog, ballistas, seizing locations, etc. as much. The story's good so far as well, but even from the opening I could tell the purple-haired guy was going to be the one who fucks everything up.
I must admit, Awakening sorta spoiled me on character interactions/personalities because most of the units in this game are...boring. Perhaps its due to a lack of grinding or whatever but being swamped with new units that hardly get any use because of the limited number of battles and exp to go around means I have far less tolerance for new characters that are weak. Lute, for instance. I wanted to use him instead of Artur but his level is so low its risky putting him into battle for anything. Natasha would be a character I'd like to use more often but all of the battles I've been in so far honestly don't have enough space for two healers, so Moulder the mustache gets priority.
So based on shit-all, Colm, Joshua, Eirika, Moulder, Ross, Gilliam, Lute, Seth, and Neimi are probably my favourite characters atm, but I'm forced to use Franz and Artur more than I want to, which sux. I haven't lost a unit yet which is good, though there were some really close calls (mostly due to me accidentally hitting END when I was still moving units).
all-in-all, loving Sacred Stones so far