(Theo)dora the Explorer

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weaveactive

Okay, you get kind of a ton of renown very quickly it feels like on a replay.

I'm really uncertain how much I want to commit to using new people vs old favorites. You do gain a benefit for reusing the old favorites, but I should give other people a shot.

Also there are not nearly enough supports for Theodora!

When I do bird time it reminds me of Eshmel and what a bizarre decision it was to include that in the game. Okay, make a character, get semi attached to it, then totally ignore it for potentially 20-60+ hours? Why am I going to care about this non character.

It would be one thing if bird talked to the other characters, or if it was just NOT bird time and maybe it was some temporal realm out of time where you could actually chat and bond. But nothing.

I also wish the game showcased the recruitables better. How am I supposed to like any of these characters beyond just "I dunno, they look cool." You get to see some of the retainers in some of the pre/post fight chats, but it's very little I feel like you got to see more of them in Three Houses and say "oooh, I need to poach this one."

We're ending today at chapter 10 of Theodora, right at the battle start. I might be getting a little burnt out. We'll see. I may try to do Leda and then assess how I feel. Doing act 2 might feel better than repeating the early game grind.