spoilers Chapter 10: Renewal - Saddest Fire Emblem Chapter EVER? - Page 2

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I'm not sure how I sit with the game making a decision for you there, to save her or not. On one hand, it takes away the power of choice by giving you a false one where it could have branched drastically.
On the other hand, wow, the power of being helpless in the situation, Chrom's feelings, put directly to the player in the way only an interactive form of media can. Pretty good stuff.

The music, the scene, all beautiful. Facial expressions in the cut-scene movies are fantastic here as usual.

This chapter perfectly exemplifies why Classic is the only way to play Fire Emblem. Throughout the games of the series I've played (6,7,8 & this one), the negatives of war, permanency of lost loved ones, suffering a hard victory and wondering if it was all worth it, big themes. They play a major role in how the games play out, and what kinds of feelings about war the player should have. Those games have never painted war in a good way, it's always through suffering and sacrifice that victory is finally achieved. The player gets to experience this and have it make a difference to them through play, in the permanency of death in battles, rather than the usual Well I Got Better scenario. I love that about the series, it's theme is in everything from it's plot to it's gameplay, such amazing material.