Sunshine Revival Challenge #5

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Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show (or any other of your choice - game, comic, anything else)! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.

Play Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Super Famicom, 1996)! We got:
- a strategy game for math fans and people who just like playing war
- a sense of scale far more grand than any other Fire Emblem
- battle animations that, while not as snappy as the GBA ones, are still pretty great, in my humble opinion
- an actually fun arena
- 50000000000000 characters (okay, more like a little less than 200)
- like half of the cast being related to each other somehow
- wild family drama
- wild friendship drama too
- romance
- tragedy (so much tragedy, and I do mean in the classical sense as well as in the modern "bad thing happening to good person" sense)
- court intrigue and everything surrounding it
- eventual triumph!! (At what cost?)
- a sense of humor despite the incredibly shitty world that is the setting
- hype moments and aura
- plot so good FE3H (a later Fire Emblem game) took blatant inspiration, but they didn't do nearly as good a job
- one of my favorite video game opening demos, ever. (Also one of the best renditions of the Fire Emblem theme.)
- banger soundtrack
- 90s fantasy ass designs
- lots of lore
- atmosphere.... There's definitely a better way to say this but the vibes are so. They're so. As I sit here and try to recall the game's events all those emotions are coming back to me, and they're just about as clear as when I actually first played the game.
- a game that makes OP's eyes sting from thinking about it even now
- beautiful art, if you know where to look




It's been a while, so I forgot where to find the really good art by other artists. Rika Suzuki is goated though, so it's fine.

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If you have time to waste, you can read this really long fanifesto I wrote for Angelique during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth. It's super long, but I have no clue how to give all the necessary information while making it a lot shorter.